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Locked in a vast and hopeless intergalactic war with a militarily superior species determined to turn all of humanity into their cattle, a military commander forges an alliance with the creatures' oldest enemy and learns that revenge is a dish best shared.

A Dark Brown Dog is a classic, an endearing story about a boy, his dog, and their unconditional love for one another.

A man poised on the eve of what to others appears to be his greatest triumph, thinks back on what he knows is his greatest triumph. It’s a kiss from his Jenny. In this moment he shows us that what’s important is not how others perceive the success or failures in our lives, but how we see them.

To his shock, a man discovers the painting of a woman is much, much more than life-like.

A woman discovers she has a natural defense against vampires.

As they say their last goodbyes to their dear friend, mourners are horrified to find unearthly visitors have joined them. As their hysterical singing and nervous laughter fade, a "vague, and formless, and indefinite" shadow appears which leaves the mourners paralyzed with fear. The shadow speaks in the voice of "familiar accents of many thousand departed friends."

A survivor of an apocalypse, which left most of humanity dead, struggles for sanity.

Having tasted human flesh while far out at sea, a shoal of giant killer squids ravage the waters and shore of an oceanic town feasting on the delicacy.

Through the exploits of Chicago's Big Dez Zombie Hunter, we see why zombie apocalypses have a season and why zombie hordes will never defeat humanity.

Supernatural entities gather to watch humanity's play "of hopes and fears". They watch the mad folly of human life, controlled by dark forces humans can neither see nor understand. And in the end, all those lives in all those "plays" end the same.

A murderer’s fears haunt him amidst the daylight hours. But at night....

The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most significant documents in American history. President Abraham Lincoln's famous words, emancipating all slaves in the territories of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, are here brought to life through an engaging performance.

Prince Prospero and a thousand of his followers lock themselves away to avoid the plague that ravages the common poor. Secure inside the abbey walls, the prince hosts lavish celebrations. But Prospero is not as safe as he had hoped, and death comes looking for him.

Twenty-one SonicMovies - stirring AuralPerformances enhanced with sound effects and musical scores - interwoven in a collaboration centuries in the making between some of the world's greatest musicians, poets, and entertainers featuring John Quincy Adams, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mathilde Blind, Ada Cambridge, Emily Dickinson, Frances E. W. Harper, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, William Earnest Henley, Lucy Larcom, James E. McGirt, Alice Christiana Meynell, Lydia Jane Peirson, and more.

Montressor, angry over insults by his friend Fortunato, a fellow nobleman, plots to murder him during Carnival when the man is drunk, by immurement, sealing him up alive behind walls of bricks. He baits Fortunato by telling him he has obtained, out of season, what he believes to be a pipe of Amontillado, about 130 gallons, a rare and valuable sherry wine. He wants his friend's expert opinion on the subject. Unaware of Montresor's true intent Fortunato leaves with him for the wine cellars of the latter's palazzo.

The world, perpetually at war somewhere, is forced to end its childhood when the federation of Extraterrestrial species that has protected humanity for untold eons reveals itself, heralding in prosperity, technological advancements, longevity, and world peace, compelling humanity to work together as one in a common goal but not quite in the way the protectorate could have possibly foreseen.

A man ridicules Nyarlathotep, a prophet of doom, and to his horror learns why Nyarlathotep knows so much. Nyarlathotep is one of Lovecraft's most well known characters, second to Cthulhu, and appears in six of Lovecraft's stories: "Nyarlathotep", "The Rats in the Walls", "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", "The Dreams in the Witch House", "The Haunter of the Dark", and "The Shadow Out of Time" and his sonnet "The Fungi from Yuggoth".

A man’s fascination with his wife’s teeth ends with tragic consequences.

In a sleepy, coastal, New England town, three men decide to rob and if need be torture a very old sea captain to learn where he keeps his wealth - a man who is so old no one ever remembers him being young; a man who pays for his purchases not with dollars, but with ancient gold and silver coins minted over two centuries ago; a man who speaks to spirits in bottles; a man who may not be a man at all.

Edgar Allan Poe's classic narrative poem recounts the story of raven's visit to a mourning narrator. The narrator laments the loss of his love, Lenore.