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A family's Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man's effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in his defense against a bully; a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed; a father explores a...

22 histoires pour explorer des territoires connus seulement de Stephen King et rencontrer ses créatures les plus inquiétantes, les plus bizarres ou les plus monstrueuses. 22 histoires qui vous prendront à la gorge, vous glaceront le sang ou vous procureront la désagréable impression que quelqu'un vous attend, dans l'ombre. 22 histoires pour empoisonner vos rêves et blanchir vos nuits, signées par le grand maître de vos cauchemars... J'ai réuni ici mes meilleures histoires. Vous êtes prêts à me suivre ? On y va. Je connais le chemin... Stephen King.

This is a story from the Fall of the House of Usher collection. The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares: Premature burial, ghostly transformation, words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even now.

Step into the shadows—where fear waits to be found. Midnight Terrors: Dark Tales and Scary Stories from the Shadows is the second chilling installment in the Midnight Terrors anthology series. Within these pages lie five sinister short stories that twist the familiar into the horrifying — where the comfort of home, the safety of friends, and the glow of a screen offer no protection from what lurks unseen.

Eleven strange, unsettling, and darkly comic stories reveal the brilliance of one of Japan’s greatest modern writers. In *Tales Grotesque & Curious*, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa turns monks, thieves, servants, scholars, devils, and ordinary people into unforgettable studies of vanity, fear, faith...

A signal drops. A mirror lies. A name won’t stay erased. In these unsettling stories from Sarah Faith, the ordinary rules of communication, identity, and memory begin to fail—quietly at first, then all at once. A family discovers that losing connection doesn’t mean they’re alone. A gift becomes impossible to refuse—and worse to keep. A routine bound to time and weather begins to feel less like safety… and more like a trap. A place forgotten by everyone else refuses to forget those who enter it.

The old gods are dead … The OLDER gods have returned! Before the American master of cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft came the Welsh genius of the weird Arthur Machen, who filled his pages with tales of ancient evil. Now comes this collection of seven NEW stories from the ancient land of Machen, following in the footsteps of Lovecraft and his uncanny creations.

A chilling assemblage of twenty-five of Madame Gray's darkest and most twisted short stories to stalk your nightmares. Here’s just a taste of what awaits you inside…

My girlfriend went on a hike. Her texts don't sound like her. As a search-and-rescue officer, I went out to find a missing boy. The voice I heard, crying for help... wasn't him. We found a tunnel in the woods. It went deeper than physically possible. If you find a Lost Camper at Camp Golden Oak, you'd better run--and never look back. TERRORS OF THE FOREST brings you 13 tales of horrific camping trips, stalked hikers, dangerous summer camps, and what lurks in the forest. Listen... if you dare.

The Architect has failed. The Butcher is ash. But the real war is just beginning. After the devastating "Glass-Dirge" of New Orleans, the Hybrid God has retreated to the ancient shadows of Copán. There, amidst the stone kings of the Maya, the unthinkable has happened: the singular entity has fractured back into Carlos and Lilith, only to discover that their union has left behind a miracle—and a curse. Lilith carries the Sovereign Seed, a child born of Salt, Marrow, and Adaptation.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Little Jo Salter is barely old enough to walk when fate begins its cruel work. Orphaned by a plague that sweeps the town of Blackburg — a place already famous for unnatural wonders, where crimson snow once fell from the sky — the child is passed...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Basil Elton keeps the lighthouse at North Point, as his father and grandfather did before him — a lonely sentinel between the grey world of men and the endless mystery of the sea. But when the moon is full, a White Ship glides silently out of the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When Mr. Anderson checks into the Golden Lion, a venerable old inn in the Danish town of Viborg, he finds himself in Room Number 12 — comfortable enough, though strangely narrower by day than it seems at night. Odder still, the hotel has no Room...

Experience suffocating psychological horror in ten unsettling short stories that trigger your deepest primal fears. Perfect for late-night drives or solitary camping trips, this eerie collection transforms familiar urban legends into pure paranoia. You will soon realize that the comforting glow...

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.

Der Handlung gehen essayistische Bemerkungen voran, mit denen der Erzähler seine eigene Geschichte einleitet und bekräftigt. Grauenvolle Themen ließen sich nur da literarisch darstellen, „wo Ernst und Majestät der Wahrheit sie heiligen“. Er zählt eine Reihe von Katastrophen wie das Erdbeben zu Lissabon und die Große Pest von London auf, um schließlich zu konstatieren, dass das „furchtbarste Unheil […] den Einzelnen, nicht die Gemeinschaft“ treffe.

Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man - and saves his life, with a kiss. A woman...

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the...

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.