Local Haunts: a HorrorTube Anthology

"In tonal registers ranging from dark humor to macabre gore-fest, these nineteen horror stories serve as a gripping reminder that the scariest place imaginable is often right in our own backyard. A terrific anthology."

Steve Donoghue, book reviewer and BookTuber

What’s HorrorTube? A creepy, new carnival ride combining a water slide park with a haunted funhouse? Not quite, although that sounds like a blast.

A subset of BookTube, HorrorTube is an online community of horror enthusiasts who regularly post YouTube videos about horror-related topics, including books, films, and fiction writing.

Some of the writers included in this anthology cover horror exclusively. You’ll find them posting creepy photos on Instagram or waxing poetic about the seventies drive-in flick that kept them up all night. Some read widely, only delving into the horror genre occasionally. All are passionate about books and writing.

Joined together by this vibrant, online community of readers and writers, these nineteen authors bring you scary stories from all parts of the globe, proving that fear is universal.

Local Haunts has taken the horror BookTube community’s global influence and shrunk it down into one village of horror and mayhem you’ll not soon forget. Inside these pages are frightening stories from around the globe, telling tales of haunts, monsters, and other terrible things local to each author’s place of residence. Within these pages you’ll find terrifying tales from North America, my own included, joined by terrible happenings in the Australian bushlands, ghosts haunting an old Greek mansion, an abandoned Vietnamese hospital, and a creepy museum, among many other eldritch encounters. From the foreword by Jason White

A Stone’s Throw by Dane Cobain

The Gentleman by Ryan Stroud

The Salt Hag by CJ Wright

Crowthorne by Andrew Lyall

Mount Gilead by R. Saint Claire

Screen Eight by Michael Taylor

Drive Like Hell by Ken Poirier

The Mount of Death by Kevin David Anderson

The Drifter by James Flynn

The Blocked Cellar by Mihalis Georgostathis

The Night Watchman by Marie McWilliams

Alone Among the Gum Trees by Cam Wolfe

Highway to Hell by Nicholas Gray

The Room Within by D.L. Tillery

Fading Applause in Quintland by Lydia Peever

A Full Moon Over Black Star Canyon by Matt Wall

Long Buried by E.D. Lewis

Darkness Descends by Jason White

At the End of the Rope by Cameron Chaney

Cover art by Cameron Roubique