A collection of horror/thriller stories for readers who would enjoy a stroll through a graveyard after midnight.
The creepers include:
BLOOD: Danagrees to meet a woman claiming to be his half-sister from their father's illicit affair.
THE SPIDER WOMAN: Evelyn inherits her mother's abandoned house, which is infested with spiders.
DEAD PEOPLE: Jesse's father wants him to go with him to a wake to see his first dead person.
THE CEDAR HOLLOW CURSE: Three girls went missing without a trace in 1998. Now, in 2024, three girls with the same names and ages have disappeared.
ECHOES OF THE DAMNED: A billionaire dying of cancer turns to the occult as his last chance for survival.
DAWN OF DESTRUCTION: Two astronauts in the International Space Station, one American and one Russian, receive orders from their countries to terminate the opposing astronaut when a nuclear war breaks out.
THE DOCTOR'S MENAGERIE: Ethan's sister is missing, and the locals believe a mad scientist who is notorious for conducting hellish experiments on animals and humans is responsible.
THE LUMBERJACK: Teenagers on Halloween out to do mischief, slash the tires and kill the wrong man’s dog.
THE FROZEN ABYSS: A team of explorers ventures deep into a remote and uncharted region of Antarctica, following strange satellite signals indicating something massive buried beneath the ice.
PRANKS: Four friends tinkering with a Ouija board on Halloween night compete for who can pull off the creepiest prank by midnight to win a mysterious "grand prize.
THE SHADOWS WE CREATE: A man plagued by sleep paralysis believes his coworker is the same vampire who haunts his dreams each night.
THE LAST HIT: A hitman plans to retire after fulfilling his most lucrative contract on the most notorious bad guy on the planet.
THE TIDES OF BLYTHE HAVEN: A young woman challenges the tradition of providing an annual human sacrifice to a monstrous sea god.
THE AWAKENING: Parents disclose to their son he is an alien sent to Earth to facilitate the extermination of the human race.
THE MOTHER KILLER: Rachel's baby doesn't want to be born as long as she is alive, and so far, it's having its way.
LILY SHOULD BE SCARED: The monster under her bed doesn't understand why everything he's done to scare the little girl has failed miserably.
THE WORLD OF MIRRORS: When the serial killer awoke, everything seemed the same, but they were different.
THE WITCH: When a college student decides to write his thesis on the Salem witch trials, he discovers a descendant of one of the convicted witches still lives in Salem.
THE PALLADIUM: Plans of a couple to pack an abandoned movie theater with a legendary silent film on Halloween attract the Grim Reaper.
THE SWAMP GHOUL: The impending hurricane was a Category 5, and there had been souls for The Swamp Ghoul to reap who refused to evacuate on the coast of Florida for centuries.
BLOOD AND SNOW: Members of a team sent to the Scandinavian mountains to develop a new ski resort are disappearing one by one.
THE LAST WISH: Tom buys a strange blue bottle from a flea market and discovers a genie inside who grants three wishes.
DINNER AT LUGOSI: A vicious food critic receives an invitation from a renowned restaurant whose reputation features a blend of elegance and the macabre.
SHOOTING STARS: People all over the city are killing each other for no reason after watching a meteor shower.
THE WIDOW'S LAMENT: A famous horror writer has committed suicide, and his publisher has received a manuscript of his final story.
THE COLLECTOR: A freelance photographer hears about young people disappearing in a small town, and rumors from the locals a deranged maniac is responsible.