Jon Athan Books in Order

Ten horror stories turn familiar places into sources of unease, from a backyard campsite to a bus station restroom. Bogeymen, sinister dolls, disturbing online encounters, and unexplained presences draw children and adults into encounters with hidden threats.

Twelve horror stories revisit urban legends and ordinary settings disturbed by ghosts, killers, and other threats. A forbidden basement, a sinister television broadcast, an ominous Santa story, and returning murderous dolls create varied encounters with the uncanny.

A grandmother's hidden secret, a haunted Ouija application, and dangerous parents feature in this collection of horror stories. Familiar family relationships and everyday technology become sources of menace as the third volume brings together supernatural encounters and human cruelty.

Freelance photographer Leroy Vellon secretly records a murdered neighbor's crime scene for a website devoted to violent imagery. The assignment pulls him into a darker world of criminal activity and restless ghosts, where curiosity carries an increasingly dangerous cost.

Five stories combine horror with fantasy and science fiction, drawing on the unsettling possibilities of the surreal. The opening collection includes tales of nightmares, puppetry, and unexpected turns, with ordinary expectations giving way to strange and threatening experiences.

Ten stories explore a surreal world of phantoms, doubles, dangerous illnesses, manipulative psychics, and impossible journeys. Endless elevators and sudden travel through time join supernatural threats in a collection where familiar situations lead into disturbing and unpredictable territory.

Ten stories bring together failed experiments, sinister operations, mysterious powers, and supernatural encounters. Androids, cults, and phantoms inhabit a collection that mixes science fiction and fantasy with horror, using strange situations to explore fear and troubled states of mind.

This collection combines horror, fantasy, and science fiction in stories set beyond ordinary reality. Strange technology, threatening discoveries, and unpredictable encounters draw its characters into unsettling situations where familiar rules no longer offer protection or reliable answers.

Five horror stories follow survivors facing dwindling food during a zombie outbreak, a police officer investigating unexplained weeping, and passengers trapped on a stalled subway. Other tales turn a grandfather's loneliness and a group's planned vengeance into sources of terror.

Ten stories bring supernatural threats into familiar settings, from a woodland well and a family's new television to a college dinner invitation. Demons, ghosts, addiction, and human cruelty supply different kinds of danger as ordinary lives enter disturbing territory.

Ten short horror stories bring unsettling encounters into ordinary lives, from suspicious travelers to unexplained presences at home. Ghosts, strange creatures, and human cruelty make familiar situations dangerous, offering different visions of fear and the unexpected.

Ten interconnected stories follow an alien invasion as it unfolds across a threatened world. Abductions, infiltrations, and desperate battles reveal different sides of the catastrophe, linking individual struggles into a larger account of humanity confronting an unfamiliar enemy.

Ghosts, possession, and a talking severed head figure in the fourth collection of short horror stories. The tales move between supernatural disturbances and unsettling encounters, turning the unexplained into threats that intrude upon the lives of their characters.

Two teenagers venture into the woods seeking proof of a haunted house and encounter a violent family instead. Their simple expedition becomes a struggle for survival, with one boy drawn into the family's escalating campaign of terror.

Released after twenty years in prison for murder, Lucas Walker returns to killing but finds the world has changed. He recruits a vulnerable young man as his disciple, launching a violent partnership that spreads through an unsuspecting city.

Traveling to Las Vegas, Austin and Anna encounter a wrecked vehicle and an injured hitchhiker on an isolated road. Trying to help draws them into a landscape of trafficking and murder, turning their journey into a fight to survive.

A father abducts the man he suspects took his daughter, while a detective and a family friend investigate her disappearance. Elsewhere, a woman searches for her missing boyfriend, linking three desperate inquiries through lies, violence, and revenge.

In a near-future city neglected by its authorities, a gang of violent teenagers operates with apparent impunity. Their freedom ends when they are captured and ordered to kill a woman, forcing their destructive habits into someone else's scheme.

When Carrie Wheeler is murdered during what she believed would be a film shoot, her father Russel pursues the people responsible. Drawing on his former connections to organised crime, he follows the trail toward the producer known as Mr. Snuff.

Two adopted brothers struggle on the poor outskirts of a city reshaped by world war. When Sakuya reveals psychic abilities, a secretive agency targets him for experimentation, leaving Kyle to attempt a rescue before those powers become weapons.

Two serial killers from different social worlds pursue their victims across the same troubled city. When their paths cross, their competing motives and methods create a violent confrontation that threatens to expand the destruction around them.

This collection blends horror with melancholy, following characters troubled by supernatural forces and disturbing human behavior. Vengeful spirits, uncanny powers, and people unable to escape their darker impulses connect the stories through fear, loss, and emotional unease.

An android police negotiator is sent into a neglected district after rogue machines kill a family and abduct an infant. His investigation encounters official brutality, corruption, and terrorism, complicating the distinction between criminal machines and the authorities pursuing them.

After years of frustration, Cindy discovers a pill that promises effortless weight loss. Its apparent success comes with disturbing physical and psychological changes, and her growing appetite turns the pursuit of confidence into a dangerous transformation.

Counselors disappear at a summer camp with a history of tragedy, but missing bodies keep authorities from recognizing the killings. Head counselor Regina Park begins investigating, increasingly convinced that the person responsible is closer than anyone suspects.

Two families begin a camping holiday in West Virginia after an unsettling encounter with a hitchhiker. Deep in the woods, they discover they are being stalked by dangerous strangers, transforming their shared vacation into a desperate struggle for survival.

A young waitress suffers repeated attacks by an apparently invisible intruder, leaving her mother desperate to help. Medical explanations and supernatural possibilities compete as the assaults continue, threatening both women's ability to understand or stop what is happening.

A former prisoner takes a security job at an abandoned shopping mall, hoping to build a better future for his daughter. Pursuing intruders inside the supposedly haunted building forces him to confront both its dangers and his troubled past.

Thirteen-year-old Mason finds guidance in a television that seems to speak directly to him. Troubled at school and abused at home, he follows its advice into violent behavior, pursuing recognition while losing his connection to ordinary moral limits.

After surviving a devastating assault, aspiring artist Mizuki Himura undergoes a long recovery and decides to reclaim control of her life. Her search for justice becomes a campaign of violent revenge against offenders, bringing survival and vengeance into uneasy conflict.

On his thirteenth birthday, Jacob discovers that his older brother is a serial killer. Pressured to join him, the boy struggles with loyalty and conscience as his brother attempts to turn their family bond into a partnership in violence.

Two groups of travelers become stranded on a remote Texas road and fall into the hands of a violent captor. Taken to an isolated house, they must find a way to survive his obsessive demands and escape confinement.

Ashley Collins's constant defiance turns family life into a succession of angry confrontations. When her parents decide to confine her in their basement, their attempt to regain control becomes the basis for a horror story about escalating domestic abuse.

A family's holiday journey ends in tragedy after an encounter with violent teenagers. Two years later, the parents seek revenge on the group's leader, only to discover a disturbing secret inside his home that changes their confrontation.

A masked killer targets students at Redwood High, and recordings of the murders begin appearing online. Senior Charlene Sanchez gathers her closest friends to investigate, uncertain whom she can trust while trying to prevent the next attack.

A single father seeks medical help when his young son's behavior becomes increasingly frightening and violent. As events seem to defy ordinary explanation, he turns to psychological and spiritual authorities, desperate to understand what is happening and save his child.

Blake and Susan pause their Montana journey to explore a seemingly abandoned town. Evidence of a violent attack soon suggests that someone remains among the ruined homes and shops, turning their curiosity into a dangerous encounter with the town's inhabitants.

Bradley Anderson earns a comfortable living making murderous films while maintaining a loving family life. When his conscience reawakens and he hesitates over a killing, the organisation turns against him, transforming its trusted employee into an enemy intent on revenge.

Sent to his grandparents after serious trouble at school, sixteen-year-old Malcolm expects an easy stay. His grandfather instead imposes a brutal regime of discipline, turning a supposed refuge into a struggle against abuse and a family's concealed history.

Four boys discover a dead student in the woods and decide to conceal the body instead of reporting it. Their secret becomes the center of an increasingly disturbing friendship, exposing jealousy, obsession, and the consequences of their choices.

Estranged friends reunite at a secluded woodland cabin and invite a stranded stranger to wait inside for help. Their guest has arranged a different kind of celebration, forcing them into familiar party games with increasingly dangerous consequences for anyone who loses.

Journalist Viola Santoro investigates a serial killer who displays his victims as public spectacles. Captured during her pursuit, she is forced to witness his crimes and hear his account of himself, turning her hoped-for exposé into captivity.

Years after her husband's killer is acquitted by reason of insanity, Naomi finds him living peacefully with a new family. She plans a violent confrontation, determined to uncover whether his original defense concealed the truth and obtain the closure she lacks.

A murderous couple terrorises Southern California while the police repeatedly fail to catch them. Detective Harvey Skinner turns to an extreme experiment, releasing a convicted serial killer from death row to hunt the pair and confront them with his own methods.

Detectives investigating a series of murders in Florida revive a dangerous programme that puts a death row killer back on the streets. Sam Lee is tasked with hunting the perpetrators, forcing the investigators to confront the methods used in their pursuit.

A commercial plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, leaving Nathan Reed and a handful of others stranded. Their urgent search for water, medicine, and shelter becomes more dangerous when an unfamiliar group begins targeting the survivors.

When his daughters vanish on their way home from school, police officer Keith Klein begins searching with a private investigator. As leads disappear, his increasingly violent methods draw him toward the isolated criminal operation holding the girls.

Mark knows his girlfriend has fallen for another man, although she has not ended their relationship. Instead of confronting the loss, he prepares a cruel punishment, turning wounded attachment into a campaign of revenge against someone he claims to love.

After Lorenzo ends their relationship, Emily refuses to accept his decision and begins undermining his life. Her efforts to isolate him from other people become increasingly destructive as she pursues a plan to keep him permanently beside her.

A teacher investigates a violent attack on his star pupil, hoping to identify those responsible and obtain justice. As he uncovers crime and hatred among other students, his determination draws him toward vengeance and increasingly dangerous personal choices.

After an encounter at an underground party, young Genesis Hudson becomes convinced she is a vampire and develops a craving for blood. Her friend Aubrey reluctantly helps while seeking a way to save her, discovering unsettling changes in Genesis along the way.

A group of desperate young people plans a Halloween robbery to finance an escape from their town. Targeting a wealthy family appears straightforward until the first act of violence unleashes consequences neither the intruders nor their victims can control.

A taxi driver's secret visit to a brothel leaves him vulnerable to blackmail by a crime boss. Forced to chauffeur an enforcer through the criminal underworld, he tries to conceal his predicament from his family as each compromise worsens it.

Mortally wounded during an attempted abduction, serial killer Victor Brooks revisits the experiences that shaped him. The narrative moves through memories of relationships, disappointments, and violence, tracing the history behind a life defined by rage and suffering.

Car trouble forces Colton and Lacey to spend the night at a remote Nevada motel. Their expected respite becomes a fight for survival when violent clowns surround the building and the guests hear screams from neighboring rooms.

Ethan's repeated searches for romance have ended in violence, but he convinces himself a new waitress offers another chance at lasting love. His determination to win her affection becomes a dangerous obsession with consequences for anyone in his path.

Bradley Anderson travels to Tokyo seeking revenge against film producer Andy Wu and encounters Mizuki Himura, who shares his goal. They join forces against an opponent whose wealth, connections, and violent employees make dismantling his criminal network a dangerous undertaking.

Lonely writer and delivery driver Micah responds to romantic rejection by joining an online community that reinforces his resentment. As encouragement from strangers turns disappointment into hatred, he begins planning revenge against the people he blames for his isolation.

After his daughter disappears, Andrew suspects a stranger who had been photographing children near her. With the police investigation stalled, he begins his own search, descending into a criminal world that tests the limits of his determination.

Years after attacking a woman during a business trip to Tokyo, Adam Miller suspects his past has followed him home. Children begin disappearing in his city, and reports of a scarred woman connect the unfolding danger to his hidden crime.

A collection of horror stories follows people whose cruelty resists redemption, including criminals, an obsessive admirer, and a couple encountering a strange artifact. Jon Athan, Jasper Bark, and Aron Beauregard examine destructive impulses through separate encounters with human depravity.

After killing a woman in his hotel room, accountant Max Baker calls a longtime friend to help conceal the crime. Their increasingly desperate schemes confront a practical obstacle: moving a body from the twenty-ninth floor of a busy hotel.

Terminally ill detective Chase Hauger recognizes echoes of an old colleague’s murder in a new crime scene. Suspecting the return of the Enigma Killer, he pursues an investigation complicated by deception and his own dwindling time.

Working alone overnight at an isolated gas station, eighteen-year-old Zoe Doyle hears that a suspected serial killer has escaped a nearby institution. Unsettling customers become the least of her worries as the fugitive approaches, leaving violence behind him.

A widower removes his daughter Sydney from school and confines her in the attic, claiming to protect and educate her. When a neighbour's teenage son tries to intervene, the father's control tightens and Sydney begins resisting his increasingly abusive treatment.

Responding to a disturbance at a Las Vegas resort, police officer Franco Ferraro discovers its security systems have been seized. Trapped without backup during coordinated attacks, he must protect guests from killers roaming the hotel's corridors.

Vincent Campbell, the American president's troubled son, recounts his secret life to a forensic psychiatrist. As his accounts of violence, corruption, and concealed travels grow more disturbing, Lorraine Lynch struggles to determine which parts of his story are true.

Hoping to escape cartel violence with her children, Vanessa Ramirez needs money to leave Mexico. She turns to the criminal world to pay smugglers, only to become entangled with the forces she fears in this reimagining of the La Llorona legend.

A deadly addiction spreads through society, placing infants and their families in extreme danger. Sheltering in a police station with other survivors, Brian Turner must find safety for his wife and children as supplies diminish and violent attackers gather outside.

Angelina returns to her remote Nevada hometown hoping to resolve family tensions and help her younger brother leave. When killer clowns attack the community, her difficult homecoming becomes a desperate struggle to protect the people around her.

Horror novelist Nestor Castle announces a move into a different genre and receives threatening messages from a fan calling himself Butterfly. As strange incidents intrude on his secluded family life, suspicion spreads to everyone around him and his sense of safety collapses.

Eighteen-year-old Ella Romero watches her younger siblings at their isolated lake house while their parents are away. A stranger's persistent knocking turns into threats, revealing an obsession with Ella that places the children and her visiting friends in danger.

Yoselyn and Joel leave their young son with a trusted babysitter for a long-awaited evening together. They believe he is safe, but the sitter's hidden intentions turn an ordinary arrangement into a threat to their family.

Lucas brings his daughter to a fast-food restaurant's indoor playground and falls asleep while she plays. Waking to find only her shoes, he enters the tubes to search for her and discovers something far beyond an ordinary disappearance.

Shawn Scott’s comfortable life unravels when an old acquaintance confronts him about his past cruelty. Forced through five escalating challenges under threat of exposure, he faces a revenge scheme built around the bullying he once inflicted.