Horror Genre

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ranks alongside Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula as one of the top horror stories to emerge from the late 19th Century. Film and stage adaptations have never been able to fully relate the agony and conflict that permeates the mind of Dr Jekyll, but the audio version read by Ian Holm adds an extra spine-chilling dimension to the original text by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The thing inside Doctor Wolfstone’s next patient has been there for years, but it’s been hanging around this realm much longer than that. It really wants to come out and meet the skilled hypnotist. And it’s very hungry.

James adores his family and their ancestral home, perched high above Seattle. But at age forty-eight, he's viewed as a tech-industry dinosaur, and he yearns for a chance to make a name for himself. When an ambitious idea strikes him to revolutionize high-end interactive home security, James sees it as his ticket to success. With unwavering determination, he transforms his own house into a testing ground for an innovative prototype system, confident it holds the key to a bright future. However, as with any technological marvel, things can and do go horribly wrong.

Jacqueline Rhodes is living a life of luxury after her endeavor in the Steiner House. However, her past comes back to haunt her in this riveting second book of the Steiner House Saga.

A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy, he's not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday.

Many creatures lurk in the dark, weaving on top of one another, roiling together like waves on the night sea. The darkness forms in layers to encompass the land, fill the corners, and obscure angles. Untold mysteries lie just beyond reach told in many tongues, many inflections, many rhythms. The stories are many. Innumerable. Legion.

"But come back soon", the sign said. Obviously it was a lie. The people in the grocery store just wanted to make sure he couldn't buy the spice he needed to make the recipe he'd selected for that night (recipes must be followed exactly). Obviously they wanted him to eat out...to meet the waitress, Marta, to see her horrible, unspeakable, unbearable ugliness. It was obvious to him: her maimed, twisted face was the living desire to be dead. He had to help Marta be dead.

Nick Antosca's The Girlfriend Game is a tumble through the looking glass into a vortex of violence and desire. The 12 stories in the newest collection by the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author are brutal, urgent and unforgettable. In "Predator Bait", a decoy in a sex-sting news show questions her job and the man who shares her bed. An undependable son watches his mother become a creature he hardly recognizes in "Amphibian". A young man plots the death of his girlfriend's killer in "Winter Was Hard".

When Knight Alaric von Mertz loses his family to a ravenous zombie horde, he swears revenge on the necromancer responsible. But a quest for vengeance is no easy matter in a world overrun by the walking dead. Joined by a rogue, a witch hunter, a novice wizard, and a dwarf demolition master, Alaric's journey leads him from fire moats to the zombie-ridden catacombs of the witch hunters to uncover a spell book of insurmountable power. As zombies claw and bite, Alaric fears he will never avenge his family. For in this age of the undead, betrayal and magic lurk around every corner.

Two families have come to the California mountains expecting a fun weekend camping trip. What they will find instead is terror in the form of a violent psychopath and his mother, a powerful witch.

The year is 2032, and five-year-old Jacob is opening the biggest gift, beneath the Christmas tree, which is labeled for him: his very first semi-automatic rifle—and he couldn't be prouder. He smiles to his parents who sit close by. They don't smile back. Their minds are stuck on earlier events of what should have been a magical day: the moment they found out Jacob was set to be a brother.

The Dunella Hotel, a legacy, a sanctuary. Bruce arrived seeking peace and a new life, but this old Georgian building nestled in a Scottish seaside town, harbours more than just guests. Hidden rooms, forgotten rituals, and a history steeped in dread begin to surface, twisting his newfound happiness into a horrifying ordeal. He must confront the hotel's dark secrets, or become another lost soul trapped within its haunted walls.

Dans une Bretagne envoûtante, une histoire d'amour fulgurante et ambigüe entre trois êtres. Un château isolé, entre forêt et océan. Albert, maître des lieux, Herminien - son ami, son complice - et la belle Heide s'appréhendent, se côtoient, s'attirent, se repoussent, s'attirent encore, et enfin se déchirent.

He understood why she did it. She had lost her own baby - one conceived by the unwanted advances of a sexual predator - and hated thinking of them out there in the cemetery, alone and cold. She had to bring them into the warmth. She had to give them the lives they'd otherwise never live. It was her mission. But with each new doll brought home, her yearning for a living child of her own continued to grow. Yes, he knew why she did it, but even so, he wasn't able to stand by her, and he knew she was going to get a lot worse before she got better.

"What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she were to lunge forward, grasping at the air, striking her thin skull against the edge of a stair? What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?" Such are the thoughts of Baxter, a sociopathic bull terrier on the hunt for the perfect master.

I'm a cop with the Alandale City police force. I love my job; protecting the public and getting rid of scum was what made my day. Everything was going just fine until my lunch was interrupted by some rich, arrogant jerk in an Aston Martin who thought he could just speed past my squad car and get away with it. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I wrote Mr. Ledéo his speeding ticket, but after what happened to me, I wish I had just let him go. Maybe then, my world wouldn't have been turned upside down.

In a fog-wreathed London, the respected Dr Jekyll’s experiments on the dual nature of man unleash a brute that feels no moral restraint or remorse. Although excited by this freedom, Jekyll discovers that he is unable to control the power of his vicious alter ego and is faced with shameful discovery or ignominious death.

Listen in as Wisecrack breaks down the philosophy behind popular indie horror films like Midsommar, Hereditary, and Jordan Peele’s social thriller Get Out. You’ll also hear interesting takes on why motherhood is so terrifying in horror movies, how production company Blumhouse cracked the genre by being cheap, and more in this curated collection, available for the first time in audio.

Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she stole to put into the safer hands of Miskatonic University. With her new apprentice, Pepper Kelly, Zorzi tracks the infamous Zanthu Tablets to Paris. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies. When Pepper is kidnapped, it becomes clear that someone is out for revenge.

Victor Frankenstein, a young college student, has left home for the first time, his mind full of adventure, aspirations, and hopeful wonder. A lover of science, he is eager to start making discoveries worthy of the history books. His newfound knowledge of Galvanism gives him just the spark of inspiration he needs for a project that he deems remarkable and that will change the course of human history and our understanding of death. To feel close to his mother—who is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler—and escape persecution in England, Victor travels to Romania to complete his work.