One town. One night. Four people gone. Nora’s best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to piece together the truth, she uncovers dark events in her high school’s history and a string of coded messages Becca has left for her. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years previously and a sinister urban a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games . . . As Nora struggles to unravel the mystery, it’s clear there are dark forces at work in her town – and they’re willing to stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep.
Meet Marigold, a teen from sunny California. After her mom accepts a fancy new job in the Midwest - the middle of nowhere - Marigold’s newly blended family finds themselves in a city that’s not the most welcoming. Their new neighbors are pretty standoff-ish because of the fact the house this family just moved into is completely refurbished, and totally free, all thanks to the Sterling Foundation. It’s not just the neighbors that creep Marigold out though. This picture-perfect house comes complete with all the things that go bump in the night. Every single night, Marigold hears creeks and bumps, there is this smell of decay that only she can smell for some reason, shadow figures stalk the halls, doors slam shut all on their own, and objects break, go missing, and move every single day. Worst of all, Marigold’s little stepsister, Piper, has a new imaginary friend who really doesn’t like Marigold and wants her gone at any cost.
An 80-year-old mansion harboring dark secrets comes to menacing life in this classic spine-tingling tale from Shirley Jackson. Anthropologist and ghost hunter Dr. John Montague invites three strangers to stay in haunted Hill House for the summer. One of the guests is 32-year-old Eleanor, for whom three months in a haunted house is preferable to caring for her invalid mother. Soon, Eleanor begins to see and hear things that the other guests cannot. Is it all in her imagination, or is she the only one who can perceive the evil that lurks in Hill House?
Liv Fleming's father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Liv has long accepted that he's dead, though that doesn't mean she has given up their traditions. Every Sunday, she and her lifelong friend Doug Monk trudge through the woods to check the traps Lee left behind, traps he set to catch the aliens he so desperately believed were after him. But Liv is done with childhood fantasies. Done pretending she believes her father's absurd theories. Done going through the motions for Doug's sake. However, on the very day she chooses to destroy the traps, she discovers in one of them a creature so inhuman it can only be one thing. In that moment, she's faced with a painful realization: her dad was telling the truth. And no one believed him.Now, she and Doug have a choice to make. They can turn the alien over to the authorities...or they can take matters into their own hands.
For Adele, the dead aren't really dead. She can see them and even talk to them. But she's spent years denying her gift. When she encounters her ex best friend Tori in a shallow grave in the woods and realizes that Tori is actually dead -- that gift turns into a curse. Without an alibi, Adele becomes the prime suspect in Tori's murder. She must work with Tori's ghost to find the real killer. But what if the killer finds Adele first?