horror fiction

Told in their separate voices, Gavin, a loner outcast, and Delilah, back in small-town Kansas after years at a Massachusetts boarding school, reconnect their senior year, but as their relationship deepens, it is clear that the eerie house Gavin dwells in will do anything to keep the two apart.

With a bit of guilt, Thad retires George Stark, his pseudonym, only to have him appear as a killing machine that destroys everyone on the path that leads to the man who created him.

Something is haunting Jayla Walters's Colorado hotel room--Room 217 of the Stanley Hotel.

"The summer of 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club ... solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to gt his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Debo?n Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask. And Andy, the once intrepid tomboy now wanted in two states, is tired of running from her demons. She needs answers... The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake."--Dust jacket.

Four believers of the paranormal come to the old abandoned mansion including an anthropologist who wants to conduct an unusual research project.

"In the summer of 1982, five friends discover an ancient stone box hidden deep in the woods. They seal inside of it treasured objects from their childhoods, and they make a vow: Never come to the box alone. Never open it after dark. Never take back your sacrifice. Four years later, a series of strange and terrifying events begin to unfold: mirrors inexplicably shattering, inanimate beings coming to life, otherworldly crows thirsting for blood. Someone broke the rules of the box, and now everyone has to pay. But how much are they willing to sacrifice?"--Dust jacket.

A fictional oral history that begins with the mystery of a young womans' body disappearing from the morgue in an Arizona border town. Then more bodies from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood are brought to the morgue only to vanish as well. Soon the government, biomedical researchers, lawmakers, and the Catholic Church must come to terms with what they are too late to stop, an epidemic of vampirism.

"Soon after twelve-year-old Devin Dexter's mischievous cousin, Tommy, declares Devin's new neighbor is a warlock, the town of Gravesend is overrun by cute toys turned into living monsters"--Provided by publisher.

"When their overnight class trip to the museum turns out to be more scary than sleepy, best friends Nate and Connor must stop a haunting--and the Tales from the Scaremaster book that seems to be pulling the strings--before they all become ghosts too"--Provided by publisher.

Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.