Publisher: Reading Essentials
Seven Gothic Tales was instantly popular when it was first published in 1934, revolving around mysterious, bizarre or supernatural events that explore questions of philosophy and identity. Although writing of death and failed loved affairs, Dinesen’s lush, ornate prose also has moments of humour.
Her doctor is giving her the body of his dreams...and her nightmares. Isa is a micro-celebrity who rarely shows her face, and can’t wait to have it expertly ripped off and rearranged to look more feminine. When a successful fundraiser makes her gender affirming surgery possible, she’s overjoyed—until she has to give up all her money to save her dying father. Crushed by gender dysphoria and the pressure of disappointing her fans who paid for a new face, she answers a sketchy ad seeking transgender women for a free, experimental feminization treatment. The grotesquely flawless Dr. Skurm has gruesome methods, but he gets unbelievable results, and Isa is finally feeling comfortable in her skin. She even gains the courage to ask out her crush: an alluring and disfigured alchemy-obsessed artist named Rayna. But Isa’s body won’t stop changing, and she’s going from super model to super mutant. She has to discover the secret behind her metamorphosis—before the changes are irreversible, and she’s an unwanted freak forever. TRANSMUTED is an outrageous and unapologetically queer body horror tale that will leave you gasping, giggling, and gagging for more. Experience the freaky thrills of TRANSMUTED today! "Transmuted is a fun romp of sex, slime, transformation, and queerness. With the energy of Freaked and a dark side all its own, it's full of too-real moments mixed with outlandish monstrosity, and it's a blast." — Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth “…a whip-smart horror story sure to leave readers begging for more.” — Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt “Fans of weird mad scientists and gooey body horror will eat this novella up like Halloween candy.” — Max Booth III, author of We Need to Do Something Narrated by Arden Hughes Cover by Sadia Bies Audio editing and mastering by Alex Kingsley Copyright 2021, Unnerving & Eve Harms | Production copyright 2024, Eve HarmsShow book
Marley was dead, to begin with...' And yet, he manages to visit his old partner, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and send him on a transformative journey, led by three ghosts. First to his own past, where he sees again the love he spurned, then to the present, where he sees those around him going about their holiday preparations, and then into his own future, to see his just reward. A Christmas favorite, it will warm your heart with favorite memories, and remind you how the true Christmas spirit comes from giving with love.Show book
"Dracula's Guest" follows an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned) on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not return late, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned "unholy" village. As the carriage departs with the frightened and superstitious driver, a tall and thin stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill. After a few hours, as he reaches a desolate valley, it begins to snow; as a dark storm gathers intensity, the Englishman takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees. The Englishman's location is soon illuminated by moonlight to be a cemetery, and he finds himself before a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven through the roof, the inscription reads: "Countess Dolingen of Gratz / in Styria / sought and found death / 1801". The Englishman is disturbed to be in such a place on such a night and as the storm breaks anew, he is forced by pelting hail to shelter in the doorway of the tomb. As he does so, the bronze door of the tomb opens under his weight and a flash of forked lightning shows the interior, revealing a "beautiful woman with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier". The force of the following thunder peal throws the Englishman from the doorway (experienced as "being grasped as by the hand of a giant") as another lightning bolt strikes the iron spike, destroying the tomb and the now screaming woman inside. The Englishman's troubles are not over, as he painfully regains his senses from the ordeal, he is repulsed by a feeling of loathing which he connects to a warm feeling in his chest and a licking at this throat. The Englishman summons the courage to peek through his eyelashes and discovers a gigantic wolf with flaming eyes is attending him.Show book
Ana a widowed mother and her family move to the countryside to find a better life and stumble upon a family that has the whole town hiding their horrific secret. But right when peter starts to develop feelings for veronica he and his mother stumble upon their carnivorous ways. So now the question is will they stop them or will they try to escape?Show book
Centuries after the zombie apocalypse, a young hero travels to far off American to join the resistance in this sci-fi horror epic. It’s been two hundred years since the age of Humankind ended in an apocalypse of blood and terror. Though zombies still roam the earth and the threat of extinction looms, humanity lives on thanks to the heroic deeds of the Lady. In Australia, sixteen-year-old Gin is planning her wedding and awaiting the rumoured arrival of the living legend. But when her life is torn apart by tragedy, Gin must travel far from her village to the distant shores of old America, where intelligent zombies still rule. Drawn into a centuries-old conspiracy, Gin’s odyssey will send her into a living hell of savagery and terror. If she survives, her world will be forever changed—and perhaps humanity will finally be saved.Show book
Bree’s list of priorities: Survive the next hour. Survive the next day. Survive the next week. Hold down solid food. Relearn how to walk. How to run. How to hold a gun. How to fight. Make Bucky Hamilton rue the day we met, and met again. And find out what the f*ck we are looking for in Europe.Show book
