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"A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest...

"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...

Middle of the night.Rocks against a window.A wild ride in a stolen truck.Hide and seek in an old orchard.A mermaid and a ninja.Jake has no idea what is in store for him when he answers the summons of the crazy neighbor girl. Angela. One thing is for certain, it's a night he'll NEVER forget.

Shaji, an IT professional and only son of a wealthy Muslim landlord, helped Sujatha, a Hindu girl, by taking money from his father's locker towards the capitation fee for her engineering college admission in Bangalore. The indebted girl pawned her innocence for his lust. Raju, a classmate of Shaji, who was in the porn business, had an eye on this beautiful girl with frequent mention to Shaji, who never agreed. Once during her visit to the village,...

This is a story about the group of curious adventurers who went into a mysterious Tower which is rumoured to hide legends of Tower ghosts.This group were led by a retired historian and professor to uncover the hidden truths about this rumours.Although they were curious in their adventures, the journey was chilling to face but the brave professor encouraged them to finish what they have started.

Two identical men are seen hundreds of miles apart. One is innocent if somewhat arrogant, whilst the other is a demonic killer, but which is which?

In a suburban home in New York, a man invents a phone that connects the living to the dead. But when he pushes its prongs deep into a grave, he unleashes a horror that no amount of poetry could ever convey.

Haunted by visions, a teenage girl sees a window into what's to come When Sarah's cat, Shadow, is put to sleep, she feels the world crumbling around her. Shadow was her closest companion, and now, just like that, she's gone. Sarah's brother Patrick, in an effort to console her, digs a grave behind the house and holds a funeral. Every afternoon, Sarah sits beside the mound of earth, missing her cat so much that sometimes she feels like Shadow is curled...

"Spectral Chronicles: 12 Ghost Stories" beckons you into the shadowy realm between the living and the departed, where whispers of the supernatural come alive with each turn of the page. This haunting anthology invites readers to explore the ethereal, the eerie, and the enigmatic as they embark on a spine-tingling journey through a dozen chilling tales.In "Spectral Chronicles," the line between the tangible and the spectral blurs as we encounter spirits...

In the small town of Saguaro Hill, Arizona, there is an ongoing history-mystery as to why Santa has never visited. Children have never received a single gift for the Yuletide holidays since the town's establishment in 1888. The public librarian, Rachel George, is tasked by Mayor Higgins to research the urban legend and discover the real reason why Santa has never flown over, let alone stepped foot, in their village.Rumors abound, but are there any...