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Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future, and more particularly, for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.

When a photographic retoucher is commissioned to fix the abnormalities on a Great War portrait, he finds his own past and that of the subject beginning to connect. Are his personal nightmares returning, or is it something more? A short ghost story in the M.R. James tradition, "The Last Photograph of John Buckley" is a dark tale of past crimes and unfinished business.

As a child, Henry Cadmus lived on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams are ones he associates with his childhood... and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping blood; strange occult rituals... and worse. If it was up to Henry, he would avoid the island entirely.

Thomas Pendleton loves his wife, Ann, and six-year-old son, Seth, more than anything, but his job often makes him an absent husband and father. One day, after Thomas leaves on a business trip, his wife and son are killed in a car accident. When a cosmic storm enters Earth's atmosphere, scientists are baffled by its composition and origins, but not nearly as much as they are by the storm's side effect: Anyone who has died and chosen not to cross over is suddenly visible.

Real estate agent Anthony Graham has his family on the run after witnessing a murder at the hands of the powerful Costello crime family. They’re forced to hide at one of Anthony’s properties, a deserted campground with a sinister past. No one is safe from the men that hunt them, or the terrors that await them inside The Devil’s Nest.

A diverse selection of dramas by award-winning writer RC Sherriff Playwright and screenwriter RC Sherriff was best known for his anti-war classic Journey’s End, based on his own experiences of serving on the Western Front. He was a co-writer on several successful screenplays, including The...

The deathly silence is about to be broken. She disliked the company of others and death did little to warm her spirit. She had led an independent life and she faced death in much the same way. She was finally alone, finally free from the mindless babble of others, at least that's what she thought. May Elizabeth Trump was the rarest of spirits and she was none too happy about it either. She was a dead medium, a ghost who can speak with the living, and her services were to become in great demand.

Lors d'un voyage aux Philippines, Juan Diego Guerrero, écrivain américain célèbre et vieillissant, revit en rêves récurrents les épisodes de son adolescence au Mexique, à la lisière de la décharge publique de Oaxaca où lui et sa sœur Lupe ont grandi. Des émotions, il en aura tout au long de son périple, notamment avec Miriam et Dorothy, mère et fille aussi désirables qu'inquiétantes.

A ghost story and supernatural tales based on actual events. A school in England is haunted by the apparition of a former Headmaster, who had died on stage while giving his retirement speech to the end-of-term assembly, just before Christmas 1944. Since then, his spectre, wearing a traditional academic gown and mortar board, has been sighted many times patrolling the eerie, cloistered corridors. A member of the teaching staff develops a fixation with the ghost and an obsession with the paranormal.

From the dark mind of John Durgin, author of The Cursed Among Us and Inside The Devil's Nest, comes nine suspense-filled tales that will have you gasping for breath.

Here is a meeting with George and Marion Kerby, a couple of free-wheeling ghosts, who meet up with respectable banker Cosmo Topper. This was noted by the New York Times, claiming: “Thorne Smith created the modern American ghost story, ghosts with style and wit; ghosts that haunt us still.” Others pointed out, “Smith was a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.” The overall mood has a touch of silliness, but it provides lighthearted reading and listening, a matter of nonsensical escapism. For Topper it meant relief from a nagging wife with ongoing indigestion.

A ghost story and supernatural tales based on actual events. A school in England is haunted by the apparition of a former Headmaster, who had died while giving his retirement speech to the end-of-term assembly, just before Christmas 1944. Since then, his spectre, wearing a traditional academic gown and mortar board, has been sighted many times patrolling the eerie, cloistered corridors. A member of the teaching staff develops a fixation with the ghost and an obsession with the paranormal. Be prepared to experience a wide range of emotions as he strives to unveil the ghost of Gerald Dowse.

Edith Nesbit was born on the 15th August 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey. Due to the health issues and tuberculosis of her sister Mary, Nesbit’s early life was one of constant changes of house both in England and on the continent. At age 17, Nesbit met Hubert Bland and they married three years later―whilst she was 7 months pregnant. Bland also kept his affair with another woman going throughout their marriage and the two children of that relationship were raised by Nesbit as well as her own three with Bland.

Er war eine Bestie, wie sie nur die Hölle erschaffen konnte. Blutrünstig und grausam. Nach vierhundert Jahren war sie erwacht, um das mörderische Handwerk zu vollenden. Unter dem Beil des schwarzen Henkers starben Hunderte von unschuldigen Opfern. Die Furcht der Lebenden ist unvorstellbar.

Billy Bean lives alone in the small attic apartment of an unoccupied old mansion. His cheap rent is subsidized by an agreement to watch over the place while the owner is away. A bank teller and chronic introvert, Billy’s life is one boring, mind-numbing day after another. Since the age of four, at the exclusion of all the normal social interaction of activities other children his age enjoyed, he worked toward becoming a concert pianist.

The author once worked as a dairy farmer in Canada, but returned to his home in Kent, near London, and became a broadcaster, journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He specialized in tales of the supernatural and was described as “Unquestioned master of weird atmosphere,” as he told of incredible adventures. He often used first person narrations, as you will hear … and, very likely feel an abnormal phantom presence. Come along … If you dare!

Ein Urlaub in Venedig! Nur zu gern wollte ich mit Jane ein paar Tage in der berühmten Lagunenstadt genießen. Ich ahnte ja nicht, dass der grausame Doge Giancarlo Cabrisi zu neuem Leben erwacht war - und seinen Henker Turrio auf die Menschen hetzte!

Die erfolgreichsten Folgen der Hörspielserie um den sympathischen Geisterjäger von Scotland Yard erhalten eine neue Veredelung: Regisseur und Produzent Oliver Döring hat sich den Anfangsfolgen der Reihe nochmals angenommen und sie mit neuer Musik und mit neuen haarsträubenden Schock-Effekten versehen. Das ist echte Gänsehaut-Garantie!

In the depths of a moonlit night, a clandestine spirit materializes within the confines of a stately Boston home. Its ethereal presence, a shimmering apparition veiled in enigma, captivates the woman with an intensity that sends shivers coursing down her spine. It bears an enigmatic message, one that would unravel the very fabric of her existence. With an urgency she cannot deny, the spirit beseeches her to uproot her life, forsaking the familiarity of the city to embark upon an odyssey to the heart of the mystifying backwoods of Louisiana.

Wir hatten ja schon einige seltsame Gestalten in unserem Büro empfangen, doch die Totengöttin Hel toppte sie alle. Vor allem, als sie uns den Grund ihres Besuches nannte. Ehe wir uns versahen, fanden sich Sir James, Suko und ich im Totenreich wieder. Dort lud Hel uns in ihre Festung Eljudnir ein. Natürlich nicht ganz uneigennützig, immerhin stand Ostern vor der Tür und damit hatte Hel offenbar ein Problem. Und so machten wir uns gemeinsam auf Eiersuche im Totenreich.