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Die Hand eines verstorbenen Onkels macht sich selbstständig und terrorisiert fortan den Neffen des Verstorbenen. Köstlich, mit schwarzem Humor und der nötigen Brise Grauen, die einem einen Schauer über den Rücken jagt. Bereits zweimal verfilmt (1949 und 1981) gilt Das Biest mit 5 Fingern von W.F. Harvey als ein Meilenstein des fiktiven Horrors, dessen Geschichten viele Filmemacher und Autoren beeinflusst haben.

For a thousand years, The Old Town has stood as humanity’s last bastion against the maalkonis, malignant black mists that reduced the rest of the world to ash. They are kept at bay by rusty machines on the town’s walls. In order to survive, the dwindling population depends on one another. Since a young age, Justīne has embraced the harsh responsibilities that accompanied her apprenticeship on the last farm in existence. Her younger sister, Anna, is beginning her own apprenticeship as well.

After thirteen-year-old Samantha Morris almost drowned in her parents' lake, the nightmares that followed paled in comparison to the real-life horrors of watching her mother descend into madness. By the end of the summer, Kate Morris disappeared without a trace. Now an adult, Samantha is faced with another unexpected loss in her partner Ellie as well as the return of the nightmares. Only now, they're bleeding into her waking hours, forcing her to question her own sanity, and they're only getting worse.

A reclusive moon witch. A cursed wolf shifter. A spell gone horribly wrong. After being trapped in her realm after a storm, fate pushes them together.

When Lucille wakes, trapped in a closet, with strange voices in her head and only fragmented memories of her mom surrounded by attackers, she has no choice but to accept help from a questionable stranger. Now, as a prisoner in Elora, a world filled with angels and demons where only the trained and ruthless belong, Lucille is desperate to escape and find her mom. But Elora is no place for a 19-year-old girl with little control over her power.

Born into a sorcerer bloodline, cursed, and cut off from my power, I was accustomed to being an outcast. For generations, my bloodline carried the weight of a crime committed by our ancestor. But my mother's death changed everything. She left a clue that could prove our innocence: an ancient text hidden deep beneath Nightsbridge Academy. The Academy is a fortress of power, housing the most dangerous incantors and sorcerers, conscripted to keep Horrors and Echoes at bay. And as the last surviving Onyx, I'm owed admission.

A runewitch on the run has only one option left: join forces with the sarcastic, unpleasantly gorgeous necromancer she loathes The man Thraga loved is dead, and her future is in shambles. When she's sentenced to the gallows for killing her lover's murderers, it's a relief more than anything… until, the night before her execution, a necromancer is thrown into her cell. Escaping with him is her only chance to bring Lark back to life—and also the start of all her troubles.

Discover a fantastical story inspired by The Phantom of the Opera, as musical magicians compete for the once-in-a-lifetime role as the King's Mage, but only if their magic—or fellow contestants—don't destroy them first—perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Erin Morgenstern. For as long as...

Persephone: A love of ancient Greek lore, and a passion for archaeology brought me to Greece. I should have known better than to work for Hades Pluton. He is magnetic, and dark, and dangerous. He is a painter of torment, and his touch promises the most delicious sin. He is everything my mother warned me about men. And yet my heart is a prisoner to his. Ancient lore brought me here, but my love for him threatens to keep me. If I could trust my slipping mind, I might not fight it so hard—this love. But my mind is slipping.

The bonds of blood and vengeance must hold, or all will be lost. Karn has lost everything: his power, his family, and his place among the Black Guard. Dragged from the battlefield and left to die, he awakens in fractured Rhudoria, a land torn by clan rivalries and ruled—but not united—by the Bear Chieftain. Now, Eirithia's armies and the Black Guard invade, stealing its people and crushing its defenses. Amid the chaos, Karn uncovers the Witch Queen's vile schemes.

This dark fantasy delivers deadly dungeons, a rule-bound magic system, and immersive, story-first survival in a world where every spell and decision has a cost. Centuries ago, divine magic shattered the world. Now, in the ruins of a dying realm, only one wizard remains—trapped between life and death, powerless, and forgotten. To reclaim his body and restore the lost Guild of Wizards, the ghostly mage must recover a mythical relic buried deep in the dungeons: the Aard of Being.

DreamLand was supposed to be paradise—an engineered fantasy world where anything was possible. A place to step into adventure, live a story, and become a legend. For Samuel Jack, it was a chance to finally become the gunslinger he'd always dreamed of being. Then the gates locked. The screams started. And fantasy died. From somewhere deep within the amusement park, its creator—Rutherford Dwight Soros—pulls the strings.

In the shadows of the carnival’s cursed tents, Visha stands alone; crowned in blood and velvet, her heart shattered but unyielding. Haunted by a fractured friendship and the ghosts of promises inked in pain, she is both prisoner and queen of a world built on broken trust and blazing grief. Each step she takes is a dance of agony and defiance, every scar a testament to what she sacrificed to rise. As the carnival’s dark pulse quickens, Visha confronts the silence between rings, the crimson dance of memory and betrayal, and the hollow applause that follows a love turned to ash.

Wynn is a carpenter in a small town in Northern Rhosan, but after he is torn from his family by ruthless Victors, he'll have to learn to survive beneath their rule. When he is forced to hunt with the silent, stoic Dyfan, the two men forge a bond that might be enough to shelter them from a life of violence and cruelty.

Paris, 1919. Dans une ville brisée par la Grande Guerre et la grippe espagnole, Adèle, une jeune arnaqueuse, est prête à tout pour survivre et aider son frère, revenu traumatisé du front. Lorsqu'elle libère par accident un vampire des catacombes, à la suite d'un vol raté, sa vie bascule. Après le déni et la terreur, Adèle y voit finalement son intérêt. Et si elle parvenait à l'utiliser à ses propres fins ? Mais jouer avec un mort-vivant aliéné à la soif et hanté par la solitude peut engendrer de terribles conséquences...

In einem heruntergekommenen Wohnwagen am nebligen Waldrand, beobachtet von fremdartigen Wesen, die Claus Patera seine Musen nennt, rekapituliert er die dunkelsten Kapitel seines Lebens. Er gesteht seinem besten Freund aus Studienzeiten, dass er mehr als nur seine Seele zum Tausch bieten musste, um zu dem Künstler zu werden, der er schon sein ganzes Leben lang sein wollte.

È il 1584 quando, orfana, Emily St. Aubert raggiunge la zia Madame Cheron: un rifugio che presto si rivela prigione. Il matrimonio di lei con il conte Montoni la trascina in un dedalo di torri aguzze, stanze invase dall'ombra e corridoi in cui ogni eco vibra come un presagio. Quando cala la notte, note lontane e sussurri intrappolati nelle mura guidano Emily fino a lettere ingiallite, dietro a tende consumate dal tempo. Il conte Montoni la fissa con gelida determinazione, desideroso di soffocare ogni barlume di speranza.

Quando è stata mutata in vampira contro la sua volontà, Mische ha perso tutto: la sua casa, la sua umanità e, soprattutto, l'amore del dio del sole al quale aveva dedicato l'intera vita. E adesso che è stata condannata a morte per aver ucciso il principe vampiro che l'ha mutata, sembra proprio che la redenzione sia impossibile. Quando però viene tratta in salvo da Asar, il principe bastardo del Casato dell'Ombra con un passato feroce come le cicatrici che porta addosso, Mische è costretta a una missione che è persino peggio di un'esecuzione: un viaggio nell'oltretomba.

Lena Zurak has never mastered magic. Mocked at the Academy of Light and ignored by her god, she turns instead to the bow, the only weapon that has never betrayed her. When whispers of a rising cult reach her kingdom, Lena is sent on a mission she cannot refuse. Cult leader Karkathi ed’ Sayana wields forbidden power, twisting young men from the Tahlari clans into monsters through black magic. Entire families vanish as a new order rises, its rituals steeped in blood, corruption, and necromancy.

When a celestial object strikes the moon, it shatters more than stone — it tears the boundary between the modern world and the realm of the fae. In a dying desert town, teenage loner Morgan watches the heavens ignite through his childhood telescope as the world unravels overnight. Technology fails. Cities fall dark. Reality itself begins to fray. In the silence that follows, something ancient awakens and begins to hunt. Driven by the need to find his estranged sister Imogene and escape with his life, Morgan ventures into a landscape transformed by magic and ruin.