Terrifying tales

In Dracul, a prequel to the 1897 horror classic written by J. D. Barker and his great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker must survive the night in an abbey’s tower as a cunning, bloodthirsty monster lingers mere feet away.

In Rebecca Netley’s The Whistling, Elspeth Swansome seeks a new start on a remote Scottish island as a nanny for young Mary, still grieving the loss of her twin brother. But Elspeth can’t ignore the sense that there’s something she’s not been told.

In this work of short fiction from new American horror master Chuck Wendig’s The Book of Accidents, the fireflies are behaving oddly – extremely oddly.

In this short story from her collection Things We Say in the Dark, titled ‘My House is Out Where the Lights End’, author Kirsty Logan ponders: Is there anything scarier than the idea that even those closest to us are unknowable?

In this chilling short story from legendary horror writer Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales, titled ‘What a Thought’, a happy and loving wife suddenly can't shake a sinister compulsion.