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What would you do if you had the same horrifying nightmare every night and you KNEW that it was reality?

From his cradle to his grave a gale of prosperity bore my friend Ellison along. Nor do I use the word prosperity in its mere worldly sense. I mean it as synonymous with happiness. The person of whom I speak seemed born for the purpose of foreshadowing the doctrines of Turgot, Price, Priestley and Condorcet — of exemplifying by individual instance what has been deemed the chimera of the perfectionists.

During a pedestrian tour last summer through one or two of the river counties of New York, the narrator finds himself lost as day declines, the land undulating remarkably and his path winding confusedly through valleys in effort to keep in them. A smoky mist, resembling that of Indian summer, enveloped all things and added to his uncertainty. Not caring much about the matter, he remained unconcerned, prepared to bivouac in the open air with his knapsack for a pillow and his hound as a sentry.

"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 story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball in seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it.

In "The Assignation" — we have the most romantic story Poe ever wrote. A discerning critic well said that it is "such a mixture of bitter and sweet that it clings to one's memory like a ballad. The characters are sharply and consistently drawn, motives clear and convincing the more incredible the action grows.

"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses fear about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest. In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried alive.

In A Wake and Other Ghost Stories, debut author Gerard Larkin conjures a world where shadows linger, voices call from beyond, and folklore comes alive. This evocative collection transports listeners across windswept Irish cliffs and along the sun-drenched but haunted Riviera, uncovering tales of shape-shifting pookas, ancestral whispers, and unseen watchers. Drawing from the deep well of Celtic myth and rural superstition, each story invites you to cross the threshold into the unknown, where nothing is ever quite as it seems.

"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is regarded as one of the early examples of the modern science fiction genre. The story traces the journey of a voyage to the Moon. The story opens with the delivery to a crowd gathered in Rotterdam of a manuscript detailing the journey to the moon by Hans Pfaall. The manuscript sets out in detail how Hans Pfaall, a mender of bellows, contrived to reach the Moon by benefit of a revolutionary new balloon and a device which compresses the vacuum of space into breathable air.

Shadow. A Fable: Ye who read are still among the living, but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away ere these memorials be seen of men. And when seen there will be some to disbelieve, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find much to ponder upon in the characters here graven with a stylus of iron.

"Thou Art the Man", originally titled "Thou Art the Man!", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. It is an early experiment in detective fiction, like Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", though it is generally considered an inferior story. The plot involves a man wrongfully accused of murdering his uncle Barnabas Shuttleworthy, whose corpse is missing. An unnamed narrator finds the body, suspects the victim's good friend Charles Goodfellow, and sets up an elaborate plot to expose him.

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box. The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina, to New York City aboard the ship Independence. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms.

Lance, Brandon, and Chris venture into the woods of Holly Hills in search of their brother, Josh, who went missing on a solo hunting trip. What starts as a rescue mission quickly turns into a fight for survival, as something in the forest begins to take root.

Think you know the real Las Vegas? Think again. Beneath the tits, glitz, and weapons of mass distraction lies an occult truth. Las Vegas is home to a powerful, transformative energy that amplifies and magnifies all that it touches. What happens in Vegas happens on a whole new level. For some, Las Vegas is paradise. For others, it's the Disneyland of the damned. Be warned. Once you find Las Vegas, Las Vegas finds you. Welcome to Wack City... the real Las Vegas. Where dreams come true, and nightmares too.

Before Dracula struck England, his shadow was already drenched in blood. Step across the threshold of terror with this definitive collection of gothic nightmares from the legendary Bram Stoker. This heart-pounding anthology unearths Stoker's finest short fiction, led by the legendary title story...

A late-night commuter falls asleep aboard the final train home. When he wakes, the train no longer stops at stations. The passengers sit frozen in silence. Nobody blinks. Nobody speaks. And when one of them finally smiles at him, he realizes something...

Book 19 in The Horror Collection series brings you a multiplicity of horror stories, written by some of horrors best known names, Bram Stoker award winners, and rising stars.

One town. Four Volumes. Endless Nightmares. The complete Bloodhaven collection—creepy small-town horror at its most chilling. Hotel rooms that nobody can stay in for an hour, porcelain dolls that say terrifying things, psychiatrists with fear-filled methods. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your first night in Bloodhaven? "Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to reckon with!"—VICTOR MILLER, Writer of Friday the 13th

Prepare-se para mais uma imersão de tirar o fôlego nas profundezas do fórum r/Nosleep do Reddit. De viagens no tempo alucinantes que dão terrivelmente errado a um brinquedo de parque de diversões com uma reviravolta aterrorizante, esta coleção fará você questionar a realidade — e manter as luzes acesas muito depois de terminar a leitura.

I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow .