World's Scariest Legends Books in Order

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.

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 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.

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.