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Carrot has moved into the Wonder Museum—an eclectic collection of taxidermy, shrunken heads, and Mystery Junk owned by her Uncle Earl. For Carrot, it's not creepy at all: she grew up with it. What's creepy is the corridor behind one of the museum walls. There's just no space for a corridor there—or the concrete bunker, or the strange islands beyond the bunker’s doors, or the unseen things in the willow trees. Carrot has stumbled into a horrifying world, and They are watching her. Strewn among the islands are the remains of Their meals—and Their experiments.

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the “innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling” (Mira Grant, Nebula Award–winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds...

J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) was a versatile and prolific novelist and playwright, but in The Other Place (1953), he shows an unexpected talent, proving himself a master of the weird tale. In "The Grey Ones", Mr. Patson visits a psychiatrist after he becomes convinced that a race of demons masquerading as men are plotting the overthrow of the human race...but what if he's not insane? In "Guest of Honour", a banquet speech becomes a horrifying affair when the keynote speaker realizes his audience is made up of monstrous and menacing creatures.

In this collection of horrors, Jason Fischer turns familiar spaces into deadly traps: A dinner with a new “mother” who wasn’t invited. A Halloween visitor offers a treat you must not refuse. A puzzle book that predicts your future—and takes its cut. A cardboard cutout boy that won’t stay where it’s put. A dark carnival ride with no power runs perfectly on what you fear most.

This Church Will Drive You to Your Knees. Pray for Deliverance. Ben has a dream and a plan. He’s just bought an old, disused church and will turn it into a thriving coffee bar. There’s just one problem: these grounds aren’t so holy. Strange and sinister whispers drift from dark corners. Accidents befall the work crew. There’s the hideous, massive spider lurking in the dark bell tower. And what’s up with that locked door in the basement that no one, not even the former pastor, knows anything about?

When newlywed couple Brad and Julia decide to move into their new home, they are ecstatic to start their new lives. They finally have a home of their own, and with a baby on the way, this couldn't have come at a better time. However, just one day in the apartment is enough to tell them that something is very wrong. They are not the only inhabitants of Apartment 401.

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Their mother is in a coma, and yet the house is anything but quiet at night. Jill and Cheryl are two estranged sisters, who are brought together after their mother with dementia mysteriously falls into a coma. Eager to return to their own lives, the sisters wait for an attorney to arrive and finalize the legal issues around the house. Forced to spend time together in their childhood home, the sisters begin experiencing strange phenomena in the house.

Set during the blazing English summer of 1976, recently widowed Heather Lowes moves into the house she was supposed to live with her husband. But now she is alone. Or at least, she thinks she is. It is a normal terrace house, on an everyday, run-down working class street, in a dying industrial town. A place that seldom sees the extraordinary. However, when Heather meets her new neighbors—the old woman next door, the kid from a few doors down—they all seem concerned that she has moved into the house at the end of Society Place. They seem to know something.

The last thing Coy remembers, he was about to die. So why is he in this strange house, with even stranger creatures, vying for his attention?

The five stories that made up R.B. Russell's debut collection, Putting the Pieces in Place, were described on first publication as demonstrating 'a subtle mastery of the macabre. Enigmatic and enticing, they combine a pleasing respect for the great tradition of supernatural fiction with a chilling contemporary European resonance.'

Are you a fan of Stephen King and Dean Koontz? If you're looking for something fresh and new, join the millions of readers who have already taken the journey to the World's Scariest Places. USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates takes you to an infamous haunted island scattered...

Scott’s bubbly influencer wife aims for the perfect Thanksgiving content. And the centerpiece is their new antique table, which he isn’t crazy about. And who can blame him? It’s big, it’s heavy… and it holds dark secrets. Soon, strange events surround his wife at all hours of the day and night. And who does she whisper to in the dark? If he can’t help his wife, they will have to worry about more than a dry bird or burnt pies. For a murderous ghost has awakened in their midst, bent on filling his plate with agony and bloodshed.

The tape came off the first reel, threaded its way through the guides and heads, and flapped uselessly, rhythmically, as the full spool continued to turn.

Brewster Gilligan, an underachieving genius, believes that his loss on a television quiz show is the worst thing to ever happen to him. Little does he know that the phrase he answered with, a bit of trivia he remembered from his dead grandfather, was a scrap of forbidden knowledge that would trigger a cabal of dangerous immortals to hunt him down.

My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a hard place. Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes, the only solution is a lead pill.

After a mid-season break, Gate 4 returns with a bloody bang! Part 6: "From a Place Hell Fears" picks up where Part 5 ended. Part 6 is a double-sized episode. Lucas' first two encounters with the demon known as the Car Nex are recounted. Dunlavey's actions in Binh Pham's cell drives a wedge between him and Lucas. Paul Marrane and Dottie Tenner are affected in a strange way by Hattie Mae Reynold's charms. Billy Monroe's newfound sanity is tested. Blickenderfer finds The Rose Man. Dreg meets a kindred monster.