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呪霊の誘いから、逃げられない。戻れない。怪異ハンター・はやせ、絶体絶命——累計3万部突破の怪異ハンター・はやせシリーズ最新刊。

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Not all nightmares come from sleep. Some come from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeneva Rose. Three horror stories. A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop. You’ll recognize the setup. You won’t recognize what comes next...

When Liverpool schoolteacher Joanne Carter finds a cryptic message scrawled on her whiteboard, three simple words.Rock.Paper.Scissors.She assumes it is a harmless prank.Until it follows her home.Until it calls her name.Until it plays back.What begins as a curious mystery becomes a terrifying...

An isolated town.A forgotten experiment.A never-ending night.Harrowby was the kind of place people passed through without stopping. A smear of neon and peeling paint between the highway and the woods. But when the sickness came, there was nowhere to run.Sheriff Clara Donovan has seen death...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. August 1917. A German U-boat commander sinks a British freighter in the Atlantic and takes from a dead sailor’s pocket a small carved ivory head of extraordinary antiquity. From that moment the voyage begins to go wrong. The crew hear things against...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An English honeymoon couple travelling through Nuremberg fall in with a loud, swaggering American from Nebraska, a man full of frontier stories and cheerful cruelty. On the ramparts of the old city, he drops a small stone over the wall, meaning only to...

Following in the footsteps of his Shirley Jackson Award–winning collection, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, the fourteen stories in Sorrow Bends the Wing are uncanny, satisfyingly strange, and deeply heartfelt. In “Eat Me, S8 E1,” a young woman joins a zombie-eliminating reality...

Graduation was supposed to be fun.Then five friends broke into the wrong house.Now the TVs won't shut off, the radios keep playing, and every room feels like stepping into a twisted music video.And the house?It really likes music...

Friction Press and Richard Pendragon bring you four achillean erotic stories of bodies that bleed and swallow and writhe. Bodies that wear their pride and their shame like armor, like a costume, like a stethoscope pressed to a racing heart. Enter the house, step on stage, undress for the knowing...

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

All of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection.

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

2022 SOVAS Award Finalist for Audiobook Narration—Short Story Anthology—Best Voiceover That long-ago summer, four friends came face-to-face with strange, dark events they couldn’t explain away. As they grew up and left town, they each tried to forget. Instead, the secrets lingering in the...

The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by “one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century” (Ray Bradbury), as selected by award-winning author Victor LaValle Among the greats of twentieth-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by...

Revenge, death, and destruction abound in this early short story by H.P. Lovecraft. The story follows Antoine, a count who is last in line to die at the age of 32 due to a curse put on his family hundreds of years prior. His ancestor, being responsible for the death, brought about the curse, and Antoine was left to watch all his family, including his manservant, die an early death. But when his time comes and he is exploring the castle in wait, he manages to successfully end the curse by deflecting the fatal blow of Charles - the son of the man who was killed so many years ago.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.

In "Strange Highways," a floundering alcoholic gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night his life began its downward spiral 20 years ago. But on this dark journey, he’ll be supremely tested by conflict with his successful, charismatic older brother, his loss of faith, and the clash between good and the ultimate evil. Sink into this binge-worthy collection of beloved Koontz short stories, featuring denizens of hell, vengeful children, and eerily human-like robots that will send shivers down your spine.

Based on Japanese literature and foldlore, Kwaidan contains 17 stories. The story of Loichi, the blind biwa player who was called to perform for the dead; of Muso, the journeying priest who encountered a man eating goblin; of the samurai who outwitted the ghost of a dead man. All these plus 14 other spooly tales are included in this collection.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair . . . I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been...