When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Stephen King delivers an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds, each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider, this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone", an intergenerational friendship...

Carly Beth, who believes she has found the best mask for Halloween-with long animal fangs and yellow-green skin-soon discovers that she cannot take it off.

"Jackson Stander is every parent's dream. He doesn't get into trouble, he always does his homework, and he never ever lies. His teachers all trust him completely. He even volunteers at the local Youth Center. But that was before Jackson came across an evil ventriloquist dummy. Now he must deal with Slappy wreaking havoc on his own family and friends. Jackson will soon see that two Slappys are not better than one" -- Cover verso.

Ian receives ventriloquists' dummy Slappy as a twelfth birthday gift, and when Ian's annoying cousins recite the magic words that bring Slappy to life, the doll unleashes pranks that are blamed on Ian.

Surviving their first winter after the Monster Apocalypse was no easy feat, yet Jack and his buddies waste no time springing to action against some of the nastiest, most evil monsters around. When Jack discovers his Louisville Slicer has new, otherworldly powers, he's thrown into epic training to find out what kind of destruction the blade can wield. But between fighting off zombies, fleeing from strange, glowy Vine-Thingies erupting from the ground,...

A collection, selected by children as their favorites, of twenty-three spooky tales from a variety of ethnic traditions.

"Pete lashes out at his younger brother in the wake of his parents' divorce, falling prey to a gruesome curse. Kasey struggles with the lengths she'll go to survive on the streets after stealing a pair of unusual novelty glasses. Samantha and her sister, Susie, struggle to exist side by side, desperate to connect after a horrific tragedy. But in the grim world of Five Nights at Freddy's, empty feelings often attract hungry monsters..."

A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in "The Mortal Instruments" series.

Jodie's summer visit to her grandparent's farm becomes a little too frightening when their twelve evil-looking scarecrows come to life.