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Lennox Davis ist ein top Agent beim F.B.I. Als er während eines Auftrages einen Befehl ignoriert, wird er zur Strafe nach Boston geschickt. Er soll den Babysitter für die Kronzeugin eines Mafiaprozesses spielen. Groß ist die Überraschung als er sieht, wen er beschützen soll.

Quando as águas do rio Blackwater inundam a cidadezinha de Perdido, no Alabama, a poderosa família Caskey luta para salvar sua fortuna em meio ao caos, liderada pela matriarca Mary-Love e seu filho Oscar. Eles só não contavam com a aparição de Elinor Dammert, uma mulher misteriosa que aos poucos se infiltra no seio dos Caskeys. Por trás de sua fachada encantadora, esconde-se algo perturbador, que mudará o destino deles para sempre…

У этого прекрасного воздушного змея — хвост подводной рептилии, глаза древнего ящера и когти гигантского монстра из потустороннего мира. Он парит через века, пролетая в небесах разных городов и стран... Над Хиросимой, подвергшейся ядерной бомбардировке. Над предреволюционной Россией, где обезумевший цирковой слон готов устроить кровавую бойню. Над греческим островом, где устраивают вакханалию стародавние боги. Над полями сражений Второй мировой, куда прорывается ужас из миров Говарда Филлипса Лавкрафта.

Six years ago, my life was shattered to pieces. Now, it's happening all over again. I thought that information was true power. But as awful secrets come to light, it's clear it's also pain. He's pulled me back in. He's started something that can't be undone. Now, they're coming for us. History is repeating. They want us to crawl. But we're different now. This time, monsters will weep, and false kings will fall.

When Sarah’s summoned by her godmother to remote Norfolk, she doesn’t want to go. Crossing the bridges where the two rivers meet, said to be haunted by the ghost of a little boy, a large Tudor house looms in front of her. And Sarah’s instantly reminded her of the summer when she last visited. The summer she would like to forget. Which left her unable to ever move forward… Can a person ever recover from the loss of a sibling?

It's 2004 and former reality TV star and party girl Maya Miller has just married the most eligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the globally famous Sterling family whose history of aristocratic titles and land holdings rival a British royal and whose media empire is comparable to the Murdochs. To some, Maya represents the American dream. To others, a gold digger. But when Colin's cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family's immense fortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight.

It started the night journalist Briar Thorne’s mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago’s South Side. The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark…Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone.

Set against the backdrop of a sultry Alabama summer in 1987, Rebel Rising tells a haunting tale of a young boy's courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy. Twelve-year-old Rebel's world shatters when he finds his brother dead, leaving behind a silence heavy with secrets. But the silence speaks, and from it emerges a voice urging Rebel to rise against the tides of danger encroaching upon his family.

In 1923, an American named Delapore, the last descendant of the De la Poer family, moves to his ancestral estate in England following the death of his only son during World War I. To the dismay of nearby residents, he restores the estate, called Exham Priory. After moving in, Delapore and his cat frequently hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls.

Some say I was driven to madness. Others say I'm a stone-cold killer. The truth is . . . I'm just ridding this world of its most depraved souls, one surgery at a time. Banished from Wonderland as a child, I have searched for years to find a way back to the twisted realm that took everything from me. But for years, I failed. Until now. And if there's one thing I crave more than poetic justice, it's revenge on the Queen who banished me. When the looking glass reappears, I'm thrust back into Wonderland, right into the hands of the Black Spade brothers.

In this chilling supernatural thriller, Carla, a curious and brave teenager, moves into a dilapidated Victorian house on the outskirts of a quiet town. The house, overgrown with ivy and cloaked in mystery, soon reveals its dark secrets. At first, Carla is simply trying to make new friends and fit in, but when she invites a group of classmates over to explore her eerie new home, they find themselves trapped in a waking nightmare. The house is alive with more than creaking floors and whispering winds.

Robert E. Howard’s "Pigeons from Hell" is a chilling Southern Gothic horror tale blending supernatural terror with a grim, oppressive atmosphere. It follows two travellers, John Branner and Griswell, who become stranded in the deep South and take refuge in an abandoned plantation house, the decaying remnants of the Blassenville family estate. The house is eerily silent, save for the presence of strange pigeons roosting in the rafters.

The Outsider is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light. The Outsider is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales.

Ich sehe die Narben, die Blue verbirgt. Die Geheimnisse, die sie bewahrt. Ich will alle ihre Bruchstücke aufsammeln. Ihre Feinde kommen schneller näher, als sie fliehen kann. Als sie mir entrissen wird, jage ich ihren Entführer und lasse meiner Wut freien Lauf. Ich vergieße Blut für sie. Ich würde es wieder tun. Doch das Spiel wird tödlich, als einige der mächtigsten Männer der Society angreifen.

Read by the author, The Long Black Dress is a short tale of gothic horror told by a young woman returning to an empty home after her husband's funeral. In the oppressive and sentient silence of the hollow house, she descends into grief-fueled memories of their relationship and its tragic end, culminating in a haunting ending.

Jane Eyre originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name Currer Bell on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman that follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.

Das Hörbuch jetzt als INSZENIERTE LESUNG mit Geräuschen und Musik. Wenn das Licht des Tages stirbt und sich das Totenhemd der Nacht auf Pflastersteine und Asphaltstraßen herabsenkt, geht ein Raunen durch alte Ziegelmauern. Es ist die Zeit des Zwielichts, in welcher die Gebäude im Mondlicht zu träumen beginnen... Die schiefen Palazzi von Venedig flüstern einander längst vergessene Geheimnisse zu. In den verfallenen Häuserblocks von Berlin ertönt ein Wispern. Beide Städte erzählen dem Leser unheimliche Geschichten.

When sisters Lily and Della Pedley are persecuted for the shocking murder of their parents, they flee from their home in Cornwall to a remote and unnamed island in Scotland - an island known for its strange happenings, but far away from the whispers and prying eyes of strangers. Lily is terrified of what her sister might do next, and she soon realises that they have arrived at a place where nothing is as it seems.

Marguerite has been locked in the attic of her family home, a disintegrating Chelsea house overlooking the stench of the Thames. For company she has: a sewing machine, a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management and trays of congealing food carried up to her with little regularity. Marguerite has been confined by her mother, Cécile, who is concerned about her engagement to an older, near-penniless solicitor, Mr Lewis, and wishes to educate her daughter on ‘proper’ married conduct – lest she drag the family’s good name into disrepute.

Ruby Vaughn's octogenarian employer and housemate Mr Owen said the trip to Manhurst Castle in the Scottish Borders was to appraise some purchases for the bookshop. However, the truth as well as secrets he has been carefully hiding soon unravels. For Mr Owen, who lost a son in the Great War, a trio of mediums billing themselves as The Three Fates are the answer to his desperate wish to speak to him again. But the night of the séance brings with it a murder and Ruby and Mr Owen must uncover the truth about the killing in order to clear their names.