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These are stories that explore the scarred outposts of desperation and desire, sickness and death, sex and decay. Within this audiobook, you will also find the acclaimed novella Nearly People (nominated for awards by the International Horror Guild and the British Fantasy Society), in which a woman's search for food in a nightmarish city brings her attention from an enigmatic man known as The Dancer, and a host of terrible epiphanies.

A short ghost story from the best-selling author of Abbot's Keep. A photographer reluctantly agrees to take images of an abandoned manor house on the Dorset clifftops only to find the building is not completely empty.

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one.... In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the...

Kaum aus der Haft entlassen, tritt Ex-Sträfling Jericho Bender einen neuen Job als Wachmann an. Er soll nachts die Ruine einer verlassenen Bibliothek bewachen, in der vor Jahren ein fürchterliches Feuer gewütet hat. Nacht für Nacht wird er in dem alten Gemäuer Zeuge unerklärlicher Phänomene. Was er anfangs noch als Hirngespinst abtut, verknüpft er bald mit der düsteren Geschichte der Bibliothek, die einst einem geisteskranken Kindermörder als Versteck diente. Als Jericho sie findet, wird die blutige Vergangenheit des »Midnight-Maniac« zu seiner düsteren Gegenwart.

Darkness lives within.... Cash strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, Stephanie Booth feels she can fall no further. So when she takes a new room at the right price, she believes her luck has finally turned. But 82 Edgware Road is not what it appears to be.

Flynn and her friends plan to spend the night in Temple Fall, a mysterious house up on the moors with a strange history, but their planned night of drinking and teenage debauchery twists into a surreal nightmare. Suddenly forced into strange choices and places, the tight–knit group starts to fall apart. And then Jackson falls to his death. In the days that come after, Flynn finds herself trapped, as if she never left the house. Consumed by the lost secrets of her family past, and haunted by the specter of a Victorian woman, she finds herself losing time and seeing things that aren’t there.

Daniel and his younger brother grew up in an abusive home, but Daniel was the only one who escaped. Now an established stunt rider, he intends to go back to rescue his brother. But then one jump goes horribly wrong . . . He recovers to find himself in Iowa, unscathed, yet his life falls has drastically changed. His best friend won’t answer his calls. Even his girlfriend is hiding something. Increasingly terrified, he clings to the one thing he knows: He must pick up his brother in San Francisco. In five days.

Growing up as foster kids at Raven’s Rock wasn’t easy, but it’s all Pennie and Eve have ever known. But now that they’re alone in the house, Eve vows that things are going to be different. She will love and protect her little sister as best she possibly can. But Pennie isn’t like other ten-year-olds, and Eve struggles to balance her own fragile self-care with caring for Pennie. Soon it becomes clear that Pennie is playing to a different set of rules – Angel’s rules – and Eve is left wondering - how much harm can an imaginary friend possibly do…?

A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field. Anyone who’s ever lost someone is haunted Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother’s death and moves there with her young children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own...

An eerie and compelling ghost story set on the dark wilds of the Yorkshire moors. For fans of The Witchfinder's Sister or The Silent Companions, this Gothic tale will weave its way into your imagination and chill you to the bone. Maybe you've heard tales about Scarcross Hall, the house on the old coffin path that winds from village to moor top. They say there's something up here, something evil. Mercy Booth isn't afraid. The moors and Scarcross are her home and lifeblood.

A woman’s past and present collide with unexpected results in this hauntingly beautiful debut novel set in rural Vermont. Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who’s afflicted with Alzheimer’s. On the night she arrives, a...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present...

Una poderosa y escalofriante novela de terror gótico ambientada en la Colombia del siglo XX. Perfecta para fans de Mexican Gothic, La maldición de Hill House y El resplandor. «Un debut absolutamente impresionante... Una autora a la que hay que seguir de cerca y un libro que hay que leer»...

Revenge is one of the great themes in literature, from Shakespeare to Poe. This collection contains 18 original stories commissioned for this volume plus a reprint of a classic Ruth Rendell mystery.

It has been just six months since David Herrick lost his beloved wife, Jessica. The grief is still an open wound. So when he receives an invitation to a reunion of long-lost friends, David’s first impulse is to refuse. After all, two decades have passed since he was in the same youth group...

Once a prominent fixture in Omaha’s high society, Nina Wilson is now drowning in debt and disgrace following the untimely death of her father. Her engagement has been broken off, her family’s grand estate has fallen into disrepair, and her mother, consumed by grief, is incapable of running the household.

Over three hundred lives were lost in Tulsa in 1921. But some stories were never laid to rest. When Ellen, Sue, and Tanya travel to Oklahoma for a wedding, they stumble upon an abandoned warehouse on the edge of Tulsa’s revitalized arts district—an enormous structure with a violent history and a price too low to ignore. Locals claim it’s haunted. They’re right. Inside its walls, whispers echo through empty hallways. Phones die without warning. A presence demands to be heard.

The Doll Maker tells the tale of Clare Lydgate, a young woman studying at boarding school for her Oxford scholarship examinations. In the evenings she escapes the school grounds by climbing over the wall of Brackenbine Hall. It is here that she encounters the charismatic and mysterious Niall Sterne, the Doll Maker. This is a subtle, intelligent, and compelling tale of horror.

El callejón de las almas perdidas nos adentra en el mundo del espectáculo, y las sombras que se amparan en él. Stanton Carlisle es un joven listo y ambicioso que trabaja en una feria ambulante. Junto con otros personajes, como una adivina, un forzudo o un fenómeno humano llamado «el monstruo», la feria viaja de pueblo en pueblo. Pero Stan quiere medrar en el negocio. Y poco a poco, aprenderá a engatusar, engañar y seducir para conseguirlo. Una novela macabra y absorbente que arrastrará al lector hasta las profundidades del mundo del espectáculo.

Wolfszeit : un temps pour les Hommes, un temps pour les loups, et seulement vingt-six jours pour stopper un tueur implacable au cœur de la forêt vosgienne. Dans le Massif Vosgien, on ne compte plus le nombre de troupeaux attaqués et d'humains mutilés. Un ancien mal s'est éveillé, provoquant le retour des loups vers leur territoire de jadis. Au village, le vieil Hansi avait prédit que le Meneu reviendrait avec sa Bête ; mais pour beaucoup, le canidé reste le coupable idéal... un fléau à abattre.