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Wohl kaum ein Autor hat der Menschheit solch wohlige Schauerlektüre bereitet wie Edgar Allan Poe, der frühe Meister der Horrorstory. In dieser Sammlung hören wir: "Die Tatsachen im Falle Waldemar", "Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue", "Das Geheimnis der Marie Roget", "Der entwendete Brief", "William Wilson", "Eleonora", "Morella", "In der Tiefe des Maelstroms".

This collection of 13 short stories speculates about futuristic realities where the rules don't apply, and comedic chaos consumes. Artificially intelligent mowers rigidly manage a neighborhood's lawns. A teenaged Pulitzer winner hunts monsters draped in blankets. With a hint of horror alongside plausible parodies, You Know What I Think? leaves listeners with more questions than answers.

When Pfc. Chester Michael had gone over all the ways he that he might die in the war, when he thought about them back at the barracks weeks before Utah Beach ever happened, the top things on the list were: gettin shot, gettin blown up, and gettin fuckin shot. Weren’t those the normal ways that soldiers were dying in this war? Yeah. So that’s probably how he would die too. By getting shot at, and those shots not missing.

From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous? Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question. These all-new stories range from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from familiar monsters to the unknown . . . and unimaginable.

Halloween is a holiday of fright, a time to dress up and go house to house for candy, a time for fun. But what happens when you don’t follow the rules? Nicholas Gray presents five Halloween tales to get you in the spirit and cover your arms in goosebumps. Three friends are in for a trick-or-treat surprise. A surly boy goes trick-or-treating to the wrong house. A grumpy old man gets a special Halloween visitor. A man goes shopping for a Halloween mask. And some bored teenagers go on a vandalism spree.

I’ve been having the same dream now for a long time. It’s a recurring dream…or nightmare. I can never tell for sure because the emotion is different. The details are the always the same—the smells, the sounds of my shoes, etc.—but I never know what’s on the other side of those doors. I do now.

Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainable for many years. His seminal volume In a Lonely Place collects eight of his best tales, including "In the Pines," a classic ghost story evocatively set in the Tennessee woods, "Beyond Any Measure," an original take on the vampire story.

A volunteer candy-striper stays over night at St. Mary's hospital to watch over a boy from her class. The same boy that had asked her to the school dance five times already. The same boy that she'd rejected five times already....

A criminal wakes up locked in a walk-in freezer.

An artist struggles to hold on to her soul as she feverishly completes a deadly masterpiece. The death of a movie producer unleashes an ancient reel of film with a dark secret worth killing for. And a woman gets the scare of her life as strange intruders break into her home....

Whether it’s pure chance or preordained destiny that leads them into the woodlands surrounding a secluded English village, the fate of six people is in the hands of an ancient prophecy hell-bent on revenge for the barbaric actions of our forefathers.

Step inside the small mountain town of White Valley, where legends leak into reality and the supernatural syncs with the mundane. Join Matt Richardsen for remastered versions of some of Reddit NoSleep's most popular stories over the past decade.

A secret organization ruthlessly seeks power over supernatural terrors in this globe-trotting anthology of arcane mystery and adventure, from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror.

The phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; these are stories of men facing strange appetites within their own physicality, within a lover or, perhaps, a stranger's hungers. A young athlete attends an exclusive wrestling camp, but some of the campers are more focused on the unwelcome boys they claim lurk inside their bellies. A fixit man on a mission to retrieve a runaway finds himself forced into impersonating a pulp hero by her captor.

Nehmen Sie sich ein zweites Mal Zeit für ein reichhaltiges Menü an delikaten Kurzgeschichten, bei denen Sie sich schaurige, bizarre und fantastische Begegnungen einverleiben können. Für garantiert packenden Spannungsgenuss sorgen: eine renommierte Schauspielerin, die es gar nicht gerne sieht, wenn man sich an ihren Katzen vergreift ("Lois, der Bauer"); ein Anwalt, der bei seiner Wette mit einem Vampir die Rechnung ohne den Wirt gemacht hat ("Der Anwalt"); der boshafte Martin, der unfreiwillig einen Vorrat an frischen Organen anzubieten hat ("Ein simpler Plan").

Nehmen Sie sich Zeit für ein reichhaltiges Menü an delikaten Kurzgeschichten, bei denen Sie sich schaurige, bizarre und fantastische Begegnungen einverleiben können. Für garantiert packenden Spannungsgenuss sorgen: die übergewichtige Ratte Elvira und ihr zügelloser Appetit auf Neumieter ("Die Ratte Elvira"); ein Beamter, dem seine Liebe zur Spinne Holga zum Verhängnis wird ("Das Netz"); der achtjährige Bernhard, der die Gute-Nacht-Geschichte seiner Schwester zu wörtlich nimmt ("Die Nervensäge"); ein unerwartetes, letztes Wiedersehen der beiden Brüder Jericho und Michael ("Geteiltes Leid").

In the title story a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. "Dancing Men" depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory when a boy visits his deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert.

The Better Off Dead series delves into the furthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness!

Drac Von Stoller presents a collection of horrifying tales from the dead with short stories that deal with witches, a virus, an ax, urban legends, pirates, cursed mirrors, and a few more exciting tales to hear about.

A group of bandmates celebrate the recent success of their album and tour by going a trip. But it's a bad trip. A very bad trip...

Terrifying secrets from the past are revealed when a ghost hunter discovers a letter from his deceased mother. A lost young couple learns all is not what it seems when an elderly woman welcomes them into her remote outback home. And a guilt-ridden carpenter takes a journey into another dimension but is shocked by what follows him home.... Scare Street is proud to present a diabolical new collection of 17 ghastly stories. Each spine-tingling tale is a portal to a new world, the beginning of a seemingly endless voyage into fear and dread.

Humans are, so far as we know, the only creatures on this planet who mark the passage of time. As such, we are keenly aware from an early age that time is tick, tick, ticking away. These stories and more fill Dearest Death, a collection of short horror fiction by W. Dale Jordan, author of The Stop.

In "Victor", a hard-working man will meet the woman of his dreams, but is she really what she seems or is there something else at work here? Then we will follow a man through a dark, deserted road under a nasty storm that will bring him face to face with terror in "The Night Visitor". Not scared yet? In "A House in the Country", a married couple will buy the house of their dreams, which includes some dangerous guests.

Castle Heights is an ordinary looking London tower block...from the outside. But within the drab walls, things aren’t quite so innocent…or safe. Experience the disturbing events which take place on one fateful night as 18 writers bring you 18 stories–one set on each floor. From monsters to killers, the supernatural to the bizarre, these interlinked tales will have you desperate for escape as you make your way up Castle Heights from the ground floor.

A man is tortured by a sound that only he can hear. It was easily ignored at first. But now the insomnia is getting to him. He must find a way to stop the noise.... Anything is better than this.

Abhorrent abominations. Murderous miscreations. Desperate desires, familial bonds, and soul-clenching will to survive contend with mythic malevolence and esoteric evils in 16 tales of disturbing, thought-provoking horror. Challenge both your imagination and courage with grotesque and bizarre stories published in small press across the world, collected and combined with never-before released material.

Two men are trapped in darkness. A shipping container, buried underground. No idea who locked them in there. It's been days. A week. Maybe more. And then the lock opens. Something is thrown inside with them. A gun. With only one bullet.

In Tiny Terrors: Part 2, author David Boyer once again thrusts the listener head first into a world we thought we knew all too well, but weren't aware of what may exist in that world once you've crossed the barrier between the light and the darkness.

Jason Cole was working on finding a suitable picture for some newsletter or something. One of 10 or 20 specific photos he would find that day. Same old thing he’d done a hundred times before. Looking through stock photos, this time for a cooking ad.

"Polaris" ist der Titel einer frühen Kurzgeschichte H. P. Lovecrafts, die im Frühling oder Sommer 1918 geschrieben und im Dezember 1920 im Amateurmagazin "Philosopher" gedruckt wurde. Im Dezember 1937 wurde sie im Pulp-Magazin "Weird Tales" veröffentlicht und 1939 in den ersten Band des Verlags Arkham House aufgenommen. Sie gehört zur Gruppe der Fantasy-Geschichten und schildert, wie ein namenloser Ich-Erzähler vom Licht des Polarsterns verfolgt wird.