horror fiction

Kendra Delaney, Kiersten Cooper, and Bryson Hatfield find themselves fighting for their lives when a secret experiment conducted by two brothers outside of Aspen, Colorado, goes horribly wrong and produces giant, man-eating crickets.

While hiking in the woods not far from his house, Scooter and his friend, Connor, find a large hole that appears to go deep into the ground, and unfortunately it belongs to human-sized army ants.

Sally and Joey learn their teacher is an alien and work to prevent an invasion of even more aliens.

Leo the Liar is in trouble when he promises the toughest kid in school a photo of a real zombie, so he sneaks out late at night and finds himself trying to save his family from a zombie swarm.

"Longtime residents of Harper's Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widow's Point Lighthouse. Some say it's cursed. Others claim it's haunted. Originally built in 1838, three workers were killed during the lighthouse's construction, including one who mysteriously plunged to his death from the catwalk. . . In the decades that followed, nearly two dozen additional deaths occurred in or around the lighthouse including cold-blooded murder, suicide, unexplained accidents and disappearances, the slaughter of an entire family, and the inexplicable death of a Hollywood starlet who was filming a movie on the grounds. The lighthouse was finally shuttered tight in 1988 and a security fence was erected around the property. No one has been inside since. Until tonight. Thomas Livingston is the acclaimed author of thirteen books about the supernatural and this evening he will enter the Widow's Point Lighthouse, searching for material for his next bestseller. He will be locked inside for the weekend with no way of contacting the outside world . . . [and he] will not be alone"--Provided by publisher.

On Halloween, Sammy and his friends go to the haunted Barlow house where he has a strange, frightening experience, but what he doesn't realize is that he is possessed by a ghost that wants to turn him into a ghost as well.

When their scientist father moves them to a new home next to a swamp, Kelli and Shawn hear stories about a terrifying, ancient beast that inhabits the muck and the pair try to convince their father to move them out before it strikes.

After traveling with Mr. Crepsley, the vampire who made him into a half-vampire, Darren returns to the freak show known as Cirque du Freak and continues to fight his need to drink human blood.

Accompanying his master, Mr. Crepsley, on a trip to the city, half-vampire Darren Shan is ready to enjoy a pleasant holiday away from the Cirque du Freak with his friend Evra, but when he learns of a string of grisly murders whose victims have been drained of blood, Darren begins to suspect that his mentor may be involved.

Richard Mayhew stops to help a bleeding girl on a London street and in doing so finds that he has fallen through the cracks of reality.