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Hell.com
By Patrick Senécal. 2024
« Monsieur Saul, nous vous souhaitons la bienvenue parmi notre groupe sélect. Sachez que l’enfer est partout et qu’il accueille…
deux classes de résidents : les démons et les damnés. La grande majorité des humains font partie de la seconde classe ; seuls les privilégiés comme vous appartiennent à la première. Et en enfer, les démons ont tous les droits. » Depuis qu’il a pris la tête de la société immobilière de son père, Daniel Saul est devenu l’un des hommes d’affaires les plus riches du Québec. Dans la jeune quarantaine, beau, fonceur, intelligent et sans pitié pour la concurrence et les losers, Daniel a tout pour lui et ne se gêne pas pour prendre le reste. Quand Martin Charron, un financier et ancien confrère de collège, lui propose de devenir membre de Hell.com, un site Internet secret où tout – mais vraiment tout ! – est possible pour ceux qui le fréquentent, Daniel sait qu’il ne pourra refuser de s’inscrire. N’est-il pas un « puissant de ce monde », comme son père l’a été avant lui et comme Simon, son fils adolescent dont il a la garde exclusive, le deviendra à son tour ? Or, ce que Daniel Saul a oublié, c’est qu’on ne monte jamais aux enfers, on y descend ! Et leur profondeur, qui est abyssale, n’aura bientôt d’égale que celle de son désespoir !.Mission Nanouime (L' agence Mysterium)
By Alexandre Côté-Fournier. 2020
Après avoir mis leurs vies en péril lors de leur dernière mission, Jérôme, Justin et Odile, les trois détectives de…
l'agence Mysterium, ont promis à leurs parents qu'ils n'enquêteraient dorénavant que sur les animaux de compagnie disparus. Peut-on considérer qu'un taille-haie égaré fait partie de cette catégorie ? Probablement pas. Mais quel risque courent les amis à tenter de retrouver celui de leur nouveau client ? Beaucoup plus qu'ils ne l'imaginent. Surtout que cet outil se trouve probablement entre les mains de voisins en contact avec des extraterrestres.Ils finiront bien par t'avoir (QA fiction)
By Sébastien Diaz. 2023
Un lendemain de tempête, une femme disparue depuis des mois entre dans un petit restaurant. Elle est dans un état…
lamentable. On ignore où elle était, et ce qu’elle raconte à propos d’un futur apocalyptique ne semble avoir aucun sens. Mais il y a déjà un moment que le Mal s’installe et gangrène nos forêts et nos villes. Que ça crie au meurtre, que ça s’entretue, que des gens disparaissent. Et si c’était le juste retour du balancier?Les destins de plusieurs personnes s’entremêlent, de Londres à Charlevoix et d’Acapulco à Saint-Hubert. Chacun devra lutter pour sauver sa peau et échapper à la menace de cette mystérieuse inscription qui apparaît un peu partout : Ils finiront bien par t’avoir.The Invisible Hotel: A Novel
By Yeji Y. Ham. 2024
A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative tale of political and…
ideological adolescence in the long afterlife of the Korean War.Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms—and a quiet terror she is desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub. Every house has them, these rotting and fragmented bones, reminders of what they have all lost to a war that never seems to end. Yewon and her siblings were born in this bathtub—and every year women give birth to new babies in the bathtub. Now, Yewon’s brother is stationed near the North Korean border, her sister has just undergone a life-changing tragedy, and her mother is constantly worried, her health declining. In crisis and in stasis, Yewon’s dreams of the decrepit hotel lead her to an unsettling truth about her country’s collective heritage.Recalling international trailblazers like Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police, The Invisible Hotel marks the arrival of a singular new voice with a sharp social acumen.Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories
By Lindsay Wong. 2023
From the bestselling, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of The Woo-Woo comes a wild, darkly hilarious, and poignant collection of immigrant horror…
stories. They’ll haunt and consume you—in strange and unsettling ways.Living forever isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Hearts can still break, looks can still fade, and money still matters, even in eternity. The ghosts, zombies, and demons in this collection are all shockingly human, and they’re ready to spill their guts. Vanity, love, and tragedy are all candidly explored as the unfulfilled desires of the dead are echoed in the lives of modern-day immigrants. Story-by-story, the line between ghost and human, life and death, becomes increasingly blurred.There’s a courtesan from 17th century China who, try as she might, just can’t manage to die. Grandmama Wu, who returns from the dead to protect her grandchildren from bullies. Not to mention an Internet-order bride who inadvertently brings the apocalypse to Nebraska City.From Shanghai to Vancouver, the women in this collection haunt and are haunted—by first loves, troublesome family members, and traumatic memories. Intertwining horror, the supernatural, and mythology, Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality riotously critiques contemporary life and fearlessly illuminates the ways in which the past can devour us. A collection about transformation and what makes us human, it solidifies Lindsay Wong as one of the most vital and electrifying voices in Canadian literature today.The school for invisible boys (The Kairos Files #36)
By Shaun David Hutchinson. 2024
What would you do if no one could see you? In this surreal adventure, a boy who is used to…
being overlooked literally becomes invisible, only to realize there may be far more dangerous threats in his school than bullies. Sixth grade takes a turn for the weird when Hector Griggs discovers he has the ability to turn invisible. Sure, ever since Hector’s former best friend Blake started bullying him, he’s been feeling like he just wants to disappear…but he never thought he actually would. And then, Hector meets another invisible boy, Orson Wellington, who has an ominous warning: "I’m stuck here. Stuck like this. It’s been years. The gelim’s hunting me and it’ll get you, too." It turns out, there is more than meets the eye at St. Lawrence’s Catholic School for Boys, and if Hector is going to save Orson—and himself—from the terrifying creature preying on students’ loneliness and fear, he’ll need to look deeper. With the help of a mysterious new classmate, Sam, can Hector unravel the mysteries haunting his school, and discover that sometimes it takes disappearing to really be seen?Reckoner rises: Volume 1, Breakdown (The reckoner Rises Ser. #1)
By David Robertson. 2020
Acclaimed writer, David A. Robertson, delivers suspense, adventure, and humour in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel continuation of The Reckoner…
trilogy. Cole and Eva arrive in Winnipeg intent on destroying Mihko Laboratories. Their plans change when a new threat surfaces, and Cole has terrifying visions. Are these just troubled dreams or are they leading him to a terrifying truth? Will Eva be able to harness her powers to continue the investigation without him?Chilling ghost short stories: anthology of new & classic tales (Gothic Fantasy Ser.)
By Dale Townshend. 2015
With a new forword by Dr Dale Townsend, this is a chilling selection of the most essential ghost short stories…
from the infamous pens of Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Washington Irving (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hope Hodgson (The Gateway of the Monster), M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost), and other phantasmagoric authors.Darkest hour (Cutler Family series #5)
By V. C Andrews. 1993
When tragedy befalls her best friend, Lillian comes to believe her sister Emily's claim, that she is evil and a…
curse. As her penance, Lillian endures cruelty from Emily and degradation from her drunk father. But when her father loses the family plantation in a card game, Lillian faces a new terror. For its return she must marry arrogant playboy Bill Cutter.Garden of shadows (Dollanganger family #5)
By V. C Andrews. 1993
This is where the wicked curse of the Dollanganger family begins. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish…
Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread...an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives...a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!If there be thorns (Dollanganger family #3)
By V. C Andrews. 1983
Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who…
had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother". And soon Bart's transformation began... Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father...leading him into shocking acts of violence.Cry to heaven
By Anne Rice. 1991
Set against the sweep of 18th century Italian life - its extraordinary decadence, opulence and brutality - the society of…
the castrati is revealed. Of the hundreds submitted to the knife at an early age, only a handful will achieve a voice so pure to enable entry to boundless fame, luxury and sacrifice - and the pain of being despised as half-men, freaks. One of the sopranos, son of an aristocratic father who castrates him to remove him from the family's line of succession, waits years to destroy the person who ordered his mutilation and disinheritance.The dark volume (Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang #2)
By Gordon Dahlquist. 2008
On a Barren coast, young heiress Miss Temple awakes from a fever to discover herself friendless, alone - and having…
shot her fiancé stone dead. Fleeing from suspicious villagers and attacks by 'wolves,' Miss Temple finds herself with a most unlikely companion in the shape of the seductive and deadly Contessa de Lacquer-Sforza. Meanwhile, assassin Cardinal Chang is following an orgy of destruction left by debauched aristocrat Francis Xonck, whose mind and body have been corrupted by a mysterious 'process.' Xonck leads Chang to the ruins of Harschmort House, where a mysterious and decidedly vile book is being hunted. Elsewhere Dr Svenson accompanies a sick woman whose memories have been drawn from her by a book of blue glass. Hoping that what she can remember will unravel the mystery of a diabolical cabal bent on world dominion, Svenson creeps ever closer to their dark treachery...As Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson uncover the devilish schemes of their deadly enemies, so the terrifying secrets contained in The Dark Volume are revealed one by one...Springtime: a ghost story
By Michelle De Kretser. 2020
When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne, he was married with a young son. Now that the couple…
has moved to subtropical Sydney, a lusher and more chaotic city, Frances has an unshakable sense that the world has tipped on its axis. Everything seems alien, and exotic—and Frances is haunted by the unknowability of Charlie's previous life. A young art historian studying the objects in paintings--the material world--Frances takes mind-clearing walks around her neighborhood with her dog. Behind the fence of one garden, she thinks she sees a woman in an old-fashioned gown, but something is not right. ..Mystery walk
By Robert McCammon. 1983
Set near the borders of Mexico, this is the story of two young men thrust into a nightmare world in…
which good and evil- and reality itself - become toys in the hands of an ancient, unstoppable force.The M.D.: a horror story
By Thomas M Disch. 1992
When Billy was six, his teacher told him there was no such thing as Santa Claus. But Billy knew the…
truth. Santa was real. And so was the Greek god Mercury, who gave Billy a magic stick that really worked. Billy could make grandma's hair fall out, he could rot the teeth of neighbourhood bullies, he could even force his stupid big brother to shut his mouth forever. And when Billy grew up to become a doctor, he could use his special gift to heal ... to kill ... to transform the fate of the entire world.