Evil Horror

Perfectly sized for your commute, coffee break, or evening entertainment, this collection of short horror stories grabs your attention and won’t let go. You may be too afraid to sleep at night. You may find yourself weeping over the fate of unfortunate victims. These stories are not for the faint of heart - you will cringe, cry, groan, and swear as they plumb the depths of human evil. Grab a blanket or a sweater, because these tales will leave you shivering.

At the work Christmas party, Scarlett Penny finds herself beside a beautiful stranger. After too much champagne, she ends up at his at his luxurious home...then in his bedroom. In the following days, there are strange happenings, and she believes he might have something to do with it. How close will she get to something so perfect, yet so potentially dangerous, if she wants to discover the truth?

For bounty hunter Gus Marcus, life was always about dealing with the scum of society, but he thought his luck changed when he encountered the seductive Lady Luck. Offering Gus the job of a lifetime, Lady Luck sends him on a gore infested, chaotic adventure to recapture her seven lost charms. Within sadistic fairy tale worlds full of demented characters, Gus must wade through insanity in order to recover the charms while keeping his eye on the payout...everlasting luck.

Something is wrong with Crista's children. Her partner, Matt House, tells her it's nothing to worry about. He says they're probably acting up because they didn't want to move into this new house. But Crista knows her children. She has seen them play up before at various times and this isn't like them. What they're saying, what they're doing...It's not like her children at all....

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

Freddy is getting closer to the end of his life. As he recalls the events of his life, struggling with the meaning of it all, he suffers significant mental turmoil. However, Freddy starts receiving recurring dreams that are sent to help him get to the bottom of the meaning of his life. Join Freddy in his dreams with a cast of very rich characters as Yahweh and his angels struggle against Lucifer and his toadies.

Warning: these books contain disturbing stories of true-life murder. Viewer discretion is advised. Serial killers have haunted the public imagination for hundreds of years. They have struck fear and terror into the collective consciousness for their gruesome and malicious crimes against humanity. What motivates them to commit these murders?

It’s the time of the Midnight Sun, and out in the Chukchi Sea, northwest of Alaska, the Agloolik is on its maiden voyage. Glacial Petroleum’s state of the art drillship heads out to waters that were once solid pack ice. Now with global temperatures rising and the ice receding, a whole new territory opens up for oil exploration. One of the core samples comes up withsomething that has been dormant for eons. Something black andrank. Something foul. Something sick.

An historic trader’s cabin has been found in the woods in Northern Ontario and archaeologist Steve Dawson has been asked to investigate. Disturbed by the unpleasantness he and his co-worker Theo experience there, they quickly finish their work and move on, camping at Shekarkistergoan Lake, where they encounter the deeply unsettlingly, vigorous ghost of Charles Janvier, an 18th-century voyageur with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead.

You’ve met The Pig… You’ve been to The House… Now it’s time to visit Ouija Pig!

In 1693, in a small village in Massachusetts, five witches are burned at the stake. Four are pure and kind-hearted, using their powers only for good; their murders are a travesty. The last witch is an evil warlock named Murdock Vickar. As Vickar burns, he casts an evil curse, enabling him to return from death again and again. In present day, in the peaceful seaside village of Laguna Beach California, the witches rise yet again. Some strange photographs and the assistance of a medium named Isabel lead the witches to learn their true nature...and their purpose.

What are you scared of? Hair-raising ghosts, fearsome creatures, or heart-wrenching psychopaths?What will you do if you are lost in the woods where the creatures lurk day and night? And how will you save your family after moving to a new house where the ghost of a butcher resides? This diverse collection of spine-chilling short stories of paranormal encounters may leave you terrified.

Lena and Anna are best friends. Two young teenage girls who have grown up in the backwoods town of Tangent Springs isolated from the modern world by old men and old ways. The girls spend their spare moments daydreaming of running away and meeting real men who will take them away from their nightmare world and treat them with love and respect as equals. Their daydreaming is the only escape from the intergenerational abuse that manifests in their hometown, like a genetic disorder passed down from one generation to the next.

A Victorian tale of horror. How far would an artist go to create a masterpiece? Even murder?

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounder. The story begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator's companion refers to the former owner of the house and the presumably violent end that befell him.

Deliver Us from Evil begins 15 years from where Book One ended. Billy and James, no longer mere boys, are now leading the fight against evil, one demon at a time, doing the work of God. In Deliver Us from Evil, the demons are back and have spread beyond Chicago. They have increased their threat, and now, those that fight demons have become the hunted!

Bran Hatten is big, mean and unpredictable. He'll pound any guy that crosses his path, and he's a complete jerk to girls who spurn his affections. Tess Ryan and her friends are looking for options, even those the mysterious new girl at Pembrook High might offer. Charisse Bienville lives in the old dark house at the edge of town, and she's hinted that she commands powerful magical forces. Tess and her friends join Charisse in a ritual to end Bran's reign of terror, but they don't count on what might come afterward.

Harms' Way takes us into the chilling world of a supermax detention facility where America's most psychotic killers are kept in solitary confinement. Yet as we get to know Ethan and explore this world through his wry humor and tragic sense of destiny, we find ourselves uncomfortably at home.

Something is wrong at Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighborhood it appears to be; strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and its creator.

Una presencia maligna pretende sembrar el caos en la vida de Maylan. El rito que enfrenta a exorcista y demonio debe empezar. Nadie escapará al horror. Pero ¿qué ocurre cuando el mal solo acepta sangre a cambio de rendirse? La mala suerte parecía cosa del pasado. Tras el divorcio, la relación con su hijo Nicholas no podía ser mejor, y para su regocijo acababa de conseguir una cita con la panadera más bella de Bridgeport. Pero el exorcismo a una monja en los años setenta desencadenará el horror en la vida de Maylan.