John Everson Books in Order

Twenty stories explore obsession, desire and the dangers of surrendering to them. Witches, bargains with the devil and disturbing encounters transform familiar pleasures into threats, with supernatural horrors exposing the consequences of their characters’ appetites.

These stories move between light fantasy and darker supernatural encounters. A magical flute, dangerous seeds and a curse punishing adulterers draw ordinary people into hidden worlds where longing and curiosity can bring wonder or disaster.

Reporter Joe Kieran investigates recurring teenage deaths around the cliffs of Terrel’s Peak. His search through the town’s hidden history reveals a pact with a demonic presence and a terrible price demanded from the families involved.

Nineteen stories examine deception, desire and the possibility of redemption through disturbing supernatural encounters. Body modification, demons, dreamcatchers and reimagined religious legends form a collection in which intimate obsessions repeatedly cross into horror.

Ariana travels across the country performing sacrifices intended to bring the Curburide demons into the human world. Joe Kieran, young witch Alex and a demon with his own agenda must stop her before the summoning is complete.

Three troubled teenagers accept a mysterious man’s offer of drugs in exchange for participating in a ritual. They do not know he intends to summon a dead witch’s spirit, turning their search for escape into a supernatural nightmare.

An abandoned hotel reopens as a private asylum for pregnant women, and people begin disappearing from the surrounding town. Searching for his missing girlfriend, David Shale investigates the doctor in charge and the secrets concealed in the building’s basement.

Three seasonal fantasies explore Christmas through magic, loneliness and unexpected companionship. A young witch learns to work without spells, a boy encounters a frost sprite, and an isolated man welcomes a mysterious child on Christmas Eve.

Grieving his drowned son, Evan encounters a mysterious woman singing beside the sea. His growing obsession becomes an otherworldly affair, but the seductive stranger is a predatory siren whose attention threatens far more than his fragile peace.

After her father’s murder, Jenn retreats with friends to an inherited seaside cottage. Occult books and a Ouija board reveal unexpected power, and another gruesome death suggests that a local legend has become a very real threat.

Mark and Rae enter a secretive club promising extreme pleasures, but Rae’s fascination draws her beyond his reach. When she disappears, Mark must find the club again and confront the forces that threaten both her life and soul.

Peteyboo has eighteen legs and thirty-seven eyes, but no friends to share his day. Finding a strawberry brings him face to face with a hungry worm, creating an unexpected chance to learn about generosity and friendship.

Rachel moves with her son near the Everglades hoping to escape the past. Swarms of biting flies instead herald an infestation of monstrous spiders, trapping the community in a spreading nightmare as communication with the outside world fails.

Scott inherits a Virginia inn built around an enormous ancient tree whose sap sustains his family’s business. Discovering human remains among its roots exposes a disturbing inheritance and forces him to confront the fate awaiting his bloodline.

This collection moves from quiet hauntings to extreme supernatural horror. Its characters confront unsettling choices involving lost children, suppressed memories and dangerous desires, while seemingly ordinary gardens, taverns and holiday traditions conceal threats beneath their familiar surfaces.

After closing a supernatural gateway, Alex awakens trapped in the demons’ own realm. With an occult killer as her only ally and hungry spirits searching for them, she must find a way back to Joe and the human world.

Pianist Eve arrives at an elite Belgian conservatory to study with a celebrated professor. A series of murders transforms her opportunity into a nightmare, especially when evidence from a drugged night makes her question her own involvement.

An invitation to NightWhere draws Cassie toward a dangerous underground club, while escaped survivor Selena faces its determination to reclaim her. Both women must protect the men they love as the Night Mother prepares to expand the club’s reach.

In a zombie wasteland, Mira has built a formidable Mustang and plans to enter a lethal cross-country race. When Tony hijacks her plans, their uneasy partnership must contend with rival drivers and the undead.

After her mother dies, Allyson moves to her uncle’s German mansion, where a storm exposes an empty child’s coffin. Murders soon follow, each marked by a doll, forcing her to investigate the family’s hidden history before she becomes a target.

Eighteen horror stories uncover strange threats beneath ordinary appearances, from creatures wearing borrowed faces to a deadly pinball club. Ghostly encounters, sinister factories and unexpected appetites pull their characters into situations where curiosity can carry a terrible cost.

Stasia pursues beauty and popularity through a forbidden book of demon lore. Her search takes her to Barcelona’s Church of Flesh, where dangerous trials stand between her and the knowledge needed to summon Malphus.

Lonely Gianna tests a local legend by writing a dead girl’s name in blood on a mirror. The ghost answers, but their apparent friendship becomes a threat when Gianna realizes her new companion wants revenge for her murder.