Dark and Darker Still — J.A. White

Middle grade master of horror J. A. White and acclaimed dark fantasy artist Yang Jialun join forces to deliver a boldly original illustrated collection that dares its audience to turn the page with each increasingly terrifying tale -- a Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for a new generation of readers.

You stand before a tunnel, deep in the woods. The beam of your flashlight barely penetrates the darkness beyond the opening. You cannot know what secrets -- or dangers -- lie within, but you are curious, and so, gripping your flashlight, you enter. At first you can still see the last rays of sunlight behind you, but soon the pathway begins to split and twist. There is scratching movement in the shadows around you, whispering voices in a language you cannot understand. You want to leave but can no longer remember which path leads back.

And that's when your flashlight goes out.

Like this tunnel, the terrifying stories in the collection you hold grow darker with each step. Around each twist and turn, fork and bend, you'll encounter lost ghosts, insatiable aliens, hungry night visitors, possessed children, evil creatures in search of human hosts, and horrors of which we can only guess -- for the only ones who know them are the ones who have never found their way back out.