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The Imperial Tower
By Johnn A. Escobar. 2022
In the land of Platéchoblit, all the inhabitants led a quiet life within their normality. Until the most powerful force…
that anyone could imagine arrived, bringing with it a demonic horde led by a being whose face always remains hidden, taking away their freedom and that of the entire planet.Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel
By Claire Kohda. 2022
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant…
hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch. Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated. Then there are the humans - the other artists at the studio space, the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men that follow her after dark, and Ben, a boyish, goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. In her windowless studio, where she paints and studies the work of other artists, binge-watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and videos of people eating food on YouTube and Instagram, Lydia considers her place in the world. She has many of the things humans wish for - perpetual youth, near-invulnerability, immortality – but she is miserable; she is lonely; and she is hungry - always hungry. As Lydia develops as a woman and an artist, she will learn that she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans - if she is to find a way to exist in the world. Before any of this, however, she must eat.You Can Stay: The chilling, heart-stopping new thriller
By Elle Connel. 2022
She's the perfect host. He's the perfect victim.Someone is hunting Connor. Alone, freezing, in the wilderness of Bodmin Moor, on…
an elite Special Forces training exercise, he'd be a fool to scorn the kindness of a local stranger. Wouldn't he?At first, Eilidh seems to be an impeccable host. She offers Connor food and a warm bed - he finds it nearly impossible to leave her charming farmhouse.But the choice isn't his to make.There have been others before. None, though, as perfect as him.Why would she let him leave?Praise for Elle Connel:"Down By The Water takes the reader on a weekend trip from hell... I loved the classy writing and ever-growing sense of unease in this clever subversion of a classic country house mystery" - Harriet Tyce"A chilling drama" Sunday Times"Sinister and atmospheric" - Chris Brookmyre"Tense, mesmerising and heartbreaking, I was truly gripped" - Susi Holliday"A gripping mystery." - Nathan RipleyYou Can Stay: The chilling, heart-stopping new thriller
By Elle Connel. 2022
She's the perfect host. He's the perfect victim.Someone is hunting Connor. Alone, freezing, in the wilderness of Bodmin Moor, on…
an elite Special Forces training exercise, he'd be a fool to scorn the kindness of a local stranger. Wouldn't he?At first, Eilidh seems to be an impeccable host. She offers Connor food and a warm bed - he finds it nearly impossible to leave her charming farmhouse.But the choice isn't his to make.There have been others before. None, though, as perfect as him.Why would she let him leave?Praise for Elle Connel:"Down By The Water takes the reader on a weekend trip from hell... I loved the classy writing and ever-growing sense of unease in this clever subversion of a classic country house mystery" - Harriet Tyce"A chilling drama" Sunday Times"Sinister and atmospheric" - Chris Brookmyre"Absolutely loved this - so dark, yet laced with humour, and such clever plotting. Loved the characters, and the ending is sublime." - Susi Holliday"A gripping mystery." - Nathan RipleyThe Kraken Wakes
By John Wyndham. 1953
An &“ingenious, horrifying&” (The Guardian) first contact story by one of the twentieth century&’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror…
writers, whom Stephen King called &“the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.&”&“Few books capture the obscure, elliptical way that threats move from the background to the foreground of reality like The Kraken Wakes. . . . Feels all too familiar in today&’s age of anti-vaxxer disinformation and QAnon conspiracists.&” —Alexandra Kleeman, from the Introduction What if aliens invaded and colonized Earth&’s oceans rather than its land?Britain, 1953: It begins with red dots appearing across the sky and crashing to the oceans&’ deeps. At first, many people believe that these aliens are interested in only what&’s down below. But when the polar ice-caps begin to melt, it becomes clear that these beings are not interested in sharing the Earth and that humankind might just be on the brink of extinction. . . .The Day of the Triffids
By John Wyndham. 1951
The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century&’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called…
&“the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.&” &“[Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the face of dominant nature. . . . Frightening and powerful, Wyndham&’s vision remains an important allegory and a gripping story.&”—The Guardian What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids—plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.The Midwich Cuckoos
By John Wyndham. 1957
A genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century&’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom…
Stephen King called &“the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.&”&“In my opinion, [John] Wyndham&’s chef d&’oeuvre . . . a graphic metaphor for the fear of unwanted pregnancies . . . I myself had a dream about a highly intelligent nonhuman baby after reading this book.&”—Margaret Atwood, Slate What if the women of a sleepy English village all became simultaneously pregnant, and the children, once born, possessed supernatural—and possibly alien—powers? A mysterious silver object appears in quiet, picture-perfect Midwich. A day later, the object is gone—and all the women in the village, they will come to learn, are now pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich are shockingly, frighteningly other. Faced with these unfathomable and potentially unstoppable children, the question arises: What will humanity do when faced with the threat of the unknown?Passersthrough
By Peter Rock. 2022
A father and his estranged daughter reconnect to try to understand a decades-old trauma in this haunting novel, part ghost…
story, part lyrical exploration of family, aging, and how we remember the past.At age 11, Helen disappeared in the wilderness of Mount Rainier National Park while camping with her father, Benjamin. She was gone for almost a week before being discovered and returned to her family. It is now 25 years later, and after more than two decades of estrangement, Helen and Benjamin reconnect at his home in Portland, Oregon, to try to understand what happened during the days she was gone. Meanwhile, Benjamin meets an odd pair, a woman and boy who seem driven to help him learn more about Helen&’s disappearance and send him on a journey that will lead to a murder house, uncanny possession, and a bone-filled body of water known as Sad Clown Lake, a lake &“that could only be found by getting lost, that was never in the same place twice.&”Passersthrough is a haunted, starkly lyrical exploration of family, memory, and the border between life and death.Books Make Brainz Taste Bad
By Daniel Freeman, Eli Cranor, Freeman Daniel. 2020
(Ages 8-13) ZOMBIES HATE BOOKS! Especially the zombie teachers at Haven Middle School. That's why they're using VR headsets to…
fry kids' brainz. Luckily, Dash Storey knows how to save his classmates from the zombie teachers—BOOKS! They make brainz taste bad! Told in a mixture of illustrations and text, Books Make Brainz Taste Bad is the first book in award-winning author Eli Cranor's spooky, middle grade adventure series. Fans of The Last Kids on Earth or Trapped in a Video Game will enjoy this fresh, age-appropriate story with a Goosebumps inspired twist. Perfect for middle school kids, or parents looking for a timely screen time message.The Fire Mark
By Johnn A. Escobar. 2022
Olivia Anderson thought she left her stormy past behind in the town of Crowswood, located in Oregon - United States,…
but after finding happiness with her new partner, Sebastián Collingwood, in New York, a revelation will put their relationship to the test, returning together to Crowswood, where a new mystery, which will delve even deeper into the gruesome local history, will come to light.The Awakening of Cthulhu: From ignorance to wisdom; from light to dark
By Johnn A. Escobar. 2022
During a conference, held at Miskatonic University, Arkham, Massachusetts - United States, addressed to students and professors of the institution,…
where the successful writer and businessman, John Howard Brown, will be presented, who will talk about his recent book, he will end up getting to know to Miguel O'donojú, a young accountant, who has inherited the notebook from his late grandfather, Aaron Cedric O'donojú, whose discoveries haunt the insane existence of monstrous creatures associated with terrible and primordial events that occurred in Innsmouth , Dunwich, Paris, London, among other places and various times; where the appearance of a mysterious being predominates, wrapped in dark robes, with his face always covered, comparable to a desert dweller, known as the Dark Monk.The Lottery And Other Stories (FSG Classics Series)
By Shirley Jackson, A. M. Homes. 2005
One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was…
first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range -- from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous -- and her power as a storyteller.The premiere
By Johnn A. Escobar. 2022
After the mysterious disappearance of eight tourists and their experienced guide, in the Adirondacks located in the State of New…
York, United States. A journalist and his cameraman will seek to find the details and the hidden truth, in that fact that seems inexplicable and terrifying.El rastro del fuego II “La revelación”: El rastro del fuego sigue cobrando sus víctimas
By Claudio Calzoni. 2022
El rastro del fuego II “La revelación” de Claudio Calzoni El rastro del fuego sigue cobrando sus víctimas. Hay un…
nuevo indicio en el rastro del fuego y un grupo de hombres lo sigue, esperando... la Revelación.Under the Storm (Dark Collection #5)
By Ana Folhadela. 2022
After being victim of a violet robbery, and a murder attempt, a woman is thrown 264 years back in time,…
by means of furious and out of control nature elements, under the storm.Night of the Beast
By Johnn A. Escobar. 2022
On June 4th, 1888, in Buenos Aires - Argentina, after sunset, a series of terrifying events were unleashed, leaving the…
inhabitants of the city at the mercy of an evil never seen before. That evil will not stop as long as the night rules the city.These Rotters
By Angelos Drampalas. 2022
An old man has to protect his sick wife and make ends meet during a zombie outbreak. This short story…
won the first place in a Greece-wide contest by i-write publications.Arnie
By Claudio Hernández. 2022
Arnie Hammer was strange and since he was born, he revealed to the world that something inside him had come…
into this world. Chris succumbs to his friendship and discovers the power of Telepathy in Arnie. In his nightmares he sees an evil Arnie that always says; I know what you need. Chip and his bouncers are after Arnie until they are responsible for an act Arnie will never forgive. The new phrase is; Things are fine like this. Then, Chris further finds out. that he has telekinetic powers and revenge is about to begin but he can't stop it until Arnie finally rests and lives his life elsewhere. Being him again.The Crowswood Mystery
By Johnn A. Escobar. 2022
In the town of Crowswood, located in Oregon - United States, the calm and peaceful life of its inhabitants will…
soon be disturbed by a suicide, which will uncover two horrible crimes and along with them something more perverse, ancient and evil, linked to the stormy local history, a secret that should never be revealed.La Maldición del Bosque del Río Negro
By Jaydeep Shah. 2021
Un bosque lleno de sangre y cadáveres. La tierra de un psicópata de sangre fría. En el Bosque del Río…
Negro, es mejor no desviarse mucho del sendero marcado. No hay forma de saber con qué te puedes encontrar. Mia y Oliver han querido explorar este bosque desde hace tiempo, y un frío y lluvioso día de octubre, una semana antes del quinto aniversario del día que se conocieron, finalmente se embarcan en el viaje. Pero han escuchado los rumores. La maldición. Un psicópata escondido en algún lugar entre los imponentes árboles. Muchos viajeros perdidos. Muy pocas respuestas. Sin embargo, son sólo rumores. Historias. Y las historias no te pueden hacer daño. Aún así mientras Mia y Oliver se aventuran cada vez más dentro en el Bosque del Río Negro, encontrarán que hay algo más que viajeros y osos acechando este bosque. El psicópata es real. Y está emocionado de conocerlos. De Jaydeep Shah, autor de Tribulación, el primer libro de la serie Planeta de Policías, “La Maldición del Bosque del Río Negro” es una historia sangrienta y escalofriante que se lee mejor con la luz encendida.