This book features real-life accounts of haunted dwellings, an Old World vampire who made California his hunting ground, a cellphone number that allegedly carries with it a curse, a demon that has terrorized a remote African island for decades, a waking nightmare that occurred during a power outage, an unidentified species that once inhabited the Appalachian Mountains, a predator who used candy to lure victims into their lair, a suspected lycanthrope that gave an Ohio town a summer it would never forget, a hotel that never forgets or forgives past wrongdoings, a famed writer's uncanny window into the future, and much, much more.