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Das Ehepaar Lys und Patrick Francis wollten eine kostengünstige Reise machen, doch statt Entspannung warten auf sie eine ganze Menge skurriler Persönlichkeiten. Ob eine nervtötende Influencerin, unangenehme Dorfbewohner, ein wortkarger Busfahrer, ein schießwütiger Polizist oder ein unheimliches Schloss inklusive bedrohlicher Bewohner, unsere beiden haben einiges zu tun, um hoffentlich mit heiler Haut davonzukommen. Sie hätten nie gedacht, dass aus ihrem harmlosen Trip eine Horror-Tour wird, denn es wartet ... Das Grauen auf Schloss Moosdran.

“A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel.” –J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters “A fantastically moody, unsettling novel.""–Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests and Fingersmith A ""bold ... hypnotic"" (The New Yorker)...

In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands.

In 1921, Marian Arnold, the heiress to a brewing baron’s empire, seeks solace in the glass butterfly house on her family’s Wisconsin estate as Prohibition and the deaths of her parents cast a long shadow over her shrinking world. When Marian’s sanctuary is invaded by nightmarish visions, she grapples with the line between hallucinations of things to come and malevolent forces at play in the present. With dead butterflies as the killer’s ominous signature, murders unfold at a steady pace. Marian, fearful she might be next, enlists the help of her childhood friend Felix.

Ember is a succubus, consuming in every sense. My theory is proven when I specifically ignore Ember for an entire month, yet her scent remains in my nostrils, the vision of her in my mind’s eye. Her peppery musk dances along the back of my tongue, ruining my taste for anyone else. Savannah Merricourt is labeled as my intended, and I should accept it, as I do everything, because my father’s too powerful and I’ve been locked in the basement too many times.

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

Jonathan Harker, jeune clerc de notaire, est envoyé par son employeur, Monsieur Hawkins, notaire à Londres, dans un château isolé des Carpates situé en Transylvanie, auprès du comte Dracula. Le comte Dracula souhaite en effet acquérir une maison à Londres, où il veut se rendre prochainement. Mais malgré la politesse de son hôte, le jeune Jonathan se sent terriblement mal à l'aise en présence du comte, sans qu'il ne parvienne à définir précisément les causes de son appréhension. Surviennent alors des évènements étranges.

I sentieri dell'avidità possono condurre a mete terrificanti. È la lezione di vita che nonno Livio vuole impartire al nipote Luca, e lo fa rivelandogli uno spaventoso segreto che conserva sin dai tempi della sua giovinezza: "Ultimamente ho la fissa che almeno una persona nella nostra vita meriti di sapere chi siamo davvero. Perché proprio tu? Chi altri può credere a certe cose, se non un ragazzino sveglio? La gente adulta e "normale" non vuole sentire queste storie..." Un moderno racconto dell'orrore puramente campagnolo.