What if the last train of the night wasn't taking you home?Cole Whitmore knows the railway tracks outside Briarwood have been abandoned for decades.So when the sound of a train whistle cuts through the fog one night, he knows something is wrong.Then the Midnight Train arrives.Drawn toward its flickering lights, Cole steps aboard and immediately realizes he has made a terrible mistake. The passengers sit silently in the shadows. Some have no ...

What if the only friend who truly understood you had been dead for more than a century?Lucy is tired of being the new kid.Another move has brought her family to an enormous old Victorian house filled with dusty rooms, forgotten belongings, and enough creaking floorboards to make anyone wonder what might still be wandering its halls.Then Lucy hears a giggle.Footsteps cross empty rooms. Her mattress sinks beneath an invisible weight. A rocking...

Mara Quinn has never heard of the great-aunt who left her a shuttered Victorian in a dying New England mill town. She has heard of the clause. Live in the house for thirty consecutive days, and never count the rooms. Three months behind on rent, named on no lease, with no living family to call, Mara takes the train. The house is warm. The work comes easily there. The money starts arriving early. Then the tally marks on the cellar doorframe gain a line for every night she sleeps. A neighbor...

What if the abandoned ship you discovered wasn't really abandoned at all?While exploring a secluded cove during a seaside vacation, Mia discovers an enormous sailing ship hidden between the cliffs. Weathered by time and covered in barnacles, the vessel looks as though it has been forgotten for decades.But something aboard The Silent Horizon is still waiting.Whispers call Mia's name from empty cabins. Ghostly sailors appear from the shadows....

What if the dollhouse you inherited wasn't a miniature of an ordinary house, but a doorway into something else?When Lily inherits an elaborate antique dollhouse from her great-aunt Helen, she isn't sure what to make of it. The tiny rooms are perfectly furnished, the porcelain dolls are strangely lifelike, and something about the old family heirloom makes her uneasy.Then one of the dolls moves.Soon, Lily hears tiny footsteps in the middle of the nigh...

What if your new substitute teacher knew secrets about your school that happened decades before he arrived?Wraithmoor High has always had its share of strange stories, but Brynn never expected to become part of one.It begins when a mysterious substitute teacher named Mr. Enoch appears at school. There is something unsettling about him from the start. He seems to know things he shouldn't, students begin behaving strangely around him, and impossible events st...

Will their love be strong enough to keep them alive and get them back to Earth?Finding one's psi-mate is something every Sandarian hopes for, but when Ian Cavacent accidentally starts the bonding process with the Earthling, Dani, he has to fight his desire with every ounce of his being. If the process is completed, it means both political and financial suicide for Ian and his family.A natural klutz, Dani somehow always manages to land on her feet and win her mixed martial a...

What would you do if you found your own name carved into a gravestone?Fifteen-year-old Morgan Beckett never expected an ordinary walk through the woods to lead her to a forgotten cemetery hidden beyond an ivy-covered stone archway. The graves are old, the stones are nameless, and the entire place feels as though it has been waiting for her.Then Morgan finds the one gravestone that isn't blank.It has her name on it.Soon, fami...

Some letters are written to be sent. Some are written because the not-writing has become unbearable.Two years after Hunsford, Elizabeth Bennet has revised everything she once thought about Fitzwilliam Darcy. The revision is thorough, honest, and entirely without consequence, because the man himself is nowhere in her life, and a corrected opinion with nowhere to go is simply something to be lived with.Then she comes to Pemberley as companion to his ...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...

Sabine Baring-Gould’s The Book of Were-Wolves has long prowled the edges of horror lore and been whispered about by devoted fans, but now, after decades, this ancient work reemerges in a stunning hardcover edition, introduced by modern horror master Stephen Graham Jones.The shadow manifested in your room. The figure in the trees. The howl carried across the moors. They all started here.When it first appeared in 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould’s The B...

Sabine Baring-Gould’s The Book of Were-Wolves has long prowled the edges of horror lore and been whispered about by devoted fans, but now, after decades, this ancient work reemerges in a stunning hardcover edition, introduced by modern horror master Stephen Graham Jones.The shadow manifested in your room. The figure in the trees. The howl carried across the moors. They all started here.When it first appeared in 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould’s The B...