Some doors should never be opened.
Some bargains should never be made.
Some evils don’t stay buried.

In Terrifying Tales, Samuel Brower drags readers into a world where the familiar curdles into the grotesque and the ordinary becomes a gateway to nightmare. These stories roam from haunted homes and cursed objects to back roads, forgotten towns, and the thin places where something old and hungry waits to be noticed.

A hard-boiled paranormal investigator confronts the lingering echoes of violent death in “A Haunting in Baltimore.” A birthday gift becomes an instrument of terror in “Lot 113: Buddha Statue in Lotus Pose.” A quiet neighborhood descends into unspeakable horror in “Mephistopheles.” And in “Patricia Lendrum, Exorcist for Hire,” a woman who makes her living evicting demons discovers that some possessions are far worse than others.

By turns brutal, eerie, and darkly human, these tales channel the spirit of classic pulp horror while grounding every nightmare in character, consequence, and creeping inevitability. Brower’s stories don’t rely on cheap shocks; they build dread patiently, then twist the knife when you least expect it.

If you believe evil has rules, this book will teach you otherwise.

Welcome to Terrifying Tales.


For fans of Stephen King’s short fiction, The Twilight Zone, EC Comics, Clive Barker, and horror that blends pulp grit with lingering psychological dread.