KnightMare HOur: Short story Thrillers

 Here piggy, piggy, piggy . . .

It was an average day when Alley Faye found a five-dollar bill on the ground with a message. The message was a warning, the Big Bad Wolf is coming. Can this little piggy get away?
 

The truth can set you free, but it can also kill you.

Wade Dawson blames himself for his little sister Hellen’s disappearance. When the shirt Hellen was wearing the day she went missing turns up, Wade vows to solve the cold case. Will the truth lead him to his sister, or will it be the thing that gets him killed?  

Death can only come for those he hears, and he can’t hear the dolls.

Finch Bannister suffered from a fever when she was a little girl and since then she has been different. She believes she swallowed a bird cage with two birds in it, leaving her to battle a deformity that only she can see and the same goes for the spirits in Cadbury House. When Chet Cadbury moves in next door after the death of his grandmother, they are forced to come to terms with the secrets buried in the hope chest at the top of the stairs. They find out the hard way that some secrets once unearthed can never be buried again, but people, on the other hand, can be. 

The Tell-Tale Heart meets American Psycho. 

Ken's back and so are the voices . . . The year is 1826, the atmosphere is insanity, the place is Richmond, Virginia. Edgar Allan Poe’s muse is not his best friend’s sister or the beautiful servant Athena, but his best friend who whispers to the dead. Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories spring from the deranged mind of one man, Kenneth Dahl. This is his story.

After four years spent in a psychiatric hospital, Kenneth Dahl returns home a cured man and is reunited with his twin sister who shares his evil eye. At home, Ken faces the same isolation he faced at the sanitarium, before forging a friendship with the servant Athena. Neither Athena nor his sister can help him when the voices come back. 

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

Forever lasts as long as you make it.

A near death experience led Harrison Vogel to The White Room where he forms a forbidden relationship with Elle, a woman he believes to be his guardian angel. When a routine visit to The White Room takes an unexpected turn, Harrison’s life gets flipped upside down.

In his search for answers, Harrison finds himself at Lass Castle, the home of renowned orchid researcher, Dr. Lass. Lass Castle has a tainted past, but that’s the past. It’s now a historical hot spot for tourists. However, when disappearances once again plague Lass Castle, Harrison finds himself doubting everything he thought he knew about his guardian angel. There are skeletons in the closets at Lass Castle, but they don’t want out, they want Harrison to stay forever. Will he?

The Addams Family meets The Haunting of Hill House.  

Mysterious deaths, conspiracies, money problems. Is the Elenore Feilding House a tourist trap or a haunted house?

All Trinity’s life she wanted to be a Fielding. She got her wish when her father mysteriously dies at the Elenore Fielding House and is adopted by the Fielding family. She's part of the family now, but she's not blood. Even after living as a Fielding for four years, there are still secrets she doesn’t know. When her stepfather disappears, she takes her money and flees, but Trinity Fielding is back for her little sister’s funeral. Returning home could be Trinity’s biggest mistake. She can’t run away from her problems again. The Elenore Fielding House has eyes and ears and secrets of its own.

The dead can’t hurt the living, or can they?

Molly Delray’s father is the groundskeeper of Smith and Stone Cemetery. When she returns home for Christmas after being away for over a decade, she forgets the rules and disturbs the ghost of Old James. When the ghost's living relative shows up at Molly’s doorstep, it’s up to her to solve a centuries old murder before the ghost kills again. 

We all have personal demons, but Cookie Marlowe’s demon is real.

Cookie Marlowe was just a little girl when she glimpsed something she shouldn’t have and since then she’s hated Christmas. When a trip home for the holidays forces Cookie to confront the very thing that has made her holidays a humbug, her nightmare becomes real. She’s determined to find her Christmas spirit at any cost, but it may cost her everything.

 Did you ever stop and think when you wish upon a star who’s answering your wish?

Angelique Werner and her brother watched a star fall from the sky and land in the lake on Christmas Eve. Angelique thought it was the Christmas Star leading them to something magical, but it only led to her brother drowning.

Years later, while on a cross-country drive to spend the holidays with her best friend, Angelique runs into a man she believes to be her dead brother. Unsure if it is a Christmas miracle or if something sinister is at play, Angelique determines to figure out what really happened at the lake all those years ago, even if it kills her. We all have personal demons, but Cookie Marlowe’s demon is real.