Good sized short stories that will leave you shaking in fear.

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all! In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories. Edited by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting dark literature, On Writing Horror includes exclusive information and guidance from 58 of the biggest names in horror writing to give you the inspiration you need to start scaring and exciting readers and editors. You'll discover comprehensive instruction such as: • The art of crafting visceral violence, from Jack Ketchum • Why horror classics like Dracula, The Exorcist, and Hell House are as scary as ever, from Robert Weinberg • Tips for avoiding one of the biggest death knells in horror writing—predicable clichés—from Ramsey Campbell • How to use character and setting to stretch the limits of credibility, from Mort Castle With On Writing Horror, you can unlock the mystery surrounding classic horror traditions, revel in the art and craft of writing horror, and find out exactly where the genre is going next. Learn from the best, and you could be the next best-selling author keeping readers up all night long.

Adam Nevill's best early horror stories are collected here for the first time.

Scared? You will be!

Ghouls, ghosts, and macabre terrors stalk the night in this spine-tingling collection. With tales describing unnatural frights and haunting visions of cosmic terror, you will be taken on a journey into the disturbing imaginations of some of horror's greatest writers. The stories' heroes face incredible creatures, unknowable gods, and supernatural beings who have no regard for human life. Horror literature has its roots in the mists of time. In the 19th century, writers delved into ancient folk tales and local legends to inspire an entire genre. In the 20th century, the next generation of writers brought to life a brand new array of terrifying monsters. The authors in this volume range from Victorian pioneers, such as Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe, to the pulp writers of the 20th century, such as William Hope Hodgson and H. P. Lovecraft. The tradition of horror writing that developed took very different turns on either side of the Atlantic - while American authors turned to unknowable horrors and cosmic terrors, British writers such as E. F. Benson and M. R. James mastered a more familiar form, the classic ghost story. It was not only English-speakers who sought to terrify their readers. The French writer Guy de Maupassant, a prolific short story writer and pupil of the acclaimed novelist Gustave Flaubert, found ways to make his protagonists doubt their own sanity as they faced terrors that would drive any ordinary man mad. This collection of bone-chilling tales comes from the pens of some of horror's most acclaimed writers. Authors include: E. F. Benson Ambrose Bierce Francis Marion Crawford W. W. Jacobs M. R. James William Hope Hodgson H. P. Lovecraft Guy de Maupassant Edgar Allan Poe Bram Stoker

Embrace the horror with this collection of 58 brand new short stories that celebrate the dark genre. Includes the following: Twilight by Ron Koppelberger, Children of the Mandrake by Michael McClung, The Lunch Box by C.D. Reimer, Garden of Thorns by Mark Souza, Long Time Listener by John Pennington, Sporemind by Wesley Dylan Gray, Milsbourne, Michigan by OJ Connell, Swallow by Christopher Hawkins, The Bookmark by Alyson Hilbourne, Shivers by Robert Mammone, Darius IV by C.H. Potter, Suddenly Everything Came Together by Ryan P. Kennedy, The Devil's in the Details by Thomas M. Earnhart, The Last Immortal by John F. Mack, The Man by Matt Kurtz, Hand of Glory by John C. Foster, Clarence Avery by Terence Kuch, The Fly Man by Craig Hallam, A Predator's Irony by C. Douglas Birkhead, The Price of Beauty by Ross Baxter, With Many Thanks to Newark by Wesley Southard, Only the Red Dominoes by Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, The Horror in the Cabin by George Wilhite, The Farm by Jade Leaf Willetts, Jack & Jack: Over a Pint by Marc Sorondo, You Said You Would Come by Toni Nicolino, Full Moon Sacrifice by Mike Phillips, The Monster's Garden by Jon Callot, Heteronormative by Deb Eskie, Beautiful Russian Girls by E.E. King, Salvation by Phil Margolies, Where the Blocks Are Forever Named by Eric Dimbleby, Waiting by Holger Nahm, Laurel by Lesley Conner, How Does Your Garden Grow by E.J. Tett, The Dick, the Wife, and the Pen by Patrick Shand, Azieran: Stranger to Shayde by Christopher Heath, Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker by Peter Baltensperger, The Reconstruction of Melissa by David Schembri, Wolves of the Sea by Jonah Buck, The Dark Ritual by Jacob Henry Orloff, A Surprise for Mommy by Allan Izan, Hungry by Paul Johnson-Jovanovic, Tracking the Scent by Peter Giglio, Night of the Mystery Shoppers by Gregory L. Norris, Creepers by Tammy Salyer, Dreamer by A.J. French, The Dresser by Joshua Heinrich, Parable by Michael G. Cornelius, Window of Jacob by Michael Hodges, Mosaic by T.C. Clark, Lulu Learns the Stitch by Aaron Polson, Outside the Box by Christopher Nadeau, A Plague of Mice by Morgan Dambergs, The Boy in the Mist by Marianne Su, Velvet Elvis and the Buckskin Rug by Eva Glynn Stephens, Patch Test by Sarah E. Glenn & Elbows off the Table by Nick Medina.

The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film! More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends. Folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time. Available for the first time as an ebook, Stephen Gammell’s artwork from the original More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark appears in all its spooky glory. Read if you dare! And don't miss Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Scary Stories 3!

A book containing eight short horror stories / paranormal stories. Story 1 - A short horror story about a young boy walking home alone through a dark forest somewhere in Minnesota, and the killer who is watching him.Story 2 - A short horror story about a plumber who gets called out to do a job in a scary looking house, occupied by a crazy old lady and her mean pit-bull terrier.Story 3 - A short paranormal story about a doll with some very peculiar abilities.Story 4 - A short horror story about a crime that goes horribly wrongStory 5 - A short paranormal story about the afterlife and what happens to a young man who unwittingly enters it.Story 6 - A short horror story about a haunted and desolate house and the evil spirits that reside there.Story 7 - A short paranormal story about the spirits that call New Orleans home.Story 8 - A short horror story about an abandoned, dilapidated fishing village in Alaska and what goes on there after dark.Sit back and enjoy these short 'Stephen King like' horror stories. They are guaranteed to make your heart pump a little faster, look over your shoulder when the wind is howling along the eaves and leave the bedside lamp on when you eventually crawl in under the sheets.

What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read? For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that? For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. The stories in this volume come from 19 countries on 5 continents and were originally written in 13 different languages. All 20 foreign language stories in this volume are appearing in English for the first time ever. The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world.