Showing results by publisher "Spoken Realms" in Horror

Stevenson's brilliantly macabre yet profound story of a man seemingly trapped in evil.

Grim Marie knows far too much about the wolves of the world, a world where little girls go missing. After all, she had married one before she/he showed his claws, and what that wolf did to her little girl was unforgiveable. Grim Marie isn't certain if she can ever forgive herself for putting her Little Aleta in harm's way. When Grandmother becomes ill, Aleta offers to take the bus through the concrete forest to Grandmother's house to bring her some goodies. She knows the way. What could possibly go wrong?

From the author of Psycho, a grim and fascinating tale of a torture-mad Chinese ruler who fed strange food to the feathered songsters in his garden of horror.

Six classic ghost stories from six classic authors, narrated by Phillip J Mather: "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf"; "The Image of the Lost Soul" by H H Munro [Saki]; "A Ghost" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe; "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain; "The Trial for Murder" by Charles Dickens.

A superbly crafted Dickens classic, masterfully narrated - a ghostly apparition supervises the trial of his murderer.

Mark Twain's classic tale of the unfortunate ghost of the Cardiff Giant - skillfully narrated by Phillip J. Mather

A strange woman becomes a guest of the house of Laura and her father by devious means. Disappearances, nocturnal wanderings, sickness, and death ensue, and no one knows what is behind it all.

A werewolf tale from the creator of Conan the Barbarian. Revenge and dark secrets from Mongolia invade the piney woods of the USA.

From the creator of Conan the Barbarian, an eerie tale in the mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. Eldritch gods, black arts, and an ominous envelope to be opened after death. A shuddery tale of dark horror and the uncanny funeral rites over the corpse of old John Grimlan.

Taken together, the works of H. P. Lovecraft create a terrific world of elder gods, ancient aliens, and cosmic horror. This new original collection of Lovecraft's earliest stories lays the foundation for that world and prefigures many of his later infamous tales.

Think you know the classic story by Mary Shelley? It bears little resemblance to the Hollywood tale told and retold dozens of times for the screen. Veteran narrator David Gilmore takes you on the complete horrifying journey as it was actually penned in 1816. Includes Shelley's backstory of how she was challenged to come up with a riveting tale by her husband while on a vacation.

Once again, death stares you in the face as Edgar Lloyd brings to life this gripping classic by H. P. Lovecraft. Escape to the top step of the vault, linger for a moment, then discover a tale so articulately crafted you'll swear you smell the odor of decomposition emanating from your headphones as if "spurred on by a voice which must have come from the hideous soul of the forest". Lovecraft never sounded so eerie...Lloyd never so queery.... Unearthing this rendition...is a must!

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.

One of the earliest creative approaches to feminist literature, this sinister horror story tells of a woman's mental anguish and unconscious struggle with conformity in a society that generally viewed women as weak and hysterical creatures unable to think for themselves. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a prominent American feminist, paved the way for other authors like Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker. She suffered mental illness during her life and ultimately committed suicide.

Award winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe, a Gothic short story that originally appeared in Graham's magazine in May of 1882. This short story later appears as The Masque of the Red Death. The Red death is fictitious, but it is likely that the disease was inspired by tuberculosis (or consumption, as it was known then), since Poe's wife, Virginia, was suffering from the disease at the time the story was written.

Mr. Abney, the owner of Aswarby, a tall, square, red-brick mansion built in the reign of Anne, proved himself to be a very evil man. No one knew more of the religious beliefs of the later pagans than did the owner of Aswarby. He performed hideous experiments on such persons as could conveniently be removed without occasioning a gap in society. The final "victim" - to employ a word repugnant in the highest degree to his feelings - must be his cousin, Stephen Elliott, a 12-year-old orphan.

It has always been the prerogative of genius to batter on the portals of the Unknowable - and then thrust his soul into the crack, like the little Dutch boy, to keep the devil out. The satanic legends surrounding the unbelievable career of the great concertist Paganini leave little doubt that somewhere there is a window such as Erich Zann's, beyond which lies a world more terrible than imagination can grasp, where science dwindles to zero and incredible passions rage as winds in a vacuum.

An unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional town in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences. Narrated by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti.

The dark strains of madness that permeate many of the works of Edgar Allan Poe make their way through this macabre story. This memorable short story bears a resemblance to Poe's Tell Tale Heart. In both stories guilt leaves a murderer with a singular choice.

The Ghosts begins as straightforward haunted house story, one coming out of the Gothic tradition. Our hero, a skeptic, is staying with his brother at an ancient baronial estate. There, he argues with his brother about the existence of ghosts, and what sorts of evidence for their existence would be acceptable. Then, in order to make his point, he proceeds to induce in himself a ghostly experience by means darkness, drugs, and deprivation.