Paranormal Horror Fiction

The dead do not rest till they get what they want. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence... You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills. A beautiful woman in white haunts the Lonely pathways, looking to enchant and ensnare men... All the people who died in accidents here... They say you hear their screams at night. And the deserted lodges sitting amidst lush greenery and calm streams...

Ghosts may not be real but strange accounts about them have given rise to all kinds of stories. So strong is the compelling power of such accounts that even the die-hard rationalists start having doubts. In fact, there are stories of ghosts and spirits from all over the world. And the interesting thing is that many people actually claim to have seen ghosts! This audiobook is an honest attempt to chronicle such accounts from different parts of the globe.

You may know Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat from Paranormal Activity, the 2007 found-footage horror film that launched a blockbuster franchise. Now, inspired by the fictional haunting that brought them together, the friends and former co-stars are examining real-life stories of demonic possession, tracing the phenomenon from its earliest known accounts to its modern-day headlines.

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults, and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us.... Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly 80 years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge.

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed best-selling author Scott Kenemore ( Zombie, Ohio) that takes the reader on a thrilling ride through an interconnected series of stories narrated by the desk clerk and the residents of the hotel itself. And while it is not known whether or not the desk clerk is actually the devil incarnate, it is strange that so many visitors who come for a tour of the hotel have a way of never leaving.

The brutal murder of country singer Candi Starr heralds the beginning of a killing spree involving anyone close to the music superstar. This includes her long-time friend and personal psychic, Fiona Alea, who, along with her headstrong rock n' roll husband, Jimmy, head up a local paranormal investigative team known as NashVegas Paranormal. Fiona and Jimmy soon find themselves on a roller-coaster race through some of Music City's most renowned historic sites and famous haunts, where a series of gruesome deaths bring the killer ever closer to the husband-and-wife ghost hunting team.

Tras los hechos ocurridos en "Los crímenes del lago", Eric Armstrong cree que su vida va a ser feliz y tranquila. Conserva su trabajo como librero, ha encontrado un piso en el que vivir y no ha vuelto a experimentar ni un solo suceso que huela a fenómeno paranormal. Además, lleva tres meses saliendo con Debbie, la chica más maravillosa del mundo. La relación va tan bien que ella le ha invitado a Roanoke a pasar las navidades con su familia. Nada más llegar a la isla, su idílica vida empieza a desmoronarse por una serie de acontecimientos inexplicables.

In the beginning was the Oak, its hungry roots reaching deep into the earth, its gnarled limbs searching the distant heavens. Two hundred years ago, Obediah Magrute worshipped the Oak and died violently beneath it, feeding it with his blood and bone, shouting his chilling curse to the skies. Now, Laura and Mark Avery have come to the bustling little Vermont village.

Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he's no longer a zombie. But after killing his brother, Jamie, Vitus lands in prison on murder charges. Jamie's death exposes secret government projects so deep in the black they cannot be seen - without Vitus, that is. Sprung from jail, the government hires Vitus to clean up Jamie's messes, but tracking down his brother's homemade monsters gone rogue is easier said than done. The first of them is a convicted killer assumed to be safely behind bars.

Tras los hechos ocurridos en Los crímenes del lago, Eric Armstrong cree que su vida va a ser feliz y tranquila. Conserva su trabajo como librero, ha encontrado un piso en el que vivir y no ha vuelto a experimentar ni un solo suceso que huela a fenómeno paranormal. Además, lleva tres meses saliendo con Debbie, la chica más maravillosa del mundo. La relación va tan bien que ella le ha invitado a Roanoke a pasar las navidades con su familia. Nada más llegar a la isla, su idílica vida empieza a desmoronarse por una serie de acontecimientos inexplicables.

Algo oscuro pasea desde hace décadas por los pasillos de la casa Cavendish. La gente que ha visitado la mansión habla de ruidos, golpes, voces susurradas, pasos que no proceden de ningún sitio... Algunos cuentan que vieron sombras o que les pareció vislumbrar una figura a lo lejos, alguien escondido que les observaba... Otros sólo se atreven a comentar que sintieron un frío repentino, un aroma a flores muertas, una atmósfera opresiva que les impulsó a huir para no regresar. Sea como sea, todos saben que allí acecha algo oscuro, tenebroso y maldito.

Posesiones, extrañas ejecuciones, sueños proféticos, inquietantes presencias, un asesino sanguinario venido del más allá...y todo ello en los oscuros corredores y pabellones de Sing Sing, una de las prisiones más tenebrosas y peligrosas de Estados Unidos. Aleister McNeal y Eloise Carter, los dos jóvenes investigadores de lo sobrenatural que terminaron con la maldición de la casa Cavendish y con los crímenes de Rockport, deberán enfrentarse a un nuevo caso que pondrá en peligro su vida, su cordura...y su propia alma.

Lee Amaranth is a mystic, not a mage. In fact, he’s never cast a spell in his life...With his sister missing, however, he has no choice but to go on a search that leads him to the locked gates of Primhaven University, a school forbidden to those untouched by arcane potential...Luckily, if he plays his cards right, he might just have some help. It’s up to Lee to decide who to place his trust in as he formulates a plan to fake his way through classes and exams.

When Bonnie Grayduck relocates from sunny Santa Cruz California to the small town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, to live with her estranged father, chief of the local two-man police department, she thinks she's leaving her troubles behind. But she soon becomes fascinated by another student - the brooding, beautiful Edwin Scullen, whose reclusive family hides a terrible secret. (Psst: they're actually vampires. But they're the kind who don't eat people, so it's okay.)

Zombie, Indiana explores the impact of an invading zombie horde on a trio of Hoosier protagonists…each of whom have some dark secrets to keep. When the governor’s daughter mysteriously disappears on a field trip, IMPD Special Sergeant James Nolan, scholarship student Kesha Washington, and Governor Hank Burleson must all come together not only to find the governor’s daughter, but also to undertake a quest to redeem the very soul of the state itself…all while under constant attack from the living dead.

Whether they are undeniably heroes and heroines or bloodthirsty monsters (or something in between), the undead are a lively lot. This anthology offers some of the best short fiction ever written by the "blood sisters" who know them best: stories you can really sink your teeth into.

These stories present electric messiahs, identity constructs, the Beatles, and even a nuclear Armageddon, which serve as comic foils for Lain's everyman characters. Here is an America where packets of Sea Monkeys arrive in the mail containing secret messages, and the girl next door can breathe underwater. With Last Week's Apocalypse, Douglas Lain arrives with a punch line and a warning.

What do you do after you’ve saved the world and nobody believes you? Amber is a teenage runaway, hiding out in Los Angeles, who is also a daughter of the wolf kind. And, not long ago, she had her own personal demon. Richard was her servant, her lover, and a hellish force bound to the Earth against his will. Together they turned back the World Snake that threatened to destroy the city and she had granted Richard his freedom. Now Amber is alone, but nobody accepts that she has truly shed her demon.