Halloween Horror

Se le divinità pagane popolano ancora il nostro mondo... Dieci storie quasi di paura che potrebbero essere accadute a casa vostra, nel vostro cortile o a scuola. A ispirare questo libro sono stati i racconti che il padre narrava all'autrice quando era piccola, e alcuni incontri inaspettati con creature misteriose della mitologia lituana. Se, mentre leggete, avete la sensazione che qualcuno si nasconda nel vostro armadio o sul balcone, se sui rami spuntano delle unghiette al posto dei germogli e un'ape esce improvvisamente dalla bocca di un vostro amico, mantenete la calma.

Here, to treasure, a new story collection from award-winning horror master Al Sarrantonio. In Halloween and Other Seasons there's a neighborhood rivalry that grows to monstrous proportions, a hedgerow with an appetite, the ultimate Charles Fort story, and the end of the world from the beginning. Halloween and Other Seasons contains 18 gems of weirdness, including Al Sarrantonio's very first published story.

Holmes und Watson glauben hinter „Draculas“ Geheimnis gekommen zu sein. Und es scheint, als hätte ausgerechnet Alice Familienalbum sie auf die richtige Spur gebracht. Doch da Alice bereits gebissen wurde, läuft die Zeit unabdingbar.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von Alice gerade genötigt in ihrem Familienalbum zu blättern, als Holmes eine dringliche Depesche erhält, in der steht: „Verehrter Mr. Holmes! Benötigen dringend Ihre Hilfe. Blutleere Leichen häufen sich. Unerklärliche Vorfälle! Reisen Sie so schnell es Ihnen möglich ist an! Sie sind unsere letzte Hoffnung! Hochachtungsvoll, Alexandru Serban -Bürgermeister von Bran / Siebenbürgen“ Zu Holmes und Watsons Leidwesen lässt sich Alice natürlich nicht davon abbringen, die beiden nach Transsilvanien zu begleiten.

Nachdem Holmes, Watson und Alice gut in Bran angekommen sind, suchen Sie den Bürgermeister der kleinen Stadt auf. Dieser führt sie sofort zu einem neuen Tatort. Ein Mädchen aus einem Waisenhaus soll des Grafen Draculas jüngstes Opfer sein. Kurzerhand beschließt Holmes den Grafen in seinem Schloss aufzusuchen und den Dingen direkt vor Ort auf den Grund zu gehen. Überraschenderweise werden die Drei schon erwartet.

Holmes, Watson und Alice werden von dem Grafen gebeten mit ihm zu dinieren und darüber hinaus eingeladen, auf Schloss Bran zu nächtigen und die Ermittlungen morgen fortzusetzen. Während Watson in dem Schlossherren einen blutrünstigen Vampir vermutet, versteht Alice sich mit ihm ausgezeichnet und setzt mit dem Grafen den Abend in stiller Zweisamkeit fort. Als die Drei am nächsten Morgen zum Frühstück erscheinen, ist der Graf jedoch nicht anwesend spurlos verschwunden.

Alice ist verschwunden! Entführt, wie Holmes bei der Besichtigung ihres Zimmers besorgt feststellt. Holmes und Watson beschließen nach Alice zu suchen und gelangen dabei in ein düsteres Kellerverlies. Dort machen Sie eine schreckliche Entdeckung.

"Young Goodman Brown", "Feathertop: A Moralized Legend", "An Old Woman's Tale", "Graves and Goblins", "The Appeal of Alice Doane", and "The Ghost of Dr. Harris" are ghostly pleasures that are full of tricks and treats.

Mysterienschülerin Gerda soll ihr erstes Halloween-Ritual in der Tradition der alten Erdmagie leiten und den Schleier zur Totenwelt öffnen. Doch dieses Jahr fällt Halloween auf einen Vollmond und in der Hexenkunst sagt man, dass zu dieser Zeit alle magischen Kräfte verstärkt werden und außer Kontrolle geraten können. Wie real ist die Gefahr, dass Kreaturen der Anderswelt wie Werwölfe oder andere Unholde durch das Ritual angelockt werden könnten und wie werden Gerda und ihre Gefährten damit umgehen?

Get ready to puke with joy at these four sweaty, politically incorrect tales of spooky supernatural and psycho-murderer mayhem! Emily, Laurel, and Nicole will have their hands full this witching season, you bet! Will the disgraced former police officer, Mr. Blubbertongue, destroy Halloween in his twisted plan to help his mail order bride lose weight? What is really going on inside that container of low-fat cottage cheese?

Stevens Long Walk Home: Steven ventures into Bramble Village in search of his missing sister, Joan, who disappeared during an adventure in the haunted village. As he traverses the eerie streets, Steven becomes ensnared in the village's malevolent grip, encountering supernatural forces beyond his imagination. He fights to escape, haunted by the sinister laughter that echoes through the darkness, vowing never to return to Bramble Village again.

These five chilling tales make perfect night time listening - and, for the fearful, can be heard in a group, rather than experienced as solo bedtime reading. Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, W. L. George, A. M. Burrage, and Guy de Maupassant provide the terrifying text; Ian Holm and Julie Peasgood provide the spoken spooks.

For the month of October 2017, J. Ellington Ashton Press, on their Wicked Little Things blog-talk radio, broadcasted a series of Halloween stories. These “Fireside Stories” (as they were called) were a big hit with the listeners, and the decision was quickly made to publish these tales of terror in an anthology.

Castalia and Bobbi find an old, deserted house in the form of the Carnovasch Estate. Upon looking it over, the girls ultimately end up hosting a Halloween party there, inviting everyone from both Strickfield High and Strickfield Academy to come. After one of Castalia’s friends from Strickfield Academy finds a secret passage into an ancient basement, the girls can’t help but investigate.

Halloween is a holiday of fright, a time to dress up and go house to house for candy, a time for fun. But what happens when you don’t follow the rules? Nicholas Gray presents five Halloween tales to get you in the spirit and cover your arms in goosebumps. Three friends are in for a trick-or-treat surprise. A surly boy goes trick-or-treating to the wrong house. A grumpy old man gets a special Halloween visitor. A man goes shopping for a Halloween mask. And some bored teenagers go on a vandalism spree.

In his laboratory high on the hill, Frank N. Stine has a ferocious sweet tooth that snarls to be fed. But when an eerie experiment spills into his Gingerbread batter, a frightening cookie creation comes to life! The Gingerbread Monster is hulking, horrific . . . and hungry. But as Frank is chased by his creepy creation, the young baker begins to wonder what the Monster truly craves. After all, there’s no sweeter treat than friendship.

Something bad happened at the neighbors' house on Halloween. Tammy and her daughter, Bree, are excited to move into their new house, but the excitement soon dies as the house's evil past reveals itself. Tammy witnesses a murder, but is it real? Voices call out to her, but no one is there. And two young boys in Halloween costumes appear to her, pleading for her help. As she begins to unravel the horror of the house, Halloween approaches. Tammy believes she and Bree are safe, but the house has other plans for their happy, bloody Halloween night.

Jonah and Judas are back! (JJ and Xanadu too!) Spending an all too rare, quiet night at home, the brothers indulge themselves in beer and video games, refusing to answer their endlessly ringing phone. It's Halloween, the one night a year they take off for fear of idiots trying to be funny and pretending to be zombies. That's ended badly for them once before. But when they receive a desperate call from an old co-worker, they venture out against their better judgment.

Spooky vibes emanate from the streets of the city on Halloween. The main character, Andrew, attends a crowded Halloween costume party with his buddies to meet women, but an unfortunate zombie outbreak happens during the crowded party, and he is forced to fight for his life, using a kitchen knife as zombies try to eat him. This is a short listen. This fiction short story book may contain scenes of violence, alcohol, guns, blood, profanity, kissing, fictional variant viruses, and graphic scenes of zombies that may be objectionable to some.

"Unholy Womb" is the story of a young boy who finds more than he expects when he goes to carve his Halloween jack-o-lantern. In "Scream of Humanity" a pioneer doctor learns there may be something to those old wives' tales about childbirth.