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John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift...

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.

Dein schlimmster Albtraum ist auf der Jagd nach dir, und er weiß, wovor du dich am meisten fürchtest. Eigentlich hätte der Campingtrip in die kalifornischen Klamath Mountains Richard Corwen und seine Familie einander wieder näherbringen sollen. Das heruntergekommene Städtchen Weed, um das sich unheimliche Legenden ranken, schien dem Horrorautor ein geeigneter Ort dafür zu sein. Doch statt eines geselligen Miteinanders erwartet die Corwens ein Albtraum aus Tod und Wahnsinn, denn etwas Grässliches geht in der Umgebung von Weed um.

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 moqueries incessantes de ses camarades de classe. Sans compter ce don, cet étrange pouvoir de déplacer les objets à distance, bien qu'elle le maîtrise encore avec difficulté... Un jour, cependant, la chance paraît lui sourire. Tommy Ross, le seul garçon qui semble la comprendre et l'aimer, l'invite au bal de printemps de l'école.

Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can’t shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid’s uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism. Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she’d never do: she goes home.

Chaos gathers like a dark cloud above Omara - as the evil Anakhizer prepares to unleash a storm of wizard war upon the last stronghold of the human race. Only the stolen power of Orhung's rod can bring salvation to the doomed world. But the wondrous instrument lies in the perilous deplanes beneath the nice. And Brannog, now King among the Earthwrought - along with a beautiful girl possessing remarkable gifts - must embark on a dangerous quest to battle the ultimate in corruption and return hope to his land.

Magic is seeping out of the world, leaving the witches who've relied on it for countless centuries increasingly hopeless. While some see an inevitable end of their era, others are courting madness - willing to sacrifice former allies, friends, and family to retain the power they covet. While the other witches watch their reality unravel, young Alice Marin is using magic's waning days to delve into the mystery of numerous disappearances in the occult circles of New Orleans.

Als eine Clique Jugendlicher das verlassene Sommercamp betritt, suchen sie nach einem letzten Abenteuer vor dem Ende ihrer Schulzeit – doch was sie finden, ist der blanke Horror. Zwischen dunklem Aberglauben, brutaler Realität und einer skrupellosen Verschwörung geraten die Freunde in einen tödlichen Strudel aus Gewalt und Wahnsinn.

She thought she was dead. When she woke up in hospital, she could barely remember getting on the flight, let alone the terrorist bomb from which she was the only survivor. But she can hear the voices in her head, for they are the spirits of the dead passengers. They cannot rest until they have delivered their terrifying message: The terrorists know she survived, and are coming for her.

The very first occult hero journey in history, discovered on ancient tablets in an underground cave in the Amazon jungle, Nevi'im Emet of the Enlightened Rastari brings to you the eyewitness account of the mythical early life of Krstjah Sa Ra Rastari, written by his chaperone and FRIEND, King Sattvastar of Bharata. Advented 25,000 years ago by the God of Wisdom, in order to free the God of Righteousness from the tomb of the Evil One, Krstjah Rastari was born as the Son of the Sun but just a man, yet he would eventually ascend to Sirius as the Supreme Avatar of Neter, the Almighty God.

One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth. It was dank, wet and gloomy; he couldn't wait to get home and sit in front of a blazing fire. Then, out of nowhere, the tailor is knocked off his horse by a raven, who then transforms into a hideous dog, his mouth writhing with its own innards. The dog issues the tailor with a warning: he must go to a priest and ask for absolution and return to the road, or else there will be consequences.

Published in 1927, Scottish writer John Buchan's Witch Wood is set in a rural parish located in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The story centers around newly ordained minister David Sempill's arrival in Woodilee in the wake of the Church of Scotland's acceptance of the Solemn League and Covenant and explores themes and issues surrounding religious tolerance and seventeenth-century Calvinism. With pagan rituals, an outbreak of the plague, and rumors about fairies and the devil, Witch Wood also delves into the supernatural and occult.

Life for Lily Locke has not been normal ever since she learned of her witchy heritage, but now more than ever, her world is spiraling out of control. When a series of strange events begin to tear her beloved island apart, it's up to the famed Mixologist to seek out the most powerful wizard in the world and spare him from death. However, as Lily begins the hunt for the Master of Magic, she encounters a prophecy that could destroy everyone she's come to know and love.

Steig ein, schnall dich an und genieße den kurzen Roadtrip. Doch sei gewarnt: Wer Trapwood zu nahe kommt, kehrt vielleicht nie mehr zurück. Durch einen Zufall kommen Tracy und Mike kurzfristig an Karten für die begehrte Gruseltour de luxe in Trapwood. Mit dem Auto macht sich das Studentenpaar zu einem Wochenendausflug in die Kleinstadt auf. Alles scheint perfekt, bis eine Straßensperrung sie zu einem Umweg zwingt – der Straight Lane, die mitten durch den berüchtigten Fog Forest führt. Einem Ort, der immer wieder für schockierende Schlagzeilen sorgt.

What drove Harry Houdini - magician, escapologist, and one of the most famous men in the world? Whether it was escaping from handcuffs, a straitjacket or from a box filled with water, Houdini wowed audiences with his seemingly death-defying performance... This BBC Radio collection shares the...

Horror in den Überhöhischen Dörfern. Aus den Archiven des Wächterbundes kommt diese aufregende Erzählung in der Welt des populären deutschen Rollenspiels HeXXen 1733. Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg öffnete sich ein Tor zur Hölle, und die Menschheit muss sich seither mit Hexen, Vampiren, Dämonen und anderen widernatürlichen Bestien herumschlagen. Heinrich Martell steht in diesem Kampf an vorderster Front. Der Söldner soll das Verschwinden von Reisenden nahe Grambach, einem abgelegenen Dorf im Taunus, aufklären. Eigentlich Routine für einen erfahrenen "Jäger", doch hier ist nicht alles, wie es scheint.

"The White Ship" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19), November 1919, and later appeared in the March 1927 issue of Weird Tales. Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full. Elton walks across the water on a bridge of moonbeams, joins the bearded man on the ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.

"The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote "The Tree" early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a 1936 letter. Such stories, he said, "if typed on good stock make excellent shelf-paper, but little else."

A strange old man, "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name," lives alone in an ancient house on Water Street in the town of Kingsport. Even among the locals, few know the details of the old man's life, but it is believed that he once captained East Indian clipper ships in his youth and accumulated great riches throughout his life. Those who had visited the property had seen bizarre collections of stones in the front yard and observed the old man carrying on conversations with mysterious bottles on his table.

"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales #24 in September 1925. The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a lieutenant-commander in the Imperial German Navy during the days of World War I. Altberg begins by declaring that he has decided to document the events leading up to his untimely end in order to "set certain facts" before the public, aware that he will not survive to do so himself.