Short Stories Occult

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the core of the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Visit a world where Vampires, Witches, Elementals, Demons and Humans once ruled the land. In the fifth part, Gerwulf faces the Vampire Grythe and Alex learns of his Destiny.

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.

In these two "inspired by actual accounts" but still entirely fictional tales, a pair of challengers of the unknown go one on one with two of the world's most famous mysterious legends. In "Beneath Still Waters", a lake-dwelling giant creature draws a devoted paranormal investigator into a staggering encounter that goes far beyond a blurry photo of something with a long neck and humps passing by a Loch Ness excursion boat.

When a young man goes from the demands and rigors of the army to a luxurious and serene country living, his mind is bound to wander where it should not. Such is the fate of Alexei Alexeyevich Fedyashev, who becomes so absorbed in his newfound idleness that he falls in love with an old portrait. When the famous conjurer and medium Count Cagliostro accidentally ends up at Fedyashev's escape, the young man begs him to bring his dream to reality. "Be careful what you wish for" is the lesson young Alexei has yet to learn - and how!

Invoking Hellion: My name is Leila and I was named an 'Earth Sentinel' by my dead twin sister Lia. My mission is to battle dark spirit entities with the help of an attractive 19-year-old Earth Sentinel named Max and his sister April. : Millionaire aristocrat, Emerik Jakob Pavic, surprised her adopted 18-year-old daughter Klara with a space shuttle trip. His choice proved to be the wrong one when they found themselves stranded in space.

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.

Collected in one place for the first time, these seven previously published zombie tales span the gamut of the genre. In Under the Bed, a little girl hides from a mother who's not her mommy anymore. In The Last Train Out, a terrified woman is forced to make the ultimate decision as she attempts to flee a New York City being overrun by the dead. In The Rising Water, a young boy alone on an isolated farm has to deal with the storm of the century and the rise of the dead.

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.

As Nathan Baxter attends the funeral of one of his victims, he encounters a woman he shares a sinister secret with.

Dall'opera di Grazia Deledda "Racconti Sardi" una storia di superstioni e magie con un finale a sorpresa...

In questo racconto si ritrovano i principali elementi che caratterizzano l'Opera di Tarchetti, ed in particolare il gusto per l'elemento fantastico e stregato e l'acuto sentimento della coesistenza di amore e morte, dosati con misura e rivestiti con un colorito linguaggio e punte di umorismo.

Dall'opera di Grazia Deledda "Racconti Sardi" credenze magiche, superstizioni e riti di una volta....

Le voci delle narratrici interpretano quattro novelle del 'maestro' del Decadentismo italiano Gabriele D'Annunzio. Egli ha esplorato il misticismo estetico e l'irrazionale mettendoli in relazione con la sua natura sensuale. Coll'abbandono della ragione come mezzo di conoscenza D'Annunzio si arrende all'istintualità e alla sensualità, vedendo in esse la via per vivere la vita più profondamente e sondare i misteri dell'Ego, come dire sondare i misteri della natura.

“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.

In questa novella di Pirandello magistralmente interpretata da Gaetano Marino facciamo la conoscenza di Poponé, anziana che viene accompagnata da una schiera di angeli in un suo viaggio notturno. Al termine del suo viaggio, però, le verrà profetizzata la sua imminente morte.

Una donna in punto di morte è tormentata da un ricordo lontano e che potrebbe sembrare a tutti dimenticato. Ma lei ha promesso che rivelerà quel fatto soltanto "dopo morta". E così sarà.

She can't escape the stare of the poison-eyed boy, and she's not sure she wants to. The intensity of his gaze calls to her, consumes her. Why is she drawn to his stare, compelled to give herself to him? And how, when he finally moves to take her to himself, is she somehow powerless to resist him, even knowing that to give in to his advances is to lay her soul bare before him, to expose her every secret?

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.

Delbert Mason has it all - or so it seems. His career is a success, and he is an important man in his small town. His future is mapped out. He knows just where he's going.

Until the night he strolls home late and sees a hearse and a limousine pull into the local cemetery. Who were those strange men by the hearse, and whose grave was that being dug nearby?