Cuentos de terror y fantasmas



YOSEMITE RISING (DAWN, JULIE)
A legend that will change the world. It's been 150 years since the Ahwahnee Indians lived where Yosemite National Park now stands. Their last surviving Chief appears to Elizabeth Hutchings, a twenty-year-old biology student, the very day her parents die. Within 24 hours, she too is clinging to life as his whispers echo in her thoughts. An ancient prophecy has begun. A plague rips through the world's population, taking everyone and everything she has ever cared about. As agents of a mysterious organization called Meadowlark hunt her, she must find the strength to fight the infected even as she struggles to keep herself alive. Just when she thinks she can't go on, a man from her past arrives. He holds the key to understanding the prophecy. If she can unravel its secrets, she not only may change her own fate-but the fate of the entire world.

TERROR IN THE HIGHLANDS (EAGLES, RICHARD G)
Something is alive from the Tar Ponds of Cape Breton. In the mountains of the island, Dave Benny is about to face the most challenging horror of his life. A family from Ontario, vacationing in the Cape Breton Highlands, is tested with terrors unimaginable to their own or anyone else?s lifestyle. Big George lives in the Cape Breton Highlands. His son and his son?s family are soon to arrive home. The people of the small community of Inverness will be hunted and families will be torn apart. Joining forces, will they, can they defeat the threat and insanity within these great hills?

LA ÚLTIMA RONDA (SÁNCHEZ VÁZQUEZ, ANTONIO)
El turno de noche es el más sencillo. Con el centro comercial vacío, la misión del vigilante de seguridad consiste en echar un vistazo a las cámaras de vez en cuando y hacer una ronda cada dos horas. A Curro le parece un trabajo sencillo, aunque se siente nervioso porque es la primera vez que trabaja como guardia jurado y quiere hacerlo bien. Su estado de nerviosismo crecerá en cuanto su jefe se marche y le deje a solas en el edificio. Pero en realidad no está solo, algo se esconde entre la oscuridad de los pasillos y los laberintos de estanterías. Lo que en un principio se le antoja un intruso de carne y hueso, se manifiesta poco a poco como una presencia hostil que le hace ver que el intruso es él.

PUNCH (PARK, J R)
It's carnival night in the seaside town of Stanswick Sands and tonight blood will stain the beach red. Punch and Judy man, Martin Powell, returns after ten years with a dark secret. As his past is revealed Martin must face the anger of the hostile townsfolk, pushing him to the very edge of sanity. Humiliated and stripped of everything he holds dear, Martin embarks on a campaign of murderous revenge, seeking to settle scores both old and new. The police force of this once sleepy town can't react quick enough as they watch the body count grow at the hands of a costumed killer. Can they do enough to halt the malicious mayhem of the twisted Punch?

THE PLEASURE HUNT (FLOYD, JACOB)
After meeting the mysterious Dark Dance on the casual encounters website, The Pleasure Hunters Club, Sexy Cupid finds himself enchanted by an enigmatic seductress - Dark Dance. After experiencing bizarre, nightmarish visions during their first physical liaison, Cupid awakes on a bench somewhere in Louisville, unable to get the mystifying creature off his mind. As he begins to search both online and through the seedy streets of the city for her, he uncovers harrowing truths about the object of his obsession, truths which fill him with both indomitable dread and inexplicable love for her. By the time Cupid begins to understand the terror he faces, the shackles on his soul are already too tight as the ancient monster has her talons dug well into his flesh. Every time he is swept away to her world of Theia - the Moon Realm - she extracts and devours yet another piece of his very essence, and despite the merciless torment of his encounters with his obsession - and the warnings of, a menacing stranger - he presses on to find her, dragging himself deeper into her darkened realm. Cupid soon finds that he may have bu

WOLF WITCH (GOSNEY, N.)
Carly, just learning what it means to be a werewolf, realises life can be pretty invigorating when you have the freedom of the forest. That is, until strange things start to happen and her visions return. After encountering a creature long forgotten as myth and controlling its mind, Carly begins to suspect her abilities may be more than just a werewolf gift. Seeking out the answers to her powers, she is introduced to a coven of witches. When a spell to discover her ancestry goes awry, Carly finds out about a past that had been shrouded for centuries. Bringing up more questions than answers, she must now seek out the truth behind her strange powers. When it seems like winter is following them, and Carly suspects her lover of being a monster, she doesn't know where to turn or who to trust. With frightening revelations and the existence of a cursed werewolf, Carly must piece everything together. Can she figure out the truth before all is lost?

ADVENTUS -LA OSCURIDAD DE LA MENTE (CYRANO, MIKAEL)
Su juventud le hizo una mala jugada, un exorcismo mal realizado le pasa factura en algo que está más allá de sus manos, de su conocimiento, comprenderá el significado del dolor y del amor pero nada de aquello en lo que cree le servirá de ayuda contra lo que provocó con su temeridad.Ha dejado un futuro muy oscuro para la Humanidad que camina hacia su propia destrucción sin entender de culpables o inocentes, solamente se interponen unos agentes entre el sometimiento de toda la población mundial y la paz alternativa que sería de alcance global pero los hechos que ocurren no pueden ser probados ni demostrados.Ella está embarazada.

PUERTA DE HIERRO AL INFIERNO (A. GIUNTA, JOSUÁ (PAÍS DE ORIGEN: ARGENTINA))
El hospital "Irongate", un inmenso edificio de aspecto tenebroso será tomado por las tinieblas cuando las puertas del infierno se abran en su sótano liberando toda clase de bestias oscuras. Un grupo de empleados quedará atrapado allí dentro y deberá armarse de valor para afrontar aquella Apocalipsis luchando duramente por sus almas. la cuenta regresiva ha comenzado y, con ella, se inicia una carrera contrarreloj para desterrar el mal y volver a cerrar las puertas del infierno. Lucha por el bien... Déjate seducir por el lado oscuro... ¡conviértete en héroe!

MR. ROBESPIERRE (CHANT, DANIEL MARC)
?It?s him. It?s Mr. Robespierre. We never should have let him in.? When Dominic and Sandy Wight leave their council home for the picturesque Lovels St Maur, they can?t wait to move in to Bridgewater Rise. Dilapidated but charming, the new house is everything they have worked for. There?s even a stray cat waiting outside to welcome them. Adored by the couple?s daughter, Christina, he rapidly becomes a part of the family. But Mr Robespierre is anything but a welcome visitor, and with his arrival a darkness falls over Bridgewater Rise. Thunderstorms rage, objects move on their own and mysterious noises can be heard throughout the house.? For behind Mr Robespierre?s eyes lays an unquenchable evil. A powerful and hungry malcontent that threatens to take everything that the Wight?s hold dear to them and will let nothing and no one stand in its way. Soon the family will have to do everything they can to escape, but how can you fight nine lives? with three? Combining the tension of Poltergeist with the domestic horror of M.R. James, Mr Robespierre is a chilling tale of demonic infiltration and one families fight

L…-BAS (HUYSMANS, JORIS-KARL)
The story of L?-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He attempts to escape it by studying medieval topics and plans to write a biography about the 15th century murderer and devil-worshipper Gilles de Rais. Through his contacts in Paris with Dr. Johannes, (modelled after Joseph-Antoine Boullan, a French Roman Catholic priest accused of Satanism), Durtal discovers that Satanism is not a thing of the past, but alive and kicking in turn of the century France. He embarks on an investigation of the occult underworld with the help of his lover Madame Chantelouve. The novel climaxes with a description of a black mass.Charles Marie Georges Huysmans (February 5, 1848 ? May 12, 1907) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. L?-Bas (English: Down There or The Damned) was first published in 1891. Huysmans is now recognized as one of the most challenging and pioneering? figures in European literature. Short after its publication, the sale of the book was banned on French railway stations.?Read more about Huysmans in the Post Scri

LA CAÍDA DE LAS LECHIGUANAS (NARCISO ROSSI)
La tranquilidad de un pueblo isleño se ve sacudida con la llegada de un nuevo sacerdote. Acompañado por una monja anciana y un chico retardado, el religioso logrará meterse en las casas de los pueblerinos promulgando una extraña versión del catolicismo. Mientras los fieles que se reúnen en la casa de Dios son cada vez más, un grupo pequeño de hombres y mujeres, intentará combatir contra lo que está destruyendo sus campos y sus hogares.Ambientada en una isla entrerriana, con la tormenta de Santa Rosa de fondo y con personajes sufridos, trabajadores y en su mayoría sin escolarización, La caída de Las Lechiguanas nos acerca el terror, el suspenso, y la ciencia ficción de la mejor raíz argentina.