horror fiction

Molly Sloan, an aspiring writer, and Neil, her ex-priest husband, cannot shake the feeling that something is wrong when a silvery downpour with a strange scent drenches their California mountain home, and their fears come to pass when extraterrestrial beings of great evil invade Earth, stripping humans of life and hope.

Michael Shipman, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, has been accused of murder and doubts his own innocence.

Ivy and Gracie's fifth grade class is supposed to be going on a field trip to a museum, but the bus that picks them up, driven by a shadowy figure that nobody can quite see sitting behind a plastic wall, makes one detour due to construction, and then another, and suddenly the bus is accelerating and taking the children on a ride to destruction. See a video interview with the author and discover more titles in the series when you scan the book with the free Capstone 4D augmented reality app.

The psychological torment of a man named Norman Bates comes to a head when two people are murdered at his hotel--murders he believes his mother committed.

A heavy snowstorm traps the students inside Eerie Elementary and soon the hungry school begins to freeze from the inside out, and Sam, Lucy and Antonio must find a way to get the heat back on before all the students freeze to death, while facing the truth that Orson Eerie is even more powerful and dangerous than they realized.

A set of four novels in which readers must choose from a variety of scary endings to complete the stories of fear and horror in New York, at the carnival, in the lab, and at school.

Fleeing the nightmares of Coldthistle House, Louisa and her friends have taken up in a posh new London residence. . . But religious zealots from the shepherd's army are flocking to the city in droves, and ominous warnings are being left on Louisa's very doorstep. With the evil influence of her father's spirit growing stronger--trying to take over--Louisa knows she'll have to pick a side in the coming war between the old gods whether she'd like to or not. To save herself, Louisa is desperate enough to do whatever it takes--even if it means returning to Coldthistle House and striking another devil's bargain with Mr. Morningside. To uphold her end of the deal, Louisa will have to join his supernatural staff to venture to a gateway between worlds, a place of legend: the Tomb of Ancients. But, as always, Louisa knows there's a catch.

"[The first in a two volume set that looks at horror literature focusing on the] major authors, critical analyses of important works, and overview essays focused on horror during particular periods as well as on related issues such as religion, apocalypticism, social criticism, and gender"--Amazon.

After Marlow makes a deal with the Devil to get himself and Pan released from Hell, war breaks out and the friends have only each other, and hope, to combat demonic creatures and monsters.

Nina's father was killed while protecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She and her twin sister Artemis have grown up at the Watchers Academy, a boarding school where teens to learn to protect Slayers, and where their mother is a member of the Watchers Council. Though Nina's not interested in the Watcher lifestyle, learning that she's the last Slayer, leaves her with little choice but to learn what she can to take on the evil that surrounds her.