Action Horror

This recording is of the 11 essays and stories contained in Volume Five and includes two examples of Poe’s activity as a literary critic. Poe’s dry wit is laced through many of these tales and will bring a wry smile to your lips even as you shiver at the consequences of “betting the devil your head”.

Jon lost his job in Vancouver and finds work at a small gold mining camp. His wife and his young son join him. When the toddler shows them what he had found near the tree line, they know there is something dark waiting for them.

At the Mountains of Madness first appeared in 1936, in the February, March and April editions of the American magazine Astounding Stories. One of H.P. Lovecraft’s most chilling works, it draws on Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as well as Lovecraft’s deep fascination with the Antarctic. The sinister discoveries made by a group of explorers in At the Mountains of Madness are testament to the author’s enormous powers of imagination.

Something terrifying has started happening in Eggerton. People are turning up drained of blood and very, very dead. Have vampire bats started attacking humans? If so, then who's delivering the hammer-blow that finally kills the victims? For Detective Inspector Jack Sears it's a mystery that not even virologist Doctor Christopher Deacon can help fathom. But then the police get lucky.

While the world's still choked with monsters - their work is never done. Tireless and dedicated, the Aces scour the globe in pursuit of the creatures that seek to terrorize humanity. For this ongoing mission, they leave no stone unturned - and no monsters alive. Whether it be in far-off wilderness, small-town America, or among the concrete canyons of the big city, Cap'n, Gats, Joker, Digger, and Trill continue to risk their lives at the cost of their own identities to keep us safe from the things that go bump in the night.

He medically retired with his pension and a dream. He had always planned to open a Security Consulting firm. His dream would be made easier when the young Marines wealthy grandfather dies. The old man had felt the need to reward Brian for his heroic deed. The reward comes in the form of a long abandoned government research facility and a lot of cash. With the help of some old friends, and a few new ones, Brian finds himself quickly making his dream a reality.

When a new island forms in the South Pacific after a volcanic eruption, nearby nations quarrel over who owns the fresh land. One of the countries sends an advance scouting party to plant flags and lay claim to the nascent isle, but none of that party returns. The sponsoring nation is accused of deception. Political rivals assert that members of the landing party are still on the island, building a military installation in secret.

Ellie has been taken captive by a group of leeches on the orders of a mysterious person. She has lost it all, her family, her friends and her life. All taken by the monsters but will Ellie fight for her life or submit to their will. While desperately waiting for her rescue that may never come, she finds small comfort in a familiar blue eyed man. There is no hope for Ellie unless Rhea try's to enlists the help of an old ally she turned her back on many years ago, but will this mysterious old friend want to help the desperate party?

Miskatonic University is bathed in the blood of the students who have walked its halls. A place where the darkness is more than just shadows. As with many of the best universities, many students having a distinguished family name—but at Miskatonic this can be as much a curse as a blessing. Such an aged repository of occult histories has secrets of its own. Miskatonic University is an anchor for all reality. Held tentatively in place by spells woven into its walls over generations. Someone, somewhere, is breaking those spells and all of the universe is on the brink of tearing apart.

The war that everyone had feared has finally broken out. While Sir Thomas and Mr. Bertrand cope with the grim realities of the modern battlefield in Flanders, Adelaide is sent to hunt for spies in the wilds of Yorkshire. The safety of her adopted countrymen, and England's ability to resist the German onslaught are both at stake, and she soon learns that the fight is not limited to Europe alone, but elsewhere, and in the shadows...

On their way to South America for vacation, Anita along with her sister Sabrina are given the luxury of being flown for free by their rich dad in his personal private jet. But when the plane ultimately crashes in the middle of the Guyana jungle, Anita and Sabrina become stranded - with their dad unfortunately not surviving the crash. Now, just when it seems as if things can't get any worse, they become kidnapped by a cannibalistic tribe who serve as bodyguards for a hidden Nazi community.

In the beginning, there were seven. Seven magical beings, with the power to change the world. Now, only one remained. Bliss was the last of her kind. Since she was born, she has been hunted for her power, sought for far and wide by one of the first humans able to use magic - a vampire named Gavril. Darkness had consumed his entire being, making him feel no remorse, nor guilt, nor loyalty to anyone but power itself. Living her life in peril, Bliss was only able to survive through the efforts of a unique creature called the Watcher.

A father's worst nightmare. A new hero's greatest challenge. A deadly secret. And one crazy demon hunter....A cunning trap, a hundred years in the making, is about to be sprung by Joseph Miller and his companions, Mike Samson and Ann Melakh. Surrounded by enemies and betrayed by friends, the demon hunters find themselves in the fight of their lives.

Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can't help, nor can psychiatrists. So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate and finds his own soul is on the line.

Aaron Stiles is dead. He's been dead for four years, but doesn’t seem to know it. He's waiting for his partner Bill to come home, and until that happens, he’s not going anywhere. The trouble is, Bill Somers won't be coming home - ever - because he's dead, too. The official verdict was suicide, but...

Novela clave en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo veintiuno, Vivir abajo es un audiolibro de aventuras, un relato de horror, un misterio policial, una historia hecha de mil historias y una crónica de viajes por los territorios de la locura y el espanto. También es una novela de humor quijotesco, poblada por artistas enloquecidos, espías eruditos, poetas fantasmales y venganzas equivocadas. Comienza en Perú, cuando un cineasta americano comete un tenebroso homicidio en el sótano de una casa el día de la captura de Abimael Guzmán, líder de Sendero Luminoso.

En esta peculiar y sorprendente novela, Izumi Kyoka pone en práctica una suerte de "gótico japonés", con la escalofriante historia de Akira, un joven obsesionado con una melodía de una canción de su infancia, el único recuerdo que aún lo ata a su madre fallecida. En su búsqueda por mantener vivo el recuerdo llegará a la Puerta Negra, una mansión encantada. Con ayuda de un monje y un anciano, entrará en la mansión en busca de su premio... aunque le esperan numerosos peligros antes de conseguirlo.

Ghost story novelist Eskil Godek, the legendary Voice from the Dark, is haunted by a Wight unleashed from his own pen. After a gypsy woman cursed him, he experiences, then writes about his first ghostly encounter. Set in the near future, the nuances of the mystical arts collide with artificial intelligence and self-driving cars. Believing his past is haunting him, he must find his "other half" to prevent the Merciless One from tormenting his soul forever.

During the summer '55, three teenagers, while pursuing the legendary Monster of Bluehole, become victims of another kind of monster, embroiling them in kidnapping, rape, and murder…and a desperate struggle for survival.

For a century Bram Stoker's Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal, and erotic creature of the night.