Übersetzer Henry Morley
Verlag: Charles River Editors
William Beckford was an English writer best known for the classic Gothic novel The History of the Caliph Vathek. This edition includes a table of contents.
The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment.Mannequins in Aspects of Terror: The office tower had long fascinated me. The building dominated the skyline in the Euston area of London and consisted of twenty-seven floors with an exterior of green, dark glass.Zum Buch
Moments after welcoming his guests to a party, millionaire Harrison Pierce is murdered. But his death is only the first of many as, trapped on an isolated island, his guests start to die in increasingly bizarre ways.Attorney Tony Peterson must join forces with a woman who destroyed his life years before, the beautiful but deadly Cassandra Collins. But can she be trusted? And what really is the secret of the mysterious Death Mask?Zum Buch
My itchy feet drug me to the ATL one night for a light flirt, but I didn’t get me no r-and-r. ‘Stead, I found a hobo, a ghost, and a trio of vampires, and me with my best weapons locked in the trunk of my daddy’s car. That’d learn me to drive down to the city, if I made it off the Gold Line alive.Zum Buch
A bong won’t save you from the zombies . . . but running shoes might. Can Kate teach stoner college kids to run and fight zombies before it’s too late? She ran two hundred miles to find her son. Reunited with him, Kate now finds herself holed up in a college dorm room. She’s surrounded by kids who have no interest in gathering supplies, fortifying their home, or even taking out the trash. Resources are dwindling. Zombies are everywhere . . . . . . and survivors prey on the weak. Can Kate get the kids away from the Xbox and into the apocalypse? Lace up your running shoes and get the next installment of Undead Ultra now!Zum Buch
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached was first published in 1893 in E. Nesbit's "Grim Tales", a collection of romantic horror stories. A young man is perplexed when his lover fails to show up for a half-clandestine meeting and passes her house on the way home. Upon arrival, he finds the front door ajar and the suburban semi-detached in eerie darkness. Nothing could have prepared him for the sight that awaited him in his sweetheart's bedroom.Zum Buch
Vandover is a student who succumbs to a gambling addiction. This addiction causes him to divest himself of his cherished possessions and to lose his status in life, whilst his friends prosper. Eventually he is transformed by a strange degenerative lycanthropy, reduced to running back and forth across his apartment, naked, on all-fours. The novel was Norris' first, though published posthumously. Characteristically, it explores the themes of habit and addiction in a heightened "naturalistic" style. (Summary by Sprocket)Zum Buch
