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Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRead throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience... -
![The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnder-appreciated in his own time, Poe's unique genius for exploring the darker corridors of the human imagination raised nightmares to the level of art. This collection includes poetry and prose, including "The Conqueror Worm", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and "The Pit and the Pendulum". 1,186 pp... -
![The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnormously popular and widely admired, Edgar Allan Poe occupies an extraordinary place in American literature. Technically skillful and spiritually haunting, Poe's body of work poems, tales, a novel, and essays—awakens readers to the darker side of humanity. This Norton Critical Edition includes Poe's most important writing, introduced, annotated, and edited by leading Poe scholar G. R. Thompson... -
![Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDelve into the dark and mesmerizing world of Edgar Allan Poe, where suspense and terror reign supreme. In this collection of his greatest works, experience the haunting brilliance of The Raven, as a lone narrator confronts a mysterious visitor in a chilling tale of loss and madness. Enter the macabre depths of The Tell-Tale Heart, where a murderer's guilt manifests in haunting paranoia... -
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![Eye of the Moon by Ivan Obolensky]()
Eye of the Moon by Ivan Obolensky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this award-winning American Gothic novel, two estranged friends, Percy and Johnny, reunite at the haunting estate of Rhinebeck where Johnny’s aunt Alice died reading an Egyptian Book of the Dead.Stumbling upon her letters and journals, they discover that her story is not what they’ve been told—not at all. Everyone has a secret, and nothing is what it seems... -
![The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. 1 by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say... -
![M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by Peter Lerangis, M. Night Shyamalan]()
M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by Peter Lerangis, M. Night Shyamalan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is the novelization of the box office hit "The Sixth Sense" about a terrified boy with a huge secret and a tormented child psychologist who needs a shot at redemption. Both are trapped in a world where nothing is what it seems... -
![A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe]()
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Dream Within a Dream is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849... -
![My Brother's Keeper by Marcia Davenport]()
My Brother's Keeper by Marcia Davenport
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on the true story of the Collyer brothers.Inspired by the 1947 New York Times articles detailing items taken from the Collyer's brownstone after their deaths, Davenport constructs a tale of the Holt brothers, one a failing concert pianist and the other a naval architect, and the events that prompted them to become recluses in later life... -
![Alice Isn't Well by Amy Cross]()
Alice Isn't Well by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"There are lots of demons in the sky above London. The problem is, this one came crashing down to earth." Ten years ago, Alice Warner was attacked and disfigured by an attacker in her own home. She remembers nothing of the attack, and she has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since. When she's finally released, however, she starts working as a security guard at an abandoned shopping mall... -
![Acluofobia. Zece povestiri macabre by Flavius Ardelean, Mircea Pricăjan]()
Acluofobia. Zece povestiri macabre by Flavius Ardelean, Mircea Pricăjan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“În România, de-a lungul timpului, am avut puţini, foarte puţini autori talentaţi care să scrie proză (cu accente) horror. Nici la momentul actual lucrurile nu stau mai bine. Există însă câţiva scriitori tineri aflaţi în plină dezvoltare artistică, iar anii următori s-ar putea să plaseze România, în sfârşit, pe harta mondială a creatorilor de fantezii macabre... -
![The Resurrectionist by Paul T. Scheuring]()
The Resurrectionist by Paul T. Scheuring
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's 1820, and the physicians of London are on fire to unlock the secrets of human anatomy, some consorting with criminals to get their scalpels into a fresh body. Job Mowatt has become such a criminal—a body snatcher, a resurrectionist. The wages are just enough to keep his brilliant daughter, Ivy, clean and safe in London's worst slum... -
![The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson]()
The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it... -
![The Demon Dentist / Who Stole The Zoo? by James Lee]()
The Demon Dentist / Who Stole The Zoo? by James Lee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSTORY #1: After Yi Shuo and his friends visit the school dentist, strange voices come out of their mouths. What has the mysterious Dr Dredd, THE DEMON DENTIST, done to them? STORY #2: When Nicholas Liao goes to the zoo, he discovers that all the animals have vanished and an evil phantom has taken over... -
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![My Creepy Computer / There's a Ghost in My Phone! by James Lee]()
My Creepy Computer / There's a Ghost in My Phone! by James Lee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTurn off your lights, get ready for frights! When the clock strikes midnight and the moon's full and bright, it's time for dread and fear. For Midnight is here. Double the danger and twice the terror! STORY #1: Ashraf's computer does all his homework for him. But then the strange creature inside it wants to control him... -
![Where I End by Sophie White]()
Where I End by Sophie White
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy mother.At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her.Through our thin shared wall, I can hear the makings of my mother gurgle through her body just like the water in the walls of the house...Teenage Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is a wreckage, the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about... -
![Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti]()
Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSongs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters... -
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Noctuary by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis collection of horror stories, many previously unpublished, includes "The Medusa," "Conversations in a Dead Language," and "Mad Night of Atonement." By the author of Grimscribe... -
![The Farm by Amy Cross]()
The Farm by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne farm. Two tragedies, thirty years apart. And a tortured figure whose presence connects both incidents... In 1979, the Bondalen family farm in Norway is home to three young girls. As winter fades to spring, Elizabeth, Kari and Sara each come to face the secrets of the barn, and they each emerge with their own injuries... -
![Miriam by Truman Capote]()
Miriam by Truman Capote
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMiriam" is about a 61-year-old widow named Mrs. H. T. Miller who wants to spend the remaining years of her life alone in her apartment near the East River after the death of her husband, H. T. Miller. She is very lonely, has no friends to speak of and does not keep in touch with any of her relatives.One day, going into a movie theater, she meets a young, intelligent girl named Miriam. Mrs... -
![The Rain Dancers by Greg F. Gifune]()
The Rain Dancers by Greg F. Gifune
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe arrives in darkness, in the middle of a violent downpour...an affable old man with tales to tell... When Will and Betty Colby return to Betty's hometown to settle her late father's affairs and prepare his house for sale, they assume they'll be faced with some cleaning, basic repairs and making runs to the local dump... -
![Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs]()
Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gripping new instalment of the adventures of Brenda and Effie.No matter what she tries to do, trouble has a way of finding Brenda. It's hardly surprising with secrets like hers. When her old adversary Mr Danby starts filling the airwaves with his late night phone in show it can only mean one thing - and sure enough best friend Effie soon finds herself up to her neck in it... -
![The Blood House by Amy Cross]()
The Blood House by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventy-five years ago, a family of three disappeared from their remote English home. Blood was left smeared all over the floors and walls, but despite an extensive search, their bodies were never found. Now the house is ready to kill again. On the run from his creditors, Owen Richards moves his wife and daughter out to the same house... -
![The House Beneath the Oak Trees by Faye Belle]()
The House Beneath the Oak Trees by Faye Belle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPenny couldn’t believe her luck when they first arrived at Oak Tree House, the grand country estate where she would be spending the week to celebrate her sister’s 30th birthday along with her mum and aunt. Guarded by two gigantic oak trees, the empty house stands alone within Oakdene, a quiet and desolate village... -
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![Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris]()
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
![Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories by Darcy Coates]()
Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories by Darcy Coates
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomething mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods. One of the morgue's corpses is missing. Your friend wants to meet late at night, but they're not acting like themselves. Immerse yourself in the macabre, the gothic, and the chilling with this collection of fifty short stories... -
![Let's Party by R.L. Stine]()
Let's Party by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJosh Maxwell is skeptical of his stepsister Josie's vision of their senior year, in which she saw the whole Shadyside High senior class lying in... -
![Beneath the Moors and Darker Places by Brian Lumley]()
Beneath the Moors and Darker Places by Brian Lumley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn addition to his stellar Necroscope series, Brian Lumley is highly regarded for his short fiction, for which he has won the British Fantasy Award. Beneath the Moors and Darker Places, a companion to The Whisperer and Other Voices, collects nine of Lumley's best long short works, many of them unavailable for decades in any form.The Cthulhu Mythos of the immortal H. P... -
![The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 'The Masque of the Red Death' and other tales of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors, of malevolent tormentors and of a mind's own sickening madnessOutside the abbey's armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the 'Red Death', while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish... -
![The Mailman by Bentley Little]()
The Mailman by Bentley Little
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's the first day of summer in a small American town. We meet a school teacher, his wife, and their young son, Billy. One thing, one seemingly minor thing, goes wrong. And all that was safe and ordinary slowly unravels into nightmare. This familiar premise for the contemporary horror novel has rarely, if ever, been developed so brilliantly as in Bentley Little's The Mailman... -
![Wyndclyffe by Joe Hart]()
Wyndclyffe by Joe Hart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe mysteries of a remote estate lead a young woman down a twisted path in this gripping gothic thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author of Or Else. After a car accident took the lives of both her parents, Mira Caine's transition to adulthood was hard and fast... -
![Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch: A Gothic Novel by Witold Gombrowicz]()
Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch: A Gothic Novel by Witold Gombrowicz
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Smuggling the most up-to-the-minute contraband in antiquated charabancs-that's what I like doing," Gombrowicz said of his work and in this later day Gothic novel he uses all the traditional paraphernalia of haunted castles, mad prince, and riddle from the past to tell the very modern story of two young people caught up in a drama of shifting identities... -
![Silent Stalker by Richie Tankersley Cusick]()
Silent Stalker by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Beware of the one who hides, who watches in the dark!"Before Jenny Logan even entered the forbidding castle - a replica of the Worthingtons' ancestral home in England - a terrified stranger warned her away. Was the warning real - or just another example of the family's macabre sense of humor? Jenny couldn't be sure... -
![Doorbells at Dusk by Evans Light, Josh Malerman]()
Doorbells at Dusk by Evans Light, Josh Malerman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHalloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their first taste of terror, the discovery and overcoming of fears. For those who find they love a good scare, that first taste can grow into a voracious appetite.That might be why you’re looking at this book right now. If so, you’ve come to the right place... -
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![La durmiente by Edgar Allan Poe]()
La durmiente by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEste libro ha sido convertido a formato digital por una comunidad de voluntarios. Puedes encontrarlo gratis en Internet. Comprar la edición Kindle incluye la entrega inalámbrica... -
![The Picture Frame by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Picture Frame by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBlake Price is the most celebrated mystery writer since Agatha Christie, but a violent tragedy from his past sends him running from his life and into a secluded cottage in the countryside. Selfishly, he drags his family with him... -
![Tales of Terror and Detection by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Tales of Terror and Detection by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) holds a unique place in American literature. Famous as a poet, he also penned short stories that are masterpieces of terror and suspense, infused with the horror and dread he knew from his feverish dreams and persistent fears of death. Fortunately for lovers of mystery, Poe was attracted by logic and analysis as well as fantasy... -
![The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates]()
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn these twenty-five gothic horror tales from the master of the short story, Joyce Carol Oates explores the waking nightmares of life with eyes wide-open, facing what the bravest of us fear the most... -
![Curse This House by Barbara Wood]()
Curse This House by Barbara Wood
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen her mother died, Leyla's only links with her heritage and family were a letter and a name—Pemberton. Resolved to seek out her past, Leyla travelled from London to the brooding mansion of Pemberton Hurst. Here she hoped to find a loving family and to unlock her mind, for she could remember nothing of her first five years of her life, spent under that very roof... -
![Een Wurgende Omhelzing by Richie Tankersley Cusick]()
Een Wurgende Omhelzing by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsComing home from a forbidden April Fools party, Belinda and her friends witness a horrible accident. When no one appears to have survived, the three friends vow not to admit they were there... -
![The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu by Paula Guran, سیما تقوی]()
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu by Paula Guran, سیما تقوی
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn outstanding anthology of original stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft from authors who do not merely imitate, but reimagine, re-energize, and renew his concepts in ways relevant to today's readers. Fresh new fiction that explores our modern fears and nightmares... -
![The New Girl by S.L. Grey]()
The New Girl by S.L. Grey
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's something strange about the new girl.Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her.Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library... -
![Come Little Children by D. Melhoff]()
Come Little Children by D. Melhoff
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA hidden town. A paranormal rumor. A family secret.The Nolan morgue is more than just an ordinary funeral home. When their newest employee uncovers a supernatural conspiracy connected to a string of child murders, she must use every shred of her intelligence to stop a new breed of serial killer and escape the morgue alive... -
![Cuando estuvimos muertos by Francesc Miralles]()
Cuando estuvimos muertos by Francesc Miralles
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"La primera vez que escuché aquella voz fue un atardecer de invierno. Había subido la cuesta del cementerio del pueblo, que estaba cubierta por una fina capa de nieve. Faltaban pocos días para que terminaran las vacaciones de Navidad y me sentia hastiado de las reuniones familiares... -
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![The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison]()
The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's a real place. It lies beyond the limits of literature, past the borders of what is expected, what is allowed. All the great artists of horror have been there. Poe. Lovecraft. King. They went as tourists, as exiles, as adventurers, and they brought back terrifying pieces of the dark. Dennis Etchison is the newest citizen of The Dark Country... -
![Dr. Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath]()
Dr. Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn two novels and one short story collection, Patrick McGrath has established himself as the foremost master of the "new gothic." He has been compared by The New York Times to Poe, Wilde, Kafka, and Robert Louis Stevenson and hailed as "an ingenious manipulator of discomfort and suspense." In Dr... -
![The Dark Shore by Susan Howatch]()
The Dark Shore by Susan Howatch
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWas it an accident that befell Sophia, millionaire Jon Tower's first wife, that weekend in Cornwall? When newly wed Sarah Hamilton arrives in England, she expects a brief stay in London before she returns to Canada and a bright future with her husband Jon... -
![Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear by Peter Haining, Souvenir Press]()
Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear by Peter Haining, Souvenir Press
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this chilling collection, banshees howl, graves open, unnamed horrors lurk in the shadows, and victims flee in terror from a doom they cannot escape... -
![The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell]()
The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt was a freak accident. The man had suddenly stepped into the road, and the brakes had failed. Clare could only steer wildly, the car finally crashing into a tree and on to the kerb. Now her brother Rob was dead, silent in the passenger seat, slumped against the door. He died of massive head injuries... -
![Creatures of the Pool by Ramsey Campbell]()
Creatures of the Pool by Ramsey Campbell
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGavin Meadows always worried about his father. The old man could appear a bit paranoid at times, and his research projects sometimes seemed a little crazy. But now his father's missing, and Gavin is more than worried. And the more he looks into his father's research, the more frightened he becomes. This time his father might have really been on to something. Something truly terrifying...
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