Halloween Thriller

With Halloween just around the corner, the fall colors in Georgetown are brilliant. As manager of the Color Me Read bookstore, coloring book creator Florrie Fox has arranged for psychic author Hilda Rattenhorst to read from Spooktacular Ghost Stories. But the celebrity medium arrives for the event in hysterics, insisting she just saw a bare foot sticking out of a rolled-up carpet in a nearby alley. Is someone trying to sweep murder under the rug? Florrie calls in her policeman beau, Sergeant Eric Jonquille, but the carpet corpse has disappeared without a trace.

From Blumhouse Books, a haunting thriller about a troubled married couple whose vacation to Paris leads them into a nightmare. "Dark and deeply disturbing. I'm still shuddering."--R.L. Stine “An impressively compelling chiller… an ideal choice for late nights alone.” -- CultureCrypt Mark...

Stay up all night with this modern day Rebecca! Perfect for fans of Truly Devious--a haunting story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her. People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. In Louth...

It's an old-fashioned puppet. The details are hard to make out in the dim light, but it looks like the puppet's neck is broken. It's a sad-looking thing, trapped there in its cage. Maybe I should let it out... THE MUST-HAVE THRILLER THAT WILL KEEP YOU GRIPPED, KEEP YOU GUESSING, AND KEEP YOU UP...

From the dark imagination of New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Kraus - co-author with Guillermo del Toro of THE SHAPE OF WATER (which as a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture) - comes a Halloween crime story that's like nothing you've ever heard before. WHEN TRICK OR TREAT...

Sammy and her friends are startled when they interrupt what seems to be an attempted murder on Halloween. While trick-or-treating at a spooky old, house, they find the door open, and inside a man is tied to a chair while a fire rages on the floor. A robbery? But what valuable could be missing from the home of a reclusive old man?

The Presidential Campaign Trail, 2012: A political operative and a volunteer are brutally murdered while caught in a compromising position. Written in their blood on the wall of the crime scene: IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK. And with that, a centuries-old horror known only as the Boogeyman returns...

An eerie horror debut about a little boy who recovers from a mysterious illness and inherits an imaginary friend who makes him do violent things... Kids have imaginary friends. Rachel knows this. So when her young son, Billy, miraculously recovers from a horrible flu that has proven fatal for...

"Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment!" —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Set in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch...

Brandy and Zane are out of options. With Halloween approaching and no place to call home, they take over the house of Brandy’s agoraphobic client — a woman too fearful to leave and too isolated to resist. It’s only temporary, they tell themselves. Just long enough to save up and start fresh — for themselves and their children. To pass the time, the woman begins reading them pages from a novel she’s been writing — unsettling, violent, and impossible to forget. Brandy tries not to think too hard about it. But some stories linger longer than expected.

The Game of Halloween in the Lost NeighborHood: The Cul-De-Sac Kids is a Creature Feature Romantic Adventure based on the screenplay inside the course book Prolific Screenwriter, a simple five-step outline reformatting course developed at UCLA Extension and taught at IUPUI.

When Evelyn Eldritch’s landlord Randolph is poisoned at his own James Bond-themed party, she needs to find the killer fast. Who killed him? The nephew and heir? The best friend? Or the faithful secretary? Evelyn wants to prove to Detective Inspector Taylor that she’s more than just a bumbling baker with a missing witness—that cat-turned-waitress spell is proving hard to explain! But how many clues did Evelyn miss while wrangling her diva cat? It’s clear Randolph drank a poisoned cocktail, but was the cyanide really meant for him?

Fall is a beautiful time of year. The leaves are falling the air gets a chill to it. At night however, things get a bit more dicey. As Halloween approaches, monsters of the human and paranormal variety stalk the streets looking for victims to sate their blood thirst!

In the midst of the annual Halloween frenzy, TJ finds herself pulled into a series of events at the high school where she works. Not only must she help one of the girls on her team deal with a case of cyberbullying, but she must help a student who has recently suffered a personal tragedy. And as if TJ wasn't busy enough, in walks Samantha Colton, a reporter for Second Look, a television series that takes a look back at unsolved murders.

Hannibal, Missouri. Pulsing with history. And a 150-year-old unsolved disappearance. Kimberly Wantland and her paranormal investigation team travel to Hannibal, Missouri, for their Halloween episode to investigate The Old Catholic Church. Owner Jillian Olson is sure she knows who haunts the building and why he's antagonizing her. But Kimberly hears whispers of far more than the reported ghostly phenomenon. A dark figure implores her to help. But help who? An empty grave and a disturbing experience inside a cave further confound the case.

Eine Nacht in den Wäldern. Eine Party, die aus dem Ruder läuft. Eine Leiche im Morgengrauen. Am Tag nach Halloween wird in den Wäldern von Thorncombe ein Mädchen tot aufgefunden – im weißen Kleid, mit einer schwarzen Vogelmaske und rätselhaften Worten, die ihr jemand auf Arme und Beine gekritzelt hat. Handelt es sich um einen Ritualmord? Oder eine Party, die eskaliert ist?

The Halloween Warriors part 6, 7, and 8 is a story divided into three parts that describes the descent of the malefic characters that appear in it. Origins (part 6) describes the history of Matilda and Gellfara from their birth when they were normal human beings and how they became evil beings.

Summer is ending, and the darkness of fall fills your heart with joy. And why is this? Because you know the greatest day of the year, Halloween, is on its way. But what is Halloween without a scary story? Under the Harvest Moon features 13 stories that come to light. Like the trick-or-treaters knocking on your door, each one is different and surprising in its own way. Some will be terrifying and some thought-provoking, but all will provide that spooky entertainment you’ve been looking for.

When a baby is kidnapped in broad daylight with no witnesses, an otherwise sleepy suburb is rocked by scandal and ten-year-old Flora Lanyon is terrified. Decades later, Flora takes a job as a live-in carer for elderly couple, Agnes and Abraham, moving into the decrepit watermill where they live. As strange and unexplainable occurrences start to happen, Flora grows increasingly suspicious. What dark secrets are hiding in the house? Is Flora safe there? And can she unearth the truth before the past catches up with the present?

Alice Miller macht sich gerade auf zum Einkaufen, als sie direkt vor ihrer Haustüre eine Leiche entdeckt. Sofort sind Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson zur Stelle. Doch der Täter arbeitet rasant und es vergeht kein Tag, an dem nicht ein neues, zu Tode gefoltertes Opfer auftaucht. Holmes ist der Verzweiflung nahe. Als nun jemand aus den eigenen Reihen spurlos verschwindet, stößt Holmes endlich auf einen Hinweis und kombiniert richtig.