Action Horror

In 1934, a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names - the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines - weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. By 1937, Ace Magazines tried to enter the field with Eerie Stories. Unfortunately, it didn't catch on, only lasting one issue before folding. This is that issue. Eerie Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s listeners in audiobook format.

Tim Burchett and Amber Louise Forest never suspected they had boarded a cruise ship headed straight to Hell. Tim was a former armored car driver laying low on the cruise ship after making off with half a million dollars of his employer's stolen cash. Amber was the successful CEO of a multi-million dollar publishing company taking a much needed vacation from her high-stress job. Neither one could have predicted that their cruise ship would be hijacked by terrorists.

Welcome to Cape Noire. Located on the Northwest Coast, Cape Noire is a booming economic giant whose inner core has been corrupted by all manner of evil. From the sadistic mob bosses who ruthlessly control vast criminal empires to the fiendish creatures that haunt its maze of back alleys, Cape Noire is a modern Babylon of sin and depravity. Amidst this den of iniquity strides a macabre warrior committed to avenging the innocent and holding back the tide of villainy.

Rhinehoth - Centuries ago, a great castle was built in the mountains of Germany's Black Forest. Its ancient guardians still thrive in its walls, forever protecting its dark secrets, holding captive an enemy that threatens their very existence. Foretold is a story of an ancient warrior that is to return to the castle to free the captive Vampire Prince. Simon Roberts was a petty thief who fled England to escape Scotland Yard after a series of unsuccessful jewelry store heists.

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion: ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. "Can Such Things Be?" implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time.

No matter how smart, rich and powerful you are, to achieve the goal you need to enter the Academy of Magic on the Planet Tix. Let every moment spent within the walls of this institution be deadly, but only here an ambitious applicant will be able to get those community ties, knowledge, and skills that will help him to ascend to the very top of his social position. Therefore, all the talented youth from the Belt of the Worlds take the entrance examinations to the Academy annually.

Join Alexander Storm as he leads a diverse team of would-be-heroes around the world in search of the 12 Hours of Night. The fabled Ancient Egyptian papyrus has been split into 12 parts and secreted around the globe at major archaeological sites. With only a set of intricate riddles as their guide, the team must face all manner of supernatural villains as they race against time and a duo of enigmatic demons who are hellbent on acquiring the 12 Hours and opening the gates to Hell on Earth.

What will you do to survive? Michelle has a secret. She’s a spy for the US military, and she’s been assigned the mission of shutting down Zombii Co. To complete her mission, Michelle has infiltrated the inner circle of one of the zombie apocalypse call center’s most feared micro-managers, Monica. Now she’s running secret missions for Monica, helping her uncover the origins of the Zombii Spray and other secret zombie technology that Zombii Co is unleashing on the world to cause the zombie apocalypse.

Der Bestseller von Ursula Poznanski: spannend, realistisch, unvorhersehbar. Fünf Tage im tiefsten Wald, ohne Strom, ohne Handy: Normalerweise wäre das nichts für Medizinstudenten Bastian. Dass er dennoch mitmacht bei dieser Reise in die Vergangenheit, liegt allein an seiner Freundin Sandra. Doch das abgelegene Waldstück, in dem das Abenteuer stattfindet, soll verflucht sein, und aus dem harmlosen Live-Rollenspiel wird plötzlich ein tödlicher Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

Madisun Dumas is on a roll. She kicked ISO-1 out of Detroit and then New Orleans. The people who killed her family are six feet under. Now, it's time to go after their bosses, but not everything is as simple as it appears. Something sinister is brewing within ISO-1. Drugs, corruption, and human trafficking are all just a cover for something far more horrific. And Madi is about to land right in the middle. When the entity inside her tells her to trust no one, Madisun really needs to take that advice to heart. If she doesn't, death may not be the worst option.

No time like the present to figure out one's future. That's a nice platitude, but what if you are a demon? And the former Queen of Hell? Pandora saved an angel, Katie, when she could have stayed in hell and all but assured Earth would fall to Moloch. But now, she has a conundrum. Further complicating things, Katie is acting very out of character, and Pandora needs to help her friend find her bearings once more.

Bites don't infect...but anyone who dies, turns. Skilled outdoorsman Tom Vanicek wants a future for the two children he's protected so fiercely through five years of living hell. Now a part of the reconstruction efforts in the decaying ruins of Columbus, Ohio, the Vanicek family see the risks (and the rewards) of their new life. Tom tries to keep to himself so he and his children can get ahead. But danger's never far away...and Tom's done playing it safe.

"L'ho scarabocchiato col sangue - la tua vita dipende dal restare nascosto." "Forse il vocabolo fiction trova qui una delle massime espressioni proprio perché la genialità di Edgar Allan Poe, lo scrittore, sta nell'affidare al giovane Arthur Gordon Pym il resoconto di una vicenda che il signor Arthur Gordon Pym affida al signor Edgar Allan Poe (quello dentro il romanzo) per renderla, da un certo punto in avanti, credibile al grande pubblico. […]

When the American ace Major Jack Freeman - poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers - is shot down over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael "Madman" Burke is the only man brave and foolish enough to accept the mission to recover him. Burke assembles a team of disparate members - his right-hand man, Sergeant Moore, big-game-hunter-turned-soldier Clayton Manning, and Professor Dan Graves, one of Tesla's top men and the resident authority on all things supernatural, among them - to dare the impossible.

Nathan used to be terrified of Krazyland when he was a young kid. Now that he's 12, the spooky-themed arcade games aren't that bad. He even enjoys stomping on plastic spiders and battling a creepy doll with big plastic eyes.

Conner is a love-lost soul who dreads a nagging preordained destiny. Returning to his rural hometown in Oklahoma, he finds an irresistible netherworld of heathen cranksters; meth-heads marauding the countryside.

Роберт Ирвин Говард (1906 - 1936) - американский писатель, автор приключений и детективов, а также произведений в жанрах фэнтези и хоррор. Герои многих его романов, повестей и рассказов перекочевали на страницы комиксов и экраны голливудских фильмов.

Bart was a poor college graduate without a job and buried in debt. Things changed when he inherited his uncle's property. It came with a strange farmhand named Alan. The farm didn't provide typical vegetables or animals. Instead, it produced marijuana, and wolf-dogs bred for professional dogfights. One dog gave him winnings of 80,000 dollars in a single match. The dogs were a mix of great dane and wolf. They were fed live animals and shot with steroids to increase their size and anger. They were the ultimate fighting dogs - supersized wolves.

Obsessed with revenge, Stede Bonnet sets sail for the mystical Barrier Island of Deep Magic, doggedly pursuing his nemesis, Blackbeard. Accompanying Bonnet aboard the ghost ship, Revenge, Squojo and his adventurin’ companions embark on a dangerous quest to rescue Mawdlong, a Gullah root doctor taken hostage by Blackbeard. Swept up in a tide of treachery, they will face paranormal forces manipulated by a formidable pirate wizard seeking to resurrect a powerful witch bound by an ancient curse. The only harrowing certainty is that pirates will be pirates.

Something evil stalks the citizens of Rose Valley - not for the first time...but hopefully for the last. After suffering a horrific car accident, Jake Rollins struggles to survive in his tiny hometown of Rose Valley - a place to which he hoped never to return. When a sheep is viciously mutilated on the ranch where Jake is recovering, he's dragged back into the cloying politics of small-town life. While the sheriff tries to pass off the incident as the work of coyotes, Jake turns to Shandi Mason, a local reporter and old high school flame, to search for the truth.