Occult

I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him closer....

A cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly. A lonely child has dangerous control over an usual pop-up book. A choose-your-own adventure game spirals into an uncanny reality....

Meet Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip Witch and her crazy witch family in this ten-book cozy mystery box set....

CConsummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering at tales that probe the shadows and reveal the dark side. Now listeners can chill to this second dramatic unabridged production of short stories from his best selling book, Night Shift....

It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed....

At the heart of these stories, as with all the best of Lovecraft’s work, is the belief that the Earth was once inhabited by powerful and evil gods, just waiting for the chance to recolonise their planet....

It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and has nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum....

A spooky selection of classic stories that will get you in the mood for Halloween....

Doctor Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, has defeated demonic hordes, battled evil wizards, and tirelessly defended our realm against invading interdimensional armies....

A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out....

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it....

In a city wreathed in fog, a satanic killer stalks the streets. Enter Lieutenant Foggia who, assisted by a spiritualist medium, must discover the reason for the slayings....

Presenting the complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, read by award-award winning narrators Jonathan Keeble and Peter Noble....

Carrie White, dix-sept ans, solitaire, timide et pas vraiment jolie, vit un calvaire : elle est victime du fanatisme religieux de sa mère et des...

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories....

Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction....

In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help....

Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Now the actress is on the cusp of obscurity. When she’s offered the lead in a radical new horror film, Gemma believes her luck has changed—but her dream is about to turn into a nightmare....

This is volume one of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included....

Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves....

Shane Ryan returns to his hometown of Nashua, and the childhood memories that have haunted him throughout his life. Something sinister prowls the shadows of his family home. And a darkness threatens to destroy all he holds dear....

When Lord Henry Baltimore awakens the wrath of a vampire on the hellish battlefields of World War I, the world is forever changed. For a virulent plague has been unleashed—a plague that even death cannot end....

Newly reissued from the "modern-day Algernon Blackwood" comes five terrifying collected horror novellas....

Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind. They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation. All the test subjects went violently insane....

The Lair of the White Worm was published in 1911, shortly before Bram Stoker’s death. Set in rural England, the novel follows Adam Salton, recently returned from Australia, who encounters a mysterious series of events, all of which seem to be connected to the legend of the white worm.

Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.

Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee, in hopes that maybe it was their Ellen: Katie’s lost aunt, Judith’s long-gone lover. But they’re not the only ones to have come here looking for closure. The people of Cinderwich, a town hardly more than a skeleton itself, are staunchly resistant to the outsiders’ questions about Ellen and her killer. And the deeper the two women dig—the more rot they unearth—the closer they come to exhuming the evil that lies, hungering, at the roots of Cinderwich.

Travel into the world of the occult and meet a Vampire in this short story by W. Adolphe Roberts narrated by Mike Vendetti.

Difficile la vita di Patricia Campbell: divisa tra un marito troppo impegnato col lavoro, i figli e l'anziana suocera, la sua unica oasi felice è un gruppo di lettura di libri true crime. Un giorno al gruppo si unisce James Harris, bello, misterioso e sensibile, che fa sentire alla donna cose ormai non provate da anni. Eppure c'è qualcosa di strano in lui: non ha un conto in banca, non esce durante il giorno e la suocera di Patricia sostiene di averlo conosciuto da ragazza. Quando alcuni bambini scompaiono senza che la polizia faccia nulla, Patricia e le amiche sospettano che James sia un serial killer.

Samuel und Stephanie standen unweit des bestialischen Mordes und beobachteten das grauenvolle Treiben des menschlichen Monsters. Stephanies türkisfarbene Augen blickten ernst, fast schon böse. Ihre feinen Lippen bildeten einen dünnen Strich, ehe sie entgegnete. »Mir ist nicht wohl bei dem Gedanken, was der Plan mit dieser Bestie vorhat. Und... sind wir hier wirklich in einer Geschichte, an dessen Ende alles gut werden wird?« Samuel zuckte mit den Schultern. »Das weiß nur Gott.« Er lächelte bitter.

Weird Tales magazine is known for launching a number of sub-genres of fiction—cosmic horror, swords & sorcery, dark fantasy, and others. It has also greatly added to existing genres like science fiction, horror, and—a personal favorite of editor Jonathan Maberry—weird mystery stories. Or, as they became known—occult detective tales.

When multiple acts of violence committed by a stranger leave everyone afraid, Chief of Police Brock Lowery finds himself in the middle of something much worse than he anticipated. He is forced to question whom he can trust as people he's known his entire life turn against him to serve this mysterious figure. Can Lowery save the town and the people he's sworn to protect, or will he fail against the monster that has brought evil down upon Rappahanok Falls?

Vor den Toren Berlins lag einst mitten im Wald die Stadt Blumenthal. An bestimmten Tagen kann man Stimmen der ehemaligen Bewohner hören oder einen gelben Koffer auf dem See entdecken. Ein Anhalter, den Mina und ihr Bruder mitnehmen, erzählt ihnen von diesem geheimnisumwobenen Ort. Sie begeben sich auf die Suche nach der Stelle, an der sich die Stadt der Legende nach befunden haben soll. Als das Auto spurlos verschwindet und die Nacht hereinbricht, geraten sie immer tiefer in den dunklen Wald und merken schnell, dass sie nicht allein sind.

Stimmen in der Nacht. Geflüsterte Verse im Licht des Silbermonds. Ein Raunen, das vom Ende spricht. Die College-Schülerin Luna Bird ist ein Mauerblümchen. Wegen ihres Namens als Vogelmädchen verspottet, gerät sie aufgrund ihrer Vorliebe für okkulte Zeremonien nur zu gern ins Fadenkreuz des Schulhofadels. Als ihre Eltern bei einem mysteriösen Unfall ums Leben kommen, wird Lunas Leben auf den Kopf gestellt. Immer wieder hört sie eine Stimme, wenn das Mondlicht durch ihre Zimmerfenster scheint.

Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can't speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with bewildering suspicion. When Henry discovers his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, he is determined to find answers.

Camp Damascus is the world's most effective gay conversion camp. Nestled in the Montana wilderness, parents send their children from around the world to experience the program's 100% success rate. But, this story isn't about that. This story is about Rose Darling, a God-fearing young lady who can't stop puking up flies. It's about her parents who ignore her visions of an eerie woman with sagging, pale skin who watches from the woods. It's about the desires deep inside Rose that don't seem to make any sense, and her waking nightmares that are beginning to feel more like memories.

Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house-call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con. Their marks are the de Jacquinots: dysfunctional aristocrats who believe they are haunted by their great aunt, brutally murdered during the French Revolution. Sylvie and Charlotte will need to deploy every trick to terrify the family out of their gold – until they experience inexplicable horrors themselves.

A series of grave robberies in the 1920s go unsolved until reporter Michael Jacobs follows a new thread. His investigation leads him to a small town in the suburbs of Chicago named Elk Hills. While there, he finds out more haunting information than the police ever discovered. But with each interview bringing him closer to the truth, he finds himself becoming a part of the story he was looking to write.

En un desierto salpicado de poblados asolados por la guerra, dos desertores de bandos opuestos descubren una oscura verdad sobre su familia. Vicente Barrera, un vendedor de hilos que antaño iba de pueblo en pueblo conquistando mujeres y sembrando sus hijos en ellas, pasa sus últimos años amarrado en un cuarto convertido en un perro iracundo. María ha encontrado en Salvador un amor que, de tan profundo, parece disolverlos el uno en el otro y mezclar sus sueños como maquinados por la misma mente.

Alyssa Mann isn’t adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter. But there’s no way to avoid celebrating the big 4-0, so when her best friends drag her out for drinks and a tarot reading, she throws caution to the wind and decides to see what the spirits have to say. It’s all fun and games, until she wakes up the next morning with a wicked hangover—and a ghost perched on the edge of her bed.