Nineteen twisted tales from a vibrant, online community of horror enthusiasts! What’s HorrorTube? A creepy, new carnival ride combining a water slide park with a haunted funhouse? Not quite, although that sounds like a blast. A subset of BookTube, HorrorTube is an online community of horror enthusiasts who regularly post YouTube videos about horror-related topics, including books, films, and fiction writing. Some of the writers included in this anthology cover horror exclusively. You’ll find them posting creepy photos on Instagram or waxing poetic about the seventies drive-in flick that kept them up all night. Some read widely, only delving into the horror genre occasionally. All are passionate about books and writing. Joined together by this vibrant, online community of readers and writers, these nineteen authors bring you scary stories from all parts of the globe, proving that fear is universal. Local Haunts has taken the horror BookTube community’s global influence and shrunk it down into one village of horror and mayhem you’ll not soon forget. Inside these pages are frightening stories from around the globe, telling tales of haunts, monsters, and other terrible things local to each author’s place of residence. Within these pages you’ll find terrifying tales from North America, my own included, joined by terrible happenings in the Australian bushlands, ghosts haunting an old Greek mansion, an abandoned Vietnamese hospital, and a creepy museum, among many other eldritch encounters. From the foreword by Jason White A Stone’s Throw by Dane Cobain The Gentleman by Ryan Stroud The Salt Hag by CJ Wright Crowthorne by Andrew Lyall Mount Gilead by R. Saint Claire Screen Eight by Michael Taylor Drive Like Hell by Ken Poirier The Mount of Death by Kevin David Anderson The Drifter by James Flynn The Blocked Cellar by Mihalis Georgostathis The Night Watchman by Marie McWilliams Alone Among the Gum Trees by Cam Wolfe Highway to Hell by Nicholas Gray The Room Within by D.L. Tillery Fading Applause in Quintland by Lydia Peever A Full Moon Over Black Star Canyon by Matt Wall Long Buried by E.D. Lewis Darkness Descends by Jason White At the End of the Rope by Cameron Chaney Cover art by Cameron Roubique

Welcome to Autumncrow Valley, where every night is Halloween. Enjoy your stay! But first, a few words of warning; Stay out of the forest. Never venture out after dark. And don't stare too long into the shadows...you may not like what you see. Have a pleasant visit. We hope it won't be your last...Author Cameron Chaney presents seven new tales of All Hallows terror, along with his newly revised novella "There Are Monsters Here", in print for the very first time!

A stranger arrives in the small community of Dark Hollow, and the ghosts that have existed only in legends and folklore, now reveal themselves as vicious and vengeful spirits-made-flesh. Seventeen-year-old Hannah Gares finds herself inexplicably drawn to the wealthy billionaire, Linford Cravens, who reclaims the crumbling Gothic mansion known as Blackshire Manor. While her small community suffers more ghost attacks, Hannah teams up with Sebastian, the dashing and dangerous heir to the Blackshire fortune. Together they dig into the centuries-old mystery; and in the process, Hannah will uncover the truth about herself.

“The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this compelling celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews—featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more. Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South during the Great Depression and faced a series of increasingly challenging health issues. Yet, once she rose to international literary fame, she prided herself on her intense privacy. Now, The Woman Beyond the Attic aims to connect her personal life with the public novels for which she was famous. Based on Virginia’s own letters, and interviews with her dearest family members, her long-term ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman tells Virginia’s full story for the first time. Perfect for anyone hoping to learn more about the enigmatic woman behind one of the most important novels of the 20th century, The Woman Beyond the Attic will have you “transfixed” (Publishers Weekly) from the first page.

Strange text messages portend a strange kind of apocalypse...Two brothers find themselves drawn to the only house in the neighborhood not decorated for Halloween…A man returns to his hometown to bury his overbearing mother, and finds more than memories awaiting him in the shadows of his childhood home…A young girl walks a lonely country road, recalling a rhyme that brings with it memories of death…A teenager hoping for romance gets more than he bargained for when the object of his desire introduces him to the object of hers…An aging millionaire awakes buried in a cheap coffin with only a lamp and a bell for company…The son of a woman accused of being a witch accepts the villagers' peace offering at her funeral, but all is not quite as it seems…A woman with a violent past realizes that this year's Halloween party may be coming for her…and a lonely trick-or-treater awakes in a house rumored to be a place of death. Featuring a new introduction, and rounded out by the author's recommended Halloween reading and watching lists, DEAD LEAVES makes for the perfect autumnal read.

It is gory. It is vicious. Not a love story, but a return to violent vampire fiction. He could not remember a thing. Who he was or where he came from. He has visions of the undead. An abandoned house of isolated opulence lures him. Then, he meets Sinthia - the only person who really recognizes him - and her hundreds of scars.

Served Cold: A HorrorTube Anthology Twenty-two teeth-chattering tales! Wrap yourself in your favorite blanket, curl up by a fireside or in a warm bed, and enjoy these tales of sub-zero terror brought to you by some of the many voices of HorrorTube. Foreword by Steve Donoghue Karakoncolos by Cameron Chaney The Rescue by Janine Pipe Red Albums by Cam Wolfe Magic in the Hat by Donnie Goodman Isolation by N.M. Brown Sweep in the Sidestreet by A.B. Frank Frostbite by Alfie Tobutt Black Wood by Marie McWilliams The Cold Traps by Steve Donoghue This Grey Winter by Mihalis Georgostathis Orpheus Descends by Andrew Lyall Thou by Mers Sumida The Walk-in by Mike DeFrench Ensnared by Aphrodite Lee Cold Crossing by Jacob Peyton Snow Boy by Ryan Stroud The Woods and Mister Softee by R. Saint Claire Revival by Madison Estes Lake Alice by Michael Taylor Fractals by D.L. Tillery Water of Life by Gloria McNeely Black Solstice by Dane Cobain Praise for Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology "An excellent collection of stories from authors around the world." Alex from The Bookubus "This was such a fun collection to read." Rachel from The Shades of Orange Edited by R.Saint Claire and Steve Donoghue Cover art by Cameron Roubique Additional editing by Black Quill Editing

For 22 years Neokalus Burr has stared at an empty wall in the bowels of Monroe State Mental Hospital. But tonight he's ESCAPED to continue his BLOOD SOAKED murder rampage! It's also Sarah's first night babysitting

A MOST DREADFUL DELIVERANCE Andy's last day on Earth came sooner than he ever imagined. After becoming entangled in a random act of violence, what began as another mundane day in a cubicle abruptly transitions into an otherworldly odyssey. This macabre and perverse journey shatters religious dogmas, answers impossible questions, and pulls back the curtain on man's true twisted purpose. How will Andy's sickening epiphany affect his trajectory? More importantly, does it even matter? This volume contains 17 interior illustrations. WARNING: This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised.

OTHER VOICES, OTHER TOMBS is an anthology packed with unsettling stories from the finest independent authors in the horror genre. This collection runs the gamut of styles, including everything from literary horror to creepypasta. Ania Ahlborn, Kealan Patrick Burke, Michael Wehunt, Mercedes Yardley, and Gemma Files are widely considered some of the best authors working in dark fiction right now. Also included are stories from NoSleep Podcast legends: Gemma Amor, JD McGregor, and Michael Whitehouse. OTHER VOICES, OTHER TOMBS is a must-read for the Summer and Fall of 2019!