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There is a moment… just before the change…where you still have a choice. Most never realise it. The Howling Self is not just a collection of werewolf stories. It is a descent into identity…into control…into the thin line between what you are —and what you allow yourself to become. Inside this collection are four haunting tales: A man who chains himself beneath the earth… not to survive the beast, but to confront it. A recluse who builds a prison of iron and silver to protect the world from what he knows he is capable of.

Some doors should never be opened. A mysterious box that leads to the realm of the dead. A photograph that traps souls forever. A haunted manor where whispers echo through empty halls. A ghost that refuses to leave the eighth floor. In this chilling collection, Professor Shadow presents ten terrifying ghost stories where the line between the living and the dead begins to disappear. Each tale explores a different doorway into the supernatural—cursed objects, restless spirits, haunted places, and the terrifying consequences of disturbing what lies beyond the veil.

The lycans tore down the walls. The elders fed on what was left. And the dead—still walking, still accumulating—inherited the ashes of everything humanity built. Adam Ashford was a writer before the world ended. He spent his career studying monsters from a safe distance. Then the safe distance disappeared. Now Adam moves through the ruins — alone, deliberate, and quietly furious. He carries a silver dagger that doesn't belong to him, the memories of a family he couldn't save, and a single rule that has kept him alive: keep moving. Don't settle. Don't stop thinking.

For centuries, vampires have ruled from the shadows. They are patient. Calculating. Eternal. The wolves, divided by instinct and pride, have survived in fractured packs—powerful, but disorganised. An uneasy silence has held between them. Until something ancient begins to stir. When dormant...

They saw a man running through the woods in a cheap werewolf mask… and they laughed. He wasn’t hunting anyone. He wasn’t hurting anyone. He only wanted to escape the world that mocked him. But when the town discovered him, they turned him into entertainment. They filmed him. They humiliated him. They destroyed his refuge. And when you push a man long enough… eventually he stops running.

At a secret auction for the strange and forbidden, eccentric collector Edgar Malrick wins a grisly prize — a shriveled human hand preserved in a glowing jar.

A journalist dies inside a car crushed by something no one can see. Lucas and Elara are sent to investigate. They know what hunts in the darkness—because under the moon, they become monsters themselves. Their search leads to a remote Norfolk manor and Karn Vexler, a wealthy cult leader whose influence reaches far beyond the living. Behind his doors, ancient rituals are feeding something that claws and teeth cannot kill. With Samuel Dent, a reluctant medium whose humour barely conceals his fear, the two werewolves confront a power sustained by imprisoned souls.

Claire thought it was just a ring. A simple inheritance… a final gift from the grandmother she loved. She was wrong. The moment she puts it on, everything begins to change. Her strength grows. Her senses sharpen. Food no longer satisfies her. But something else does. Haunted by violent dreams and an unexplainable hunger, Claire finds herself slipping further from the life she once knew. The ring whispers. It guides. It demands. And it never lets go. As her husband Mark desperately tries to save her, they uncover a terrifying truth —this is no ordinary heirloom.

Three strangers. Three encounters. Three truths that cannot be unseen. In this haunting anthology from Steven M. Cowan, ordinary lives cross the threshold into something older, darker… and far more patient than they ever imagined. In It Was on My Face, a man awakens from a nightmare only to discover that the terror stalking him may not belong to the living world at all. In The Village in the Fog, a traveller takes refuge in a forgotten settlement swallowed by mist—where hunger has waited far longer than he has.

When a string of gruesome modern-day murders sparks chilling echoes of the Whitechapel killings of 1888, profiler Jonah Merrin begins to see a pattern far older—and far darker—than anyone suspects. Victims are found drained of blood, mutilated not in haste but in contempt. No motive. No remorse. Only a presence that moves through shadow, feeding not on need… but on belief. A creature who sees humanity not as prey, but as proof of its own superiority.

Before he was feared, he was forgotten. Maestro Arthur Bell was the greatest operatic voice of his generation—applauded by thousands, beloved by none. On the night the werewolves came, his theatre burned, his audience scattered, and Arthur fled into the sewers beneath a dying city with nothing but his voice and a ruined coat. He did not expect to survive. He did not expect the rats to follow him. The Opera Beneath the Streets is a gothic horror tale in three parts: the fall of a man, the rise of a legend, and the coronation of a king who wears no crown.

What happens when a monster finally falls? For Eldritch, a centuries-old vampire, the stake through the heart was only the beginning. He didn't find peace. He found The Necros Realms. Stripped of his ancient blood-powers and cast into the shifting shadows of the afterlife, Eldritch is no longer the predator. He is the prey. To survive, he must endure nine brutal trials orchestrated by the cruelest gods of the undead. Nine Trials. Three Realms. One Impossible Choice.

Brutal. Elegant. Eternal. When a string of gruesome modern-day murders sparks chilling echoes of the Whitechapel killings of 1888, profiler Jonah Merrin begins to see a pattern far older—and far darker—than anyone suspects.