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The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a landmark work of mystery fiction and widely regarded as the first modern detective story. Set in Paris, the tale introduces C. Auguste Dupin, a brilliant and analytical investigator whose unusual powers of reasoning allow him to solve a baffling and violent crime that has left the authorities confused. When two women are found murdered in a locked room under seemingly impossible circumstances, Dupin studies the evidence, witness accounts, and contradictions with extraordinary precision.

Expanding upon The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, this second volume brings thirteen not-so-irrational fears much closer to home. Find out what happens when a family goes missing in their own home, an acquired piece of artwork turns out to be much more than bargained for, the kitchen compost gets out of control, doors in the house refuse to open and more. Stories by Mehitobel Wilson, Michael Bailey, Donna JW Munro, Steve Carr, Kealan Patrick Burke, JG Faherty, John Peyton Cooke, John Palisano, Colleen Anderson, Nancy Kilpatrick, Jill Hand and Sèphera Girón.

It’s just a silly little ritual they saw online. Tie a thread. Make a wish. Burn the rest. Don’t take it off. It’s the kind of thing you do and forget—until it works. After a drunken night, Milan, Drew and Lilah wake up to find their lives impossibly altered. The things they wanted most begin to fall into place with eerie precision. But something else is happening, too.

Three towns. Twelve volumes. Endless nightmares. The first three towns of the Terrifying Towns series—Haunted Hollow, Bloodhaven, and Coffinsview—now together in one massive mega-bundle. Abandoned mines filled with mysterious whispers, forests that nobody escapes alive, babysitters left alone while a maniac from the asylum stalks the night, restaurants with ingredients best left unknown. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, “true story” style that will make you question every quiet town you ever wander through.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A war that ended 26,000 years ago is calling him back. Each night, a dreamer looks up at the pole star and slips into another life — a soldier in the ancient city of Olathoë, watching the sky for signs of an approaching enemy from the frozen north...

Some trains take you home. Others take you somewhere you were never meant to reach. When a small group of passengers boards a late-night train moving endlessly through the fog, each carries something unfinished: grief, regret, memory, or the fading weight of a life they no longer fully know how to hold.

A chilling tale of recurring nightmares and supernatural terror, The Room in the Tower follows a man whose unsettling dreams of a mysterious country house and its ominous tower haunt him from childhood into adulthood. When fate leads him to the very place he has seen in his dreams, he is forced to confront a horrifying presence that has long awaited his arrival.

Danger always lives close. Close to Home is a collection of nine standalone horror stories about what waits inside ordinary life. In the relationships we trust. In the rooms we return to. In the silences that stretch too long. In the selves we build to survive what should have broken us.

Melissa is a fairly average teen, who lives in the small rundown coastal town of Black Island. Her only plan is to leave the first chance she gets. She is sick of weekends spent partying with her old school friends, knowing that they are growing apart. She needs something more. When the carnival comes to town, the group finally have something a little different to do. Little do they know that the carnival, has its own plans for them, especially Melissa.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thirty-five years vanished between one breath and the next. A dazed man wanders into a Civil War army camp at night, certain he is a young lieutenant reporting for duty — and certain the war is still raging around him. The soldiers who find him see...

A man stands on a railroad bridge in northern Alabama. A rope is around his neck. Soldiers wait. From that stark beginning, Ambrose Bierce unfolds one of the most precise and unsettling short stories in American literature—a masterpiece of suspense, perception, and the final instant of a human life. As the moment of execution approaches, the world sharpens. Sound intensifies. Seconds stretch into something vast and vivid. What follows feels like escape—urgent, detailed, and utterly real. But is it?

Death can come for anyone at anytime. There's no escaping it. There are a million ways to die, not all of them expected. What starts as a peaceful day can end in the worst possible way. So brace yourself for the inevitable. Memento Mori contains thirteen stories filled with curses, monsters, and deteriorating minds that will leave you with the reminder that one day, you too will die.

In churches and convents and other religious communities, sisterhood takes many forms, forged and tested by such mundane threats as disease and despair, but also by terrors both spiritual and existential—Satan’s subtle minions and the cosmic nightmare of the Cthulhu Mythos. Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories presents sixteen horror stories by some of the genre’s leading female voices. Their settings range around the globe and across the centuries, from 6th century Ireland to 17th century Virginia to Indonesia in the recent past.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Since childhood, Jervas Dudley has felt an inexplicable pull toward the old, sealed tomb of the Hyde family, hidden in the woods near his home. The more time he spends in its shadow, the less certain he becomes where his own identity ends – and...

Featuring two Bram Stoker Award-winning tales, McCammon's Shoppe of Olde Curiosities is a career-spanning collection gathering nineteen short stories showcasing the author's imaginative range of frightening terror, fantastical worldbuilding, and characters confronting the unknown around them and within themselves. Pursuing a life of celebrity fame, Erik Van Helsing's desire to cash in on his famous family's name as vampire hunters unveils a legacy he cannot escape in "Blood is Thicker Than Hollywood"—a spinoff tale from the novel They Thirst.

In this chilling reimagining of Hitchcock’s classic, a group of friends set out on a cross-country trip, only to unknowingly trigger a relentless avian nightmare. Raquel, Robert, Karen, and David are thrown into chaos as the skies turn deadly, forcing them to confront a terrifying truth: not everything is what it seems, and their actions carry consequences far worse than they imagined. As the body count rises, one long-dismissed conspiracy theory proves horrifyingly real in this suspenseful, blood-soaked tale of reckoning.

As two police officers search for survivors in a town flooded by black rain, they discover strange creatures lurking beneath the water. FROM THE STORMS, A DAUGHTER is one of ten stories in Kristopher Triana's short story collection GROWING DARK.

Welcome to Coffinsview, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Cars with a taste for women and a hatred for men, love triangles that drag their victims straight into a coffin, and things far worse than darkness emerging from the shadows. 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.

What is evil? Is it something supernatural that seeps into our world… or something far more human, lurking just beneath the surface? In The Evil Edition, Kevin J. Kennedy assembles a relentless collection of dark tales that blur the line between monster and man.

In G. G. Silverman's debut fairytale-horror collection, The Blood Year Daughter, a woman builds husbands out of gravel and slaughterhouse feathers, two sisters eat cinnamon-scented pieces of their mother, and a charming doctor's murdered brides whisper warnings to his newest wife. Silverman's...