Horror Fiction Monsters

Money is the root of all evil.... Twin brothers dig up a buried treasure, only to discover a chilling secret from their past. A down on his luck loser is confronted with dark moral dilemma that could turn his life around. And a haunted coin seeks revenge on the thieves who stole it. Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three spine-tingling tales for your reading pleasure. A treasure trove of fear and horror, locked in a vault of nightmares beyond your imagination.

Something waits for you in the darkness.... An amateur photographer’s pictures reveal a dark secret lurking in an old train station. A fiery nightmare plagues a pair of brothers searching for a family heirloom. And bad dreams spill over into a terrified girl’s waking life.... Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three sinister stories for your listening pleasure. Each one brings you a step closer to the shadowy border between life and the underworld. And closer to the darkness that lies beyond.

A good Samaritan’s efforts to help a little girl go horribly wrong. A dying patient’s gift to his caretaker takes a sinister turn. And two friends discover a grisly surprise in an abandoned parking lot.... Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three macabre morsels for your listening pleasure. Each ghastly tale is guaranteed to keep you up late, burning the midnight oil.

Mr. Swanns, der Chefredakteur der London Express News hat Patricia Vanhelsing und ihrem Partner Tom Hamilton einen neuen Auftrag erteilt. Diesmal sollen die beiden Reporter nach Florida in die Everglades reisen, um eine Reportage über den ehemaligen Schauspieler Brian Delrey zu schreiben. Delrey, der seit 15 Jahren auf einer einsamen Insel in den Sümpfen des Everglades lebt, plant sein Comeback in das Filmbusiness. Patricia und Tom sollen ihm dabei helfen. Patricia, die paranormale Fähigkeiten besitzt, hat von Anfang an kein gutes Gefühl bei der Sache.

Patricia Vanhelsing, die Nachfahrin eines berühmten Vampirjägers und Reporterin der London Express News, hat eine parapsychische Begabung. Zu ihrem Leid ist es ihr noch nicht gelungen, diese außersinnlichen Fähigkeiten richtig zu deuten oder gar gezielt anzuwenden. Ihre Not ist groß, als sie innerhalb weniger Tage mehrmals die gleiche Vision hat. Eine junge, bleiche Schönheit, von der eine enorme Kraft ausgeht, taucht immer wieder in ihrer Nähe auf und verschwindet genauso spurlos, wie sie gekommen ist. Patricia ahnt Böses.

Zane and Kev, best mates forever. Side by side, they've been through crayon chewing (Kev), nose picking (Kev), and losing their trunks in the public pool (yep, that was Kev too). They even faced the zombie apocalypse together...until Kev got bit. Can their friendship survive if Kev is a zombie? Zane feels guilty and blames himself for Kev's condition. Kev blames him too. But then Kev is kidnapped by invisible stealth-monkeys and taken to an evil government facility to be their next experiment. Will Zane be brave enough to rescue his ex-best buddy and save the friendship?

Die unsterblich gewordene gespenstische Erzählung von der Doppelexistenz des Dr. Jekyll als Bürger und bösartiges Monster Mr. Hyde.

Grace Waters ist entsetzt, als sie das neue Gemälde erblickt, dass ihr Mann Ray in einer kleinen Londoner Galerie erstanden hat. Ein grauenerregender Dämon ziert das dennoch kunstvoll gefertigte Bild. Grace ist angewidert und kann dem Kunstwerk wenig abgewinnen. Erleichtert verlässt sie den Raum, als ihr Mann anbietet, dass Bild wieder abzuhängen. Rays Faszination für das Gemälde bleibt dennoch unverändert. Er ist begeistert von der Kraft, die aus den weißen Augen des Dämons strahlt. Wenig später liegt Ray tot am Boden... der Dämon hat das Ölgemälde verlassen.

Could you love something so hideous and offensive that it made you ill to look at it? If you travel to a little dive called Violet's Tavern in Pasadena, you are apt to hear that question from Violet herself. But whatever you do, don't give her an answer. And don't tell her your sins. Especially after closing time.

A boy finds an ally against his abusive mother when he discovers a hidden room in their attic. A couple realizes their infant son has been replaced with a bloodthirsty duplicate. And the spirit of a child murderer lures a young girl into a dismal swamp of death. Scare Street is proud to present the best in spine-tingling supernatural horror. This volume contains three deliciously diabolical morsels of fear, perfect for the child in all of us.

It's spring break in Hunter Bay, NC, and five college friends have come to let loose, enjoy the sun and make it a vacation they'll never forget. While enjoying a seafood lunch, they take one of the locals up on a suspiciously cheap pontoon rental. But when they depart from the dock, they are blissfully unaware of the terror already happening out at sea....

Fire nyskrevne og letlæste gysernoveller af Kenneth Bøgh Andersen, som bliver kaldt "gysets mester". Bogen er illustreret af Claus Rye Schierbeck. "Pokus hokus": Om en tryllekunstnerhat, der tryller alting omvendt - hvilket går galt, når det er et menneske, der tager den på. "Monster Lilit": Om den gamle arvetante, hvis arv overdrages til en grandniece - og det er ikke penge, vi taler om. "Villa Calla": Om et legehus, der skjuler noget frygtindgydende. "Slangetæmmer": Om en tatovering, der går i blodet på bæreren.

In his laboratory high on the hill, Frank N. Stine has a ferocious sweet tooth that snarls to be fed. But when an eerie experiment spills into his Gingerbread batter, a frightening cookie creation comes to life! The Gingerbread Monster is hulking, horrific . . . and hungry. But as Frank is chased by his creepy creation, the young baker begins to wonder what the Monster truly craves. After all, there’s no sweeter treat than friendship.

Something out in the Everglades is killing people - and eating them. Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate and discovers that evil is at work out in the swamps, and that more people will die unless he can stop it.

In the darkest depths of the St. Johns River, a legend awakens from the shadows of the past. For half a century, the elusive river monster known as Pinkie has remained hidden, its monstrous presence a chilling mystery. Now, just as a politician stands on the banks of the St. Johns River, the beast resurfaces with a vengeance, igniting a cataclysmic rampage that plunges the unsuspecting citizens of Jacksonville, Florida into a nightmarish battle for survival!

Charles Boswell's short story "Monsters of Monarchy", Terror Tales, May 1940 features Roman emperor Caligula (12 BCE-24 CE), one of the most notorious Roman emperors. Known for his incestuous relationship with his sisters, and for his cruelty and madness, which culminated in Caligula naming his horse Roman consul and declaring himself a god. Caligula's brief reign and life turn into a complex and fascinating story of a boy-emperor thoroughly unprepared for the throne, who, in the early years of the Roman Empire, tried to make Rome an absolute monarchy but failed.

David Reed is struggling. He's working two jobs to make ends meet, trying not to resent the fact his wife makes so much more than he does, and to top it all off, he's just totaled his car after swerving to avoid hitting a very large animal in the middle of the road. But an empty bank account and no car soon turn out to be the least of David's worries, when he begins to think the animal he almost hit might be stalking him.

I always thought my demons came out in the day, rather than at night. I've never been scared of the dark. I've only ever been scared of real things: getting ill, having injections, physical pain...death. Those are my monsters, not ghosts or vampires or whatever else can hide under your bed at night.

Where does your rage come from? Karl knows; he stares at it every night from his back patio. The heart of the monster. It calls to him, and for 15 years, Karl has resisted its pull. But to confront the monster he is becoming, he must go back and confront the ghosts of his past and those he left behind.

Mary Shelley, recien salida de la adolescencia fue la companera del celebre poeta ingles Percy Shelley, con quien se fugo a Suiza, a pesar de estar el casado. Cuando su esposa se suicido, los dos amantes contrajeron matrimonio. En una reunion, a la que asistio Byron, este ultimo propuso que cada uno escribiera una historia de horror y la joven sorprendio a todos cuando llego con la historia de "Frankenstein, o el moderno Prometeo", un clasico de la literatura de horror.