Supernatural Short Stories

Conversations with the Dead is a themed trio of very short stories - yes, three very short stories - perhaps better described as anecdotal tales with a spooky twist. In "Of Ghosts and Ghouls", Kelly is a very naughty girl, and her ill deeds have grave consequences. In "The Unwanted Birthday Gift", Mary discovers the unpalatable truth about her family. And in "Tomorrow Waits for No Man", Luke gets stuck in traffic with an unusual passenger.

Ronnie Bowler has awakened on his birthday to find a strange gift in his email inbox. An old friend has sent him a link to a death day timer. He disregards the morbid idea of amusement until things start happening. The morbid becomes the malevolent as Ronnie’s lack of superstition begins to pursue him. As the clock ticks down, he realizes that time stops for no one and all of our days are numbered. So now he cannot stop, even with his numbers right in front of his eyes.

A young woman is heading home from a night out on a highway she's traveled many times. However, on this night, something unexpected happens that freaks her out.

A chilling story of strange encounters and terror as witnessed by five teenage friends who venture out to a lonely, isolated mountain in Vermont....

Poe-Ish Tales Forevermore is a mini-anthology containing four short stories inspired by the works and life of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s stories and poems have stood the test of time, and have been studied and enjoyed by generations of admirers. The stories in this anthology were crafted as a tribute to the inspiration that is Edgar Allan Poe.

There’s no such thing as vampires. This is the 20th century. It’s bad enough being tied to a stake and accused of witchcraft. The last thing Fembot Sally needs is the undead trying to prey on her as well. But dark rumors are circulating of an evil presence up at the castle. Bodies are being found drained of blood and the finger of suspicion has already fallen on the feudal lord Count Vetrikinski. Fembot Sally travels up to the castle to investigate, but will she be able to resist the strangely hypnotic man who lives there?

Crystal's Dreams is a tangled web of spooky, paranormal thriller and multiple murder mysteries that take place in Texas and Louisiana. Crystal Moon had been having dreams that would come true since she was a young girl. Crystal begins having dreams about a serial killer who is brutally murdering women in Goliad, Texas, and causing the entire town to live in constant fear. The murders have chilled this small historic town to the bone, and people are afraid to go to sleep at night.

Jack Nightingale - lives in the shadows, fights in the dark. Ex-cop turned private eye Jack Nightingale is used to dealing with tricky situations. He's faced down the powers of hell a couple of times, too. In this new short story, he's called in to help a policeman who's lying at death's door. The doctors can't work out what's wrong. But the dying man's colleagues swear blind that he was cursed by a gypsy during the Dale Farm clearance. And Nightingale could be his only hope.

Business has been slow for Jack Nightingale, but an appointment with a Catholic priest leads to an interesting new case. Eleven-year-old Christine Warren has been showing worrying signs of developing an alternate personality, who goes by the name of Lydia. It's up to Nightingale to find out whether she's been possessed, or if there's something more to Lydia....

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate when an old man appears to have been hit by a train on an abandoned railway line. But there hasn't been a train there in more than 50 years. So what killed the old man? As Nightingale investigates, he realises that there are dark forces at work and his own life is on the line.

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a case of stigmata. A young girl is bleeding from her hands and feet and claims to be talking to the Virgin Mary. But Nightingale soon realises that all is not as it seems - and the girl is in mortal danger.

Bruno is a mild-mannered baker from Italy, now living in the quaint little town of Terrace Heights. Mina, the local cake artiste, is always trying to get him to impregnate her so they can get hitched and raise a large family. Tomas, his new hire at Luna's bakery, has his eyes on the vault in Bruno's man cave. Little does Bruno know that his world is about to be hot-crossed, glazed and jelly-filled.

Take a journey into the night with Slivers in the Dark. Odd things happen when darkness falls so be prepared to hear some of the frightening happenings when the sun goes down. Slivers in the Dark has four short horror stories that will tug at your worst fears and show you what you have to fear. Make sure you listen to these at night, preferably alone, so you can experience the terror our characters did as you listen along from story to story.

What starts as the first of several planned case studies of magical creatures becomes an afternoon of tea with a demon. This story takes place in the Cursed Candy Mysteries world, featuring Trixie and Griselda, authors of the second edition of All Things Magical and Bumpy Things in the Night, a magical compendium of...well, all things magical and also bumpy things in the night.

New to Castle Blackbourne, a pretty young housemaid is drawn to the dark and handsome master of the house, but a dalliance with the Earl of Blackbourne would be unwise…for a reason most deadly.

First published in 1911, A School Story is a classic paranormal tale written by M. R. James, an author considered to be the originator of the modern-age ghost story. In this particularly story, a Latin teacher is troubled by unusual phrases from the dead language that start to show up among the work he sets his students; something about the phrases remind him of a dark secret from his past.

Do you love scary stories? This is an anthology of short scary stories made just for you. Perfect for listening alone in the dark, or with friends around the campfire.

This is the incredible story of a boxer who meets a genie. Perhaps this is just the inspiration you were looking for. This is a remarkably inspiring, moving, thought-provoking, and hair-raising short story.

The National Council of the Arts sponsored a competition. Composers from all over the world entered their compositions of an original operetta. The composer expected to win, Mancini, was murdered. The Mancini case has baffled the homicide division of the Kansas City police department for the past year. Detective Mark Johnson gets an anonymous tip and is hopeful that he can finally solve it.

In this psychic magical-fantasy short story tale, Amanda, Jeff, and Lukas travel to South America for their vacation. Later on, after an unfortunate incident leaves the trio stranded on a remote and vast stretch of land, they’re forced to find their own way back home. Yet as the group encounters an unknown tribe in the thick wildness of jungle, they’d come to find all of their initial suspicions about the place to be wrong...Where the heck were they? How were they still alive?