Resultados para "Cuentos de Terror" en Paranormal y urbana

Los cuentos de terror deben provocar en el lector el temor a lo desconocido. Sin duda, H.P Lovecraft lo genera en cada una de sus historias. Reconocido como uno de los autores más influyentes de la literatura fantástica, cada uno de sus cuentos son una puerta abierta al estremecimiento. Creador del estilo horror cósmico, su obra mezcla elementos de la ciencia ficción, tales como extraterrestres, viajes en el tiempo y dimensiones paralelas, con las historias de terror sobrenatural.

El existir eternamente fue un deseo que tuve desde mi infancia o más bien desde que fui consiente que existía la muerte. Ya que La muerte es el principal elemento de la vida decía mi bisabuelo. Pero no para mí, no debería ser o al menos no tenía que serlo. Porque demonios debería de morir en cualquier momento, que hay si me faltan sueños por cumplir, me cuestionaba cada día. ¿Cómo evitar la muerte o más bien como escapar de ella? ¿Cómo poder vivir para siempre? Estas preguntas me siguieron mi juventud y parte de mi vida adulta....

Publicado por primera vez en 1917, Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte reúne los mejores cuentos de Horacio Quiroga, siendo la obra que lo posiciona como uno de los mayores cuentistas hispanoamericanos. Con una violencia implícita, en estos cuentos se presenta un mundo perturbador donde, frente a la inexorabilidad de la muerte, la locura y el amor se entrelazan de manera constante. Los relatos son breves y presentan una tensión e intensidad constante, mostrando la lucha desigual del hombre contra la naturaleza, lo salvaje y el horror.

When nineteen-year-old Elara returns to her grandmother’s ridge house in the Appalachian hollow, she finds more than heirlooms waiting. A sycamore tree as pale as bone stands watch, a cracked pocket watch stops at 10:17 each day, and a ledger filled with rules whispers what it costs to live here: Kin before names. Bread before bargains. Never pay in leaving. The hollow keeps storms, secrets, and sometimes people. If you feed it heels of bread and speak plain, it will mind its side of the fence.

Beneath the surface of a London top university, an ancient society known as The Seechers, operate. They protect the world’s biggest secret. A hidden gateway to the subconscious world. Unlocked only by a mysterious liquid, found deep within the human brain. Dark forces close in, as subjects, known to possess the liquid, are kidnapped and experimented on.

"Be careful what you ask for" was the dire warning Leah had heard before she was transformed forever into an immortal. Zeal and Freya had chosen her because in her prayers she had unknowingly asked for this: a painless end to her cancer diagnosis. Now as she stands looking down on her daughter on life support, does she take God's will into her own hands to keep her daughter with her for eternity?

Azriel Creed has gotten fat since slaughtering all the zombies. During the past year he's lived a life of leisure - drinking, partying, and ignoring the blood-thirsty monsters his race was bred to hunt and kill. His sedentary lifestyle has made him flabby and out-of-shape. He must hold his breath just to tie his shoes. He gets winded merely walking up and down stairs. And he's more concerned about pleasing his bitchy, iPhone-addicted girlfriend than his destiny as the most ruthless assassin of evil beings who has ever lived.

Ireland, 1911. After encountering a faery in the woodlands near his home in Tralee when he is a child, Professor Emmet Brehon spends his life pursuing the belief that faeries are more than just elements of mythology. While teaching Irish mythology and folklore at a university in Dublin, he receives a note from a stranger who claims to know where faeries can be found.

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the taproom of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. 'The Rival Beauties' is one of the night watchman's most unlikely tales. He narrates the time when his ship came across a giant sea-serpent and they attempted to lure it with them to New York.

Trixie is a feline of a unique sort. She's hustled the streets of the Big Easy many times but never quite like this. Trixie finds that when in New Orleans, hoodoo is much more than a tourist shop full of souvenirs. Reality has never been stranger and the stakes are much higher than ever before. See how this sexy feline takes on every challenge thrown at her and in the process discovers that there's more to life than meets the eye. This is a short story in a new series by Karli Rush.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is often credited as being the father of science fiction. 'Aepyornis Island' is the strange tale of a naturalist who finds himself adrift in a canoe in the Indian Ocean, with three mysterious rare giant eggs which he has collected. He knows they are the eggs of the aepyornis - a bird which has been extinct for hundreds of years. He is amazed, when hunger forces him to try one of the eggs, to find that it is fresh.

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is credited as being the father of science fiction. 'In the Avu Observatory' is a story about a scientist working at a remote observatory in a remote forest in Borneo. One night, the astronomer's assistant, Woodhouse, is attacked by a huge bat-like creature in the middle of the night. In the pitch black of the observatory, he suddenly finds himself fighting for his life against...what?

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Moth' is the strange tale of two rivalling entomologists, each determined to demolish the other's life's work. When one of them dies, the other struggles to cope in the absence of his rival. And then he discovers an entirely new species of moth - a moth very reminiscent of his dead rival - and which pursues him wherever he goes.

Den 22. november 1963 lød tre skud i Dallas, John F. Kennedy døde, og verden var forandret for altid. MEN hvad nu hvis man kan ændre historiens gang? Skal man så gøre det? Det spørgsmål må 35-årige Jake Epping stille sig selv, den dag hans gamle ven Al viser ham en tidstunnel skjult i den lokale diner. Jake er en helt almindelig mand; high school-lærer, fraskilt og sympatisk - og ikke mindst skeptisk over for tidstunneller. Men Al har forberedt sig godt og overtaler Jake til at tage turen tilbage til 1958, bo der i fem år og gøre et forsøg på at forhindre mordet på Kennedy.

At the Mountains of Madness first appeared in 1936, in the February, March and April editions of the American magazine Astounding Stories. One of H.P. Lovecraft’s most chilling works, it draws on Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as well as Lovecraft’s deep fascination with the Antarctic. The sinister discoveries made by a group of explorers in At the Mountains of Madness are testament to the author’s enormous powers of imagination.

Owen Pitt ist Buchprüfer. Eines Abends erfüllt er sich einen lang gehegtenTraum und wirft seinen Boss aus dem Fenster. Allerdings nicht ganz freiwillig, denn dieser hatte sich vor seinen Augen in einen leibhaftigen Werwolf verwandelt und versucht, ihn zu fressen. Als Owen im Krankenhaus erwacht, ist ein Agent bei ihm. Er erklärt ihm, dass es Monster wirklich gibt und seine Organisation sie im Zaum hält, natürlich unter strenger Geheimhaltung. Und er macht Owen ein interessantes Jobangebot.

Agent Franks ist etwas ganz Besonderes. Zusammengesetzt aus verschiedenen menschlichen Teilen und versehen mit unmenschlichen Kräften, gehört er zu den effektivsten Waffen, die Monster Hunter International zu bieten hat. Doch nur unter einer Bedingung stellt er seine durchschlagenden Fähigkeiten der Organisation zur Verfügung: Sie musste ihm versprechen, keine weiteren Wesen wie ihn zu erschaffen. Franks Schöpfer ist jedoch unersättlich.

For 300 years, Sister Autumn has incited wars, burnt villages, killed kings, and released plagues at the bidding of the grimoire. When an order from the grimoire sends Agatha to the Kingdom of Merveille, she already anticipates the worst. Unless she wants to face the wrath of the Goddess, Agatha must keep her head down and do as she's commanded. But when the grimoire orders her to marry a pompous prince and play the role of a peasant "accepted" by vicious aristocrats, she finds herself at the center of a war between the classes and an age-old prophecy.

"Doktor Søvn" er den længe ventede opfølger til Kings berømteste bog til dato - "Ondskabens hotel". Kun tre overlevede Ondskabens hotel, heriblandt hovedperson Jack Torrances søn, Danny - dengang fem år og nu en voksen mand. Og det er ham vi nu følger. Danny kæmper med tre ting han arvede efter sin far; alkoholisme, et voldsomt temperament og resterne af spøgelset fra Ondskabens hotel. Indledningsvis er spøgelser det mindste af hans problemer... Men alkohol er ikke den eneste dæmon. De ydre dæmoner er The True Knot - en overnaturlig kult som ernæres ved dampene fra børn, som besidder "the shining". Kulten rejser rundt i mobilhomes forklædt som harmløse, ældre turister for at opsøge børn med overnaturlige evner.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern verbringt Lena ihr erstes Weihnachtsfest alleine in dem großen, leeren Haus der Familie. Die verlassenen Räume wecken nicht nur viele Erinnerungen, sondern auch ein gespenstisches Unbehagen in ihr. Als sie eines Nachts Geräusche im Haus zu hören glaubt und Lebensmittel aus den Schränken verschwinden, beginnt Lena an ihrem Verstand zu zweifeln.