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Prepare yourself as you enter the Fright Vault, four tales of chilling horror and suspense--tales of ghosts, murder, revenge, and the unknown in a nightmare of reality with "dead time" stories to keep you awake at night. Pleasant screams!

Edith Nesbit wrote under the name E. Nesbit, and is most famous for her stories for children, and has influenced the likes of J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis and P.L. Travers. She wrote over 60 books, including The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Her second, darker reputation was as a purveyor of horror stories, which are sublime in their elegance and simplicity.

Sir Hugh takes his secret to the grave with a vicious grin on his lips–a devious grin that is somehow contagious.

Welcome back to Glen Hirshberg country, where griefs are at least as dangerous as ghosts. Where terror and wonder become not just inextricable but often indistinguishable. Where the worlds of imagination and everyday reality color and corrode and sometimes overwhelm each other.

"Das Bild im Haus" (englischer Originaltitel: The Picture in the House) ist der Titel einer Horrorgeschichte des amerikanischen Schriftstellers H. P. Lovecraft, die er am 12. Dezember 1920 verfasste. Nach einer Veröffentlichung in der Zeitschrift "The National Amateur" im Sommer 1921 erschien sie 1924 in "Weird Tales" und wurde 1939 in die Sammlung "The Outsider and Others" aufgenommen, mit der die Geschichte des Verlages Arkham House begann.

Band 12 der "Arndt Schmöle liest Edgar Allan Poe"-Reihe. "Im Strudel des Mahlstroms": "(...) - denn es ist schon so und muß gesagt werden: es war ein entsetzliches Wagnis." Drei Brüder, Fischer an der Küste Norwegens, zeichnen sich nicht nur durch ihre Erfahrung, sondern vor allem durch ihre Waghalsigkeit aus: Nur sie sind mutig genug... "Das ovale Porträt": "(...) einen Augenblick stand der Maler entzückt vor dem Werk, das er geschaffen hatte."

El libro contiene historias de misterio de todas las épocas de la historia de Rusia, desde su remoto pasado pagano hasta el comunismo del siglo 20 y el período contemporáneo. Los cuentos inéditos del autor incorporan siglos de tradiciones folclóricas del país eslavo, presentando relatos macabros y ominosos de brujas, monstruos, fantasmas, espíritus maléficos y fenómenos inexplicables.

Ebola Saves the Planet! and Other Wholesome Tales is a collection of 11 wild tales from the mind of Matthew A. Clarke.

Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include "The Old Knowledge" (Swan River Press 2010) and "Damage" (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing. "Homecraft": The cooker looked old, almost an antique.

A collection of highly disturbing and deeply original short stories from the master of horror Graham Masterton and rising star Dawn G Harris. A belt adorned with strange markings has the power to strangle anyone who attacks its owner. A man whose wife has been placed into a portrait at the Tate decides to join her on the other side. In these and other unsettling tales, master of horror Graham Masterton and his protegee Dawn G Harris explore the dark side of human nature—from the graphic and violent to the spine-tingling and supernatural.

The third audiobook of select horror and thriller stories from author Andrew Allen Smith, Yet Another Slice of Fear takes a deeper dive into the thrill of facing unknowns, including death.

Peel back that rotting skin and behold the improbable creatures, nightmarish places, and horrifying events that lie waiting just beyond everyday experience. Witness the terror of a man stalked for decades by entities from across the void. Feel the agony of an unholy union between technology and flesh. Know the decay of our reality as it collapses into a darker plane. Our deepest fears are mere shadows on the wall. Find out what casts those shadows in this collection of short stories by Felix Blackwell and Colin J. Northwood.

"Die Sphinx" ist eine Erzählung von Edgar Allan Poe, veröffentlicht im Januar 1846. Die Geschichte spielt zur Zeit der Cholera-Epidemie in New York. Der Protagonist folgt einer Einladung eines Verwandten zu dessen Landhaus am Ufer des Hudson River, um dort zwei Wochen zu verweilen. Jeden Tag versterben Freunde der beiden, was diesen per Post mitgeteilt wird. Der Protagonist ist äußerst abergläubisch und wird misstrauisch, nachdem er ein paar Bücher in der Bibliothek seines Freundes gelesen hat. Dann passiert etwas Unheimliches.

Set in Ireland, this SFW collection of short horror stories is recorded in amazing 3D audio technology that engages all of your senses for a truly immersive ASMR listening experience. What makes these short stories even more special is that the listener is placed at the center of all the action. You get to play the lead role as Gaelforce speaks directly to you — up close and personal.

A farmer in old Japan prays to the gods for a wife, someone who is kind, beautiful, and hardworking. What would be even better is if she didn’t eat at all, saving him both money and food. Imagine his surprise when just such a woman shows up at his house one night. But all is not perfect. The gods have quite the sense of humor, and the farmer soon learns what kind of monster he is living with. But is it too late?

Eve does not enjoy making the long drive through the mountains and forests along Ortega Highway 74. In fact, she’s terrified to drive it—especially at night. She’d been warned since childhood of how haunted the road was.

Raymond is trying to enjoy an afternoon at the park with his toddler, Victor. A pastime of his is to categorize all the parents he sees at the playground, based on their appearance and behavior. He proudly considers himself a parent that doesn’t fit into “The Trans-Parent Club” filled with oblivious and often neglectful dads and moms. To his horror, he’s about to meet a few other parents that defy categories and possibly even mother nature.

An intriguing woman knocked on the door to your craptastic new house and offered to sell you some knowledge about it for a small fee, and then she showed you a secret room in your basement where the former owner smoked hallucinogens and performed occult rituals. Would you be curious to explore it with her? If you’re a morose and horny retired professor like Herman Tilling, you sure as hell would! But it might not end up the way you expect....

Thirteen classic stories of horror and the supernatural by some of the greatest writers in the genre. This compilation includes a mix of well-known classics by authors such as Edith Nesbit, J. Sheridan Le Fanu and M. R. James, alongside several tales by less familiar names who were hugely popular and prolific in their day.

Hell hath no fury like a raisin scorned. Hellraisin 3: The Wrath of Grapes!