Horror Sagas

It was a simpler time. Widower Jacob Ernst struggles to raise his young sons, Nathan and Mead, on their modest farm in the small town of Painted Post. Listening to the songs of their hounds while pursuing the wily raccoon through the nighttime forests, Jacob teaches his children a deep respect for all woodland creatures and the many legends abounding in these tall hills. For Painted Post is a storied place where the lessons of life, love, and death play out beneath its mighty oaks. And Nathan and Mead grow loyal to each other and their coonhounds till the end.

Teddy Dormer lives with a condition unlike any other - in order to sleep, he must not only inadvertently steal the ability for others around him to sleep, but also experience their worst nightmares, memories, and darkest secrets. This is a condition he has lived with his entire life, often with dire consequences, but he has a system that works for him.

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?"

Naaygi found them waiting for her - as she somehow knew they would be - as the cage doors opened. She even knew somehow what they were: a breed of carnosaur the “evolved” humans had called nanotyrannosaurs, the “Pygmy Tyrants”. And thus she bowed to them and touched her forehead to the pavement, a pavement which ran red with blood and was strewn with the dismembered, disemboweled corpses of at least 50 men and women. And then whispered to them in a language older than words, "Follow me."   

When Tori moved to Bland, Virginia, she thought she knew all of the strange, magical secrets the small town held. So when her mom decides that it is time they had a place of their own and buys the big two-story house known as Ratherby House, she thinks she has everything under control. But then again, haunted houses have a different kind of magic all their own, and not everything is quite as it seems.

"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.

En 1890, un égyptologue, venu au musée du Louvre pour y étudier certains papyrus, remarque un gardien qui lui semble égyptien. Puis il le découvre, la nuit, délivrant une momie et cherchant une bague. Cet homme étrange lui révèle que, il y a trois mille ans, alors qu'il était prêtre, il a pris un élixir de longue vie et que c'est pour échapper à cette malédiction qu'il recherche cet anneau qui contient un contre-élixir.

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.

Simon Bughin sospecha que detrás del inesperado suicidio de su hermana se esconde una secta satánica. Sus investigaciones le llevan a Shimts, un pequeño pueblo del norte de Escocia. Allí conoce a Max, un joven dibujante de cómics reservado y tímido, que ha llegado hasta ese apartado lugar porque su madre también se acaba de suicidar sin razón aparente.

The Call of Cthulhu is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. Lovecraft's writing, particularly the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, has influenced fiction authors including modern horror and fantasy writers. Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, for example, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences...