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A spine-tingling collection of weird and wonderful horror stories, featuring ghosts, curses, strange phenomena, ghouls, black magic, and demonic apparitions. Do you dare to listen?

This collection of 19 classic horror tales includes "The Brazilian Cat", by Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Paul Panting; "Eveline's Visitant" by Mary E. Braddon, read by Hayward Morse; "The Leopard Man's Story" by Jack London, read by Garrick Hagon; "The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce, read by Garrick Hagon; "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson, read by Sean Barrett; and many more.

A superb collection of classic ghost stories from the world's great storytellers. 1. "Lot No. 249" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 2. "The Phantom Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling. 3. "The Haunted Dolls’ House" by M. R James. 4. "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe. 5. "The Monkey’s Paw" by W. W. Jacobs. 6. "The Finest Story in the World" by Rudyard Kipling. 7. "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal" by Daniel Defoe. 8. "Metzengerstein" by Edgar Allan Poe. 9. "They" by Rudyard Kipling. 10. "Labadoyere’s Doom" by Lord Halifax. 11. "Lost in a Pyramid" by Louisa May Alcott. And more...

William Legrand si è trasferito da New Orleans a Sullivan's Island, nella Carolina del Sud, dopo aver perso la fortuna di famiglia. Il narratore del racconto è un amico di Legrand e la storia inizia quando, una sera, gli fa visita per osservare un insolito scarabeo d'oro che questi ha trovato. Legrand porta l'attenzione dell'amico-narratore al carapce dello scarabeo, su cui sembrerebbe disegnato un teschio stilizzato. Confuso dall'attenzione morbosa che Legrand sembra prestare a questo sinistro particolare, il narratore si congeda per la notte.

This is a SoundCraft Audiobooks production - enhanced with music and sound effects - of some of the most renowned stories from Edgar Allan Poe, long heralded as the dark master of macabre fiction and one of America's most celebrated authors. Here, in this collection, you can enjoy four of his most beloved tales: "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Black Cat", "The Raven", and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

The Oval Portrait is a short horror story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. Our protagonist takes refuge in an abandoned castle and discovers a room with a series of paintings accompanied by a small book describing them. His attention is attracted by an oval portrait depicting a young woman of rare beauty.

A traveler takes refuge in a château where he finds he is surrounded by fine paintings. Unable to sleep he takes refuge in a book. He moves the candelabrum to shed better light upon the book, but when he does so he discovers in the corner of the room and amazingly lifelike painting of a young woman. It is so real, and he is first so startled that he must close his eyes to gather his wits. After contemplating this painting for nearly an hour he discovers a catalog that describes the painting.

Dass man den so unheimlichen und doch so natürlichen Geschehnissen, die ich jetzt berichten will, Glauben schenkt, erwarte ich nicht, verlange es auch nicht. Ich müsste wirklich wahnsinnig sein, wenn ich da Glauben verlangen wollte, wo ich selbst das Zeugnis meiner eigenen Sinne verwerfen möchte. Doch wahnsinnig bin ich nicht - und sicherlich träume ich auch nicht. Morgen aber muss ich sterben, und darum will ich heute meine Seele entlasten.

A treasure chest of the most popular classic crime stories from the 19th century. •The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe •A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins •Murder under the Microscope by William Russell •The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy •The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe •The Mystery of Marie Roget by Edgar Allan Poe •Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When the body of the popular Parisian perfume-shop assistant, Marie Roget, is found floating in the Seine, the whole of Paris is alive with rumours. But despite many clues and the offer of a substantial reward, the French police are unable to solve the mystery. The only solution is to call upon the super-sleuth Dupin.Poe's story, inspired by the unsolved murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in New York, contains many parallels to that crime and was viewed at the time by many as a convincing solution to the American case.

An engrossing collection of detective stories featuring all the great classic sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados, J. G. Reeder, and C. Auguste Dupin. 1.The Tea-Leaf by Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace 2.The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton 3.The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes by Ernest Bramah 4. The Club of One-Eyed Men by Arthur Somers Roche 5.Diamond Cut Diamond by F. Britten Austin 6.The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery.Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people.

Folge 10: Auf der Suche nach der verschwundenen Leonie Goron Poe kann sich Poe in Dr. Templetons Haus einschmuggeln. Im Haus entdeckt Poe ein seltsames Porträt in einem ovalen Rahmen. Aber das ist nicht alles. Im Keller-Labyrinth findet er Leonie Goron. Und sie ist nicht allein: In ihrer Gesellschaft befinden sich mehrere grauenvoll zugerichtete Leichen.

Folge 16: Poe ist dem Doktor entkommen und nach New York geflohen. Dort mietet er sich in einem alten Hotel im sechsten Bezirk ein. Was er nicht weiß: Im Volksmund heißt die Gegend der "blutige alte Bezirk". Und das Hotel hat seltsame, unterirdische Gänge.

Die Erzählung des Artur Gordon Pym aus Nantucket (Originaltitel: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket) ist der einzige Roman von Edgar Allan Poe, erstmals veröffentlicht im Jahre 1838, heute ein Hauptwerk der amerikanischen Literatur und zugleich ein Abenteuerroman erster Güte. Er beschreibt darin die existentielle Reise des A. G. Pym, der von seiner Jugend an Abenteuer auf See sucht und diese immer wieder nur knapp überlebt. Die ganze Geschichte ist ein nervenaufreibendes Seeabenteuer.

Als das erste Mädchen verschwindet, sind alle betroffen und betrübt. Als dann das zweite Mädchen verschwindet, macht sich Unwohlsein unter den wohlhabenden Eltern breit. Schließlich verschwindet das dritte Mädchen und Panik breitet sich aus. Panik deswegen, weil die ersten beiden entführten Mädchen auftauchen - tot. Und ihre Körper sind über und über mit Narben übersät. Narben, die Symbole des Teufels in sich tragen. Und Auguste Dupin bekommt es mit einem übermächtigen Gegner zu tun.

When a man is killed because of his deformed eye, his heart seeks revenge.

A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives. Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Paul Wilson, it takes its listeners deep inside the crypts of the living dead, in all their supernatural splendor.

Un fils de bonne famille, William Legrand, est venu fuir la misère en Caroline du Sud. Un jour, en compagnie de son domestique Jupiter, il découvre un magnifique scarabée doré, si lourd qu'il pourrait bien être en or massif, et ressemblant à une tête de mort. Cette découverte sera le point de départ d'une incroyable chasse au trésor. Cette nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe, qui fut son texte le plus lu de son vivant, popularisa la cryptographie auprès du grand public.

En 1769, un ingénieur à la cour impériale de Vienne, Wolfgang von Kempelen, assiste au château de Schönnbrunn à un spectacle de magie en...