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  Ligeia

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  In Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia," the narrator recounts his intense love for the intelligent and beautiful Ligeia. After her mysterious death, he remarries, but Ligeia's presence haunts him, leading to a chilling climax that explores themes of love, death, and the supernatural.

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  The Transition of Juan Romero

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Title: The Transition of Juan Romero 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1944 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 54 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Transition of Juan Romero is a stark tale of subterranean dread from H. P. Lovecraft’s earliest period — a story of inexplicable terror lurking deep beneath the earth. 
  Set in a remote Nevada mining camp, the narrative follows a miner who witnesses a fellow worker, Juan Romero, drawn by an unseen force into the depths of an abandoned shaft. As the ground shakes and the darkness seems to breathe, something ancient stirs below — something that should never have been awakened. 
  With its bleak desert atmosphere, claustrophobic mine shafts, and hints of cosmic forces at work beneath the soil, this story bridges Lovecraft’s early horror with the cosmic themes that would later define his mythos. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance brings the tension, isolation, and subterranean terror to life. While the text is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre and uncanny, The Transition of Juan Romero remains a chilling reminder that some depths are better left unexplored.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our classic authors invite us in to share hospitality at a house most of us are ever keen to veer away from. But the invitation has been issued and it would be rude to disappoint, despite the rising fear that begins to take its chilling grip on us. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Haunted House - An Introduction 
  02 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  03 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  04 - They by Rudyard Kipling 
  05 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft 
  06 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit 
  07 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  08 - The Room in the Tower by E F Benson 
  09 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  10 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  11 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 
  12 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen

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  The Whisperer in Darkness

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to The Colour Out of Space (1927), it is a blend of horror and science fiction. Although it makes numerous references to the Cthulhu Mythos, the story is not a central part of the mythos, but reflects a shift in Lovecraft's writing at this time towards science fiction. The story also introduces the Mi-go, an extraterrestrial race of fungoid creatures. The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy regarding the reality and significance of the sightings. He sides with the skeptics, blaming old legends about monsters living in uninhabited hills that abduct people venturing too close to their territory. He receives a letter from Henry Wentworth Akeley, a man living in an isolated farmhouse near Townshend, Vermont, who claims to have proof that will convince Wilmarth he must stop questioning the creatures' existence. The two exchange letters that include an account of the extraterrestrial race chanting with human agents in worship of several beings, including Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep, the latter of whom "shall put on the semblance of men, the waxen mask and the robe that hides"...

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  Renegade

  Rachel Starr Thomson

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  The line between good and evil blurs in this page-turning, suspenseful Christian fantasy on the border between earth and spirit. 
  After the events in ATTACK, the Oneness returned home in triumph— 
  All except Reese and Tyler, who remain on the road with the subversive cult leader called Jacob. Jacob’s challenge—to lay aside peace for the sword and bring true justice in a world torn apart by evil—haunts Reese, and though all she wants is to go home, it isn’t clear anymore who or what “home” is. 
  When Franz Bertoller, the man responsible for everything wrong in Reese’s world, kills again, Jacob determines to stop him once and for all. 
  He wants to use Reese to do it. And she might just let him. 
  Her choice will change her world forever. 
  RENEGADE is the fourth book in The Oneness Cycle, an urban fantasy series of spiritual warfare novels. If you love page-turning suspense, heart-pounding plotting, and fiction that unveils truth, this series is for you.

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  The Jane Doe Ghost

  Karla Brandenburg

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  Now that Elspeth “Elle” Barclay’s mother has retired from “clearing” haunted houses, Elle steps in to evaluate disturbances. She debunks a haunting, but finds spiritual energy outside the house. The victim of a recent hit and run accident demands that Elle “tell them,” but tell whom what? The accident victim, a young woman, lies in the morgue as a Jane Doe. Details in the ghost’s visions send Elle to Bar Harbor, Maine, to tell Jane Doe’s family about the accident, but they aren’t interested in talking to her. 
  Jane Doe grows more aggressive in her pleas. When the man Jane came to Illinois to find turns up dead, Elle fears her own life may be in danger. She has never encountered a spirit who can manifest energy physically before, but this one grabs her arm, leaving burns. What more does she want?

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