You better not watch or read them alone at home in the dark. These terrifying stories will horrify you and will take away your sleep.
Mike Enslin is a writer of non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places: Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards, and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles. They prove to be best-sellers, but Enslin feels some guilt at their success, privately acknowledging that he does not believe in the paranormal and supernatural elements he investigates.
In Derry, Maine, a man sees his boyfriend murdered by Pennywise after homophobic youths assault them. The Losers meet for dinner and Mike refreshes their memories before It torments them with hallucinations and Stan’s suicide. It then helps Henry Bowers, who was arrested for the murder of his father, escape from a mental institution, and Henry kills a guard on the way out.
Oskar, a meek 12-year-old boy, resides with his mother Yvonne in the western Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. Eli learns that Oskar is being bullied by schoolmates and encourages him to stand up for himself. Håkan makes another effort to obtain blood for Eli by trapping a teenage boy in a changing room after school.
In 1965, Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent an apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City. They ignore their friend Hutch’s warning about the Bramford’s dark past with witchcraft and murder. Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio, a recovering drug addict whom Minnie and Roman Castevet, the Woodhouses’ elderly neighbors, took in.
In 1462, Vlad Dracula returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife Elisabeta committed suicide after his enemies reported his death. Enraged, Dracula desecrates the chapel and renounces God, declaring he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. In 1897, solicitor Jonathan Harker takes the Transylvanian Count Dracula as a client from his colleague Renfield who has gone insane.
Famed novelist Paul Sheldon is the author of a successful series of Victorian romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Wanting to focus on more serious stories, he writes a manuscript for a new novel that he hopes will launch his post-Misery career. Soon after, Annie reads the latest Misery novel, discovers that Misery dies at the end of the book, and flies into a rage.
In the summer of 1992, Hugh and Olivia Crain and their five children move into Hill House to renovate the mansion in order to sell it and build their own house, designed by Olivia. Twenty-six years later, the Crain siblings and their estranged father reunite after another tragedy strikes them again, and they are forced to confront how their time in Hill House has affected each of them.
After catching his wife Amy having an affair with their friend Ted, mystery writer Mort Rainey retreats to his cabin at Tashmore Lake in upstate New York, depressed and suffering from writer’s block. That night, Mort’s dog, Chico, is found dead outside the cabin, along with a note from Shooter giving Mort three days to provide proof.
In the English village of Crythin Gifford in 1889, three girls are having a tea party. Four years later, Arthur is instructed to visit Crythin Gifford to retrieve any documents left by Alice Drablow, the deceased owner of Eel Marsh House, an isolated and desolate estate on the marshland, as a prelude to the sale of the house.
In the early 1960s, at a San Francisco pet store, socialite Melanie Daniels meets lawyer Mitch Brenner who is looking to buy lovebirds for his sister Cathy’s 11th birthday. To make amends, and finding him attractive, Melanie buys the lovebirds and delivers them to Mitch’s apartment, only to learn he is away for the weekend at his family’s farm in Bodega Bay.
Cecilia Kass is trapped in a violent , controlling relationship with wealthy optics engineer and businessman Adrian Griffin. The doctor says high levels of diazepam were found in her system. After finding Adrian’s old phone and dumping paint on the figure, a violent struggle ensues before she escapes.
Carrie White is a shy 16-year-old girl who lives with her fanatically religious mother Margaret. Carrie is unpopular at school and is often bullied by her peers. Following conversations with Miss Collins and the principal, Carrie is dismissed from school. After arriving home, Margaret tells Carrie that her menstruation was caused by sin, and she locks Carrie in an altar-like prayer closet to pray for forgiveness.