Jackie Sonnenberg

Something hides in the deepest part of the cornfields, a dark magic that should not be tampered with. But, of course, someone does. The mice Magnus, Ignatius, and Pestilence are blind, but they can see things no one else can. They knew when the servant girl came into the curio shop, and they knew they had so much to show her. Especially because she was already exposed to the terrors of the night, and she was about to experience more. The scarecrows stalk the fields at night, enchanted with a powerful magic to guard something even more powerful: A mystical being with the ability to grant wishes. Through visions of the past, present, and future, the three soothsayer mice tell the story of how a poor servant girl finds her way into a vast labyrinth and makes a wish to change her life...a wish that results in a grand transformation she never asked for: The very monster she herself used to fear. She is forced to learn to adjust in a new game of survival as outside forces to hunt her down are on the rise. There is so much more that happened before she got there, and much more that is to come. She learns to prepare, to act, and to strategize, especially with the foes that first presented themselves as friends. This mashup of a Nursery Rhyme with a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale pays homage to their origins in a story of new twists and ominous foretelling.

Mice

Marissa Farrar

Kristin Jacques

Sara Schoen

Elizabeth Roderick

Taylor Henderson

Erin Lee

D. A. Roach

Samie Sands

Thomas S. Flowers

Jennifer Loring

Nykki Mills

They're watching you. They see the way you clutch your blanket. They smell the sweat trickling down your back. They hear the fear pulsing through your veins...and they love it. This is a collection of stories about what really hides beneath your bed, watching, waiting, listening to every breath you take. It's about the creatures that come out to play on the full moon, and the things that wake at the devil's hour. Are you ready to find out what really goes bump in the night? The true reason behind your midnight tremors? You'd better be. 13 is back-and it's brought Night Terrors.

An Anthology of Horror and Dark Fiction

13 Night Terrors

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I shall die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take... When thirteen-year-old Sky Monroe arrives at her new boarding school, all she can think about is death and connecting with the afterlife. Soon she discovers her school's spirituality group called Guardians of Light-and they have a secret. The Guardians of Light can speak with the dead... When Mitchell Brooks, the teacher and leader of the group, reveals this unnerving secret to Sky-though this is exactly what she believed she wanted-she learns the organization is rapidly becoming a cult. Now she's concerned she and her friend Damien will not be permitted to walk away. Danger and death lurk around every corner... The campus house, where Sky resides, is haunted, and the spirits have their own agenda. December 21, 2012 threatens the end of the world, and Mitchell and the spirits have special plans in store. They just might bring Sky closer to the afterlife-and possibly beyond-than she ever imagined. Sky is looking for a connection to the afterlife, but what she finds may be more than she bargained for...because what lies after life is death.

My Soul To Keep

Jackie Sonnenberg

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