Horror Fairy Tales

Tommy has come home from the city to visit his dad for one last time. He is determined to get to the bottom of all of the secrets that his dad has kept for hidden behind a smokescreen of storytelling and charm. It turns out that some secrets are best left untold.

Andrej und Abu Dun treffen auf Ansen, einen blonden Riesen, der ein geheimnisvolles Drachenboot und dessen hünenhafte Besatzung befehligt. Ansen bietet den beiden einen Platz auf seinem Boot an. Froh, einen Weg aus der Eishölle gefunden zu haben, willigen Andrej und Abu Dun ein. Doch auf der Reise machen sie eine grausige Entdeckung...

Privatdetektiv Raven wird vom Millionär Pendrose beauftragt, ihn für drei Tage zu beschützen. Der Mann ist halb wahnsinnig vor Angst. Er erzählt Raven von einem Pakt, den er und sein Freund Candley vor zwei Jahren mit einem dämonischen Reiter geschlossen haben - einen Pakt um Geld und Macht. Der Preis ist das Leben zweier Menschen...

Das Unglaubliche ist passiert: Abu Dun ist schwer verwundet und droht zu sterben. Um ihn zu retten, macht sich Andrej auf den Weg - begleitet vom Zwerg Fiala, der ihn zur Hexe Gryla bringen soll, der einzigen, die Abu Dun retten kann. Doch dafür verlangt sie einen Preis - einen sehr hohen Preis...

You know how stuffy those English men's clubs are: "right sort of chap, and all that rot." Now imagine that the very worst sort of interloper forced his way into the exclusive club - a ghost who refuses to leave. And even worse, a ghost who was a failure in life and a failure in his haunting. David Ian Davies offers an enchanting one-man performance of this otherworldly tale.

What lies behind the forbidden door of the great Taxidermist? When her servant decides to find out, a great and terrible surprise awaits her.

In this short story by bestselling author Myla Goldberg (originally published in Harper's magazine), an unemployed artist lands a freelance job that gives him a strange brand of influence over the population of a distant island nation and places him in an equally strange relationship with the...

ലകതതവടയമളള യകഷകകഥകളല പരധന കഥപതരങങളണ മനതരവദകള മനതരവദനകള. അവരട കടടകരയ കടടചചതതനമര പശചകകള യകഷകള ഉണടവ.

Dos impresionantes historias de suspense y misterio están a punto de revelarse ante tus ojos. En esta segunda entrega de dos historias inéditas del aclamado escritor Stephen Howard que te adentrará al mismo suspense y terror cuando conozcas la primera historia llamada: El juguete diabólico y la segunda: terror mundial contadas de una manera sencilla y fluida que te atrapará desde las primeras líneas.

This lovely and nevertheless rather spooky tale by Nikolai Gogol is rooted in Ukrainian lore. It starts quite ordinary - a young man is in love with a beautiful young girl, but other people and unforeseen circumstances stand in the way of their happiness. Quite unexpectedly, our young hero receives an offer of help from a very unlikely source.

You can smell that long-dying aroma of Autumn in the air. Kids are talking trick or treat and the leaves are already screaming at you in red and yellow and deep golden rust as they prepare for one final parachute down into the dirt. The tombstones are talking amongst themselves and winter is hiding just around the corner. It is the time of the year when people draw around the wood stove and the campfire and whisper stories of death and omens and ghosts and things that don't even have a name.

The Black Goat is a short story that takes on a contemporary approach of the legend of Van Hunks and the devil. Jan van Hunks is down and out, a functioning alcoholic who is battling a divorce from his wife. One wintry night, he decides to escape the clutches of his studio apartment in the heart of Cape Town and venture out to find the darkest bar he can. He meets a mysterious character along the way who advises him against his journey.

While everyone is busy preparing for the coming winter, two girls wander away from their camp, following a path of strange, beautiful stones. Each stone is lovelier than the last, and the trail leads them farther and farther away from camp. But what starts out as a peaceful afternoon on the land, quickly turns dangerous when the girls find themselves trapped in the cave of Mangittatuarjuk—the Gnawer of Rocks! Based on a traditional Inuit legend, this novel introduces listeners to a dark and twisted creature that haunts the Northern landscape and preys on unsuspecting children.

Trixie is a feline of a unique sort. She's hustled the streets of the Big Easy many times but never quite like this. Trixie finds that when in New Orleans, hoodoo is much more than a tourist shop full of souvenirs. Reality has never been stranger and the stakes are much higher than ever before. See how this sexy feline takes on every challenge thrown at her and in the process discovers that there's more to life than meets the eye. This is a short story in a new series by Karli Rush.

This is a collection of 10 short stories from 31 Horrifying Tales From The Dead, Volume 4.

The footsteps grew louder with each step, and it wasn’t until it was close and clear, did he hear the accompanying sound. Whatever it was, it was dragging something metallic with it. The boy began shaking in his hiding spot, afraid to even look behind him. He shook in his spot when he finally heard no sound.

Enjoy this short story by Mace Styx. George heaved a great sigh, dragging a hand over his face. “Rebecca...do you recall when your mother was pregnant with Orin?” he asked. “I don’t suppose you do”. Rebecca frowned in thought, then shook her head. “Not very well”, she said. “I would have only been around eight years old at the time. But I remembered she was bedridden during the last couple of months, wasn’t she”? “She nearly died”. George replied, and Amelia visibly flinched".

For Eli Larkin, the war is over. There is nothing left but to return home to his wife and children. As he draws nearer, he is pulled to the cornfield to discover a horrifying truth. The carnage he witnessed in the war is nothing compared to the savage road of slaughter he soon will traverse; for Donn, TX needs its caretaker, and it requires it to be born in butchery.

"The light from the fire against the tent cast some strange shadows, but nothing out of the ordinary, as Tony whispered that it was probably Bumi going to pee in the foliage. Leaning slowly to one side I raised the flap of the tent and stared out. Panic gripped me when I suddenly realized that the tent opposite, Bumi’s tent, was empty. Not only that, but his backpack was missing. Why would he take his stuff if he’s just going to pee? I asked myself and then Tony, out loud. In response he told me not to panic. Surely wherever Bumi had gone he would be back by morning".

A small therapy group arrives at Grief House hoping that a combination of isolation and hard work will help them begin the healing process each of them so desperately needs. But their presence has awakened something in the old dwelling. Something linked to the ancient stone megaliths at the rear of the property and a terrible crime, committed centuries before. Before the weekend is over, the group will learn the secrets of the Grieving Stones, and come to understand the true meaning of transformation.