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.
United by a perfect chilling atmosphere and graceful literary style, these ghostly stories range from the horror of vampires, homicidal ghosts and monstrous spectral worms and slugs (appearing in the classic "e;Negotium Perambulans"e; and "e;And No Bird Sings"e;) to the satire of humorous tales that poke fun at charlatan mediums and fake seances ("e;Spinach"e; and "e;Mr Tilly's Seance"e;).
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.
`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!
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.
Henry James was born in the United States, in New York City, on April 15, 1843 and is considered an American writer, though he spent most of his life in England and, a year before his death in London on February 28, 1916, became a British citizen.
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.
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.
This is a delightful little tale about a ghost in a small village in the mountains of Jamaica, who wants to lend the children a helping hand, and can think of no better way to do it than to appear to them in the guise of a friend or neighbour, and impart the knowledge that they need at any particular time.
Estos doce cuentos exploran la experiencia humana moderna: el desamparo, la soledad, el desasosiego, son narrados desde el punto de vista de doce mujeres de todas las edades y orígenes, una por relato, que enfrentan situaciones como el abandono, la locura, la drogadicción y todas aquellas heridas que conforman la vivencia de la mujer contemporánea.
