horror fiction

When his sister is bitten by an injured bird she tried to rescue, Cooper must figure out what's going on when she starts perching high up in trees, gathering sticks to hide in her room and refusing to eat her favorite foods.

Summer is zombie season in California and there are some kids who do not evacuate: Joule searches for her missing father, Regina worries about the secrecy surrounding the new anti-zombie technology her parents are developing, and Oliver is trying to convince the grownups that the zombies are becoming stronger.

"After Kim inherits an old family house in rural Sweden, he finds strange notes and drawings posted everywhere, soon seeing monsters and ruminating on his family, himself, and the traumatic memories of his upbringing"--Publisher.

After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.

"Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up isn't going away. To fight for what's right, Zee will have to embrace what makes her different and what makes her Ghost Girl. And all three of them--Zee, Elijah, and Nellie--will have to work together if they want to give their ghost story a happy ending"--Provided by publisher.

When a middle-aged man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, for a funeral he remembers frightening childhood memories relating to the neighbor girl who promised to protect him from the darkness unleashed by a suicide at the pond at the end of their street.

Terror surfaces from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon megalodon--a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be extinct--alive and well off the coast of Japan.

"Claire doesn't believe in ghosts, even though her dad is a ghost hunter on TV. But then her dad disappears. And a strange boy in her class, Lucas, knows something about ghosts. One of them has a message for her: Her dad has been taken, and he's in grave danger. Together, Claire and Lucas set out for the town of Hush Falls, where her dad was last seen. Legend says that a tall man in a dark tattered coat lurks near the reservoir in town, and anyone who gets too lose to old Lemuel Hush is never heard from again. Claire and Lucas are determined to rescue Claire's father. But how can they save him from the ghost of Hush when everyone knows that seeing him means that you're destined to die..."--Jacket flap.

A dark bridge to the past... Dirk sets out on a long-shot quest to recapture a cherished childhood memory from a unique animatronic pizzeria. Mandy finds something lurking in the files of her favourite horror game and opens herself up to a haunting. In light of her son's fascination with Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Sylvia buys her son a unique birthday present -- a Freddy Fazbear mask that's the genuine article...in more ways than one.

When a Hollywood film crew begins to work on the island of Kisapmata, they ignore the warnings that the island is cursed, until the crew begins to see strange visions and the visitors start to die, one by one.