Whispers From Behind The Cellar Door

Tales to send chills down your spine, raise goosebumps and stand your hair on end. Tales to terrify and disturb, to intrigue and unsettle. Fans of horror and the supernatural will relish this collection of original stories, featuring among much else… - a haunted swimming pool - something horrible in a garden shed - a doppelganger husband - a zombie mother-in-law - a ghostly sender of emails - and an embalming that goes very wrong indeed…

Rose McFarland is a trained killer—a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors know that she spent two years in a rehabilitative facility, healing and learning to cope with the emotional trauma of the fire. But no one knows about the visions that drove her there, angry spirits that consumed her childhood, alienated her from her family and made her doubt her own sanity—the Whispers. When Charlie Akers, a half-brother she never knew, ends up on the wrong side of Rose's rifle, she unwittingly sets off a chain of events that puts her family in the middle of increasingly dangerous paranormal visitations. Charlie won’t stay dead, and soon ghosts from Rose’s past are creeping back into her life. People she’s killed in the line of duty, family she thought long buried, every one of them under the influence of Rose’s greatest fear, the Whispers themselves. As the walls between our world and the world of the dead grow thin, Rose will have to face her old nightmares to stop the Whispers from breaking free. If she can’t, it won’t just be Memphis that falls to the dead—there will be no safe place left on earth for the living.

A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery. Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt. But before Savage has the chance to discover her fortune, he is struck dead in the cellar of this once grand country house in the strange, nearly deserted village of Plumpton Bois. The police are baffled and—unable to unearth a motive, let alone a killer—call for the assistance of Scotland Yard. Inspector Littlejohn and Inspector Cromwell arrive in Plumpton Bois and find the village, the family, and the house itself full of secrets. The door to a locked room has been bashed open. Savage’s aunt is not nearly as rich as she seemed to be. And now, another body has turned up on Littlejohn’s watch . . .

In 71 Hyacinth Drive, Matt Burke—a writer living alone in his remote house deep in the Maine woods—is driving home one day when he accidentally hits a homeless man on the side of the road. To cover up what happened, he takes his body and brings it back to his house. One night, when he goes to move it, the body's gone. Just as he realizes, footsteps come from upstairs. He's not alone. In The Missing, something strange has been happening inside Haven, Maine—the small, rural, sleepy town known for the “best apple pie” in the state. Slowly, since February, missing posters have popped up in the town: on telephone posts, the town bulletin board, and the front window of Al’s Diner. One of the many people concerned is Violet, someone who has lived in the town ever since she was a little girl. She’s determined to get to the bottom of what’s happening, no matter what happens to her. In 217, hack horror writer, Stephen Greene—the author of books like scariest ghosts spotted in haunted hotels and ten most haunted graveyards—goes to the Fairhope Hotel, intrigued by the hidden history of the 100-year-old hotel. As the almost empty hotel greets him, two days from closing down for the winter, Stephen—soon after settling in—is going to experience what true terror is. Find these and ten more stories inside that are sure to make your skin crawl.

Strange occurrences plague Mishawaka, Indiana's past and present. Local lore whispers accusations of strange and peculiar happenings, prefacing uncertainty if the future is safe. A meeting of youthful inquiry and aged intellect coalesce to unravel the tales behind the secrets and delve deeper into the reality that is hidden in plain site. Truths of the past, long hidden from mortal ears, provide a glimpse into the dangers the small town has overcome. But will the tales summon forth nefarious happenings from the past or open the door for new evils to rise from Earth's underworld? Only the future will reveal if their telling will be Mishawaka's ungodly undoing!

Horrific tales of fright told around a bonfire during remote backwoods retreats are common among close friends. As each person tests the others' ability to remain calm and resist the urge to look over a shoulder as the sounds of nature bellow out in the backdrop, only one may claim victory as the most frightening of the group. Backwoods Bonfire inserts the reader into a group of friends that unintentionally create a case study on what horror means to them, attempting to coerce the others to believe that horror is specific, not fluid. However, one of the friends chooses to prove that horror is real as the fire they all gather around the Backwoods Bonfire

1780. A time when graceful sailing ships plied the waters of the North Sea by day, but engaged lawlessness and subterfuge against His Majesty’s excisemen by night. Kate Goldsmith, a young woman from Orford, falls in love with a dashing young sailor, but there is more to him than first appears.

Arriving in an Amish town to claim her inheritance of a mansion from her grandmother, Allison is protected from anonymous threats by single father Nick, but things turn dangerous when she discovers that her elder's death wasn't an accident.