Horror Fairy Tales

Twenty years ago, three young women disappeared, never to be found. The rumour to this day is that their bodies are still hidden deep within the murky Loch Aven. When Eleanor, Clio and Michaela find themselves rained out of a camping trip in the Scottish countryside, they have no option but to book the mysterious house nestled on the banks of the lake. But little do they know that history has a way of repeating itself. As secrets in the tightknit community begin to surface, and Michaela suddenly disappears, it becomes clear that something sinister is at play.

What if you could have anything you desired? The catch: You have to pay with your life. Sophie would do anything to protect her best friend Elenore from harm. The girls discover a world where dreams come true, but nightmares follow close behind. How far is too far when you want to get revenge against those who have harmed you? How many people have to die before you decide enough is enough? Can you stop before your soul becomes succumbed by evil?

Conner Ambrose is not what you would think as your typical vampire. No. This man, if you can call a supernatural being a man, has walked the Earth for over 1,000 years. The son of a being from the very beginnings of man's history fought in countless battles to keep his kind protected from the forces of man. Yet all was not to be for this pure-blooded vampire, not with Lilith as the man's mother. After 900 years, Conner thought he had found the one he has sought for all that time, only to be betrayed by the ones he thought he could trust.

Whitt Rogers has been dreaming. Horrible dreams. Dreams that stretch the very fabric of the real and the unreal as he is pulled by a voice across the country to a small crab fishing ship set to depart into the Bering Sea. At sea, the memories piece themselves together in cracked fragments. But there is something out there, something speaking to Whitt in his dreams. A voice from a long-forgotten memory that promises peace at the cost of madness. A voice that leads to a place unimaginable and inescapable.

The Incendium Maleficarum has been lost and Carter Weston presumed dead, but the story is only just beginning. Now Carter's only daughter, Rachel Jones, and his oldest friend, Henry Armitage, must embark on an epic journey that will take them from the hell-blasted Tunguska forest to the catacombs of Paris to the shores of the Scottish Isles.

Alys was seven when the soul eaters came to her village. These soul eaters, twin sisters who were abandoned by their father and slowly morphed into something not quite human, devour human souls. Alys, and all the other children, were spared - and they were sent to live in a neighboring village. There the devout people created a strict world where good and evil are as fundamental as the nursery rhymes children sing. Fear of the soul eaters - and of the Beast they believe guides them - rules village life.

What can a fairy-godmother-in-training do when Cinderella refuses to go to the ball? Why, go along in Cinderella's place of course! But falling in love with the prince's brother was never meant to happen. Soon a series of events into motion that will impact not only her career but also her entire life. The problem is she doesn't know if the prince's brother feels the same about her as she does about him. And giving up her wings on the chance that he might care about her in return seems reckless and foolish to the usually by-the-book Esmeralda.

Hannah is shaken to the core after the mysterious death of her husband, Captain Hovey. A man that was as cruel as he was loved. Shunned by her neighbors and the town, Hannah is lonely and desperate. Some believe she was a witch. Others believe she was an outcast.

"Be careful what you ask for" was the dire warning Leah had heard before she was transformed forever into an immortal. Zeal and Freya had chosen her because in her prayers she had unknowingly asked for this: a painless end to her cancer diagnosis. Now as she stands looking down on her daughter on life support, does she take God's will into her own hands to keep her daughter with her for eternity?

Auf der arktischen Inselgruppe Svalbard machen Minenarbeiter eine unheilvolle Entdeckung. In einer Höhle stoßen sie auf mysteriöse Felszeichnungen und ein uraltes Schiff. Als einer der Männer es berührt, läuft er wie im Wahn Amok und tötet mehrere Arbeiter. Ein internationales Forscherteam soll nun ergründen, was es mit dem Artefakt auf sich hat. Doch die Zwischenfälle nehmen kein Ende. Die Archäologin Anika Wahlgren wird hinzugezogen, um das Rätsel zu lösen. Bald wird klar, in dem Schiff steckt weit mehr als gedacht.

Enjoy this short story by Mace Styx. George heaved a great sigh, dragging a hand over his face. “Rebecca...do you recall when your mother was pregnant with Orin?” he asked. “I don’t suppose you do”. Rebecca frowned in thought, then shook her head. “Not very well”, she said. “I would have only been around eight years old at the time. But I remembered she was bedridden during the last couple of months, wasn’t she”? “She nearly died”. George replied, and Amelia visibly flinched".

Freya's Army is growing in Norway and at her North American base in Virginia as Millison's five brothers go there to live as their father abandons them. Leah's daughter Shay has adjusted to her new life in Norway finally, after a rough first year of adjusting to life as an immortal. The family business is expanding, and it adds new challenges to the already hectic Swenson castle. All the while everyone is aware to be "careful what they ask for".

When Iseabail is employed by a wealthy merchant to be his daughter's companion, her life changes forever. Transported from her remote island home to the Scottish borderlands, Iseabail is unnerved both by her precocious young charge and the house's secrets: a hidden chapel, servants who speak in a foreign tongue, a mute stableboy. And then the merchant returns with a mysterious cargo. Why has Iseabail really been summoned here? Will Iseabail ever make it back home to her beloved island?

In einer schicksalshaften Nacht in San Francisco wird Police Detective Brandon Hunt von einem wolfsähnlichen Wesen angefallen und schwer verletzt. Und nicht nur das: Er mutiert selbst zum Monster und ist fortan vor seinen eigenen Kollegen auf der Flucht. Hunt muss sich immer neuen Herausforderungen stellen und kann niemandem trauen - am wenigsten sich selbst.

Dracula begins with the journal of Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor on the way to Transylvania to give information to the mysterious Count Dracula about his new estate in London. Dracula takes the young man prisoner, and Jonathan sees many strange and evil things in the castle before escaping and fleeing into the night. He later decides that he must have been mad.

Chills race up and down young solicitor Jonathan Harker's spine as he enters the eerie castle of a Transylvanian count. His host, Count Dracula, is a curious creature who becomes enamored with the photograph of Harker's fiancée, Mina. Dracula decides he must find the enchanting Mina and have her as his own.

Agent Franks ist etwas ganz Besonderes. Zusammengesetzt aus verschiedenen menschlichen Teilen und versehen mit unmenschlichen Kräften, gehört er zu den effektivsten Waffen, die Monster Hunter International zu bieten hat. Doch nur unter einer Bedingung stellt er seine durchschlagenden Fähigkeiten der Organisation zur Verfügung: Sie musste ihm versprechen, keine weiteren Wesen wie ihn zu erschaffen. Franks Schöpfer ist jedoch unersättlich.

Owen Pitt liebt seinen Job. Denn was könnte schöner sein, als sich tagtäglich mit Vampiren, Werwölfen oder alten Göttern anzulegen? Leider gehört es in diesem Berufsfeld auch zum guten Ton, sich stets neue und übermächtige Feinde anzuschaffen. Diesmal bekommt es Owen mit einem Totenkult zu tun, der von einem fanatischen Nekromanten angeführt wird. Und der hat es ganz speziell auf Owen abgesehen.

People think being haunted is a bad thing. That’s because they’ve never visited The Curiosity Curio. The spirits who linger in my store dance the jitterbug, look after the plants, and gossip about long-dead relatives. Even though no one believes me about my mediumistic gifts, it’s my job to aid these lost souls. I can help them, even if I gave up hoping to find someone who understood me long ago.

"Doktor Søvn" er den længe ventede opfølger til Kings berømteste bog til dato - "Ondskabens hotel". Kun tre overlevede Ondskabens hotel, heriblandt hovedperson Jack Torrances søn, Danny - dengang fem år og nu en voksen mand. Og det er ham vi nu følger. Danny kæmper med tre ting han arvede efter sin far; alkoholisme, et voldsomt temperament og resterne af spøgelset fra Ondskabens hotel. Indledningsvis er spøgelser det mindste af hans problemer... Men alkohol er ikke den eneste dæmon. De ydre dæmoner er The True Knot - en overnaturlig kult som ernæres ved dampene fra børn, som besidder "the shining". Kulten rejser rundt i mobilhomes forklædt som harmløse, ældre turister for at opsøge børn med overnaturlige evner.