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Man sieht sich immer zweimal, lautet ein altes, bekanntes Sprichwort. Henry Collins muss das am eigenen Leib erfahren. Denn seine Vergangenheit als gefürchteter Gunman und skrupelloser Geschäftsmann aus den Tagen des Goldrauschs in Kalifornien droht ihn einzuholen. Jemand will sich an ihm rächen. Nur wer? Auguste Dupin versucht es herauszufinden, gerät aber plötzlich selber zwischen die Fronten und droht in einem unerbittlich geführten Kampf den Kürzeren zu ziehen.

Wettstreit der Magier: Eine höchst merkwürdige Gruppe findet sich in einem heruntergekommenen Gasthaus an der Seine zusammen. Der Beste aus ihren Reihen soll das Erbe des alten Zaubermeisters Blanchard antreten. Unter ihnen befindet sich auch der junge Entfesselungskünstler Houdini. Das plötzliche und mysteriöse Verschwinden zweier Wettbewerbsteilnehmer aus ihrem Zimmer stellt den Polizeipräfekten vor ein unlösbares Rätsel. C. Auguste Dupin und Edgar Allan Poe übernehmen den Fall, bei dem sich zusehends die Grenze zwischen spielerischen Zaubertricks und tödlichen Gefahren vermischt.

Moderner Geist trifft alten Adel: C. Auguste Dupin und Edgar Allan Poe, sein treuer Begleiter und Chronist, reisen auf Einladung des Chevalier de Chambois auf dessen Landsitz. Der letzte Nachkomme des alten Geschlechts ist dem Wahnsinn nahe: Jede Nacht erscheinen ihm die Stimmen seiner Familie, die der Französischen Revolution zum Opfer fiel. Tut sich im Château de Chambois tatsächlich ein Tor zum Jenseits auf? Oder ist der Chevalier das Ziel eines perfiden Angriffs?

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Jerome K Jerome. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back, and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own.

During a cholera epidemic in New York City, the narrator visits a relative living just outside of the city. One day, the narrator has a vision of a ghastly monster alighting in the distant hills. After a second vision, his host reveals that the "monster" is neither as large nor as distant as the visitor imagined, being only an insect.

Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the greatest of all writers of macabre stories. His poems and short stories have influenced scores of writers. He invented the modern detective story, and his tales of terror are as chilling and powerful today as they have ever been. The stories in this volume are "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Hop Frog", and "The Premature Burial".

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales featuring the macabre and chilling voices of writers as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, and MR James. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is celebrated for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of his most famous. In it, the narrator tells how, without any motive, but merely because he is obsessed with his eye (“The eye of a vulture”), he murders an old man, and of the consequences when the murdered man's heart seeks revenge.

The fear of being buried alive is the ultimate fear, and no classic author has put into words the terror-filled experience any better than Edgar Allan Poe. Experience author and narrator Edgar Lloyd's chilling narration of this all-time classic as he takes you deep, deep, deep into the realms of the undead in this gripping tale.... "The Premature Burial". This short but telling tale will exhume your greatest fears.... Be scared for the first time...all over again.

Poe's gripping tale of a treasure hunt. When the reclusive adventurer and naturalist LeGrande finds an unusual beetle, he believes he has discovered a rare new species. But he little suspects that the discovery will set him on the trail of pirates, buried treasure andthe restoration of his family fortunes.

A group of people within a tomb are surprised by a demon. To their amazement, they are not consumed by it. Instead, they learn a GREAT, dark secret about humanity.

Edgar Allan Poe's tale of Hop-Frog, the practical-joke-loving king's crippled dwarf servant, draws upon Poe's affinity for tales of vengeance and the horrific. The fat king and his seven ministers treat Hop-Frog and his female friend Trippetta, who is also a dwarf but beautifully proportioned, with disrespect whenever the king loses his temper. As long as the king and the likewise raucous seven are about their merriment and Hop-Frog joins them in their 'play', all is well. But beneath this lightness, the King has a dark and violent nature.

The generational feud of two royal families comes to a climax, when the last surviving blood member of one family dies in a fire set by the sole survivor of the other and immediately returns as a demonic horse to seek his revenge.

Poe's brilliant account of committing a perfect murder from within the paranoid brain of the murderer.

Two drunken sailors, Hugh and Legs, find themselves in a part of London quarantined due to the plague. Passing by one of the buildings, they are lured inside by loud noises and discover a party of people around a table and a cellar full of liquor. A quarrel ensues, a barrel of punch is knocked over, and everyone but the sailors and two of the women drown in the deluge of liquor.

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Arnold Bennett, Daniel Defoe, Edith Nesbit and M.R. James. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, while you sit back, and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own. Our stories include "My Own True Ghost Story" by Rudyard Kipling, "The Horla" by Guy De Maupassant, and more.

Supernatural entities gather to watch humanity's play "of hopes and fears". They watch the mad folly of human life, controlled by dark forces humans can neither see nor understand. And in the end, all those lives in all those "plays" end the same.

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Edith Nesbit. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, while you sit back and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own. Our stories are "The Wedding Knell" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell, and more.