Verlag: Kristen Middleton
Written by NY Times Bestselling Author Kristen Middleton Book 5 of Zombie Games The Conclusion - As a cold darkness settles upon the world, our heroes search frantically for their friends and family. Meanwhile, two evils come together and try to destroy the child they believe to be the true "Chosen One". Will they succeed and annihilate all of mankind?
Victorian Fantasy Stories and Macabre Tales gathers eerie suspense, dark fantasy, and classic gothic imagination into one haunting collection. Featuring unforgettable stories by Robert E. Howard, John Polidori, and John Ruskin, this anthology blends supernatural horror, sinister atmosphere, and Victorian-era wonder for readers who love timeless macabre fiction.Zum Buch
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead What a scary read. Egaeus, the narrator, talks about his relationship to his cousin Berenice. He lives the life of a scholar, prefers the night and is quite sickly. Berenice is the counterpart until she fall ill an decays day by day. There are plans of marriage. Egaeus is obsessed by her teeth. When the day of her interment is over a shadowy shrouded figure is reported. What about the teeth? A very morbid story, full of decay, visions of grey and unsound living in the dark. Frightening and recommended! Berenice" is a short horror story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story is narrated by Egaeus, who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He tends to fall into periods of intense focus, during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world. Berenice begins to deteriorate from an unnamed disease until only her teeth remain healthy. Egaeus obsesses over them. When Berenice is buried, he continues to contemplate her teeth. One day, he awakens with an uneasy feeling from a trance-like state and hears screams. A servant reports that Berenice's grave has been disturbed, and she is still alive. Beside Egaeus is a shovel, a poem about "visiting the grave of my beloved", and a box containing 32 teeth. Contemporary readers were horrified by the story's violence and complained to the editor of the Messenger. Although Poe later published a self-censored version of the work, he believed the story should be judged solely by how many copies it sold.Zum Buch
Enter a world of creeping dread and cosmic terror in this haunting collection of classic Gothic and supernatural tales. Featuring master storytellers H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, and Ambrose Bierce, this volume gathers some of the most chilling and atmospheric horror stories ever written. From ancient, unknowable entities to shadowed estates and psychological unease, these timeless works define the foundations of Gothic and cosmic horror and continue to captivate readers who crave suspense, mystery, and dark imagination.Zum Buch
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.Zum Buch
In this new collection, Patrick Barb explores themes of family found and lost, media consumption and the dangers of runaway nostalgia, the supernatural in our lives, and the impact of violence in both the long- and short-term. -A young couple is reunited with their lost son whose favorite fuzzy bear suit connects him to the ghost of a vengeful mama bear while he's alone in the forest. -A jaded screenwriter can’t escape the haunted screenplay that’s ruined his career. -A man returns to his small hometown, where the people are gone and the trees have taken over. -A Slasher and Final Girl brother-sister duo match wits and blades against a sentient, dimension-hopping apocalypse at a never-ending summer camp. From rural backwoods to Park Slope brownstones, Barb's characters face impossible, awful situations, testing their inner strength and understanding of reality. Covering quiet horror, weird fiction, supernatural horror, slasher horror, topical dark fiction, and more, these stories spotlight supposedly familiar terrors and fears in new and unexpected ways..Zum Buch
A comprehensive exploration of the mysterious and intriguing phenomena of the human mind. The book delves into the history and theory of hypnotism and mesmerism, examining the techniques and practices used by practitioners to induce altered states of consciousness and access the subconscious mind. The author also explores the fascinating world of mind-reading, discussing the various methods used to read the thoughts and emotions of others, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychometry. In addition, the book examines the phenomenon of spiritualism, which gained popularity in the 19th century as a way to communicate with the dead. Read in English, unabridged.Zum Buch
