Horror Legends

San Juan Capistrano has a rich and wonderful history, much of which is yet to be discovered. But this is not a history, it is a book about folklore and is, in fact, a collection of stories which have been told in San Juan Capistrano over the past century. Contents: "A Haunting We Will Go, " "In Good Spirits," "All That Glitters," and, "Historical Tale-Twisting."

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum. When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Their...

His name is Breslyn, Prince of Dagda of the Tuatha De. He is a royal Fae, immortal and endowed with more than eye candy looks. He is a being with immeasurable powers but life for him lacked something - so he looked around, and found... humans.

Examines werewolf tales and stories from early Greece, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Eastern Europe, China, and Japan, as well as legends of other shapeshifting creatures such as were-tigers, were-jackals, and were-caribou Looks at the various ways people become werewolves, including...

A Charlie Madigan short story—from the series praised for “intricate world-building and richly complex characters” (Publishers Weekly)—as it first appeared in the Carniepunk urban fantasy anthology...

Which came first--the monster or the myth? Journalist Linda Godfrey investigates present-day encounters with mysterious creatures of old. The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and more contemporary urban legend have long captured the popular imagination. While most people in America today...

Teeny Voix lies burritoed in her blanket, girded by Lego landmines, protected by her plushy opossum when the bedroom door creaks, and her lecherous stepfather enters . . . again, while her momma ignores. Weeks earlier, the mute girl penned a mysterious letter, unwittingly hailing a goliath who mauls then kills Teeny's stepfather. The bizarre death forces Teeny to use wit, fortitude, and an eclectic collection of combatants to brave life and death battles with the wicked White Van People, an organized and well-financed child trafficking operation.

Ben McKelvie believes he's moving up in the world when he and his fiancée buy a house in the cushy Washington, DC, suburb of Barcroft. Instead he's moving down - way down - thanks to Madeleine Roux, the crazy neighbor whose vermin-infested property is a permanent eyesore and looming hazard to public health. First Ben's fiancée leaves him; then his dog dies, apparently killed by a predator drawn into Barcroft by Madeleine's noxious menagerie. But the worst is yet to come for Ben.

The author of The Hunger delivers a “daring, soaring, and ultimately gut-wrenching” (The New York Times) conclusion to her critically acclaimed Taker Trilogy, bringing Lanore McIlvrae to a final encounter with Adair, her powerful nemesis. Dismayed by Adair’s otherworldly powers and afraid...

Step into the chilling realm of Haunted Roads, where every turn holds a hidden terror, and every stretch of pavement tells a story. Unearth the secrets of the A75, where phantoms from tragic events linger, beckoning the living to listen to their sorrow. Navigate the treacherous twists of Mount Misery Road, a place where the living fear to tread, haunted by the restless souls of those who met their fate too soon. Discover the eerie Clinton Road, home to the Ghost Boy who lingers, calling out to unsuspecting travelers in the dead of night.

Two cousins, Garren hailing from the mountains of West Virginia, and Brodie from the flatlands of Southern Maryland, reunite the Dyer family at a hunting camp in the Potomac Highlands; the dark entity Laris doesn't care where they came from, because he knows them as the descendants of Moll Dyer, his old enemy. Three of the cousins' friends oppose the ancient evil: Anna, a hesitant Native American spiritualist, Lenore, a teenager just discovering her shape-shifting abilities, and Bridget, a teenage girl with too much to lose...and plenty to gain.

Harry, the wonder cat, is no ordinary cat! Two centuries ago, he was tasked with caring for the Johnson family, helping them through life's ups and downs. Fast forward to the present. This story begins when Nikki Johnson, accompanied by her close friend Heather Murphy, had planned her annual quiet and relaxing Christmas visit to Harrot Reef to visit her beloved aunt Lynn. Plans changed when Nikki's aunt summoned her to come earlier because something was terribly wrong. The two friends arrived the next day to a shocking discovery.

Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat - a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual. The corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. With an analog SLR camera as her best weapon, Micheline exorcises ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy on film.

In these wonderful short stories, Washington Irving created two of the earliest, most endearing and enduring characters in all of American literature. Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane (not to mention the Headless Horseman) will keep you smiling as they wrestle with the strange and fantastic forces, characters and events that baffle and terrify.

These shivery tales were collected from the oral tradition, from people all over the Southwest, and represent the rich cultural diversity of the region, from the Ozarks to the Rio Grande, California to the Big Thicket.

Castalia and Bobbi find an old, deserted house in the form of the Carnovasch Estate. Upon looking it over, the girls ultimately end up hosting a Halloween party there, inviting everyone from both Strickfield High and Strickfield Academy to come. After one of Castalia’s friends from Strickfield Academy finds a secret passage into an ancient basement, the girls can’t help but investigate.

Rebecca Virtue discovered the secret of her family’s past, but at a great cost. She is now the last of her name. Unleashing her full power as the last demon hunter, she defeated her teacher turned avatar, Samuel Santano. With nothing left in her home of Chicago, Rebecca heads to Detroit with a simple plan. Summon and destroy the Horseman of War.

A Mistletoe Bride is murdered on Christmas Eve, 1893. Her ghost haunts the family stately home, Willow Manor, until her remains are discovered and the truth revealed. Set in the present day and Victorian England, the tragic young bride can at last share her story and put right the terrible injustice that destroyed her family and those she loved. The city of Oxford’s Randolph Hotel, and the village of Minster Lovell, the site of the stately home, are the locations for this heartwrenching story of deceit, love, and betrayal.

As the newest target of Somerdale’s most popular girls, Carmen Winstead is herself alone, unhappy, and prone to self-destructive thoughts. Maybe that’s why Carmen’s presence seems to have awakened something dark and sinister - a supernatural horror that has been hidden in the cornfields of Somerdale for a long time. Befriended by another outcast, Carmen finds the courage to face her demons. But when the pranks go too far, Carmen soon becomes intimately familiar with the town’s darkness - a darkness that is reaching out from beyond the grave.

After being brutally assaulted and murdered in the woods by three racist white brothers, the disgruntled spirit of an old 75-year-old Black man returns on the anniversary of his death to seek vengeance on his assailants and everyone associated with them. With only two survivors, Ethan and his girlfriend must elude the authorities and the whip wielding, wise cracking vengeful spirit of Jesse Jammer.