Download or read book Eerie Tales of Terror and Dread written by Bernhardt J. Hurwood and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eerie Tales of Terror and Dread written by Bernhardt J. Hurwood and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten tales that promise to frighten the reader.

Download or read book Trilogy of Terror written by Alfonso Moret and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman and Elsbone were veteran animal trappers and hunters. They were warned by the Chalukyas tribesmen that the Devil Dogs were ferocious and did not fear man or any other animal. The hunters were experienced predators and huntsmen and knew that the wild beast that the tribesmen were leery of were just Himalayan tempestuous wolves. The Chalukyas tribesmen disclosed to the hunters that they had seen two Devil Dogs bring down a huge wild boar and tear it apart one evening at the base of the Mahila Mountains. It is known amongst hunters and wildlife individuals that no wild animal/beasts or man want any part of the violent desolate fierce boars; these Devil Dogs were fearsome and vicious. The major deciding factors that finally made the huntsmen want to seek and capture the wolves were these main issues: One, the Los Angeles zoo was offering a large amount of money for two legendary Devil Dogs from India. The second aspect was they heard that a single Devil Dog had fought and killed a Siberian Tiger; this factor increased their inquisitiveness and curiosity of this sensational beast and its folklore. Their egos also played a part in their judgment to capture the animals An element they had to contemplate and had caused them concern was that they were told that the beast only come out after the sun has set. Nightfall, this is an advantageous factor for the nighttime predator. So these beasts were nocturnal hunters; this was not an odd characteristic for any wolf, but still it was a concern for the hunters. All these tidbits of information just enticed Roman and Elsbone even more, and it heightened their hunting and ego desires. The two English veteran hunters were now traveling toward their prey and compensations as they were now heading toward the foothills of the snowcapped Himalayas, the hunting grounds of the Devil Dogs. The huntsmen eventually had left their regular and familiar stomping grounds of South Africa years earlier because of the civil turmoil that continues to cause chaos and havoc with many of the unsettled tribes and conformed city dwellers. The other object and issue was now there are all the new restrictions and hunting laws causing hardship on hunters and trappers, also there were the conservation laws protecting the wild beast limiting them even more. Elsbone and Roman left Africa and went and took their trade to South America. But after some time, they grew tired of the humid atmosphere, the different language, and customs along with the constant damp eerie rain forest. So now they were here in India following the harsh rumors of the ferocious wild Devil Dogs that killed cattle, pigs, and villagers and nowthey also heardeven killed mountain lions. The hunters journey did have some hardships. They needed to travel far through hot rough desolate deserts with very cold nights.

Download or read book Walk in Dread written by Dorothy Tomlinson and published by Taplinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Horror Film written by Stephen Prince and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental responses of young adult viewers and children to the genre. The book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch Project. In a daring move, the volume also examines Holocaust films in relation to horror. Part One features essays on the silent and classical Hollywood eras. Part Two covers the postWorld War II era and discusses the historical, aesthetic, and psychological characteristics of contemporary horror films. In contrast to horror during the classical Hollywood period, contemporary horror features more graphic and prolonged visualizations of disturbing and horrific imagery, as well as other distinguishing characteristics. Princes introduction provides an overview of the genre, contextualizing the readings that follow. Stephen Prince is professor of communications at Virginia Tech. He has written many film books, including Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 19301968, and has edited Screening Violence, also in the Depth of Field Series.

Download or read book The Vampire Book written by J Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

Download or read book 13 Tales written by Richard McOmber and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen modest little tales of horror and dread; here you can read of:• A planet infested with monsters and unimaginable danger• A man lonely enough to ignore the supernatural for love • A woman literally consumed by her own hatred• A small boy battling a monster under his bed• An outlaw biker's final mistakeAnd eight more disturbing tales of the weird, the creepy, and the ghostly. Lock your doors, turn down your lights, and share these yarns with a friend. You won't want to read them alone!

Download or read book 75 Scary Horror Stories written by Steven Parker and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing that sends a shiver down our spines greater than a good, scary HORROR STORY - and the more creepy, spooky and ghostly the better! Sometimes a scary HORROR STORY can be nothing other than a few chilling sentences - perhaps even just the one - or it could be the climatic build-up to a frightfully unexpected and overly shocking plot twist! Each of the scary HORROR STORIES contained within this book are dark, disturbing and will invoke a sense of terror while sending a shiver down your spine - leaving you to question exactly what that scratching, creaking and thudding noise you just heard really was? Are you alone in the house? Or is there some sinister force at work here? Either way, you are sure to be left with a feeling of fear, trepidation and dread! So the challenge has now been set for you - do you dare to read through these scary HORROR STORIES while all alone and with only the bedside light to keep you from absolute darkness? Because we all know that only when we are completely alone in the dark do all the ghosts, poltergeists and demonic supernatural forces come out to play!

Download or read book The Dread Damnable and Macabre written by Raymond Walker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we really know ourselves or just place a mask over who we truly are? Do we have a dark side? A desire you tell no one of, a strange lingering need. Many have. Most have. What then do you do when you discover it? From the pen of Raymond Walker, master of the horror story comes this collection of shattering tales. You will find yourself growing uneasy, awkward, or strange whilst reading of man's domination of women, illicit love affairs, nurture destroying nature, monsters who are real and often all too human. Wrath and war seep through into everyday lives and those once good will end up damned. Those damned will revel in the abandonment of Hell. You may feel odd reading these tales, most who read them used the words "uneasy", Queasy" some suggested, "strange" others "discomfited" Most saw themselves somewhere in these stories. Mr. Walker draws you in and skews perceptions of yourself while telling some cracking horror stories. Robert Anderson. Author of Elizabeth and From the Top

Download or read book Tales of Terror from the Black Ship written by Chris Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow up to Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, this is another creepy middle grade story collection with a chilling frame. This time, the stories are all tales of the sea: pirates and plagues and storms a plenty...

Download or read book The Headless Horseman Horror Classic written by Mayne Reid and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The story takes place in Texas soon after the War with Mexico. Louise Poindexter, a beautiful newcomer, is courted by two men – the arrogant and vindictive Cassius Calhoun and the dashing but poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. Calhoun plots to eliminate his rival when tragedy strikes: Louise's brother, the young Henry Poindexter, is murdered. All clues point to Maurice Gerald as the assassin. At the same time a headless rider is spotted in the environs of the Poindexter plantation.

Download or read book Scary Stories written by Scare Street and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I scream, you scream...Scare Street is proud to present a new collection of Ron Ripley's bone-chilling tales of terror. Five macabre masterpieces, lovingly crafted from the darkest depths of your nightmares. This collection includes: Walking - A camping trip in the wilderness leads to bloodshed when an inexperienced outdoorsman trespasses on forbidden ground... The Bridge - A cancer patient's recovery takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that cheating death comes with a hidden cost... Squatting - A homeless man seeking shelter from the cold discovers that some abandoned houses hold deadly ties to the past... Maker's Hill - A curious ghost hunter unearths a town's dark history of violence, and learns that some secrets are meant to stay buried... The First Bad Thing - The murder of a child's furry friend sends him on a hunt for a vicious supernatural predator that only he can stop... There's no end to the terror found within these tales of dread. But whatever you do, try not to scream too loud. You never know who might be listening in the dark...

Download or read book Portraits of Dread written by Michael Elliott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his first collection of horror stories, Michael J Elliott creates tales to chill the blood and scare the soul. In this collection you'll find such wickedly evil tales as: THE LITTLE MAN ON TOP OF THE WARDROBE. Young James has always been very good about going to bed on time but lately he's convinced there is an evil little man living on top of his wardrobe.It wants to steal his innocence. When you're four years old how do you protect yourself from evil? MOTHER CALLED TODAY. Suzie is sick and tired of her mother's incessant phone calls. The phone calls frighten her because Suzie has a dark secret about her mother, something that may drive her to the brink of madness-or worse. Portraits of Dread contains these chillers and more. Are you brave enough to visit the gallery?

Download or read book And That Was the Very Moment When the Monster Stepped Into the Room written by John J. Jr. Marnien and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending some humor with horror, some mirth with the macabre, these baker's dozen tales carry the reader on a travelogue of terror. Definitely a lively group of dread-time stories.

Download or read book Timeswept Tales of Dread paperback written by Goleman and VanDenBerghe and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories features fictional tales that will take readers on a journey through time and terror. The stories will leave readers in existential thought, play on the darkest of fears, and shock with unexpected twists and turns. The book includes 29 creepy illustrations.

Download or read book Strange and Eerie Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure and horror abound in three tales of menacing monsters and fearless heroes.

Download or read book English Eerie Second Edition written by Scott Malthouse and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Eerie Second Edition: A Rural Horror Storytelling Game for 1-4 Players is a GM-less tabletop game of terrifying proportions, allowing you to weave your own haunted tales set in the dark English countryside. There is blood in the roots of England. Forgotten, ancient things crawl beneath its surface, haunt its manor houses and creep within its woodland. Beyond the bucolic beauty of its rolling hills and quaint villages are sinister forces at work, and you're about to stumble headlong into them. English Eerie uses the Eerie Engine system to help players, solo or a group, to step into the shoes of a protagonist from a classic horror tale, like those written by the likes of M.R James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood, as well as the folk horror tradition. Using the scenarios in the book you will uncover new disturbing clues, clash with other characters and succumb to the dread forces as you delve further into their mysteries. The system automatically ratchets up the tension as you go, with your protagonist becoming more helpless as the tale progresses. Alone by Candlelight As a solo game you are the protagonist, writing in your journal by candlelight over a series of evenings recounting the day's events just like in those great tales of terror. You create your protagonist using a series of desciptors and prompts, bringing these into play as the mystery unfolds. Campfire Stories As a group you tell the tale orally, all playing as a single protagonist. Turns pass around the circle as you describe the situation, react to cards pulled from the Story Deck and spend resources to determine the ending of the story. The book includes advice on safety mechanics - because your idea of horror might not be the same as everyone else. The Eerie Engine To power the game you will use a Story Deck, which can be a regular deck of cards or the official English Eerie Story Deck. Each card is related to a scene, which is cross-referenced with the scenario to discover what new plot element unfolds. Everytime a Grey Lady is revealed the tension increases and decisions need to be made. The protagonist uses Spirit and Resolve resources to overcome obstacles and horrors in their way - but they must be spent wisely for the fate of your protagonist hangs in the balance. An Open Game English Eerie Second Edition is released under a creative commons sharealike license, meaning you can design and release your own hacks and scenarios.