Editora: BookRix
In a godforsaken place in Siberia, a deeply fallen businessman abuses his three daughters. He wants to break the young women. But is he really the strongest? A hardcore thriller with the pace and suspense of a novella. Tom Knocker is a pseudonym of the German writer Thomas Neukum.
“In the spirit of Ágota Kristóf and Juan Rulfo, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is forged from the deepest and truest stories about the perversity of the body, the sheer drama of the natural world, and the vengeful side of the divine. A fecund and daring book.”—Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party. As day turns to night, four hundred years’ worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasure and pain. It all begins with Joana, Mas Clavell’s matriarch, who once longed for a husband—“a full man,” perhaps even “an heir with a patch of land and a roof over his head.” She summoned the devil to fulfill her wish and struck a deal: a man in exchange for her soul. But when, on her wedding day, Joana discovered that her husband was missing a toe (eaten by wolves), she exploited a loophole in her agreement, heedless of what consequences might follow. I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is an audacious and entrancing novel in which the lines between the dead and the living, past and present, story and history are blurred. In it, Irene Solà draws on oral tradition as well as art, literature, and fairy tales to tell a completely new kind of story.Ver livro
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a haunting psychological short story that explores isolation, mental health, and the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. Through the unsettling diary of a woman confined to a room with disturbing yellow wallpaper, Gilman crafts a chilling descent into obsession that remains one of the most powerful feminist works in American literature. Perfect for readers of classic psychological fiction and gothic literature.Ver livro
An unexplained suicide. A seductive therapist. Can psychic Leonard Wise defeat a woman who can control minds, even his own? A pair of grieving parents ask Doctor Leonard Wise to examine the case of their deceased grown son. Len finds that Harold Stoller had thrown himself from the roof of his palatial home. Was he seduced by a female spirit, a succubus, that tempted him to his doom? As Leonard seeks answers with Detective Bill McGee, he comes in conflict with Doctor Anika Vanya, a therapist of unusual hypnosis techniques. Was Harold’s death an accident, or did she program him to destroy himself? Digging deeper, Bill and Len find their investigation stopped at every turn. Their reputations and very lives might be in jeopardy from a dangerous woman who uses people as puppets. If you enjoy unusual events, complicated heroes, and supernatural twists, then you’ll love Arjay Lewis’ novel of psychic suspense. Get Seduction In The Mind to be tempted by this mystery today!Ver livro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume Horror and its evil intents try to burrow into our heads and cavort around as only demons, monsters, phantoms and ghosts can do. They probably have other partners and friends too. And you, sitting there all alone, and listening….. oh dear. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 20th Century - Horror - An Introduction 2 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft 3 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft 4 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 5 - Lost Hearts by M R James 6 - The Music on the Hill by Saki 7 - The Waxworks by A M Burrage 8 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 9 - The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen 10 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson 11 - August Heat by W F Harvey 12 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion CrawfordVer livro
This story is not for the faint at heart. They thought it would be easy. Four boys from a nearby boarding school were drinking heavily and planned on harassing a family - just for the fun of it. But they hadn't prepared themselves for the terror of what they would meet inside of the house in shape of a little girl, with a very extraordinary gift. Humpty Dumpty is a horror novella from Willow Rose, author of the international best-selling horror-series starring the Danish reporter Rebekka Franck. No one is more addictive than Willow Rose.Ver livro
Set on the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is one of the most powerful and haunting novels ever written. Emily Brontë's only novel tells the turbulent story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw—two souls bound by passion, pride, revenge, and destructive love.Through shifting narrators and layered storytelling, the novel explores obsession, class conflict, generational trauma, and the dark intensity of human emotion. Heathcliff's relentless pursuit of vengeance and Catherine's fierce independence create a Gothic masterpiece that defies conventional romance.Raw, atmospheric, and emotionally uncompromising, Wuthering Heights stands as a landmark of English literature—an unforgettable exploration of love at its most transcendent and most destructive.Perfect for readers of classic literature, Gothic fiction, tragic romance, and character-driven drama.Ver livro
