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BOND MUST PROVE HIS LOYALTY TO MI6 IN A DEADLY DUEL Bond may have a license to kill, but “Pistols” Scaramanga has a talent for it. He’s a KGB-trained assassin who’s left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A gold-plated Colt .45. In the...

Horror’s Golden Age 1930-1939 and Beyond

Horror maestro Christopher Lee reads this quartet of supernatural tales, adapted from the stories of M. R. James Over a century ago, M. R. James was the provost of King's College, Cambridge. He would gather together a select group of students in his rooms every Christmas Eve, and give a...

On the frozen shores of Sweden, a freak lightning storm reveals the skeleton of a giant man, his bony fist gripped tight to the shaft of an ancient iron hammer. It's not every day that the remains of a Norse god and his war hammer appear on a beach, and the occult detective called Hellboy knows that whatever is coming next won't be pleasant.

Ever perused the endless horror queue and wondered what to watch? Join Deep Cuts of Horror as we take a look at the overlooked and under appreciated films in the genre and let you know if we think they are deep, or if they need to be cut.

Shona and her family no longer live in Scotland, but the influence the country and her grandmother have had on her is undeniable. Her parents don't want to believe it, but something suspicious occurs when Shona falls asleep. It's almost as if she goes to another place entirely in her dreams. As Shona continues to have these unfathomable dreams, she becomes entangled in something she never could have expected.

Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Only a few months ago, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Points; now, she’s learning to shoot a gun and dance the waltz and throw a grown man over her shoulder. Better still, she’s been recruited to the special branch, an elite unit dedicated to cases of a paranormal nature, and that means spending her days alongside the dashing Thomas Wiltshire.

Part one of a multi-part series with distinguished actors, directors, writers, composers, and special effects mavens examining the history of the horror, fantasy, and science fiction films from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer and up through the 1980s and beyond. The Golden Age chapter covers the silent classics of Lon Chaney, to the great Universal Studios monsters of the 30s and 40s.

Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone — whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold — but just when the promise of the Stone’s riches is in their grasp, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness.

From celebrated comic artist Mike Mignola and award-winning novelist Christopher Golden comes a work of gothic storytelling like no other. Reminiscent of the illustrated tales of old, here is a lyrical, atmospheric novel of the paranormal—and a chilling allegory for the nature of war. “Why...

Mike Mignola's award-winning series Hellboy has earned fans all over the world, among them some of the most respected horror, fantasy, and mystery novelists in the field as well as some of Hollywood's most talented writers and directors. Now a who's who list of these writers are drawn together to tell their own tales of Hellboy, to play with the characters and worlds Mignola has created. As part of Dark Horse's celebration of Hellboy in 2004, Christopher Golden has brought together a stellar array of talents.

In 1994, Mike Mignola created one of the most unique and visually arresting comics series to ever see print: Hellboy. Tens of thousands have followed the exploits of the World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator in comics form and in prose. Now, fans of the comic can enjoy the world of Hellboy as seen through the eyes of some of the brightest creative lights in horror and mystery fiction.

In 525 BC, the Persian king Cambyses sent 50,000 soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the end of their 600-mile trek. The army - all 50,000 men - vanished without a single trace. Fast forward to 1986. A British archaeological team, sent to the edge of the Great Sand Sea to exhume evidence of the incident, has also gone missing.

Alone in a strange world and torn by grief, a vampire accepts the hospitality of the local lord. But can the vampire trust him once he discovers the land’s dark connection to his own quest for revenge?

Mike Mignola, the acclaimed creator of Hellboy, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden present a dark fantasy adventure featuring their occult detective in Joe Golem and the Drowning City. An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award-winning production! In 1925, earthquakes and a...

Im Raum war es dunkel. Eine einzelne Kerze war die einzige Lichtquelle. Vor einer Ikone, die das Jesuskind in den Armen seiner Mutter darstellte, kniete ein hoch gewachsener, muskulöser und schwarzhaariger Mann. Seine kräftigen Arme umschlossen den Griff eines doppelschneidigen Schwertes, mit dem er sich abstützte. Sein Haupt war gesenkt. Seine Lippen bebten. Er flüsterte. Dragan Semjon Lyssakowitsch betete... Mit gewaltigem Schwung stand der Führer der goldenen Dämmerung auf. Er trug die traditionelle schwarzrote Kleidung des Ordens. Auf seiner Brust prangte das rote Rosenkreuz. Nun also war es so weit ... Der Krieg gegen die Schattenwelt konnte beginnen!

Een raadselachtig spannend verhaal over de Kolyma in Siberië: een weg die is aangelegd boven op de botten van de gevangenen van Stalins goelag. De Kolyma in Noord-Siberië staat bekend als de 'weg des doods'. Het draagt de bittere herinnering met zich mee aan de honderdduizenden goelaggevangenen die stierven tijdens de bouw ervan, en wier overblijfselen onder de permafrost werden geploegd terwijl het werk doorging. De nederzettingen langs de snelweg zijn de koudste bewoonde plekken op aarde.

Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the Harper Connelly Mysteries, and New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden present The Cemetery Girl trilogy. She calls herself Calexa Rose Dunhill—names taken from the grim surroundings where she awoke, bruised and bloody, with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or who left her for dead. She has made the cemetery her home, living in a crypt and avoiding human contact. But Calexa can’t hide from the dead—and because she can see spirits, they can’t hide from her.

Phantastische, irrationale, mysteriöse und ambivalente Elemente beherrschen Becquers wundervolle Erzählungen, die in vereinfachter Symbolik ausgedrückt reflektieren, dass dort wo Gott stark der Teufel nicht schwächer ist. In "Das Gelöbnis" greift ständig eine weiße Hand in das Schicksal eines mächtigen Fürsten ein bis ein dubioses Verkaufs- und Entertainmenttalent zur Lösung des Rätsels beitragen kann. "Die Passionsblume" reflektiert in amüsanter Weise die Klischees der ewigen Wahrheit.

A dying film maker determined to turn his own death into his most celebrated work of art enlists one of his former actresses, Annie, to assist. But when he relinquishes the directors chair he also relinquishes his power, and Annie has her own plans for this most final of performances. A haunting tale of sci-fi horror in which the women abused by the ultimate bad media man take exquisite revenge.