horror stories

"Hansel & Gretel's tale begins when they return home to find their family's home ransacked and their parents are missing. They soon find their way into a hidden liar under the family house where they discover their mother and father have been leading a secret double life, as suburban parents by day and heroic monster hunters by night; a family tradition dating back hundreds of years. Hansel & Gretel must now pick up where their parents left off and rise to become the new protectors of Grimms Town. Armed with an awesome array of techno-magical weapons designed for paranormal butt-kicking (technological devices fueled by magical energy), coupled the mysterious ability to control a mystical element called terramana, they will embark upon a heroic adventure to find their missing parents"--Provided by publisher.

"Accepting a dare to spend the night in the terrifying Spooky House, Preston and his friends find themselves magically locked in with an eerie warning that they must escape by morning or they will NEVER leave"--Provided by publisher.

Ryan, who records all of his findings in his journal, and Sarah, who uses her video camera to document everything, continue to search for answers surrounding the strange occurrences in Skeleton Creek and soon find themselves in haunted and sinister places beyond their hometown.

"Seventeen-year-old Kira Fujikawa has never had it easy. She's bullied by the popular girls in school. Her parents ignore her. And she's also plagued with a secret: She can see yokai, the ghosts and demons that haunt the streets of Kyoto. But things accelerate from bad to worse when she learns that Shuten-doji, the demon king, will rise at the next blood moon to hunt down an ancient relic and bring the world to a catastrophic end. Not exactly skilled at fighting anything, much less the dead , Kira enlists the aid of seven powerful death gods to help her slay Shuten-doji. They include Shiro, a kitsune with boy-band looks who is more flirtatious than helpful, and O-bei, a regal demon courtier reasons of her own for getting involved"--Amazon.

"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him . . . Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot . . . Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens . . . Benji accepts Nick's terms . . . until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own"--Provided by publisher.

"Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won't be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all"--OCLC.

Aly Theland is the middle child in what she thought was a normal family, except suddenly whenever she gets angry at someone things burst into flame--and Aly begins to realize that neither her older sister, nor her younger brother is exactly normal.

"What do you wish for most? It's a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Oscar think they know the answer to. Oswald wishes his summer wasn't so boring, Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and Oscar wishes to get his hands on the mechanical toy that's out of stock all over town"--Back cover.

When a deranged murderer traps Jo and her friends in a defunct shopping center, their only chance of survival is to navigate the sprawling ruins of the mall and outwit the killer before they strike again.

"Beatrice know she doesn't have many followers. Nobody wants to watch her living her ordinary life. But then she stumbles across a new app, Dark(room). Some users say it's super cool. Others say it's super dangerous. Beatrice downloads it and discovers that it allows her to see ghosts everywhere around her. And they're going to get her if she doesn't get them first. When Beatrice streams her haunted encounters, people think she's making them up. But she's not. She's in a fight for her life"--Back over.