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Gut und Böse - wie kam beides in die Welt? Und sind wir gänzlich frei von diesen beiden Mächten, wenn wir es uns lange genug einreden? Es ist mühsam darüber nachzudenken, denn es gibt für uns alle Pläne, die älter sind als die Menschheit selbst, geschrieben vor langer Zeit ... und sie erfüllen sich jetzt ... in diesem Augenblick ... für uns alle. Seit einer Stunde saß Samuel, der Gärtner Gottes, mit seinem blonden Schützling in seinem Zelt zusammen.

On November 1, 1951, war hero John Ashton was promoted to detective. His first assignment: find the district attorney’s missing daughter. But his only lead is Alena Francon, a high society sculptor and socialite committed to Bellevue’s psychiatric facility. Alena has a story for the new detective. A story so outlandish John Ashton refuses to heed the warning. Alena admits to incarnating Golem, a demonic force, into her statue. A devil so profound he’s infiltrated every part of New York’s infrastructure.

In an alternate Edinburgh of 1824, every woman lives in fear that she will be the next one hanged for witchcraft. All it takes is invoking the anger, or the desire, of the wrong person. Nellie Duncan, beautiful and unwed, keeps to herself until she encounters the Rae Women's Apothecary. There, fiery Jean Rae and the other women provide cures and teach others that they too can aid the winter deity, the Cailleach, embracing her characteristic independence, agency, and craft, in turn becoming witches themselves.

A relaxing weekend getaway turns into a terrifying encounter with a mysterious creature. Set in the Florida Everglades, Jonathan is a computer engineer who enjoys getting outdoors on the weekends. During his most recent trip, he stumbles upon a local mystery that only he may be able to solve. Will he survive, or become another piece of the puzzle?

Die Tradition, zur kalten Jahreszeit Spukgeschichten zu lesen, hat sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg bewährt. Denn was gibt es Schöneres, als es sich an langen, dunklen Winterabenden mit Geistergeschichten gemütlich zu machen? Wenn die Dunkelheit hereinbricht und der Nebel aufsteigt, zünden Sie sich also eine Kerze an und lassen Sie sich von diesen gespenstischen Erzählungen in den Bann ziehen.

Locals are seeing lights above Birch Island. Shimmering green skies, accompanied by unknown crafts and gory abductions. How can Owen hope to solve the case when he’s struggling to find a place on the team? He’s no secret agent. With the night sky alight, and miles of road between them, will Owen make it in time? Or will everything be set ablaze?

La obra literaria de Leopoldo Lugones es inseparable de la visión pesimista del mundo que tenían los escritores modernista, los cuales se enfrentaron al nuevo siglo con un interés acentuado en las ciencias ocultas y el espiritualismo. En el ocaso de su vida, tía y sobrino aún son presa de los sentimientos surgidos tiempo atrás.

At the height of the American Revolution, Virginia aristocrat Vannevar Thomas fell victim to a rogue vampire. The newly Embraced Vannevar was taken in by a secretive organization of vampires known as the Camarilla and sent to San Francisco in 1849. Here Vannevar found a newborn, vibrant city, ripe for the taking—but other powers also cast covetous eyes on the growing town.

Devil’s Point, New York. Mettie Eastey loved coming from a long line of evildoers. But the senior year student is left reeling when she learns she doesn’t share her tiny Satanic town’s bloodline, destroying her relationship with her grandmother. And she can’t help thinking something’s a bit off when she chases off bullies… and the next day the taunting boys show up stone cold dead.

Arnold und Alina Habbicht haben die schrecklichen Ereignisse in denen Alina fast ihr Leben verlor überlebt und verarbeitet. Ihre Tochter Sandy, die ein Jahr später auf die Welt gekommen ist, ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Doch eines Tages verschwindet Sandy spurlos aus ihrem Zimmer. Es gibt keine Anzeichen für ein gewaltsames Eindringen.

In the ominous corridors of 1950, Eleanor Mayfield flees from her tormented past into the chilling embrace of an eerie mental institution. Each night, reality blurs as whispers and ghostly visions relentlessly stalk her. Accompanied only by a devoted security guard and a cryptic caretaker, Eleanor plunges into the institution's sinister depths, unveiling terrifying secrets that should have stayed hidden.

In the eerie twilight zone between reality and nightmare, where shadows lengthen and whispers echo, lies The Long Measure – a chilling collection of short horror stories that will linger in your mind long after the final tick. In this book, ordinary lives unravel into the extraordinary, as unsuspecting individuals encounter the unsettling and the macabre. From unsettling encounters in desolate landscapes to chilling whispers in the dead of night, each tale invites you to step into a world where the familiar becomes frightening, and the darkness lurking beneath the surface is exposed.

Clayton and Avril Shaw have lost their little boy and are still mourning when they move into Swallow’s Nest on the Yorkshire moors. In their new house Avril discovers a painting. When she learns that the boy in the painting was deaf, like her dead son, she starts to try to communicate with his ghost. Meanwhile, Clayton finds himself entangled in an equally undesirable friendship with a retired fire chief who knows more about the painting than he is prepared to let on. Is The Crying Boy painting cursed, and can numerous house fires be linked to it?

In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced. Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel, broken engagement, Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite, a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia, needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose, Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange, Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff.

An accomplished psychiatrist, she’s always prided herself on connecting to the patients who’ve been brought to the facility, no matter how difficult or closed-off they are. That is, until David arrives. At first, she listens to what David has to say. How he claims to be four-hundred years old and possessed by a demon. Her diagnosis is multiple personalities and approaches his treatment as such.

Gordon is an everyday seaside psycho, kidnapping and killing for fun, with a quality torture basement to boot. His latest victim is Jane. Sadly for Gordon, Jane turns out to be a handful of energy. Cosmic energy. And everything is about to go wrong, in the bloodiest way possible. Jane Doe is a novella that some people might find distasteful. Actually, most people might find it distasteful. If you are of a nervous disposition, or have a weak stomach, perhaps you might want to give this one a miss, yes?

Things are not going well for Elizabeth Cage. It all started with the Christmas she can't quite remember. There's blood on her doorstep every morning. Something unpleasant is heading her way. And then there's the sinister note threatening her life. The one that seems to have been written by Elizabeth herself . . .

After dropping out of med school, Lucy Sullivan thought her skill with a scalpel would only be useful for her hobbyist taxidermy. Life takes another unexpected turn when she becomes the doctor for a most unusual patient: one who's already dead. Or undead, rather. Subject X-14, The Revenant—aka Victor—may be a collection of stitched-together corpses with a hunger for human flesh, yet Lucy soon finds herself grappling with an unexpected fondness for her patient. Despite her general fear of getting close to people, she wants to make him happy just as badly as she wants to cut him open.

A disturbing novel. Do not listen if you do not wish to be disturbed.

Dagon ist eine Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft aus dem Jahr 1917 und damit eines seiner ersten Werke als Erwachsener. Veröffentlicht wurde die Geschichte erstmals 1919 in der Novemberausgabe von The Vagrant, einer Amateurpresse-Zeitschrift der damaligen Zeit, die von W. Paul Cook herausgegeben wurde. Lovecraft wurde nach eigenen Worten durch einen Traum zu dieser Geschichte inspiriert.