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Dylan Graves, host of the popular podcast Graves Encounters, is a professional skeptic who debunks ghost stories for a living. His latest target: St. Augustine, America’s Oldest City, a town selling its history by the slice in haunted tours. But when a routine investigation at the city’s lighthouse captures a monstrous growl of impossible size, and mysterious claw marks appear on his second-story window, Dylan realizes he's not hunting a ghost. He’s being hunted. Teaming up with a terrified historian, Dylan uncovers a 300-year-old conspiracy: a cursed Spanish soldier, betrayed and ...

What if the local legends were true? What if the whispers from the past never faded? In the quiet corners of New England, where history holds a grudge, some stories are best left untold. From a lonely Vermont trail where a mysterious lantern lures hikers to their doom, to a historic Salem house where a 17th-century diary is not a journal but a trap, this collection unearths the terrifying truths behind the region’s most unsettling folklore. Venture to a salt-scoured lighthouse on the coast of Maine where the dead keeper still stands watch, walk the silent grounds of a Harvard graveyard ...

A scenic shortcut turns into a road to hell. Five friends searching for one last taste of adventure. A detour that isn't on any map. When their car mysteriously breaks down deep in the isolated Appalachian wilderness, their dream road trip curdles into a claustrophobic nightmare. The silence of the forest is heavy, broken only by the feeling of being watched. The only sign of life is a creepy, dilapidated general store and its stoic, unsettling owner. Stranded and desperate, the friends soon discover they are not the first to take this road, and that the woods have a horrifying history—a ...

The forest was silent. But it was not empty. Gus Miller’s logging crew thought they were just clearing timber in Pine Hollow. They didn't know they were tearing down a fence. When the heavy equipment stops running and the men start vanishing, the silence of the woods is replaced by the crushing sound of footsteps that shouldn't exist. Kiera Hale and her family just wanted a Christmas tree. Driving deep into the ridge to find the perfect fir, they unknowingly cross a line that has been guarded for centuries. Now, the battery is gone, the road is buried, and the sun is setting. They are not...

A doomed plane. A frozen mountain. And a legend that kills. When a charter flight crashes near the base of Mount Everest, the handful of survivors believe the worst is behind them. But the icy winds and jagged cliffs aren’t their biggest threat. Something ancient prowls these peaks—something massive, white-furred, and bloodthirsty. As the group struggles to stay warm and alive, they begin to vanish, one by one. Whispers speak of the Ice Demon—a beast the locals dare not name. Now, survival depends not on strength or supplies… but on staying quiet, staying hidden, and staying out of ...

The starving Plymouth colonists fear the biting cold and the endless snow. They are a tiny, desperate island of humanity in a vast, unknown wilderness. But the cold is not the true enemy. The real terror lives in the woods, and it begins with a howl . When a young, arrogant hunter defies the governor and vanishes into the forest, a search party is sent to retrieve him . They find his trail, but it is not alone. Alongside it are massive, humanoid tracks pressed deep into the snow —tracks made by a creature of impossible size and power. The Wampanoag call it the Keteaumûch, the Winter ...

An unsanctioned ultramarathon in the remote Pacific Northwest. One hundred miles of punishing terrain. A legion of elite runners. For professional athlete Maya, the legendary "Apostate's Run" is the ultimate test of endurance, a secret race she has trained her entire life to win. But the forest holds a secret darker than the trail. From the moment the race begins, a primal sense of dread descends. The runners are not just competitors; they are prey. A chilling scream cuts through the trees, and the race for the finish line becomes a desperate flight for survival. Something is hunting them...

Their perfect honeymoon was supposed to be a new beginning. Not their end. Lena and Jake found the perfect escape: a remote, snow-covered cabin promising a week of blissful solitude. But the idyllic quiet of the deep woods soon gives way to a chilling unease. A strange scratching at the door. Unsettling notes in an old guestbook. And a pair of luminous eyes watching from the darkened tree line. Trapped by a raging blizzard and with the power failing, their romantic sanctuary becomes a claustrophobic prison. When a desperate search for answers uncovers a horrifying secret hidden within the ...

She took the job to save her family. Now she has to survive the night. Leah, a desperate registered nurse on the verge of losing her family home, accepts a high-paying, last-minute assignment that seems too good to be true. The job: provide round-the-clock care for a reclusive, elderly man in a decaying Gothic mansion miles from civilization. The rules are simple. Stay inside after dusk. Never unlock the cellar. And never, ever miss a dose of the patient’s "medication." But as the full moon approaches, Leah realizes her patient isn't just sick. His affliction is older, darker, and more ...

No way out. No light. And something monstrous beneath the surface. When a team of elite spelunkers descends into an uncharted cave system in the Pacific Northwest, they expect danger—but not the kind with claws. A sudden collapse traps them deep underground, cut off from the surface and hunted by a predator that’s been hidden for centuries. Something massive moves through the flooded chambers. Something that watches… waits… and kills without sound. As the survivors navigate rising water and total darkness, they discover the cave is more than just a tomb—it’s a territory. And ...

A man in exile. A creature of legend. A hunt that will force them together. Jack Marlowe is a ghost, haunted by the split-second decision that ended his career and shattered his life. He fled to the solitude of the ancient Redwood forest to serve a self-imposed sentence, seeking peace in the profound silence. But the woods are not silent. Something massive is moving through the trees. Something that leaves footprints the size of platters and snaps ancient branches like twigs. When Jack comes face-to-face with the impossible—a living, breathing Sasquatch—he discovers a creature not of ...

The Program sent him to sanitize the woods. They didn't tell him he was the one in the crosshairs. Logan Pierce is a professional. For twelve years, he has served as a silent executioner for a government agency that does not exist. His job is simple: locate the biological anomalies, neutralize them, and erase every trace of their existence. No records. No witnesses. No mistakes. But the Dead Zone in the southern Cascades is different. Dropping into a landscape of pressurized silence and ancient timber, Logan expects a routine retrieval mission. Instead, he finds a forest that has been ...

The forest has a protector. And he is a monster. Cole is the last guardian of the Whispering Peaks National Forest, a man living in self-imposed exile. He is bound by a sacred duty to protect the wilderness, but he is also cursed by the beast that awakens with the full moon. He lives by a rigid code of control, keeping the world at bay and the monster caged within. But when a ruthless team of poachers invades his sanctuary, led by a man who sees the forest only as a resource to be plundered, Cole's two worlds collide. Pushed to the brink, the ranger's control shatters, and the lines between...

UPDATED & EXPANDED FOR 2026: Now featuring corrected continuity and brand-new scenes. This definitive, high-octane version of Book 3 has been streamlined for maximum tension—a pulse-pounding bridge to the epic Books 4, 5, and beyond. This is the Book 3 that was always meant to be. The Hunted Become the Hunters... But What They Find Might Be Worse. Dr. Elise Holloway and the broken remnants of her team survived the horrors of Site Sierra, but escape is only the beginning. Hunted by the ruthless Kestrel organization and stalked by unseen forces within the ancient forests, their only hope ...

A brutal winter. A starving camp. And the thing in the woods that knows you're dying. If you're drawn to chilling historical horror, tales of human desperation, and the primal terror of being hunted by something ancient — this is the story you've been waiting for. Bigfoot – Donner Party drops you into the snow-choked Sierra Nevada, where the infamous Donner Party isn’t just battling hunger, frostbite, and each other — they’re being watched. As shelters collapse and sanity unravels, something massive, silent, and relentless closes in. This book will make your skin crawl, your heart...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

An ancient forest is dying from the roots up. Dr. Owen Packard is called to the Cascades to investigate a massive ecological collapse. He expects to find a fungal infection or a toxic soil anomaly. He does not expect to find footprints the size of snowshoes and soil samples that defy earthly biology. Helix Frontier, a shadowy private military corporation, arrives to take over the quarantine zone. They are not there to save the trees. They are hunting an anomaly that guards a doorway to somewhere else. When an unauthorized tactical strike goes wrong, Owen and his lead acoustic researcher ...

The counselors are meant to protect the campers. But what happens when the real monster is already inside the fence? Nate thought this summer at Camp Silver Howler would be easy—another season of cynical camp songs and keeping kids from getting lost in the woods. He was wrong. It starts with a footprint too large to be real. Then, a chilling howl that silences the forest. When a young camper is mauled, Nate knows this is no ordinary animal. The attacks are too smart, too brutal. There’s something intelligent hunting in the darkness, and the flimsy cabins and flickering lights won't keep...

A remote mountain valley guards a bloody secret. He came to hunt a predator, but now he’s the one being watched. Biologist Jonas Kettering accepts a simple contract: travel to the isolated Hallow’s Gap and identify the beast preying on livestock. Armed with science and skepticism, he expects to find a rogue bear or a mountain lion. He finds something far worse. The town is steeped in ancient traditions, ruled by a fragile pact between the founding families and the monsters hiding in the forest. But the pact is breaking. A rebellious new generation of shifters, led by a violent young ...

A remote Appalachian trail. A ranger investigating a missing hiker. A nest that was never meant to be found. Ranger Clay Rourke thinks he’s looking for a lost tourist. But when he finds a bizarre, silken cocoon, he realizes the truth is far worse. The woods are crawling with something ancient, intelligent, and insatiably hungry. Trapped in a remote valley with a small group of survivors, Clay must descend into the suffocating darkness of a subterranean lair to confront the grotesque matriarch of the swarm. It's a desperate, brutal fight for survival against a relentless horde of creatures...