Horror

A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge....

From the author of Nocticadia comes a spellbinding gothic dark fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realm's forbidden boundary into a terrifying world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Aimee Lou Wood, star of Netflix's Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night...

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road....

My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn’t the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options....

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation. But one day a stranger arrives....

Sebastian Weaver is the star quarterback and the college’s heartthrob. Rich. Handsome. Bastard. Everyone’s attention flocked toward him, and all the girls dreamed of being with him. Not me. At least, not until he made a move on me....

An eldritch magic has awakened, turning the mortal world darker. Colder. Famished. With flesh-eating monsters and a sinister curse spreading like a plague, the last glimmer of humanity in Foxglove Parish has long since faded.

In I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and those unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night....

Nia finds herself entangled in a world of lies and betrayal, where the truth is as elusive as the Dream Stalker himself. Now trapped in a perilous court, she must navigate her own web of deceit while honing her magic. Every ally may be an enemy, and every word could be her last.

People said that he was possessed, that the Vexley spirits had taken him over, or that he had become something quite different. But he kept going, thinking he was close to getting the truth. The book informed him about veils and worlds and the Umbral Fold, a place that only a few people can see.

My husband. My villain. We started with death and blood. We started with games and carnal pleasure. Adrian and I shouldn’t have been together. He’s wrong. I’m wrong. What we have is the epitome of disaster. Yet, it’s impossible to stop....

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born....

Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment....

Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him...

Pain is an abyss. How naive of me to think I’d already reached the very depths of it when fate shook my world with a crushing blow. It turns out there are fathomless levels of pain, like a winding labyrinth of doors leading to shadowy figures and long-forgotten secrets....

When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her - until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman....

Hanna Harp’s incendiary debut paranormal dark romance, perfect for fans of Sadie Kincaid’s Forged in Blood and Keri Lake’s Anathema, follows Cade, a devoted hunter fighting to shield his sister Callisto from a haunting generational curse, but when a mysterious spirit begins to break down...

I wasn’t sure what to expect when arriving in Salem. Forced to marry a man I’ve never met, attend a private university I’d never heard of, and the whispers of a rumored secret society filling the halls.

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To...

Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy.

No one tells you what to do when the boy who shattered your heart comes back to steal it....

She’d always been my destiny. The woman whose life was tied to mine. I just hadn’t planned on falling in love and being forced to choose between my vows and my soul....

Two women, two cursed contracts, and a romance that could burn down heaven and hell.

If you can’t beat ’em… burn it all down. The fae royalty think I’m their toy. Their entertainment. But I’m the only thing standing between their glittering world and the darkness waiting to consume mine. To buy us time, Tarian enters me into the court games—a bloodsport for the bored and cruel.

Drake Stoker, leader of the elite Reaper Special Forces, is trapped in the deepest depths of Hell – a nightmarish realm where monsters roam and the damned endure unspeakable horrors. Each step unveils new terrors, forcing Drake to battle for his sanity and survival, desperate to see daylight again.

It’s been two years since Evie and Chase clawed their way out of the real-life horror movie that would define most people. They’ve finally moved on. Or so they thought. Evie’s doing special effects for a new slasher film. Chase is preparing to open his own restaurant. But it’s not work that’s getting to them—it’s each other. While Chase still has his heart-eyed sights set on Evie, she’s got hers on the nearest exit. And she’s dreaming up the best comeback to whatever annoying thing he says next. So what if he saved her life? She’s already kissed him more than enough times.

In this riveting novel, Johnny Nova is the lead singer of the famous mid-90s rock band White Heat. He is living the stereotypical rock star life until he receives mysterious messages about his destiny. Suddenly, Johnny is taken to the Abbey of the Dawn, and his spiritual journey begins.

A man undercover must reveal the truth in the swamps in the continuation of New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon''s Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance. One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some...

Off the west coast of Ireland lies a lonely island, isolated and wilfully forgotten. Some say there hasn't been a child born on the island for thirty years. Others speak of strange deaths there, decades ago. But no one really knows what happened. Locals believe that the dark times are behind them. They are mistaken. Grace, adopted at four years old, has never known where she came from. A mysterious phone call leads her back to the island where she was born – and where a terrible evil has been disturbed.

Spencer Charnas is dead. That's the bold claim detailed by Roy Merkin in Welcome to Horrorwood, written in the maverick journalist's courageous and virile prose. This is a forbidden chronicle ripped from the controversial manuscript of District Attorney Marcie Kent, the very woman who put Spencer Charnas on trial and then put him in the ground. The people and organizations who want the world to believe that the person, thing, or artificial intelligence masquerading as Spencer around the globe is the real deal have fought mercilessly to keep this book from publication.

Astoria Tempest has lived countless lives, but none that truly belonged to her. Cursed with immortality and the ability to return the dead, she's spent over a century fleeing grief, guilt, and the trail of second chances she never had the right to give. But when she bargains her husband's soul to save their daughter, the scales tip too far and Death comes to collect all she's stolen. Except Death isn't a shadow or a scythe. He's a man with cold eyes, a sharper tongue, and a ledger of names with hers at the top.

Edgar Allan Poe gilt als Ikone der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte und Mitbegründer dieser literarischen Gattung. Die Elemente des Mysteriösen, Phantastischen, Unbegreiflichen, Grotesken, Rätselhaften, Transzendentalen schwingen immer als subtiles Klanggebilde in seine Erzählungen mit und regen aufgeschlossene Gemüter zum Nachdenken über all die unzähligen Dinge, die wir nicht imstande sind auch nur annähernd zu erklären, wohltuend an.

Gene Keiller, a young politician with a reputation to enforce finds his world shattered when he meets a beautiful woman at a party; a woman with a terrifying and secret past. The Sphinx describes a horrifying legacy connected to ancient Egypt, brought to life by Masterton in typically violent fashion. It's fast-paced, brutal and complemented by Egyptian legends.

話、聞いてもらえます？全国各地の酒場の片隅でふと語られる、ちょっと不思議で不穏な話。酒を片手にした謎解きの果てに見えてくるものとは──

Enter the strange, whispering world of Algernon Blackwood, one of the most influential masters of supernatural and cosmic horror. The Collected Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood brings together some of his most enduring and unsettling works—stories where nature itself becomes conscious, hostile, and profoundly unknowable.

In A Haunted House, Virginia Woolf delivers a mesmerizing ghost story unlike any other—quiet, lyrical, and deeply haunting. This short work of literary fiction blends supernatural elements with psychological depth, inviting listeners into a dreamlike haunted house where spirits wander not in fear, but in search of something precious left behind.

After an encounter with her nineteen-year-old boyfriend at an underground party, Genesis Hudson—a naive thirteen-year-old girl—believes she has become a vampire. A thirst for human blood quickly manifests within her, intensifying with each passing day. She feels sick without it, nauseated and starved. Aubrey Horne, Genesis’ best friend, knows she is mentally unwell, but she needs time to find a way to save her from herself. So, with an abundance of reluctance, she agrees to help her find blood.

Fresh off my Voodoo-tastic vacation to New Orleans, I find myself presented with the first test of my newly discovered magic. There’s been a murder in the neighboring town of Pine Shoals and the victim has decided she’s not cut out for the spectral life and needs a gentle push into the Otherworld. As it turns out, conjuring some magic and telling a ghost to ‘go towards the light’ isn’t quite good enough, and now the hysterical ghost is stuck in some kind of limbo land. It’s up to me to solve her murder before the poor ghost goes insane—or, becomes demon food. Whichever happens first.

In the isolated village of Dunwich, whispered legends, strange rituals, and a reclusive family hint at a dark secret buried for generations. When scholars from Miskatonic University investigate, curiosity quickly turns to terror as an unspeakable truth begins to emerge. As tension tightens, the familiar countryside unravels into cosmic dread. Invisible forces move through the hills, reason begins to fracture, and humanity’s fragile place in the universe is laid bare.

Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award winner Jennifer K. Breedlove brings coastal Maine to life in Murder Will Out, a lighter, modern gothic mystery that's as atmospheric as it is heart-warming. Come for the memories. Stay for the murder... Little North Island, off...

Nowhere Burning is a harrowing tale of survival that places the dark fairy tale of Peter Pan and the ruthless dangers of Lord of the Flies into the unforgiving maw of the Colorado Rockies. "[Narrators Katherine] Fenton and [Christopher] Ragland both create a seamless listening experience with...

While visiting their father’s grave, Barbara and Johnny see a man slowly approaching them. Grotesque and ghost-pale, the man kills Johnny. Barbara manages to flee to a nearby farmhouse, where others have gathered to escape the outbreak. This ragtag group hope to fend off the horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls. Will any of them make it out alive?

One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Forests that nobody escapes alive, trains passing behind lonely houses that carry mysterious passengers, cryptic GPS devices that guide drivers to the darkest of destinations.

She lived the life they gave her. Then she found the one they took. A hidden room. A ghost in the mirror. A girl unraveling everything she was raised to forget Emily was raised to obey. To pray. To forget. For as long as she can remember, her family has been her whole world. Her safe place. Her calling. But when late-night noises lead her to a hidden room inside her bedroom wall, Emily begins to see things she can't explain. A destroyed teddy bear. A scrap of pink fabric. A girl in the mirror who isn't her.

Vesper Rossi was born into violence, but nothing could prepare her for the truth she now holds—a truth that burns hotter than revenge and cuts deeper than any blade. Her brother is alive, and her son—her stolen son—has been passed off as at the new Petrov heir, raised by her cousin as her own child.

In the latest Silent Hill film, based on the classic psychological horror video game Silent Hill 2, James must return to Silent Hill to rescue his soulmate. The town has been changed by an unknown malevolent force that makes James doubt his ability to survive.

Finney ha tredici anni, è solo e in un terribile guaio. Da due anni a questa parte, qualcuno perseguita i ragazzi di Galesburg, li porta via, facendoli sparire per sempre. E ora, Finney rischia di fare la stessa fine: è rinchiuso nel seminterrato di uno psicopatico, un luogo macchiato dal sangue di una mezza dozzina di bambini uccisi. Con lui, in quella cella sotterranea, c'è un telefono antico, nero e da tempo disconnesso. Eppure, di notte squilla, e all'altro capo dell'apparecchio si sentono le voci delle precedenti vittime.

A cozy coffin for two becomes one recluse’s reality when he wakes up in the frigid body of a thousand-year-old corpse! Can he find his footing in this new body? Even then, can he survive the passionate doting of his handsome—and quite unhinged—coffinmate? Wang Xiaomie, a reclusive gay virgin, wakes up to a shocking reality: he now inhabits the body of a thousand-year-old corpse, dressed in elaborate wedding attire. Even more bizarre, he finds himself sharing a coffin with Wen Fengjin, an immortal warrior who has spent centuries waiting for the return of his lost lover!

One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Abandoned mines filled with mysterious whispers, hotels that don’t want you to check out, bloody Valentine’s Day gifts that you’ll wish you never opened.