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Forced by accusations of foul play to exhume the body of a recently deceased man, a young detective finds something far worse than he expected. A collapsed jaw, tattered lips, and leaking gums, an empty black cavern where once once the mouth had been, evidence that someone had attacked the body with pliers and stolen all of the teeth.

It is late in the 19th century and monsters stalk the narrow cobbled backstreets of a gaslit Victorian London. On the heath, strange stories circulate about the Bloofer Lady (whom Stoker's novel would reveal as Lucy Westenra), who tempts the children with sweet delights...behind which lie the sharper points of fangs.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Haunted Stories: Four Short Horror Stories and experience unpausable stories guaranteed to scare!

I know that Marie’s death hit you hard in the days after the funeral. All you needed in the world was the shoulder of your son to cry upon. I know I wasn’t there. I know that I should have been, and for that, I am truly sorry. Moreso, however, I am sorry for the circumstances that led to my absence, the reason I couldn’t be there, and the reason I can never let you weep for your child on any shoulder of mine.

Sometimes monsters do not live in the dark places, like under the bed or at the edge of the forest. Sometimes they live in normal houses and look just like us. Sometimes those monsters act like us too. Until someone chooses to cross them. Grandma El is a story of witchcraft, loyalty, and urban folklore that will make the listener wonder just how close to home the dark things really are.

Relics is a modern fairy tale that mixes the struggle of PTSD, obsessive compulsion, and body horror with the grimmer corners of European folklore, to make a potent mix that will leave your skin crawling.

When Erasmus Crane, the famous occult detective, is called to investigate the murder and mutilation of a young woman, he is instantly both repulsed and terrified. Not only by the gruesome nature of the killing and the strange squid-like formations the murderer has made of the entrails, but also by what those strange symbols mean. Erasmus has seen them before.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Nightmares and experience these eight short horror stories.

The lions weren't hungry that Monday. Not that it was any of my business. It had nothing to do with me that time. That time, it was all down to Pema. Well, Pema and his father.

I have to say that, for me, Lent was always the worst. Admittedly, it wasn’t until I hit my late teens that I began to realize just how decadently gothic and intricately laced, with a mix of melodrama and melancholy, the whole Catholicism thing actually was, but Lent was still the worst. Or at least it was in my parish. In the town where I was brought up and, in the church where I spent my Sundays, Catholicism was about as gothic as gothic could be. Especially during Lent.

When Dracula the Prince of Darkness first darkened these shores, there were before him harbingers, messengers singing and screaming to the bars of their asylums, about the coming of their dark Master. In Stoker's novel we hear of Renfield, the eater of flies, who waits in hope for his Master's call.

Sareen was nine years old when she first saw Death. Not a death, a corpse or someone who had been killed, but The Death. The thing, the figure, the reaper. The shadowy shape in the long dark robe with eyes that were darker still, empty sockets of full of nothing that silently screamed of forever.