Story 1: The Beast of Elderton Story 2: Scary Movies Story 3: Flames Story 4: The Vampire's Price Story 5: The Gawkers Story 6: City of the Djinn Story 7: The Wendigo Doll Story 8: Snow Over Lacksmouth Story 9: Blood and Ink Story 10: Room 206

A Scary Stories Collection of 10 Short Horror Stories… Story 1: Shut In Story 2: The Edge Of Holly Field Story 3: Insta Scare Story 4: Zoom Horror Story 5: The Haunting Story 6: Monsters Story 7: Mr. Strings Story 8: Clown Eater Story 9: Graveyard Rising Story 10: The Witch Tape

For most police officers, dealing with 'crackpots' is simply part of the job. The people who call up confessing to murders they couldn't have committed or which might never even have happened, the obsessives with nothing better to do than report non existent crimes or exaggerate run of the mill occurences into major events. As far as Tony is concerned Clark Dornan is one of these 'crackpots'. For years Clark has been coming to the station with accusations...

When Leonard Merlode said 'no' to the military, he knew there would be consequences. The technology he had developed, a suit that would allow the wearer to really 'feel' what was going on in a virtual environment, was a precious commodity. A commodity that could easily be misused if it fell into the wrong hands. He could never have imagined, however, just how severely he would be punished for his decision, why the military would hire the man known...

Room 206 is a room with secrets. As always secrets bring questions. Why is the owner of the hotel meeting with known criminals? Why are the walls around that room four times as thick? What causes the strange sounds of scratching and shifting that seem to come from that room and why do some who enter, never seem to come out? The answers to these questions lie behind the room's locked door, though of course there are some secrets that are best left...

When a vial containing a strange liquid is sent to police headquarters, there is immediately some caution. Could this be poison? Some chemical attack? The vial is carefully packed away and sent for testing. Despite the caution, nobody guesses the vial's true significance. Where it came from, what the liquid inside might be or how it is connected to the strange flyers that have appeared all over town, flyers bearing the image of a curious little goblin,...

Though they seem familiar and even comforting with their warm reminders of youth, the true roots of many fairy tales are sprouted from darker soil. The original versions of some of the tales are far more sinister than we imagine. Even those we know and love, when examined in the cold light of day, run with a malevolent undercurrent of violence, menace and terror. Yet when we encounter someone who says they like fairy tales, we expect a certain type...

The day the quarantine was announced, the only thing I could think of was mother. Yes, behind that, the memories crept closer, shadows and dark things, not forgotten but suppressed, the knot of fear in my belly that had been tied long ago, but more than that, more than anything, I thought of her. In the fifty-six years since she arrived in Britain from Turkey, not once had she spent an entire day inside. In fact, it was rare to see her spend more...

In my family, the wendigo is not spoken of as a myth, in fact, if we can help it, it isn't spoken of at all. For to even use the word is to invite things more horrible than you can imagine into the thoughts and into the home. Instead of the word, we have the doll. A small, hideous, figurine that has lived on our mantlepiece for generations. As a child I was forbidden to touch that figurine. As an adult, I found out why. The Wendigo Doll is a tale...

In the west, the 'genie' is a figure of fun. A pantomime character made of primary colours and cartoon features. An example, if ever there was one, of how the West tries to tame its terrors by laughing at them. In the East, in Nusaybin, people do not laugh at such things. Here the word 'djinn' is whispered in reverential hush. The things to which it refers are considered not only real, but dangerous. For in these places and to these people the djinn...