Ghost Anthology

En man har några västtyskar som middagsgäster. Samtidigt utspelar sig ett slagfält inom honom. Minnen sköljer över honom. Ond bråd död. Människor som drunknat. Blivit lynchade. Mördats. Allt framför ögonen på honom. Och kring bordet sitter några stela, uppstoppade människor och blänger på honom med glanslösa blickar ... Love Kölle är en svensk författare. Han har en fascination för klassisk kiosklitteratur och dess särskilda genrer. Till vardags arbetar han som arkivarie.

Ett gäng vänner från en internatskola träffas regelbundet. De berättar spökhistorier för varandra. Kvällarna de tillbringar tillsammans är fyllda av rysningar, obehag och kärlek dem emellan. Men de anar inte vad som långsamt håller på att hända. Det finns en hemlighet dem emellan som kommer att förändra deras vänskap för alltid ... Peter Erik Du Rietz är en svensk författare. Han skriver framför allt skräck och fantastik. Han har vunnit flera priser för sitt skrivande, inte minst för sin tid som copywriter i New York.

Enda sedan han var barn har han älskat att göra saker med händerna. Sy kläder, samla på saker. Hans mamma och systrar lärde honom, men efter att hans vilja förvreds till mer mänskliga material försökte de ta avstånd. Men det var redan för sent ... Nu, flera årtionden senare, har han bjudit in en ovetande besökare till sitt ståtliga hus. Det är dags för husesyn ... Helena Dahlgren är en svensk författare. Hon skriver främst inom fantastik- och skräckgenren.

Annie arbetar med bevisföring i våldtäktsfall. All tid hon tillbringar i obduktionssalar verkar dock påverka henne på något sätt. Men hon är inte säker på hur. När Annie helt plötsligt får beskedet om att hon är döende i cancer har hon svårt att acceptera det. Hon känner sig inte sjuk. Faktum är att hon mår bättre än någonsin. Och hon har fått en idé, en mycket mörk och ond idé ... Sofia Albertsson är en svensk författare och konstnär.

El señor Williams es un gran aficionado a adquirir viejos grabados y estampas. Como es habitual, recibe un catálogo del señor Britnell, sugiriendo éste que examine cierto grabado que puede ser de su interés. Dicho grabado contiene la vista de una casa de principios del siglo XVIII, y al final lo solicita, junto a otros artículos del catálogo. Poco a poco irá desvelándose la naturaleza del grabado. Otro cuento imprescindible.

James vuelve al marco de la mansión maldita por hechos acaecidos en generaciones pasadas, en este caso relacionados con la caza de brujas en Inglaterra.

Mr. Anderson viaja a Viborg en busca de algunos documentos para su investigación sobre la historia de la Iglesia de Dinamarca. Llega a una casa hotel, “The Golden Lion”, y se hospeda en el cuarto 12. Conoce al señor Kristensen, el dueño y gerente, y al señor Jensen, un abogado hospedado en la habitación 14, junto a la suya. El primer día, Anderson ve que no hay registro de una habitación 13, lo que es costumbre en Dinamarca. En la noche, Anderson siente que su habitación es más pequeña que antes, y por un momento cree que es por la poca luz.

El señor Wraxall viaja a Suecia con motivo del libro de viajes que está escribiendo. Una de sus paradas es la mansión de De la Gardie, toda una antigüedad. Entre las reliquias se encuentra el retrato de Magnus, el primer De la Gardie, por quien siente un vivo interés; incluso querrá visitar el mausoleo de la familia. 

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the listener on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin on a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below.

T had one mission in life: keep her friend Tracey from getting into too much trouble. Fine job she did, though. First they start running drugs for a local dealer, and then they start skimming off the top, thinking he won’t notice. But Junior does notice, and now, they’re on the run and hiding out in a very dark place. This familiar three-story structure has seen more death than life, and now, the Lonely Man lurks there, looking for someone to keep him company across the long, dark nights. 

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and is acknowledged as an influential writer in the genre of gothic and supernatural fiction of the 19th century. Many of his short stories were originally published in various magazines. Here are six of them: “The White Cat of Drumgonnial”, “Dickon the Devil”, “The Drunkard's Dream”, “The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts”, “The Vision of Tom Chuff”, and “An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”.

Nick Pershin é um jovem sonhador cuja vida foi atormentada eternamente depois que ele bateu numa porta proibida e encontrou algo pior que a morte, mas voltar ao local de seus pesadelos, numa noite de Halloween, será o único jeito de salvar a própria vida...e a alma de sua mãe da danação sem fim.   

Sheriff Barley made a career out of wrongfully convicting innocent people. But just as he's about to retire, his last victim comes back to haunt him and is determined to make things right. Karma it turns out - can be deadly. 

"La casa dei fantasmi" ("The Haunted House") è una raccolta di otto racconti coordinata da Dickens, e scritti da lui (tre racconti di cui i due di apertura e di chiusura), e da altri autori suoi amici, fra cui Wilkie Collins ed Elisabeth Gaskell. Il romanzo uscì nel 1859 sulla rivista fondata dallo stesso Dickens, come strenna di Natale. La storia tratta di una casa infestata dai fantasmi, in cui un gruppo di amici decide di passare le feste di Natale; ogni racconto racconta l'esperienza di ognuno degli amici, nella stanza da lui occupata. 

A writer finds a cave keeping a dark secret for nearly a century. A ghost in a Scottish castle seeks blood on a wedding day. A student abroad loses herself in a dreamy art dealer and his dark painting. An undercover cop searches for the lover who’s haunted him for years. These four stories from New York Times best-selling author J.T. Ellison reveal what happens when we allow ourselves to step toward the darkness - and find ourselves consumed with regret and doom.

Kaia is haunted by fingerprints marring the basement door. No matter how hard she scrubs, they return day after day. Connor has sighted the most miraculous and mysterious thing in his life. Either no one else can see them or no one believes it. Ice balls larger than a fist smash to the ground regularly. When the church bells ring just right, another one falls. Laurel knows animals can talk. Sometimes they ask her to do things. One will explain why they have always been drawn to her. By that time, she has grown, and so have they, into hideous demons with terrible demands. 

'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.

The Convent of Mary the Queen sits majestically on beautiful grounds miles from the nearest town. Years ago, something so sinister and evil happened in the convent, something so dire that no one speaks about it. Therese is excited to become a nun; it has been her lifelong dream. She enters the convent with much happiness and enthusiasm, ecstatic that her dream has now become a reality. But when chilling apparitions appear, a terrified Therese finds herself losing her religion.

Rehmeyer's Hollow in York County, Pennsylvania, is haunted. People go in and they don't come out. Folks living near there are haunted, too, especially Sandy and his mother who live in the trailer park right outside the Hollow. And the ghosts that haunt the trailer park are fed up with all the trouble this small family has been forced to endure and have decided to take matters into their own ghostly hands. It won't be a pleasant night in the Hollow this Halloween.

On a dark desert highway, hidden from sight, there is a place that exists just beyond the shadows. A place that calls to the broken, the lost, and the tormented who wander the desolate roads of night. Temptation to leave the world behind presents itself as a beautiful seductress offering a variety of exquisite pleasures, luring you further into the dream. But elegant parties and pretty faces quickly dissolve into the stuff of nightmares as the door closes and the feast begins.