Horror

Four strangers wake up handcuffed in a room together. After a demented killer tells them the only way to escape is to answer one question. Why are they here? They must unravel the secrets buried deep inside all of them if they want to survive. They are all connected somehow, but only they can find out what ties them all together. From the bestselling authors of Second Sight & Nightmare Fuel series comes one of the most terrifying short stories ever written.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It—publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. ...

The horror inside a human mind is far more scarier than any demon. Debut author Dilip Maity presents you seven spine-chilling psychological horror stories. A terrifying journey through which you will get to know, how far a human mind can go to show its wickedness. “A man obsessed with playing hide & seek…” “A woman finds her look-alike lurking in a dark room of an abandoned building beside her house…” “How a girl solves the mystery behind her mom’s death, over a morning tea…” “In ...

If you like being terrified, The Whisper Man has your name on it.” —The New York Times, Editor’s Pick “SUPERB” —Publisher’s Weekly, Starred Review “BRILLIANT… will satisfy readers of Thomas Harris and Stephen King.” —Booklist, Starred Review In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and ...

For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts, this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war—along with twenty other survivors—who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel’s water tanks.  Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife’s text message: I miss you so much. I feel ...

In near future New York, Myrna used to be a drug addict. Her hangout was the Tenderloin, an after-hours dance club. Now Myra is a counselor in a clinic for recovering teen addicts. But her new life is about to change. She finds out that young people from the clinic are disappearing and have been for a long time. Myrna starts to have visions that point her to the kidnapper and the gruesome truth. She’s put on a path back to the Tenderloin Club and ...

The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga–part adventure, part suspense–of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead, and how, against his will, he must battle the menacing, seemingly unstoppable force determined to thwart his vision and destroy the entire vampire netherworld. In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, ...

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world—a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman. Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her ...