Títulos en Ocultismo

This was the very first vampire thriller! Pure innocence becomes the target of age-old evil. Virtuous Laura has grown up in a solitary castle and longs for a close friend. Her wish seems granted with the arrival of a beautiful and mysterious stranger named Carmilla. A friendship develops but the brooding mood and sexual overtones mar Laura's happiness. Will she escape with her life and spirit?

This collection contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research. As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination. The widespread interest in psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century proved to be a significant stimulus to literary production.

When horror author Thad McAlister began his latest novel, a tale rooted in the witch trials of centuries past, the words flowed effortlessly. The story poured forth, filling page after page with the most frightening character ever to crawl from his imagination. It was his greatest work, one that would guarantee him a position among the legends of the craft.

Tebas, XVIII dinastía. Amenofis III, llamado el magnífico, se encuentra en la cumbre de su poder. Su joven hijo Nafuria siente tanta aversión por las armas como amor al estudio y en la corte es llamado despreciativamente el príncipe filósofo. Ansioso por conocer la vida más allá del palacio, escapa una noche para verse envuelto en una aventura mágica y espiritual en la que recibe las enseñanzas de un maestro llamado Mawlana, incluyendo la noción de una divinidad impersonal o gran inteligencia universal muy por encima de todos los dioses conocidos.

Virginia, una monja que se enfrenta a la realidad atroz que ofrece el mundo, busca el significado y la salvación en la religión católica, y de paso cuestiona la existencia de Dios y por ende de su antítesis, el demonio. Pero, ¿qué hay detrás de las cuatro paredes de un convento? Virginia deberá desafiar a la iglesia e intentará mostrar la verdad oscura que se esconde detrás, a través de un libro misterioso que podría guardar los secretos del universo y cuyas páginas parecen contener la clave para abrir las puertas del infierno."

Any defenses I had against these men were falling now that they knew the truth about my past—about the darkness that resided under my very skin. After a ritual gone wrong, I find myself even more connected to them than before and embracing the intensity of what was growing between us and the strength it provided me. Something I was going to need because the academy was becoming a very dangerous place.

Connie can't deny she's nervous about meeting her boyfriend's family. Spending the weekend at their ritzy woodland summer home, Evan's already given her fair warning that his parents are cold, snobbish, and especially unpleasant toward those outside their usual social circles. So when Evan's mother warmly greets them with open arms, Connie is as confused as he is. They're so friendly, in fact, Evan himself can hardly believe they're real. Then, while helping Evan's mother with dinner, Connie overhears strange noises coming from the basement—what almost sounds like voices calling out for help.

Nuestro joven protagonista, Manrique, es un joven poeta, a quien le atrae todo lo romántico, los bosques, los monasterios... y atendiendo a las palabras de un fraile que le ha dicho que las estrellas que ve en el cielo son otros mundos, se dedica a soñar con las mujeres que habitarían esos mundos. Paseando una noche de verano le parece ver el borde del vestido blanco de una mujer, que enseguida desaparece....

MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she's your perfectly ordinary 21st-century woman. Or so she thinks...until something extraordinary happens.

Claudia y Nino son dos jóvenes de estudiantes de arqueología de la Universidad de Palermo, ellos se encontraban en una excavación en Italia, cuando de repente Nino desenterró un cofre de marfil con unos tallados de una belleza indescriptible, le grita a Claudia para que que lo vea, ella expresa la belleza del objeto. Nino no tiene intención de avisar de su hallazgo y tiene planeado llevárselo, así se lo plantea a Claudia, ella se niega pero al final él la convence.

Un piccolo e paradisiaco paese, il Regno Proibito, incastonato tra le montagne dell'Himalaya, che vive in uno splendido e pacifico isolamento da milleottocento anni; un monaco buddista che si sta occupando della formazione spirituale del giovane erede al trono; un prezioso oracolo in grado di predire il futuro in una lingua sconosciuta, quella anticamente usata dagli yeti.

Què passaria si un mag misteriós t’enredés en una trama diabòlica ordida per una certa Muriel? I si aquesta Muriel t’observés des que has dit el seu nom, disposada a fer-te regals que no has demanat, regals que podrien capgirar la teva vida? Només cal que recordis una cosa: per més que tanquis la porta, la Muriel té totes les claus. Totes.

Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can’t tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: A vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatized that she turns totally inward, incapable of telling anyone what happened or even who she is. She remains lost to the world, until the day Mark, a family friend, comes to visit - and the young woman utters her first intelligible word. As she recovers, still with no memory of the past, her nightmares grow steadily more frightful, followed by wild fits of hysteria and dark mood swings....

Depuis plusieurs semaines, Philippe Dubreuil est désespérément à la recherche de ses deux enfants enlevés au musée du Louvre. Un jour d'hiver, un mail inconnu l'envoie en pleine nuit au fin fond des landes bretonnes. S'accrochant à cette piste, Philippe se retrouve spectateur d'un meurtre rituel. Appelé à témoigner par la police, Philippe Dubreuil va peu à peu se retrouver au centre d'une conspiration qui fera exploser ses certitudes.

After years of struggle, Layla Cassidy has finally mastered the dark powers that threatened to control her and turned them to good. She’s ready to fight, but the next battle will be her greatest test yet. The forces of Avalon are growing ever stronger, reinforcing their dominance with almighty displays of brutality. When Abaddon comes close to crushing Layla and her friends, it’s clear that the thunder of war is about to give way to lightning—and that they have no chance of surviving it alone. The final battle against Abaddon is drawing closer.

Un accident allibera un grup d'esperits malignes, els Tikoloshe, retinguts gràcies a un amulet ocult dins la banya d'un cap de rinoceront, propietat del pintor Salvador Dalí. Els Tikoloshe, cada cop més nombrosos i més forts, s'amaguen en un dels gratacels que hi ha davant la platja de Palamós.

Los niños de Chile están desapareciendo y nadie sabe por qué. Algunos creen que se escapan; otros, que son secuestrados. Solo dos personas—una ilustradora y una niña llamada Catalina—saben la verdad, pero es demasiado extraña para que nadie jamás pueda creerles. El tren marino es una fantasía oscura, una novela de aventuras y escapadas por la carretera. Una historia sobre un libro mítico, una fuerza maligna a punto de abrirse paso hacia nuestro mundo, niños perdidos, un país arrasado y dos valientes mujeres que plantaron batalla cuando todo parecía perdido.

Clayton and Avril Shaw have lost their little boy and are still mourning when they move into Swallow’s Nest on the Yorkshire moors. In their new house Avril discovers a painting. When she learns that the boy in the painting was deaf, like her dead son, she starts to try to communicate with his ghost. Meanwhile, Clayton finds himself entangled in an equally undesirable friendship with a retired fire chief who knows more about the painting than he is prepared to let on. Is The Crying Boy painting cursed, and can numerous house fires be linked to it?

After dropping out of med school, Lucy Sullivan thought her skill with a scalpel would only be useful for her hobbyist taxidermy. Life takes another unexpected turn when she becomes the doctor for a most unusual patient: one who's already dead. Or undead, rather. Subject X-14, The Revenant—aka Victor—may be a collection of stitched-together corpses with a hunger for human flesh, yet Lucy soon finds herself grappling with an unexpected fondness for her patient. Despite her general fear of getting close to people, she wants to make him happy just as badly as she wants to cut him open.

Struggling with money, raising a child alone, and fleeing a volatile ex, Jess McMachen accepts a job caring for an elderly patient. Flo Gardner—a disturbed shut-in and invalid. But if Jess can hold this job down, she and her daughter, Izzy, can begin a new life. Flo's vast home, Nerthus House, may resemble a stately vicarage in an idyllic village, but the labyrinthine interior is a dark, cluttered warren filled with pagan artefacts. And Nerthus House lives in the shadow of a malevolent secret. A sinister enigma determined to reveal itself to Jess and to drive her to the end of her tether.