Short Stories Macabre

Your heart pounds. Sweat drips. Shadows writhe. "The Sinister Diaries" are CALLING! Welcome to 4 Short and Scary Horror Stories Collection – a pulse-pounding plunge into the abyss of human darkness and supernatural terror! This isn't your average scary story anthology; it's an experience that will electrify your senses, paralyze you with fear, and make you question every shadow in your home.

AFRAID opens the collection with a new poem, "Afraid," which plays with the question, "Why do we read horror?" The 13 stories that follow include darkly light-hearted tales such as "Donald Meets Arnold," "Sweet Kitty," and "Sink or Swim," the graphically terrifying "Pit Boy" and "Los Penitentes," the darkly sinister "Brazen Bull," "Flip Flap," "Triptych of Terror," "Bargain Basement," "Now I'm With the Invalids," "Next Door Collector," and "Thundersylum," and the other-worldly and introspective "Beggars at Dawn."

A room full of screaming butterflies. An unsettling smile on the face of a carved sarcophagus. A painting that draws its viewer into the disturbing past. A stuffed bear that growls in the dead of night. And a shell that whispers more sinister sounds than the sigh of the sea.

"El chico asintió y el extraño le tendió la mano. Titubeó unos segundos, se la agarró y continuaron andando juntos por la carretera. La nieve comenzaba a cuajarse de nuevo, apenas unos centímetros, pero eran suficientes para sentir la humedad y el frío a través de las suelas rotas de sus zapatos. Desanduvo parte del camino que había hecho con su padre días antes; los árboles habían ardido y todo estaba desolado. El mundo se había convertido en una hoguera inmensa donde debían purgarse todos los pecados del hombre".

Yes, the author of Gleefully Macabre Tales, Dead Clown Barbecue, Everything Has Teeth, Candy Coated Madness, and Freaky Briefs isn’t done with you yet. There will be serial killers. There will be cosmic horror. There will be extremely demented cooking competitions. There will be pink fizzy drinks. There will be Santa Claus, hangings in the Old West, body swaps, some light cannibalism, and monsters galore.

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is of the best "macabre" tales ever written. It is presented here in its entirety along with eight other incredible tales.

H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.

My Peculiar Family is an anthology of Gothic horror and unusual stories like none ever published before! Combining New York Times best-selling authors (Christopher Golden, Tracy Hickman), Amazon best-selling authors (William Meikle, Derrick Belanger, Rob Watts), award-winning authors (James A. Moore, Stacey Longo), and emerging talents, this anthology unites these authors, who have sold millions and million books between them, to come together for a common cause.

Care for a midnight snack? Make sure you are sitting comfortably. Each tale on the menu speaks of the greatest of the deadly sins: gluttony and greed. From the mountains of Eastern Europe to the Atlantic Sea, from the Yorkshire Moors to the Welsh Coast there are places of the sacred and the profane where cosmic horrors lie in wait and dark deeds are brought to life. Each crawling terror urged on into our world by their most basic of needs: to feed, consume, and feast as their eternal hunger grows. How can our characters dare to face--nevermind overcome--these ancient devourers?

Dois contos de Júlia Lopes de Almeida que tem a morte em seus umbrais. No primeiro, "Sob as estrelas", tem-se a trágica história de amor de Júlio e Ianinha, separados pelo sacerdócio dele. Thriller de arrepiar os mais sensíveis. No segundo, "A casa dos mortos", uma filha tem a chance de encontrar a mãe... morta.

Asesinos, locura, vampiros, monstruos. El miedo puede manifestarse de innumerables maneras, pero, ¿acaso se puede escapar de él? Este volumen presenta relatos variados con un denominador común: terror en estado puro.

The Boneyard Vol 2 welcomes you back to the second collection of horror tales that bite back...including 2 bonus horror stories taken from The Boneyard Vol. 1.

The road through hell is paved with good intentions. With this short story collection, enter a world where the laws of unintended consequences rule on high in these tales of the macabre. Whether it stems from curiosity, self-preservation, self-control, or impulsivity, what could go wrong?

From the House of Abigail is a dark children's anthology including many great titles such as "Jake's Closet" and "Morbid Melanie". It adds a few extra scares to the stories!

Enjoy this bone-chilling selection of eight stories and poems written by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Titles include: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Oblong Box", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Raven", and "The Conqueror Worm".

There are books of horror so terrifying that you can't put it down for fear that the terrors will remain in your subconscious forever. Welcome to 10 Macabre Tales vol 2 within these pages, horror's freshest voice brings you ten chilling tales from the darkest depths of the human psyche. There are ten tales guaranteed to make your heart pound, your breathing shake, and your nose to turn up in disgust at the unspeakable events.

Attention all horror enthusiasts! Step right up, and prepare yourself for a spine-chilling journey into the depths of terror with our "Carnival of the Macabre" audiobook collection! Dare to immerse yourself in three harrowing stories that will grip your soul and refuse to let go.

Horror's freshest voice brings you 10 stunningly addictive tales from the darkest depths of the human psyche.

These two fascinating pieces about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain come from Pavel Patrovich Bazhov's much larger collection of stories collected over many years and based on the lore of the Ural Mountains.

When a young man goes from the demands and rigors of the army to a luxurious and serene country living, his mind is bound to wander where it should not. Such is the fate of Alexei Alexeyevich Fedyashev, who becomes so absorbed in his newfound idleness that he falls in love with an old portrait. When the famous conjurer and medium Count Cagliostro accidentally ends up at Fedyashev's escape, the young man begs him to bring his dream to reality. "Be careful what you wish for" is the lesson young Alexei has yet to learn - and how!