Horror Fairy Tales

A clan of gypsies comes into a village in Wales. Lon Chaney is bitten by a werewolf in his attempt to save a girl. The girl dies, but he did kill the monster, who was Bela, a gypsy fortuneteller. Unfortunately for Lon, he becomes a werewolf, and so begins the genre. What is not revealed is how Bela first became a wolf man; this book is a prequel to the movie and reveals this mystery.

Here is the most famous of all tales of vampirism and an enduring classic. Jonathan Harker's journeys to Transylvania and the discovers the un-dead Count Dracula. Upon his return to England, Professor Van Helsing joins the dark struggle to overcome the evil Count. Only with a pursuit back to Transylvainia can the battle between good and evil finally prove decisive.

Frankenstein (1818) is the definitive fable about genetic modification gone haywire which is only too relevant to modern times. Victor Frankenstein decides to build a 'man' from assembled body parts stolen from corpses. What results, of course, is a 'monster', but the mastery of Shelley's storytelling leaves a listener asking themselves what a 'monster' really is - and feeling thoroughly frightened.

Dracula (1897) first brought vampires to the popular literary consciousness, and they have been firmly entrenched in horror stories ever since. Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious 'Count' who has instructed him to purchase a property in England on his behalf. Thus begins a series of awful events, where Harker finds himself in the midst of a nightmare, in a deadly game of cat and mouse where he himself is hunted as prey.

El pintor Adrián Novoa, incitado por su amigo Xavier, compra una casa en una aldea de Galicia. Es la casa de sus sueños. En ella quiere encontrar la tranquilidad necesaria para explorar nuevos caminos en su pintura. Pero la casa esconde un profundo misterio que atrapa a Novoa como un imán.

In the year 1477 AD, Baron Wilton Abrahams tracked down the last of the Dracul brothers, Stellan, and on a snow-covered mountain in Romania drove a stake into him, sending him tumbling over the edge. While Stellan's body lay frozen, the brides of the Dracul were forced to flee their ancient castle, and the rest of their kind met their fate at the deadly hands of vampire hunter Abrahams. Five hundred years later, explorer Max Lowe and his team make a discovery, dubbed the "Ice Prince".

It started out as a simple drive down a country road. Oh sure, Hillman was thinking about suicide. Oh sure, the dead woman is in his back seat was goading him on. What was the point? Why bother living? Who am I? It turns out Coyote has something to say about that. Coyote...and a troll.

In 1691, the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her; they shot her; they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive, Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died as a gust of wind harrowed the meat from his bones. A root, flung like a dirty javelin, cut a second man down. Many more deaths followed. The Preacher Fell impaled the witch upon her very own broom, but she dragged him down into the field to wait for three more centuries.

The Banshee: Is she to be feared, loathed, or is she simply misunderstood? Barry Fitzgerald and Cormac Strain explore some of the history of this very famous entity of myth and legend to reveal things are not possibly what they seem. They speak to people from all over the island of Ireland who have come face to face with this messenger of death and share their encounters. These encounters are not from the dark regions of Irish history but rather happened within the last 50 years.

Bad Things is a collection of paranormal stories that will make your skin crawl and heart race. Do you sleep with the light on? Maybe you should....

In the pantheon of great fictional horrors, Frankenstein's monster perhaps stands the tallest. Mary Shelley's acclaimed masterpiece, about the creation of a monster pieced together from graves, the gallows, and medical school scraps, has lost none of its chilling power to arouse both horror and compassion.

In Book 1, a boy at the brink of adulthood travels beyond the ruins of an ancient elven city, to The Crown of The World in the far north. It is there where he meets his father for the first time, in search of the answers and reasons his mother refuses to discuss. At the risk of his life, he learns that finding the truth requires knowing The Tale of Onora.

Alan Edgars, a veteran struggling with PTSD, is working a security job at an art museum when suddenly he is kidnapped by a demon named Clive Smith, who tells Alan that he’s taking him to the Omega. An unknown entity that needs an army of trained souls in order to have a chance of destroying God. The training methods involve endless years of torment until they become immune to the pain. After a change of heart, Clive feels like the training methods are too extreme and tries to find a way to free himself and other unfortunate slaves of the Omega.

Collection of short stories that contain myth, magic, fantasy, mystery, and dark tales that will keep you up after night falls.

This book starts with the third year living on the farm that Jake and Jada purchased to raise their children and to have a little piece of their own little paradise. But their paradise is not so peaceful as they would like. Can Jada and her family brave the terrorizing experiences that the creature has caused and live on the property in the mountains that they call paradise?

In the frozen wilderness, Angela is running: away from the man who's trying to kill her; away from a lonely upbringing; and away from terrible family secrets...when she discovers something else hidden from prying eyes - horrors unthinkable, inconceivable. Monstrous things that might just save her life. Join best-selling and award-winning author Paul Kane as he once again puts a dark modern spin on another well-known fairy tale in Snow.

Amalia had always heard the music of the night in her dreams, but it wasn't until one day, when she was traveling back from town, did she find out what the true source of it was: a strigoi. The last thing she remembers is being bit, then finding herself back at her camp. Everything seemed strange from then on, but why was that? Was it all a dream? Or did she really come in contact with one of the most feared creatures of her people?

Twisted Steel deals grievous wounds in this calamitous collection of weird fantasy and cosmic horror. These stories ooze and bubble with grim tales of wizards, witches, ghouls, vampires, necromancers, and pre-socratic philosophers! These tales of weirdness and woe will chew up your heart and spit the pieces back into your face!

En un lugar de la región del Cibao de la República Dominicana mejor conocido como El Sitio, vivía un joven llamado Pedro, al que todos conocían como Pedro Animal. Conoce a Pedro y a sus ocurrentes amigos en esta sabrosa aventura dominicana. Basado en la producción de la compañía de teatro...

Young Miranda is going to be famous. She is going to be in the movies and fly aeroplanes. The War to End all Wars, the Flu of 1918, and the Great Depression combined to destroy the dreams of children. The hoodoo was watching when her father burned Miranda’s gris-gris. Death was not an obstacle. Albee knew how to make the Miranda famous.