The Night Apparition (Book Series)

The Night Apparition (Book Series) is a Filipino horror short story collection written by John B T. Matias. It is loosely based on true events surrounding the Filipinos that experience paranormal or supernatural occurrences.

The author changed the name of the characters, places, time and date, and age to conceal the real identity and life of the characters. The language used by the author is English.

Background

Garden of Horror (2012)

Garden of Horror is the first horror short story loosely based on true events. This is the motivation of the author's creation of The Night Apparition (book series), even the settings between this short story and the short story collection are different.

Series

The Night Apparition (2014)

The first horror short story collection published in Wattpad at 31 October 2014. In this book, the number of anecdotes or short stories is 10.The author released it as a 2014 Halloween Special.

Anecdote#

Title

1

Camp Haunt

2

The Black Veil Woman

3

Doubt Before, Now Believe

4

The Haunted Call

5

Feel and Smell

6

Barking at Nobody

7

Elevator Horror

8

A Twisted Man

9

Red-Eye Dog

10

Footsteps

The Night Apparition 2 (2015)

The next horror short story collection published in Wattpad at 31 October 2015. Like The Night Apparition, the number of anecdotes are 10 and released it as a 2015 Halloween Special. Among the 10 anecdotes or accounts, A Miracle from Heaven is the best and notable short story in The Night Apparition 2.

Anecdote#

Title

1

Creepy Factory

2

My Illusion Dad

3

Identity Crisis

4

Shadow Sighting

5

A Ghostly Presence

6

A Miracle from Heaven

7

Cry for Help

8

Scary Snapshot

9

Illusion Playmate

10

Ghastly Gardener

The Night Apparition 3 (2016)

The third horror short story collection published in Wattpad at 16 September 2016. Unlike The Night Apparition and The Night Apparition 2, the number of anecdotes in The Night Apparition 3 are 7 and released it as an early 2016 Halloween Special for the next month. The demons, Valac and Agares, are used as fictitious characters or spirits in one of the anecdotes.

The Night Apparition 4 (2017)

The fourth horror short story collection published in Wattpad at 28 January 2017. The Night Apparition 4 is the first published work of John B T. Matias in the year 2017.One of the anecdotes shows the actual photo of an object that is considered haunted.

The Night Apparition 5 (2017)

The fifth horror short story collection published in Wattpad at 31 October 2017. It released as a 2017 Halloween Special together with another horror short story entitled The Bloody Driver, which is loosely based on true events.