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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Little Jo Salter is barely old enough to walk when fate begins its cruel work. Orphaned by a plague that sweeps the town of Blackburg — a place already famous for unnatural wonders, where crimson snow once fell from the sky — the child is passed...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Basil Elton keeps the lighthouse at North Point, as his father and grandfather did before him — a lonely sentinel between the grey world of men and the endless mystery of the sea. But when the moon is full, a White Ship glides silently out of the...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a landmark work of mystery fiction and widely regarded as the first modern detective story. Set in Paris, the tale introduces C. Auguste Dupin, a brilliant and analytical investigator whose unusual powers of reasoning allow him to solve a baffling and violent crime that has left the authorities confused. When two women are found murdered in a locked room under seemingly impossible circumstances, Dupin studies the evidence, witness accounts, and contradictions with extraordinary precision.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A war that ended 26,000 years ago is calling him back. Each night, a dreamer looks up at the pole star and slips into another life — a soldier in the ancient city of Olathoë, watching the sky for signs of an approaching enemy from the frozen north...

H. P. Lovecrafts Mystery-Box: Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937); meist nur H. P. Lovecraft, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt als einer der weltweit einflussreichsten Autoren im Bereich der phantastischen und anspruchsvollen Horror-Literatur.

Der Handlung gehen essayistische Bemerkungen voran, mit denen der Erzähler seine eigene Geschichte einleitet und bekräftigt. Grauenvolle Themen ließen sich nur da literarisch darstellen, „wo Ernst und Majestät der Wahrheit sie heiligen“. Er zählt eine Reihe von Katastrophen wie das Erdbeben zu Lissabon und die Große Pest von London auf, um schließlich zu konstatieren, dass das „furchtbarste Unheil […] den Einzelnen, nicht die Gemeinschaft“ treffe.

The diabolical collection of short stories that inspired the Netflix series My Sad Dead, directed by Pablo Larraín. In these twelve spellbinding short stories, including “My Sad Dead” and the other stories behind the Netflix series, achingly human characters encounter ghosts, goblins, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mr Wraxall is an English travel writer of modest means and considerable curiosity, gathering material in a quiet corner of Sweden. His hosts at the manor house are hospitable, the family archives are extensive, and the more he reads of the estate's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Beside a still lake in the land of Mnar stood Ib, a city of grey stone as old as the lake itself, inhabited by beings that were not men. When the shepherd folk came and raised Sarnath a league away, they looked upon their neighbours with loathing, and...

Publicado anteriormente no Brasil sob o título Fantasmas do Século XX, este livro inventivo e tenebroso tem histórias que vão de temas clássicos da literatura de horror até contos sobre mundos fantásticos, O telefone preto e outras histórias estabelece Joe Hill como um autor premiado...

Eleven strange, unsettling, and darkly comic stories reveal the brilliance of one of Japan’s greatest modern writers. In *Tales Grotesque & Curious*, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa turns monks, thieves, servants, scholars, devils, and ordinary people into unforgettable studies of vanity, fear, faith...

Conto de Stephen King que inspirou o filme de Mike Flanagan, com Tom Hiddleston e Mark Hamill no elenco. "A vida de Chuck" é uma história emocionante sobre o que torna uma vida verdadeiramente inesquecível. Em "A Vida de Chuck", Stephen King narra uma fábula de trás para frente. Tudo...

"Narrator Tinashe Warikandwa gives dimension to the featured character, Ropa, as she makes her way in a harsh environment. Warikandwa captures the spirit of a young teen who quit school to become a ghost stalker to support her gran, sister, and self." -- AudioFile Magazine Sixth Sense meets...

What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don't know. Would you still push the button? "Button, Button," Richard Matheson's...

The Scarlet Gospels takes listeners back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thirty-five years vanished between one breath and the next. A dazed man wanders into a Civil War army camp at night, certain he is a young lieutenant reporting for duty — and certain the war is still raging around him. The soldiers who find him see...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Since childhood, Jervas Dudley has felt an inexplicable pull toward the old, sealed tomb of the Hyde family, hidden in the woods near his home. The more time he spends in its shadow, the less certain he becomes where his own identity ends – and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Deep in the unmapped Alaskan north, two gold prospectors camp in sight of a mountain shaped like a vast reaching hand – and watch in horror as a shaft of unearthly light stabs the sky and a broken thing crawls into their firelight. It is a man, his...

In G. G. Silverman's debut fairytale-horror collection, The Blood Year Daughter, a woman builds husbands out of gravel and slaughterhouse feathers, two sisters eat cinnamon-scented pieces of their mother, and a charming doctor's murdered brides whisper warnings to his newest wife. Silverman's...

Der Weg in andere Welten beginnt mit dem Schlüssel... Randolph Carter, ein Träumer und Entdecker des Unbekannten, findet in "Der silberne Schlüssel" einen Weg, der ihn weit über die Grenzen der Realität hinausführt. Mit dem mysteriösen Schlüssel in der Hand betritt er eine Welt jenseits der menschlichen Vorstellungskraft. Eine Welt, in der Zeit und Raum ihre Bedeutung verlieren und Mythen lebendig werden.