Publisher: Babelcube
On June 4th, 1888, in Buenos Aires - Argentina, after sunset, a series of terrifying events were unleashed, leaving the inhabitants of the city at the mercy of an evil never seen before. That evil will not stop as long as the night rules the city.
Valerie Randolf is a witch and an outcast in the small town of Junction. Colton Collins, the Sheriff's son, takes notice of her. Valerie learns that a darker force is running through Junction connected to Colton. Ten years later, a private investigator tells Valerie that her sister, Jodie, is missing, and Colton is the main suspect. Valerie recruits the help of other occultists to find her voice and save her sister before it's too late.Show book
Welcome to Volume Five, one of the world's largest collection of high quality, classic horror short story audiobooks.If you're home then get some logs ready and put on your most comfortable slippers, as we kick things off with Doug Bradley's well researched introduction to the authors and stories featured in this volume. Ambrose Bierce brings us 'The Death of Halpin Frayser', an intriguing tale of a young man's increasingly spooky comings together with his mother, alive and dead...The next story may well be Edgar Allan Poe's most famous, and it is certainly amongst his best; 'The Fall of the House of Usher' is tour de force of classic horror writing brought to life as only Renegade can do it.Following Poe's epic masterpiece is 'How it Happened'; a short and sweet piece from Arthur Conan Doyle, about a runaway car and it's impact on the narrators life.Following up is another great story from the imagination of Conan Doyle, 'Lot No. 249'. This epic story is the longest one we've released so far at over 80 minutes in length. It is also acknowledged as the story that kicked off the malevolent mummy genre, inspiring many more stories and movies. We round off with the Edgar Allan Poe's beautiful poem, 'For Annie', one of my favorites and a lovely, heartbreaking way to bring this volume to a close.So throw those logs on the fire, turn off the lights and settle in to hear some of the worlds best short horror stories, read by one of the worlds best narrators. Unless you're going to listen to the stories in the car, in which case please enjoy whilst driving safely.Show book
A collection of speculative fiction stories, concerning extraterrestrials, other worlds, and bleak futures. Contents: "Fessenden's Worlds" by E. Hamilton (Weird Tales 1937) A man creates a miniature universe. "The Hanging Stranger" by P. K. Dick (SF Adventures 1953) A man happens upon a body suspended from a lamppost. "The Glass Labyrinth" by S. A. Coblentz (WT 1943) A tale of time and dimensions. "The Transgressor" by H. Kuttner (WT 1939) A curious invention... "The Red God Laughed" by T. McClusky (WT 1939) Following the extinction of the human race... "The Crystal Egg" by H. G. Wells (New Review 1897) An object that serves as a window into the planet Mars. "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H. P. Lovecraft (Pine Cones 1919) Strange slumbers in the Catskill Mountains. "The Fear Experiment" by I. Gordon (HorrorBabble 2018) A dark experiment in Georgia. "Old Rambling House" by F. Herbert (Galaxy SF 1958) All they wanted was a home they could call their own... "There is a Reaper ..." by C. V. De Vet (Imagination 1953) What awaits us after death? "In the World's Dusk" by Edmond Hamilton (WT 1936) The last survivor of the human race. "The Supernumerary Corpse" by C. A. Smith (WT 1932) Jasper Trilt was dead—but... "2 B R 0 2 B" by K. Vonnegut, Jr. (If 1962) Death becomes a voluntary act. "The Ultimate Experiment" by T. DeKy (Comet 1941) Robots—the children of men. "The Red One" by J. London (Cosmopolitan 1918) Worshippers of something strange in the jungle.Show book
"Dagon" is a short story by American author H.P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories.The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrator's account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific". He escapes on a lifeboat and drifts aimlessly, south of the equator, until he eventually finds himself stranded on "a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about [him] in monotonous undulations as far as [he] could see The region wasputrid with the carcasses of decaying fish and less describable things which [he] saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain." He theorizes that this area was formerly a portion of the ocean floor thrown to the surface by volcanic activity, "exposing regions which for innumerable millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths.Show book
There are other worlds with mysteries to solve.Worlds where not all of the suspects are technically alive.That's when Karma kicks in.Stripped of her position, facing an unsure relationship with potential boyfriend Adam, and still foster mom to an emo sixteen year old poltergeist named Pixie, ghost transporter Karma Marx thought she'd seen it all . . . and then she is sent on a train ride across Europe to save a woman from her abusive spouse.The situation, people, and even residents of the train aren't what they appear to be, and while Karma is trying to find the target of her trip, she struggles to separate deception from truth. When she comes to close to figuring it all out, everything dear to her is put at risk.Charged with murder, and with the entire Akashic League against her, Karma is desperate to do three things: clear her name, punish the guilty, and finally get Adam into bed. She just has to survive the first two in order to tackle the third . . .Show book
I killed a demon. I don't know if it was really, technically a demon, but I do know that it was some kind of monster, with fangs and claws and the whole bit, and he killed a lot of people. So I killed him. I think it was the right thing to do. At least the killing stopped. Well, it stopped for a while. In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies, using his own repressed homicidal proclivities to even the odds. But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary, and a new mystery to solve. But this time something's different. John has tasted death, and the dark nature he used as a weapon—the terrifying persona he calls "Mr. Monster"—might now be using him. No one in Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish two nightmarish adversaries: the unknown demon he must hunt, and the inner demon he can never escape.Show book
