Lock your doors and check the closets. James Colton returns with 20 tales designed to make your blood run cold.

The man who sold us the house had one rule: never leave the cobblestone path. My husband didn’t listen.

I was looking through our old photo album. In every picture, a shrouded man is getting closer and closer.

My friends and I went exploring an abandoned house. Now the doors won’t open, and the hallways are changing shape.

I guard a heavy iron gate in the middle of nowhere. I don’t know what’s inside, but my orders are to keep the teenagers out.

Settle in and turn the page… but if you hear a sudden knock at your bedroom door, whatever you do, don’t answer it.

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