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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。

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.

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...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Crawford Tillinghast was once a warm and ordinary man. Months of obsessive work in the attic of his empty house have left him gaunt, yellow-skinned and feverishly triumphant, and now he summons his oldest friend to witness what he has built. The machine...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jacob Settle is the loneliest man in the village: a quiet labourer who lives alone in a hut on the edge of the moor, who flinches from company and never smiles. The narrator, who has befriended him, finds him one night shaking from a dream he will not...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A prosperous London merchant takes his family north for the summer to a quiet house on the Aberdeenshire coast. Delighted with Scotland, he commissions a full Highland outfit from a costumier, kilt, sporran, dirk and all, and parades about the village...

Love will not be denied—even by death. In this chilling Victorian ghost story from E. Nesbit, determined suitor John Charrington swears he’ll marry May Forster, “dead or alive.” Two days before the ceremony he is killed in a dogcart accident at half‑past one. Yet at half‑past three...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Life is a hideous thing, and the story of the Jermyn family proves it. For generations they were a line of English baronets known for their brilliance, their strange looks, and their madness. It began in the eighteenth century, when Sir Wade Jermyn...

最恐のホラー饗宴！「小説現代」２０２５年８・９月号で人気だったホラー特集を魅力的なパッケージで連続刊行！１テーマに２人、１２作。全６シリーズ。第六弾は、小野不由美×平山夢明。テーマは「リミナルスペース」。小野不由美 「縁日」この話は誰にもしていません。あの変な場所から帰ってきて、唯一書き込んだ匿名掲示板では、その後私は消息不明ということになっていました。生きているので最初から話しますーー。芦花公園 「三津原モールでたい焼き食べたい」とっくの昔に閉店したはずの三津原モールの地下で、「たい焼き屋を見た」と訴える患者が現れた。

 The King in Yellow is a book of 10 classic short stories about the supernatural. The first four mention "The King in Yellow", a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those exposed to it. The tales have a macabre undertone, focusing on characters that are inhabitants of the demi-monde. 

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…

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

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...

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...

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...

Two frightening psychological thrillers, as only Willow Rose can deliver it. Better Watch Out: Some kids are scared of the dark, others of monsters living under their beds. Some are even afraid of clowns. None of those things scare Sara. But she is terrified of one man who comes to her house every year in the middle of the night. The Bird: When five-year-old Winnie finds a little bird that is hurt, she wants to take it in and take care of it. Her mother is reluctant. She is terrified of birds. As she rightfully should be.

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.

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.

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.