A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his...
Horror fiction
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Author:Gresh, Lois H.Summary: - Author:Gresh, Lois H.Summary:
The deadly dimensions over London have been sealed, and the monsters have departed. But word has come to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that the great Cthulhu has been sighted off the waters of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. Only Holmes can...
- Author:Gresh, Lois H.Summary:
Entities leak into the human realm and enter human minds. Two of the victims are Dr. Watson and leader of the cult, Prof. Henry Fitzgerald, who seeks to use human sacrifice to open the door to the Old Ones. As violence erupts in London...
- Author:Banks, L. A., Massey, Brandon, Due, TananariveSummary:
In this collection of flesh-crawling tales, each author contributes one deliciously twisted selection. A writer unearths dangerous truths in backwoods Mississippi and a man's sanity--and life--are threatened by disturbing visions. Then...
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents the next case in The Laundry Files, "a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror" (Kirkus Reviews). Dominique O'Brien-her friends call...
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
A master storyteller at his best-the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or...
- Author:Jacobs, W. W.Summary:
Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark-by authors from H.G. Wells to Willa Cather. Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech "ghost hunters" running around...
- Author:Due, TananariveSummary:
When Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake.
- Author:Burgess, TonySummary:
Three celebrated books — all of which harbour a twisted ambition to physically alter your imagination — together for the first time.
The Hellmouths of Bewdley is a series of 16 stories hiding in a novel about a small...
- Author:Maurier, Daphne duSummary:
Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1843 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, The Black Cat tells the story of a man and his increasingly antagonistic relationship with his cat. Akin to The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat...
- Author:Miller, Sam J.Summary:
Ronan Szepessy reconnects with two friends from high school: Dom, his first love, and Dom's wife, Attalah. The three former misfits mourn what their town has become, overrun by gentrifiers and corporate interests. With friends and...
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
At the end of summer, four pals, all age 12, begin a two-day hike to look at the dead body of a missing child.
- Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen; and The isle of voices, and The waif...
- Author:Lloyd-Jones, EmilySummary:
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping...
- Author:Demchuk, DavidSummary:
Three neighbouring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind—and with the ruthless Night Police...
- Author:Dean, SunyiSummary:
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator about the novel, family, and neurodivergency. Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is "a darkly sweet pastry of a book about family, betrayal, and the lengths we go to...
- Author:Wendig, ChuckSummary:
A new masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers about a family returning to their hometown--and to the dark past that haunts them still. Long ago, Nathan Graves lived in a house in the country...
- Author:Hogarth, AinslieSummary:
Gripping, grisly, and keeps you guessing until the shocking end Noelle Dixon takes a summer nightshift job at the infamous Boy Meets Girl Inn, even though she’s well aware of the horrifying murders that happened there decades ago. That’...
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
It was a gentlemen's club, although no one paid any dues. The cost of membership was a tale well told, and this one paid for all.
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