Valley of the Scarecrow by Gord Rollo

Valley of the Scarecrow

Gord Rollo's chilling homage to slasher films!
During the great depression, a small backwoods community in Iowa face even more difficult times than most, having to endure the slowly fading sanity of their leader, Reverend Joshua Miller.

Sleepwalker by Michael Laimo

Sleepwalker

Richard Sparke has no trouble sleeping. It's what he does after he falls asleep that gets him into trouble. There's the nightmares, his dead mother coming to visit, and then the return of his daughter, who was only an infant when she died.

Dead Girl by Linda Joy Singleton

Dead Girl Walking (Dead Girl #1)

I am so dead...
Now, was I supposed to go left or right at the Light?
Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden has a lousy sense of direction—so lousy that she takes a wrong turn when returning from her near-death experience.

Possessions by Nancy Holder

Possessions (Possessions #1)

The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale
New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black.

Aftershock & Others: 16 Oddities by F Paul Wilson

Aftershock & Others

Aftershock & Others is the third collection of short fiction by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson, hailed by the Rocky Mountain News as “among the finest storytellers of our times.”

Taste by Kate Evangelista

Taste

At Barinkoff Academy, there's only one rule: no students on campus after curfew. Phoenix McKay soon finds out why when she is left behind at sunset. A group calling themselves night students threaten to taste her flesh until she is saved by a mysterious, alluring boy. With his pale skin, dark eyes, and mesmerizing voice, Demitri is both irresistible and impenetrable. He warns her to stay away from his dangerous world of flesh eaters.

Ruined by Paula Morris

Ruined (Ruined #1)

Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while her dad is traveling. She's staying in a creepy old house with her Aunt Claudia, who reads Tarot cards for a living. And at the snooty prep school, a pack of filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible.

Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender

Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die #1)

Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude.

When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green sometimes; she uses old-fashioned language; and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior.

The Devouring by Simon Holt

The Devouring (The Devouring #1)

The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice.
When Reggie reads about the Vours in a mysterious old journal, she assumes they are just the musings of an anonymous lunatic. But when her little brother, Henry, begins to act strangely, it's clear that these creatures exist beyond a madwoman's imagination, and Reggie finds out what happens when fears come to life.

900 Miles: A Zombie Novel by S. Johnathan Davis

900 Miles: A Zombie Novel

John is a killer, but that wasn't his day job before the Apocalypse.
In a harrowing 900 mile race against time to get to his wife just as the dead begin to rise, John, a business man trapped in New York, soon learns that the zombies are the least of his worries, as he sees first-hand the horror of what man is capable of with no rules, no consequences and death at every turn.

The Ghost Hunters by Neil Spring

The Ghost Hunters

Welcome to Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England.
The year is 1926 and Sarah Grey has landed herself an unlikely new job - personal assistant to Harry Price, London's most infamous ghost hunter. Equal parts brilliant and charming, neurotic and manipulative, Harry has devoted his life to exposing the truth behind England's many 'false hauntings', and never has he left a case unsolved, nor a fraud unexposed.

The Concrete Grove by Gary McMahon

The Concrete Grove (Concrete Grove #1)

Imagine a place where all your nightmares become real. Think of dark urban streets where crime, debt and violence are not the only things to fear. Picture an estate that is a gateway to somewhere else, a realm where ghosts and monsters stir hungrily in the shadows.

Dollhouse by Anya Allyn

Dollhouse (Dollhouse #1)

Four teenagers chance across a mysterious, crumbling mansion in the depths of the mountains....
- One of them is about to vanish.
- One of them is lying about what he or she knows.
- None of them will escape the fate awaiting them in the terrifying Dollhouse beneath the old mansion--a place of nightmarish horrors and insanity.
A slow-burn nightmare, a world of supernatural darkness and strange secrets.

Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye

Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone

The village of Hemmersmoor is a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition: There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion.

The Ghost Files by Apryl Baker

The Ghost Files (The Ghost File 1)

Cherry blossom lipstick: check

Smokey eyes: check

Skinny jeans: check

Dead kid in the mirror: check

For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She’s been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks.

Wild Fell by Michael Rowe

Wild Fell

The crumbling summerhouse called Wild Fell, soaring above the desolate shores of Blackmore Island, has weathered the violence of the seasons for more than a century.

Built for his family by a 19th-century politician of impeccable rectitude, the house has kept its terrible secrets and its darkness sealed within its walls.

For a hundred years, the townspeople of Alvina have prayed that the darkness inside Wild Fell would stay there, locked away from the light.

By Hook Or By Crook And 30 More Of The Best And 30 More Of The Best Crime And Mystery Stories of the Year by Edward Gorman & Martin H Greenberg

By Hook Or By Crook And 30 More Of The Best And 30 More Of The Best Crime And Mystery Stories of the Year

Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg are back with a brand-new collection featuring the best short stories of 2009 from the biggest names in crime fiction.
Includes stories from Elizabeth George, Laura Lippmann, Nancy Pickard, Max Allan Collins, S.J. Rozan, Ace Atkins, Dana Cameron, Jim Fusilli, Dennis Lehane, and Luis Alberto Urrea.

Arcane by Nathan Shumate

Arcane

From editor Nathan Shumate and publisher Sandy Petersen comes the first issue of a new magazine of weird chills!

An office worker returns from bereavement leave to find his workplace changing before his eyes...
A priest excites his village to the greatest show of devotion to their god ever seen...

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

The Ghost Bride

"One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride..."
Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound.
Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects.

The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb

The Fate of Mercy Alban
Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.