Títulos en Terror

Nestes contos - selecionados e traduzidos por José Paulo Paes - Edgar Allan Poe imaginou algumas das mais conhecidas histórias de terror e suspense da literatura, tramas que migraram da ficção direto para o imaginário coletivo do Ocidente. É o caso de "O gato preto", a tenebrosa história...

Identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth are super excited about Halloween, again. This time, the new girl Piper leads them to a mysterious new store that has all the coolest costumes. As Elizabeth gets to know Piper, spooky things happen to her. She sees the moon turn blood red. Meanwhile, Jessica falls in love with a cute boy at the store, who has a terrible secret. Soon Jessica starts to act strangely and Elizabeth is worried that something awful is happening to her. Can Elizabeth stop her twin from turning into a vampire, or will that just make Jessica more interesting?

Bloody Scarlet, the skull collector of the Crimson Forest, is just a cautionary tale to keep children from wandering in and getting lost—isn’t she? Well something’s out there. In a world dominated by a cruel Inquisition that sees demons and witches everywhere it turns, Keely just wants to make a dishonest living convincing the obscenely wealthy to part with their excess riches through guile and trickery. When the Inquisition shows up to destroy her life anyway, Keely goes on the offensive rather than scurry back into the shadows.

As a child, Josh Finley is abducted by pedophile Michael Traynor. After 19 days of unimaginable horror, he manages to escape, but in the aftermath, he has amnesia from the trauma. The last thing he remembers of his time in captivity is seeing the dead body of another of Traynor’s young victims. Ten years later, FBI Special Agent John Rodriguez asks for Josh’s help to try and identify the murdered boy and find where Traynor buried the remains. Rodriguez says Traynor is willing to cooperate, but on one condition: He’ll only talk to Josh.

A prophecy. A world of witches. The Witches of Raechester. A Detective trying to save his city, his world. A mother, a witch, is she a savior or destroyer, hero or villain? Socially, we all fall into many categories. Some of us have hills we will die on and some of us hate confrontation. David is the latter. We also all have lines. Lines that we ourselves will cross and won’t cross, for ourselves and for others. But what about family? How far is too far for family? Especially when it comes down to your freedom, your livelihood or even your life. How far would you go?

Sophie Rose went missing eighteen years ago. Now the town think they may have found her body, when they were looking for someone else’s. During the hottest summer on record, the small English town of Wymere is holding a summer fete, children play happily with their families and all is well, until a woman reports that her husband and son have gone missing. As a panicked search sweeps the fete, the missing man comes out of the woods covered in blood screaming that he doesn’t know what has happened, but his son is nowhere to be seen.

In Kaila Nike’s debut novel, Mystique, Octavia, a young and dedicated mother, has worked hard to create the life she has with her two little boys after their father abandoned them years ago. She’s given up hope on finding love until one night she meets Chad, a tall, handsome, and mysterious cowboy. Right away she knows she wants to get to know this man or forever wonder what if.

As a child, Vicky Smith suffered abuse at the hands of her father until she managed to escape. But even then, she wasn’t safe; her foster parents abused her too. Now, as an adult, she hasn’t forgotten. And when her son, Matt, reaches the same age she was when the abuse started, something in her changes. Matt becomes the object of her wrath, her frustration, and together with her eldest son, Jamie, Matt will soon learn he can do nothing right without upsetting her.

This two-volume edition presents the full version of what’s probably the most influential and notorious “Penny Dreadful” ever published: the one in which London was introduced to Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet-Street, and his pie-selling partner-in-crime, Mrs. Lovett. This edition is lightly footnoted to help the modern listener catch literary and pop-cultural references as well as slang terms that were familiar to 1840s Londoners, but are more obscure today.

Anja’s Awakening is a slow, merciless descent into vengeance—not justice, not reckoning. Vengeance. They thought she was nothing—cornered, broken, discarded. They believed they would never answer for what they did. But Anja is no longer something to be thrown away. She is something to fear. Shadows coil at her feet, drawn to the fury in her blood. Power ripples beneath her skin, sharpening with each name added to her list. She was forced to live like prey—now, she hunts without hesitation, without mercy. The air shifts when she’s near—thick with dread, humming with the promise of suffering.

The Rift Saga reaches its thundering conclusion. Kase, Brell, and Rumcole have survived betrayal, battled across fractured realms, and forged impossible alliances. Now the dark mage Kregryn moves to resurrect an ancient evil and only these three unlikely heroes stand against the coming storm. With time itself unraveling and monsters pouring through unsealed portals, the final confrontation awaits on a cursed island where a black tower pierces the sky. Friendships will be tested. Sacrifices will be demanded. And the fate of every realm hangs upon a single desperate gambit.

The adult children of monsters, boogeymen, and devils are being hunted. Unaware of who their parents are and with no idea why they’re being hunted, they need to explore the terrifying world from where they were born. Always feeling different and out of place, Celina Davenport clings to the status quo in an effort to feel normal. Her comfort shatters when she receives a mysterious email claiming to have information regarding her birth parents, whom she knows nothing about. Against her better judgment, Celina agrees to meet the author and discovers it’s her long-lost twin sister.

In a world fractured by Rifts—tears in reality that grant power through sacrifice--two lives unravel in opposite directions. A sheltered boy clings to what he’s lost, turning to forbidden knowledge, unable to accept the finality of death. A girl, born from tragedy, walks blindly forward—haunted by what she cannot undo.

This collection features six chilling tales exploring themes of obsession, cosmic dread, and the crushing weight of one's own past. From the depths of the ocean to the silent reaches of space and the dark corners of the human mind, these stories delve into the consequences of human ambition and the inevitability of fate.

Eunora Dawn is just a child. She was born a noble in the kingdom of Maeve, with 5 siblings and a shy personality. At a glance, her life was meant to be rosy. But, when Eunora unlocks the [System] on her 8th birthday, she gains more than she expected. Memories of her past life as a strong-willed and fulfilled woman flood her mind and all but overwrite her personality.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. AT EICHHOLM ESTATE, THE POWERFUL HUNT PEOPLE NO ONE WILL MISS. Mara Holt believes the invitation will change her life. The guests are elegant, influential, and terrifyingly discreet. They know her work, her failures, and exactly how badly she wants to...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if beauty could remain untouched while the soul beneath it decayed in secret? In *The Picture of Dorian Gray*, Oscar Wilde creates one of the most seductive and unsettling novels of the nineteenth century: a Gothic masterpiece of art, vanity...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. There is a book that should not be opened, a sign that should not be seen, and a king whose name turns art into madness. In *The King in Yellow*, Robert W. Chambers created one of the most haunting works of weird fiction and supernatural horror. First...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Vera Barantsova has grown up with every advantage her aristocratic world offers and has found, on examination, that none of them are what she wants. She wants the things the nihilist movement has taught her to want: a life of purpose, a self accountable...

'Me veo obligado a hablar, pues los hombres de ciencia se niegan a seguir mi consejo sin saber por qué. Si explico las razones por las que me opongo a esta planeada invasión de la Antártida—con su extensa búsqueda de fósiles y su minuciosa perforación y fundición del antiguo casquete...