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Heathcliff was to serve as the name for the ragged orphan whom Mr. Earnshaw found abandoned in the streets of Liverpool and took home to live with his own children, Cathy and Hindley, at Wuthering Heights. The stormy life of the mysterious Heathcliff, his love for Cathy and his relationships with the people who lived at Wuthering Heights and at nearby Thrushcross Grange make up Emily Bronte's classic novel.

Teufel Nummer drei! Seit längerem hoffe ich, einen Vertrauten auf meiner Seite zu haben. Und endlich darf ich nur ihm gehören! Welch eine Erleichterung. Die Schikanen werden weniger und ich kann aufatmen. Dennoch zerfrisst mich die Frage nach dem Vertrauen, zumal gerade meine einzige Freundin und mein Ex auf der Bildfläche erschienen sind. Um sie mache ich mir ernsthaft Sorgen.

According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer. One final bullet would have been all it took to stop me from taking another soul, and I would have been doing Meridian City a service by pulling that trigger. An angel crying for help stopped me, and that night, I took three lives for her. Then three turned into eight. Then eight turned into twenty. Twenty turned into twenty-one. Twenty-one turned into twenty-three.

"Vanished from Willowbrook Manor" is a captivating mystery novel set in Victorian-era England. The story follows Evelyn Ashworth, an 18-year-old young woman who suddenly disappears from her family's estate, Willowbrook Manor. Her disappearance sets off a chain of events that uncovers long-buried family secrets and a web of international intrigue.

For years Melchior, the youngest son of the Fate Atropos, has thought of nothing but vengeance against his mother - Death. A prisoner in his own castle, the Prince of Darkness is trapped in her wicked web, despite the fact that the Gods are on his side. He's been learning dark magic as a way to protect himself and his people from the cruelty of their Queen... with limited success, and the only way he's managed to leave the castle is by promising his mother that he'll find a bride and give her a grandchild.

Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrant debut collection, Breakable Things, explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas.

After the tragic death of Bridget’s parents, her grandmother took her in. Vera Bitter raised her from behind a closed door—cold and uncaring from the moment she arrived at Bitter House. After Bridget’s high school graduation, Vera kicked her out without so much as a goodbye, and Bridget never heard from her again. Which is why, when she receives word of Vera’s passing and discovers she’s inherited the family manor, she’s immediately filled with dread. Those worries are amplified when she arrives at Bitter House after years away to find an enigmatic piece of her past waiting for her.

Buch 3 "Von Rosen und Krähen" - Angst setzte ihre Gedanken in Brand, als Maira keuchend hochschreckte. Einen kurzen Augenblick lang dachte sie tatsächlich, dies wäre der Tod. Aber dann setzten sich die vielen, winzig kleinen Puzzlestücke in ihren Gedanken zusammen, die Traun ihr so gnädig mitgegeben hatte, ehe er sie von der Brücke hatte fallen lassen. Puzzlestücke über eine fremde Welt, über Monde und Herzen und Schatten. Lhargos. Ihre Augen suchten nach irgendetwas Seltsamen. Nach etwas, das anders war, als in einem ganz gewöhnlichen Wald. Nach etwas, dass ihr bewies, dass sie nicht tot, sondern in einer Welt war, von der farblose Augen erzählt hatten. Dass sie sich nicht mehr in jener Welt befand, die sie kannte...

Ligeia - Morella -The Oval Portrait are a short stories in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's short story Ligeia offers the account of an opium-addled narrator who believes that he has seen the resurrection of his beloved first wife, Ligeia, after the death of his second wife, Rowena. Morella by Edgar Allan Poe is about a woman who seemingly dies and gives birth to a daughter who looks just like her. Her husband loves the daughter, but she dies when he names her the same as her mother, implying that mother and daughter were the same person.

The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843.

Pour les fans de Lucinda Riley ! Bart, âgé désormais de vingt-cinq ans, hérite de Foxworth Hall, la demeure maudite, qu'il restaure entièrement. La grande fête qu'il y organise prend vite l'allure d'un nouveau départ pour cette famille meurtrie et déchirée depuis plus de quarante ans. Ainsi, la rivalité entre Bart, l'ambitieux, le mal-aimé, et son frère Jory, danseur étoile au firmament de sa carrière, est peut-être enfin appelée à se résorber – ou bien, au contraire, va-t-elle s'amplifier de manière irréversible.

It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the mollies' silent guard. When the queen of all 'he-harlots', Mother Clap, confides in him about a deadly threat, he realises his friends are facing imminent execution. To the horror of all mollies, there is a rat amongst them.

We were sent to Glennmare Academy. An elite boarding school on a windswept island off the coast of Seattle where the unruly daughters of affluent East Coast families are exiled. Kitty, Bernie, Coretta, Diane, Jolie. We're more like sisters than roommates. Even if Kitty is gone. At Glennmare, each bed is filled with a teenage girl who wears ribbons in her hair, a nod to innocence we lost long ago. When we were sent out into the world, away from home, to fend to for ourselves. If we start telling the truth about what happened that night we might just break down.

The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.

England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella his wife. The orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman—an outsider with no fortune or connections—Orabella never expected to marry. But her uncle has many debts, and Orabella, curious about the seeming devotion Elias bestows upon her, agrees.

En los cuentos de Tierra fresca de su tumba aparecen pescadores que atraviesan los mares de la muerte, niñas abandonadas en las estepas que encuentran en el góspel un puente hacia la belleza, mujeres cuya demencia no es otra cosa que un corazón despedazado, ancianas japonesas que cavan en un jardín para encontrar lo mejor y lo peor de sí mismas, muchachos de una tribu del Canadá que se visten con pieles de animales para poder rugir de nuevo.

Written in 1786, this Asian fantasy tells the story of a dissolute and debauched Caliph, Vathek. Having become obsessed with power and immortality, Vathek embarks on a journey to obtain supernatural powers, in pursuit of which he proves willing to renounce his religion and sacrifice both his children and his soul. We follow Vathek’s remarkable travels to the subterranean palace of Eblis, where his ultimate fate awaits him. Among the themes explored in Vathek are ambition, desire and the consequence of unbridled power

I was escaping from my stalker ex when they took me from Earth. Dropped into a hellish alien maze where all I am is potential food. Until I run headlong into a huge, smoking hot alien dragon, covered in golden scales and an ego which could light up a planet. Draco rules the prison maze they call the Kirakos and he says I belong to him.

Em nova edição, O chamado de Cthulhu da Hedra apresenta a figura mais popular de Lovecraft em publicação bilíngue e com nova e detalhada introdução. Cthulhu é a mais famosa dentre as criaturas e ambientes de sonho — ou pesadelo — de H. P. Lovecraft, além de ser o centro da série sobre os Grandes Antigos, as gigantescas e incompreensíveis criaturas anteriores a esta Terra. É a cristalização, numa imagem, de um tipo específico de terror chamado "cósmico": mas um cósmico íntimo e literário.