SPINE TINGLERS is a collection of novellas released rapidly throughout the year. VanHoose has been adapting hundreds of short stories he wrote during his High School years into these creepy tales of terror that are guaranteed to send chills up your spine.
DEAD BOY [Publication Date: June 13, 2025]
In a town haunted by its own past, a man wrestles with an addiction that gnaws at him from the inside—a need that promises oblivion, but delivers only more ghosts. His nights are restless, his days a shaky descent into the bottom of a bottle. But when a ghostly child on a bike begins to appear—a silent, persistent silhouette from a world that should be closed—the two become inextricably bound.
As the ghost child crosses his path again and again, the man finds himself stranded between the struggles of the present and the horrors of the past. His addiction has opened a door—and whatever rides through it will not be easily turned back. To confront it, he must face not only his own doubts and desires, but a spirit that shouldn’t be there at all.
THE BOY WHO FED THE SPIDER [Publication Date: May 20, 2026]
Caleb Horst has already learned that the world is not kind. His father’s fists have taught him that. So has his mother’s silence. The only things that have ever listened—really listened—are a creaking windmill in a cornfield behind his home, and the massive spider living in the walls of his house.
Eight Legs is his friend. His protector. His secret. But secrets have a way of growing in the dark, and so does Eight Legs. It needs to be fed. It always needs to be fed. And the more it grows, the harder it becomes to remember which one of them is really in control.
Some friendships are built on love. Some are built on fear. And some—the worst kind—are built on blood.