Horror Fairy

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

10 Short Stories from 31 Horrifying Tales From The Dead, Volume IV 1. The Gallows on Hell Hill Island 2. Don't Flash Your Headlights 3.Voodoo Doll 4. No More Mr. Nice Guy 5. 666 6. Evil 7. The Vanishing Hitchhiker 8. Humans Can Lick, Too9. The Place Where There Were No Graves 10. Horror In The Wax Museum

Stylish gentlemen and ladies await their carriages in the Victorian London night. But lurking in the shadows is one of the creatures of the night, one who brings chilling fear to those he encounters, a man who cannot die yet must prey upon the blood of others to prolong his doomed existence...the vampire Dracula.

Lydia doesn't understand what her recurrent nightmares, a homeless man, and her baby sister have in common until she walks into a New Orleans voodoo shop and meets Maman Margo.

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula – a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead – a vampire that drinks the blood of living people.

The view from this tall tree is kind of pretty. I can see salmon jumping on the river. Colorful birds are making their nests while they sing. The sky is clear this morning after a night of heavy rain. My name is Emma and I am a 16-year-old orphan with long brown hair that I braid every other day. My eyes are hazel like my mom's. My blue maiden dress is the only one I own. I am in charge of four siblings. Our parents died trying to protect us from a dragon attack and were killed instantly by the monster's lethal fire. I was not successful at hunting last night because I could not see anything with the rain.

Treasure hunting has never been so dangerous! Joe and Dom are lifelong friends who share the love of hunting treasure. One day- one hunt, changes everything. The guys find the one thing that this world has tried to forget - Dracula.

Nobody knew where the still-living decapitated head came from. But when the head bites Police Chief Rawger, he becomes a zombie with an insatiable appetite for human flesh, revenge, and power. But, unlike Hollywood-depicted zombies, he can think, speak, and strategize. He's also deranged, sexually perverted, and takes absolute pleasure in his evil acts. As the zombie cop feasts on his family, neighbors, and out-of-town visitors, the only one who can stop him is Azriel Creed -- a 16-year-old bullied boy who becomes nearly paralyzed with pain whenever he gets angry or even thinks of violence.

The Countess Elizabeth Bathory Living in exile, has never given up on her struggle for eternal youth. So with the aid of the gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, the brilliant Professor Moriarty, the invisible man, and the Phantom of the opera, she is able to summon the headless horseman to retrieve, the sarcophagus of one of the greatest emperors ever to rule Egypt, the Frankenstein monster, and the ashes of Count Dracula to achieve her lifelong goal of eternal life. What could possibly stand in her way?

In the village of Middleton, Christmas is usually a time of joy and festivity, until this year. With Christmas banned and streets silent, a sense of foreboding hangs over the town. Joanne and her friends feel it too. The empty streets, the strange man in the shadows, the growing fear in the villagers’ eyes, something dark and ancient is stirring. As people vanish without a trace, Joanne discovers the legends her grandmother whispered about the Krampus might not just be fairy tales. Middleton’s choice to abandon Christmas has awakened an old menace, and the Krampus has come to claim his due.

People think being haunted is a bad thing. That’s because they’ve never visited The Curiosity Curio. The spirits who linger in my store dance the jitterbug, look after the plants, and gossip about long-dead relatives. Even though no one believes me about my mediumistic gifts, it’s my job to aid these lost souls. I can help them, even if I gave up hoping to find someone who understood me long ago.

The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816, dealt more sympathetically with "the daemon," showing how an initially beneficent creature is hammered into a daemon by the way he is treated. Her ideas, and her dramatic but poignant story, is brought to life in this sound dramatization.

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...

Long ago, tales of fairies were very much real and respected among many Irish families for fear that they may be cursed. Patrick and Sophie O'Brian were direct descendants of a family that had fallen victim to one such curse. Since they only knew of the tales that were told by their parents and were not directly affected by the superstitions, they did not really believe in any of them. They would often joke about the evil fairies that lived in the forts just miles from where they lived.

The Ghost of Kaiser Rock is a mixture of ghost stories circulating around a small town named Butler. It fits in quite well with helloween. The story about a young boy's short journey down a darkened road in his country neighborhood finishes up the book, but it certainly doesn't end the suspense.

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...

Includes the stories "The Hunter", "Shadow People", and "The Harvest Moon".