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Schauer, Spannung und Schwarze Romantik: 10 Meisterwerke des Genres. Mit dabei: In der Gruft (H.P. Lovecraft), Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde (R.L. Stevenson), Die schwarze Spinne (J. Gotthelf), In der Tiefe des Maelstroms (E. A. Poe), Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow (W. Irving), Die Affenpfote (W. W. Jacobs), Der Vampyr (J. Polidori), Der Sandmann (E.T.A. Hoffmann), Der Garten des Bösen (N. Hawthorne).

The Flaming Jewel is a high-stakes adventure set in the North Woods, where rival factions clash over a legendary gem. As deception, betrayal, and fate intertwine, the mysterious Flaming Jewel becomes the center of a thrilling pursuit. A gripping novel of wilderness survival and hidden treasures.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. For America, as the century closes, she is becoming less isolated. Her industrial might, her rising military power are pulling her ever closer into the entangled globe of nations. Her authors flex ideas and lexicons with riveting tales of this astonishing society.

Am Lagerfeuer oder in der kalten Winternacht wurden sie früher erzählt: Gruselgeschichten, von Generation zu Generation weitergetragen. Ein eigenes literarisches Genre entwickelte sich daraus, und weltberühmte Autoren betätigten sich auf diesem Feld. Hören Sie klassische Geschichten und Novellen, die sich mit den Themen Horror, Schauer und Grusel befassen, darunter: Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde, Der Sandmann, Der Vampyr von John Polidori, zahlreiche Geschichten von Edgar Allan Poe, Die Insel des Dr. Moreau von H.G.

Robert W. Tompkins began writing these short pieces as a reward for people who liked the Hagenspan novels, and wished for a bit more. He also hoped to use them as teasers to get people to read about the Hagenspan world without having to commit to a whole book, in the hope that they would be favorably impressed with what they read and return for more. This is by far some of the best writing that the author has yet produced. In the shorter format, he has become more precise and evocative with his choice of words, and the reader receives these bonus stories as little gifts spotlighting ...

Hagenspan was a mythic land that once existed in our own world--nearest estimates place it somewhere in the north Atlantic, perhaps during the Middle Ages. Apparently one of the last bastions for creatures from the Old World, its shores were haunted by memories of dwarfs and fairies, kobolds and trolls, giants and dragons. The tales of Hagenspan recount the days when humankind had nearly, but not quite, forgotten those other folk, who were diminishing as it had been decreed. The Hagenspan Chronicles are a bittersweet recounting of the world that once was; sometimes whimsical, sometimes ...

Dr. Jessica Coran faces the most terrifying challenge of her career when her professional adversary, a criminal court judge, is kidnapped by a deranged man with an unnatural instinct for revenge....

The world has struggled with deadly winters for decades--killer storms has taken thousands of lives. Now in the year 2020, it is in the grip of a new Ice Age, all because man had altered the weather to suit his own needs, not realizing the terrifying forces he had unleashed...Chicago is in the throes of a deathfreeze.

In Soul Affirmation, Robert W. Emerick introduces a new, vital understanding of one’s soul, and explains its powerful influence as an integral part of our “self” and our society.

Our show contains topics from the working business man's perspective, growing your business, concrete contracting, and some topics on Christianity.

Book IV of the Calder Chronicles traces the rise of Captain Delmar Calder beginning in August 1704 aboard HMS Tilbury. His journey takes him from Gibraltar, and the waters the Mediterranean, to England as the Royal Navy confronts their French counterparts in the War of Spanish Succession. Old rivalries are renewed, and new spring forth, as he must struggle to hold command of his ship against political infighting in the halls of the Admiralty. While the unseen enemies over the horizon hold the prospects of a fiery death, the potential of peace poses new challenges to navigate.

Joe Lawler, retired veteran street-cop, has quit the cold rainy Midwest Chicagoland and relocated to the 115-degree summers and the mountains and deserts of Southern Nevada. And, oh yes, Glitter Gulch, the Las Vegas Strip, and it's 24/7 gambling, booze, sex, shows, lights and glitz. Lawler takes a part-time police gig, starting over in the Las Vegas suburbs, while awaiting a full-time job with Las Vegas Metro PD, or the Coroner's Investigators to come through.

Travel into the world of the occult and meet a Vampire in this short story by W. Adolphe Roberts narrated by Mike Vendetti.

Robert W. Kirby, author of British crime fiction and dark thrillers, presents Survival Weekend, narrated by Finlay Robertson. After a messy breakup, Rebecca and her friend Phoebe sign up for an adventure weekend in the Scottish wilderness, but the fun turns sinister when a teammate warns that armed hunters will be tracking them. At first, it seems like part of the game, but when someone vanishes, panic sets in. But even if there are killers on their tail, first they need to survive the rugged terrain, punishing conditions, and perhaps hardest of all, each other. Explicit content.

After their latest successful Vegas Gone Girls trafficking case is solved, Mick Finnegan and Joe Lawler are looking for a spot of calm and R&R. They think they’ve found it, when their new Chief of Police insists that they travel to Provo, Utah for a pleasant fishing trip. But it’s a ruse to rope them into adding support for the local Native American authorities and branch FBI on a case of missing and murdered Native women around the Mohawken reservation area.

In a world where so many dark things go bump in the night, terror awaits around every corner as these authors take horror stories to the next level. Discover monstrous creatures, devilish kitsune masks, vicious literature characters come to life, and more stories to fuel your worst nightmares. Featuring Beth W. Patterson, Robert Prescott, David Allen Voyles, J. Woolston Carr, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Daryl Marcus, Joshua Bartolome, Damien Mckeating, and Mike Lera.

Conflict grips the crew of HMS Comet as the ship is cast into the War of the Quadruple Alliance. William sends Annette north to the safety of Scotland only to find she is more exposed to peril there than the wooden decks of their ship. Separation deepens the bonds between them while testing both their love for each other and loyalty to England. Rivals appear from Captain Dorrach’s past to challenge his deep affections for Annette. It is through this struggle that a deep appreciation for the meaning of home is realized.

Being born a bastard amid the rough and tumble Highlands of Scotland opened few opportunities for John Lamont as he entered the 1800s. Suffering isolation within his clan, he sets his course across the Atlantic to find opportunity in the sugar trade on the Island of Trinidad. New to the slave trade, he must reconcile his traditional values with the economic reality of the marketplace. Tribal conflicts carried from a continent away, only serve to complicate his enterprise. After struggling to establish himself within this new social order, he finds a growing abolitionist movement in London ...

Robert W. Janek grew up, with his mother, father, and older brother, in the farm and ranch country of west Texas. It was a “normal” childhood… until the late summer of 1952 when he had just turned eleven years old and was stricken with polio. Polio: A Personal Spiritual Journey tells the continuing story of the effects of polio on a human being: what it means to go through the initial stages of hospitalization and then the life-long physical, social, and spiritual aftermath of living with partial facial paralysis due to bulbar polio.

Officer Joe Lawler and partner Mick Finnegan deal daily with code calls for drug overdoses, street crime, alleyway and hotel thefts in and around Las Vegas, but now a more sinister crime has come to town. The number of missing girls has exploded. The increase in human trafficking has become a veritable epidemic in what's known as 'Disneyland' for adults or 'Glitter Gulch'.