The Hauntings: 20 Chilling Tales of Macabre & Mystery - format ePub

"Historias de Fantasmas de un Anticuario" (1904), de M. R. James, es una colección clásica de ocho relatos escalofriantes que mezclan escenarios académicos con terror sobrenatural. James, un medievalista...

El profesor Parkins, un académico racional que pasa sus vacaciones en Burnstow, descubre un antiguo silbato de bronce entre las ruinas de un preceptorio templario. Movido por la curiosidad, lo sopla y,...

En Castringham Hall, Sir Matthew Fell condena a la horca a la supuesta bruja Mrs. Mothersole, quien advierte: "Habrá huéspedes en la Mansión." Poco después, aparece muerto en su cama, ennegrecido y retorcido,...

El señor Anderson, investigador de la historia eclesiástica en Viborg, se hospeda en la posada Golden Lion. Nota que no existe un cuarto número 13 en el registro del hotel, pero lo ve repetidamente e...

El señor Williams, curador de un museo universitario, adquiere una mezzotinta aparentemente trivial de una mansión rural. Para su espanto, el grabado comienza a transformarse, mostrando una secuencia...

El viajero señor Wraxall investiga los archivos de una antigua propiedad sueca y se obsesiona con su feroz antepasado, el Conde Magnus de la Gardie. En el mausoleo de la iglesia descubre rastros de la...

El anticuario Mr. Somerton descifra un criptograma en las vidrieras de la Abadía de Steinfeld que señala un tesoro oculto en un pozo. Al abrir la losa marcada con "siete ojos", encuentra no solo sacos...

En la decadente ciudad de St. Bertrand de Comminges, un anticuario inglés descubre una invaluable colección de manuscritos, antaño reunida por el siniestro canónigo Alberic. Entre los tesoros se encuentra...

El huérfano Stephen Elliott va a vivir con su primo solitario, Mr. Abney, en Aswarby Hall. Aunque parece amable, Abney oculta planes siniestros arraigados en su obsesión por rituales antiguos de inmortalidad....

Una selección de relatos de horror que muestra lo más oscuro del mundo vegetal. Una antología que reúne a nombres como Roald Dahl, Eudora Welty o H.P. Lovecraft. Orquídeas sanguinarias, bosques enteros...

Looking for some spooky stories to read on a camping trip, at a Halloween party, or at home with the family in front of a roaring fire? The works of medieval scholar M.R. James should fit the bill. James...

If you read the title-page of this book—a thing which young persons very seldom do—you will see that it (the book) contains stories taken "out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament."...

e-artnow Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts" by M. R. James. e-artnow Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every...

This book has an introduction by Ruth Rendell, herself a writer of Mystery and detective stories. This mystery story centers around the accidental finding of a significant historical object; one of the...

M. R. James' 'The Hauntings: 20 Chilling Tales of Macabre & Mystery' is a collection of spine-tingling stories that delve into the supernatural and the terrifying. With a distinct literary style that...

M.R. James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories...

From a young age, Cary Simms knew that she wasn't like the other boys her age. She was only starting to figure out just how different she really was. However, she fears that going down that path would...

In a town divided by prejudice, one girl's future—and two hearts—hang in the balance.New York State, 1841. Charley Lovejoy has weathered storms on the Erie Canal, but none like the one that arrives in...

Part of The Long Shadow Series by Duncan GayePatrick Callahan comes to Cape Breton expecting easy money from a quick and lucrative timber deal. Instead, he only finds humiliation. Swindled out of his...

It's the 21st century, and mermaids are real. How do I know?Because I am one.The sea witch kidnapped my boyfriend and my voice, and now I have to rely on my friends to get him back, all while being chased...

The Edmund Fitzgerald – Without a Trace  is a haunting blend of fact and fiction that re-imagines the final voyage of the Great Lakes' most legendary ship. On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald...

💘 Brother's Best Friend🏡 Small-Town Christmas💫 Fated Love👻 A Ghostly Nudge🎄 Holiday Magic She's home for the holidays. He's a stranger in town. But Christmas has plans of its own.Andrea Flynn returns...

Some ghosts can only be silenced by love—and maybe a little Christmas magic.GradyI wasn't supposed to come back to Havenstone.Not after the Navy. Not after the battles I fought—overseas and in my own...

Broken Chains is a powerful historical love story about Sam, a Syrian Christian, and Devi, a Dalit woman (an Untouchable) from Kerala. Together, Sam and Devi defy India's entrenched caste and religious...

A brilliant and beautiful Creole commoner rises to become the most powerful woman in the New World, and a hero of the American Revolution.Felicite St. Maxent, the brilliant and beautiful daughter of a...

Some loves are worth fighting for. Some homes are worth returning to. Aaron Ridenour fled Hallelujah Crossing, Tennessee, and its painful memories years ago, vowing never to return. But a scandal in New...

For Jack and Gareth, family is everything. But justice is a close second. A death from natural causes that might just be murder. A dance coach with wandering hands.  Holiday jobs, birthday party plans,...

Love isn't on the blueprint… but he's about to redraw every line.After a messy, very public divorce shatters her career, interior designer Magnolia Grove flees the spotlight for the quiet coastal town...

The wreck of The Favourite 150 years ago in Ahipara Bay tells the story of Alice Hayrigg's ancestors, and prepares us for a thrilling mystery set in modern times.When Alice Hayrigg's husband Brayden is...

When a winter storm damages her beloved bakery, Jessica Martin is determined to hold everything together for her daughter and the town that depends on Destiny's Bakery. Then Ryan Jackson, a temporary...

She missed the train.Then she went missing. Insecure Bryn has always played second fiddle to her glamorous cousin Jules, a wealthy golden girl and newly-minted bestselling author. But Bryn never imagines...

A British single dad living in America. Four kids who need stability. A nanny looking for a new home. The thirteenth book in the Hot Brits series is here!What can I say about my children? They're wonderful...

A woman's work is never done, or so the saying goes.Annie Hebden is not bothered about this; she loves her work and would be lost without it. So when a threat to her job comes, just as she is settling...

A novella loosely inspired by personal observations during the Lebanese-Israeli war of 2024.A dream within a dream. A crater within a crater. A tear within a Týr.Samuel, a wry writer, flees his war-torn...

Fleeing an arranged bond and the life she never wanted, an omega finds herself stranded in a remote mountain cabin. Hungry, cold, and hunted by memories of her past, she doesn't expect to survive the...

The Tree of Sweet DreamsA Gothic Fairytale NovellaGrief drives Elen into The Between — a forest where dreams take root, lanterns guard memories, and sweets hang from the branches of a legendary tree....

Lucy and Michael keep a regular lunch date, but their rendezvous hides a twisted secret that neither wants to share… The Date forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today...

Trapped in a concrete cell with no memory of how she got there, Margaret Swanson wakes to a nightmare she can't explain. A pounding headache and a name stitched onto a gray jumpsuit are all she has left...

They had forever. Until they didn't.Stella Kendrick's magic is still a hot mess, but she has Gideon Heimdall—her Viking, her mate, her forever. They're building something real. Their mating bond thrums...

DOES THE USER SHAPE THE POWER, OR DOES THE POWER SHAPE THE USER? Frax has always claimed that the depth of manipulation around Kaphri and the warriors is immense. Now those invisible forces are rising...

 Some treasures are meant to be found. This one was meant to stay buried.When Ingrid Snyder guides her friends on a geocaching trip through Denmark, they expect cache finds and scenic hikes. What they...

Uncover the harrowing truth behind Sara's past, the danger that forced her to flee, and the suspenseful game of cat and mouse she played to survive. Will she find the safety and protection she desperately...

In a world that rewards composure, Shirley has mastered the art of control. A wife, mother, and bank manager, she moves through her days with quiet grace and a secret she can't name, a hunger for something...

Henrietta Newell stormed into the detective bureau. She claimed her adult son was missing and feared for his safety. The detectives attempted to reassure her that the absence of a bachelor in his thirties,...

When teenagers Zac and Emily stumble upon a hidden cave at the dead end of a forgotten service road, they find themselves transported to a breathtaking yet perilous world unlike anything they could have...

Nobody's Son: Beaten but Unbroken is a fictional memoir with the truth hiding between every line—raw, unfiltered, and told in the voice of a boy who survived what should've destroyed him.Ray Ray wasn't...