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Arthur Gordon Pym de Nantucket narra se embarca clandestinamente en el barco ballenero Grampus, en un viaje a los Mares del Sur en 1827. El relato describe los detalles de un motín y las atroces carnicerías que sufrirán sus tripulantes. Su naufragio y los horribles sufrimientos por el hambre; su rescate por la goleta británica Jane Guy; el breve crucero de esta última por el océano Antártico, su captura y la matanza de la tripulación en un archipiélago del paralelo 84 de latitud sur.

Selección de cuentos cortos clásicos de la literatura universal pensada para todo público.

Classic thrills and unforgettable chills are drawn from the pages of literary mysteries. Draw the curtains, dim the lights, close your eyes, and enter The Weird Circle! With stories adapted from the works of unquestioned masters of the Gothic genre by top radio talent, you'll go from shiver to shake with every episode.

Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed "father" of the detective story. C. Auguste Dupin tries to solve a mysterious brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human...and so it begins....

Following an apocalyptic storm at sea, a sailor finds himself one of only two survivors on board his badly damaged ship. As the vessel floats helplessly southward, he begins to write down a narrative of the strange events which ensue. Their ship collides with a ghostly ship from mythology...and our sailor tries to learn the secrets of its eerie crew. Realizing that he cannot be saved, he resolves to cast his narrative into the sea in a bottle at the point when his death is imminent.

During a visit to her dying friend, a woman discovers to her horror that his family and his home are one. SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies, hence, SonicMovies.

The story is set in an unnamed Italian city (perhaps Venice) at carnival time in an unspecified year, and is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive - in this case, by immurement. As in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe conveys the story from the murderer's perspective.

Mystery und Grusel: Die Hörbuch-Playlist für schaurige Stunden Gelesen von Christiane Dors, Peter Bieringer, Richard Heinrich, Werner Wilkening, Cedrik Burrasch u.a. Diese 17 Erzählungen von Frédéric Boutet, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Nikolai Gogol und zahlreicher anderer Schriftsteller gehören heute zu den Klassikern der Weltliteratur. Über 12 Stunden spannende Unterhaltung mit Geister-Schocker, Dark Mysteries, Untoten und Hexenmeistern, zwielichtigen Zauberkünstlern und bösartigen Schurken.

This scary short story collection contains the following stories written by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Black Cat", and many more. Enjoy Edgar Allen Poe's most notable short stories bought to life by the excellent narration of J.D. Kelly!

"Landor’s Cottage" is a characteristically vivid and detailed description of Poe’s family home and the surrounding valley. Poe describes the natural beauty of the setting with elegance and emotion and gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into Poe as a person as he writes candidly about the beauty that surrounds him.

¿crees que existe la maldad por naturaleza? A lo mejor cambias de opinion... puede haber algo más frustrante para un policía que la falta de explicación lógica de una serie de muertes. ¿cómo han muerto estas personas?... ¿qué es la venganza? ¿ podría ser la liberación del ser primitivo que todos llevamos dentro obsesionado con destruir a quíen nos ha hecho daño?... escucha, escucha y lo averiguarásEn las 10 horas y 13 minutos de este volumen puedes escuchar los siguientes relatos.

A highly unsettling collection of macabre stories in which death and the dead are key themes. Moon’s Gibbet by Egerton Castle, A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby, The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy, The Pistol Shot by Alexander Pushkin, The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe, The Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins, The Famous Race between the Hearse and the Steamroller by Sidney Keyes, The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, Nine O’Clock by Wilkie Collins, The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin.

First published in an 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, "The Pit and the Pendulum" takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a pendulum. Unlike many of Poe's short stories, "The Pit and the Pendulum" does not rely on any supernatural elements to inspire fear but instead uses the narrator's heightened sensory experiences to do so.

Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web! This anthology includes both original stories like a brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like The Blue Air Compressor by Stephen King, and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age! Now, let's join Lilja....

Sometimes we want to be a little scared when we hear a story. Our nerves to tingle, the hair on our necks to gradually stand up. We can suspend our own reality for a while as authors lay out their wares of anxiety, worry, tension, and then increase the levels one by one until we are gripped by forces that make us afraid. It’s a real feeling. In this volume story after story assault our senses with mere words, with thoughts and descriptions that twist and deceive, with outcomes that we dread and shudder at the thought of.

Read the best mystery and adventure short stories. Be it cozy, historical, detective or murder mystery stories; our collection includes them all: The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton, The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton, The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Master of Mystery by Jack London.

Three stories from master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven", "The Masque of Red Death", and "The Cask of Amontillado".

In "The Pit and the Pendulum," one of his most famous short works, a condemned man is judged guilty by the Spanish Inquisition and sentenced to die. Locked away in a pitch-black cell, he soon discovers a pit in the center of the room, a watery grave at its base. Above him hangs a large, razor-sharp pendulum. As the man is slowly tortured, he must face either the pit or the pendulum.

El narrador relata un suceso de la amistad que entabló con William Legrand (un hombre solitario), quien vivía en la isla con un ya liberado sirviente llamado Júpiter. En una de sus visitas a su amigo Legrand, el melancólico hombre le comentó que había encontrado un escarabajo que parecía de oro. Legrand dibujó el insecto en un pergamino y lo entregó a su amigo para que lo observara, pero su allegado solo atinó a decir que el dibujo parecía una calavera. Legrand, malhumorado, tomó el pergamino y lo examinó; finalmente guardó el pergamino en un cajón.

An unamed narrator marries Morella, a woman who delves into mysticism. As a result of her experimentations her soul can never die, but her physical form continues to deteriorate. She spends her time in bed and teaches her husband the black arts. Realizing her curse, her husband, the narrator, becomes frightened and wishes for his wife's death and eternal peace. She dies in childbirth but her soul passes into the new baby....