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タイトルを見た限りでは、どう見ても怪談とは思えない。 心霊、 都市伝説、エニグマ、SFブラックジョーク… 必然のような偶然の話、生きた人間の怖い話… 思わず誰かに話したくなるモダンホラーの全ジャンルを満遍なく網羅したアルバム。 この13話で"現代の怖い話"がわかる！ついでに話のタネになる…！？

『いらっしゃいまし。お珍らしい雨で御座いますナアどうも……こうもダシヌケに降り出されちゃ敵かないません。 いつも御贔屓ひいきになりまして……ま……おかけ下さいまし。一服お付けなすって……ハハア。傘をお持ちにならなかった。ヘヘ、どうぞ御ゆっくり……そのうち明るくなりましょう。』 とある東京の古本屋。夏もあらかた過ぎ、季節はずれの激しい夕立の中、ずぶ濡れになったお客がひとり。古本屋の主人は古本屋稼業の日常などの四方山話を語り始めた。 話はひょんなことから、医専の生徒が持ち込んだ一六二六年に英国で出版された筆写本。曰くつきの"聖書"の話に。世界中にたった一冊しかないと噂に聞いたデュッコ・シュレーカーのBOOK OF DEVIL PRAYER(外道祈祷書)『悪魔の聖書』だった。豪雨の中の鄙びた古本屋。店の中にはずぶ濡れの大学教授と、怪しげな店主の二人きり。物語は思わぬ方向に進み・・・。

アルコール中毒気味の警部、槙村は部下の佐和子らとともに連続猟奇殺人事件を追っている。犯人と目される寺井は、インターネットの出会い系サイトを通じてターゲットとなる女性を誘い出し、その肉体を切り刻みながら性交に及ぶという異常性欲者だった。槇村たちは彼を追い詰めながら取り逃がし、さらに被害者をだすという失態を犯し、マスコミからの非難を浴びていた。一方、再婚したばかりの槇村の若き妻・知佳が脳腫瘍に冒され、余命残りわずかと知らされていた。そんなとき、自分なら知佳を救えるという医師、松岡が槇村にコンタクトを取ってくる。無認可の最先端手術の費用は5000万――連続猟奇殺人と脳移植を軸に繰り広げられる、切なく激しい愛憎劇!朗読は新鋭声優・坂野亜沙美。どこかけだるさを漂わせたムードあふれる朗読が物語を貫く雰囲気をよく表現すると評価され、オーディションでみごと朗読者の座を勝ち取りました。弱冠21歳の坂野はセクシーな描写にも果敢に挑戦、物語を盛り上げています。(C)アイ文庫/ことのは出版 ● ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて

La cosa en el umbral (The Thing on the Doorstep) es una historia corta de terror del escritor estadounidense H. P. Lovecraft, formando parte del universo de los mitos de Cthulhu. Fue escrita en agosto de 1933 y publicada por primera vez en la edición de enero de 1937. El relato nos habla de Edward Derby, un extraño nigromante casado ya mayor con una mujer tan bella como misteriosa, Asenath. El narrador se dedicará a desgranar la personalidad de Edward y a explicarnos los motivos de su boda y su paulatina degradación física y psicológica.

Innsbruck, 1485. Helena Scheuberin should be doing what every other young wife is doing: keeping house, supporting her husband, and bearing his children, but as an outspoken, strong woman, she sometimes has difficulty fitting in. Then she draws the unwanted attention of a malign priest who is just starting his campaign to root out “witches” from among the women of her town, and when her husband’s footman dies, she finds herself accused not only of murder but of witchcraft.

H.P. Lovecraft often warned us that there are things not meant to be understood—truths too ancient, too vast, or too alien for the human mind to hold. In The Unnamable, he takes that warning a step further: some things cannot even be described. This story, first published in 1925, is part philosophical debate, part ghost story, and part quiet apocalypse.

Cantana has recently become the premier destination for conferences, concerts and family vacations. Despite the meteoric rise, the dark foundation of the town has begun to distort the lives of various visitors. Networking, workshops and free booze are on Robert’s itinerary but his neighbors in room 321 have other plans in store for him. He begins to see the malevolent force that rests deep beneath the town. A primordial force that was supposed to have been sealed away long ago.

Leslie Stafford, a rising author, inherits Castle Gray from her estranged grandfather with a condition to stay for two months. The neglected estate, surrounded by an apple orchard, holds secrets about her mother's past. As she uncovers hidden passages and faces eerie occurrences, Leslie, with her fiancé Brent, unravels a twisted family history and confronts a haunting presence.

It is the sixth century. The Romans have been gone for over 100 years, and Britannia is sinking into darkness. Kingdoms clash, and invaders flood the shores – the Jutes, the Angles, and now the bloodthirsty Saxons. Only Uther Pendragon has kept the West safe, defying, too, the rising tide of Christianity. But now, Uther is dead. And if the West falls, all of Britannia will follow. Deep in a secluded valley, hidden from the world, Arthur and Morgan have grown to adulthood under the care of their foster parents.

A long time ago, Kuomat walked into the woods, abandoning his place in the world of men. For years he’s lived as an outlaw, with little to do with ordinary townsfolk. But when Jenna asked him for help in the name of Death’s Lady and of the king of Talasayan, Kuomat chose to involve himself in the affairs of the great. That did not go unnoticed. Now Kuomat has one last chance to step out of the forest and return to the world ... if he can bring himself to take it.

Horror author Nick Steen is having visions... A sinister Black Steeple; eerie lights in the sky that look like a Catherine wheel but are not remotely a Catherine wheel... Plus a giant skeleton with a moustache. Are they omens? Auguries? Portenderings of things to come? (Spoiler - yes, they are.) For Nick Steen's imagination is bursting out of his brain and threatening to burst in turn the entirety of Stalkford. Can Nick stop the aforesaid bursting? Or have things already slightly burst regardless?

Es gibt Mächte, die selbst Götter fürchten – und eine Liebe, die den Tod herausfordert. Mische hat das ultimative Opfer gebracht, um die zu retten, die sie liebt. Damit hat sie die Welt in ewige Nacht gestürzt. Nun ist sie in den Fängen der Götter, während Asar, getrieben von Rache und Verzweiflung, nach ihr sucht. Als eine Göttin ihnen einen letzten Weg zur Erlösung – und zueinander – eröffnet, bleibt ihnen keine Wahl. [BK1] Sie müssen die Macht des Todesgottes an sich reißen, damit Asar das Unmögliche erreichen kann: wahre Göttlichkeit.

Mary Carter had a good life. A decent job. A man who loved her and whom she wanted to marry. But all of that changes when she dies suddenly. She goes to a strange afterlife and learns she was not meant to die. As she's coming to terms with this revelation, she wakes up safe at home. Soon she begins to question her sanity. Hearing voices and seeing people who aren't there. Can she unravel the tangled web that has ensnared her mind and body? Or will her sanity crumble along with reality?

A cosmic horror mystery. It was a cold October day, the sky was overcast and grey. A wind off the sea carried with it a chill that reached the bone and set teeth to chattering. The trees were barren already, their skeletal outlines transposed against the sky. This was Arkham, Massachusetts.

Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Kawdarn in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents’ vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet. Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn’t show. Their relationship strained from a fallout half a decade ago, she didn’t expect them to get back into a sisterly rhythm…though she hadn’t counted on Hazel bailing, either.

Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect. Then Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are “hurting” the house. Even Elodie can’t ignore it–something strange is going on. The question is, is it with the house, or with her son?

After Nancy was cast out of the Halls of the Dead and forced to enroll at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children, she never believed she'd find her door again, and when she did, she didn't look back. She disappeared from the school to resume her place in the Halls, never intending to return. Years have passed. A darkness has descended on the Halls, and the living statues who populate them are dying at the hands of the already dead.

Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible expectations and soul-shredding critiques have dug deep into her mind, and she’s taunted by the knowledge that even when she’s done nothing wrong, she’ll never be right. Now Mavis is afraid she’s about to lose the only thing she has: her husband, Jerrod. The man she’s always known was too good to be true. No one thinks she deserves him—not even after surviving the serial cheater they wanted her to stick by—and soon they’ll all find out they were right.

John Sinclair was prepared for retirement. After nearly twenty years of serving as a officer, he was ready to step, but the zombie apocalypse altered his plans. Now, his family and neighbors are discovering that zombies might the least of their concerns.

Hundred of years after the first waves of the bubonic plague swept through Europe, a new, more dangerous version threatens London. Joe Ledger’s old enemy the Red Empire—reborn as a far more powerful political and military group—has bioengineered a weaponized version of yersinia pestis—the bacteria responsible for The Black Death that killed tens of millions in the Middle Ages.