Short Stories Macabre

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.

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!

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.

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

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".

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!

The Queen of Spades is decidedly one of Pushkin's gloomier tales. It inspired several movie adaptations and a magnificent opera by Tchaikovsky. Its determined, but misguided, protagonist stakes his life with dire consequences on a very old secret that might or might not even exist.

When a town is left defenseless and is attacked by the enemy, one woman calls on the powers that be to help her protect her people and save her son's life.

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.

In the time of paranoia and religious fanaticism, one young woman's life falls into the hands of two very misguided men.

A reminder from the master storyteller Alexander Kuprin—sometimes, there are but a few steps between your own front door and unimaginable horror.

While somewhat outdated and steeped in the prejudice of the day, the Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin fable The Lost Conscience is nevertheless a worthy tale to ponder and a great study of a mind seeking to discard its inhibitions (and not in a good way).

One day, a courier who deems himself quite the romantic hero, decides to follow a beautiful stranger...only to be plunged into a nightmare vortex in space and time.

A reminder from Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy that one might take great caution when pursuing hidden treasure.