Scary Anthology

Luke walked up to the girl in the playground and asked, "Why aren't you swinging?" The girl looked at him and said nothing for a minute. He was struck by the darkness of her irises, which were almost impossible to distinguish from her blacker-than-black pupils. He swallowed. He was about to turn away when she said, "I was swinging, but I don't swing any more."

In this children's story, a young queen purchases an enchanted item that will allow her to see either the past or the future - but not both. She chooses a direction, and discovers that her obsession with the item leads to her kingdom's downfall when she fails to heed the salesman's warnings. A terrific story for the "tween" crowd.

Benjamin is NOT afraid of the dark or of monsters. That is until one night when the bumps in his closet become too noisy to ignore. He bravely explores his room, finding fuzzy monster friends who are just as afraid of him and his little dog, Rex, as he is of them! Enjoy this story of bravery and friendship even in unlikely places!

The creature returns with an appetite, under a full moon. A gator hunting guide known as Tex brings his expedition right into the heart of the creature's habitat. Bordering that habitat is Frankenstein. This brief short story is not for the timid.

A novelette about three young people who find themselves living at the lake cabins their parents took them to as children - the reason - a plague has swept across the country leaving 90 percent of the population as zombies.

A man ridicules Nyarlathotep, a prophet of doom, and to his horror learns why Nyarlathotep knows so much. Nyarlathotep is one of Lovecraft's most well known characters, second to Cthulhu, and appears in six of Lovecraft's stories: "Nyarlathotep", "The Rats in the Walls", "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", "The Dreams in the Witch House", "The Haunter of the Dark", and "The Shadow Out of Time" and his sonnet "The Fungi from Yuggoth".

The James Barkley gang were well known outlaws in the town of Gold Dust during 1876. James Barkley thought if anyone found any gold in the town of Gold Dust they wouldn't mind sharing, but he was dead wrong. Because no one in the town liked the James Barkley gang. One night when James Barkley and his gang were camping out planning their next stage coach robbery, James said, "There is a stage coach coming this way in the mid-morning around high noon and there is around $100,000 in cash and this will make us rich."

A grave robber glances at a coffin he's recently unearthed and opened, and, enraged, he witnesses his prized corpse being drawn out the chewed end of the coffin into a subterranean burrow by the graveyard rats. Without thinking, he dives in after it and, crawling through the underground maze, pursues the corpse only to discover he is being pursued by the gargantuan rats and something far more ominous...the undead.

Your heart pounds. Sweat drips. Shadows writhe. "The Sinister Diaries" are CALLING! Welcome to 4 Short and Scary Horror Stories Collection – a pulse-pounding plunge into the abyss of human darkness and supernatural terror! This isn't your average scary story anthology; it's an experience that will electrify your senses, paralyze you with fear, and make you question every shadow in your home.

This is about a vicious killer in Chicago. She was no ordinary killer. She killed with vicious piranha breasts.

Emma Perodi con questa fiaba, tratta da "Le Novelle della Nonna", ci riporta ai racconti che venivano fatti davanti al focolare più di un secolo fa: questa inconsueta storia sulla Befana, quasi horror, non adatta al piu' piccini.

Benjie Perkins' parents make their living by buying old houses and fixing them up to sell, so Benjie is used to odd noises in the night. But this time, it's different. This time what he hears is the ghost of Elvira Thistledown, who is kept from moving on to glory by a truly strange curse. Can Benjie free her restless spirit?

Just another day working at the clinic? Nope. Another short story from *A Girl Dog's Breakfast*, first Crowe Creations Print Edition May 2011, by Sherrill Wark writing as Christina Crowe.

The most exciting adventure story yet! Every five years there is a gathering of magical beings to read the Wizard's Tontine - a contract of sorts which awards a massive prize of gold to the last living member. This time, however, witches aren't invited, and they want their revenge! They go to war against wizards and magicians in a battle which includes dragons, minotaurs, goblins, giant bats and magical creatures of every kind! Don't miss this must-read children's story!

When he takes his young son to a magic shop as a birthday present, a father finds it ever more difficult to separate what is illusion from what he begins to wonder is real magic. This is a wonderful trip into the world of fantasy for young listeners and parents alike.

This is a short story about a ruthless, bloodthirsty, raw-brain-eating pigeon possessed by an evil witch doctor. The beast momentarily tormented the city of Chicago, and this is its tale.