All hauntings have a beginning, even the cursed Lighthouse of the city of Alucard Heights. When an odd stranger to the western town of Alucard Heights and makes a deal to build a Lighthouse, the price may be more than one family is willing to pay. Jullien Froste wants to be able to to care for his family without a struggle, but with alcohol and women getting between him and his family, the stranger may be altering the deal just to enjoy himself.
Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Body-Snatcher (1884) is the tale of MacFarlane and Fettes, a pair of "resurrection men," or body-snatchers - unsavory types who secretly disinter fresh corpses from graveyards to sell as anatomy subjects. This grim little tale is based on reality, as in Edinburgh - Stevenson's home town - body-snatching was so common they built high walls and guard towers around the graveyards. Sometimes, for want of a corpse, an even less scrupulous body-snatcher might j...
Day 8 New Human War Part 1 (Day 8 New Human War, #1)
by Daylon Deon
Legendary and Ancestral Ghosts of Ireland (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
by St John D Seymour
Tales of Gothic Castles and Terrifying Mansions (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (Necroscope) (Gateway Essentials)
by Brian Lumley
When vampires stalk among us . . . Robbed of his supernatural powers, Harry Keogh is back from Starside, the vampire sourceworld. A mere man again - denied access to the metaphysical Moebius Continuum, no longer able to communicate with the dead - now he must rebuild his life in a world made safe only through his efforts. But safe for how long? E-Branch, Britain's mindspy organisation, wants Harry back with his invaluable talents intact. Likewise the Great Majority, his countless dead fr...
Something sinister has befallen Florida's Meridian Cove in the wake of several unusually active hurricane seasons. An unexplainable rash of suicides and disappearances has swept over the town, like the immensely powerful hurricane that is set to ravage the coastline in mere days. A bizarre series of events heralding the impending storm confront police chief Kevin Handley with a mystery so sinister, so profoundly evil, the likes of which have never before been seen by mankind. Through fate, Handl...
Uniquely bizarre, unsettling and suffused with a sly with and outright laughter, Walpole's Hieroglyphic Tales - according to him 'incontestably the most ancient work in the world' - are some of the rarest writings of the eighteenth century, and a literary counterpart to the sham battlements and paper gargoyles of Walpole's enchanting architecture. This edition was prepared by Professor Kenneth Gross of the University of Rochester, and includes an extra story preserved only in manuscript transcri...
The 14 stories gathered together have been frightening people around campfires - and even in the safety of their own homes - for years.
Martin Arnold ist einer der profiliertesten experimentellen Filmemacher Osterreichs. Seine jungste Arbeit "Deanimated: The Invisible Ghost"ist eine Art Ubermalung eines klassischen amerikanischen Horrorstreifens: im Verlauf der Handlung werden zentrale Figuren des Geschehens mit digitalen Mitteln herauskopiert, sodass sich der Film sukzessive entvolkert. Durch diesen Deanimationsprozess entsteht aus der alten, herkommlichen Suspense-Geschichte eine neue, die offener und ratselhafter ist. Deanima...