Najnowsza powie?? Deana Koontza "Weso?e miasteczko" przenosi nas do ma?ej mie?ciny po?o?onej gdzie? w Ameryce, do kt?rej przeyjecha?o objazdowe weso?e miasteczko. Jego najwi?ksz? atrakcj?, ciesz?c? si? najwiekszym powodzeniem w?r?d dzieci, jest zamek strachu, obiekt pe?en przera?aj?cych duch?w, szkielet?w i dzwoni?cych ?a?cuch?w.Kochaj?ce si? rodze?stwo, pi?kna Amy i Joey, w domu terroryzowani przez matk?, jej obrz?dy religijne i dziwactwa, dostrzegaj? w weso?ym miasteczku drog? ucieczki od dotychczasowego ?ycia. Ulegaj? z?udnemu urokowi, jaki roztacza wok?? siebie zamek strachu. S? nie?wiadomi, i? w?a?nie w nim s? pogrzebane potworne sekrety ich matki. Nie wiedz? te?, ?e jej uczynki z przesz?o?ci zosta?y na zawsze zapami?tane w tym nierzeczywistym ?wiecie. Kiedy? kto? z ich rodziny b?dzie musia? za nie zap?aci?…
Eighteen year old Caitlin Paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom moves again. The one ray of light in her new surroundings is Jonah, a new classmate who takes an instant liking to her. But before their romance can blossom, Caitlin suddenly finds herself changing. She is overcome by a superhuman strength, a sensitivity to light, a desire to feed--by feelings she does not understand. She seeks answers to what’s happening to her, and her cravings lead her to the wrong place at the wrong time. Her eyes are opened to a hidden world, right beneath her feet, thriving underground in New York City. She finds herself caught between two dangerous covens, right in the middle of a vampire war.
Not all hunters are bound by human laws…Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their wildly popular fiction, bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake — plus bestselling YA author Melissa Marr with her first adult supernatural thriller — unleash their full arsenal of dark talents, plunging us into the shadows where the supernatural stalk the unsuspecting… and every soul is a target.Get ready for the ride of your life — because the wildest magic has just been unleashed… and evil is about to have its day.
Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker—walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of 'strange' cases.Pioneer Square's homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen roaming the underground—the city buried beneath modern Seattle. When Harper's friend Quinton believes he may be implicated in the deaths, he persuades her to investigate. But the killer is no mere murderer—it is a creature of ancient legend. And Harper must deal with both the living and the dead to stop the monster and its master…unless they stop her first.
A week ago Zoey had a group of special friends, three boyfriends and a (kinda) clear conscience. Now she has none of the above. Luckily ice-queen Aphrodite is showing signs of melting and ex-roomie Stevie Rae isn't as dead as she'd thought. Though Stevie's now hanging out in tunnels with freaks - gross. If she can get them to listen, Zoey will need all her friends as events take a frightening turn at the House of Night school for vampyres. Shocking true intentions are about to come to light, loyalties will be tested and an ancient evil is about to rise again. Some days being special just doesn't seem all that...
A new war is dawning! The Three Laws of the Vampire Federation: 1. A vampire must never harm a human 2. A vampire must never turn a human 3. A vampire must never love a human DI Joel Solomon has a secret: he believes in vampires. But a ritual murder in the Oxfordshire countryside is just the first incident in a horrifying chain of events drawing the Detective Inspector into his worst nightmare. Are vampires really claiming fresh victims? Alex Bishop is an agent of the Vampire Intelligence Agency (VIA), tasked with enforcing the laws of the global Vampire Federation and hunting ...
Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body—but she's just come across her second in three days. It's been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet.
St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger...Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.
The mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood empty for years. But one dayit seems to be occupied, and its mysterious, handsome inhabitantAlexander Sterling becomes the source of much talk around town. Raven, a vampire-obsessed Goth-girl who has always considered herself anoutsider in "Dullsville," is determined to uncover the truth surroundingthe secretive Alexander. As she gets to know him, and their sparkintensifies, Raven finds herself in some unanticipated situations. CanAlexander make her lifelong dream come true? But love always has itscomplications-especially when it can only be awakened at nightfall.
Raven is back with her vampire beau Alexander in VAMPIREVILLE. Not much background is given here, so readers should definitely go back and read the first two books in this funny series by Ellen Schreiber to prepare for this adventure. In this volume, Raven and Alexander try to meet for the few hours each day when both are awake. Raven is literally dying to have Alexander turn her into a vampire on sacred ground (like a cemetery), making her his eternal mate. But he likes her for who she is and is unwilling to take that final step.
The toughest case yet for Greywalker and P.I. Harper Blaine, 'a great heroine' (New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris), has arrived.Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker—walking the line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her in all sorts of 'strange cases.But for Harper, her own case may prove the most difficult to solve. Why did she—as opposed to others with near-death experiences—become a Greywalker? When Harper digs into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father's early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. Forced by some very demanding vampires to take on an investigation in London, she soon discovers her present troubles in England are entangled with her dark past back in Seattle—and her ultimate destiny as a Greywalker.
Annie, una bambina di sette anni, comincia a essere colta da strane crisi durante le quali sogna eventi passati che lei non ha vissuto e tragici fatti che puntualmente si verificano. Quasi tutti considerano semplici coincidenze queste visioni premonitrici, ma quando la piccola contribuisce al ritrovamento di un cadavere, la polizia si arrende all’evidenza. Chi ? il responsabile dell’omicidio?
For once, Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.But it's Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party.Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there's no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about it which they do no one's getting out of there alive.
Lestat, stw?rca Louisa de Pointe du Lac i Claudii — dwojga bohater?w — opowiada w?asn? histori?. Przebudziwszy si? po pi??dziesi?ciu pi?ciu latach zostaje gwiazd? rocka. Jego dzieje s? jednak d?ugie i mroczne si?gaj? osiemnastego wieku. By? w?wczas autorem w Pary?u, zosta? wampirem i podr??owa? po Europie w poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na dr?cz?ce go pytania. Kiedy wreszcie odnalaz? pierwsze wampiry, z poszukiwacza sta? si? ?ciganym.
R is a young man with an existential crisis—he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, noidentity, and no pulse, but he has dreams.After experiencing a teenage boy’s memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and stragely sweet relationship with the victim’s human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.Scary, funny, and surprisingly poignant, is about being alive, being dead, and the blurry line in between.