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Fever Dream
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Samanta Schweblin; Translated by Megan McDowell
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young
woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy
named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her
child. The two seem anxious and, at David's ever more insistent
prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently
recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has
landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of
horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is
brought into shocking focus. One of the freshest new voices to come
out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of
strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this
cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and
desperation of family.
In a Glass Darkly is Sheridan Le Fanu's most famous collection
of ghost and mystery stories. There are five, all recounted by
Martin Hesselius: "Green Tea," "The Familiar," "Mr Justice
Harbottle," "The Room in the Dragon Volant" and "Carmilla."
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""What makes the Faber Finds edition unique is the illustrations
by Edward Ardizzone. The original title-page says, 'with numerous
illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.' That is true, there is an
abundance of them from the full-page to the vignettes.
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""This illustrated edition was first published in November 1929.
Eighty years to the month is it being reissued by Faber Finds. It
is an anniversary worth celebrating. Edward Ardizzone was one of
the best and most distinctive illustrators of the twentieth-century
and this was the very first book to benefit from his work. It was
an auspicious start.
Six women - mothers, daughters, sisters - gone missing. Inspired by
the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this is the story of
two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims. Arcade and
Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery
red hair and thirst for an escape, they form an unbreakable bond
nurtured by their grandmother's stories. Together they disappear
into their imagination and forge a world where a patch of grass
reveals an archaeologist's dig, the smoke emerging from the local
paper mill becomes the dust rising from wild horses galloping deep
beneath the earth, and an abandoned 1950s convertible transforms
into a time machine that can take them anywhere. But no matter how
hard they try, Arc and Daffy can't escape the generational ghosts
that haunt their family. And so, left to fend for themselves in the
shadow of their rural Ohio town, the two sisters cling tight to one
another. Years later, as the sisters wrestle with the memories of
their early life, a local woman is discovered dead in the river.
Soon, more bodies are left floating in the water, and as the killer
circles ever closer, Arc's promise to keep herself and her sister
safe becomes increasingly desperate - and the powerful riptide of
the savage side more difficult to survive. Drawing from the true
story of women killed in Chillicothe, Ohio, acclaimed novelist and
poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a moving literary testament and
fearless elegy for missing women everywhere. PRAISE FOR TIFFANY
McDANIEL'S BETTY 'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in
language and plot' Observer 'Breahtaking' Vogue 'I felt consumed by
this book. I loved it, you will love it' Daisy Johnson 'A
page-turning Appalachian coming-of-age story told in undulating
prose that settles right into you' Naoise Dolan 'Vivid and lucid,
Betty has stayed with me' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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The Toll
(Paperback)
Cherie Priest
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Take a road trip into a Southern gothic horror novel. Titus and
Melanie Bell are on their honeymoon and have reservations in the
Okefenokee Swamp cabins for a canoeing trip. But shortly before
they reach their destination, the road narrows into a rickety
bridge with old stone pilings, with room for only one car. Much
later, Titus wakes up lying in the middle of the road, no bridge in
sight. Melanie is missing. When he calls the police, they tell him
there is no such bridge on Route 177.
Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine For the first time
on CD! Vintage Stephen King at a great low price! Stephen King's
unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of
four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic,
Nightmares & Dreamscapes. An all-star cast of readers bring to
life these timeless stories from the darkest places. An infamous
house in Castle Rock takes on a life of its own in It Grows on You.
In The Fifth Quarter, a crook seeks to avenge his friend's death
and to piece together a map to stolen treasure that his buddy died
trying to claim. A nightly free rock-androll concert carries a
hidden price in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. And a tabloid
reporter's pursuit of a brutal killer could turn deadly in in The
Night Flier. Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Grace Slick and Frank
Muller lend their voices to this haunting collection of classic
stories that no Stephen King fan should be without.
The finest works of H P Lovecraft, renowned as one of the great
horror writers of all time. A major figure in twentieth-century
supernatural fiction, H P Lovecraft produced works of enduring
power. He has influenced the whole spectrum of those working in the
horror genre, from Stephen King to the creators of hit TV show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gathered together in this volume are
seven of his greatest works, including the three short novels, The
Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness and The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Timeless in their appeal, these
classics of the sinister and the macabre hold the power to truly
terrify.
The classic novel brought to life in full color! 'Cursed be the
hands that formed you'! True to the original novel, Declan
Shalvey's naturally gothic artistic style is a perfect match for
this epic tale. "Frankenstein" is such a well known title, yet the
films strayed so far beyond the original novel that many people
today don't realize how this classic horror tale deals with such
timeless subjects as alienation, empathy and understanding beyond
appearance. This is another great story, beautifully crafted into a
superb graphic novel.
Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ... From the brilliant World Fantasy Award winner Clive Barker come fourteen spine-chilling stories of darkness unleashed, gathered together in one volume for the first time. These are visionary tales of terror which will curdle the very marrow in your bones …
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Haunted House Short Stories
(Hardcover)
Rebecca Janicker; Contributions by Rebecca Buchanan, Ramsey Campbell, H.B. Diaz, Tom English, …
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"Another recent volume of the Gothic Fantasy series is Haunted
House Short Stories, which offers another selection of excellent
fiction." - Kirkus Following the great success of our Gothic
Fantasy deluxe edition short story compilations, Supernatural
Horror, Murder Mayhem, Lost Souls and many others, this latest
title takes housebound trapped spirits and creepy gothic mansions
as its chilling subject. Contains a potent mix of classic and brand
new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Oh, what
is that sound within the walls? The creaking floorboards, the
children hiding in the mirror, the spirits that rake across the
flesh of the mind - all find a home in this anthology of
spine-tingling tales. Classic authors include: E.F. Benson, Ambrose
Bierce, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, Bernard Capes, Ralph Adams Cram, B.M. Croker, Joseph
Sheridan le Fanu, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Gaskell,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, O. Henry, William Hope Hodgson, W.W.
Jacobs, M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, H.P. Lovecraft, Guy de
Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Oliphant,
Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charlotte Riddell, Mark
Twain, Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton.
"The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....
A bewitching novel set in contemporary Japan about the mysterious
suicide of a young woman. Miwako Sumida is dead. Now those closest
to her try to piece together the fragments of her life. Ryusei, who
always loved Miwako, follows her trail to a remote Japanese
village. Chie, her best friend, was the only person to know her
true identity - but is now the time to reveal it? Meanwhile, Fumi,
Ryusei's sister, has her own haunting secret. Together, they
realise that the young woman they thought they knew had more going
on than they could ever have dreamed.
"A sleek, stylish, and sexy graphic novel." -- FOREWORD REVIEWS "A
beautiful drawn and very delicately told love story." -- SMASH
PAGES When the vampire Lucardo, a royal member of the Court of
Night, fell in love with a 61-year-old mortal named Edmund Fiedler,
their passion grew legendary before Lucardo's practical father
intervened. After a furious search, Lucardo finally reunited with
his aging lover, but was it too late? Terminally ill with Shifter's
Lung, filling his chest with blood and drowning him from the
inside, Ed has finally collapsed. But fiery Lucardo is having none
of it; in a panic he has gone against Ed's wishes, turning him over
to the progenitor and god of his kind, the dreaded Silent Lord, in
a last-ditch effort to escape death. Will Ed embrace the dark gift,
living forever with his beloved? And what will it mean,
surrendering himself to this uncaring, malevolent force that lives
for nothing but tormenting those that call it "father?" An erotic
graphic novel that redefines a genre, this highly anticipated third
installment of the Letters for Lucardo series takes a dark and
foreboding turn in a captivating saga of immortal love.
In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen
King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if
women disappeared from the world of men? All around the world,
something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become
shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping
their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly
violent... In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus
is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates
except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems
able to sleep - and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be
slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal
devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila
Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake. And the sleeping women
are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether...
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Black House
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Stephen King, Peter Straub
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The North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking
Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and
is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she
follows him down into the hold and finds him leaning over an open
sarcophagus, surrounded by mutilated bodies. She catches but a
glimpse of what lies within before she's sucked into a maelstrom of
freezing brine and half-devoured corpses. Elle is pulled out of the
water, but the stranger - and the secrets she stumbled upon - are
lost. Unintentionally, however, he leaves her a gift; one so
compelling that Elle embarks on a journey that pulls her into a
world of ancient evils, vicious hunters and human prey to find the
man who saved her that fateful night. From trench warfare at Cape
Helles in 1915 to a shipwreck in the tropical shallows off the
Honduran coast, from a lost mine beneath the towering Externsteine
in a Germany on the verge of war to the gothic crypts of Highgate
Cemetery in London, Elle gets closer to a truth she has sought for
most of her life. But at what cost? Gifts, after all, are seldom
free.
It has been just a year since the tragic death of eleven people,
nine of whom were innocent of any wrong doing. Despite six bodies
having never been found, life in the village of Lingtree had
gradually begun returning to normal. But then Detective Chief
Inspector Eversden is called in to investigate the suspicious death
of a pipeline contractor called Harris. Unfortunately for the
detective, he was unaware that prior to his death, Harris had
handled a number of skulls exposed in the pipe trench. He dismissed
these as just skeletal remains of prisoners brutally executed for
breaking centuries' past Stannary Laws, the laws relating to tin
mining. As his investigations proceed, events begin to challenge
even the vast experience and abilities of Eversden and his
colleague, Sergeant Jones. However, unbeknown to him, even the best
detective in the force would face the gravest difficulty in dealing
with future incidents which have their roots in the past. Two years
later, the village has undergone a major change, a change which no
one relays to two visiting students, Sally & Helen. Ignoring
the weather forecast and a warning from their guesthouse landlady,
they set off to explore 'The Path of the Dead', the route taken by
coffin bearers in the 13th Century, to meet their obligation to
bury their dead in the graveyard of Lingtree church. What follows,
is a tale of horror beyond anything ever told by even the hardiest
and bravest of traveller.
'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very
often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he
did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside
Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories'
(his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of
his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the
steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that
the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream.
Dark Entries was first published in 1964 and contains six curious
and macabre stories of love, death and the supernatural, including
the classic story 'Ringing the Changes'. Robert Aickman (1914-1981)
was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of
the occult. Though his chief occupation in life was first as a
conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his
talents to writing what he called 'strange stories.' Dark Entries
(1964) was his first full collection, the debut in a body of work
that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's
most profound writer of what we call horror stories.'
Howling down the tunnels comes a new collection showcasing the
greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks, many of which
are republished here for the first time since their original
departure. Waiting beyond the barrier are ghostly travelling
companions bent on disturbing the commutes of the living, a subway
car disappearing into a different dimension without a trace, and a
man's greatest fears realized on the ghost train of a carnival. An
express ticket to unforgettable journeys into the supernatural,
from the open railways of Europe and America to the pressing dark
of the tube.
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