Keep the lights on tonight. James Colton delivers another 20 tales of creeping dread guaranteed to ruin your sleep.

There’s a hidden crawlspace behind my toddler’s closet. Something in the dark has been building a nest.

We thought it was just an unmapped cave. Then an icy hand out of the darkness grabbed my girlfriend.

I work security at an abandoned school. The cameras just detected movement in an empty room.

My son refuses to enter the parlor. He says one face in the floral wallpaper has a bad smile.

From cursed library books to vampiric shadows to malevolent doppelgängers sleeping right beside you, this collection offers a uniquely sinister horror for every reader.

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