ALL THREE AWARD-WINNING PARANORMAL NOVELLAS IN A PARANORMAL TRILOGY! Have you ever been haunted by the past? Is there a way for past lives or past generations to return in some way? Is there a parallel universe? One may not know the answers to these questions, but this book will make you think, look into your soul, and wonder: is this possible? The Dream ... A Readers' Favorite 5 Star Read! Lacy's nightmares begin at five years old: ghastly lucid dreams of soldiers shooting children, young women viciously raped, doctors murdering their patients. "It was just a dream," Lacy says to herself, or was it? An incredibly intelligent and artistic child, she then embarks on a personal quest with one aim: to never dream again ... eventually, however, her lack of sleep begins to alter her physical appearance and she is relentlessly tormented and bullied by her peers. As events escalate, Lacy discovers that what has been happening to her may, in fact, be related to hidden "family secrets" from the not-so-distant past.... The Haunting of The Hockomock Swamp A Midwest Book Review 5 Star Read! "THE HAUNTING OF THE HOCKOMOCK SWAMP is my new 2015 favorite paranormal read! This book is one outstanding experience" ... Suzie Housley, Midwest Book Review THE BIGGEST GENOCIDE IN HUMAN HISTORY DIDN'T OCCUR IN NAZI GERMANY, BUT ON AMERICAN SOIL ... against the beautiful backdrop of the largest swamp in Southeastern Massachusetts, a captivating tale of mystery, magic, and murder that will keep you on the edge of your seat -- heart pounding and looking over your shoulder -- as you read THE HAUNTING OF THE HOCKOMOCK SWAMP! Based on local legend, this tale is not for the faint of heart, but scared or not, you'll love the thrills and chills that accompany this exceptional story.... Janie Williams is living her dream as a reporter at Boston's WCVT News. Despite her lecherous boss, she is determined to make her mark in investigative journalism. Rummaging through the newsroom's slush pile, Janie runs across a letter detailing young children suddenly experiencing grand mal seizures while in school and smells a story that can deliver her from her mailroom dungeon. As the children convulse, they enter an alternate dimension as they follow a three-centuries-old Native American shapeshifter named Metacom ... the Native American Sachem shapeshifts into a three-headed dragon showering the children in rainstorms of blood, metamorphoses into a flying pterodactyl dropping the children into the swamp, shows them horrors that plague their young minds. Metacom is a terror to behold and is wreaking havoc on the children's lives. Learning more, Janie discovers none of the students has ever experienced seizures before and decides to speak to someone in Consumer Affairs about the crisis ... well, the minute she meets the crazy sexy hot Alan Needle, Janie wants to have her own consummate affair with the man. As the investigation heats up, so does their relationship, but what Janie and Alan could never imagine is that their efforts to solve this mystery will uncover the deepest betrayal, blood, and tragedy Massachusetts has ever seen! Get your copy of THE HAUNTING OF THE HOCKOMOCK SWAMP and read a story that will forever change how you look at ... everything! IMMOLATION CAN LOVE AND ROMANCE STILL FLOURISH EVEN IN THE MIDST OF TERROR? Doug and Karen King, along with their daughter Amy, are the typical all-American family with a cuddly and loving pet cat, Ponce De Leon. Overnight, Ponce transforms into a murderous feline spreading a virus that cannot be contained. Before long, one man is determined to end the reign of terror. Based on the local legend of the "Ghostly Redheaded Hitcher from Route 44," this tale is not for the faint of heart, but scared or not, you'll love the thrills, chills, romance, and laughter that accompany this terrifying story....

Do not believe... Horrors of the Night is a collection of short Mysterious, Psychological, Suspense, and Horror stories that will make you shiver and sleep with your lights on. Some of the stories are inspired by true events and some are inspired by ideas of my dear readers! Find out which ones inside this scary collection. "YOU CAN'T ESCAPE" Mary had to run away from her husband and her past to save her children. She found a new home. But this new home is hiding a secret. A secret that will take her to a time when all horrors started. "THE MASTER BUTCHER" A true story about Armin Meiwes that shocked the world. To the outside world, Armin Meiwes seemed like an everyday nerd. He had an unassuming look and worked as an IT guy in a computer firm. Unbeknownst to the world, he had a craving... a dark craving for human flesh. "THE CURSE OF HERNANDEZ" A newly married couple found the perfect home to call their own. While cleaning out the upstairs attic the husband discovers an old suitcase. Upon opening, they find the remains of documents and papers with their last name on them- Hernandez. Strange, but they decided to ignore it and throw the suitcase away. They should have never done this because that is when strange things started to happen. Find out what happened to the Hernandez family in a new episode. Indulge yourself in some fine suspenseful horror stories!

This Midwestern state is known for its dairy farms and thousands of beautiful lakes. It's also rumored to have a supernatural past. Legends of ghosts and dark magic haunt several towns. Are these stories just folklore or could these tales contain terrifying truths? Get ready to read four terrifying tales about Wisconsin's spookiest spots! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.

Descriptions of monsters, vampires, demonic possessions, and psychopaths in horror films have been inspired by psychiatric knowledge about mental illness, leading to several stereotyped models of horror that have prevailed through decades. Some scholars have proposed that horror films can be a teaching tool for psychopathology, but for the most part the genre has been underutilized as a learning tool. This book explores the idea of relating horror films to psychiatric ideas as a way of engaging people in learning.

New York is famous for the Big Apple, but beyond the city limits are horrors you've never dreamed of. Shadowy figures appear in decaying asylums. Restless spirits roam old cemeteries. If you sense something behind you, it might be a creature from another realm. Get ready to read four terrifying tales about New York's spookiest spots! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and 'simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.

Everything's bigger in Texas--even the ghost stories. Strange figures roam the dark city streets. Glowing orbs follow cars along desert roads. As the sun sets in the Lone Star State, be careful where you tread--you might not like what's lurking in the shadows. Get ready to read four terrifying tales about Texas' spookiest spots! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.

As the walking dead rise up throughout the world, a few brave doctors attempt to find a cure by applying forensic techniques to captured zombies. On a remote island a crack medical team has been sent to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the epidemic. Based on the team's research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, The Zombie Autopsies documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms. Detailed drawings of the internal organs of actual zombies provide an accurate anatomy of these horrifying creatures. Zombie brains, hearts, lungs, skin, and digestive system are shown, while Dr. Blum's notes reveal shocking insights into how they function--even as Blum and his colleagues themselves begin to succumb to the plague. No one knows the ultimate fate of Dr. Blum or his researchers. But now that his notebook, The Zombie Autopsies, has been made available to the UN, the World Health Organization, and the general public, his scientific discoveries may be the last hope for humans on earth. "Humanity has a new weapon against the living dead and that weapon is Steven Schlozman!" -- New York Times bestselling author Max Brooks "I've written and made films about zombies for over forty years. In all that time, I've never been able to convince my audience that zombies actually exist. On page one of The Zombie Autopsies, Steven Schlozman takes away any doubt. This fast-moving, entertaining work will have you chuckling...and worrying." -- George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead "Gruesome and gripping! Steven Schlozman reveals the science behind zombies from the inside out." -- Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter "With The Zombie Autopsies, Steven Schlozman redefines 'weird science' for the 21st Century. Brilliant, bizarre and wonderfully disturbing." -- Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin and Patient Zero "Dr. Steve's Zombie Autopsy will charm and excite a new generation into loving science." --Chuck Palahniuk, New York Times bestselling author of Fight Club

A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world's best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist Many of us grew up on The Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, Dark Voices and Dark Terrors (The Gollancz Book of Horror), which won the World Fantasy Award, the Horror Critics' Guild Award and the British Fantasy Award, but for a decade or more there has been no non-themed anthology of original horror fiction published in the mainstream. Now that horror has returned to the bookshelves, it is time for a regular anthology of brand-new fiction by the best and brightest in the field, both the Big Names and the most talented newcomers including: - Ramsey Campbell - Peter Crowther - Dennis Etchison - Elizabeth Hand - Brian Hodge - Caitlin R. Kiernan - Stephen King - John Ajvide Lindqvist - Richard Christian Matheson - Reggie Oliver - Robert Shearman - Angela Slatter - Michael Marshall Smith - Lisa Tuttle A Book of Horrors will be the foremost in the field: an eclectic collection of the very best chiller fiction from across the world.

“Glasby anatomizes horror’s scare tactics with keen, lucid clarity across 34 carefully selected main films—classic and pleasingly obscure. 4 Stars.” —Total Film? Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there’s only one metric that matters: are they scary? The Book of Horror focuses on the most frightening films of the post-war era—from Psycho (1960) to It Chapter Two (2019)—examining exactly how they scare us across a series of key categories. Each chapter explores a seminal horror film in depth, charting its scariest moments with infographics and identifying the related works you need to see. Including references to more than one hundred classic and contemporary horror films from around the globe, and striking illustrations from Barney Bodoano, this is a rich and compelling guide to the scariest films ever made. “This is the definitive guide to what properly messes us up.” —SFX Magazine The films: Psycho (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Haunting (1963), Don’t Look Now (1973), The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Suspiria (1977), Halloween (1978), The Shining (1980), The Entity (1982), Angst (1983), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), Ring (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Others (2001), The Eye (2002), Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Shutter (2004), The Descent (2005), Wolf Creek (2005), The Orphanage (2007), [Rec] (2007), The Strangers (2008), Lake Mungo (2008), Martyrs (2008), The Innkeepers (2011), Banshee Chapter (2013), Oculus (2013), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2015), Terrified (2017), Hereditary (2018), It Chapter Two (2019)

"A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget--small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure. But far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a universal healer hailed as 'ambrosia' has been discovered. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab has been built eight miles under the sea's surface. When the station goes incommunicado, a brave few descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths...and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine"--Page [4] of cover.