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Room 206  is a room with secrets. As always secrets bring questions. Why is the owner of the hotel meeting with known criminals? Why are the walls around that room four times as thick? What causes the strange sounds of scratching and shifting that seem to come from that room, and why do some who enter never seem to come out? 

What would you say if someone told you they had come face to face with God? That God, in physical form had told them the mysteries of the universe, the details of his divine plan. Would you want to know? At The Ritzy, just off Oldham Street, there is such a man. The Ritzy itself is the kind of place that the wise avoid and the desperate always seem to find. A dive that calls itself a casino and which is really nothing more than a smoky, converted pool hall. Not the place one would expect to find God. 

For most police officers, dealing with "crackpots" is simply part of the job. The people who call up confessing to murders they couldn’t have committed or which might never even have happened, the obsessives with nothing better to do than report non existent crimes or exaggerate run of the mill occurences into major events. As far as Tony is concerned, Clark Dornan is one of these "crackpots". 

Horror Story Collection features 10 stories to delight fans of horror and the macabre. Stories include: "The Beast of Elderton", "Scary Movies", "Flames", "The Vampire's Price", "The Gawkers", "City of the Djinn", "The Wendigo Doll", "Snow over Lacksmouth", "Blood and Ink", and "Room 206". 

This horror story collection features five thrilling and scary horrors stories. Includes: "City of the Djinn", "The Wendigo Doll", "Snow over Lacksmouth", Blood and Ink", and "Room 206".

When Alan Warner wakes up from a coma and hears about the snow over Lacksmouth, he immediately becomes suspicious. When he is stopped by a local before arriving in town and told strange tales of what the snow did to people, he stops being suspicious and starts being certain. Certain that his parents are dead. Certain that it was the snow that killed them and certain that the coming of the snow was in no way an accident.

As a long-term drug addict, Danny had hit some extremely low points in his life. Blood and Ink follow Danny’s strange deal as seen through the eyes of his friend. It is a tale of addiction, desperation, and horror, that explores not only the price some are willing to pay for second chances, but the evil forces that are waiting for the chance to sell them.

In my family, the wendigo is not spoken of as a myth. In fact, if we can help it, it isn’t spoken of at all. For to even use the word is to invite things more horrible than you can imagine into the thoughts and into the home. Instead of the word, we have the doll. A small, hideous, figurine that has lived on our mantlepiece for generations. As a child, I was forbidden to touch that figurine. As an adult, I found out why. 

In the west, the "genie" is a figure of fun. A pantomime character made of primary colours and cartoon features. An example, if ever there was one, of how the West tries to tame its terrors by laughing at them. In the East, in Nusaybin, people do not laugh at such things. 

On the edge of Elderton, a town in the Canadian mountains, there is a forest, a forest, that at certain times of the month houses a thing that shouldn’t exist. A thing that stalks through the trees looking for prey - prey that eventually it will find in town. Down the mountainside, in the quiet of the town, the people huddle together. They bar their doors and board their windows, sitting silently and listening. Listening for the howl. 

When Judas Iscariot betrayed Christ, he was paid in sliver. Thirty pieces to be exact. Where those 30 pieces ended up has fascinated historians and theologians for centuries. It has also fascinated those with darker interests. When a "procurer" of religious artifacts is presented with the locations of these "Judas Pennies" and the reason they were dispersed in the first place, he sets out on a shadowy endeavor to bring them back together, not realizing as he does that his excavations will dig up far more than just the past.  

For most the date 12/02/2021 has no real significance. The fact that the number is a palindrome and an ambigram are interesting, but nothing more. For most. For one historian, however, the date becomes an obsession. Popping over and over in strange tales from the past, each linked by the black-eyed speakers, the tales of resurrection, and that awful, fabled, date.

When Leonard Merlode said "no" to the military, he knew there would be consequences. The technology he had developed, a suit that would allow the wearer to really ‘feel’ what was going on in a virtual environment, was a precious commodity. A commodity that could easily be misused if it fell into the wrong hands. 

Unlike most 12-year-old boys, Charlie is not happiest at football practice or playing video games, for him, the best and most fascinating place on earth is Wenzels VHS Video Store, especially in the horror section. Fascinated by the ghouls and monsters that reach and tear from the video covers Charlie becomes obsessed with getting his hands on one of these films. 

On the edge of Elderton, a town in the Canadian mountains, there is a forest, a forest that at certain times of the month houses a thing that shouldn’t exist. A thing that stalks through the trees looking for prey - prey that eventually it will find in town. 

5 Short Scary Stories features five scary stories "The Bees", "The Curse of Abundance", "The Little People", "The Harm I've Done", and "The Park at Midnight". Get the audiobook today!

15 Short Scary Stories features stories like "The Bees", "The Curse of Abundance", "The Little People", "The Harm I've Done", "The Park at Midnight", "Shut In", "The Edge of Holly Field", and many more. Get the audiobook today.

Being a reporter for a local newspaper is a strange occupation. In essence, it’s exactly the same as being a reporter for a major news organization. I mean, the actual processes are the same. Other smaller stories that circulate around the main thread, in the trade we call this "soft news", are the finer-detail stories that come with a big piece....

I was going to say that it all started with a toothache, but that’s not quite right. It really started the day before, with a decision. A stupid decision made with the sort of offhand nonchalance with which people like me make decisions about places like theirs. It was a bad decision, one that I regret to this day, and one that I probably always will. 

I’ve always believed the old maxim that truth is stranger than fiction. If you ever doubt the fact, then I urge you to spend more time around people, particularly the elderly and to make sure that you spend that time listening. One of the best things about working in care, with the elderly, is the never ending procession of stories. It’s a perk of a job.