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They arrive alive. They leave dead.
But first, they give me their confessions.
My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn’t mean anything to you. Unless
you’re about to die. And then I’m your bloody guardian angel. I work as
a night nurse in the Asylum for the criminally insane.
My name is the only real name you’ll find in this book. I won’t tell
you which hospital I work at. I won’t tell you the names of those
dying.But I won’t lie to you.You’ll read exactly what I’m told.
If you’re smart, if you’re deranged enough to read between the lines,
you’ll know who is telling the story.
They could be playing their final game with me by messing with my head.
Now, maybe they're messing with yours too.
This tie-in edition will be available from 16 July TIE IN TO A NEW
MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, IT: CHAPTER 2, ADAPTED FROM KING'S TERRIFYING
CLASSIC 27 years later, the Losers Club have grown up and moved
away, until a devastating phone call brings them back... Derry,
Maine was just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the
most part, a good place to live. It was a group of children who
saw- and felt- what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm
drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every
nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT appeared as an
evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reached up, seizing,
tearing, killing . . . Time passed and the children grew up, moved
away and forgot. THEN they are called back, once more to confront
IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories,
emerging again to make their past nightmares a terrible present
reality... 'They'll float...and when you're down here with me,
you'll float too'
A boy is found with his throat ripped out,
the blood drained from his body. It’s not the first
such killing, and the town knows who to blame:
the vampyr colony in the mountains.
But out-of-state detective Barbara Atkins think the evidence
doesn’t stack up. People are lying.
And Deadhart has a history of dark secrets.
The snow keeps falling, but so do the victims.
Time is running out for Barbara.
Is she hunting a cold-blooded murderer,
or a bloodthirsty monster?
And which does she fear most?
East Berlin 1968: a city recovering from the horrors of WWII and where
the state police, the Stasi, cultivate a climate of paranoia and fear.
In a place where your closest friend or family member could be a state
informer, the threat of violence is ever present and no one knows this
more than damaged school teacher Sebastian Metzger. But something evil
and ancient is stalking Metzger from the shadows of war–torn
buildings–something which threatens the city and perhaps even the
future of humanity itself. Tiny Acts of Violence is a stunning horror
graphic novel from Martin Stiff, writer and illustrator of the
critically acclaimed and award-nominated The Absence. “It’s an erudite
indictment of social conditioning - - it goes beyond The Lives of
Others in its critique of the Stasi.” Pat Mills (Charley’s War,
Spacewarp) “Has the feel of a long-unearthed Hitchcock… A highly
effective thriller” Rob Williams (Old Haunts, Judge Dredd) “The
atmosphere of menace and state control-induced paranoia drops from it’s
pages.” Simon Furman (Transformers, To The Death) “Gorgeously moody,
graphically striking and brilliantly cinematic” Andrew Cartmel (The
Vinyl Detective, Doctor Who)
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It
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Stephen King
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - Stephen King's terrifying classic.
'They float...and when you're down here with me, you'll float,
too.' Derry, Maine is just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered
for the most part, a good place to live. It is a group of children
who see - and feel - what makes Derry so horribly different. In the
storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every
nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes is appears as an
evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing,
tearing, killing . . . Time passes and the children grow up, move
away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront
IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories,
emerging again to make their past nightmares a terrible present
reality.
A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man
undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The
Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie
literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
. . You don't want to read this book right before bed. --Sarah
Lyall, The New York Times Book Review "This intense cosmic horror
with a touch of Mexican American folklore is incredibly creepy and
moving." --Margaret Kingsbury, BuzzFeed It was Vera's idea to buy
the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't
interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them
amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made
things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird
enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house--who
ordered industrial lye? Then there was the eerie music at odd
hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty
room. It was funny and strange right up until Vera was killed, and
Thiago's world became unbearable. Pundits and politicians all
looking to turn his wife's death into a symbol for their own
agendas. A barrage of texts from her well-meaning friends about
letting go and moving on. Waking to the sound of Itza talking
softly to someone in the living room . . . The only thing left to
do was get far away from Chicago. Away from everything and
everyone. A secluded cabin in Colorado seemed like the perfect
place to hole up with his crushing grief. But soon Thiago realizes
there is no escape--not from his guilt, not from his simmering
rage, and not from the evil hunting him, feeding on his grief,
determined to make its way into this world. A bold, original horror
novel about grief, loneliness and the oppressive intimacy of
technology, This Thing Between Us marks the arrival of a
spectacular new talent.
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The King in Yellow
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Eric J. Guignard, Leslie S. Klinger; Robert W Chambers
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The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer
Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. The book is named
after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through
some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly
esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics
as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten
stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations",
"The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign")
mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair
or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film
of the same name released in 2001.
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The Night House
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Jo Nesbo; Translated by Neil Smith
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WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER...
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard
Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote
town of Ballantyne.
Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate
named Tom goes missing, no one believes him when he says the telephone
booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like
something out of a horror movie.
No one, that is, except the enigmatic Karen, who encourages Richard to
pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number to
an abandoned house in the woods. There he catches a glimpse of a
terrifying face in the window. And then the voices start.
When another classmate disappears, Richard grapples with the dark magic
that's possessing Ballantyne to try and find them before it’s too
late...
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