There's nothing to fear in the world of men. It is only on the edge of the world of spirits that real fear begins.Respectable businessman Randloph Clare, president of one of Tennessee's largest companies, is challenging the bureaucratic Cottonseed Association with lower prices and greater efficiency. But his commonsense approach is given a sharp jolt when arsonists destroy one of his Memphis plants. But then even greater tragedy strikes: his wife and children are savagely and brutally murdered…Desperate to make sense of such mindless violence, he contacts an Indonesian priest who claims he can help Randolph enter the world of the dead. But, the priest warns, terrifying demons are hungry for those who dare make the voyage. Not only do they crave Randolph's life, but they are eager to condemn the souls of his family to a hell of perpetual agony beyond all human imagination…
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. So far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing.Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane uncle Dracula, Dory’s hoping her life is about to calm down. But then she gets some visitors. A friend wants Dory’s help in finding a magical Fey relic, and the gorgeous vampire, Louis-Cesare, is desperate to find his former mistress Christine.Dory and Louis-Cesare quickly discover that the same master vampire Christine is bound to is also rumored to be in possession of the relic. But when the master vampire turns up dead, they realize that there’s more at stake than a missing mistress. Someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if Dory and Louis-Cesare can’t stop the murderer, they may be next…
I'm a human sponge — I soak up memories. I feel like a thief, stealing secrets with an innocent touch. I don't like this gift. It's intrusive and sneaky. I think it's harmless, but I can't be sure. If knowledge is power, why do I feel so alone…?The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn't the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she's more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone.Something else has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity's greatest threat…
Те, кто нас читают, будут удивлены. Потому что это фанфик. Самый натуральный фанфик, сама до сих пор не верю, что это написала. Фанфик к Petshop of Horrors, замечательной манге, в которую я влюбилась раз и навсегда.
One boy's life ripped to shreds before his eyes…One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge…An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage…It's the end of the world as we know it.
Scott Bowman und zwei seiner Freunde werden in einen schrecklichen Unfall verwickelt. Ein M?dchen stirbt, doch da es keine Zeugen gibt, begraben sie die Tote und schw?ren, niemals wieder ein Wort ?ber das Ungl?ck zu verlieren. Sechzehn Jahre sp?ter: Aus Scott ist inzwischen ein respektierter, erfolgreicher Psychologe geworden. Doch die Vergangenheit holt ihn ein – in der harmlosen Gestalt eines alten, verr?ckten Zeichners, der in die Psychiatrie eingewiesen wird. Der Kranke scheint alles ?ber den Arzt und den Tod des M?dchens zu wissen, denn seine schonungslosen Zeichnungen offenbaren das Ungl?ck. Aber der Schrecken beginnt erst: Scott findet weitere Bilder des Patienten, Visionen voller Blut und Tot – und sie treten wirklich ein! Kann der Cartoonist in die Zukunft sehen? Formt er vielleicht die Zukunft? Als der monstr?se Wahnsinn des Cartoonisten sogar nach seiner Familie greift, handelt Scott ...
В новой антологии собраны тридцать пять классических и современных историй о вампирах, принадлежащих перу таких известных авторов, как Клайв Баркер, Роберт Блох, Нил Гейман, Тацит Ли, Ким Ньюмен, Кристофер Фаулер, Брайан Ламли и других.Загадочные, жестокие, аристократичные, сексуальные, бесстрастные, как сама смерть, и способные па самую жгучую страсть, – вампиры уже не первое столетие остаются притягательной и модной темой мировой литературы и кинематографа.Исторгнутые извечной тьмой или порожденные человеческими суевериями; исчадия зла или жертвы рокового недуга; звероподобные кровопийцы или утонченные ценители алого вина жизни – вампиры обязательно завладеют если не вашей кровью, то неотступным вниманием.
Auf der Suche nach einer Tankstelle sto?en Brenner und Astrid auf ein seltsames, uraltes Kloster, in dem die Zeit stehengeblieben zu sein scheint. Doch allzuschnell holt sie die Gegenwart ein. ?ber ihren H?uptern bricht ein flammendes Inferno aus, als ein arabischer Terrorist und die US-Luftwaffe sich ein letztes Gefecht liefern. Danach geschehen Zeichen und Wunder: Menschen, die Brenner vergl?hen sah, sind noch am Leben, und ein unheimlicher Priester enth?llt ihm die unglaubliche Kunde, da? das Ende der Welt angebrochen sei und der Widersacher nun auf Erden wandle. "Mit diesem neuen Roman wird Bestseller-Autor Wolfgang Hohlbein seine Fan-Gemeinde sicher noch vergr??ern k?nnen. Die irrwitzige Mischung aus Spannung, Fantasy und Horror l??t den Leser eintauchen in eine atemberaubene Lekt?re, von der man nicht so schnell los kommt." Berliner Morgenpost
Роберт Картер однажды сильно порезался во время бритья. Неожиданно он обнаружил, что в ране виднеются какие-то провода, а вместо крови из него течет машинное масло. Так кто же он такой?
Die Winchesters sind zur?ck! Die Winchester-Br?der Sam und Dean haben diesmal einen besonders interessanten Fall zu l?sen. Sie m?ssen in der Stadt Missions Ridge die Vorf?lle w?hrend der Nachstellung einer B?rgerkriegsschlacht untersuchen. In dieser Stadt in Georgia hat der Darsteller des S?dstaaten-Soldaten Jubal Beauchamp auf mysteri?se Weise sowohl Gegner als auch Kameraden umgebracht. Die Winchesters finden schnell heraus, dass sie ein uraltes, gef?hrliches Artefakt finden und vernichten m?ssen.EIN NEUES ABENTEUER DER BEIDEN D?MONEN-JAGENDEN WINCHESTER-BR?DER. Vor 27 Jahren verloren Sam und Dean Winchester ihre Mutter an einen ?...
The suburbs of Denver were no place to stay during a zombie outbreak, even worse the nuclear fallout was making the place downright uninhabitable. Max and his companions needed to get out of town fast, before they joined the ranks of the living dead or the just good old fashioned dead. This is book two in the Zombie Chronicles Trilogy, not a stand alone novel.
Culann Riordan was a high school English teacher with poor impulse control and a taste for liquor. He fled to Alaska before the state could yank his teaching certificate and possibly toss him in jail. He hires on as a commercial fisherman aboard the Orthrus, a dingy vessel crewed by a colorful assortment of outcasts seeking their fortune beyond the reaches of civilization. As he struggles to learn how to survive the rigors of life at sea and the abuses of the crew, he fishes a mysterious orbout of the depths of the ocean and comes into conflict with the diabolical captain of the Orthrus. If he is to live long enough to see the sunset, Culann must escape from the Captain, survive on an island in the Bering Sea populated only by a pack of feral dogs, find out how to control the orb’s destructive power, and come to grips with his sizable character flaws.
Tales of vampires have long haunted folklore and literature, but none has had the same impact as Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. Since the book's publication in the late 19th century, the blood-sucking Count has been seized on as the ultimate vampire, encountered by children of all ages in innumerable books, films, and television shows.
Karen Essex turns on the heat in this transporting and darkly haunting new tale of love and possession that puts forth the question: What if everything you knew about Dracula… was wrong?From the shadowy banks of the River Thames to the wild and windswept coast of Yorkshire, the quintessential Victorian virgin Mina Murray vividly recounts in the pages of her private diary the intimate details of what transpired between her and Count Dracula – the joys and terrors of a passionate affair and her rebellion against a force of evil that has pursued her through time.Mina's ...
The Committee, a group of powerful CIA fanatics, has friends in the Mafia, the Congress, in every important department of government up to and including the President's Oval Office. They are funded by a reclusive billionaire, and they have always gotten what they wanted. Now they want everything.This timely and chilling thriller, in the tradition of The Manchurian Candidate, is edge-of-the-chair suspense fiction…with the future of the world hanging in the balance.Enraged by the Chinese-American detente, the Committee conceives a sinister plot to destroy vital portions of the Chinese population. Their weapon is a ...
Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost. Gemmins live in abandoned cars, and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song.Like Mark Helprin’s and John Crowley’s , is a mustread book not only for fans of urban fantasy but for all those who seek magic in everyday life.“In de Lint’s capable hands, modern fantasy becomes something other than escapism. It becomes folk song,—the stuff of urban myth.”— “Charles de Lint shows that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time.”—The
