The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition.
An einer Eisenbahnstrecke im nördlichen England, dort, wo die Zuggleise durch einen düsteren Taleinschnitt und kurz darauf in den Tunnel führen, geschehen seltsame Dinge: Der Streckenwärter sieht im Tunnel immer wieder eine geisterhafte Gestalt, kurz darauf ereignet sich jedes Mal ein Unglück …Charles Dickensʼ (1812–1870) fesselnde Erzählung, bekannt unter dem Titel »The Signal-Man – Der Bahnwärter«, entstand unter dem Eindruck eines schweren Eisenbahnunglücks 1865 in Staplehurst, Kent, das der Autor zwar knapp überlebte, das ihn aber zeitlebens psychisch belastete.
Zwei Meisterwerke der Schauerliteratur: »Die schwarze Katze« ist der Bericht eines Mannes, der die Kontrolle über sein Handeln verliert und zum Mörder wird.
`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "e;a Vampyre, a Vampyre!
By the Master of Horror, in James Herbert's The Jonah, detective Jim Kelso is sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling and stumbles on a dangerous organization.
La piedad sencilla de dos humildes mujeres, que regresan a su pueblo despus del conflicto cristero, permite a Susana San Juan dejar su sepultura la noche de muertos.
Edgar Allan Poe, the original master of the macabre and dark Romantic writer of Gothic novels, detective stories, poetry, short stories and satires is synonymous with themes of premature burial, death, madness and mysticism.
Ali is a storyabout an 8 year old girl that is brought into a hospital ward by her mother to visit a dying 'friend' the old man setshis sights on Ali and breathing his last breath channels all his 'special powers'into young Ali and so it might have been the end of the old mans life but for Ali well hers is just beginning; question is, the 'special powers' she had just inherited; are they for the good or bad in this stressful world?
Who know what life hold for us, for Jackie Johansson her life change after a life threatening car accident gave her a new ability, to communicate with the dead, however she wasnt expecting that her own life would be in danger just by helping out ghosts.
'The very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years' Arthur Conan DoyleA masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
Acting on behalf of his firm of solicitors, Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountainsto finalize the sale of Englands Carfax Abbey to Transylvanian noble Count Dracula.
