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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Premature Burial” is a chilling Gothic horror tale exploring one of humanity’s deepest fears: being buried alive. Blending psychological terror, obsession, and macabre suspense, Poe examines the fragile boundary between death, fear, and madness in this classic...

“Landor’s Cottage” by Edgar Allan Poe is a richly descriptive literary sketch blending pastoral beauty, Gothic atmosphere, and Poe’s signature fascination with idealized landscapes. This elegant short work invites readers into a secluded cottage setting filled with mystery, imagination...

Une nouvelle fantastique et macabre sur le désir, l’obsession et les morts qui ne meurent jamais tout à fait. Dans l’atmosphère glacée d’un asile, un médecin remet au narrateur le journal d’un homme ravagé par une passion impossible : l’amour d’une chevelure trouvée dans un...

The Domain of Arnheim by Edgar Allan Poe is a richly imaginative tale of beauty, wealth, art, and the human desire to create perfection. Blending philosophical reflection with dreamlike landscape description, Poe explores the vision of a man who uses immense fortune to design an earthly paradise...

In a city drowning in fog, even a monster can be a sanctuary. In the climate-controlled silence of the British Library, manuscript conservator Cordelia Elliston lives a life of careful repairs and quiet order. But the charred diary she finds in a private estate clearance refuses to be fixed. The leather is fever-hot. The ink moves like living shadow. And when the page pulses beneath her fingers, Cordelia is pulled through a crack in the world. She wakes in the sulfurous, batswing-lit London of 1888. It is a city paralyzed by murder, but the killings are merely a symptom.

Wie lebt man mit dem Wissen, der Mörder der eigenen Geliebten zu sein? Vom Spinnenkönig verstümmelt, steht Wolf vor den Trümmern seiner Existenz. Während sich Festus und Famine darauf vorbereiten, Terror und Tod zu verbreiten, liefert sich Wolf, zerfressen von Selbsthass, seinen Feinden aus. Dabei gerät er in die Intrige eines neuen Widersachers. Der spinnt im Hintergrund die Fäden und will den Ghulwald in Chaos und Verderben stürzen.

The storm has passed, but the shadows still hunt her. Arden Rivers is healing. She’s rebuilding a life she can claim as her own, learning to love—and to be loved—without losing herself. But one night shatters that fragile peace. A stranger steps out of the dark, armed with secrets from her past and devotion sharp enough to cut. Roses, letters, and whispered threats remind her: survival was never enough. Each gift is a warning. Each step forward pulls her deeper into a game of obsession and betrayal.

A BRAND-NEW haunting and chilling gothic historical mystery, perfect for fans of C.J. Cooke and Laura Purcell.⛪🪦🧙📚 'Pacy, gripping, beautifully written and utterly unforgettable.' Bestselling author Elena Collins⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Some legends never die – they wait for you to come home...

'[Lemon] is a poet with knives for teeth' —Roshani Chokshi 'Reads like a grimoire for overcoming' —Hannah Whitten 'A gorgeously gothic fairy tale' —Ava Reid I must warn you first: This tale is not a romance. Ever since she was a child, Salomé has been plagued by visions of spirits and...

'A lush and sensory novel . . .This is a story that lingers' - Emma Pei Yin, author of When Sleeping Women Wake 'Feast held me in its thrall from the first page and never let go . . . an immersive, enthralling, extraordinary piece of historical fiction' - Rachel Blackmore, author of Costanza In...

There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use it… Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a...

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Jervas Dudley un hombre recluido en un manicomio nos narra la obsesión que marcó toda su vida; un antiguo mausoleo familiar oculto entre los árboles de un bosque cercano. Lo que comienza como una simple curiosidad se transforma en una atracción cada vez más...

"Ligeia" is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes lines attributed to Joseph Glanvill shortly before dying. After her death, the narrator marries the Lady Rowena. Rowena becomes ill, and she dies as well. The distraught narrator stays with her body overnight and watches as Rowena slowly comes back from the dead – though she has transformed into Ligeia.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country, complaining of an illness and asking for his help.

"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and a work of horror fiction. It was first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, and is set very loosely during the Peninsular War between Spain and Napoleonic France (1808–1814), although it invokes the feared Inquisition of earlier centuries. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.

A single choice can reveal the true nature of a soul. In Markheim, Robert Louis Stevenson delivers a haunting psychological tale of guilt, temptation, morality, and redemption. Set on a dark Christmas Day, the story follows Markheim, a man whose desperate actions lead him into a chilling...

Ich wollte nur meinen kleinen Bruder retten. Stattdessen geriet ich in die Fänge seines gefährlichen, reifen Bosses... Es war der perfekte Plan: meinen unfähigen Bruder vor dem Pub einkassieren, ihn zu unserer Familienhütte in den Dünen zu verschleppen und ihn dort dazu zu zwingen, sein Leben endlich auf die Reihe zu bekommenDoch da hinten in meinem Wagen verbirgt sich keineswegs mein Bruder, sondern der massive, tätowierte irische Mafiaboss mit der dunklen Aura — der Boss meines Bruders. Und der ist zornig. Ups... Innerhalb von Sekunden hat er den Spieß umgedreht — nun bin ich die Gefangene..

Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellishment.

One forbidden love. One ancient secret. And a vampire lord with everything to lose. In the shrouded realm of Draconia, power is seductive—and deadly. Vampire Lord Jack Townson rules the infamous Manor of Mystery, cloaked in charm, shadow, and secrets. But when he uncovers a conspiracy...

This thrilling installment of the Dark Gods finds each of the heirs desperately attempting to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives. But gods don't stay defeated for long, and soon an old enemy threatens the very existence of their realm. In the aftermath of the chaos and tragedy of...