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Darkly thrilling, these 20 new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over. Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and 13 other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before.

Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to listeners of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it.

Revenge is one of the great themes in literature, from Shakespeare to Poe. This collection contains 18 original stories commissioned for this volume plus a reprint of a classic Ruth Rendell mystery.

Do you think people stop talking once they are dead? Then let this book change your mind. Here are four terrifying stories drawn from real-life events. Four supernatural tales about college days in India. Four surreal narratives that will twist their way into your nightmares.

Right Behind You is a collection of 13 horror stories of different genres. The thing that connects these stories is the emotion of our inner fears that resides in all of us. We might mask these fears, we might even deny them, but they emerge when least expected, and then they begin to encroach upon every aspect of our lives. In this collection of assorted horror stories, you will find noir horror, urban myths, fantasies, campfire tales, stories of phobias, gore, and even a story that takes place entirely on chat.

Gather 'round for ominous tales of the paranormal that’ll have you looking over your shoulder to make sure you’re actually alone. The World’s Favorite Ghost Stories is a carefully curated collection of hair-raising ghost stories from around the world meant to thrill and ensnare you. Listen to this audiobook for unsettling ghost stories that’ll get under your skin. These peculiar tales from different corners of the world (including the United Kingdom, India, and the United States) are so vivid that they almost feel real. But they couldn’t be - could they?

"Perfect deadpan marks the opening of Ali Simpson’s The Monster'" writes Susan Merrell of The Southampton Review in her introduction to this issue of Recommended Reading.

Nitya, a single child ignored by her parents, makes an unlikely friend - a boy with a strange power who has mysteriously manifested in her room. Nikhil creates a replacement for his dead mother - a clay doll that has her likeness. Things take a bizarre turn when his clay mother starts communicating with him. Nihar, a teenage orphan, has walked a long way to seek shelter in an orphanage he has heard a lot about, unaware that it is the house of a terrifying secret.

Vier literarische Juwelen, die unseren ständigen Krieg zwischen Gut und Böse ins Extreme treiben. SCHNAPPSCHUSS ist die verstörende Geschichte eines Jungen, der von einem brutalen Schläger bedroht wird. Dieser besitzt eine Sofortbildkamera, die Erinnerungen löscht, Schnappschuss für Schnappschuss... In GELADEN stoppt der Sicherheitsbeamte eines Einkaufszentrums mutig eine Amokläuferin und wird zum Helden der modernen Waffenrechtsbewegung. Doch als eine Reporterin die wahren Hintergründe der Geschichte aufdeckt, dreht der Beamte durch.

Florida Gothic Stories contains 11 of Vicki Hendricks’ best, some previously published and some new to this volume. Hendricks’ stories are riveting and unsettling - some offer surreal sojourns into the dark side of magical realism while others are pure Florida noir, with a full menu of characters twisted and damaged, yet with a gritty determination to survive.

Cornovaglia, 1730: Red, una bambina di sette anni con i capelli rossi e uno straordinario talento per le storie, viaggia in lungo e in largo per la contea assieme a suo padre, George Decimo di Kernow, un divinatore che si guadagna da vivere predicendo il futuro grazie all’antico metodo di cartomanzia del Quadrato dei Sette.

With the renewal of the Cold War, the Security Services in the West were jittery: A terrorist could now, as never before, destroy a fantastic amount of material, production potential, and infrastructure. Civilization had grown so unbelievably complex that it was hopelessly vulnerable to an internal enemy. And an atom bomb could be carried in a suitcase. Now that nightmare had become a reality. An enemy agent had planted a hidden atom bomb, timed to explode within a short time.

Welcome to the horrific and poetic world of Sam Stone, where angels are stalking the undead and a vampire becomes obsessed with a centuries-old werewolf. Terror and lust go hand in hand in the disturbing world of the Toymaker, and the haunting Siren's call draws the hapless further into a waking nightmare. Here are 14 chilling short stories from the Queen of Vampire fiction. This collection includes a bonus story, "Walking the Dead", which does not appear in the printed edition.

The Last Stair into Darkness is a collection of 20 horrifying tales by author Cliff R. Barlow. Contained within are 20 stories to consume your days in fear and enfold your nights in restless nightmares. From a demon hiding under the basement stairs to the most terrifying specter of all, the monster within, Cliff brings a fresh and unique take to the genre that you won't soon forget. Just remember to sleep with the lights on....

Audible presents a special edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde narrated by Richard Armitage. With Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Richard Armitage tells the story of a conflicted man who seeks a remedy to free the monster inside him from the clutches of his conscience. Following his celebrated performance of David Copperfield, Armitage delivers another powerhouse performance as the narrator of this Gothic tale.

Demonia ofrece nueve relatos que recorren el amplio espectro de nuestras pesadillas y temores más arraigados. Conforme se adentre en el audio libro, el oyente encontrará obsesiones y enigmas recurrentes con los que este autor infecta cada historia. Las formas subterráneas de los relatos nacen de las zonas oscuras de la experiencia, para volverse una forma ambigua del conocimiento. Y el mal - abstracto, sobrenatural, mítico- se presenta como un contagio del espíritu: virus perverso que potencia las pulsiones de nuestro lado oscuro.

¿La vida en la Tierra sólo puede evolucionar, o también mutar en criaturas amenazantes, propias de la prehistoria y el horror? ¿Es el amor motivo suficiente para traer a un hombre de regreso de la muerte? ¿Pueden los juguetes infantiles convertirse en mensajeros de furiosas maldiciones? En esta colección de cuentos, Bernardo Esquinca abre interrogantes cuyas respuestas se encuentran al otro lado de los miedos que nos definen como humanos.

Die dritte Sammlung voll unheimlicher und fantastischer Erzählungen von Edgar Allan Poe in ungekürzter Fassung, erzählt von Erich Räuker.

Eine Sammlung voll unheimlicher und fantastischer Erzählungen von Edgar Allan Poe in ungekürzter Fassung, erzählt von Erich Räuker.

These fifteen genre-bending stories are set against a backdrop of sudden violence and profound regret, populated by characters whose circumstances and longings drive them to the point of no return... and sometimes even further. Traversing the back roads of the south and beyond, these stories probe the boundaries of imagination, taking the listener to the fringes of a society where the world looks different, and once you visit, you won't ever be the same.