More nightmares brought to you by the authors of Prom Dates to Die For... Beware the "Midnight Troll" on your late-night stroll by Mari Hestekin .Swim at your own risk "Under Loch and Cay" by Jenny Peterson. A curse of spiders on campus means "Arach War" by Lena Brown. "Through a Glass Darkly" one could lose a soul by Heather Dearly. Supernatural Hunters turn to the sea in "Mermania" by Kelly Parra. Social media goes to the ghouls in "Spectral Media" by Aaron Smith. These bite-size stories make for a reading trick or treat for tweens, teens and adults.

Five young adult authors cordially invite readers to five proms with a paranormal twist:

In Kelly Parra’s “Darkness Becomes Him,” teen supernatural hunters are hired to save a prom date hungry for souls. Heather Dearly introduces us to a young reaper haunted by a past she doesn’t remember in “The Bone Flower.” A prom queen seeks justice and revenge in Lena Brown’s, “Every Breath You Take.” Aaron Smith gives us a loner musician called to save his classmates from an enemy only he can see in “A Kiss at the Threshold.” Jenny Peterson’s heroine gets much more than she wished for on her prom night and 18th birthday in “Tonight, You’re Mine.”

Celebrate Halloween with this invitation-only collection of Halloween short stories by bestselling, award-winning authors and emerging new talent. Deadly Treats features witches, zombies, vampires, food critics, crazy writers, dumb criminals, interfering ghosts, ex-cops, suburban housewives, swamp monsters, and aliens.