A Victorian surgeon performs a delicate brain operation on a young woman, intending to let her glimpse the world beyond material reality - "e;to see the great god Pan.
A group of friends rent a rambling, reputedly haunted house for the winter - and, refusing to be frightened off, each claims a bedroom and a story to tell.
In an isolated castle in Styria, a lonely young woman named Laura welcomes a mysterious guest - beautiful, languid, and strangely intense - left behind after a carriage accident outside the gates.
On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of three spirits still to come.
Settled into a quiet cottage with his new bride, a skeptical young husband dismisses the local legend that two marble knights lying in effigy at the nearby church rise from their tombs and walk every Halloween night - until superstition curdles into something he can no longer explain away.
When young doctor Carl Foster hears the celebrated opera singer Rosetta Rosa perform in London, he is instantly captivated - and soon finds himself drawn into a web of hypnotic obsession, jealousy, and unexplained deaths that trail in her wake.
Chemist Redlaw is haunted, quite literally, by his own grief - until a spectral double offers him a devastating gift: the power to forget every wrong and sorrow he has ever known, and to pass that same forgetting on to everyone he meets.
Solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to a remote Transylvanian castle to finalize a property sale, and finds himself the prisoner of his aristocratic client - Count Dracula.
Amidst the devastation of Ireland's Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine Arden'sThe Warm Hands of GhostsandThe Silence Factoryby Bridget Collins.
"Du Richter von des Papstes Gnaden", schrie Savonarola mit schriller, sich überschlagender Stimme, "du kannst meinen Leib den Flammen überantworten und meine Seele zur Hölle schicken.
Ein Adelssitz mit Geschichte – eine schicksalhafte Begegnung …Auf einer rauschenden Party auf dem Adelssitz ihrer Familie begegnet Cassandra de Warenne dem schönen Spanier Antonio de la Barca.
Una historia que te arrastrará inexorablemente hasta un final explosivoEn una noche de tormenta, el cabo Caín Álvarez, de la Guardia Civil, acude con la patrulla a la llamada de los vecinos de Candasnos, un pequeño pueblo de los Monegros, que escuchan gruñidos aterradores en la balsa.
Der Band umfasst sechs mehr oder weniger unheimliche Geschichten über die Welt des Unerklärlichen und Gespenstischen, die in gemütlicher Runde erzählt werden: "Schatten", "Komm mit", "Die alte Macht", "Das zweite Gesicht", "Ich?
Heinrich von Kleists bekannteste Erzählungen auf einen Schlag: Sie handeln von einer adligen Witwe, die per Zeitungsannonce den ihr unbekannten Vater ihres ungeborenen Kindes sucht; einem Pferdehändler, der auf Rache sinnt und Selbstjustiz übt; einer Bettlerin, deren Geist in einem Schloss herumspukt; einem Zweikampf nach einem Mord in Adelskreisen; einem Wunder im Aachener Dom sowie der tragisch endenden Geschichte um ein Adoptivkind.
