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A newlywed couple purchase a much desired haunted house with disastrous results, a young woman may lose her job and mind on the way to Alaska, and a group of high school girls attempt immortality in a last resort to save a friend. Connell takes on patriarchy and culture with a singular voice that will make you think, laugh, and shiver long after you finish listening.

The story begins in Paris. Pedro, a struggling artist from Madrid, stands at the Louvre, studying the Mona Lisa, ignoring the crowds of tourists as the painted woman calls to him. As the museum closes, he finally breaks his trance. He realizes that Da Vinci’s masterpiece could be a translation of love; yet there was only desire in Pedro’s heart

Legendary Black Veil Brides' founder and frontman Andy Biersack curated his favorite Edgar Allan Poe tales, presented here in their original language with supplemental materials.

When Alley is chosen for a six week writing residency in an isolated stone house, she’s elated. As a single, working mom, she’s spent most of her adult life caring for others. The residency is a dream come true, and an opportunity to finish her memoir.

Bruce has lost his inspiration, and is struggling to come up with anything for his latest project. A writer, he is deep in the depths of despair.

The pack is balancing on an edge, trying to hold together after the last fight tried to tear them apart. Calli throws herself into trying to learn as much magic as she can, and her mates watch on helplessly as her obsession starts to take over. But old enemies are rising, and a surprising party reaches out, requesting aid. Now, facing everything she's lost, Calli needs to make a decision. Can she rise above the hate, the loss, the heartbreaking reality of what's happened and help those who need it?

Brian Lumley, author of the best-selling Necroscope and Vampire World series of novels, has for many years been a devotee of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. By such nightmare fables as Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft’s legendary Deep Ones have taken their place in terror fiction alongside the vampire and the werewolf. Now they are given the Lumley treatment in—Return of the Deep Ones!

Charles L. Grant's town of Oxrun Station became real to horror fans (much like Lovecraft's Arkham and King's Castle Rock). While most of Grant's stories were contemporary, he did write a trilogy of "historical" novels placed in an earlier Oxrun. The Dark Cry of the Moon is a classic werewolf tale for fans of the old Universal and Hammer horror films. The emphasis is on character and atmosphere, not on gore. It is the second volume in Grant's acclaimed "historical horror" trilogy.

What would you do if you found out your compulsions were not your fault? That something else had been controlling you all along? What would you do if you discovered there was a dark part of you, a part of humanity, that was put there by an entity older than the stars?

For years, Betsy Lupino has lived alone in a rundown apartment. Alone, except for the growing wall of darkness that slowly devours her thoughts and memories. When a mysterious stranger moves into the building, Betsy fears the worst: that all of the darkness inside her head has escaped into the real world.

When Devon MacArthur and his son, Peter, knock on his door, looking for his assistance getting rid of a...problem...Grant finds himself once again navigating the choppy, frigid waters of Lake Superior, toward the towering mountain and the dense forests that haunt his dreams.

Gerard Ploilaux, a 17th-century violin enthusiast, makes a rare find in a unique violin, which produces the most incredible sound he has yet experienced. Seeking to replace the strings, he is driven on a quest that takes him to places few have ventured and he meets people he wished he had not. The excursion leaves him wishing he had not ventured from the familiar sanctuary of his life into terror-striken realms he did not know existed.

Doc has finally gotten Adrian Gionta’s scent, and he won’t stop until he catches his prey. Gionta is far more than a painter of souls though, and he’s had plenty of time to prepare for the oncoming storm that is Doc Holliday. It will take more than a mere mortal to save the thousands of people trapped in Gionta’s paintings. Thankfully, Doc’s no mere mortal, but will even he be enough....

It’s the mid-'90s. Grunge and flannel are fading as the Spice Girls and Hot Topic conquer the malls. Cherry gloss glistens on the lips of the youth. Modems hiss as America comes online. And in a fog-drenched cove at the edge of New England, something terrible awakens when a fisherman reels in a gruesome catch: the remains of a young woman. Remains still pulsing with furious life.

When Alice's husband disappears while investigating a series of strange and terrible incidents in the bustling seaport of Salem, she is forced to bring her young daughter, Abigail, along from Boston while she takes up the search. But she soon learns of a terrible curse that has the entire town bracing for nightfall: One hundred years after the infamous witch trials, the vengeful spirit of a woman hanged for witchcraft will rise from hell to claim the souls of Salem's children.

Some say there are no secrets in a small town, that they just stay dormant, lying in wait for the right messenger. When journalist Cassandra Bell moved to the town of Brookville in upstate New York, she thought she was leaving the madness of the big city behind, but what she found instead was madness of a different kind

The war that everyone had feared has finally broken out. While Sir Thomas and Mr. Bertrand cope with the grim realities of the modern battlefield in Flanders, Adelaide is sent to hunt for spies in the wilds of Yorkshire. The safety of her adopted countrymen, and England's ability to resist the German onslaught are both at stake, and she soon learns that the fight is not limited to Europe alone, but elsewhere, and in the shadows...

A haunted cathedral. A possessed priest. Sarah Pearson and David Ritter confront a terrifying enemy, one with a plan that dates back centuries.

Why is it that everything seems to come in threes? Three reincarnated gods. Three evil villains. Three days until the Storm Moon and the possible end of the world....

You may believe, but do you really really believe? An evil girl conjures up a demon and tests the faith of Christians, with deadly consequences. Jack Freestone's occult novella. Not for the faint of heart.

The first three novels from the acclaimed Haunted series are collected here in one terrifying volume. Sisters Sarah and Chloe inherit a house they could never have previously dreamed of owning. However, the girls soon realize this is a place evil calls home.

Questo breve racconto, pubblicato originariamente in "The History And Reality Of Apparitions" (1727), trasmette la memoria di un fatto inquietante, avvenuto ai tempi della Prima Rivoluzione Inglese (1642-1651). Protagonista della vicenda sarebbe stato il celebre bandito James Hind, artefice di molte rapine nello Huntingdonshire. Nel tentativo di rapinare quello che all’apparenza sembrerebbe un mite allevatore di campagna, Hind si ritrova infatti di fronte ad una figura infernale, che sembrerebbe preannunciargli la sua imminente morte.

Daniel Defoe ha collaborato per anni alla rivista Mist’s Weekly Journal, di cui abbiamo qui il privilegio di leggere alcuni estratti. Da sempre curioso verso l'occulto, l'autore propone, attraverso i suoi articoli, una serie di rocambolesche vicende che hanno per protagonisti degli autentici truffatori, volti a sfruttare l'autosuggestione a proprio vantaggio.

I figli di un nobiluomo si ritrovano loro malgrado a competere per la stessa ragazza. Tom, il maggiore, ne vorrebbe fare la propria amante; Jack, invece, amandola veramente, vorrebbe poterla sposare. Lo scontro rischia di finire in tragedia, quando i due fratelli decidono di ricorrere ad un duello risolutivo. La mattina in cui hanno deciso di incontrarsi per combattere, tuttavia, entrambi vivono un incontro che ha del paranormale, e che li convincerà a tornare a più miti consigli.

Il giovane e ingenuo Thomas Dawson racconta ad un gentiluomo della presunta apparizione del Diavolo a cui avrebbe assistito. In questo brevissimo racconto, col ritmo estremamente incalzante di un dialogo diretto, Daniel Defoe mette in luce - non senza ironia - le contraddizioni alla base di simili resoconti, anticipando di ben due secoli e mezzo la moderna "psicologia dell’insolito".

Nel racconto "Il sacerdote e l’atto smarrito" - incluso in "The History and Reality of Apparitions" (1727) - Daniel Defoe riporta una vicenda narratagli dal Reverendo John Scott (1639-1695), da lui considerato una fonte attendibile. Un medico, contattato dal fantasma di un gentiluomo preoccupato per il nipote, si trova suo malgrado ad assistere quest'ultimo nel ritrovamento di un fondamentale atto di proprietà.

Daniel Defoe, grande appassionato di misteri, ci racconta qui di un evento apparentemente sovrannaturale, che avrebbe avuto per protagonista una coppia inglese. Il marito, patologicamente geloso, perseguita la moglie con offese e percosse, esasperando lei, i famigliari e gli amici che desidererebbero per loro un po' di pace.

"Resoconto dell’apparizione della signora Veal", originariamente pubblicato come pamphlet anonimo nel 1706, è tradizionalmente attribuito a Daniel Defoe, che all'epoca era impegnato nella stesura di vari articoli, spesso a tema spiritista. La storia narrata - secondo alcuni ispirata ad un evento vissuto dallo stesso Defoe - prende le mosse dall'incontro fra due amiche di lunga data, la signora Bargrave e la signora Veal.

Originariamente incluso in "The History And Reality Of Apparitions" (1727), "Il fantasma accusatore" riporta un avvenimento bizzarro, della cui veridicità nemmeno Defoe è sicuro. In occasione di un processo per omicidio, l’imputato - che sembrerebbe sul punto di venire assolto per mancanza di prove - assiste d'improvviso ad un’apparizione inquietante, che lo costringerà a confessare il misfatto.

Daniel Defoe, con grande fiuto giornalistico, propone a chi legge un aneddoto inquietante - rimasto inspiegabile - che tratta con la sapiente originalità di un vero scrittore. Un nobile di campagna, costretto per motivi di salute a trascorrere l'estate ai bagni di Aix-la-Chapelle, affida la propria magione a un maggiordomo e a tre servi. Dopo la partenza del padrone, il maggiordomo inizia a ricevere inquietanti messaggi da un'entità sovrannaturale, che lo avverte dell'imminente arrivo di un folto gruppo di briganti