A simple visit to a museum becomes a fateful encounter for an Egyptologist, who stumbles upon a cryptic secret: an elusive elixir of life and the strange, eerie power of a mysterious ancient ring.
The Horla is presented as a series of diary entries written by an educated, increasingly tormented gentleman living in solitude on his country estate near Rouen.
The House Among the Laurels is one of the most celebrated short stories starring Thomas Carnacki, The Ghost-Finder, the recurring psychic investigator created by maritime horror master William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918).
An Irish-American reclaims an ancestral estate in Ireland and ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.
Noted as one of the first pieces of literature to feature vampirism effectively, The Vampyre follows the adventures of a wealthy young man named Aubrey who befriends a mysterious, suave nobleman named Lord Ruthven.
El gato negro (título original en inglés: The Black Cat) es un cuento de horror del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, publicado en el periódico Saturday Evening Post de Filadelfia en su número del 19 de agosto de 1843.
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
El gato negro (título original en inglés: The Black Cat) es un cuento de horror del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, publicado en el periódico Saturday Evening Post de Filadelfia en su número del 19 de agosto de 1843.
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre.
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
The Vampire MaidIt was the exact kind of abode that I had been looking after for weeks, for I was in that condition of mind when absolute renunciation of society was a necessity.
Al evocar las misteriosas fuerzas espirituales de la naturaleza, los escritos de Algernon Blackwood habitan la nebulosa frontera entre la fantasía, el asombro, la maravilla y el terror.
"Una historia de fantamas victoriana que evoca un miedo inquietante que atraviesa la conciencia de la manera más inesperada, al igual que los acompañantes silenciosos".