horror fiction

In the summer of 1988, Abby and her best friend-forever Gretchen go skinny-dipping, and something goes wrong. Gretchen begins to act differently than she ever has before, and it isn't long before Abby, investigating, determines her friend has been possessed by a demon, leading to just one question--whether or not their friendship is powerful enough to defeat the devil.

Andrew and Eddie were best friends until Eddie left Andrew for a graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, Andrew prepares to join Eddie in Nashville until he receives shocking news: Eddie has committed suicide. Eddie leaves Andrew his inheritance, and Andrew steps into Eddie's old life in Nashville. He doesn't believe that Eddie would commit suicide and begins to investigate what really happened to his friend, but he soon finds himself becoming consumed by the same demons that took Eddie away.

Dramatizations of many Roald Dahl short stories.

When a mysterious beam of light appears during a thunderstorm off the coast of Maine with no logical explanation, three friends go in search of answers and find themselves unraveling an otherworldly tale. Noah's been known to leap before he looks, but fortunately, his sister's wits are usually sharp enough to extract the group from the sticky situations in which he lands them. On a visit to a coastal harbor town in Maine, the world is Noah's oyster--pun intended--as long as the stormy weather doesn't ruin the fun. Summer break has just begun, and with seven days of freedom, how much trouble can he and his best friend and his sister really find? Plenty, as it turns out. Because when the kids go snooping around an old, decommissioned lighthouse, its haunting secrets begin to reveal themselves, and the kids are about to stumble upon a hundred-year-old mystery that still haunts the nearby fishing village.

A collection of ten scary stories with brief introductions by the author.

"The city is overrun by adorable fluffy disease vectors that used to be human ... and they want cuddles! Now, with Tsutsumi's allergies as a cat detector, Kunagi is striving to keep his small band of survivors from going feline. But when a peculiar white kitty with a large jewel produces an earsplitting screech, all the cats in the city converge on their location! When their cat energy merges into a massive mystical cat beast, will Kunagi be able to draw it away?"--Page [4] of cover.

"The world has fallen under the long shadow of a cat apocalypse. Mankind has beenoverwhelmed by the power of their fearsome floof, turning into cats one after another. Those few survivors who remain live in a world on the precipice of total collapse. In a new age where cats are everything, is there any future for left of mankind?! The absurd tale of kitty-cat Armageddon continues!"--Page [4] of cover.

Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's mysterious athame, sets out to kill a ghost known as Anna Dressed in Blood, but what he believes will be a routine task turns deadly when he discovers Anna is unlike any ghost he has ever encountered before.

From ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, a chilling middle grade tale set during the flu pandemic of 1918.

"Eighteen-year-olds Cori and Maz, once inseparable best friends, reunite to solve the mystery of what happened to their other friend Sam--who disappeared six years ago and has now returned, not having aged at all"--Provided by publisher.