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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Fitz James O’Brien irlandés a quien el maestro del terror cósmico Howard Phillips Lovecraft lo bautizó como el Poe céltico dedicándole las siguientes palabras: “Entre los primeros discípulos de Poe puede colocarse al joven y brillante irlandés Fitz James O’Brien, emigro a Estados Unidos y murió honrosamente en la guerra civil. A él debemos What Was It?, el primer relato corto bien estructurado sobre un ser tangible pero invisible, y prototipo del Horla de Maupassant; fue él, también, que creó el inimitable Diamond Lens.

Delve into the captivating world of Fitz-James OBrien, the Irish-born author hailed as a hidden genius of weird fiction. As the vital link between Edgar Allan Poe and later masters like Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Machen, OBriens work offers a unique blend of the fantastical and the scientific. In this collection, youll discover some of his most celebrated tales, including The Diamond Lens, where a sance, a murder, and a microscopic universe collide, and What Was It?‚a chilling story of an invisible murderer that predates both H.G. Wells The Invisible Man and Bierces The ...

Fitz-James O'Brien was an Irish-born poet, journalist, and short-story writer who migrated to America in 1852. He died from an injury acquired during the Civil War. O'Brien was called "the preeminent writer of supernatural stories of his time", and he is best remembered for two or three widely anthologized stories that border on science fiction. Among them is this masterpiece.

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.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Presenting an audio anthology of Victorian ghost stories to chill you to the bone this holiday season.

They're baaaaaaaaaaaaacckkkkk!!! Rocky Coast Radio Theatre returns with yet another copious cornucopia of classic concoctions, crafted and compiled for the captive congregation (gotta love that thesaurus!). Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V offers dramatized adaptations (complete with music and sound effects) of chilling stories penned by Edgar Allan Poe, Hugh B. Cave, and H. P. Lovecraft, as well as a few additional treats.

Desde el comienzo de la historia en numerosas y diferentes culturas han aparecido leyendas sobre los vampiros. Estos mitos se han transmitido de generación en generación y se han convertido en parte imprescindible del folclore popular. Posteriormente, autores como Polidori, Charles Nodier...

Set in a mysterious boarding house in the heart of 19th-century New York, a group of residents decides to investigate the house’s eerie reputation. Among them is Harry, who soon finds himself at the center of a nightmarish encounter. In the dead of night, as shadows loom and silence reigns, he is seized by an invisible force, a creature that defies explanation and challenges the very fabric of human understanding.