Publisher: Fractal Press
A collection of stories and legends written by Washington Irving. Apart from Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous , the other tales include Roscoe, The Broken Heart, A Royal Poet, The Spectre Bridegroom, Westminster Abbey, Little Britain, and others. The book also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon.
Can you survive the cold?After the initial series of summer blizzards, the snowfall has decreased, but the temperatures continue to drop, the icy wind still blows, and with each passing day, the darkness lasts longer and longer.It is in the darkness the monsters thrive.Confined to the lake house and having no communication with the outside world, Grady and the others live every day in fear, questioning what the future holds. Will the snow melt? Will the sun ever rise? Can the wraiths be defeated?But as the days turn to weeks, no answers come. Soon, the survivors' supplies lessen, and rather they're ready to or not, they must venture out into the snowy wasteland.They must fight.That is, if they want to continue to survive.Show book
He never believed nightmares were real. Until his search led him deep into the darkness… Joshua Bennet needs some answers. After growing up with impossible stories about the undead, the young African American journalist receives a large and unexpected inheritance after his father’s suspicious death. And so curious about his dad’s tall tales, he quits his hated newspaper job and sets off to unearth the terrifying truth. Seeking the mysterious gravedigger at the center of all the hair-raising reports, Joshua travels to towns with monsters hidden in the shadows. And when he finally meets the aging man of legend, the former reporter finds himself swept up in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Will his quest for closure lead to a beginning beyond his imagination? Digger is a nail-biting standalone horror novel. If you like fascinating characters, fast-paced action, and bumping into dark creatures of the night, then you’ll love Arjay Lewis’s spine-chilling adventure. Listen to Digger to delve into terror today!Show book
A psychopathic killer in the seaside town of Worthing, with an obsession for girls with breast implants, goes on a savage and bloody rampage.Show book
This Locus Award finalist vampire novel is “by turns western adventure, Renaissance horror, political intrigue, dysfunctional family drama, and more” (Locus). In the aftermath of the last great battle of the American Civil War, a disillusioned Union medic stumbles across a strange figure picking amid the corpses, and his life is changed forever . . . In Strasbourg, years before the French Revolution, a church restorer is commissioned to paint a series of portraits that chart the changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the course of her life, although the woman herself seems ageless . . . In Prohibition-era New York, an idealistic young Marxist is catapulted into the realms of elite society, and forced to assume the identity of someone who never existed . . . In this critically acclaimed horror saga from award-winning author Ian R. MacLeod, an ancient, mysterious evil survives, thrives, and kills through the ages into modern times. “By turns horrifying and hauntingly beautiful, this epic vampire story is the stuff of real nightmares.” —Tim Powers author of Forced PerspectivesShow book
First published in 1911, A School Story is a classic paranormal tale written by M.R. James, an author considered to be the originator of the modern age ghost story. Though popular in written form, his stories were in fact designed to be read out loud - something he would do every Christmas in his role as housemaster to young boys boarding at Eton school. In this particularly story - itself set at a boarding school - a Latin teacher is troubled by unusual phrases from the dead language that start to show up among the work he sets his students; something about the phrases remind him of a dark secret from his past…Show book
In the remnants of a space vehicle, sleeps Ellen Ripley, a woman who has battled a monstrous enemy twice. The first time, the creature killed the entire whole crew of the Nostromo. The second time, it slaughtered a dozen of death-dealing Marines. Now on a bleak planet that houses a horde of defiant prisoners, Ripley will have to fight the ultimate alien horror one more time, a final encounter she may not survive.Show book
