Horror

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas—Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds—each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand By Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). Like Four ...

Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this ’90s-set horror novel about a women’s book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town, perfect for murderinos and fans of Stephen King. Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united ...

Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary. ...

Racing to uncover the mystery of several light green-shoe-clad severed feet found floating in the Atlantic, Agent Pendergast is faced with most inexplicable challenge of his career in this installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series. A STARTLING CRIME WITH DOZENS OF VICTIMS. Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach–each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. A GHASTLY ...

Her mother’s death freed Lea from a lifetime of sexual repression. Alone in a remote mountain cabin, Lea succumbs to erotic fantasies and becomes the helpless prey of a phantom lover from the depths of Hell. To transform the demon into the flesh-and-blood lover she craves, Lea must kill! She offers him the blood of her victims, but only the ultimate sacrifice will satisfy his needs.

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 ...

“Damned great scary story.” Pat Conroy “I slept with the lights on for two weeks.” Remote Alabama. Cut off by rain flooded rivers: a veteran with a secret, a runaway teenage boy, and a Cherokee medicine woman face terrifying creatures – the Long Claws, a clan of cunning beings equipped to track and kill with speed and strength like nothing seen before. REVIEWERS “powerful story, characters, and chills – this book has everything” “darkly fabulous storytelling” “the best horror I’ve read since Stephen King hit ...