Urban Fantasy Horror

The dead do not rest till they get what they want. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence... You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills. A beautiful woman in white haunts the Lonely pathways, looking to enchant and ensnare men... All the people who died in accidents here... They say you hear their screams at night. And the deserted lodges sitting amidst lush greenery and calm streams...

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed best-selling author Scott Kenemore ( Zombie, Ohio) that takes the reader on a thrilling ride through an interconnected series of stories narrated by the desk clerk and the residents of the hotel itself. And while it is not known whether or not the desk clerk is actually the devil incarnate, it is strange that so many visitors who come for a tour of the hotel have a way of never leaving.

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults, and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us.... Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly 80 years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge.

Whether they are undeniably heroes and heroines or bloodthirsty monsters (or something in between), the undead are a lively lot. This anthology offers some of the best short fiction ever written by the "blood sisters" who know them best: stories you can really sink your teeth into.

When a young girl visits her favorite bookshop one rainy day, something isn’t right. The building is dark and cold. Rats skitter past the door. Soft chewing and scratching sounds echo up from the basement. Can the mighty Librarian help the girl defeat the horrors lurking within the bookshop?

The Earth is dying. Humanity - over-breeding, over-consuming - is destroying the very planet they call home. Multinational corporations despoil the environment, market genetically modified crops to control the food supply, and use their wealth and influence and private armies to crush anything, and anyone, that gets in the way of their profits. Nothing human can stop them. But something unhuman might. Once they did not fear the sun. Once they could breathe the air and sleep where they chose.

Tras los hechos ocurridos en "Los crímenes del lago", Eric Armstrong cree que su vida va a ser feliz y tranquila. Conserva su trabajo como librero, ha encontrado un piso en el que vivir y no ha vuelto a experimentar ni un solo suceso que huela a fenómeno paranormal. Además, lleva tres meses saliendo con Debbie, la chica más maravillosa del mundo. La relación va tan bien que ella le ha invitado a Roanoke a pasar las navidades con su familia. Nada más llegar a la isla, su idílica vida empieza a desmoronarse por una serie de acontecimientos inexplicables.

Two men, a bitter rivalry, and a quarter-century of unspeakable horrors. Herbert West’s crimes against nature are well-known to those familiar with the darkest secrets of science and resurrection. Obsessed with finding a cure for mankind’s oldest malady, death itself, he has experimented upon the living and dead, leaving behind a trail of monsters, mayhem, and madness. But the story of his greatest rival has never been told until now.

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

Tras los hechos ocurridos en Los crímenes del lago, Eric Armstrong cree que su vida va a ser feliz y tranquila. Conserva su trabajo como librero, ha encontrado un piso en el que vivir y no ha vuelto a experimentar ni un solo suceso que huela a fenómeno paranormal. Además, lleva tres meses saliendo con Debbie, la chica más maravillosa del mundo. La relación va tan bien que ella le ha invitado a Roanoke a pasar las navidades con su familia. Nada más llegar a la isla, su idílica vida empieza a desmoronarse por una serie de acontecimientos inexplicables.

Algo oscuro pasea desde hace décadas por los pasillos de la casa Cavendish. La gente que ha visitado la mansión habla de ruidos, golpes, voces susurradas, pasos que no proceden de ningún sitio... Algunos cuentan que vieron sombras o que les pareció vislumbrar una figura a lo lejos, alguien escondido que les observaba... Otros sólo se atreven a comentar que sintieron un frío repentino, un aroma a flores muertas, una atmósfera opresiva que les impulsó a huir para no regresar. Sea como sea, todos saben que allí acecha algo oscuro, tenebroso y maldito.

Posesiones, extrañas ejecuciones, sueños proféticos, inquietantes presencias, un asesino sanguinario venido del más allá...y todo ello en los oscuros corredores y pabellones de Sing Sing, una de las prisiones más tenebrosas y peligrosas de Estados Unidos. Aleister McNeal y Eloise Carter, los dos jóvenes investigadores de lo sobrenatural que terminaron con la maldición de la casa Cavendish y con los crímenes de Rockport, deberán enfrentarse a un nuevo caso que pondrá en peligro su vida, su cordura...y su propia alma.

Lee Amaranth is a mystic, not a mage. In fact, he’s never cast a spell in his life...With his sister missing, however, he has no choice but to go on a search that leads him to the locked gates of Primhaven University, a school forbidden to those untouched by arcane potential...Luckily, if he plays his cards right, he might just have some help. It’s up to Lee to decide who to place his trust in as he formulates a plan to fake his way through classes and exams.

The Rook family run a little business: ghost hunting. And things have picked up recently. Something's wrong. It's been getting noticeably worse since, ooh, 2016? Bad spirits are abroad, and right now they're particularly common around Coldbay Island, which isn't even abroad, it's only 20 miles from Skegness. The Rooks' 'quick call out' to the island picks loose a thread that begins to unravel the whole place, and the world beyond. Is this the apocalypse? This might be the apocalypse. Who knew it would kick off in an off-season seaside resort off the Lincolnshire coast?

Harrison dice di essere stato, un tempo, il Piccolo Eroe di Dunnsmouth, il Detective dei Mostri, ma ora che ha più di trent'anni passa la maggior parte del suo tempo a ingurgitare pillole senza mai dormire. Stan, a quanto pare, anni prima ha goduto di una certa notorietà dopo essere stato quasi divorato da un gruppo di cannibali. Barbara invece è ossessionata dai messaggi che l'Intagliatore le ha inciso sulle ossa e che non ha mai potuto leggere.

In the beginning was the Oak, its hungry roots reaching deep into the earth, its gnarled limbs searching the distant heavens. Two hundred years ago, Obediah Magrute worshipped the Oak and died violently beneath it, feeding it with his blood and bone, shouting his chilling curse to the skies. Now, Laura and Mark Avery have come to the bustling little Vermont village.

These stories present electric messiahs, identity constructs, the Beatles, and even a nuclear Armageddon, which serve as comic foils for Lain's everyman characters. Here is an America where packets of Sea Monkeys arrive in the mail containing secret messages, and the girl next door can breathe underwater. With Last Week's Apocalypse, Douglas Lain arrives with a punch line and a warning.

What do you do after you’ve saved the world and nobody believes you? Amber is a teenage runaway, hiding out in Los Angeles, who is also a daughter of the wolf kind. And, not long ago, she had her own personal demon. Richard was her servant, her lover, and a hellish force bound to the Earth against his will. Together they turned back the World Snake that threatened to destroy the city and she had granted Richard his freedom. Now Amber is alone, but nobody accepts that she has truly shed her demon.