Evil Horror

No narrative ever ends. Each crawls inside its listener to decay eternally. Those listeners become authors to write themselves out of existence, working themselves into our unspooling.

Serial killers have shocked communities across the world with their gruesome crimes against humanity. While many killers are eventually brought to justice, some have eluded police capture and vanished without a trace. Their identities remain unknown and their cases were never solved. But who were these mysterious killers, and how did they get away with murder?

Audrey Hamilton, a young American woman, comes to Paris to seek her fortune as an artist. Lurking beneath the glamour of the city, however, in a nation still recovering from the Great War of 1914-18, is the dark spiritual force of the poet Charles Baudelaire. Evil will rise from the moody old Cemetery of Montparnasse to ensnare Audrey's spirit and drag her to her doom.

Perfectly sized for your commute, coffee break, or evening entertainment, this collection of short horror stories grabs your attention and won’t let go. You may be too afraid to sleep at night. You may find yourself weeping over the fate of unfortunate victims. These stories are not for the faint of heart - you will cringe, cry, groan, and swear as they plumb the depths of human evil. Grab a blanket or a sweater, because these tales will leave you shivering.

The Evil Clergyman is a brief but chilling work by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1933 and published posthumously in 1939. Unlike many of Lovecraft's stories that delve into cosmic horror and elaborate mythologies, this tale presents a deeply personal and mysterious vision, drawing readers into an unsettling encounter with the unknown. Originally conceived as a vivid nightmare that Lovecraft recounted in a letter to fellow writer Bernard Austin Dwyer, this story unfolds with an eerie immediacy that reflects its dreamlike origins.

At the work Christmas party, Scarlett Penny finds herself beside a beautiful stranger. After too much champagne, she ends up at his at his luxurious home...then in his bedroom. In the following days, there are strange happenings, and she believes he might have something to do with it. How close will she get to something so perfect, yet so potentially dangerous, if she wants to discover the truth?

Something is wrong with Crista's children. Her partner, Matt House, tells her it's nothing to worry about. He says they're probably acting up because they didn't want to move into this new house. But Crista knows her children. She has seen them play up before at various times and this isn't like them. What they're saying, what they're doing...It's not like her children at all....

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

It’s the time of the Midnight Sun, and out in the Chukchi Sea, northwest of Alaska, the Agloolik is on its maiden voyage. Glacial Petroleum’s state of the art drillship heads out to waters that were once solid pack ice. Now with global temperatures rising and the ice receding, a whole new territory opens up for oil exploration. One of the core samples comes up withsomething that has been dormant for eons. Something black andrank. Something foul. Something sick.

Warning: these books contain disturbing stories of true-life murder. Viewer discretion is advised. Serial killers have haunted the public imagination for hundreds of years. They have struck fear and terror into the collective consciousness for their gruesome and malicious crimes against humanity. What motivates them to commit these murders?

An historic trader’s cabin has been found in the woods in Northern Ontario and archaeologist Steve Dawson has been asked to investigate. Disturbed by the unpleasantness he and his co-worker Theo experience there, they quickly finish their work and move on, camping at Shekarkistergoan Lake, where they encounter the deeply unsettlingly, vigorous ghost of Charles Janvier, an 18th-century voyageur with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead.

This story was printed with some fanfare in Pearson’s Magazine and lauded for its originality. Despite its success the author is as mysterious now as he was then. Did he write other stories? No one knows.

What are you scared of? Hair-raising ghosts, fearsome creatures, or heart-wrenching psychopaths?What will you do if you are lost in the woods where the creatures lurk day and night? And how will you save your family after moving to a new house where the ghost of a butcher resides? This diverse collection of spine-chilling short stories of paranormal encounters may leave you terrified.

Lena and Anna are best friends. Two young teenage girls who have grown up in the backwoods town of Tangent Springs isolated from the modern world by old men and old ways. The girls spend their spare moments daydreaming of running away and meeting real men who will take them away from their nightmare world and treat them with love and respect as equals. Their daydreaming is the only escape from the intergenerational abuse that manifests in their hometown, like a genetic disorder passed down from one generation to the next.

A Victorian tale of horror. How far would an artist go to create a masterpiece? Even murder?

In 1693, in a small village in Massachusetts, five witches are burned at the stake. Four are pure and kind-hearted, using their powers only for good; their murders are a travesty. The last witch is an evil warlock named Murdock Vickar. As Vickar burns, he casts an evil curse, enabling him to return from death again and again. In present day, in the peaceful seaside village of Laguna Beach California, the witches rise yet again. Some strange photographs and the assistance of a medium named Isabel lead the witches to learn their true nature...and their purpose.

Bran Hatten is big, mean and unpredictable. He'll pound any guy that crosses his path, and he's a complete jerk to girls who spurn his affections. Tess Ryan and her friends are looking for options, even those the mysterious new girl at Pembrook High might offer. Charisse Bienville lives in the old dark house at the edge of town, and she's hinted that she commands powerful magical forces. Tess and her friends join Charisse in a ritual to end Bran's reign of terror, but they don't count on what might come afterward.

Una presencia maligna pretende sembrar el caos en la vida de Maylan. El rito que enfrenta a exorcista y demonio debe empezar. Nadie escapará al horror. Pero ¿qué ocurre cuando el mal solo acepta sangre a cambio de rendirse? La mala suerte parecía cosa del pasado. Tras el divorcio, la relación con su hijo Nicholas no podía ser mejor, y para su regocijo acababa de conseguir una cita con la panadera más bella de Bridgeport. Pero el exorcismo a una monja en los años setenta desencadenará el horror en la vida de Maylan.

You’ve met The Pig… You’ve been to The House… Now it’s time to visit Ouija Pig!

Harms' Way takes us into the chilling world of a supermax detention facility where America's most psychotic killers are kept in solitary confinement. Yet as we get to know Ethan and explore this world through his wry humor and tragic sense of destiny, we find ourselves uncomfortably at home.