 Two stories of when the ordinary crosses paths with the darkness that always lurks nearby. | Authors: Anthony Gittins, Stephen King | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer 
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 Two haunting tales where the unsuspecting stand at the precipice of madness and destruction. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 Piety and remorse, a bad combination for the afterlife. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 If tragedies are a cause of hauntings the Thames should assuredly be haunted for it has witnessed a great deal of murders and suicides. Is it not possible, however, that there is something in a river that induces tragedies? | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 A haunted cafe where you get more attention from the staff than you really want. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 A ghostly bride that keeps an appointment with groom who has no chance to change his mind. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
A dark being from an alternate and hellish dimension, with only one aim, to extinguish human life.
"A Bit of the Dark World" is a short story by Fritz Leiber. The story involves a group of friends interested in the supernatural who go to stay at a house where strange occurrences have taken place. The story itself delves into the experiences of these friends as they encounter inexplicable phenomena.  The lover may admit to obsession, but never to madness when the one they love has been claimed by death.| Author: Charles L. Grant | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 Like a siren's call, the dead have ways of alleviating their loneliness. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
What does a newly sentient "thing" desire more than anything else in the world? Communion with a human being of course.
The story is noted for its ability to build to a climax of breathtaking menace with overtones of dislocation and loss. The story has been recognized for its evocative and unsettling narrative. 
A romantic cottage in the English countryside, the perfect setting for something that is let loose on Halloween night.
"Man-Size in Marble" is a Gothic horror short story by English author Edith Nesbit. The story is narrated in the first person by a newlywed husband who, along with his wife Laura, moves into a cottage built on the ruins of an old house. The cottage is located near the village of Brenzett, two miles from the sea. The couple, who are deeply in love and content with their simple, domestic life, hire a local housekeeper, Mrs. Dorman, who warns them of a local legend: on All Saints' Eve, the life-sized marble effigies of two cruel Norman knights in a nearby church are said to rise from their tombs and walk back to their former home. 
If you ever have an antiquities dealers offer you an ancient manuscript written on something that really isn't paper, say thanks, but no thanks!
The story "A Bride for the Devil" is a short story written by Stuart Palmer. It is part of his collection of mystery stories, which often feature his popular character Hildegarde Withers, an amateur crime solver and occult detective. 
Some spirits refuse to be dead and return to the land of the living in any way they can.
"The Beast with Five Fingers" is a novelette by English author William Fryer Harvey, first published in 1919. The story centers on a man who inherits a library and a mummified hand from a deceased relative, which subsequently comes to life and torments him. 
A forbidden book, that is seductive and alluring, and which ultimately sends an emissary to collect the soul of those who read its pages.
The Yellow Sign is a fictional symbol or glyph, first described in Robert W. Chambers' book The King in Yellow published in 1895. Its nature is unknown, but it seems to possess a strange siren call to the dark world of the King in Yellow and Carcosa, such that those who are exposed to it are doomed. The Yellow Sign's shape and purpose is never fully described, only that it is "a curious symbol or letter in gold. It was neither Arabic or Chinese, nor as I found afterwards did it belong to any human script." Anyone who possesses or sees – even by accident – a copy of the Sign is susceptible to some form of insidious mind control or possession, by the King in Yellow or one of his heirs. The stories also suggest that the original creator of the Sign was not human and possibly came from a strange alternate dimension that contains an ominous and ancient city known as Carcosa. A malevolent supernatural entity known as the King in Yellow, and a mysterious symbol called the Yellow Sign. The book and tales within it inspired H.P. Lovecraft to employ the use of only vaguely referring to his supernatural entities, and he included references to Chamber's book in one of his novels in the Cthulhu stories. In The Yellow Sign, a playboy artist and his model can't help falling for each other as symbols of death and decay press in from outside. The church watchman has a face like a maggot, and he scares both Mr. Scott and Tessie, along with Thomas, the bell boy. Moreover, both Mr. Scott and Tessie are haunted by bad dreams. Making matters worse, there's a play in Scott's library, The King in Yellow, that will make its readers go insane. And, Scott knows of the story of The Repairer of Reputations, in which someone was driven mad by the play. By the time Tessie gives him a black onyx pin with a gold symbol on it that she found in Battery Park, it's clear that something's gone horribly wrong. There is also a symbol known as the "Yellow Sign," which leaves the viewer susceptible to some sort of mind control. According to the works of H.P. Lovecraft's successor August Derleth, the actual performance of The King in Yellow is a summoning ritual for the Great Old One Hastur. 
An ancient chateau named the Mouth to Hell, what could possibly go wrong spending a night there?
"No. 252 Rue M. le Prince" is a short story by Ralph Adams Cram, first published in the 1895. The story follows a narrator who visits his friend Eugene Marie d’Ardeche in Paris, who has inherited a house at No. 252 Rue M. le Prince from an estranged aunt known for practicing black magic. The house is rumored to be cursed, and d’Ardeche, along with some friends, decides to spend a night there to investigate. The story is set in Paris and features elements of gothic horror, including a haunted house, black magic, and an unsettling atmosphere. 
A psychopath finds his perfect employment behind an executioner's hood, but even the most unremorseful have an Achilles' heel.
The short story "The Head Man" by Robert Bloch was first published in 1950. The story revolves around an S.S. executioner in Nazi Germany who becomes obsessed with keeping the heads of a couple charged with witchcraft. When it seems he may be prevented from obtaining them, he breaks the rules to get them, but things do not go as planned. 
All myths have some truth at the very center of it when it was first retold around the light of a fire, and usually, it's the most horrible part of it.
Gertrude Bacon is known for her work "The Gorgon's Head," a horror story published in The Strand Magazine in 1899. The story involves Captain Brander recounting a strange and terrifying experience to his passenger, Miss Baker, about an incident that occurred on the island of Zante. Gertrude Bacon was also a British aeronautical pioneer. She achieved a considerable number of "firsts" for women in aeronautics, as well as making contributions in the areas of astronomy and botany. 
There are places that are full of nothing except death, and there's only one outcome for the living when they stumble upon it. Two Swedish youths make an unchaperoned, overnight trip to a nearby village. On the return journey they lose their way and find themselves wandering through a terrifying realm.
"The Dead Valley" is a short story written by Ralph Adams Cram, an American architect known for his work in the Gothic Revival style. The story is part of a collection titled "Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories," published in 1895. The protagonist, Olof Ehrensvrd, recounts a chilling experience in a mysterious valley that seems to possess a malevolent consciousness, drawing him to a dead tree at its center and attempting to trap him there as mist seeps from the ground. 
Torturing an enemy is meant to break him in spirit and body, but for some enemies the only result is the resolve to have their revenge one way or another.
William Chambers Morrow, born in 1854 and died in 1923, is an American author renowned for his short stories of horror and suspense. "His Unconquerable Enemy," one of his most famous works, tells the story of a servant seeking revenge against a cruel rajah. 
An unusual neighbor that insists on keeping his apartment cold as an ice-box, and when you touch his skin it's colder still, doubtless skulduggery is afoot.
The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him. His tale begins in the spring of 1923, when he was looking for housing in New York City. He finally settles in a converted brownstone on West Fourteenth Street. Investigating a chemical leak from the floor above, he discovers that the inhabitant directly overhead is a strange, old, and reclusive physician. One of the three stories that Lovecraft wrote during his exile to New York in 1926. 
"The Lonesome Place" is a short story by American writer August Derleth. The story revolves around two young boys, Steve and Johnny Newell, who are terrified by a mysterious creature they believe lives in an abandoned grain elevator in their small town which they've named "the lonesome place".
This place is described as an old grain elevator surrounded by tall trees and many piles of wood from the lumber yard that surrounds it. 
What could exist inside the limited dimensions of an ordinary yard? Perhaps unimaginable creatures.
"Canavan's Back Yard" is a short story written by Joseph Payne Brennan and was published in 1958. The story involves a seemingly typical back yard that appears to be normal from a distance. However, when entered, the grass becomes extremely tall and it is inhabited by creatures. The yard also becomes so vast that anyone therein may never find a way out. 
In search of tropical flowers and fauna, two explorers find something at the site of an ancient ruin that even the natives will have nothing to do with.
"Yes, I found the place," said Falmer. "It's a queer sort of place, pretty much as the legends describe it." He spat quickly into the fire, as if the act of speech had been physically distasteful to him, and, half averting his face from the scrutiny of Thone, stared with morose and somber eyes into the jungle-matted Venezuelan darkness. (Author Clark Ashton Smith) 
Nothing is quite as monstrous as perfection, except the hell of living with someone who demands it in every second.
"A Piece of Linoleum" is a short story by David H. Keller, M.D., first published in 1934. The narrative explores themes of psychological tension and societal norms, reflecting Keller's background as a psychiatrist. 
A brutal man, a victimizer of the helpless finds that he is made to pay his pound of flesh in the most agonizing way.
The story "The Lips" by Henry S. Whitehead is one of his notable works. The story explores themes of voodoo and the supernatural, often drawing on his experiences and observations from his time in the Virgin Islands. whitehead's stories are characterized by their detailed descriptions and the integration of local folklore and cultural elements, making them unique within the horror genre. |
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