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The reappearance of an old flame, held hostage by a man claiming to be her husband. A seemingly-innocuous invitation laced with a coded signal for help. An impossible neighborhood with a terrifying secret. Sorrel follows the calls for help from her ex Maud to Trinity Springs, an uncanny Americana neighborhood that she cannot find any record of actually existing. A place that defies the laws of physics. A place of eerily smiling faces, white-picket fences, and manicured lawns. A place where she, and only she, is warned not to go outside after sundown.

There's a haunting in Cameron Ciris's blood, and the city they live in is hungry for every drop. Chicago is like every other American metropolis: built on a foundation of death. Little surprise that when a loving couple in a low-rent apartment cannibalize each other, the police write it off as a bizarre murder-suicide. Cameron —local fixer and addict in recovery —volunteers to take up the case as a favor to their neighborhood, the 49th Ward. A year ago, Cameron overdosed on a hot new party drug and picked up an extra passenger, an entity that forces them to perform rituals written in blood.

A relationship broken. A ship in distress. Horrors that shatter minds. A song that changes reality Jett Valla and Eddie Stone stand between life and death for a million souls. But can they save each other? The QSR Neo-Tokyo was the first ship in the Quasar Metropolis-class fleet: an immense spaceship housing a glittering, neon-lit city and half a million people. For forty-five years, it has traveled from Jupiter to Pluto and back without incident. For the last six years First Officer Eddie Stone and Head of Security Jett Valla have built a life together aboard the ship. But no longer.

When ghostwriter Maz Amani inherits a house from an uncle he’s never heard of, he offers heartfelt thanks to the universe, packs up his car, his cat, and his skepticism about mysterious uncles leaving all their worldly goods to unknown nephews, and high-tails it to a small town halfway to the Oregon coast. Anything would be better than week after week of couch surfing his way around Portland. Even if the alleged house is a rundown shack ridden with termites, spiders, and—shudder—rats, he’ll deal. Because hey, he owns a house!

Three novellas, each answering the same prompt: Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood....

Kennedy’s Horror Collection series continues with Book 15. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time, they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your listening pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will listen to this year.

Because one of her fathers died when she was very young, much of Celia's family knowledge comes from stories her surviving father narrates—road-trip adventures from the mid-'80s that explore homophobia in a supernatural context. As she considers these adventures (a rescue mission aided by ghostly hallucinations, a secluded town of strangely shaped inhabitants, a movie star with a monstrous secret), Celia uncovers startling new truths about her family's past.

Elliott isn't pleased about being exiled from Chicago to the sleepy town of Verona, Indiana, but he's determined to make the best of it. He meets Marshall, who is undoubtedly the most bizarre boy in school, but who is the only one, other than his grandmother, that Elliott can trust not to be freaked out by the ghost in his bedroom and the strange dreams that might not be dreams at all.

This novella occurs 15 years after Ichabod Crane rid Sleepy Hollow of the wraith of a fallen Hessian soldier, the Headless Horseman, which terrorized the village. Now word has spread of the Horseman's return. Ichabod's daughter, Imelda, answers the call to investigate and stop the Horseman at all costs. Armed with her father's sword, fighting prowess, and sharp mind, Imelda uncovers the secrets the Hollow has hidden for so long. New suspicions and old loves complicate her mission, as she finds that all is not as it seems in the little New England town.

Life for Sterling the vampire is sweet in sleepy Silveropolis. Blood is in easy supply with college kids and cryptid hunters swarming the town for mountain madness, an annual search for an elusive creature known as Smallfoot. But another corpse is discovered in the woods. Are the Everetts back? Is it a ritual killing or a random murder? With the help of a brooding journalist and a jealous storm god, Sterling must investigate before it’s too late. The victim was staked through the heart, after all.

Based on the short story "Red River County", this rewrite expands the original story concept into a short novella. Concentrating on character development and delving into the topics of race, race relations, childhood homosexuality, the supernatural, and paranormal activity - which is common in this region of Texas.

A ghosty romance of a heart broken young musician and a spirit poetess, and his goofy fun gay best friend and the haunting spirit of a photographer all overlapping in relations in a huge old mansion in northern Michigan. "The boys are are lovely, dead and alive!" said O. Wilde. "And the girl is nice too, I suppose."

Salem will eigentlich nur vor ihrem gebrochenen Herzen davonlaufen. Als sie auf der entlegenen Blackridge Island in einem Bed & Breakfast eincheckt und der enigmatischen Besitzerin Rayne begegnet, spürt sie aber sofort eine unglaubliche Anziehung zu ihr. Mit Rayne kann sie jede Fantasie ausleben, die sie so lange unterdrückt hat, jedem dunklen Gelüst nachgeben, für das sie sich früher geschämt hätte. Als die ersten Gäste spurlos verschwinden, wird ihr eines klar: Das Böse lauert in Blackridge – und seine Augen sind auf Salem gerichtet.

Each story in this collection takes the listener on a deep dive into one of the many versions of the legend of Mary Pannell, who was executed for witchcraft in the small town of Kippax, West Yorkshire, in 1603. Her ghost is said to haunt the woods on the hill that to this day bear her name.