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Author |
: Alexandre Dumas |
Publisher |
: Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 53 |
Release |
: 2014-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781447480198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1447480198 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pale Lady (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : Alexandre Dumas
This unique volume features the most terrifying tale from Alexandre Dumas’ The Thousand and One Ghosts and presents the gothic vampire tale as a stand-alone short story that is sure to keep you up at night. The Pale Lady is a gripping vampire tale following Hedwig, a Polish lady, who is sent to a monastery in the Carpathian Mountains for safety. She draws the attention of two very different brothers and soon finds herself in more danger than ever before. A supernatural story featuring creepy castles, misty monasteries, and tragic romance. From the remarkable author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, The Pale Lady has been translated from the original French and is the perfect dark read for fans of horror and the supernatural.
Author |
: Alexandre Dumas |
Publisher |
: Alma Books |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2019-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780714549408 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0714549401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thousand and One Ghosts by : Alexandre Dumas
Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that her severed head spoke to him even after her death. This prompts the guests at a dinner Dumas attends later that evening to exchange stories of death and the supernatural, ranging from accounts of the guillotine during the Terror to tales of vampires and fratricide in the Carpathians.The Thousand and One Ghosts - here presented in its first and only translation into English - is a gloriously macabre work by the celebrated author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, which also touches on the serious political issue of capital punishment.
Author |
: Alexandre Dumas |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2017-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1542520207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781542520201 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dame Pale by : Alexandre Dumas
La Dame pâle, est une nouvelle où est mis en scène un vampire à travers le personnage de Kostaki, prince farouche et cruel qui, chaque nuit, vient boire le sang de la belle Hedwige. Hedwige, jeune Polonaise, fuit la guerre entre la Pologne et la Russie. Alors qu'elle tente de rejoindre un monastère pour s'y réfugier, elle tombe dans une embuscade. Elle est alors retenue dans le château de deux frères: Kostaki et Grégoriska. Elle devient l'objet d'un conflit entre ces deux personnages. En effet, alors que Grégoriska lui avoue son amour et qu'elle dévoile ses propres sentiments à son égard, Kostaki essaye de la conquérir coûte que coûte. Un duel est organisé et est remporté par Grégoriska. Mais Kostaki semble être plus puissant que la mort. Il continue de hanter la jeune Hedwige, la rendant de plus en plus faible. Pour libérer la belle du mal, de son extrême pâleur et de sa souffrance, Grégoriska se sacrifie dans un dernier combat avec son frère.
Author |
: Fritz Leiber |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 1999-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 031286972X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312869724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Dark Ladies by : Fritz Leiber
In Conjure wife, Norman Saylor learns that his wife is a sorceress. In Our Lady of Darkness, horror writer Franz Westen searches for the paranormal in San Francisco.
Author |
: Fritz Leiber |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2014-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781497616738 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1497616735 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Lady of Darkness by : Fritz Leiber
A horror author is drawn into a mysterious curse in this World Fantasy Award–winning novel from the author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Fritz Leiber may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields. His fiction won the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Gandalf, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, and he was honored with the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award and the Grand Master Nebula Award. One of his best novels is the classic dark fantasy Our Lady of Darkness, winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award. Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. He walks to Corona Heights and looks back at his building to discover the figure waving at him from his apartment window—and to find himself caught in a century‐spanning curse that may have destroyed Clark Ashton Smith and Jack London.
Author |
: ThŽophile Gauthier |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780244241568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0244241562 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dead Woman in Love by : ThŽophile Gauthier
First published in 1836, Th�ophile Gautier's 'The Dead Woman in Love' is a supernatural tale, recounting the life of the priest named Romuald who falls in love with the beautiful and enigmatic Clarimonde, who the reader later learns to be a vampire. At the beginning of the tale, Romuald is asked whether he has ever loved and to which he responds, "yes." On the day of his Ordination, when he was a young man, he sees a beautiful woman whose hypnotic voice promises to love him and to make him happier than he would be in heaven. Torn between his amorous attraction to her and his Christian beliefs, he finishes the ceremony despite her appeals. However, he is captured by her beauty and he is taken away from his life as a priest to live in Venice with the alluring vampire, who subsists by drinking his blood while he sleeps.
Author |
: Trisha Telep |
Publisher |
: Robinson |
Total Pages |
: 655 |
Release |
: 2009-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781849011792 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1849011796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance by : Trisha Telep
You never forget your first time with a vampire. Whether reaquainting yourself with some of your favourite, sexy creatures of the night or getting bitten by the vampire romance phenomenon for the very first time, let the biggest and brightest names in the business help you explore your dark side. Witness the bewildering array of complex vampire codes of conduct, dark ritual and dating practices as they chat up the locals and engage in the most erotic encounters you will sink your teeth into this side of un-Death. Because vampires never really die, do they?
Author |
: Cyprien Berard |
Publisher |
: Hollywood Comics |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2011-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1612270042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781612270043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vampire Lord Ruthwen by : Cyprien Berard
The mysterious Lord Ruthwen travels to Venice and strikes again, killing the beautiful Bettina and torturing her lover, Leonti, who swears to avenge her. He joins vampire hunters Aubrey and Nadoor Ali to search for the elusive monster... Cyprien Berard's The Vampire Lord Ruthwen (1820) was the first sequel to continue John-William Polidori's 1819 ground-breaking story that had introduced the character of the handsome, but evil Vampire lord. Also drawing upon The Thousand and One Nights for inspiration, Berard weaves stories of mystical Venice, Arabian Nights and Vampire legends into one exotic and suspenseful tale of revenge against the Undead. "A significant stepping-stone in the evolution of the modern image of the vampire, foreshadowing the other major thread of subsequent vampire fiction: the seductive female vampire." Brian Stableford.
Author |
: Brian Lumley |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2013-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780575087798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 057508779X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Necroscope II: Wamphyri! by : Brian Lumley
Things in the ground, thinking their thoughts . . . . . . Thoughts they can express only through Harry Keogh, NECROSCOPE. For that's Harry's talent, and his burden: he reads the thoughts of the dead in their graves - and the thoughts of the UNdead! Except . . . the undead are thinking thoughts that are totally-unthinkable! Yulian Bodescue's mother fainted at the tomb of Thibor Ferenczy, vampire. Corrupt from birth, now Yulian feels a strange compulsion: to discover his real father and spread his works abroad. Only Harry Keogh, prisoner of the metaphysical Mobius Continuum, can stop him. Harry's other big problem is this: HE DOESN'T HAVE A BODY!
Author |
: Neil Gaiman |
Publisher |
: Del Rey |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2005-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345452733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345452739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shadows Over Baker Street by : Neil Gaiman
The terrifyingly surreal universe of horror master H. P. Lovecraft bleeds into the logical world of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s champion of rational deduction, in these stories by twenty top horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of human reason to penetrate every mystery, solve every puzzle, and punish every crime. For nearly as long, the macabre tales of H. P. Lovecraft have haunted readers with their nightmarish glimpses into realms of cosmic chaos and undying evil. But what would happen if Conan Doyle’s peerless detective and his allies were to find themselves faced with mysteries whose solutions lay not only beyond the grasp of logic, but of sanity itself? In this collection of all-new, all-original tales, twenty of today’s most cutting-edge writers provide their answers to that burning question. “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman: A gruesome murder exposes a plot against the Crown, a seditious conspiracy so cunningly wrought that only one man in all London could have planned it—and only one man can hope to stop it. “A Case of Royal Blood” by Steven-Elliot Altman: Sherlock Holmes and H. G. Wells join forces to protect a princess stalked by a ghost—or perhaps something far worse than a ghost. “Art in the Blood” by Brian Stableford: One man’s horrific affliction leads Sherlock Holmes to an ancient curse that threatens to awaken the crawling chaos slumbering in the blood of all humankind. “The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone” by Poppy Z. Brite and David Ferguson: A girl who has not eaten in more than three years teaches Holmes and Watson that sometimes the impossible cannot be eliminated. “The Horror of the Many Faces” by Tim Lebbon: Dr. Watson witnesses a maniacal murder in London—and recognizes the villain as none other than his friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. With thirteen other dark tales of madness, horror, and deduction, a new and terrible game is afoot: “Tiger! Tiger!” by Elizabeth Bear “The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger” by Steve Perry “The Weeping Masks” by James Lowder “The Adventure of the Antiquarian’s Niece” by Barbara Hambly “The Mystery of the Worm” by John Pelan “The Mystery of the Hanged Man’s Puzzle” by Paul Finch “The Adventure of the Arab’s Manuscript” by Michael Reaves “The Drowned Geologist” by Caitlín R. Kiernan “A Case of Insomnia” by John P. Vourlis “The Adventure of the Voorish Sign” by Richard A. Lupoff “The Adventure of Exham Priory” by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre “Death Did Not Become Him” by David Niall Wilson and Patricia Lee Macomber “Nightmare in Wax” by Simon Clark