horror tales

"When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live"--Amazon.

"They thought they'd put their fears to rest. But the old fears are back . . . and they've brought new fears with them"--Back cover.

Eleven-year-old Ellie knows something is off about her new community, and Dash, her neighbor, confirms it, but can she prevent her parents from joining the weird Neighborhood Watch group?.

"Frightville is a store with a toy for anyone's wish list. Or so it seems . . . David's new chattering teeth toy was advertised as a Wish Eater: 'Able to grant any wish!' But after annoying siblings are wished away, can they be wished back?"--Back cover of print version.

"For a small New England town, Shadow Grove has an uncanny ability to attract the worst kind of trouble. Not that the residents are too concerned about the various horrors living among them. As the leaves change color and the weather grows colder, a foul presence is making itself known by leaving peculiar gifts for the students of Ridge Crest High. At first, the presents seem harmless--and a rash of accidents seem coincidental--but when seniors Rachel Cleary and her Scottish cousin, Dougal Mackay, find a boneless body in the boiler room, things take an ominous turn. Something vicious is on the loose in Shadow Grove, but with Orion Nebulius gone, Rachel has little hope of anyone getting out alive"--Provided by publisher.

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.

"Two unlikely friends face down their worst fears in order to stop their small town--and themselves--from disappearing"--OCLC.

Sam is excited to be on her first cruise, but when a hungry slime creature emerges from a donut at the all-you-can-eat buffet she starts to wonder--is the buffet the food on display or the passengers in the dining room?.

Something is wrong with twelve-year-old Zee, who has returned after a year's absence; nobody knows where he was or what happened to him, but now he is distracted and violent, freaking out when he sees his friends, Justin, Nia, and Lyric, playing an odd game of hide-and-seek, and talking wildly about some danger that is approaching--and soon his friends are pulled into a shadowy world ruled by a monstrous, shape-shifting Seeker, forced to play a terrifying game of hide-and-seek where they will have to confront their worst nightmares in order to find their way home.

The Clark children are Mia's first babysitting job, and everything is going fine until she sees a life-sized doll sitting in the hallway; a doll that was not there before, a doll that Mr. Clark knows nothing about, and whose eyes follow Mia--and that is only one of the five scary stories with unexpected twists that are included in this collection.