Casa editrice: Independent Legions Publishing
A new retrospective collection by Poppy Z. Brite, author of "Exquisite Corpse", containing some of his best known horror stories: 'Calcutta, Lord of Nerves', 'Lantern Marsh', 'Mussolini and the Axeman’s Jazz', 'Self-Made Man', 'The Heart of New Orleans', 'The Sixth Sentinel' and 'His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood'. Cover Art by Alan M. Clark.
Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. "The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh" is a tale recounted by a traveller on a train to a fellow passenger. It concerns the bizarre circumstances of the mysterious disappearance .. and reappearance after eight years ... of his formidable and tyrannical aunt.Mostra libro
When contagion turns Wesley Harding’s world insane, and horror enters his home, the attic is the last place left to hide. At nine years old, he finds himself alone in the dark, amid heaped-up piles of the familiar and the unknown. Gunshots and howls punctuate the thunderstorm outside. Crashes and groans come from below. There isn’t much time, and Wesley must uncover the secrets of the attic, if he is to survive the night.Mostra libro
Kester Lanner didn't know what he was getting into when he followed his mother's dying request to contact the mysterious Dr. Ribero. Kester's youthful surety of the world is shaken as he learns the secrets his mother took great care to keep.Meeting Dr. Ribero reveals a side of his mother he never even guessed existed, for Ribero is his long lost father, and soon Kester is thrown headlong into the family business: catching supernatural spirits. A logically-minded academic type, Kester is frightened by the sudden plunge into an unknown and dangerous world. He's intrigued, despite his fear, as he reads an old diary that tells the chilling tale of the portrait of a beautiful woman, which is the home of an old and malevolent spirit. She's a cunning spirit, and she just might be more than Dr. Ribero's agency can handle.Kester soon becomes enmeshed in a struggle with a ghost so powerful and haunting that his first real case with the family business might just be his last.Mostra libro
A poor student of metaphysics becomes obsessed with the odd music of an elderly German viol player who lives in the same boarding house on the mysteriously mysterious Rue d'Auseil - a street that no one else has ever heard of, and which the man is never able to find again later in his life. Unfortunately for both our narrator and the elderly musician someone (or something) else is also obsessed with The Music of Erich Zann.Mostra libro
Terror comes in many forms and faces... A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight… Scare Street is proud to present thirteen terrifying new tales in this sinister collection, featuring strange creatures, terrifying forces, new realms of horror, and more. So many chilling nightmares inside, just waiting to be unleashed. Fear wears many faces, and each grimacing mask of death is more unsettling than the last. Go ahead, devour just one more tale before the sun goes down… Don’t be shy. Which grinning apparition will be the one to make you scream out loud? Let’s turn the page and find out… This volume features the following short stories: 1. Lymphatic Pearls by Justin Moritz 2. Best Interest of the Clients by Dennis K. Crosby 3. Sleep No More by Jim Nemeth 4. Miles from Stokes by Peter J. Larrivee 5. Stone Of Golgotha by Gina Easton 6. Not All Gone by Rachael Boucker 7. The Golden Coqui by E. E. King and Richard Lau 8. The Blaker Street Chimera by Adam Newnham 9. The Bobby Sheldon Guarantee by Mark Towse 10. Like Their Owners by Thomas Nicholson 11. He & I by MJ Gardner 12. The Brine Song by Morgan Quaid 13. Brought Home by Ron Ripley and Nick EfstathiouMostra libro
Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 - 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian 'Golden Age' of the short story. Brown Rat's Docks is a fast-paced detective story involving murder, double crossing and skullduggery, all set in the heart of the London docklands.Mostra libro
