Urban Horror

Legends say that the world was once filled with evil until the mighty Jade Emperor split it into three, Heaven, Hell, and Earth. He banished the demons and left the Sun and the Moon to watch over mankind. But one of those banished, Xuè Lóng the Blood Dragon, was enraged by his punishment and vowed to return and wreak havoc on humanity.

Ben McKelvie believes he's moving up in the world when he and his fiancée buy a house in the cushy Washington, DC, suburb of Barcroft. Instead he's moving down - way down - thanks to Madeleine Roux, the crazy neighbor whose vermin-infested property is a permanent eyesore and looming hazard to public health. First Ben's fiancée leaves him; then his dog dies, apparently killed by a predator drawn into Barcroft by Madeleine's noxious menagerie. But the worst is yet to come for Ben.

In a desperate bid to prevent being ousted from his own company, a start-up founder accidentally draws the attention of necromancers looking to protect their secrets. Occult attention spills over from the founder to his shady investor, whose entire portfolio becomes infested as a food delivery app delivers to vampires, a dating app transmigrates souls, and social media influencer's video game creates literal zombie followers. Are the apps cursed, or is something even worse in play?

Step into a world of spine-tingling excitement with the Brave Kids' Book of Scary Urban Legends: Humor & Mystery Unite. This thrilling collection invites brave young listeners to embark on a hair-raising adventure through eerie urban legends, haunted places, unexplained phenomena, supernatural objects, legendary creatures, and pop culture ghostly mischief. Brave kids will giggle and gasp as they face the Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot with newfound courage.

This collection of stories spans two decades of work by Bram Stoker Award winning author David Niall Wilson. From the streets of Jerusalem to the historical life of Vlad Tepes, follow this prolific author through 11 tales of vampirism, lycanthropy, and darkness. There's a bit of dark humor, a touch of the erotic, and a little something for everyone who loves creatures of the night. These vampires are guaranteed not to sparkle...

The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder? The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way.

Released one year after the publication of The King in Yellow - a milestone of supernaturalfiction - Robert W. Chambers’ title story of this short-story collection isconsidered one of his finest weird tales. It is followed by a series ofromantic art nouveau stories. Chambers’ love of natural scenery, symbolicanimal figures, and ghostly imagery are on full display as he weaves hischaracters through these otherworldly tales.

Three butchered witches. An unknown killer. One big mistake: they left the familiar alive. Stella Familiar was created by the London Coven to protect the city from the monsters that lurk in the shadows. She’s fought against the darkness for decades, but now something new has come to town. Something that’s torn her world apart. This monster did the impossible: it murdered the three most powerful witches in London, putting the city in peril, and leaving Stella alone for the first time to fight back against a power she doesn’t understand.

Angel meant to stop a war. Instead, she may have caused one. With everyone out for her blood, Angel is forced to hide in the last place she wants to be. But hiding will only be an option for so long. Somehow, she must make amends for her mistakes and find a way to save Southern Archaides from those who seek to destroy it. But matters are more complex than she knows. Angel thinks she has all the answers. She has no idea how wrong she is. And as the lines between enemy and friend begin to blur, she finds her heart drawn to two different men.

NECROVERSUM - eine Welt, in der die Seelen der Toten nach den Lebenden dürsten! Suse gibt für ihre neuen Nachbarn eine Housewarming-Party. Plötzlich ist alles dunkel und still. Kein Licht. Keine Musik. Doch ein Klopfen an der Tür... Zur gleichen Zeit fliehen der Biologe Mark Bennet und seine Begleiterin vor dem Angriff eines Vogelschwarms. Mark kann sich mit letzter Kraft in ein American Diner retten. Während der Tag zur Nacht wird, dringt durch einen Riss im Himmel das Grauen!

In Köln bringen vermummte Gestalten die Pest. In Paris verschwindet für einige Minuten der Eiffelturm. Irgendwo in China suchen grauenvolle Bestien...

Eine unmögliche Diagnose für den zehnjährigen Michael. Für Michaels Eltern beginnt ein Albtraum. Fast zerbricht ihre Ehe...

ACHTUNG: Hören Sie auf Ihr Navi! Nehmen Sie nie die falsche Ausfahrt! Sonst könnte es Ihnen ergehen wie Günther Krebs, der ein einziges Mal nicht achtgibt. Abseits der befahrenen Wege gelangt er in eine Stadt, die auf keiner Karte verzeichnet ist: Mahringen. Überragt von einem uralten Schloss, beherrscht von einem geheimnisvollen Grafen. Und Günthers scheinbar geradlinig verlaufendes Leben gerät buchstäblich aus der Bahn.

Nach einem schrecklichen Verkehrsunfall ist die schwangere Marie für einige Minuten klinisch tot. Doch wie durch ein Wunder kehrt sie ins Leben zurück. Allerdings ist sie fortan eine andere: Sie altert rapide, und - schlimmer noch - etwas ist in ihr erwacht. Etwas Böses. Plötzlich verschwindet Marie! Aus Liebe folgt ihr Mann Adrian ihrer Spur - und stößt auf ein uraltes, grausames Geheimnis.

Pandemonium: a twilight dimension of nightmare creatures, mythical beings, the undead, and everything in between. To Dead Jack, it’s hell sweet hell. In the first book of the series, the tortured, drug-addicted detective and his associate, the homunculus Oswald, face rogue leprechauns, ghost pirates, a sex-obsessed shark woman, sycophantic ghouls, an insecure fire demon, and a goateed maniac who calls himself the Duke of Pandemonium.

Harrison dice di essere stato, un tempo, il Piccolo Eroe di Dunnsmouth, il Detective dei Mostri, ma ora che ha più di trent'anni passa la maggior parte del suo tempo a ingurgitare pillole senza mai dormire. Stan, a quanto pare, anni prima ha goduto di una certa notorietà dopo essere stato quasi divorato da un gruppo di cannibali. Barbara invece è ossessionata dai messaggi che l'Intagliatore le ha inciso sulle ossa e che non ha mai potuto leggere.

Cassandra is a dhamphir - the offspring of a vampire and mortal woman - and a thief of occult relics. Aimee is a full-blood witch that is bound to a powerful vampire who traffics in the slavery of supernatural beings. Both are powerful, lonely, and trapped in the dangerous world of the vampires. When Cassandra steals a relic from Aimee’s vampire master, he targets her as his next acquisition.

Dr. Siegfried Klein has vanished on a mysterious pilgrimage to an abandoned infirmary in the ghost-town of Moonville. The locals in the surrounding areas are tight-lipped, hostile to outsiders. Local legend has it that the old Sick House is packed with spirits, none of them friendly, and that to set foot in it is to enter Hell itself.

Guy is about to finish writing his breakthrough online article. He overheard the story by chance in a pub and it’s guaranteed to go viral - all he needs to do is persuade the World’s Unluckiest Man to talk to him. His best friend Larry’s quest for killer clickbait material has led him to a recently appeared shanty town in Glasgow, where he finds some kind of urban voodoo cult. Ex-cop Sam has already come face-to-face with the terrifying force behind both these phenomena, but he’s been trying to put it out of his mind.

As the newest target of Somerdale’s most popular girls, Carmen Winstead is herself alone, unhappy, and prone to self-destructive thoughts. Maybe that’s why Carmen’s presence seems to have awakened something dark and sinister - a supernatural horror that has been hidden in the cornfields of Somerdale for a long time. Befriended by another outcast, Carmen finds the courage to face her demons. But when the pranks go too far, Carmen soon becomes intimately familiar with the town’s darkness - a darkness that is reaching out from beyond the grave.