FIVE HORROR STORIES · ONE FOREST
You know the way home.
The forest knows another.
A LITTLE MORE DARKNESS · ON THE HOUSE
A bonus horror story by Stefan Schweizer, in English. A little extra beyond the five stories in Dread in the Bavarian Forest.
The complete story · English · EPUB · 1.7 MB
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Yours to read. Whenever the night feels right.
WELCOME TO THE OTHER SIDE
A familiar path. A sound that doesn’t belong. A voice that knows your name.
In the Bavarian Forest, the uncanny begins where you feel safest. Stefan Schweizer’s five horror stories lead from ordinary moments into a reality whose rules you understand too late.
Atmospheric horror that gets under your skin and leaves you wondering whether you’re really alone.
FIVE PATHS INTO DREAD
Every story opens a different door.
Something else waits behind each one.
A Way of the Cross with no end
Lukas knows every wayside shrine on Calvary Hill. But this Good Friday, a stone figure has lost its face. On the way home, a fifteenth station appears. Its relief shows a boy. It shows Lukas.
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Something beneath your feet is listening
An abandoned village. A survey of the ground beneath it. A stone Thomas should never have moved. When white sand fills his boots and his daughter’s voice speaks from under the floorboards, his careful explanations are no longer enough.
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You’ve been called to serve
Julian accidentally left the altar bells in his backpack. On the path between the ponds, another bell answers. Children in soaking altar-server robes are waiting for him. Their service can’t begin until he takes his place.
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There’s still room in the back
Eva knows the roads of the Bavarian Forest. As a home health aide, she drives them long after dark. Then a man with a grocery bag appears at the roadside. After every turn, he’s still in the rearview mirror. And eventually, something rustles in the back seat.
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The stone remembers
Martin comes home to help his sister clear out their parents’ house. An old cassette holds the voice of their missing grandfather. At the Pfahl, the quartz answers his knocking. When his hand begins to change, family history becomes an open wound.
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“If you hear someone,
stay on the path.”
THE BOOK · STEFAN SCHWEIZER
Five horror stories about familiar places that change their rules. About voices you want to believe. And the people you can’t bring yourself to leave behind.
A Way of the Cross. An abandoned village. Dark ponds. A country road. A wall of white quartz. Whichever path you take, the dread is already waiting.
Find All Five Stories on AmazonCheck price, language, available formats and availability on Amazon. The excerpts on this website are English translations.
FOUR BOOKS · SIXTEEN STORIES · ONE LONG NIGHT
A Munich cemetery. Lake Chiemsee. The Upper Palatinate. And the Bavarian Forest. Discover Stefan Schweizer’s four horror books in the Halloween world — with excerpts, a book finder and a forest game. The Halloween world is in German.
Win “Die fünfzehnte Station”, one of this book’s five stories, as a German EPUB in the forest game.
BEFORE YOU SET OUT
Five horror stories, each with its own characters and setting: a Way of the Cross, an abandoned village, ponds, a country road, and a quartz outcrop. Heavy atmosphere, psychological tension, and body horror connect them.
Yes. Each of the five story pages includes an English translation of its opening. The endings stay in the book.
Yes. Grauen im Bayerischen Wald brings all five stories together in one volume. ISBN 9798163611072 identifies the German-language edition. The English title and excerpts on this website are translations.
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YOU CAN STILL TURN BACK.
Five horror stories. By Stefan Schweizer.
