horror fiction

Nick, Carter, and Angelo, who are all very interested in monsters and Halloween, visit an aunt and discover a cursed amulet that turns Nick into a zombie, and although the situation seems fun at first, the boys soon find themselves crossing paths with strange creatures on their quest to reverse the curse.

Four old people recollect their adolescence in the German village of Devil's Moor and the unpleasant things that happened there.

When Tanya keeps having bad dreams about a girl, trapped in the old stone house around the corner, Tanya and her friends go to investigate the strange house covered in cobwebs and stumble onto their own worst nightmares come to life.

"When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies suddenly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance: a host of eight unique, powerful, and restless spirits. Unfortunately, Luke has no clue how to manage them, which the ghosts figure out pretty quickly. Armed with only his father's indecipherable notes and a locked copy of 'The Book of Eight,' Luke struggles to adapt to his new role as a necromancer"--Publisher.

Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the innocent ghosts of the murdered-dead and taking the lives of killers with the vengeance they are due, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen with the series of intricate tattoos is not a monster and needs to be freed from the demonic malevolence that clings to him.

Luke and Lizzy Morris return to the Horrorland amusement park.

Alexander keeps seeing monsters he has previously conquered, but every time he gets close they disappear and his friends are beginning to think he is delusional--but when one of their teachers turns into a blob of super-goop right before their eyes they realize the team is dealing with a shape-shifter, and it is after the Notebook of Doom.

A heavy snowstorm traps the students inside Eerie Elementary, a living, breathing monster brought to life by mad scientist, Orson Eerie--soon the school begins to freeze from the inside out, and Sam, Lucy and Antonio must find a way to get the heat back on before all the students freeze to death, while facing the truth that Orson Eerie is even more powerful and dangerous than they realized.

It is a very hot summer in Stermont, and Alexander and his friends are at Camp Gloamy in the mountains, but even here there are monsters--specifically zombie snowmen called snombies who want to freeze the young monster-hunters.