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Come get scared... to death! Open now through Halloween, Mortuary Manor is a walk-through haunted house offering frights and fun for those seeking a serious scare. The dead have taken over this lunatic labyrinth of a funeral home that's absolutely guaranteed to make you scream! (No refunds.)Don't forget to visit our ghoulish gift shop and supernatural snack stand, if you dare! UPDATE: This attraction is temporarily closed.

Set against the beginning of the Spanish-American War, a young woman finds herself thrown into the midst of the most difficult choice of her life. This decision will ultimately lead to the unveiling of her family’s most deeply held secrets. With two innocent lives caught in the veil between life and death, will she be able to make amends and cast out the evil that now thrives among the living?

Set against the backdrop of the US Civil War, the residents of Gaston Hall find themselves struggling to survive in a place where the worlds of both the living and the dead are intertwined. All is not what it may seem at Gaston Hall - a home for orphaned and abandoned children. One. Two. Three. Four. The children appeared. “Ashes. Ashes. We all tumbled down.” Della’s eyes fluttered. She shifted in her chair; her mouth pinched. Elsie leaned close to the woman’s face and whispered in her ear. “What did you do to your children?”

Konstantin Duhovny ha perso il padre quando aveva dieci anni e da allora i fantasmi non hanno mai smesso di girargli intorno. Kostya non riesce a vederli, ma può percepire il sapore dei loro piatti preferiti. All'inizio a fargli visita sono i gusti di casa: fegato di pollo, cipolla, limone, gli ingredienti del pechonka, piatto preferito di suo padre. Ma, a poco a poco, sono altri sapori, inattesi, a solleticargli il palato: le pietanze preferite di persone che non sono più in vita.

Ebenezer Scrooge, ricco uomo d’affari, avaro ed egoista, odia tutte le festività, specialmente il Natale. Il fantasma del suo ex-socio, gli preannuncia la visita di tre spiriti, quello del Natale Passato, quello del Natale Presente e, infine, quello del Natale Futuro. I tre spettri accompagnano Scrooge in un viaggio nel tempo - ieri, oggi e domani - che sarà per il protagonista un’occasione di riflessione sul senso della vita e sull’importanza degli affetti.

L'autore di questo audiolibro, Maurice Leblanc, ha scritto la fortunata serie di Arsenio Lupin, ma in questo ascolto il ladro gentiluomo fa solo una breve comparsa, mentre la trama si sviluppa autonomamente, tra suggestioni gotiche, superstizioni, fantasmi del passato che perseguitano l'eroina, Veronica, e suo figlio Francesco. Fino alla fine un susseguirsi di colpi di scena, e non manca il consueto gusto umoristico dell'autore. Cornice musicale dello sceneggiato francese del 1979.

All'inizio del secolo scorso il professore Nathaniel Peaslee sviene in aula durante una lezione. Riprende conoscenza solo cinque anni dopo, e scopre che in quel lasso di tempo qualcuno o qualcosa si è impossessato del suo corpo. Si è trattato di uno scambio di coscienze che lo ha portato a vivere in un luogo e un tempo remoti, prigioniero di una razza aliena. O almeno questo è ciò che teme.

Jake Conley, un aspirant romancier, sort d'un coma de quelques semaines. Il découvre qu'il est atteint de synesthésie et que son cerveau désormais interconnecté lui confère des forces psychiques accrus. Passionné d'histoire anglo-saxonne, ses recherches sur Aldfrith, roi de Northumbrie, le mènent à l'Antre d'Elfrid, dans le Yorkshire Nord, où, comme le raconte la légende, ce roi s'est réfugié après une bataille sanglante. Ce dont Jake n'a pas conscience, c'est que ses explorations déclenchent une série d'événements paranormaux meurtriers.

In the golden age of piracy, she was the terror of the Caribbean. Known only as the Red Butcheress, she stalked British ships like a shadow across the waves until one daring man-o’-war managed to sink her. With her reign ended, her ship battered and beaten, she became a legend and just as quickly lost from memory. Now, with the help of an ancient journal, a team of science students from the University of Tampa has found her wreck.

After being listed as KIA, the remains of an American soldier returns home from Vietnam to seek revenge upon those in his home town who were responsible for his pregnant girlfriend’s tragic death and for the torments he suffered due to his spiritual beliefs.

It’s New Year’s Eve 1910, and the Merlstead Heights Hotel is having its opening night! A night that will be remembered for the sinister incidents which trigger a far-reaching chain of events in motion. Throughout the 1920s, a devil in pinstripes takes charge with an evil to trump the darkness of the hotel. Along with his dastardly presence, he brings along a coveted motorcar–the Bentley Speed Six, that bleeds evil into the hotel from its tomb in the old coach house, and has many times been forced to slumber.

Parigi, marzo 1831. Non ha ancora ventiquattro anni, Valentin Verne, l’ispettore di polizia dal volto angelico ma dal cuore pieno di ombre che è il responsabile dell’Ufficio degli affari occulti, un reparto non ufficiale creato per risolvere i crimini sovrannaturali, o presunti tali. Un giorno al suo cospetto si presenta una donna elegante, Madame Mélanie d’Orval, moglie del ricco Ferdinand d’Orval che ha un peso sul cuore.

Little Mia Cooper's ability to see the dead made her an outcast in her hometown. Several years later, she has finally managed to blend in, but her hard-won peace is threatened by the arrival of a bumbling team of paranormal investigators. Mia is drawn in reluctantly as an advisor on what, at first, seems to be a fairly straightforward case, only to discover that the Hollow has much more in store for her. An ancient evil is rising in Cold Creek Hollow. What begins as a ghost hunt will become a fight for survival.

Fanatically attracted to antique lamps, Gerard Archer stops at a yard sale when he sees a vintage lamp with a very unique base, which has been crafted from silver and gold. Asking the seller how much he wants for the artifact, the man shockingly replies that a five-pound note will send it up the road.

A travel writer in need of a Halloween story decides to visit the north country of Yorkshire, where he wants to visit villages with haunted houses and to interview people who have ghost stories. Riding his bicycle northward from York, he collects photographs and stories from villagers as he cycles along. Coming to the end of his work day, the threat of a rain storm prompts him to take a back road to an obscure village, where he hopes to find lodging for the night.

Al centro di questo racconto di Tarchetti vi è una visita inaspettata che terrorizzerà il protagonista e stupirà l'ascoltatore.

When a young nurse accepts a job at a former military hospital, she unearths a family secret and finds the spectral occupants a little too familiar. This is a short ghost story.

The time is the American Civil War. The place is Louisville, Kentucky, where a notable physician and professor at a medical school becomes in need of cadavers for student studies. Offering high wages for acceptable corpses, Doctor Theodore Finch hires an old ignorant and destitute man, Johnathan Brooks, and his young Christian wife, Theda, to remove the enemy dead from local battle fields. Upon the 31st of October, and during a full moon, the body snatchers, the doctor, and his students learn that the dead are not always at peace.

A writer is visited by a strange man with an even stranger story. The man claims to have ridden an old excursion train on November first, Samhain, when the dead walk abroad, resulting in a terrifying experience. Listening to and recording the incredible tale, the writer discovers that the most horrifying part of the story comes after the man finishes and then leaves.

Mike, the face of Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners (PEEPs) has led with his Hollywood jaw, projecting his good looks, while hiding a very important secret from his colleagues. He's been haunted since he was a child. This may have been the impetus behind him co-founding PEEPs, but it has also kept him from enjoying a good night's sleep.