Editora: Babelcube
200,000 years ago, the first human beings showed their intelligence. And while that was happening, down the path of death and desolation, a man traced his destiny among the abysses of darkness.
Some secrets should remain locked in the past…Celeste Kain hasn’t had a psychic vision in two years. After being brutally attacked while helping criminal investigation agency CORE stop a serial killer, her mind repressed her clairvoyant abilities. Married to CORE agent, John Kain, mother to their toddler, Olivia, and owner of an up-and-coming bakery, Celeste has been doing fine psychic-free. Only now the dead are using her body to tell their stories again…putting her new life and family at risk.Haunted by a murdered woman, Celeste turns to a psychic mentor to learn how to control her gift, protect her family and bring justice to the dead. But the more she digs into the dead woman’s past, the further she slips into the unknown, unlocking secrets literally worth killing for. As the body count rises, it becomes clear: someone in the dead woman’s family is deeply, violently wrong. And Celeste needs to be careful, before she loses something more precious to her than her life.Celeste Risinski, the heroine of Shadow of Danger (Book 1 CORE Shadow Trilogy), is back with her own series. Join her as she learns how to deal with being a wife, mom, baker and…psychic investigator.Ver livro
The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment. The White Hands: You may recall Alfred Muswell, he whom devotees of the weird tale will know as the author of numerous articles on the subject of literary ghost stories but who died in relative obscurity just over a year ago.Ver livro
A darkly funny Christmas story. It was a strange day when Blake Alexander found out about this odd case everyone at his hospital wanted to decorate the hospital for Christmas drunk on the Christmas cheer. But that was nothing the reapers were trying to get the after life business in line with fate's decree that they celebrate Christmas with reapers collecting people as Santa Clauses which Blake was totally against. To him it was an anathema. He felt like scrooge It was getting so Christmasy the people at the hospital had stopped calling him Dr Death on the upside but on the downside they called him the Grinch. He was in a bad mood when he visited the police station which was trimmed for Christmas too.Ver livro
A short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection From the Depths. C.N. Barham served as a minister but was also an amateur hypnotist and in this short story, he explores how clairvoyance might be used to track lost ships at sea by regaling the story of Audacious, a brig which never reached its destination.Ver livro
"Celephaïs" is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, including his novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926).Celephaïs was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world...Ver livro
Are you a fan of mystery and suspense? Do you love to get lost in a world of intrigue and unexpected twists? Then you won't want to miss out on our incredible digital audio collection, featuring some of the most spine-tingling short stories ever written! First up is "The Ring of Thoth" by the legendary Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale follows an Egyptologist as he attempts to unlock the secrets of an ancient ring with deadly consequences. Next, we have another gem from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Silver Mirror." In this chilling story, a man discovers a mirror that shows him his own death – and he'll stop at nothing to avoid his fate. But the terror doesn't stop there. "The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror" by Sir Walter Scott takes us on a journey through time as a cursed mirror wreaks havoc on those who dare to look into it. And finally, we have "The Phantom Coach" by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, a haunting story of a man haunted by the ghostly image of a coach and its spectral passengers.Ver livro
