Jeremy Bates Books in Order

Katrina lies to escape an unsettling hitchhiker, then discovers he teaches at her new school. When the man she falls for becomes involved in a murder, she must decide whether another deception can protect her.

Bad weather diverts a group of friends from climbing Mount Fuji to camping in Aokigahara. When one of them is found dead the next morning, stories of spirits haunting the forest acquire a frightening immediacy.

Four novellas explore fractured families, dangerous strangers, lost identity, and the return of an abusive former partner. A disastrous camping trip, an unexplained machine, and unsettling neighbors expose the threat concealed within ordinary lives.

Friends travel to an Ohio area known for tales of occult activity, hoping for an evening of thrills. A mysterious hearse forces them off the road, and their investigation becomes a struggle to survive as companions die.

Mysterious footage found beneath Paris draws a group of friends into the catacombs to investigate. Their curiosity carries them through tunnels filled with human remains toward a discovery far more dangerous than an underground adventure.

Friends filming a documentary on a Mexican island covered in old dolls discover a brutal murder. As an unknown killer stalks them, fear and suspicion turn the group against itself during a desperate night.

Four novellas follow people trapped by confinement, scarcity, obsession, and technology. An expatriate wakes inside a coffin, a survivalist runs out of supplies, an affair becomes dangerous, and lifelike robots promise relationships with uncertain costs.

An American true-crime writer retraces the route of nine hikers who died mysteriously in the Siberian wilderness. Seeking answers to the Dyatlov Pass incident, he encounters a danger no account of the original expedition prepared him for.

A dying stranger arrives at a family’s remote cabin in the middle of the night. Hunted by an unknown attacker, the parents must protect their children and push beyond their limits to survive until morning.

A Berkeley professor recreates a purported Soviet experiment that kept prisoners awake with stimulant gas. As his assistants monitor new volunteers, their confidence in a controlled scientific study gives way to an escalating nightmare.

Assigned to investigate renovations at New York’s Hotel Chelsea, a reporter befriends its eccentric residents. Increasingly abnormal experiences lead him to question the building’s haunted reputation and the people who call it home.

A businessman arrives at Tokyo’s international airport carrying a convincing passport from a country no one recognizes. His insistence that Taured exists opens a mystery that challenges what the people investigating his arrival believe about their world.

A marine biologist searches for creatures believed to exist only in myth. The expedition becomes a fight for survival when the beings he hopes to discover prove dangerous, reversing the roles of researcher and prey.

A movie star and her hotelier husband travel to Africa to repair their marriage, only to become hostages after an embassy bombing. Taken into the Congo, they face violent captors and a wilderness where an assassin may offer their best hope.

A mysterious dancing affliction spreads through a Cape Cod town, echoing an outbreak from centuries earlier. Twelve-year-old Ben and his two friends confront the growing horror as the strange behavior threatens the community around them.

Thirty-one years after surviving a terrifying childhood ordeal, Ben, Sally, and Chunk have separate lives. Reports of a similar outbreak in an Arizona town reunite them to confront the evil that has never entirely left them.

Easygoing Edoardo Fallini stays at an isolated holiday rental and gradually discovers that its eccentric host is concealing something disturbing. As deaths accumulate around him, he finds himself implicated in each one and unable to control the consequences.

Terminally ill Vietnam veteran Ernest Campbell returns to recover a fallen friend's remains, accompanied by his granddaughter Nika. When lethal creatures drag her into an abandoned tunnel network, he must draw on wartime experience to attempt a rescue.

Facing a future of rationing and unemployment, Bob Smith volunteers for miniaturization and relocation to a self-sufficient community. The promised escape from scarcity instead traps him in a new catastrophe, exposing dangers beneath the apparent solution to humanity's excesses.

Grieving traveler Joe and a new acquaintance enter a Barcelona mansion offering a cash prize for surviving nine rooms. Each challenge draws on their deepest fears, turning a tourist attraction into an increasingly personal fight to escape.