Showing results for "WILLIAM" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Even if you think you don't know him, you know him. Few in the Hollywood orbit have had greater influence; few have experienced more humiliating failure in their lifetime. Thanks in part to the biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, and bearing his name, Ed Wood has become an icon of Americana. Perhaps the purest expression of Wood's théma - pink angora sweaters, over-the-top violence, and the fraught relationships between the sexes - can be found in his unadulterated short stories.

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction. Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and...

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. Cthulhu is one such god, lurking deep beneath the sea until called into being by cult followers who – like all humans – know not what they do.

This themed audio boxset bouquet centered around thriller, horror & dark psychology, presented by 'My StoryGenie' Bengali audiobook series, features an exclusively copyrighted and curated collection of Bengali audio stories from a diverse spectrum of Bengal authors–ranging from some literary giants and celebrated luminaries to some promising upcoming pens of the present era. This treatise will present you with a themed audio-stories bundle covering the pathological instinct of dark psychology that is evocative of fear, horror & irrational vulnerability.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The researcher of mysteries visits a haunted house in the state of New York. It is inhabited by infernal forces, brought forth by a once-dwelling Dutch family. S.T. Joshi calls the prototype of the story "hopeless and illiterate" (H.P. Lovecraft: A...

2020 Audie Awards WINNER - Short Stories/Collections The number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather returns with a dark and ingenious collection of 13 compelling short stories that showcase his ability to “push genre conventions to new extremes” (New...

A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is...

William Wilson hat eine Wahrnehmungsschwäche - oder ist es eine Denkschwäche? Er kann sich zwei widerstreitende Positionen seelischer oder gesellschaftlicher Art nicht in einer Person verbunden vorstellen. Er ist ein Schuft, ein Schurke und Verbrecher und bekennt an seinem Lebensende, wie es so weit hat kommen können. Die Antwort ist einfach. Seine Erklärungen sind teils nachvollziehbar, teils lange nach Ende des Hörbuchs noch rätselhaft. In seiner Jugend fiel ihm ein vermaledeiter Doppelgänger unentwegt in den Arm - oder quälte ihn sein Gewissen?

William Wilson descubre en el colegio que existe un alumno con sus mismos nombres y apellidos, ingresó el mismo día que él en el colegio y nació en idéntica fecha a la de su cumpleaños. La superioridad que ejerce su alter ego con respecto a él se empieza a convertir en obsesión... William Wilson es uno de los relatos clásicos de Poe, en el cual el escritor de Baltimore se convierte en uno de los pioneros al presentarnos la figura del doble, el otro yo, aquel que en cualquier momento puede arrebatarnos lo más preciado de nuestras vidas, es decir, la identidad.

Der legendäre US-amerikanische Schriftsteller Edgar Allan Poe gilt als Architekt der modernen Kurzgeschichte. Zugleich ist er einer der Begründer der heutigen Kriminal- und Horror-Literatur. In dieser neuen Hörbuchreihe liest Arndt Schmöle mit seiner unverkennbaren Stimme einige der bekanntesten und speziell ausgewählte Original-Texte von Poe in ungekürzter Form. Arndt Schmöle ist Sprecher für zahlreiche Hörbücher, Hörspiele und ist als Synchron- und Off-Stimme in Computer-Spielen. Dokumentar-Filmen und Werbespots zu hören.

Ça vous dirait de vivre votre propre autopsie ? De rencontrer le Diable ? De vous tuer par désespoir dans les plaines enneigées du Minnesota ? De fuir la police en compagnie de Dillinger ? De devenir assassin via l’internet ou de trouver la petite pièce porte-bonheur qui vous fera décrocher le jackpot ? Alors, laissez-vous guider par Stephen King pour écouter ces quatorze nouvelles : Salle d’autopsie quatre. L’homme au costume noir. Tout ce que vous aimez sera emporté. La mort de Jack Hamilton. Salle d’exécution.

Matthew Cahill is a simple man leading a quiet life... until he is tragically killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. Three months later his corpse is found and sent to the morgue - but then something inexplicable happens. He wakes up. Now he can see evil... as a festering rot that eats people alive from the inside out. And he can see Mr. Dark, the horrific figure who gleefully spreads it like a plague... and whois the only one who can tell Matt whether he is still a man... or the walking dead.For Matt, each day is a journey into a supernatural world he knows nothing about....

Hearts in Atlantis is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.

My Peculiar Family is an anthology of Gothic horror and unusual stories like none ever published before! Combining New York Times best-selling authors (Christopher Golden, Tracy Hickman), Amazon best-selling authors (William Meikle, Derrick Belanger, Rob Watts), award-winning authors (James A. Moore, Stacey Longo), and emerging talents, this anthology unites these authors, who have sold millions and million books between them, to come together for a common cause.

Matt seeks out a paranoid visionary who claims to have defeated an entity just like Mr. Dark. His quest takes him deep into the Michigan woods — and into a bloody siege between warring, paramilitary factions in James Daniels’ "The Beast Within".

A shocking accident gave Matthew Cahill the ability to see a nightmarish netherworld that nobody else does, pitting him in a fight to save us all - and his own soul - from the clutches of pure evil in these three exhilarating tales of dark humor, nonstop action, and pure horror.

Conversación con una momia, El corazón delator, El sistema del Dr Tarr y el profesor Fether (Poe). Del más allá, El modelo de Pickman (Lovecraft). El ladrón de cadáveres, Markheim (Stevenson) El caballo invisible, La habitación que silbaba, La puerta del monstruo (Hodgson)

A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill. "One of America’s finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter...

"Songs in the Key of Death," an anthology of music-infused crime stories by acclaimed author William Bankier. For over thirty years, starting in the 1960s, Bankier's love affair with music mixed with his hard-boiled crime stories to produce some of the most exhilarating and dramatic crime fiction of his generation. Many of Bankier's best works originally graced the pages of classic pulp magazines like "Alfred Hitchcock" and "Ellery Queen Magazine," where Ellery Queen himself declared, "No one in the genre writes about music better than William Bankier."

An unsettling and creepy story collection of literary horror set in the Renfield universe from “major new talent” (R.L. Stine) Sam Rebelein, author of Edenville. “I hope I get to go back to Renfield County again, before too long.” —LitHub on Edenville There’s something wrong in...