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Vathek
(Hardcover)
William Beckford
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R1,211
Discovery Miles 12 110
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and
mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell
it. Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood.
The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call
him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast,
alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she
can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between pagan
and Puritan - one that threatens to destroy the entire village,
leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake. "If it is a
devil you seek, then it is a devil you shall have!" This terrifying
tale of bewitchery features more than two dozen of Brom's haunting
paintings, fully immersing readers in this wild and unforgiving
world.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home.
She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to
Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed
to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career
and her mother's lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She
doesn't want to learn how to live without the two people who knew
and loved her best in the world. Mostly, she doesn't want to deal
with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired
from one job after another, and resents her success. But she'll
need his help to get the house ready for sale because it'll take
more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime
of memories to get this place on the market. Some houses don't want
to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them... Like
his novels The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and
The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is
classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying-a gripping
new read from "the horror master" (USA Today).
Set in Maine and England in the late 1990s, this story follows two
main characters. After working on a mass air crash off the coast of
Maine, Paul O'Brien, Medical examiner, confronts his inner demons
of PTSD, while moving forward in his personal life. Lillith
Messinger, cultural anthropologist, was engaged to her high school
sweetheart, Adam Goldstadt, until she thought he betrayed her. She
then took a teaching fellowship in London for one year. There,
Lillith met Eva Clark and Nigel Bard. A year later, Paul is called
to the scene of Lillith's suspicious death in Portland, Maine, and
discovers her diaries at the scene. Through her writing, Paul
learns of the dark world she was led into, and her own addictions,
after she left Adam. Lillith communicates with Paul from the other
side of the veil, or so he believes. In the end, will Paul help
solve the mystery behind Lillith's death? Come into the worlds of
Paul and Lillith, and meet some interesting characters in their
lives.
He is chained to her through his own choice. She is chained to him
through no choice of her own. A thick chain linking the two of them
together by their ankles and kept in place with heavy-duty locks.
She knows why she is there. He has explained that once - and only
once. Each subsequent time she asks, he simply tells her that she
knows the reason. She knows there is no way out until he says so.
For a time of his choosing, she is his prisoner and that is all
there is to it. Yet - for the two of them - things could have been
so, so different.
"Thrilling . . . one of the best Stephen King novels not written by
the master himself. . . . The setup promises furious action, and
Percy delivers, like [Richard] Matheson, like King. . . An awfully
impressive literary performance."--New York Times Book Review
"Masterful crafting . . . a horror story for our
times."--Minneapolis Star Tribune The Dark Net is real. An
anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far
reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies
and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an
ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is
threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be
stopped by members of a ragtag crew, including a twelve-year-old
who has been fitted with a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat
her blindness; a technophobic journalist; a one-time child
evangelist with an arsenal in his basement; and a hacker who
believes himself a soldier of the Internet. Set in present-day
Portland, The Dark Net is a cracked-mirror version of the digital
nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative
techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual
spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back. "This is
horror literature's bebop, bold, smart, confident in its capacity
to redefine its genre from the ground up. Read this book, but take
a firm grip on your hat before you start."--Peter Straub
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