Ben Farthing

Could you confront an ancient, buried evil, if it meant saving your little sister? Cessy’s little sister Kate is missing, and it’s Cessy’s fault. She follows Kate's trail back to their hometown: Hamlin, West Virginia. She finds Mom and Dad—and the whole town—enthralled with a phantom talk radio host. His staticky rants vow to “Make Hamlin Great Again.” All he asks is to be allowed to exterminate the town’s vermin. Cessy’s investigation links Kate to the broadcast. If she can find the source, she’ll find her sister. But when the radio show started broadcasting, the “deplorable” citizens started to disappear. Now it’s practically a ghost town. Impossible spaces are opening up, swallowing houses. Invisible parasites swarm in shadows. Something ancient and infinite has tasted Hamlin’s hate, and it’s eager to feed. The Piper’s Graveyard is supernatural terror wrapped in a mystery plot, dragging you along with a freight-train pace. All with a hero who won’t give up on her family, whether they need rescuing from an eldritch evil, or from their own angry obsessions.

In the darkest corners of Washington D.C. lies the Periphery—the entrance into the infinite dimensions that touch our own. Everard stays far away from the Periphery—after all, nobody who enters comes back untouched. Some return with strange abilities. Others deformed. Most don’t come back at all. But then Everard is almost killed by a woman whose skin is covered in a swarm of holes. Someone in the Periphery has put a bounty on his head. As it turns out, Everard isn’t just human—he’s a Rebellist. He can alter reality with a single word, an ability that makes him the most dangerous supernatural in the Periphery. Soon, Everard is thrown into an underground world of magic and danger, where legendary monsters are real, historical cults tout protection, and lethal nightmares lurk around every corner. With an undead strongman trying to recruit him, a magic-wielding lynch mob out for his head, and an ancient soul-eating evil only he can stop, Everard’s only shot at survival lies in embracing his true nature—even if the price he risks paying is a fate worse than death. For fans of the urban fantasy thrills of The Dresden Files and Sandman Slim, crossed with the weird worldbuilding of Clive Barker and Jeff VanderMeer. BOOM is “non-stop action” with Lovecraftian horrors, unwilling heroes, and a villain who Apex Magazine Managing Editor Lesley Conner called “the stuff of my freaking nightmares.”

Can you tell me how to get... out alive?★★★★★ - "I can't remember the last time a book scared me and made me this nervous." Andrew Van Wey, author of Head Like a HoleJohnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed.He recognizes the furry Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio.Desperate to see Grandpa again, Johnny follows the puppet inside the building’s walls, ever deeper into a puppet-infested labyrinth...I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls is a horror tale from the “darkly inventive” purveyor of uncanny places and wondrous evils, Ben Farthing.Each book in the I Found Horror series is a STANDALONE. They can be read in any order.Praise for Ben “Reminds me of early Stephen King.” ★★★★★“Excuse me while I go cry from fear” ★★★★★“When Mr. Farthing comes out with a book, I drop everything else I'm doing to read it” ★★★★★“No one is writing the kind of horror this man is writing” ★★★★★“This has become a yearly Halloween must-read” ★★★★★“Now one of my favorite horror books” ★★★★★“One of the creepiest books I’ve ever read” ★★★★★“Ben Farthing is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors” ★★★★★“Stunningly good” ★★★★★“A master of building suspense” ★★★★★“I can't wait to read everything by Ben Farthing!!” ★★★★★“Reminiscent of '80s-era Stephen King” ★★★★★“One of my favorites” ★★★★★“I haven't been let down by Ben yet. He's a really great storyteller" ★★★★★“Good luck putting it down" ★★★★★“The perfect book to kick off spooky season” ★★★★★“The scariest book I’ve read all year" ★★★★★“Farthing's ability to creep the heck out of you in so few pages is incredible” ★★★★★“One of the best books I read in 2023” ★★★★★“Restores my faith in horror novels” ★★★★★“The master of terror and dread” ★★★★★“I LOVEEEE Ben Farthing. His books are *chefs kiss*” ★★★★★“I couldn't stop reading until I got to the end. This was a mix of The Twilight Zone meets Tales From The Crypt” ★★★★★“I can't wait for the next boo

How do you protect your family from an urban legend?Rachel hears a stranger laugh in her baby brother’s nursery.She races in to see a dark figure slip beneath the crib, disappearing into an eerie reflection of her brother’s room.Mom and Dad don’t believe her. They accuse Rachel of making excuses for breaking their strict rules about healthy sleep.But Rachel knows what she saw.The Boogeyman wants her baby brother.The Boogeyman wants to drag him away into his eerie realm beneath the crib.Rachel’s not going to let that happen.I Found the Boogeyman Under My Brother’s Crib is a tale of urban legends, liminal spaces, and things that go bump in the night, from Ben Farthing, the “King of Creepy” (MJ Mars, author of The Suffering).

Something festive is growing in the sewer...After last year’s tragedy, Douglas’ parents are ignoring Christmas.But when Douglas finds an eerie strand of lights slithering through the sewer, he unwittingly unleashes merry terror upon his neighborhood’s tacky lights contest. String lights spread like invasive kudzu, turning festive decorations into surreal, predatory nightmares.Determined not to lose both Christmas and his family forever, Douglas gathers his courage to confront the source of the holiday deep in the concrete pipes beneath the street.I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street is a horror tale from the “darkly inventive” purveyor of uncanny places and wondrous evils, Ben Farthing.The I Found Horror books are STANDALONES and can be read in any order.Praise for Ben “Reminds me of early Stephen King.” ★★★★★“Excuse me while I go cry from fear” ★★★★★“When Mr. Farthing comes out with a book, I drop everything else I'm doing to read it” ★★★★★“No one is writing the kind of horror this man is writing” ★★★★★“This has become a yearly Halloween must-read” ★★★★★“Now one of my favorite horror books” ★★★★★“One of the creepiest books I’ve ever read” ★★★★★“Ben Farthing is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors” ★★★★★“Stunningly good” ★★★★★“A master of building suspense” ★★★★★“I can't wait to read everything by Ben Farthing!!” ★★★★★“Reminiscent of '80s-era Stephen King” ★★★★★“One of my favorites” ★★★★★“I haven't been let down by Ben yet. He's a really great storyteller" ★★★★★“Good luck putting it down" ★★★★★“The perfect book to kick off spooky season” ★★★★★“The scariest book I’ve read all year" ★★★★★“Farthing's ability to creep the heck out of you in so few pages is incredible” ★★★★★“One of the best books I read in 2023” ★★★★★“Restores my faith in horror novels” ★★★★★“The master of terror and dread” ★★★★★“I LOVEEEE Ben Farthing. His books are *chefs kiss*” ★★★★★“I couldn't stop reading until I got to the end. This was a mix of The Twilight Zone meets Tales From The Crypt” ★★★★★“I can't wait for the next book" ★★★★★“I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to read this book, and I implore you to read it as well” &

In a forgotten mall, reality is starting to rot.★★★★★ - "It's like the Backrooms inside a shopping mall."Somewhere among the shuttered stores...Lisa hears a call for help.She finds her senile old coworker, Saswin, lost in an abandoned hallway. He's talking to a circle of mannequins, their limbs twisted and fused in unnatural ways.When Lisa looks away, she swears the mannequins have moved...And that this abandoned hallway has grown longer.After Saswin disappears down the impossible hallway, Lisa goes to find him, but she’s unprepared for the horrors that await her in the mall's forgotten depths.I Found a Lost Hallway in a Dying Mall has been compared to creepypastas like NoSleep stories or SCP entries. It's a chilling tale of identity, liminal spaces, and the horror of leaving the past behind, from Ben Farthing, "The King of Creepy" (MJ Mars, author of The Suffering).Each book in the I Found Horror series is a STANDALONE. They can be read in any order.

The tower appeared overnight, but it wants to keep you forever. Thursday night, it was a dirt lot. Friday morning, it was a 60-story skyscraper. A tech billionaire wants the building’s secrets for herself. She hires a team to reverse-engineer the overnight construction. But she knows more than she’s letting on. A curious 9-year-old decides there’s treasure inside, and goes exploring. His terrified dad chases close behind. Inside, the facade of an empty office building is quickly shattered. Ghostly figures stalk the explorers. The walls themselves are hungry. And something is waiting on the top floor.

Lost in a labyrinth of circus tents... Dave and his four-year-old, Jacob, find a circus tent in the woods behind their house. A strange voice invites them through the dark doorway. When they refuse, the tent swallows them. What follows is a nightmare fleeing through a maze of circus tents. Strange performers lurk inside. They want Dave and his little boy to put on a show. The a shifting figure on a platform high above the trapeze wires. With Jacob perched in the crook of his arm, Dave determines to outsmart the boss of this dark circus, and escape this horrifying tent.