Scary Anthology

Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil - as Jonathan will discover after he accidentally gets a trace of his blood on its surface in this disturbing tale of terror.

Isabella Blankenship's sixth-grade year is off to a bad start. She is facing a butt-kicking after class from what happened on the school bus. Her teacher is rather odd and also stands seven feet tall. Her shoes are soaked, and she has to eat lunch with her teacher. This day just keeps getting better and better.

We all have hobbies and habits, rules and routines, and quirks and qualities that make us one of a kind. It's these endearing (and yes, sometimes irritating) qualities that ultimately make us human - even if we may seem a little monstrous on occasion. In Monstrous Me, all the funky feelings, horrendous habits, and terrible traits we have are exemplified by silly and strange monsters.

The mind is a very wondrous thing, it can raise us up to heights beyond the imagination or drop us into a world filed with terror and despair. What you believe may not always be fact, and what is fact may not always be believed. The choice is yours to decide.

Max has no idea how he ended up a ghost or that his fate was to help a little boy find his killer. Together, they set out on a journey to seek justice. As they struggle with their ghostly forms in the physical world, they find out that justice is not always served in the way we expected.

This short story is about the dead spirit of a little girl. Maggie was six years old when she died, and she attached herself to another six-year-old little girl by the name of Linda. This is both Maggie and Linda's story.

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.

The heroes and heroines of myth and folklore always have to overcome extraordinary challenges: and more often than not, these challenges involve a giant, a ghost, or a goblin. Jerry Nelson, the voice behind some of the most famous characters in children's television, including Sesame Street's Count von Count, narrates this action-packed collection. His inventive repertoire of growling giants and squeaky goblins will delight young listeners as the drama of the stories sets their imaginations on fire.

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.