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trange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter is a series of short stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Mostly set in Ireland, they include some classic stories of gothic terror, with ominous castles, madness and suicide.
Tucked away in the foothills, surrounded by pine forests, loaded with kids who still play outside, Millwood is the small town everyone knows. The local deputies grapple with petty vandalism and local drunks. The local teachers know the name of every kid in town. For Heather Bradley, it's a place that keeps her family safe and their lives in order; her biggest worries are the daily grind of her job and the kids coming home late. She doesn't know that unfathomable forces are set to converge on her town and thrust their neat lives into darkness, but when her oldest son Stuart opens a one-sided door in the woods and a black cloud pours out, the Bradleys and their whole town find themselves locked in a desperate struggle for survival. As the chaos grows and the nature of the real threat emerges, the only question becomes whether or not come morning the town will exist at all. Contains mature themes.Voir livre
Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time. Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your reading and listening pleasure. 01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - An Introduction - Volume 2 02 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James 03 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood 04 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood 05 - No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington 06 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 07 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards 08 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant 09 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant 10 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis StevensonVoir livre
The void weeps. The crimson moon is shining in the sky, and demons are pouring through the dimensional seams, broken by the infernal corruption. Meanwhile, the ghastly bellows are coming from the sea as the beast rises, threatening to devour the entire world. Will Keri, severely maimed in her fight against Fenrir, recover and rise for the final confrontation? Will humanity come together in the last stand against the unknown? Or will the prophecy be fulfilled, and everything will perish in the insatiable Maw of the Hollow? This is the final book in the series.Voir livre
In this story, Poe does a masterful job of describing the inner thoughts of a man who is obsessed with an old man "with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye". He knows deep in his soul that that eye is evil and his madness and obsession with it increases each day as he carefully calculates the murder of the old man. Attempting the perfect crime, he dismembers the body in the bathtub and hides it under the floorboards of his room, happy with the result. Until a policeman comes to look into the disappearance of the man and sits directly on top of where the pieces are hidden. Is he imagining things, or does that dead heart still beat?Voir livre
A daring actress and a barnstorming pilot team up to save the world from supernatural disaster in this uncanny pulp adventure set in the world of Arkham Horror Betsy Baxter is the plucky stunt-actor star of the 1920s serial adventure, The Flapper Detective. While researching a wing-walking scene, she meets the fearless Winifred Habbamock and discovers a shared background of eerie encounters and eldritch phenomena. For years, Betsy has been investigating the disappearance of an old friend during the horror-struck filming of The Mask of Silver, when she learns of his reappearance in Arkham, she and Winifred hit the road to investigate. But Arkham is full of mysteries and danger. Betsy will need all her skills, and new allies, to prevent an otherworldly cataclysm from consuming her and all of Arkham.Voir livre
What lurks in a Canadian blizzard? Some things are worse than the cold. Flight attendant Candi Burns has one goal: make it home for Christmas. But when a supernatural storm traps her at Toronto's Pearson Airport, she finds herself sharing a small room with two rivaling men and a mysterious book of psychedelic art that could be her salvation—or the start of a really bad trip... As the snowstorm rages on and unexplained phenomena terrorize Toronto, Candi meets Gretchen, a former war correspondent hell-bent on escaping the airport. But with a fatal virus spreading, unrest brewing, government control collapsing, and otherworldly symbols glowing in the sky, their chances of making it out alive are dwindling by the minute. Is the deadly blizzard a military-grade weather attack? Or are inhuman forces at work? In a race against time, Candi must decide who to trust when reality itself begins to unravel. Perfect for fans of Station Eleven and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this genre-bending psychedelic thriller explores what happens when a pretty white Christmas turns apocalyptic.Voir livre
