Dark Occult

A short story introducing the characters of the coming book The Mysterious World of Professor Darkk and Miss Shadow. Two strange individuals come to the aid of a group of people being attacked by a demonic being.

The full moon rose up over the lake, its beams shining on the rippling waters and making them shine like hundreds of tiny little diamonds. Back in the shadows of the wood, beyond the tree line, a thousand tiny little eyes shined like liquid pools of blood in the moon's light show, resembling a thousand tiny Christmas tree ornaments.

In the days when the corporations rule the world, the middle class is gone and the cities are divided into upper and lower towns. The upper towns are domed to protect the rich from the foul air that permeates the world, from the waste that fills the air, and fumes that blacken the sky from the smoke stacks of the factories. The water is heavily rationed in the lower towns and barely drinkable, so fouled by the chemicals that fill the rivers and springs.

Javar is a very entertaining and easy to listen audiobook. It has spine-chilling vestiges that shake the sensitive fibers of the always finite human being who searches in others his reason to be, his unreason or its nothing, catching your imagination, and taking you to other places. People only believe in what they see, with a rational attitude, which is why they have always denied the possibility of other kinds of lives. I was one of those people.

Zusammen mit den Tempelrittern betritt Robert Craven erneut das unheimliche Haus in Amsterdam, um das Kristallhirn, welches das mörderische Labyrinth erschaffen hat, zu zerstören. Das Vorhaben scheitert und das Hirn wird entwendet. Bei dem Versuch, es zurück zu bekommen, merkt Robert plötzlich, dass ihm ein scheinbar unüberwindlicher Gegner auf den Fersen ist. Das ist das letzte Abenteuer aus der Welt von Wolfgang Hohlbeins Hexer-Zyklus.

Ein riesiger Mottenschwarm belagert Andara House. Alles, was die scheinbar harmlosen Tiere berühren, zerfällt in Sekunden zu Staub. Als Robert Craven versucht, das Rätsel um die Herkunft der mysteriösen Insekten zu lüften, stößt er auf eine Spur, die ihn zu jemandem führt, den er bisher zu kennen glaubte: zu seinem Freund H. P. Lovecraft.

Als Robert Craven nach einer Panne im Haus des mysteriösen Mister Boldwinn unterkommt, ahnt er nicht, dass er in eine sorgfältig vorbereitete Falle tappt, die ihm einer der Großen Alten gestellt hat. Er stellt sich dem Kampf - und muss einen hohen Preis dafür bezahlen.

Das Wesen richtete sich mühsam auf, von einem unheiligen Zauber geweckt. Jahrtausende hatte der Gigant geschlafen; hier unten, auf dem finsteren, sandigen Grund des Meeres. Mit noch schwerfälligen, doch ungeheuer kraftvollen Bewegungen strebte er nun dem Licht entgegen. Schon spürte er die Nähe seines Opfers. Und wenige Augenblicke später sah er die dunkle Silhouette des Schiffes über sich.

Auf der Fahrt nach London geraten Robert Craven und seine Begleiter in eine Falle der Grossen Alten: Ein Shoggote ergreift Besitz von dem Wald, den sie durchqueren. Zu spät erkennen sie, dass kein Weg mehr hinausführt. Dem Hexer bleibt keine Wahl: Er muss sich dem Kampf mit der Kreatur stellen.

Dagon has been summoned. The dead have risen from their graves. And whilst cultists, researchers, and the might of the military try to oppose him, Dagon’s power proves to be formidable. However, there is one final, slim opportunity to save the world from being eaten by Innsmouth’s returning elder god. A dwindling band of heroes fights against the inevitable apocalypse in this concluding story from Ashley Lister’s series of dark tales from Innsmouth.

In this episode, Professor Van Helsing confronts a somewhat familiar figure who stalks Whitechapel. Now he must make a terrible decision, but what of the consequences?

The trick of accepting redemption is finding something in yourself to redeem. A scary Halloween-themed ghost tale from Michael Lynes in The Trick.

Bailey is - at best - a loner before Lucien. When he steps into her world, it is like something from a dream. Every encounter leaves her breathless and wanting more. They are perfect together. That is, until he takes everything from her. Her heart. Her sanity...Her life.

If you long to leave the real world behind for a dose of danger and the supernatural, then this collection of three tales - "Carnival", "Only the Moon", and "Strange Sushi" - is for you. Authored by best-selling author, Lea Ryan, Dark Dreams and Troubled Souls is a series of short fiction based on horror and dark fantasy genres.

A man who's reincarnated through several "game-like" worlds bites off much more than he can chew when he decides to visit a world with an "impossible" clear difficulty. Will lifetimes of previous knowledge be enough to combat the effects of deadly curses? Oh, and did I mention - he can only level by purifying curses?

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the core of the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Visit a world where Vampires, Witches, Elementals, Demons and Humans once ruled the land. In the fifth part, Gerwulf faces the Vampire Grythe and Alex learns of his Destiny.

Derrick, Luther, and Jenny go to the cemetery to lay a trap for the sheriff, only to watch in horror as the sheriff is dragged down into the darkness by vengeful ghosts.

Derrick, Linda, Luther, and Jenny go to the local cemetery to try and contact the restless spirit of Kyra Talbot to find out who her killer really was.

Now full grown and a successful horror writer, Brian Davis - better known as Derrick Dark - is working on a new book when his whole world is turned upside down by the news that Kyra Talbot's killer may still be on the loose.

In the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, author David Boyer presents The Flesh Once Removed, a collection of dark poetry and prose guaranteed to elicit a shiver and chill the blood. Also included: "Edgar and Annabel", dark poetry dedicated to the late Edgar Allan Poe, as well as numerous other poems written with Edgar in mind.