Occult Anthology

The Smiling Men: once the face of friendly law enforcement, now brutal enforcers for the conniving Arch Pastor Michael and his equally twisted comrade, Lady Penelope. As Michael and Penelope use these enhanced super soldiers to crush the populace of Britain into submission, one man prepares to unleash the end of the Smiling Men...maybe even the end of the world. For the world stops when the Smiling Men cry.

She's tied to the shop for a crime she didn't do, serving customers their wishes and nightmares, searching for the three missing puzzle pieces as she does so. Though it may take her years, she's determined to win her freedom before she becomes just another unwitting customer.

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.

Le venti storie che compongono questo volume spaziano nel tempo dai primi racconti rarissimi degli anni '60 al recentissimo Ontalgie. Una stupenda cavalcata attraverso i mondi dell'animo umano, che rimane uguale sulle rive del grande fiume natale come nell'immensità degli spazi siderali o nelle profondità del tempo.

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....

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.

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.

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?

This is a short story about the events that happened during a vacation in the South in the life of Jo Danning, a retired military linguist. She and her son, Casey, spend time with her grandmother while odd events unfold that surround a nearby house beside her grandmother's garden. Something evil is under the ground; something wicked from the past. Jo Danning only wanted to get to Wilmington, North Carolina as soon as possible. She wanted to start her new life with her son, Casey.

Estos seis relatos de terror están repletos de fantasmas, vampiros, zombis, demonios y otras criaturas espeluznantes que prometen hacerte pasar largas horas de intenso miedo...Cada cuento proviene de un lugar del mundo distinto, pero todos ellos son inquietantes y escalofriantes, como las mejores historias de terror y de suspense.

A young man begins to have dreams that leave him paralyzed in fear. At first, he hopes that these nightmare will just go away. He sees doctors and psychologists to no avail, as the dreams continue and things begin to get worse.

The narrator is interested in mesmerism, a pseudoscience involving bringing a patient into a hypnagogic state by the influence of magnetism, a process that later developed into hypnotism. He points out that, as far as he knows, no one has ever been mesmerized at the point of death, and he is curious to see what effects mesmerism would have on a dying person. He considers experimenting on his friend Ernest Valdemar, an author whom he had previously mesmerized and who has recently been diagnosed with phthisis (tuberculosis).

“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.

Sarafian's good buddy, homicide detective John Mayfield, once told him over drinks belly up to the bar of FOP DC Lodge #1 that the devil is always depicted as a pitchfork-toting, horned, cloven hoofed red beast with a tail, but he's not. "The devil is not repulsive," Mayfield continued, "He's attractive. Evil must be inviting... seductive. Charismatic. Tantalizing. The devil is a handsome man, a beautiful woman." Mayfield was right. Vickie was the devil. And it was high time for Dr. Thomas Sarafian to send his wife back to hell.

Charlie just didn’t listen. Charlie insisted on performing the ritual from the strange ancient book with the imperfections on the leather. Charlie wouldn’t listen to reason. And now he was dead. He was dead in a pool of blood in the center of the pentagram that was supposed to protect him, and I had to escape from all his ritual had wrought.

A world destroyed by itself but not totally alone. An age that prophesied Earth's destruction by meteors. Out of the air comes infestation, which appears in the year 2013 to kill the President and the populations of vamps and werewolves.

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life. This audiobook contains four short stories from 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead by Drac Von Stoller, read by Peter Jude Ricciardi . Immerse yourself into some of the best horrifying short stories ever told, including "The Dead Sea Captain", "Koimeterion Gates to Hell", "Necronomicon", and "Once Upon A Nightmare".

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

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.