Books like Slugs by Shaun Hutson

During a Mexican vacation, two couples lose a friend and delve into a jungle ruin, only to confront a terrifying, ancient presence.

During a Boy Scouts weekend in the Canadian wilderness, a thin, pale intruder appears, carrying a bioengineered horror that spreads faster than fear and forces the young scouts to face unimaginable choices.

Astronauts and researchers dive into the Marianas Trench, desperate to find a cure for the plague that has taken over the world.

Benny, Nix, and friends journey through a dangerous wilderness, facing fierce animals and a new kind of zombie, in a thrilling adventure story suitable for children and young adults.

A compact anthology of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic gothic tales—The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, Hop‑Frog, and The Masque of the Red Death—that blends horror, psychological dread, and supernatural motifs for readers of all ages.

In LeHorn's Hollow, a rural American town, women vanish, fires rage in the woods, and a haunting pipe song carries through the night—while the ancient god Pan is summoned to Earth.

Little Emily Steiner is dead. She left a North Carolina church meeting late one October afternoon and strolled along a lakeside path toward her house two miles away. Who met her on the path? Who followed her home, kidnapped her from her bedroom, and left her body by the lake days later? It's a puzzling and terrifying crime, reminiscent of the work of serial killer Temple Gault, who has long eluded Dr. Kay Scarpetta and the FBI's Investigative Support Unit in Quantico, Virginia, where Scarpetta consults as a forensic pathologist. At the request of the North Carolina authorities, Scarpetta and her colleagues, Benton Wesley and Pete Marino, fly to the mountains near Asheville to assist. They find a mother in mourning and an investigation in disarray. It's particularly frustrating to work a homicide after the fact. An inexperienced pathologist missed or misinterpreted some of the evidence, leaving Scarpetta with inconclusive medical and laboratory reports, and photographs that only raise questions. What, for instance, is the strange mark on the child's body that causes Scarpetta to plead with a reluctant judge for an exhumation? What is the meaning of trace evidence from a plant not indigenous to the Carolinas? And where did the killer obtain the unique blaze-orange duct tape, with which he bound Emily and her mother? Most puzzling of all is the question of when Emily died. She disappeared the night of October 1. Her nude body was found a week later. Scarpetta's obsession with time leads her to The Body Farm, a little-known research facility in Tennessee where, with the help of some grisly experiments, she might discover the answer. It is Scarpetta alone who can interpret the forensic hieroglyphics that eventually reveal a solution to the case as staggering as it is horrifying. Scarpetta not only must search for a killer, she must endeavor to help her niece Lucy, who is accused of espionage while interning at the FBI's highly classified Engineering and Research Facility in Quantico. And she must reach out to Marino, who retreats deeply into a strange relationship that may wreck his career and ruin his life. Scarpetta, too, is vulnerable, as she opens herself to the first physical and emotional bond she has felt in far too long a time. This is Scarpetta even more realized and poignant than we've seen her before, tenacious and brilliant, tender and gentle. The Body Farm is a stunning achievement from a bestselling author at the peak of her powers.

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors - master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales. From a bustling Covent Garden Christmas market to the frosty moors of Yorkshire, from a country estate with a dreadful secret, to a London mansion where a beautiful girl lies frozen in death, these are stories to make your hair stand on end, send shivers down your spine and to serve as your indispensable companion to the long nights of winter. So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season...

Step‑by‑step guide to teaching a slug to read, featuring Mother Slug rhymes, word‑sounding techniques, and curated vocabulary lists.

In the seemingly idyllic town of Prize City, a new family arrives and a shy teenager’s life is turned upside down by town secrets, a victorious high‑school football team, and a looming horror that threatens to unravel the community’s hidden darkness.

A compact collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s four most famous early horror stories—Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Oblong Box, System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, and Tell‑tale Heart—illustrated and abridged for modern readers.