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When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens, three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays. The last of them was a police... Read Full Overview

Perhaps the strangest and most disturbing of all the stories written by Hanns Heinz Ewers, the famed German author, dandy and occultist. "When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6),... Read Full Overview

"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays." The last of them... Read Full Overview

"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays." The last of them... Read Full Overview

"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays." The last of them... Read Full Overview

For Madame Dubonnet, the owner of the small, cheap guesthouse whose clientele was composed almost completely of employees in a nearby Montmartre vaudeville theater, this second curious death in the same room had very unpleasant consequences. Already several of her guests had... Read Full Overview

"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays." The last of them... Read Full Overview

"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays." The last of them... Read Full Overview

For Madame Dubonnet, the owner of the small, cheap guesthouse whose clientele was composed almost completely of employees in a nearby Montmartre vaudeville theater, this second curious death in the same room had very unpleasant consequences. Already several of her guests had... Read Full Overview

For Madame Dubonnet, the owner of the small, cheap guesthouse whose clientele was composed almost completely of employees in a nearby Montmartre vaudeville theater, this second curious death in the same room had very unpleasant consequences. Already several of her guests had... Read Full Overview

What if the most dangerous trap was not set with fangs or claws-but with eyes that watch you from the shadows?

In The Spider, German horror master Hanns Heinz Ewers delivers a haunting story of paranoia, possession, and psychosis. Set in a Berlin boarding house plagued by a... Read Full Overview

What if the most dangerous trap was not set with fangs or claws-but with eyes that watch you from the shadows?

In The Spider, German horror master Hanns Heinz Ewers delivers a haunting story of paranoia, possession, and psychosis. Set in a Berlin boarding house plagued by a... Read Full Overview

A silk thread glistens across a dimly lit Parisian boarding house, its presence as unsettling as the hush that settles after midnight. In this atmospheric horror story, the everyday is transformed into something uncanny, as a series of inexplicable suicides draws both tenant... Read Full Overview