Occult Anthology

Il Canto dell'Amor trionfante è un racconto dello scrittore russo Ivan S. Turgenev. Ambientato nella Ferrara del ‘500, ai tempi dell'Ariosto...

Two adventurers set out on a long mountainous hike into a remote cave with a sinister history. Listening to The Cave will take you from excitement to fear. Each emotion the same physiologically and drastically different psychologically.

A volunteer candy-striper stays over night at St. Mary's hospital to watch over a boy from her class. The same boy that had asked her to the school dance five times already. The same boy that she'd rejected five times already....

First published in an 1849 edition of The Flag of Our Union, "Hop-Frog" is a revenge tale akin to "The Cask of Amontillado". Told from the perspective of a crippled jester who was taken from his homeland and has been abused by the king he serves, the story focuses on the revenge Hop-Frog takes after the king strikes his fellow countrywoman and performer, the dancer Trippetta.

Have you ever had a reoccurring nightmare? What if the nightmare was more than a dream? In this story our protagonist discovers that his night terror is more is a glimpse into his past. An unforgivable crime haunts him in his present life. This short story is part of a series of short supernatural and horror stories. A quick, spooky listen that will leave you haunted.

Enclosed in this volume are five tales and short narrations of spirits and specters that seem to linger in the land of the living. Such as a the spirit of a grandfather wishing to connect with the grandson he never met, an entity hell bent on taking the innocence of young girl as she lies terrified in her bed and of the little girl trying to give her sister an important message! Some are false while some are based on fact, can you tell them apart?

A broken author tries to get back on his feet by staying at the super-cheap Fairfax Gardens. But the menacing Vagrant outside warns him repeatedly that the place is DAMNED. It all swings from bliss to horror and back, daily and inexplicably, due to the sweet and bubbly Sistine and her marauding demon of a mother. All, as the diabolical Vagrant outside seemingly grows more and more bent on killing them all.

The dark strains of madness that permeate many of the works of Edgar Allan Poe make their way through this macabre story. This memorable short story bears a resemblance to Poe's Tell Tale Heart. In both stories guilt leaves a murderer with a singular choice.

Tommie works hard. His job is not as glamorous as say a movie star or lawyer, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn't have time to relax once and a while. When his boss gives him the weekend off Tommie gets a chance to get away from it all. After work he and his gal head upstate for a weekend away with some friends. A cozy, secluded lakeside cottage awaits them. So does the Blood Mist.

The town of Flarant is abandoned to its fate, year after year. Year after year, the people of Flarant lose their children to the ghosts and ghouls on All Hallows Eve. They cannot flee. They are beyond all hope. And then a stranger enters the town in the days leading up to the event. This year, there is difference in the air. This year, the children are not alone.

My body jolted as gravity did its work, drawing my innards and their contents sharply towards the back of my throat. I opened my eyes and sat up with a start. My breathing was heavy and my heart beat uneasy. I felt cold, my body drenched in a clammy sweat, my vision blurred by tears. I looked around, confused as I tried to focus. I was in my bedroom. There was a half empty bottle of vodka on the floor. My lips were dry and my head thumped. With thoughts that were muddled and confused, I tried to make sense of things.

Life gets crowded on the open road. Jason loves the open spaces of the western US. There is contemplative quiet that comes with crossing the endless miles. And that's his job, traveling, doing mobile repair and maintenance work for an office equipment company. When they send him into New Mexico, an overnight stay at a motel that is haunted changes his life. Who knew spirits could be so tenacious or complicate your life so much? A short, fantastic adventure in surreal New Mexico.

“Mr. Tony Abbot”? It was my time. I had been waiting for this moment and now it had arrived. It was like going to school or starting a new job for the first time, a feeling of apprehension. I was looking forward to it with dread, I was going down.

"Azathoth" is the beginning of a never-completed novel written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in June 1922 and published as a fragment in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. It is the first piece of fiction to mention the fictional being Azathoth, one of the major entities in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, though the entity only appears in the title.

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels, well known for his comedies involving rural Essex characters. His most famous story, "The Monkey's Paw" (1902) is a tale of intense psychological horror. "The Old Man of the Sea" is a farcical comedy about a young man, George Wright, who tries to win a lady’s hand by pretending to be the only heir of a rich uncle.

Nuestro joven protagonista, Manrique, es un joven poeta, a quien le atrae todo lo romántico, los bosques, los monasterios... y atendiendo a las palabras de un fraile que le ha dicho que las estrellas que ve en el cielo son otros mundos, se dedica a soñar con las mujeres que habitarían esos mundos. Paseando una noche de verano le parece ver el borde del vestido blanco de una mujer, que enseguida desaparece....

When an American man discovers that he's the last descendant of the De la Poer family, he travels to England to take over their crumbling estate. Accompanied only by his cat, the man follows the incessant sound of rats to a dark place beneath the estate, unearthing horrible, dark, gruesome secrets about his ancestors and the type of activities they partook in. Taken by madness, the man falls into a dark pit of despair and commits unthinkable crimes. This jarring story from a renowned writer of horror fiction utilizes fear-inducing themes to entice its audience.

If you long to leave the real world behind for a dose of danger and the supernatural, then this collection of three tales - "Carnival", "Only the Moon", and "Strange Sushi" - is for you. Authored by best-selling author, Lea Ryan, Dark Dreams and Troubled Souls is a series of short fiction based on horror and dark fantasy genres.

A tribal ritual gone wrong, a time traveler who sets up his own demise, and a man grappling with the death of his wife; three short horror stories to tease your imagination. At the end of the day, we never really know where the paths we choose will lead us.

Hoping to leave the past behind, Shelly gets in her car and starts driving. But in running away from her life, Shelly gets an adventure she never expects. It all begins with a strange voice on the radio....