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What if your brush with death wasn’t just bad luck—but something… watching? From bestselling horror author G.J. Fene comes a bone-chilling collection of first-person accounts from those who lived through the impossible. These are the stories of people who were the last to escape, the only one to survive, the ones who ran—and barely made it. Inside this haunting anthology: A solo backpacker finds someone else’s gear in his pack after encountering mimicry in the woods. A miner swears something screamed louder than the rockfall that trapped his crew. Two college students drive the ...

Twisted Vows: Dark Romance Stories is a haunting collection of passion, betrayal, and obsession where love is never simple, and devotion comes at a cost. Behind the vows, beneath the veils, and inside locked rooms, hearts are tested by secrets too dangerous to confess. From runaway brides who find themselves bound by the wrong man, to widows cursed by their dead husband’s vow, to lovers who turn fire and storms into prisons, each story unravels the fragile line between devotion and destruction. These are tales where weddings become traps, vows become chains, and the greatest danger is the...

From the misty hollers of Appalachia to the frozen ridges of the Himalayas, these chilling firsthand accounts reveal what most dismiss as myth. I’ve Seen What You Don’t Believe is a gripping collection of encounters with the most infamous creatures from global folklore, Bigfoot, La Llorona, the Mothman, Skinwalkers, and more. Each story is told by those who lived it…and barely escaped to tell the tale. Told in raw, intimate detail by park rangers, truckers, psychologists, sailors, and survivalists, this anthology doesn’t just entertain, it makes you wonder what’s waiting in the ...

Watchers in the Pines: Ranger Tales of the Unknown by G.J Fene The wilderness keeps secrets. Some are written in the trees. Others whisper through static. And some… are never meant to be found. In this chilling collection of first-person ranger accounts, the vast beauty of America’s forests becomes the stage for encounters with the unexplainable. From the misty hollows of the Smoky Mountains to the endless redwoods of California, rangers face more than lost hikers and restless wildlife. Lanterns that lead travelers off trail. Children’s laughter echoing where no children should be. A ...

Behind a crooked door on a rain-slick street waits a shop that should not exist. Its shelves do not simply hold books, they keep their readers. Within these walls, the grieving find voices that speak back, the ambitious discover words too sharp to control, and the broken are offered bindings that demand flesh. Each volume promises revelation, but the price is always written in advance: memory, voice, sight, or the self itself. The Bookshop of Shadows is a chilling collection of interconnected horror tales, where every story stands alone yet leads deeper into the shop’s impossible ledger. ...

What happens in a cemetery after the gates close and the living go home? In Graveyard Watch, the dead don’t rest quietly, and neither do the ones who tend their graves. From rusted safety bells that ring with no wind, to security footage that shows people leaving who never came in, this haunting collection of first-person accounts reveals the disturbing secrets buried deep within Harmony Hill Cemetery. Told by night guards, diggers, clerks, and those just passing through, each story draws you closer to the truth: There’s something waiting after midnight. And it’s watching who stays. ...

Between Now and Never is a haunting dystopian thriller about memory, control, and rebellion. When Lena Rivers receives a summons to the Tomorrow Exchange, she’s told it is an honor, a chance to reinvent herself in a gleaming city of the future. But behind the perfect façade, she discovers a chilling truth: the Exchange doesn’t erase students, it harvests them. Memories are stolen, catalogued, and weaponized, leaving nothing but compliant shells behind. Lena refuses to forget. Torn between saving fragments of her missing brother and freeing everyone trapped in the system, she chooses to...

Ash and Silence: Hauntings of Poveglia Island plunges readers into the chilling true accounts of one of the world’s most cursed places. Nestled in the Venetian Lagoon, Poveglia Island has a blood-soaked past—from plague pits stacked with burning bodies to a madhouse where tortured souls still scream in the dark. Award-winning author G.J. Fene guides you through gripping, first-person encounters with shadows in crumbling ruins, tolling bells that exist only in the echoes, and nightmares that follow visitors home. Are the island’s horrors mere echoes of trauma—or is something alive on...

Don’t Share This Link: Creepypastas You’ll Wish You Never Read You clicked. You shouldn’t have. From haunted apps and cursed livestreams to group chats that resurrect the dead, this collection of digital-age horror stories will make you double-check every notification—and regret every click. Inside these thirteen terrifying tales, you’ll meet: A gamer whose face begins showing up in other people’s videos—smiling in places he’s never been. A girl who dreams of her favorite sleep streamer’s bedroom—until he starts dreaming of her too. A friend group haunted by an AI ...

Something Watched the Baby Monitor by G.J. Fene When Marlene Grace moved into her quiet suburban home with her newborn daughter, she thought the scariest thing she’d face would be sleepless nights and teething pain. But then the baby monitor began whispering. At first, it was just faint static. A rhythm. A hum. Then words—spoken in no language Marlene knew. Then Leah, her six-month-old daughter, began humming it back. As strange lights flicker outside the nursery window and scorched circles appear in the lawn, Marlene begins to realize: the monitor isn’t picking up interference. ...

Watchers on the Stair: Firsthand Nights at the Stanley gathers five eerie, “true-feeling” accounts set inside the most storied hotel in the Rockies, the real-life inspiration for The Shining. A travel writer checks in for the view and finds laughter in empty corridors. A pianist hears the grand ballroom answer with a melody pulled from their own past. A guest in Room 217 is drafted into finishing a chambermaid’s unfinished report. A photographer discovers a woman who appears only in the lower-left corner of every staircase shot, and closer each time. And a night caretaker walks the ...

When true-crime podcaster Nora Vale returns to her Okanagan hometown to care for her ailing mother, she expects awkward reunions and half-buried memories—not the return of the orchard lights. In 1996, the so-called “Starlight Girls” vanished beneath those flickering spheres, their disappearances written off as tragedy and rumor. Now the lights are back, glowing in the rows like cold lanterns, each appearance followed by silence, static, and someone missing. As Nora digs into the past, she unearths taped broadcasts, fractured memories, and a town desperate to protect its reputation—...

In the shadowed corridors of history, entire truths vanish, not by accident, but by design. The Society of Omission follows a network of women across decades and continents, each uncovering a dangerous fragment of a hidden archive detailing betrayals, crimes, and unspoken bargains that shaped nations. From famine-struck Ireland to Ottoman Istanbul, from plague-quarantined Sydney to pre-war Paris, each heroine is forced to choose between exposure and survival, knowing the wrong choice could topple lives, or erase them completely. Bound together by an unspoken code, these women become ...

Behind locked doors and erased files, ordinary people stumbled into the extraordinary, and paid the price for speaking. Code Name: Silence collects chilling first-hand testimonies from witnesses who should never have seen what they did. A communications officer who intercepted voices that repeated his orders before he spoke them. A mechanic ordered to service planes coated in frost under desert heat. A nurse who discovered “coma patients” murmuring in unison every night. A diver dragged into a spiral around a machine that warped the sea itself. A farmer who watched his land sterilized ...

Behind locked doors and flickering lights, Ward Nine is where routine swallows reality and the line between patient and staff dissolves. A young man hears his name whispered in the night. A woman refuses her medication and finds herself replaced by a calmer version of herself. A nurse on endless night rounds discovers his name written in a book decades old. Meals never satisfy, visitors never arrive, and the quiet room is never truly quiet. In this chilling collection of interconnected stories, each voice pulls you deeper into a psychiatric ward where time loops, hunger grows, and identity ...

Book Summary for The Bone Weaver In the secluded village of Valewood, death and sickness have taken their toll. The crops are failing, livestock are mysteriously dying, and the villagers are desperate for a solution. When the whispers of an ancient figure known as the Bone Weaver reach Isla, a young woman whose brother, Aiden, died under strange circumstances, she’s determined to find a way to end the village’s curse. The Bone Weaver is said to be able to control life and death, using the bones of the deceased to weave new fates and restore balance. Desperate to save her brother and the...

Through the Crimson Gate When Aria Vale discovers she is the last heir to an ancient bloodline, her world shatters overnight. Hunted by vampires, betrayed by allies, and haunted by the whispers of a portal sealed centuries ago, she learns her blood is the key to everything, weapon, crown, or curse. Sworn to protect her is Kaelen, the last of the Guardians, a scarred werewolf bound by oath to keep her alive at any cost. But the bond between them burns with more than duty, and their forbidden closeness threatens to break the chains of fate itself. Drawn through the Crimson Gate into a mythic ...

The Dark Trails: Women Rangers and the Unexplained by G.J. Fene The wilderness holds more than beauty, it holds secrets that were never meant to be found. In this chilling collection of first-person stories, women rangers stand watch over America’s most remote landscapes, only to discover that not all dangers come from nature. From the Smoky Mountains to the redwoods, from frozen rivers in Alaska to fire towers in West Virginia, their patrols lead them into encounters that defy logic and shake the soul. Lantern lights that lead hikers off the map. Children’s laughter echoing in empty ...

Whispers in the Ash A chilling supernatural thriller that blends psychological horror, buried secrets, and the terrifying cost of guilt. When Daniel Reeve buys an abandoned house deep in the snow-covered forest, he wants only one thing: to disappear. Hiding from his past—and the memory of the wife he lost under violent, secretive circumstances—he seeks peace in solitude. But the silence in the house is not empty. Something waits in the basement. Something that remembers. As the nights stretch on, Daniel begins to hear his dead wife's voice. Objects move. Mirrors reflect more than they ...

Amazon Summary for “Below the Surface: True Accounts from the Deep Web” They told you the internet was mapped. Safe. Archived. They lied. Below the Surface is a chilling anthology of first-person horror stories unearthed from the darkest corners of the deep web — a place where surveillance bleeds into possession, forgotten code comes alive, and data doesn’t just track you... it rewrites you. Each story is a self-contained descent into paranoia, identity collapse, and technological dread. You’ll meet: A coder haunted by a keylogger that finishes his thoughts… better than he can. ...