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"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
In beautiful San Diego, California, Tank and the team are attending a party when a supernatural mist unlike any other rolls over the city. There are things in the fog. Ugly things. Vicious things that kill whatever they find. When one team member realizes the fog is bringing death, will the ultimate sacrifice have to be made?Show book
In 1996 in Venice Beach, Ceit struggles with the confines of superstition and tradition that have defined the Society since its start. As her younger brother, Alan, turns eighteen, Ceit enacts a plan to end the Society for good. In doing so, she will release Alan from what she sees increasingly as a toxic and antiquated way of life and free herself from her mortal ties to the human realm. In 1924, Ainsley Robertson lives in a secluded community outside of Cork, led by her father, an abusive and cruel ceannaire. She’s expecting a baby in a world where being an unwed mother is a criminal act. As she navigates that world dominated by dogma and oppression, she grows to realize her own gifts and connection to the world of the fae. As the sparks of what will become the Society grow to a flame, Ainsley becomes the Matrarc of her people, leading them to a new world and a new tradition. Sinder weaves together the parallel stories of Ceit, grown to adulthood and in her rightful place as Matrarc of the Society, and her great-grandmother, Ainsley Robertson, as the community that would come to inhabit Sinder Avenue begins in 1920s Ireland.Show book
"The Unnamable" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September 1923, first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and first collected in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. The corrected text appears in Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, (revised ed, 1986). The story's locale was inspired by the Charter Street Historic District Burying Ground in Salem. Carter, a weird fiction writer, who is likely the Randolph Carter who features in some of Lovecraft's other tales such as "The Statement of Randolph Carter", meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area...Show book
Try not to scream. You never know who—or what—may be listening... A miracle comes with a terrifying price, when a young blind woman confronts the horrors lurking in her basement. A trio of campers is forced to fight for their lives, when their weekend getaway opens a portal to a terrifying new dimension. And a Ouija board summons a malevolent force, when two sisters try to contact a lost loved one… Scare Street is proud to present a spine-tingling new collection of fourteen terrifying tales. A diabolical feast of ghosts, ghouls, and screams of fear. And with each macabre nightmare more horrifying than the last, it’s only a matter of time before you unleash a blood curdling shriek of your own… Even now, you feel cold, putrid breath on the back of your neck. The stench of the unliving fills the room. You feverishly turn the pages, ignoring whatever lurks just behind you, struggling to make it to the end of one more story. After all, the next page you read just might be your last… In this chilling volume, you will find the following stories: 1. The Tree Man at Fort Rock by Ellen Forder Condon 2. A Heart in His Hand by Luke Foster 3. The Christmas Witch by Cooper O'Connor 4. At the Elms by Jill Hand 5. The Gravedigger's Last Job by Bradley Walker 6. Color Me Gray by Matt Bliss 7. A Real Likeness by Jacob Steven Mohr 8. The Cry of the Campfire by J. Herrera Kamin 9. The Sleep Demon by Justin Boote 10. Shadow Beast by Kandi Ritton 11. The Mirror Keeps the Score by Jen Mierisch 12. Caught in the In-Between by Alyson Hasson 13. The Burned Land by Ian E. Gonzales 14. The Closet by Ron Ripley and Nick EfstathiouShow book
Five years ago, Susannah Harper's son Joel went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband, Susannah has rebuilt her life around helping others. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction. She tells her that this Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. As her carefully-constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah is forced to confront the buried truths of her family's past.Show book
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. The Edwardian era lasted under a decade at the turn of the 1900’s. Victoria was dead but everything else strode on. The Nation’s authors added to their number with new talents who attempted new ways of re-interpreting the Ghost Story. Benson, Pain and all the others found a ready audience for these sharp-edged gems and their malevolent ways. 01 - Top 10 - The Edwardian Ghost Story - An Introduction 02 - The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle 03 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 04 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 05 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 06 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 07 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 08 - The Room in the Tower by E F Benson 09 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 10 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain 11 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs 12 -Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope HodgsonShow book
