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Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Lurking Fear brings to life H.P. Lovecraft's tale of a lingering supernatural horror in a 1930s-style radio drama. A freak storm decimates the population of a remote village in the Catskill Mountains. As the local authorities investigate, they begin to suspect there's more at work than unseasonable weather.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known for his spine-tingling and beautifully written ghost stories. The Room in the Tower is the most famous of these. It describes a horrific recurrent dream of nameless dread, occurring over a period of 15 years, in which the dreamer arrives at a peculiar house inhabited by a sinister silent family, where he takes tea on the lawn and is then shown to the room in the tower where something dreadful, malicious, and evil lurks...

Up until recently, Freeman has been known primarily as a "feminist" writer, for her classic stories like "A New England Nun", and "The Revolt of Mother". However, she also wrote many well crafted supernatural stories which have only recently begun to attract appreciative critical attention. These stories combine pragmatism and supernaturalism and are very much in the tradition of an "Americanized" Gothic.

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery.Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people.

A fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside, no way in, no way out. Edgar Allan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man able to solve mysteries through observation and deduction.

Following the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft's remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature." athering together in chronological order the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, this collection includes the entirety of the long-out-of-print collection of thirty-six sonnets "Fungi from Yuggoth."

Sir Richard, having inherited his family estate, looks forward to beginning a new life amidst the peaceful English countryside. His pastoral dreams of contentment soon turn to nightmares as the old ash tree outside his window reveals a terrible curse upon his family - a curse of unrelenting hatred that is thirsting for revenge.

Barry Pain was noted for his humorous tales of “Eliza” and her husband, but his tales of the weird and supernatural are equally noteworthy. This volume, More Tales in the Dark, contains eight of them.

Peter riceve una lettera da Roderick Usher, suo amico d'infanzia. Nella missiva, l'uomo gli chiede, in un tono di supplica, di raggiungerlo nella sua casa di famiglia. L'incontro con il vecchio amico è triste, perché Roderick Usher è chiaramente malato. Il suo aspetto è pallido, emaciato; i suoi nervi sono scoperti e vive in perenne stato di ansia.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A View from a Hill". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Ash-tree". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Residence at Whitminster". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Best known for his masterpiece of horror, Dracula, Bram Stoker wrote a number of other novels and many short stories, all on supernatural themes or filled with a physical terror reminiscent of Poe. "Dracula’s Guest" was originally part of the great novel, but was excised and published separately. Some of these stories, such as "The Squaw", "The Judge’s House" and "The Burial of the Rats", rank very high among classic tales of the macabre.

In early 20th Century England Hamilton James Macaulay relates the tale of how he found himself in a Scarborough Bric-a-brac shop. The owner of the shop has 13 long playing records that each contain a hidden track at the end, that tell strange tales of future times. These 13 tales of terror will change Hamilton James Macaulay's life forever and he will leave the shop a murderer. Thirteen is a portmantaeu audio anthology, harking back to the classic horror albums of the 1970s.

Daniel Kohlhaas und Daniel Juhr erzählen ihren Lesern vier Geschichten in einem Buch. Sie spielen immer mit der Angst. Mit dem, wovor jeder sich fürchtet. Sie erzählen von Abgründen der menschlichen Seele. Von geheimen Sehnsüchten. Von Verlust. Von Dunkelheit. Von Geheimnissen. Von Mysterien. Nur, wer sie alle liest, erfährt die ganze Wahrheit. Trifft Figuren, die in allen Geschichten auftauchen. Und lernt ihr Schicksal kennen. Denn keine Geschichte steht für sich allein in diesem einzigartigen Mysterythriller, der im gesamten Bergischen Land und im Westerwald spielt.

Als würde es nicht schon genügen, dass ihr Vermieter den alten Menschen im Wohnblock die Mieten um 40 % erhöht, nein es stinkt auch noch bestialisch im Keller des Hauses. Als der rüstige Rentner Michael Carpenter nach der Ursache suchen will, ahnt er nicht, in welche Gefahr er sich begibt, denn dort unten erwarten ihn... Monster im Keller!

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.

Ghosts, ghouls, witches, and other unearthly creatures promise to chill the blood and raise the hair of even the most courageous listener. Volume Two in this series presents more classic horror to enjoy beyond the spooky season. Brought to you by the slightly unhinged Utah Audiobook Narrators...

Dagon is a short story by American author H.P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories. The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I.