THE PERFECT CREEPY HALLOWEEN READ ';An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse' Sarah Waters Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to do business withCount Dracula, a mysterious but professional and gentle man .
SommarioOdissea di HomerL'apologia di Socrate di PlatoTragedie di SofocleTao Te Ching di Lao TzuLa Divina Commedia di Dante AlighieriIl principe di Niccolò MachiavelliDell'arte della guerra di Niccolò MachiavelliAvventure di Robinson Crusoe di Daniel DefoeMoll Flanders di Daniel DefoeI viaggi di Gulliver di Jonathan SwiftIl Visionario di Friedrich SchillerCandido, ovvero l'ottimismo di VoltaireI dolori del giovane Werther di Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEugénie Grandet di Honoré de BalzacLa donna di picche di Aleksandr PuškinLa bottega dell'antiquario di Charles DickensGli assassinii della rue Morgue di Edgar Allan PoePovera gente di Fëdor DostoevskijTypee di Herman MelvilleJane Eyre di Charlotte BrontëDisobbedienza civile di Henry David ThoreauLa lettera scarlatta di Nathaniel HawthorneLa capanna dello zio Tom di Harriet Elizabeth Beecher StoweDalla Terra alla Luna di Jules VerneAlice nel Paese delle meraviglie di Lewis CarrollFosca di Iginio Ugo TarchettiAttraverso lo specchio di Lewis CarrollLe avventure di Pinocchio.
Three things warned the wizard's apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path-he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.
Professor William Dyer of the the Miskatonic University knew that the antarctic was a forlorn, dangerous place, but nothing could have prepared him and his expediting for what they would find in the Mountains of Madness.
The story of a terrifying opium experience, in which the narrator is accidentally administered an overdose by a doctor during the "e;year of the plague"e;.
Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.
Once in a long time a man is fished out when it is just too late, and dies in the boat before you can get him aboard, and-well, I don't know that I ever told that story since it happened-I knew a fellow who went over, and came back dead.
A sleepless man watches Polaris winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey.
An ancient ruin located in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula is older than any human civilization, and was built and inhabited by a race of reptiles.
A meteorite leaves behind globules of colour that do not fall within the range of anything known in the visible spectrum in a shunned place later referred to as the "e;blasted heath"e;.
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes.
A man becomes embroiled in the past, due to his fascination with the history of his wizard ancestor, and attempts to duplicate his ancestor's Qabalistic and alchemical feats, eventually resurrecting him.
An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.
Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style.
A high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the gods of earth attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple.
Dr Jekyll, a "e;large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty"e;, occasionally feels he is battling between the good and evil within himself, thus leading to the struggle between his dual personalities of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
"e;I, the Mind Spider as you name me-the deathless one, the eternally exiled, the eternally imprisoned-or so his overconfident enemies suppose-coming in.
