Elizabeth Massie Books in Order

A mountain community relies on a sineater to absorb the sins of its dead, while demanding that he live apart. His forbidden family life breaks that order, and horrifying events raise questions about where the town’s evil truly lies.

These horror stories turn familiar lives toward disturbing discoveries, including a teacher investigating absent pupils and a widow pressured to bear a child. Other tales explore dangerous obsessions, bringing dread into relationships, communities, and ordinary routines.

A visit to Baltimore’s aquarium separates best friends Anne and Julie when Anne is transported to 1849. Held captive as a supposed runaway gypsy slave, Anne faces a dangerous past far removed from her familiar world.

Ordinary small-town communities become the setting for encounters with terrifying forces in this collection of stories. Familiar routines give way to fear as dark presences intrude, drawing residents into nightmares that transform their everyday surroundings.

After his father dies at Gettysburg, Patrick’s family leaves its farm for a New England mill town. Dangerous work and poverty undermine his hopes of college, while a friend offers an easier path through robbing wealthy factory owners.

Patsy Black and Barbara Layman suspect soldiers staying at Black’s Tavern are British spies. The friends set out to expose them, but their attempt becomes far more dangerous when Barbara falls into the suspects’ hands.

As revolution approaches, Patsy Black and Barbara Layman look for ways to support the struggle for independence. Their determination is tested by a mysterious red-haired stranger whose presence raises the possibility of spying and hidden loyalties.

Patsy and her friend Barbara pledge to help the cause of liberty through the Daughters of Liberty. What begins as youthful commitment becomes increasingly serious as their activities draw them deeper into the struggle around them.

A family reunion connects three cousins with a disturbed woman once tied to their family. Their bond brings visions of suffering and danger, forcing them to ask whether they can change the deadly future threatening their hometown.

Nathaniel and Richard sail for the New World after Captain John Smith hires them as laborers. Dreams of finding gold fade as Jamestown’s harsh conditions leave the boys struggling against hunger and bitter cold in an unfamiliar land.

Caleb, a free Black teenager raised with Quaker beliefs, faces a painful choice as revolution approaches. British promises of freedom for enslaved recruits compete with colonial hopes, while his best friend remains in bondage in Maryland.

Gettysburg twins Susanne and Stephen are separated when Stephen leaves their farm to join the Union army. As they exchange letters through hardship and disease, opposing forces approach their hometown for a battle that will change their lives.

Teacher Kate takes eight-year-old Mistie away from abusive parents, believing she can offer the child a safer life. When armed teenager Tony forces her way into their car, the attempted rescue becomes a terrifying road trip controlled by violence.

Three boys find friendship within the routines of a children’s home during the 1980s. When new arrivals disrupt their fragile stability, the youngest struggles to keep them together, carrying the consequences into a difficult reckoning years later.

A poem asking why people read horror opens this collection of thirteen unsettling stories. Dark humor, graphic terror, and supernatural encounters range from everyday bargains and strange neighbors to sinister experiments and otherworldly experiences.

Drawing on decades of horror writing, Massie gathers stories and poems about unsettling encounters and the darkness beneath ordinary life. The collection moves between intimate fears, violent impulses and supernatural threats, exploring how terror can sharpen an appreciation of light.

Isolation, grief, greed, and desperation drive these supernatural and psychological stories. A prisoner awaits a visitor, a parent faces inner darkness, and an outcast child considers a strange friendship as vulnerable people approach dangerous turning points.

Jenkie inherits her grandmother’s unfinished recipe for immortality and experiments with it in an isolated trailer. Instead of eternal life, the moonshine produces ravenous walking corpses, drawing local residents and a television pitchman into the spreading terror.

In 1909 Coney Island, ticket seller Suzanne Heath reluctantly uses her psychic abilities to help investigate mutilation murders. As she revisits painful memories, the search pulls her and her closest friend into a nightmare beneath the amusement parks.

Homeless D. D. Murphry sees himself as a secret policeman protecting ordinary people from criminals nobody else recognizes. Living on the streets without recognition or reward, he pursues hidden evildoers whose crimes others cannot see or believe.

This collection offers a reflection for each day of the year through poems, meditations and brief thoughts about night. It addresses loneliness and restless thinking while inviting readers to find comfort, beauty and renewal in darkness and stillness.

A traveling circus conceals a terrible secret, household figures plot revenge, and shadows harbor creatures with teeth. This horror collection brings together new and earlier stories in which ordinary curiosity can lead to terrifying discoveries.

A scavenged couch, an unsettling lifelong companion and a seemingly peaceful commune become sources of danger in these horror stories. Across supernatural encounters and human cruelty, ordinary discoveries expose threats that refuse to stay safely outside familiar lives.

Orphaned by the Civil War, Katina reaches Chicago disguised as a boy and dreams of becoming a playwright. Working with an idealistic activist brings love and purpose, until a devastating fire threatens the life they are building.

Henson returns to his Appalachian hometown after his father, the community’s sineater, disappears. His search threatens to force him into the same feared role, leading a collection whose other stories explore obsession, revenge, and uncanny danger.