Horror Sagas

Publicado por primera vez en 1917, Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte reúne los mejores cuentos de Horacio Quiroga, siendo la obra que lo posiciona como uno de los mayores cuentistas hispanoamericanos. Con una violencia implícita, en estos cuentos se presenta un mundo perturbador donde, frente a la inexorabilidad de la muerte, la locura y el amor se entrelazan de manera constante. Los relatos son breves y presentan una tensión e intensidad constante, mostrando la lucha desigual del hombre contra la naturaleza, lo salvaje y el horror.

Guy de Maupassant es reconocido como maestro de los cuentos de terror, a la altura de Edgar Allan Poe. Esta edición agrupa los mejores cuentos de este famoso escritor, lo que lo permitirá descubrir historias que lo aterrarán de principio a fin, tales como o ¿Quién sabe?, El Asesino, Aparición, La muerta o El Horla.

If you discovered something about yourself that was less than pleasant, would you search for the answers or would you be too afraid of what you might find? Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge.

È notte quando la carrozza si ferma davanti ai cancelli di Villa Turner, la nebbia avvolge la casa e i segreti dei suoi abitanti. Judith non conosce i dettagli dell'incarico che Edgar Turner vuole affidarle, ma anche dopo aver appreso la verità acconsente ad accudire la misteriosa ragazza che ha bussato alla sua porta. Per permettere a Gwen di recuperare le forze, lei e Peter si sono isolati. Quando il loro nascondiglio viene scoperto, sono costretti ad abbandonarlo e a fuggire tra le montagne.

One secret. One cult. One cosmic being. When his uncle dies, it’s up to Francis Wayland Thurston to finally uncover the family secret. For too long, recounts of dreams becoming reality had cast a sombre shadow over the family. And it seems these dreams didn’t die with the uncle. But when Francis discovers hidden notes of a mysterious cult, the truth turns darker than anyone could have ever imagined. A monster is on the rise. But one that is worshipped by those touched by evil, rather than feared.

Lady Olivia Sophia Allen Townsend is not only young and beautiful, but considered by most in her polite social circle to be far too eccentric for her own good. Olivia’s been able to see and speak to spirits since she was very young, but the years of shunning by her peers caused Olivia to turn her back on those who need her the most; the spirits caught between two worlds. That is until the night her best friend Lilly comes to her asking for help. You see, Lilly can’t remember what happened to her, and finds herself in need of Olivia’s unique gifts to help her figure it out.

Wade and Mira Cullen explore a large parcel of land, seemingly neglected, in their cozy, little neighborhood, and soon come upon a house with a sordid past. When they leave the property, they have no idea they have brought along something permanently etched in the bowels of history that will change them forever, as well as the very fabric of their own family.

Set against the beginning of the Spanish-American War, a young woman finds herself thrown into the midst of the most difficult choice of her life. This decision will ultimately lead to the unveiling of her family’s most deeply held secrets. With two innocent lives caught in the veil between life and death, will she be able to make amends and cast out the evil that now thrives among the living?

Jacqueline Rhodes skips school one overcast day in December and heads over to her favorite milkshake shop. There, she meets a man who introduces himself as Adrian Steiner. Jacqueline thinks she's met the man of her dreams, but in reality, she's met the vampire of her nightmares.

“You don’t remember...do you?” His brown eyes suddenly twinkled, and he shook his head. “No? You don’t remember calling on me in the depths of those first awful nights, when you were at your most exposed, when you were at your most vulnerable?” He stroked her long, brown hair with an almost impossible gentleness; it was as though a cool-warm breeze rifled it rather than his fingers. “When it was just you and the boy...alone, scared. Cold. Hungry?"

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. London lawyer Utterson is driven to investigate Edward Hyde, the unlikely protégé of his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, suspecting the relationship to be founded on blackmail. The truth is worse than he could have imagined. Jekyll's "full statement of the case", the final chapter of the book, explores the idea of dual personality that led him to his experiments, and his inexorable and finally fatal descent into evil.

"Frankenstein" begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame and friendship. The ship becomes trapped in ice, and, one day, the crew sees a dog sled in the distance, on which there is the figure of a giant man. Hours later, the crew finds a frozen and emaciated man, Victor Frankenstein, in desperate need of sustenance.

Les relations entre Douglas Stone et la célèbre Lady Sannox étaient bien connues des cercles à la mode dont elle était un des ornements, ainsi que dans les milieux scientifiques qui le comptaient, lui, parmi leurs plus illustres confrères. C'est donc naturellement un intérêt très général qui accueillit un matin la nouvelle que la dame avait rigoureusement et définitivement pris le voile et que le monde ne la verrait plus.

Arved Winter wurde vor kurzem seines Amtes als Pfarrer in einer Trierer Gemeinde enthoben, weil er von der Kanzel herab verkündete, er glaube nicht mehr an Gott...

Voici les très étranges aventures de John Vansittart, armateur et deuxième associé de la société Hudson et Vansittart, exportatrice de café de Ceylan. Lui et ses proches se souviendront longtemps de son voyage par bateau vers l'Inde. Le surnaturel côtoie le fantastique dans cette aventure à l'atmosphère inquiétante.

Walter Gilman est étudiant en mathématique et en folklore à l'université Miskatonic de la petite ville d'Arkham. Exceptionnellement doué dans...

L'incroyable histoire d'un homme qui se retrouve doté de pouvoirs extraordinaires grâce à une conséquence assez inattendue de l'utilisation de la chaise électrique.

Le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute importance a été volée dans le boudoir royal. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler le coupable.

Lovecraft est l'un des maîtres du fantastique et de la science-fiction. Il doit certainement à son enfance malheureuse l'inspiration de son œuvre. Alors qu'il n'a que trois ans, son père est interné dans un hôpital psychiatrique où il décédera des suites de la syphilis, maladie dont sa mère est également atteinte. A 13 ans, Howard rédige une première nouvelle fantastique. Un bref séjour à New York lui donne l'occasion, à travers le cercle d'amateurs de fantastique qu'il fréquente, de publier un premier récit.

Lorsque Harold Feld, professeur émérite de latin, diplômé de Cambridge, est envoyé à la Willow Lea House Academy par son agence de placement, il a été prévenu : il se peut qu'il soit confronté très rapidement à des choses assez étonnantes. D'ailleurs on ne lui a pas caché que 7 professeurs l'ont précédé au cours des 12 derniers mois. Quatre d'entre eux ont quitté leur poste si brusquement qu'ils n'ont pas touché leur premier mois d'appointements : aucun n'est resté plus de huit semaines.