Journalist and werewolf Elena Michaels enjoys her normal life with her boyfriend, but when she agrees to help her old pack bring in a couple of werewolves who are attacking common criminals her feral urges become harder to resist.

"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...

A novella, and ten short stories, introduce us to the last man on earth; a man planning a funeral for his unsuspecting wife; and a man whose telephone rings inside his head-- with calls from his dead father.

A group of children and a "spirit" go back through time to discover the beginnings of Halloween.

Mason Brady loves comics, and knows every hero, villain and sidekick. On his latest trip to the Comic Book Characters Hall of Fame Museum, Mason visits every exhibit and comes face to face with the real Night Howler. Villains start to terrorize the town and Mason knows his entire life is about to change, but he is unsure if he'll be a superhero or superzero.

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns, and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled...

In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running — barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road — and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes...

"What do Zoey and Billy Traister do when they find an abandoned ventriloquist dummy in an empty lot? They take him home, of course! As the pair tries to figure out why someone would throw out a perfectly good dummy, they accidentally bring Slappy to life. A night of horror ensues until the siblings put Slappy back into his case. But when they find Slappy's diary and clues that could lead to gold, they'll have to find Slappy's second diary while evading...

Evan is stuck cleaning out hamster cages as a punishment for making up stories because his science teacher didn't believe his story about Monster Blood.

Bennie, Mateo, and their friends love playing tag, but when Bennie tells a story about the original "it" being a boy who turned into a monster, nobody really expects it to actually happen--and that is just one of the scary stories in this collection.