Halloween Horror

Hordes of gnashing, chipped-tooth mouths and grabby hands...anticipating Halloween treats. This time they aren't wearing masks. This time...you are the treat. And they. Are. Hungry.

Halloween was his birthday, and all poor Bob Talley wanted was for his family to be together again. This year, his wish might come true...

It was Halloween again, October 31st, just like all the Halloweens before it. But this Halloween would change the world forever. The Devil decided to go against God's wishes of only having enough power to deceive our way of being able to choose between good and evil. The Devil said "Halloween Night is the only night of the year that my powers are the strongest." As the darkness set in and the trick-or-treaters headed out of their homes to get candy, the Devil entered every trick-or-treater's mind using mental telepathy.

Jim is arrogant, and Krista is curious. Jim's curiosity is about to get him in deep trouble when they comes upon an abandoned house.

"Unholy Womb" is the story of a young boy who finds more than he expects when he goes to carve his Halloween jack-o-lantern. In "Scream of Humanity" a pioneer doctor learns there may be something to those old wives' tales about childbirth.

George and Kate enter Whittaker Magnet School via the "Leave No High-Scoring Child Behind" program. They quickly learn that all Whittaker students do is practice taking tests. Higher scores bring more students, and more tax money! And as if Whittaker isn't strange enough, there may be a demon roaming the halls. Acclaimed author Edward Bloor's Story Time is a darkly hilarious spoof on modern education.

Welcome to Pearl, a town obsessed with Halloween: the spooky decorations, the costumes, the candy. No one seems to notice that every October 31st, a kid goes missing. Mason Miller does, though. Somehow he’s the only one who has any memory the person existed at all. When Mason’s sister, Meg, vanishes while they’re trick-or-treating, Mason and his friends are pulled into an underworld where monsters roam the streets. They need to fight the evil taking over Pearl, but none of them know the true danger they're facing.

Recreating the seance that led to the infamous Victorian Suffering massacre seems like a good idea at the time. But Kyle Birbeck soon discovers that the ghosts his distant ancestor banished into the walls of Brackenby House in 1876 have been lurking, waiting for a chance to come out.

Two couples barely contained their excitement as they bounced down a rutted road to an abandoned plantation outside Natchez, Mississippi. This night promised to be the most fantastic Halloween night of their lives. Little did they know that their private reading with the world-famous spiritual reader would take a turn none of them thought possible. This shocking story will have you thinking Stephen King met Alfred Hitchcock to to make you question everything and everyone in your life. Buckle in for the horrifying conclusion.

Spooky vibes emanate from the streets of the city on Halloween. The main character, Andrew, attends a crowded Halloween costume party with his buddies to meet women, but an unfortunate zombie outbreak happens during the crowded party, and he is forced to fight for his life, using a kitchen knife as zombies try to eat him. This is a short listen. This fiction short story book may contain scenes of violence, alcohol, guns, blood, profanity, kissing, fictional variant viruses, and graphic scenes of zombies that may be objectionable to some.

Se le divinità pagane popolano ancora il nostro mondo... Dieci storie quasi di paura che potrebbero essere accadute a casa vostra, nel vostro cortile o a scuola. A ispirare questo libro sono stati i racconti che il padre narrava all'autrice quando era piccola, e alcuni incontri inaspettati con creature misteriose della mitologia lituana. Se, mentre leggete, avete la sensazione che qualcuno si nasconda nel vostro armadio o sul balcone, se sui rami spuntano delle unghiette al posto dei germogli e un'ape esce improvvisamente dalla bocca di un vostro amico, mantenete la calma.

Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into the woods, never to been seen again. Not to mention that Jerry’s mom keeps vanishing to do “special work” that she refuses to discuss. When her mother doesn’t come home one morning, Jerry acts.

Zenith Maelstrom knows he’s forgetting something… But he can’t quite remember what. He wakes up to notes in his handwriting with messages like, “Prepare for battle!”–but what battle?–and his sister Apogee seems to grow angrier with him by the day. It’s not until he finds Apogee sneaking back into the horrible bag hidden away in their basement that all the dreadful details about GrahBhag resurface. The spiderlike Shlurps. The trio of foul mouths that hunger for blood. Eldritch horrors around every corner.

Es war einmal ein Hufschmied namens Jack Oldfield. Dieser galt als besonders geizig und trunksüchtig. In der Nacht auf Allerheiligen erschien ihm in einem Wirtshaus der Teufel persönlich und wollte seine Seele holen. Doch Jack verhandelte noch einen allerletzten Trunk. Da der Teufel kein Geld bei sich hatte, verwandelte er sich selbst in eine Münze, um den Trunk zu bezahlen. Jack steckte diese Münze schnell in seine Börse, in der sich ein silbernes, kleines Kreuz befand und sich der Teufel somit nicht zurück verwandeln konnte.

Halloween is a holiday of fright, a time to dress up and go house to house for candy, a time for fun. But what happens when you don’t follow the rules? Nicholas Gray presents five Halloween tales to get you in the spirit and cover your arms in goosebumps. Three friends are in for a trick-or-treat surprise. A surly boy goes trick-or-treating to the wrong house. A grumpy old man gets a special Halloween visitor. A man goes shopping for a Halloween mask. And some bored teenagers go on a vandalism spree.

Tasha is the highest paid escort in the streets. She works with her stepdaddy, Nightlane. He is rich and a pimp. She makes a lot of money with him. She's also sleeps with him, but things go crazy when her stepdaddy dies and then comes back.

The Capulets and the Montagues have some deep and essential differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can escape their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to kill their undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their blood feud is unstoppable. So it's really quite a problem when Juliet, a vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should be hunting her, fall desperately in love. What they don't realize is how deadly their love will turn out to be - or what it will mean for their afterlives....

Ein Hörbuch voll schauriger Klassiker, erschaffen von den Meistern des Horrors. Ein mysteriöser Mantel, der die Person vollkommen verändert, die ihn trägt, Geister und rätselhafte Geräusche sowie ein angsteinflößendes Pendel versprechen einen hohen Gruselfaktor und rauben der Hörerschaft bis zum Schluss den Atem.

Die vierte Leiche führte Holmes und Watson in ein Krankenhaus. Die Krankenschwester Nancy Rogers wurde auf dieselbe Art und Weise getötet wie ihre Vorgänger. Um ihren Leichnam herum standen nun nur noch zwei Kürbisse. Am Abend danach hatte Watson wieder einen dieser furchteinflößenden Träume. Als er endlich wieder erwachte, konnte er Holmes ein Präsent vom Teufel persönlich überreichen. Und dieses Geschenk ließ nur auf einen einzigen Täter schließen.

Es war der 29. Oktober 1933, drei Tage vor Samhain, in der das Tor zur Anderswelt weit offen stand, und die Toten geehrt wurden und man sich gleichzeitig vor den bösen Geistern schützen musste, als Inspektor Wolfford bei Holmes und Watson in der Baker Street auftauchte und um Hilfe bat. Die Hebamme Mrs. Hughes wurde tot in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden. Um die Leiche herum wurden fünf Kürbisse platziert, jeder davon mit einer Fratze versehen und hell erleuchtet.