horror fiction

During the first winter after the Monster Apocalypse, Jack and his buddies prepare for a monstrous Christmas celebration, but a supervillainess steals Jack's prized monster-slaying weapon, his Louisville Slicer, and he vows to get it back.

As butterfly-like creatures multiply and swarm outside, 16-year-old Shur must find the strength to keep her family and friends safe and protect their home at any cost, but before long, she realizes the creatures aren't the only thing trying to get in.

The threat of blackmail lures sixteen-year-old aspiring photographer Ava and nine other teens--all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost--to an abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier, and when bad weather and magic cut them off from the mainland, Ava and the others begin turning on each other, one by one.

When she was twenty-five years old, Lexi Kennedy starred in a horror film shot by famous director Rick Plummer at his estate in the Florida Keys. After several cast members died during the filming, Lexi was left permanently traumatized and the film exploded in popularity. Lexi eventually married Cam, Rick's son, whom she met on set, but he went missing a year ago and Lexi blames his presumed death on Rick. When she hears Rick is going to be filming a sequel to the film, she forbids her daughter Quinn, seventeen, to join the cast. However, as a category-four hurricane bears down on the Keys, Quinn runs away anyway to join the movie and Lexi follows, knowing danger awaits her on the set.

Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realizes it he turns her affliction into an internet sensation. With the help of Emmaline the technology expert and Kiki the presenter now they plan to film an episode in an infamously haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but their project may actually be dangerous, because Chrissy again sees the terrifying shadow man who appeared to her when her mother was dying of cancer--and an internet troll keeps sending death threats to the group.

Alex Sawyer and his friends end up in even more trouble after being caught trying to escape from Furnace Penitentiary for young offenders, and they find themselves struggling to survive solitary confinement.

"Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be normal . . . until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget"--OCLC.

A collection of ten scary short stories by R. L. Stine, each one introduced by the author.

Ten humorously terrifying tales that include a villainous vending machine that eats kids like candy, a birthday-party crashing robot, an evil app that can predict exactly how anyone who uses it will die, and more.