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Wieland (1798) is an early American novel set in 1760s Pennsylvania. Based on a real case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the story is imbued with suspense and intrigue, adopting Gothic devices such as ventriloquism and spontaneous combustion. The satanic interloper Carwin exercises his power over the narrator, Clara Wieland, wreaking havoc over the Wieland family with disastrous consequences. A central theme in the novel is the issue of the values that formed the basis of a new democratic and republican America.

John William Polidori was an English physician and an associate of Byron and Shelley. On a tour with the two poets and Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Polidori participated in a competition to write a short ghost story. Polidori's contribution was The Vampyre, which is considered to be the first modern work of vampire fiction. The central figures in the plot are the mysterious and sinister Lord Ruthven, and a naïve and wealthy young man named Aubrey. Polidori's tale proved very influential.

For the first time, the untold story of the three women closest to Victor Frankenstein is revealed in a dark and sweeping reimagining of Frankenstein by the acclaimed author of The Lost History of Dreams and Doomed Queens. Unnatural Creatures shocks new life into Mary Shelley's beloved gothic classic by revealing the feminine side of the tale.

In 1886, a respectable young woman must acquire a husband. But Violet Pring does not want to marry. She longs to be a professional artist and live on her own terms. When her scheming mother secures a desirable marriage proposal from an eligible Brighton gentleman for her, Violet protests. Her family believes she is deranged and deluded, so she is locked away in Hillwood Grange Lunatic Asylum against her will. In her new cage, Violet faces an even greater challenge: she must escape the clutches of a sinister and formidable doctor and set herself free.

Anatu is an ambitious warrior deprived of history and a race without a name. With her poleaxe in hand amongst terrifying creatures and in a place of distrust and tension, Anatu is conflicted about her romantic feelings. Leon, her current partner, remains a strong presence in Anatu's life, but she feels herself beginning to stray. She feels herself longing for another woman. Can she create a romantic life with a human? What will the others think? What will Niko think? Anatu swallows her pride and continues her journey in fear of her own sexuality, but a plot twist is nearing.

Es una novela de cinco capítulos, escrita por H. P. Lovecraft en 1931 y publicada en abril de 1936 de forma íntegra como novela. Narra el descubrimiento de los seres híbridos mitad humanos mitad peces que lo habitan. Se ubica en el ficticio y decadente pueblo de Innsmouth, en Massachusetts.

Questo racconto dell'orrore si trasforma nelle mani di Henry James in un lungo percorso psicologico di fronte all'orrore. L'ambientazione nel classico maniero inglese ne fa formalmente un racconto gotico di fantasmi. Cornice musicale: Barcarola di Saint Saens in Fa maggiore.

For 300 years, Sister Autumn has incited wars, burnt villages, killed kings, and released plagues at the bidding of the grimoire. When an order from the grimoire sends Agatha to the Kingdom of Merveille, she already anticipates the worst. Unless she wants to face the wrath of the Goddess, Agatha must keep her head down and do as she's commanded. But when the grimoire orders her to marry a pompous prince and play the role of a peasant "accepted" by vicious aristocrats, she finds herself at the center of a war between the classes and an age-old prophecy.

1647: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood...unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight. Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will...and of something else.

"Die Gruft" ist eine fiktive Kurzgeschichte des amerikanischen Schriftstellers H. P. Lovecraft, die im Juni 1917 geschrieben und erstmals in der Märzausgabe 1922 von "The Vagrant" veröffentlicht wurde. Es erzählt die Geschichte von Jervas Dudley, der von einem Mausoleum in der Nähe seines Elternhauses besessen ist.

When Iseabail is employed by a wealthy merchant to be his daughter's companion, her life changes forever. Transported from her remote island home to the Scottish borderlands, Iseabail is unnerved both by her precocious young charge and the house's secrets: a hidden chapel, servants who speak in a foreign tongue, a mute stableboy. And then the merchant returns with a mysterious cargo. Why has Iseabail really been summoned here? Will Iseabail ever make it back home to her beloved island?

Celeste is ancient, beautiful, and deadly. Aided by her servant, Clive, she has lived for over 200 years, drawing her life force from the adoration of others—first in her native country of America and, when forced to flee her home there, in London. Now she has a new target for her affections in Sam. And when she invades his dreams and his life in order to seduce him and feed on his desires, she doesn’t reckon on the power of his love for his wife, Marianne, or the terrible price her obsession with him will exact.

Victor Frankenstein, a young college student, has left home for the first time, his mind full of adventure, aspirations, and hopeful wonder. A lover of science, he is eager to start making discoveries worthy of the history books. His newfound knowledge of Galvanism gives him just the spark of inspiration he needs for a project that he deems remarkable and that will change the course of human history and our understanding of death. To feel close to his mother—who is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler—and escape persecution in England, Victor travels to Romania to complete his work.

La terrible tormenta que se avecinaba no había impedido al capitán de caballería Moritz, ni al joven jurista Dagobert asistir a la agradable reunión que la coronela y su bella hija, Angelika, celebraban todos los jueves en su casa. Sin embargo, en esta ocasión, el pequeño círculo de amigos se vio sorprendido por la inesperada llegada de un desconocido que dijo ser un antiguo amigo del marido de la coronela. La repentina aparición de este misterioso hombre y su extraño talante, provocaron entre los tertulianos una sensación que no tardaría en confirmarse.

Genial selección del escritor estadounidense H. P. Lovecraft, considerado como el innovador del cuento de terror. Excelente ambientación y efectos sonoros que lo sumergirán en relatos que lo estremecerán por completo. Incluye: Las Ratas en las paredes, La Nave Blanca, La Decisión de Randolph Carter y El Clérigo Malvado.

"Jeg har fortalt, at jeg levede adskilt fra den synlige verden, men jeg har ikke sagt, at jeg levede alene. Intet menneske kan leve i total ensomhed. I mangel af fællesskab med de levende, vil han uundgåeligt søge fællesskab med eksistenser, der ikke hører til den fysiske verden, eller hvis livscyklus for længst er tilendebragt." Denne novelle er forfattet i juni 1917 af H. P. Lovecraft og udgivet første gang i 1922 i marts-nummeret af The Vagrant.

It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd.

Still grieving his toddler’s death, Detective Dan Brennan of the Philadelphia P.D. returns to the force and is assigned to investigate a socialite’s fatal fall down her mansion’s staircase. But the open-and-shut case is turned on its head when the victim’s daughter alleges her mother was murdered. Her evidence? The dead. The vintage photographs of past murder victims displayed on the mansion’s walls have told her so. Compelled to listen to the reclusive teen’s pleas, Brennan begins to investigate her mother’s death and the disturbing secrets hidden in that house.

When her life as a New York City attorney becomes an unbearable moral burden, Lois Golden packs up her teenage daughter Janet and heads to rural Vermont to fulfill her childhood dream of owning a small town inn. However, this inn holds a wealth of dark secrets, full of deceit, death, and horrifying experiments that have left an undeniable mark of evil. When a vengeful spirit emerges, forcing all within the inn to experience their greatest fears, will Lois be able to fight back and salvage her dream from the nightmare it has become?

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness.