Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology

Nineteen twisted tales from a vibrant, online community of horror enthusiasts!What’s HorrorTube? A creepy, new carnival ride combining a water slide park with a haunted funhouse? Not quite, although that sounds like a blast.A subset of BookTube, HorrorTube is an online community of horror enthusiasts who regularly post YouTube videos about horror-related topics, including books, films, and fiction writing.Some of the writers included in this anthology cover horror exclusively. You’ll find them posting creepy photos on Instagram or waxing poetic about the seventies drive-in flick that kept them up all night. Some read widely, only delving into the horror genre occasionally. All are passionate about books and writing.Joined together by this vibrant, online community of readers and writers, these nineteen authors bring you scary stories from all parts of the globe, proving that fear is universal.Local Haunts has taken the horror BookTube community’s global influence and shrunk it down into one village of horror and mayhem you’ll not soon forget. Inside these pages are frightening stories from around the globe, telling tales of haunts, monsters, and other terrible things local to each author’s place of residence. Within these pages you’ll find terrifying tales from North America, my own included, joined by terrible happenings in the Australian bushlands, ghosts haunting an old Greek mansion, an abandoned Vietnamese hospital, and a creepy museum, among many other eldritch encounters. From the foreword by Jason WhiteA Stone’s Throw by Dane CobainThe Gentleman by Ryan StroudThe Salt Hag by CJ WrightCrowthorne by Andrew LyallMount Gilead by R. Saint ClaireScreen Eight by Michael TaylorDrive Like Hell by Ken PoirierThe Mount of Death by Kevin David AndersonThe Drifter by James FlynnThe Blocked Cellar by Mihalis GeorgostathisThe Night Watchman by Marie McWilliamsAlone Among the Gum Trees by Cam WolfeHighway to Hell by Nicholas GrayThe Room Within by D.L. TilleryFading Applause in Quintland by Lydia PeeverA Full Moon Over Black Star Canyon by Matt WallLong Buried by E.D. LewisDarkness Descends by Jason WhiteAt the End of the Rope by Cameron ChaneyCover art by Cameron Roubique