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The passage describes a fictional duel that took place on New Year's Eve in the year 2000 between Two-Gun Bob and Wild Wolf of West Shokan. Full of absurd events and bizarre descriptions, the piece introduces around thirty colorful characters, each of whom is a reflection of someone from H.P. Lovecraft's environment, under meaningful pseudonyms.

An absurd (and unfinished) story about the threat posed by the infinite network of scissor-shaped spacecraft with completely alien shapes faced by the civilization of plant-animal creatures. A mockery ridiculing the popular space opera of the 1930s. Although Lovecraft and Barlow intended to write one paragraph each, the latter created the majority of the work.

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.

After mysterious deaths appear in a rural town near the city of Hampton, an Investigator is sent to talk to an old grave digger regarding the details.

The nightmares continue as Donovan ‘Monster’ Smith brings you More Monsters in the Dark, a new collection of thirteen short horror stories. Dim the lights, close the curtains, and settle in for a spine-tingling selection of seriously creepy creature-features! From a weight loss clinic with a sinister secret to a Halloween outbreak of monsters to a teen’s birthday party gone horribly wrong, More Monsters in the Dark is a wonderful selection of strange tales and macabre mutations that are guaranteed to keep you up at night.

Овальний портрет (англ. The Oval Portrait) — оповідання Едгара Алана По про трагічну історію створення загадкового портрета. Це одне з найкоротших його оповідань. Перша версія оповідання називалася "Життя в смерті" (Life in Death) і була опублікована в "Graham's Magazine»" в 1842 році. У пустельному замку оповідач знаходить портрет красуні — дружини художника. Створюючи портрет, художник не помітив, як виснажилися сили коханої. Вона померла, ледь був покладений останній мазок. Розповідь йде від імені оповідача. Автор, подорожує по Апеннінах зі своїм слугою, втомлений, охоплений лихоманкою і поранений після зустрічі з розбійниками.

В оповіданні Яма та маятник (1840) розказано про боротьбу нелюдської жорстокості з людським розумом. Сюжет нагадав сповільнену кінозйомку. Завдання Едгара По - проаналізувати поведінку людини у хвилину катування. Людина засуджена. У момент оголошення смертельного вироку вона втратила свідомість. Засуджений почував себе у кромішній темряві склепу, він переживав страх. Едгар Аллан По зобразив очікування в муках смерті як найбільш витончений вид катування. Жертва лежала на дні склепу, зв'язана по руках і ногах, а над головою на стелі висів зловіщий маятник - сокира. Загибель породила жах.

Викажчик - серце (англ. The Tell-Tale Heart) — оповідання Едгара Аллана По, опубліковане в 1843 році в журналі "The Pioneer". Викажчик - серце — одне з найвідоміших оповідань Едгара По, історія визнається класикою готичного жанру. Це аналіз свідомості людини, що страждає від відчуття провини.Історія розповідається чоловіком, імені якого читачеві не повідомляється. Цей чоловік вбив старого, який жив з ним під одним дахом. Оповідач наполягає на своїй осудності, пояснюючи вбивство тим, що у старого було "око грифа" з більмом, яке приводило вбивцю до сказу.

How do you carry on when life has taken everything? When death has touched you, so personally, so deeply, so powerfully. How do you carry on, when the future has been stolen by the birdsong? Nothing is as it seems in this nightmare world.

The Thing in the Hall, is a rather macabre and strange story - retold by Mike Vendetti - of two friends living in London, one of whom tempts fate by inviting a spirit to visit without limiting what type of spirit he is inviting. As we know, there are "evil" spirits just awaiting a home or a victim.

The Sanctuary, a story of Satanism. "There was a thump on the ceiling overhead as if someone had fallen, and without a word we ran upstairs into Francis's bedroom. The door of the wardrobe where the vestments were kept was open, some lay on the floor. The panel was open, too, but within it was dark. In terror at what might meet our eyes, I felt for the switch and turned the light on..."

Welcome to Autumncrow Valley, where every night is Halloween. Enjoy your stay! But first, a few words of warning: Stay out of the forest. Never venture out after dark. And don't stare too long into the shadows . . . you may not like what you see. Have a pleasant visit. We hope it won't be your last.

In the end, we're all alone. Or are we? At the end of his life, one man learns that love is still more powerful than despair.

Not all monsters are fantasy. Some are very real, and they walk among us. They're our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. They're the people we're supposed to trust...and they know it. Contained within this anthology are 35 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors and best-selling novelists. Brace yourself for the unexpected and unimaginable horror of...human monsters.

Nesta nova coletânea, Stephen King conduz o leitor por doze histórias inesquecíveis, cinco delas nunca antes publicadas—incluindo "Cascavéis", a sequência inédita do aclamado romance Cujo.

Celia Fremlin's classic Gothic story collection is a masterpiece of psychological horror, mining the darkest elements of marriage, childhood, and ageing; probing paranoia, grief and toxic relationships; inviting the ghosts of the past into our present; and exploring the nightmarish secret impulses and supernatural forces lurking beneath suburban Britain.

Night & Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis, from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort in a most unlikely source. Concluding with the author's account of how an obscure horror film brought him closer to his lost father, and how nostalgia can help through our hardest times, this is a collection that will move, entertain, and keep you listening late into the night.

Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover — and sometimes even survive — the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

La storia è il classico triangolo amoroso: lui, lei, l’altra. Solo che lui (Venâncio) e lei (Dalva) si adorano. Tanto che lui è di una gelosia omicida e, quando vede lei allattare il primo frutto del loro grande amore, strappa il figlio alla madre e lo scaraventa via, uccidendolo – o così sembra. L’altra (Lucy), per converso, è la prostituta più bella e più desiderata della città, ma non da lui, che dopo la tragedia continua a vivere con la moglie, la quale però fa come se lui non esistesse obbligandolo perciò ad andare al bordello per sfogarsi, con la prima che capita.

Reflective, unhurried, and artistically rich tale about a painter who rests in a cottage by the ocean, sensing mysterious presences on the beach and in the water. The story focuses on the sensations and intuitions of the main character, imbuing the whole narrative with an evocative taste of elusive dread, quite distinct from overt horror.