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A collection of classic works by Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Matthew Cahill is a simple man leading a quiet life... until he is tragically killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. Three months later his corpse is found and sent to the morgue - but then something inexplicable happens. He wakes up. Now he can see evil... as a festering rot that eats people alive from the inside out. And he can see Mr. Dark, the horrific figure who gleefully spreads it like a plague... and whois the only one who can tell Matt whether he is still a man... or the walking dead.For Matt, each day is a journey into a supernatural world he knows nothing about....

Two colonial officers extol the benefits they are bringing to an African village in the form of "quays and warehouses, and barracks-and billiard-rooms". A French republican who has fathered three idiot sons makes his peace with the Church: only to have an idiot daughter. A woman chooses not to leave her husband...but he leaves her. Such are the ironies of Conrad's earliest short stories.

When we hear the name Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, most people think of Sherlock Holmes, his most famous creation. However, detective stories were not Doyle's favorite. His lifelong passion was the supernatural and because of this he wrote a number of fascinationg supernatural stories. This section includes 7 of the best.

"Dracula's Guest" is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the novel. It was later released as a short story.

The revenge-minded Montresor convinces Fortunato to join him deep in the catacombs, ostensibly to sample some rare wine. The conclusion to this suspenseful story is memorable, to say the least.

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is of the best "macabre" tales ever written. It is presented here in its entirety along with eight other incredible tales.

Thirty-four years ago, on October 31, poor Hannah Talbott took part in a scavenger hunt gone violently wrong. The mean girls made sure of it. To this day, for a haunted local mother, the most unsettling Halloween costume of all is an urban legend they call Hannah-Beast. It’s a reminder of the past she can’t forget. Especially tonight when it’s come back, so close to home.

A female passenger travelling in a by rail is intrigued and increasingly frightened by one of her companions in the compartment. Entirely covered by a cloak, are their intentions nefarious, supernatural or entirely innocent?

Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Featuring work by H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, F.G. Loring and Florence Marryat, this second volume of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, transport you to a cosy fireside to hear tales of disembodied voices, haunted objects and unknown entities lurking in the shadows cast by candlelight.

The story concerns the attempts by a prince and his followers to shield themselves from a terrible plague which is devastating the surrounding area and to carry on living lives of pleasure. Their attempts ultimately prove futile. The Red Death is the name of the infectious disease which causes people to die within 30 minutes. Those who are infected bleed profusely from their skin, especially their faces, before they die. Some six months after the arrival of Prince Prospero's guests, a masked ball is held for them.

A stay in Paris should be just the tonic for a distracted and insular German student. But it is the beginning of the French Revolution and the blood-stained guillotine is doing its grisly work every day. So when the student encounters a beautiful, distraught woman in need of comfort on its steps in the dead of night, he doesn’t consider this meeting perhaps as strange as he should. "The Adventure of the German Student" is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural.

In the story, a young, scientifically minded college professor finds an old bronze whistle while exploring the ruins of a Knights Templars' preceptory. That night, he blows on the whistle and a vision comes to him of a dark expanse with a lonely figure in its midst. The sound also appears to call up a gust of wind, but the sensible professor dismisses it as a coincidence. More strange incidents follow, however, to shake his disbelief in the supernatural.

"El chico asintió y el extraño le tendió la mano. Titubeó unos segundos, se la agarró y continuaron andando juntos por la carretera. La nieve comenzaba a cuajarse de nuevo, apenas unos centímetros, pero eran suficientes para sentir la humedad y el frío a través de las suelas rotas de sus zapatos. Desanduvo parte del camino que había hecho con su padre días antes; los árboles habían ardido y todo estaba desolado. El mundo se había convertido en una hoguera inmensa donde debían purgarse todos los pecados del hombre".

Tres relatos con un tema en común: el fatalismo. Un maquetista envuelto en una fantasmagórica historia amorosa durante la Feria Internacional de Burdeos; un asesino confeso compelido a un destino absurdo; un español perdido en el desconcertante Moscú de la Perestroika... Personajes muy distintos unidos por una suerte común: avanzar perplejos y desconcertados por un camino sembrado de circunstancias extraordinarias y, ante todo, inevitables. Tres obras sobre la perplejidad y la impotencia ante los extraños derroteros que nos depara la vida.

Una colección de cuentos y textos breves donde el terror y el intimismo se mezclan de la mano de uno de los maestros del cuento de terror japonés, Lafcadio Hearn. En ella, el autor presenta una serie de historias escalofriantes repletas de leyendas de amor y espectros, desde el canto de una cigarra hasta un detallado estudio de la yobina; a la vez que clama una vez más su amor por su país de adopción.

La colección de cuentos que habría provocado pesadillas en autores como H. P. Lovecraft o Robert E. Howard. La oscuridad innombrable es un homenaje del autor Ted E. Grau a los maestros del género de la Arkham House, tan macabra como apabullante en el tratamiento del terror más oscuro e ignoto.

Un lugar mejor es una apabullante muestra del mejor horror contemporáneo, una colección de relatos que demuestra que todavía no está todo dicho en el género de terror, no en vano ha sido nominada y galardonada con los mayores premios tanto nacionales como internacionales. En estas historias se mezcla el horror cotidiano con el cósmico, la verdadera naturaleza de la madre tierra con las profundidades del alma humana. Un viaje a la oscuridad que cambia por completo a quien lo emprende.

A haunting collection of 14 narratives, ranging from the sublime and humorous to the dark and ghastly, gives voice to spirit stories and ghost tales from around the world.

Asesinos, locura, vampiros, monstruos. El miedo puede manifestarse de innumerables maneras, pero, ¿acaso se puede escapar de él? Este volumen presenta relatos variados con un denominador común: terror en estado puro.