Books like Don't Turn Out the Lights by Jonathan Maberry

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

Scary stories at midnight: Haunting tales for the night with no way out but sleep or fear, ready to terrify at 11:59 PM.

Thirty-three stories about the strange and terrifying things that happen when humans encounter extraterrestrials, a ghost cheesemaker, and a boy with the power to vanish stars.

A collection of six horror stories featuring tales of the end of the world, visitors from the future, and an author's obsessed fan, aimed at young readers and their families and friends alike.

Short stories of dark and terrifying tales for children, featuring unreliable narrators and first-person perspective, with an emphasis on horror and supernatural elements.

Wenn ein Traumhaus in den Highlands zum Albtraum wird Rowan Caine nimmt eine Stelle als Kindermädchen in einem einsam gelegenen Haus in Schottland an, bei einer scheinbar perfekten Familie mit vier Töchtern. Doch ihr Traumjob wird für Rowan zum Albtraum. Die Atmosphäre im Haus ist extrem unheimlich. Sie fühlt sich ständig beobachtet – nicht nur von den Überwachungskameras, die in jedem Zimmer hängen. Dann findet sie die ominöse Warnung eines früheren Kindermädchens an die unbekannte Nachfolgerin Und es geschehen immer mehr beängstigende, unerklärliche Dinge. Auch das Verhalten der Kinder wird immer seltsamer – bis es schließlich einen tragischen Todesfall gibt. Und Rowan gerät unter Mordverdacht. Um ihre Unschuld zu beweisen, greift sie zu einem verzweifelten Mittel.

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A collection of fourteen mystery stories featuring well-known authors and a horror twist.

A collection of classic horror and supernatural stories from the 19th century, featuring tales by notable authors like Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ambrose Bierce.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Helen Hoke’s collection of horror short stories for children, featuring a cat as the narrator and unreliable narrators, making for a thrilling and spine-chilling read.

Designed primarily as a collection of scary fare for adults to tell elementary-age children, the tales may be read and some even told by children. Also contains notes on the stories.