Scary Stories

Twelve tales of terror for readers who would enjoy a stroll through a graveyard after midnight. Hark This book contains horror stories. Please don't read it if you don't enjoy horror Also: Don't read this book: If limbs being hacked off make you queasy. During a thunderstorm that could plunge your home into pitch blackness. If you don't own a crucifix, and you hate the smell of garlic. Around a campfire after dark in a dense forest. If a deranged maniac has escaped from the local asylum. If you live next door to a haunted house or a graveyard. If you believe the boogeyman lives in your closet. If you think something fom another planet has landed on Earth. Otherwise, enjoy the horror TABLE OF CONTENTS: SOMETHING IN THE WELL Jules has no choice but to go to the well where a demon granted a wish that saved his father's life for a price. SOMEONE TO KILL: Brent has a butcher knife and he's looking for someone to kill on a lonely street tonight. GRANDPA: The zombie apocalypse has begun and Grandpa is near death in the next room. THE PARTY: A man crashes a Halloween party mysteriously held in a dilapidated mansion unoccupied for decades. THE FEUD: After twelve years of truce between two feuding families, Jasper Stump is missing and a beast is devouring people in the woods. THE TOASTER The City of Baltimore appropriates funds to move Edgar Allen Poe's gravesite to a new mausoleum. SHADY REST: A rehabilitated psychopath, who inherited millions, leaves the asylum with eight friends willing to share her sprawling mansion. THE LOSER: A disillusioned wife regrets marrying her loser husband who fathered two pathetic dolts and fantasizes how great life would be without them. NIGHT VISITORS A horror writer fears the torturers he created in his stories will come for him one dark night. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: Two young lovers infatuated with one another begin to see imperfections as their wedding day approaches. THE JOKER: An author plans to use the comedic M.O. of the way a real serial killer staged his victims in his next novel. THE VAMPIRE KILLER A man claims the iconic rock star he killed with a wooden stake was a vampire not a man.