Verlag: BookRix
PROLOGUE: After waking up with unknown wounds decades ago on his hands, an experienced boy finds himself in a spiritual conflict against the evil mummy. With the menacing treasure hunt Pierre Du Devoir lusting for riches, he awakens an unpredictable embalmment that is going to wreak havoc in Nubia.
A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a dangerous world of violence, cruelty and revenge. For readers of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox. Sara Sidorova lies dying. As she hovers between life and death, she receives a visitation from Amba, the tiger god who will devour creation if he is released from the chains that bind him. Amba gives Sara Sidorova an extraordinary gift: a glimpse into the future. Years later, her granddaughter Irenda will grow up in a wartorn country where survival means obedience. When a devastating attack robs her of her mother, she travels to Hrana City. There, her grandmother agrees to teach her the ultimate secret: how to tame death. But it won't be easy… In the circus that offers her first taste of power, Irenda will have to tame another tiger if she is to survive. Amongst the magicians, the strongmen and the contortionists, she will start down a dangerous road, to carry out a revenge decades in the making... and bring justice into the world for herself and for her family. Rich with glamour and strangeness, brutality and deceit and the dark magic of the circus, this haunting fable will chill your bones and make your heart ache. ‘Intelligent, dark, wildly inventive.’ PAUL TREMBLAYZum Buch
"one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." - Stephen King A tense and creepy horror story, The Great God Pan revolves around the mysterious "Mrs Vaughan" and the tide of death she leaves in her wake. Can she be stopped? What connection does she have to a certain illegal experiment performed some twenty years earlier? Or horrendous goings on at a sleepy welsh rural village? Inspired by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. "The Great God Pan" received positive approval from Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft and others, and is considered a Horror Masterpiece. Narrated by Michael Ward.Zum Buch
In this provocative, darkly funny, and unique novel—a mix of Lord of the Flies and The Royal Tenenbaums—a dictator's former right-hand man becomes housebound and a family power struggle erupts. Growing up on a Cuba-esque Caribbean island, Casandra, Calia, and Caleb endure life under two tyrannies: that of their parents, and the Island’s authoritarian dictator, Pop-Pop Mustache. Papa was the dictator's former right-hand man. Now, he’s a political pariah and an ugly parody of a tyrant, treating his home as a nation which he rules with an iron fist. As for Mom, his wife and hateful second in command, she rules from the mind. Obsessed with armchair psychoanalysis, she spends her days reading self-help books and seeks to diagnose the kids, and perhaps even herself. But within these walls, a rebellion is fomenting. Casandra, a cynical, self-important teenager with the most unlikely of attractions, recruits Caleb, meek yet gifted with a deadly touch, to join her in an insurrection against their father’s arbitrary totalitarianism. Meanwhile, Calia, the silent, youngest sibling who just wants to be left alone to draw animals, may be in league with the flies—whose swarm in and around the house grows larger as Papa’s violence increases. Equal parts Greek tragedy and horror, with a touch of J.D. Salinger and Luis Buñuel, The Tyranny of Flies is a biting and wholly original subversive masterpiece that examines the inherent violence of authority and the frightening and indelible links between patriarchy, military, and family. Translated from the Spanish by Kevin Gerry DunnZum Buch
"Horror at Sea" returns! More nautical nightmares: from a ship’s terrifying encounter with something monstrous in Demons of the Sea; to a tale of murder with a touch of maritime superstition in The Jonah. "There’ll be restless nights for thee, upon these seven seas..." Contents: Demons of the Sea by William Hope Hodgson A ship's encounter with something monstrous. The Boat on the Beach by Kadra Maysi Strange was the woman who came down to the boat at night. Table for Two by Arthur Leo Zagat It was just the sea you heard. The Voice in the Dawn by William Hope Hodgson A strange voice greets the crew at dawn. The Horror in the Hold by Frank Belknap Long A tale of the old 'adventurous' days. The Seven Seas Are One by Allison V. Harding The Captain's fate was coming. Drowned Argosies by Jay Wilmer Benjamin The Volcania had gone down. Sea Curse by Robert E. Howard The baneful force of an old woman’s curse. The Horror at Martin's Beach by H. P. Lovecraft A horrifying creature killed by sailors at sea. The Harbor of Ghosts by M. J. Bardine The ghosts of ships that had foundered. When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead by Robert Peery The mariners came up out of the sea. The Jonah by Guy Pain A murder, with a touch of maritime superstition. A Tropical Horror by William Hope Hodgson A ship attacked by a monstrous sea creature. Bells of Oceana by Arthur J. Burks Something deadly in the uncharted waters. Death of the Kraken by David H. Keller In the Sargasso Sea are many monsters.Zum Buch
A cautionary tale that Lovecraft wrote as a partially tongue-in-cheek admonition in order to dissuade his friend from trying all of the booze before prohibition took effect, this story wasn't published until 40 years or so after it was written.Zum Buch
Vampires Queen Astra and King Max of Vampires's daughter is on her first day at kindergarten will this ankle biter be a pain in the neck. "Hurry up Astry we're late!" cried Astry Starfire's Mum, "get in the car." Astry jumped in her Mum's car. "You remember every thing?" asked her mother Astra, Queen of Vampires. "Yes Mum," Astry said.," got my lunch bottle." "Remember to call it tomato juice not blood and don't share it," said her mum. ''Yes mum" said Astry. "And don't tell any one about vampires," said Astra. "Yes mum," said Astry. "We're here!" said Astra a while later. "Out you hop," said Astra. "Mummy why is that girl so pale," a young child asked seeing Astry. The mum of the child saw Astra and Astry scooped up their child and put them in their car and said "You're going to another Kinder," and sped off in their car. music by Suno AiZum Buch
