Gothic Short Stories

"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. It was first published in the collection of short stories of the same title. In the story, a country doctor makes an emergency visit to a sick patient on a winter night. The doctor faces absurd, surreal predicaments that pull him along and finally doom him. A Country Doctor is perhaps Kafka's most fantastical or surreal work. It takes its cue from Gothic literature – it has echoes of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne – and analysing and identifying the core 'meaning' of the story has proved tricky

Hunter's Moon is a collection of six spine-tingling stories: "Bringing the Family", "Hunter's Moon", "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall", "A Glimpse of the Ankou", "Loco-Motive", and "Drilling Deep".

Edición sin música. El misterio de Marie Roget. Está basado en el asesinato real de Mary Cecilia Rogers, un crimen que paralizó a Nueva York debido a la violencia inusitada que el asesino volcó sobre la joven. Mary Cecilia Rogers nació en Connecticut en 1820, desapareció el 4 de octubre de 1838 en circunstancias poco claras.

FORSAKEN LAND: SELECTED STORIES brings in fifteen selected stories by Jeremy Perry from his books Hard Luck, Chicken Liver Blues, and other online publications. In this collection, you’ll dive headfirst into the underbelly of a fringe society in rural America that often forces many to live by their own rules. These are people who live in an environment saturated with drugs, crime, and other evils. This culture believes you need to get what you can, while you can, before the forsaken land comes calling. These are stories of crime, rural noir, and hillbilly gothic. KING OF THE COUNTY - ...

The Tell-Tale Heart is a clever classical gothic horror story birthed in 1843, by the quintessential short story extraordinaire Edgar Allan Poe. In this thrilling roller-coaster tale, we are granted access to the workings of the narrator’s heart - namely the confessions of the heart as well as the lack of having one. The year 1843 also gave birth to The Black Cat. This is arguably Poe’s darkest literary piece which bleeds the themes of brazen blame gaming, alcoholism, domestic violence, and the inescapability of one reaping what one has sown.

El rancio abolengo de la tradición aristocrática británica, se enfrenta a su peor enemigo: una familia americana.....El gran fantasma de Canterville que había llevado durante más de 500 años una vida tranquila, aunque triste, se va a ver de repente enfrentado a la peor de las pesadillas que se podia imaginar: los Otis.El respeto al terror tradicional, provocado por los fantasmas medievales, el pánico generado por esos espíritus ancestrales.

Kurzgeschichte von Bram Stoker, meisterhaft gelesen von Alexander Wohnhaas. Diese packende Erzählung entführt dich auf einen mysteriösen Hügel, der von dunklen Geheimnissen und gespenstischen Legenden umwoben ist. Was geschieht, wenn Vergangenheit und Übernatürliches aufeinandertreffen? Alexander Wohnhaas erweckt diese seltene Perle der Schauerliteratur mit seiner atmosphärischen Stimme zum Leben und zieht dich in eine Geschichte voller Spannung, Gänsehaut und düsterer Überraschungen. Perfekt für alle, die klassische Gruselgeschichten lieben oder ein Hörbuch zum Entspannen suchen.

Apparso a puntate sul "Corriere di Milano" nel 1870, questo racconto appare in questa edizione per la prima volta in volume. Una moneta - il fiorino che manca per raggiungere il milione - appare in sogno all'usuraio. In un'atmosfera tra miracolo e raccapriccio la maledizione che ne seguirà si carica di sottili valori simbolici. La Catastrofe dell'avidità - tema caro alla narrativa ottocentesca - è l'idea dominante di questa novella di Arrigo Boito, nella quale emerge trasparente il suo stile nobilmente melodrammatico.

Step into the shadows with the latest spine-tingling edition of Vagabond: Metamorphosis and Madness. This thrilling horror anthology curated by the mysterious Vincent Thorne presents thirteen chilling tales from today's top horror writers that explore the thin line between madness and metamorphosis. From a malevolent radio station hidden deep in the Louisiana bayou, to sinister pagan rituals in an isolated Italian village, to a cursed photography studio in 1950s New York, these stories will take you on a terrifying journey to the darkest corners of the human psyche. Tales of possession, ...

Edgar Allan Poe's early literary works were poetic, but he quickly turned to prose. He worked for several magazines and journals till in January 1845, The Raven was published and became an instant classic. Poe was also an early proponent of the detective story and announced his entry to this genre with the classic short story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'.

Esta selección de cuentos del excepcional Edgar Allan Poe incluye sus más destacados cuentos, Carta robada y Corazón delator, que lo llevarán a experimentar el suspenso y el misterio exponiendo hasta dónde un ser humano puede hundirse en el odio irracional. En Carta robada se narra la historia de una carta que se ha perdido y que en caso de caer en malas manos, puede perjudicar a su dueño. La policía sabe quién la tiene pero no dónde la ha escondido. Ante la incapacidad por resolver este misterio, el prefecto decide contratar a el detective Auguste Dupin, conocido por poseer una gran inteligencia y capacidad de deducción.

Emma Hazelton is torn between her growing desire for the vampire and her fear of what he could do to her. Now she needs his help and must put her trust in him to take her sisters away from her uncle’s increasing cruelty. When he returns for her he refuses to take her away until she gives him her body and her soul. She must decide how much she wants to help her sisters, destroy her uncle, and give in to her feelings, so she can survive his request. Falling for the Vampire 3 is the third book in a five part series. Each installment is approximately 12,000 words (50 pages).

EL GATO NEGRO: Desde prisión, el protagonista cuenta en primera persona los sucesos que le llevaron a ser condenado a muerte. EL HUNDIMIENTO DE LA CASA USHER: En el siglo XIX, un joven apuesto, Philip Winthrop, se presenta en la mansión de los Usher a pedir la mano de su amada, Madeline. EL CUERVO: Es una narración en verso, una historia fascinante, magistral.

A masterpiece of Gothic horror and suspense that inspired such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors is Machen’s famous collection of “weird tales” - a string of shocking short stories woven together with a fine narrative thread. The three impostors of the title are members of a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites who weave a web of deception in the streets of London as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: “the young man with spectacles”.

L'opera narra la vicenda del protagonista, che si rifugia in un castello abbandonato e scopre in una stanza una serie di quadri e un esiguo libro che li descrive. La sua attenzione è attratta da un ritratto di forma ovale che raffigura una giovane donna di rara bellezza. Sul volumetto legge che la fanciulla, innamoratasi del pittore, lo sposò, ma presto si rese conto che costui era già "sposato" alla sua arte, che divenne per la giovane una rivale da odiare...Il ritratto ovale è un audiolibro della collana LibriVivi Palco.

"El Retrato Oval" de Edgar Allan Poe es una obra maestra que nos transporta a un mundo de misterio y obsesión. En este relato, la belleza y la tragedia se entrelazan de manera magistral, revelando la historia de un artista cuya pasión por su musa lo lleva a un destino fatal. A través de una narrativa envolvente, Poe nos invita a descubrir los secretos escondidos detrás de un enigmático retrato.

Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban: After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman. Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion. A wife confiscates her husband's homemade sex doll, only to demand her own. Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers. Rachel Ingalls' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: surrealist, subversive, tragicomic. Prepare to meet what lurks beneath.

Four haunting classics, filled with mystery and suspense, abridged especially for young listeners: Frankenstein, The 39 Steps, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre....

Some inherit houses. Morgan inherited a curse. When down-on-her-luck professor Morgan Blackwood learns she’s inherited a centuries-old mansion from a long-lost relative, she hopes it’s the miracle she needs to rebuild her life. But Blackwood Manor is more than an old estate—it’s the prison of an ancient entity bound to her bloodline. As Morgan uncovers journals, occult symbols, and long-buried secrets, she begins to realize her dreams aren’t just dreams—and the house doesn’t just remember the past. It 'is' the past. With a dark power awakening and the marks of a forbidden ...

Man weiß nicht viel vom alten Fettes - außer dass er ein trinkfester Schotte mit medizinischem Wissen ist, der nicht viel spricht. Eines Tages jedoch gibt es einen medizinischen Notfall. Als Fettes den Namen des Notarztes hört, wird er leichenblass: McFarlane! Etwa der McFarlane, mit dem Fettes damals Leichname für den Anatomiekurs auf nächtlichen Friedhöfen ausgegraben hatte? Eine wunderbar klassische Gruselgeschichte für Fans des Genres.