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  Utter Fright Short Stories

  Bram Stoker, HP LOVECRAFT

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  Some stories are meant to be read. Others demand to be whispered to you in the dark. 
   
  Welcome to Utter Fright Short Stories, a curated audiobook collection that resurrects three masterclasses in creeping dread from the grandfathers of gothic and cosmic horror: Bram Stoker and H.P. Lovecraft. 
   
  Classic horror relies on atmosphere, pacing, and the creeping sense of the unknown. This collection is engineered specifically for the audio experience, designed to make every creaking floorboard, distant howl, and maddening whisper echo right in your ears. 
   
  Here is the nightmare itinerary waiting for you inside: 
   
  Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker 
  Before Jonathan Harker ever reached Castle Dracula, there was Walpurgis Night. Experience the chilling, originally deleted opening chapter of the world's most famous vampire novel. Hear the crunch of the snow and the howl of the wolves as a foolish traveler ignores local warnings, stepping into a desolate graveyard where the dead refuse to rest quietly. 
   
  The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker 
  A young scholar seeking peace and quiet rents an isolated, abandoned home with a notoriously dark history. What begins as a minor nuisance of scurrying rats steadily escalates into a suffocating nightmare of spectral vengeance. The audio performance builds the tension brilliantly with every phantom scratch in the walls and the sway of a hangman's rope. 
   
  The Moon-Bog by H.P. Lovecraft 
  Journey to the haunted, soggy peat bogs of Ireland, where an ancient curse awakens under the pale light of the moon. Lovecraft trades his usual New England settings for dark Celtic myth, delivering a hypnotic, escalating tale of spectral ruins, unearthly lights, and a creeping doom that will pull you under.

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  Herald of Ruin - The Sanford Files

  Tim Pratt

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  The enigmatic Carl Sanford is the master of all things occult in Arkham, until a charismatic newcomer threatens to take everything away from him in this dark mystery set in the world of Arkham Horror. 
   
   
   
  Chaos is coming to Arkham, and its herald is Randall Tillinghast. The dapper older gentleman has recently arrived in the city and his establishment of a new occult bookshop draws the ire of Carl Sanford, the head of Arkham's secret, esoteric order, the Silver Twilight Lodge. 
   
   
   
  Sanford expects to crush the newcomer like an ant and take what he wants from the wreckage . . . but Randall Tillinghast isn't quite as humble and harmless as he seems. In possession of an array of magical artifacts, Tillinghast begins to consolidate his dreams of power before turning his sights on the Lodge.

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  That Time of the Night

  Ian Gordon

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  Scallop-like sea creatures… 
  Supermarket pickling malfunctions… 
  The dreadful effects of mass poisoning… 
  The truth about darkness… 
  A visitor from the waking world… 
  THAT TIME OF THE NIGHT is the second collection of Ian’s short stories, including Night of the Nuckelavee, Cleanup on Aisle 22, Pockets, and It’s Your Turn, Joey. 
  There’s no better time to tell a horror story, than at that time of the night, long after darkness has fallen, and the hidden things have come out to play…

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  From Beyond

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "From Beyond" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934. The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person's pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality. Sharing the experience with Tillinghast, the narrator becomes cognizant of a translucent, alien environment that overlaps our own recognized reality. From this perspective, he witnesses hordes of strange and horrific creatures that defy description. Tillinghast reveals that he has used his machine to transport his house servants into the overlapping plane of reality. He also reveals that the effect works both ways, and allows the alien creature denizens of the alternate dimension to perceive humans. Tillinghast's servants were attacked and killed by one such alien entity, and Tillinghast informs the narrator that it is right behind him. Terrified beyond measure, the narrator picks up a gun and shoots it at the machine, destroying it. Tillinghast dies immediately thereafter as a result of apoplexy. The police investigate the scene and it isplaced on record that Tillinghast murdered the servants in spite of their remains never being found.

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  Deadly Steel

  Alyn Troy

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  A world teetering on the edge, racing against time to prevent its downfall. 
  In the shadowy world where the supernatural realm of the Fae intersects with ours, a menacing threat stirs. The Rakshasa, a ruthless demon lord, hungers for his long-lost magical pipe and revenge. His sole intent — to bring a demonic army into our world, and take his revenge on the fae, even if it means obliterating our very existence. 
  Responding to the looming dread, the indomitable Queen of the Fae mobilizes her elite sleuths. Meet the 'Deadly Duo' — when they're on the hunt, the unsuspecting prey is already on borrowed time. Their mission? Uncover the nine arcane locks safeguarding portals to the ominous underworld, the den of the Rakshasa. 
  Fae espionage master, Elain Edeirnion and her adoptive vampire brother, Neirin, find themselves in the boroughs of New York City. Their objective? Recover the elusive Drath'Girion, a potent artifact capable of unlocking time-weathered secrets etched in another mysterious tome. 
  But the city that never sleeps is also the playground of treacherous beings. Shifter mafia overlords vie for control, while Fabiana, the enigmatic queen of the wererats, deepens the enigma with her cryptic moves. Navigating this labyrinth of danger and deception, every step draws the duo closer to the inevitable clash with the mythical Rakshasa. 
  In a thrilling saga that plumbs the depths of darkness and reveals startling truths, Elain and Neirin must employ all their wits and skills to outgame their adversaries. The stakes are cataclysmic: stem the tide of impending chaos or watch as Hell is unleashed upon humanity. Will they rise to the challenge, or will they falter? 
  Prepare yourself for a deep dive into the mystical world of the "Portals of the Red Tiger" series as turmoil and treachery unfold in Book One, "Deadly Steel."

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  The Thing in the Moonlight

  H. P. Lovecraft, J. Chapman Miske

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lovecraft's story regarding a tram conductor whose head transforms into tentacles, recorded in a letter dated November 25, 1927, to Donald Wandrei. 
   
  The story is currently considered inauthentic, as it is partially not authored by Lovecraft. The content of two letters, one containing 'The Very Old Folk' and the other with this 'work,' Wandrei sold to the publisher of the magazine 'Scienti-Snaps' (later renamed 'Bizarre'), J. Chapman Miske. He published both texts as stories written by Lovecraft, with the addition of two paragraphs to 'The Thing in the Moonlight': one at the beginning and one at the end.

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