Ghost Anthology

First you discover you might have some supernatural helpers on your lonely third shift job. And then you discover that even supernatural helpers sometimes need human assistance....

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life with 8 Short Stories from '31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead' by Drac Von Stoller. Immerse yourself in some of the most horrifying short stories ever told, including "A Visit from the Greys (Aliens)", "Death in the Wilderness", "The Impaler", "The Phantom Miner", "2012: The End?", "Curse of the Crystal Skull", "The Haunted Bridge", and "The Killer in the Back Seat".

A selection of some of the best short stories about vampires ever written. Includes 'The Vampire Maid' by Hume Nisbet, 'Fragment of a Novel' by Lord Byron, 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker, and 'Count Magnus' by M.R. James.

Akakij Akakievic Basmackin è un mite impiegato, deriso dai colleghi, copiatore di lettere ad un ministero, così povero da dover risparmiare un intero anno per potersi far fare un nuovo cappotto dal sarto. La felicità di sfoggiarlo dura un solo giorno: la sera stessa viene assalito e derubato del suo bene prezioso. La polizia lo tratta malamente e non riesce neppure una colletta tra i colleghi. Dopo pochi giorni Akakij Akakievuc muore di disperazione e di freddo.

After a blizzard in New York City, a huge snowman appears mysteriously outside of Grand Central Station and everyday seems to grow larger while also appearing at another door. What at first was funny becomes more and more menacing. Elsewhere in Grand Central, a man with an icy soul named Clinton Rudge fumes with anger at the cheerful holidaymakers filling the station. After making an evil wish, he vanishes....

You know how stuffy those English men's clubs are: "right sort of chap, and all that rot." Now imagine that the very worst sort of interloper forced his way into the exclusive club - a ghost who refuses to leave. And even worse, a ghost who was a failure in life and a failure in his haunting. David Ian Davies offers an enchanting one-man performance of this otherworldly tale.

El fantasma de Canterville es una sátira brillante que combina humor y horror a la perfección. Cuando la familia Otis se muda a una antigua mansión inglesa, se sorprenden al descubrir que viene con su propio fantasma, Sir Simon de Canterville.

Este es el segundo libro de la colección de cuentos psicológicos y de terror. Las Historias de psicosis y fantasmas, son relatos de personas como tú o yo que por lo complejo de la vida misma pierden la cabeza, desconocen los límites de la realidad y se encuentran a la deriva en sus propios universos. Algunos deliran mientras que otros justifican su verdad. Sin embargo, todos dan permiso a los cuerdos para que contemplen su locura. Y es en este momento en el que nadie sabe si de psicosis o fantasmas se trata.

El rancio abolengo de la tradición aristocrática británica, se enfrenta a su peor enemigo: una familia americana.....El gran fantasma de Canterville que había llevado durante más de 500 años una vida tranquila, aunque triste, se va a ver de repente enfrentado a la peor de las pesadillas que se podia imaginar: los Otis.El respeto al terror tradicional, provocado por los fantasmas medievales, el pánico generado por esos espíritus ancestrales.

A strange final message from a ghost ship, comes alive with the voices of the past. Listen or die. "The Song of The Lady Rose" by Gabino Iglesias is one of nine short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Una familia estadounidense se va a vivir al castillo de Canterville en Inglaterra. Lord Canterville, el dueño anterior, les advierte que el fantasma de sir Simon de Canterville deambula en el edificio desde hace 300 años cuando asesinó a su esposa lady Eleonore de Canterville. Pero el Sr. Otis, estadounidense moderno y práctico, ignora las advertencias.

Edith Nesbit was born on the 15th August 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey. Due to the health issues and tuberculosis of her sister Mary, Nesbit’s early life was one of constant changes of house both in England and on the continent. At age 17, Nesbit met Hubert Bland and they married three years later―whilst she was 7 months pregnant. Bland also kept his affair with another woman going throughout their marriage and the two children of that relationship were raised by Nesbit as well as her own three with Bland.

Here are some truly spooky stories, given a spine-tingling read by Richard Pasco. The stories include "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, "Aurelia" by E.T.A. Hoffmann, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Mrs. Amworth" by E.F. Benson, and "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker.

It's amazing how we as individuals see life through our lenses of experience and perception. Our fears become an entity in themselves that becomes our reality. Differences in others may seem like barriers or opposition, but in essence we can learn from each other, and ultimately we can see similarities more than our differences. Building walls of the unknown can be overwhelming and impossible.

This short story is about the dead spirit of a little girl. Maggie was six years old when she died, and she attached herself to another six-year-old little girl by the name of Linda. This is both Maggie and Linda's story.

When two sisters buy a used ghost projector toy, they soon learn the ghosts are a little too real.

Mary Shelley had an abiding interest in the mysterious and the supernatural. In this atmospheric tale, she describes the nocturnal wanderings of an enigmatic figure in the woods, and the expectations and conclusions those who have witnessed its activities.

'Wicked Captain Walshawe' is a disquieting ghost story. Captain Walshawe, a dissolute rake, marries a wealthy heiress as a means to pay off his gambling debts. The marriage is an unhappy one on account if his dreadful behaviour. When his wife dies, her old Irish servant casts a curse on Walshawe...which years later leads to a bizarre and totally inexplicable scene after the captain's own death.

Every year, on the same night in November, a bouquet of flowers, a vintage bottle of wine, and a handwritten note appear next to a small wooden cross on the side of a lonely country highway. Year after year, it's the same offering at the same time. On his way home from work at the factory, Tom notices these roadside tributes and wonders who the mysterious mourner might be.

A superbly crafted Dickens classic, masterfully narrated - a ghostly apparition supervises the trial of his murderer.