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By Dean Koontz. 2013
The pistol appeared in his hand the way a dove appears in the hand of a good magician, as if…
it materialized out of thin air. "You think I won't do it right here in the open. But you'd be surprised. . . . You'll drop before you get the breath to scream." The truck driver is decked out like a rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar he's slinging a gun--and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. Though he narrowly dodges a bullet, Odd can't outrun the shocking vision burned into his mind . . . or the destiny that will drive him into a harrowing showdown with absolute evil. DEEPLY ODD How do you make sure a crime that hasn't happened yet, never does? That's the critical question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it's the living who desperately need Odd on their side. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. Who the potential victims are and where they can be found remain a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: the homicidal stranger who tried to shoot him dead in a small-town parking lot. With the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock riding shotgun and a network of unlikely allies providing help along the way, Odd embarks on an interstate game of cat and mouse with his sinister quarry. He will soon learn that his adversary possesses abilities that may surpass his own and operates in service to infinitely more formidable foes, with murder a mere prelude to much deeper designs. Traveling across a landscape haunted by portents of impending catastrophe, Odd will do what he must and go where his path leads him, drawing ever closer to the dark heart of his long journey--and, perhaps, to the bright light beyond. ACCLAIM FOR DEAN KOONTZ AND HIS ODD THOMAS NOVELS "Koontz gives his character wit, good humor, a familiarity with the dark side of humanity--and moral outrage."--USA Today "This is Koontz working at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human existence: the nature of evil, the grip of fate and the power of love."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Supernatural thrills with a side of laughs."--The Denver Post "The nice young fry cook with the occult powers is Koontz's most likable creation . . . candid, upright, amusing and sometimes withering."--The New York TimesFrom the Hardcover edition.By Piera Biffardi, Kristen Middleton. 2015
La diciassettenne Cassandra Wild pensava che vivere nel caos dell'asilo nido di sua madre e affrontare i suoi nuovi sentimenti…
per Bryce, l'istruttore di arti marziali, fosse difficile, finché il suo mondo non è stato sconvolto. Quando un vaccino non testato inizia a mietere più vittime di un virus influenzale leggermente incontrollato, Cassie impara a sopravvivere in un mondo in cui i morti camminano e i vivi... corrono! Questa storia per giovani adulti è un'avventura spensierata condita con zombie, teenager in gamba, un uomo ossessionato dai videogiochi, un fastidioso ma decisamente SEXY istruttore di karate e umorismo quanto basta. Apocalisse zombie? Affrontala! Questo è un romanzo per giovani adulti, che include linguaggio osceno, violenza e contenuti sessuali di lieve entità. Consigliato per ragazzi a partire dai 16 anni.By Walter Greatshell. 2012
Henry Cadmus grew up on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far…
from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams is one he associates with his childhood... and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping blood; strange occult rituals... and worse. If it was up to Henry, he would avoid the island entirely. But Henry is returning to Catalina Island. At his wife Ruby's insistence, Henry, Ruby, and their infant daughter are coming to Avalon, so that Henry can face his fears, exorcise his demons, and reconcile with the one he fears most... his mother. From Walter Greatshell, author of Xombies comes Terminal Island, a novel of cosmic horror.By Ellen Datlow. 2011
A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and…
a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself... by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to track down an unfinished film by a reclusive cult director; a man spends a chill night standing watch over his uncle's body; a girl looks to understand her place in a world in which zombies have overrun the earth; a murderous pack of nuns stalks a pair of Halloween revelers... What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year. Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound, Tails of Wonder and Imagination), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Three.By Andrea Speed. 2016
Mean Streets: Book OneFrom the Infected UniverseWith his friend lion shifter Roan McKichan no longer in the picture, former sex…
worker Holden Krause is now working as a detective investigating cases in Seattle. When he receives a request to investigate a rather unusual case for Big Mike, a local drug dealer, he ignores the potential hazards in working for such a client and takes it on. But Holden hasn't given up his vigilante ways, occasionally seeking violent retribution for those ignored by the justice system. There's a man stalking the streets, assaulting anyone he perceives to be trans or gender-nonconforming in any way. When the brutality escalates, the case becomes personal for Holden. If he cannot juggle being both a detective and a vigilante, his taste for blood and danger might finally catch up with him.By Charles Dickens. 2008
Revered as one of the greatest writers in the English language, Charles Dickens is celebrated for his masterful storytelling, comic…
genius, and remarkably memorable characters. His early novels, such as The Pickwick Papers and The Adventures of Oliver Twist, were originally published in monthly installments, capturing a growing audience that quickly spread from England to America. Two centuries later, his popularity endures as readers revel in the warm humanity of his tales of self-discovery--and delight in the annual tradition of revisiting his holiday stories.Following the tremendous success of A Christmas Carol in 1843, there was great demand for more tales of ghostly visitation, and the great Victorian storyteller happily obliged with spellbinding tales such as The Haunted House. The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal?By H. P. Lovecraft. 2012
H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages…
of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.By Richard Cox. 2016
Both a haunting coming-of-age story set in North Texas against the backdrop of a deadly tornado, and a character-driven, deeply-affecting…
supernatural thriller. In 1979, a massive tornado devastates the city of Wichita Falls, Texas, leaving scores dead, thousands homeless, and nine-year-old Todd Willis in a coma, fighting for his life. Four years later, Todd awakens to a world that looks the same but feels different in a way he can't quite grasp. For Todd, it's a struggle to separate fact from fiction as he battles lingering hallucinations from his long sleep. The new friends Todd makes in 1983 are fascinated with his experience and become mesmerized by his strange relationship with the world. Together the five boys come of age during a dark, fiery summer where they find first love, betrayal, and a secret so terrible they agree to never speak of it again. But darkness returns to Wichita Falls twenty-five years later, and the boys--now men--are forced to reunite and confront the wounds from their past. When their memories of that childhood summer refuse to align with reality, the friends embark upon a search for truth that will threaten their lives, and transform their understanding of each other--and the world itself--forever.By H. P. Lovecraft. 2012
H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages…
of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.By H. P. Lovecraft. 2012
H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages…
of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.By Arthur Machen. 2013
By P. M. Prior, Alejandra Ayala. 2016
Su vida depende de los secretos enterrados de LA CASONA Debía ser un lugar seguro, su hogar, su santuario. Cuando…
Prue Bridgewater ve por primera vez la vieja casona abandonada, es amor a primera vist, pero Ray, su marido, no está tan convencido. La propiedad había sido descuidada por décadas y Ray no dejaba de preguntarse el motivo. Sin embargo, Prue está al borde de un ataque de nervios, por lo que él hará lo que deba hacer para mantenerla a salvo, incluso si eso significa vivir allí. Una vez en su Nuevo hogar, Prue empieza a arreglar la casa mientras Ray está ausente. Pero tras una serie de extraños descubrimientos, ella teme haber perdido la razón. Escucha cosas y ve personas que no pueden estar ahí, y no puede dejar de sentir que alguien la observa. Mientras la sanidad de Prue se desvanece, y su matrimonio sufre, tiene dificultad para diferenciar la verdad de la fantasía. Pero las cosas van de mal en peor, y pronto no es sólo su sanidad mental, sino su vida depende de los secretos enterrados de LA CASONA.By Sarah Pinborough. 2009
In this emotionally gripping, genre-defying novella from Sarah Pinborough, a woman sits at her father's bedside, watching the clock tick…
away the last hours of his life. Her brothers and sisters--she is the middle child of five--have all turned up over the past week to pay their last respects. Each is traumatized in his or her own way, and the bonds that unite them to each other are fragile--as fragile perhaps as the old man's health. With her siblings all gone, back to their self-obsessed lives, she is now alone with the faltering wreck of her father's cancer-ridden body. It is always at times like this when it--the dark and nameless, the impossible, presence that lingers along the fringes of the dark fields beyond the house--comes calling.As the clock ticks away in the darkness, she can only wait for it to find her, a reunion she both dreads and aches for...By Susan Laine. 2016
Twenty winters have passed since the Cataclysm brought down society and robbed people of their memories. Humanity, vastly reduced in…
numbers since the initial chaos, has started anew in Canal City with the aid of library books and steam technology. The Scout and Ranger Corps was established to search for possible survivors and to replenish dwindling resources. Dev is the captain of the scout airship Smoke Sparrow, and Shay is the scholar of their newest expedition. Their destination is Innsmouth, Massachusetts, a small fishing town that is mentioned in obscure books but shows up on no maps. Might its secrets offer answers? But within the fog-covered, ruined hillside town by the bay lurk unspeakable dangers and horrors beyond imagining. The expedition team soon learns that Innsmouth is one town that should have been left forgotten.By Shawn Wiseman, Isabel Garrido Bayano. 2016
Los médiums han secuestrado a una mujer, y Vasha, la gángster vampiro, quiere rescatarla sin contar con la policía. Cuando…
se le asigna el rescate de la científica a Olivia, la vampiro-médium Kara quiere ir con ella para ayudarla, pero podría arrepentirse pronto de su decisión. Descubre que la científica podría estar trabajando en una nueva arma para luchar contra los médiums y, si se salva, Vasha podría tener las herramientas para empezar una nueva guerra. Una vez más, Kara tiene que impartir justicia con sus propias manos, y no solo eso, sino que la última vez que luchó contra un médium casi vive para contarlo. ¿Podrán los poderes de Kara ser lo suficientemente fuertes para salvar la vida de quien debe salvarse o fracasará y se enfrentará a la ira de Vasha?By Algernon Blackwood. 2013
By Dan Madigan. 2006
He's the last thing you'll ever see... Seven-feet-tall. Four hundred pounds. A blood-crusted, rusty steel plate screwed into his skull.…
But perhaps the most terrifying thing about reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight are the razor-sharp nails on his forefingers, the ones that circle around his victims' eyes just before he takes them. Holed up within the long-abandoned Blackwell Hotel, nine floors of hidden passageways and two-way mirrors that once acted as a playground for the rich and privileged, Jacob's disturbing gaze is now fixed on Kira, Christine, Michael, Tye, Zoe, Melissa, Richie, and Russell -- eight delinquents hoping to shave time off their county jail sentences by performing community service and restoring the building -- and detention officer Frank Williams, the former cop who put a bullet in Jacob's head four years prior. Goodnight sees the sins in their eyes -- he always does -- and he's going to pluck them out, one by one... See No Evil, a violent, bloody account of madness and revenge, is a novelization of the terrifying new thriller from WWE Films and Lionsgate, starring WWE Raw Superstar Kane.By Nick Mamatas. 2016
For fans of legendary pulp author H. P. Lovecraft, there is nothing bigger than the annual Providence-based convention the Summer…
Tentacular. Horror writer Colleen Danzig doesn't know what to expect when she arrives, but is unsettled to find that among the hob-knobbing between scholars and literary critics are a group of real freaks: book collectors looking for volumes bound in human skin, and true believers claiming the power to summon the Elder God Cthulhu, one of their idol's most horrific fictional creations, before the weekend is out. Colleen's trip spirals into a nightmare when her roommate for the weekend, an obnoxious novelist known as Panossian, turns up dead, his face neatly removed. What's more unsettling is that, in the aftermath of the murder, there is little concern among the convention goers. The Summer Tentacular continues uninterrupted, except by a few bumbling police. Everyone at the convention is a possible suspect, but only Colleen seems to show any interest in solving the murder. So she delves deep into the darkness, where occult truths have been lurking since the beginning of time. A darkness where Panossian is waiting, spending a lot of time thinking about Colleen, narrating a new Lovecraftian tale that could very well spell her doom.By Seth, Marjorie Bowen. 2016
An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete a particular set,…
the collector pays a visit to the woman's ramshackle house, where she makes a terrifying, ghostly discovery.By David Towsey. 2013
This imaginative and unconventional debut novel is set centuries in the future. An unnamed event has wiped out most of…
humanity, scattering its remnants across vast and now barren lands reminiscent of the 19th century western frontier of America. Small clusters of humans still cling to existence in a post-apocalyptic world that is increasingly overrun by those who have risen from the dead--or, as the living call them, the Walkin'.Thomas, a thirty-two year old conscripted soldier, homeward bound to the small frontier town of Barkley after fighting in a devastating civil war, is filled with hope at the thought of being reunited with his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Mary, both named after characters in the Good Book. As it turns out, he also happens to be among the Walkin'. Devoid of a pulse or sense of pain, but with his memories and hopes intact, Thomas soon realizes that the living, who are increasingly drawn to the followers of the Good Book, are not kindly disposed to the likes of him. And when he learns what the good people of Barkley intend to do to him, and to his family, he realizes he may just have to kidnap his daughter to save her from a fate worse than becoming a member of the undead.When the people of Barkley send out a posse in pursuit of father and daughter, the race for survival truly begins...