Horror Legends

 The Legend of Damian Bloodstone is the first novelette written by Erna J. Weissman. The story is narrated by Damian Bloodstone, a vengeful spirit long forgotten by the city of London. He will recollect the chain of events that resulted in him the ghostly defender of Paganism. 

An old-fashioned ghost story with a twist and a chuckle, The legend of Countess Bertha shows us the more playful side of Alexander Dumas.

Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals' stories of ghosts that he would hurry through the woods on his way home, singing to keep from hysterics. Until late one night, he finds that maybe they're not just stories. What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands? And why wasn't schoolteacher Crane ever seen in Sleepy Hollow again?

Washington Irving's classic, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", has been making spines tingle since 1820! Irving tapped into a timeless fear: the prospect of a late-night journey shrouded in fog turning suddenly fatal. Our imaginations conjure every conceivable danger, but in one of history's most famous encounters, one Ichabod Crane comes - dare we say it, face-to-face? - with the "specter known at all the country firesides", the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Step into a world of spine-tingling excitement with the Brave Kids' Book of Scary Urban Legends: Humor & Mystery Unite. This thrilling collection invites brave young listeners to embark on a hair-raising adventure through eerie urban legends, haunted places, unexplained phenomena, supernatural objects, legendary creatures, and pop culture ghostly mischief. Brave kids will giggle and gasp as they face the Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot with newfound courage.

Rodney’s seen a dead girl, and not her body but her ghost, and as he explains it to Mr. Luff and the rest of the students in his seventh grade English class, the story has a ring of truth. A girl murdered. Her boyfriend murdered. All of it decades ago. Nonetheless, the class and Mr. Luff find themselves transfixed and unable to disbelieve. Whatever secrets the small town holds, the story of Ashley’s ghost might be the biggest of all.

One reporter's investigation into the strange and the unexplained.

To her group of classic stories, Mrs. Roberts has added three new tales about the Carolina coastal areas. The mountains, Piedmont, Eastern Carolina, and the Outer Banks all provide settings for the unique and haunting accounts found in this book. Six of the stories take place in the Outer Banks - a particularly inspiring location and the perfect place to meet the ghost on Blackbeard's last voyage.

La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow es un relato de fantasmas escrito por Washington Irving en 1820 de los más populares e importantes de la cultura norteamericana siendo así uno de los relatos más típicos en las noches de Halloween y ha tenido muchas adaptaciones a cine, teatro y televisión. Narra la andanzas de un profesor de escuela extremadamente supersticioso llamado Ichabod Crane que se enamora de la joven Katrina Van Tassel.

It all began with one stolen kiss.... Ten thousand years ago, deep in Regia's forests, the Dryads lived, hidden and aloof, determined to serve the Heart of the World and keep it secret. Shi was chosen at birth to become a Verdant, one of the 20 princesses to sacrifice to the flame. Plagued by curiosity, one night Shi breaks the rules.

A legendary tale about witchcraft and vampires with a handsome Black man—in fact, a vampire—marrying an aristocratic White woman in one night, and the tragedies that ensue.

A Mistletoe Bride is murdered on Christmas Eve, 1893. Her ghost haunts the family stately home, Willow Manor, until her remains are discovered and the truth revealed. Set in the present day and Victorian England, the tragic young bride can at last share her story and put right the terrible injustice that destroyed her family and those she loved. The city of Oxford’s Randolph Hotel, and the village of Minster Lovell, the site of the stately home, are the locations for this heartwrenching story of deceit, love, and betrayal. 

Harry, the wonder cat, is no ordinary cat! Two centuries ago, he was tasked with caring for the Johnson family, helping them through life's ups and downs. Fast forward to the present. This story begins when Nikki Johnson, accompanied by her close friend Heather Murphy, had planned her annual quiet and relaxing Christmas visit to Harrot Reef to visit her beloved aunt Lynn. Plans changed when Nikki's aunt summoned her to come earlier because something was terribly wrong. The two friends arrived the next day to a shocking discovery.

All Matt Legend wanted to do that dangerous summer was to win the affections of a certain small-town girl, then get back to LA. But something inside an ancient Indian burial mound has other plans. Matt receives an ominous warning telling him that if he tells anyone what he found in the mound terrible things will happen. And terrible things do.

A drive through the countryside takes a dark turn when Jeff and Tara discover Eatonville: an empty town that was not only abandoned and forgotten, but seemingly erased from history. The truth about the cursed town may be worse than the urban legend that sprang up around it. Much worse. 

Sally Edwards didn't have many friends at Gravendale High School. Whenever Sally tried out for sports she would be picked on by her classmates because she was a tomboy. Sally had buck teeth and matted hair and slurred her speech. She also wore the same clothes to school every day. Sally was poor and was being raised by her alcoholic grandfather who didn't have long to live, maybe weeks at best. When her classmates got wind of the passing of her grandfather the following week they started picking on her pretty hard.

When Cora and her little sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great-aunt in the isolated village of Bryers Guerdon, they receive a less than warm welcome and are desperate to go back to London. But Auntie Ida’s life was devastated the last time two young girls were at Guerdon Hall, and now her nieces’ arrival has reawakened an evil that has lain in wait for years. A haunting voice in an empty room; a strange, scarred man lurking in the graveyard; mysterious words scrawled on the walls of the abandoned church ... all point to a horrifying truth that has held Bryers Guerdon in its grip for centuries.

Young Miranda is going to be famous. She is going to be in the movies and fly aeroplanes. The War to End all Wars, the Flu of 1918, and the Great Depression combined to destroy the dreams of children. The hoodoo was watching when her father burned Miranda’s gris-gris. Death was not an obstacle. Albee knew how to make the Miranda famous.

If Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other’s company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping though Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends. And if they want to catch the killer, they'll have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking there - murderer or monster?

When seven-year-old Jamie falls down a very long hill, he finds himself trapped in a world of strange creatures, harsh landscapes, and near-perpetual darkness. Lost and confused, Jamie is desperate to get home. The nightmares, fears, and all manner of what-ifs that inhabit this shadow world are unfamiliar to him - all except one: the Lairdbalor, Jamie's personal nightmare, once relegated to his dreams. In this fantastical land, however, the Lairdbalor and all the fears and nightmares of children are very real.