horror fiction

The Cane family's idyllic facade covers a dysfunctional family headed by an absentee, military father and a depressed, addicted mother. And though the five beautiful, teenage sisters who round out the family put on a good show, behind closed doors, they can't stand one another. But when the youngest and most beloved sister, Rose, dies, their mother abandons them and the remaining sisters band to together. You see, Rose comes back from the dead with a need to feed on human flesh in order to remain undead, and her sisters are determined to keep her with them--dead or alive.

Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.

Hugh does not like walking home alone through the woods which the other children say is inhabited by a monster, but today he has no choice, and it is not only his shadow that follows him--and that is only one of five scary stories included in this collection.

As her father lies gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, eighteen-year-old Victoria's last hope is to find a vampire in New Orleans, an impossible mission that rekindles a special friendship.

Two people, aspiring filmmaker Elijah and thirteen-year-old tutor Suzy, are invited to a largely deserted hotel in Estes Park Colorado to make a film about reclusive horror author Jack Axworth, and tutor his son, Danny; but the situation is not as expected: Jack is suffering from early onset dementia, and convinced that his books have released evil, is trying to buy up and destroy them as well as the hotel he lives in--but nobody is quite what they seem, and soon the whole project starts to resemble one of Jack's horror novels.

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.

"Things haven't been the same since Shane's accident. One minute he was a normal kid playing a game of tag with his friends, and the next he's the boy who came back from the dead. Now, every time Shane falls asleep, he's pulled into a dark world where the evil Nightmare King reigns. The King is collecting children and keeping them as treasure. Despite the threat of capture by the Nightmare King, he can't stay awake forever. Shane will have to take matters into his own hands . . . if he gives himself over to his nightmares, can he hold on to the good in himself long enough to bring down the King?"--Provided by publisher.

"As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five twelve-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they will never forget"--OCLC.

"After a session in the VR Booth at the Mega Pizzaplex, Kai can't shake the feeling that the tiger animatronic somehow has stayed with him. A new attraction at the Mega Pizzaplex leaves Kane's mind full of intrusive thoughts not his own. And Danny's idea to get the attention of his high school crush comes with unimaginable consequences. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, truth is often scarier than fiction"--Provided by publisher.