Short Ghost & Horror Collections - Book 30
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Portrait of Obsession
The chapter delves into a haunting tale about a beautiful woman who becomes the subject of a painter's intense obsession and gradual decay, mirroring the eerie transformation depicted in a lifelike portrait. The chilling revelation of the portrait's completion unveils a shocking and tragic end.
Short Ghost & Horror Collections - Book 30
Title: Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections
Overview: Thousands of short ghost and horror stories are available through our Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections series from classic authors Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll, Gertrude Atherton, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many other classic authors. A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. The "ghost" may appear of its own accord or be summoned by magic. Linked to the ghost is the idea of a "haunting", where a supernatural entity is tied to a place, object, or person. Colloquially, the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically weird fiction and is often a horror story. Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Horror is often divided into the psychological horror and supernatural horror sub-genres. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to scare, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales while horror stories encompass societal fears. Some of these stories are centuries old, with varying versions across multiple cultures.
Published: Various
List: Short Ghost & Horror Collections, Ghost #41
Author: Various
Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories
Episode: Short Ghost & Horror Collections - Book 30
Part: 1 of 1
Length Part: 8:18:32
Book: 30
Length Book: 8:18:32
Episodes: 1 - 19 of 19
Narrator: Collaborative
Language: English
Rated: Guidance Suggested
Edition: Unabridged Audiobook
Keywords: ghost, short story, ghoul, fiction, supernatural, horror, ghostly, specter, spirit, poltergeist, phantom, apparition, haunt, haunted house, banshee, eerie, macabre, dead, fright, scary, suspense, witch, terror, mystery, demonic, vampire, devil, death, satan, dark magic, witches, monsters, satanism, Halloween
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