Scary Science Fiction

ハリー・ポッターのJ.K.ローリング書き下ろし童話。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
コルヌコピア王国は、立派な口髭をもつ王様が治める、世界一幸福な国でした。豊かな黄金があり、職人たちが作り出す食べ物は、うれし泣きするくらいの美味しさでした。

When Ben Harvester meets Mr. October in Highgate Cemetery, nothing could have prepared him for the dramatic turn his life is about to take. Soon Mr. October is leading him towards his true calling - at the Ministry of Pandemonium, helping to guide the dead to the afterlife. But Ben quickly discovers that there are terrifying forces keen to thwart the work of the Ministry and lead the newly-dead astray.

Tom wants to see a dragon. And his Granddad wants to make one. But neither of them are prepared for the consequences when they accidentally spill Granddad's special growth formula on the ground.

Rudy Berkman thought he was the luckiest kid when his family moved to Danville - "The Best City in the World" - where there is no crime and boasts the best schools in the nation. But, he's shocked to discover that his fellow students act like mindless robots, and the teachers seem to want him dead!

With a body made of wax, seaweed for hair and polished abalone shells for eyes, Corpse is bound to haunt the Witches' sea shack forever. She has no memory of the kid she was before she was snatched and ended up on the rock that doesn't exist. But the delivery of an unexpected message sets Corpse off on a surprising quest, searching for answers to the old and familiar questions that have filled her not-brain since the day she first woke up a ghost. Questions about her name. Questions about her family.

Twelve-year-old Ainsley Galloway and her ten-year-old brother, Tobin, have just moved to the small picturesque mountain town of Lowry. The town is famously the setting for the blockbuster Legend of Greyhallow trilogy, and there are traces of the films wherever they go. Ainsley’s parents even bought the film director’s former home, which they dream of turning into an inn that caters to fans eager to check out the local Greyhallow Movie Festival. But when Ainsley and Tobin are fooling around in the attic of their new home, Ainsley unleashes something—something she doesn’t quite understand.

In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out.

The disgusting bug aliens have gone full throttle on implementing their world-dominating plans. They're replacing humans with exact replicas who are heck-bent on destroying mankind! Jimmy finds himself having to leave the comfort of his small town to track down the parts to a superweapon that will obliterate the invasion threat, once and for all.

A mysterious plague is sweeping across the Great Plains, one that grants the ability to shape-shift - but with it comes an insatiable hunger for fresh meat. Sixteen-year-old Mia is Infected, but she’s a special case. Thanks to a strange genetic mutation, she not only has abilities other werewolves don’t possess, her blood might be the key to a vaccine. For Mia and many of the Infected, shape-shifting is a curse. Others, the Bad Dogs, revel in their new powers. For them, humans no longer belong at the top of the food chain.

Nico, Opal, Tyler, Emma, and Logan survived their worst fears come to life and saved their tiny Pacific Northwest town of Timbers from a monstrous figment invasion. Now they just want to keep their heads down, enjoy Halloween and explore the secrets of their mysterious houseboat clubhouse. And also figure out their new Torchbearer responsibilities as keepers of the Darkdeep, an ancient whirlpool hidden in Still Cove that can make both dreams and nightmares into reality.

Nico, Opal, Tyler, Emma and Logan survived their worst fears come to life and saved their town from a monstrous figment invasion. Now they want to keep their heads down, enjoy Halloween and explore the secrets of their mysterious houseboat clubhouse. And also figure out their new Torchbearer responsibilities as keepers of the Darkdeep, an ancient whirlpool hidden in Still Cove that can make both dreams and nightmares into reality.

Mia just wants to fit in at her new school in a new city and maybe find a nice boyfriend. But her suburban life is turned upside down when she encounters three younger boys on the run from a mysterious threat. While trying to help them, Mia is drawn into a shadow world where dark, sinister shapes prowl quiet neighborhoods.

Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she's struggling to get her life back. But moving on isn't easy - not when her dreams are haunted by what happened. She knows the past is past, knows it cannot hurt her, but it feels so real, and when her nightmares begin to creep into her waking hours, she starts to wonder if she's really safe.

Book Two in the Secret Seekers Society continues with the epic adventure, following Hunter, Elly, and all their friends as they journey into the world of the supernatural and unknown. The children’s Enlightenment studies find them digging deeper into the spiritual realm of the paranormal. Learning about a magical and ancient ring known as Solomon’s Seal, the children must decide if playing with the spiritual realm to seek out their dead parents is worth the risk of putting their souls in danger.

Humanity has one option. Evacuate Earth. After a wave of fear crashes over the world in response to a deadly virus. Fear intensifies when it's discovered that the virus is the first wave of attack by an alien race that wants Earth for themselves. Its one day before Paige's 21st birthday, and the world is turning into the walking dead! Zombie-like people are seeking her out.

On the way home one day, 13-year-old Keith Croft stops at a neighbor’s yard sale and discovers a book for Crypts & Creepers that the lonely old woman says belonged to her granddaughter who disappeared without a trace. Days after he convinces his friends to try this bizarre game that doesn’t require electronics, strange noises in his closet wake him. His increasing inability to focus on anything other than a girl who vanished before he was born - and his obsession with her NPC ranger - drives him to dig deeper into the past, searching for what really happened to her.

Winnie McKeller is lost in her own home, alone in the town that she has lived in since the day she was born. Her world has been shaken. Death has been haunting her family for the past year, and on one unusual night, each member of her family will be forced to confront their pain and fight to put the pieces of their lives back together.

The disappearance of the most powerful magician in all the lands has left a power vacuum. In his absence, something beneath the ocean is preparing to take the world for its own. And as a portent washes upon the streets, making them slick with rain as red as blood, the operatives at The Circle must take it upon themselves to save the world

When Kiera and her friends return from the dead, they soon realize that the world is not the same - it has been pushed. Returning to Hallowed Manor, Kiera soon learns that it's not only the world that has changed, but she is changing, too. Asked to help solve the murder of missing school teacher Emily Clarke, Kiera and her friends soon discover that they are now living in a world where humans and wolves live together, sharing a fragile peace.

Siler House has stood silent beneath Savannah’s moss-draped oaks for decades. Notoriously haunted, it has remained empty until college-bound Jess Perry and three of her peers gather to take part in a month-long study on the paranormal. Able to talk to ghosts, Jess quickly bonds with her fellow test subjects, who have their own “gifts.” One is possessed. Another just wants to forget. The third is a guy who knows how to turn up the August heat, not to mention Jess’s heart rate…when he’s not resurrecting the dead.