Horror,Ghost Stories

A new selection of Lovecraft's core 'classic' fictions, bringing together in one volume his most representative and influential tales.The first collection to provide a full contextual introduction which explores the meaning of 'weird fiction' and offers a balanced assessment of the place of the author in relation to the Gothic tradition and American fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.Includes an extract from Lovecraft's important critical essay, 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'.Includes a chronology, bibliography, and notes to provide additional contextual interest.Lovecraft's influence extends from Jorge Luis Borges to Stephen King, the films of the Alien series and the fantasy cinema of Guillermo del Toro.

Egy fiatal ügyvédnek egy távoli, eldugott kicsi faluba kell utaznia. Nemrégiben elhunyt egy ügyfele, az ő végakaratával kapcsolatos ügyeket kell intéznie. Az utazás eleinte nyugodtnak bizonyul, de az ügyvéd furcsa dologra lesz figyelmes. Egy megalázottnő szelleme visszatér, hogy bosszút álljon.

Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex, but sometimes they still surprise her. Take Seth Mortensen. The man has risked his soul to become Georgina's boyfriend. Still, with Lucifer for a boss, Georgina can't just hang up herkiller heels and settle down to domestic bliss. In fact, she's being forced to transfer operations...to Las Vegas. The City of Sin is a dream gig for a succubus, but Georgina's allies are suspicious. Why are the powers-that-be so eager to get her awayfrom Seattle - and from Seth? Georgina is one of Hell's most valuable assets, but if there's any way out of the succubus business she plans to take it - no matter how much roadkill she leaves behind. She just hopes the casualties won't include the oneman she's risking everything for...

Rachel guberálásból él a jövő egy porig rombolt, névtelen városában. Az egyik nap egy furcsa teremtményt talál Mord, a gigantikus zsarnoki medve bundáján, aki egykoron a Vállalat nevű biotech cég folyosóin nevelkedett, majd a rajta végzett kísérletekután megnőtt, a kínzások eredményeként pedig megőrült és elszabadult. Azóta rettegésben tartja a várost. Rachel a teremtményt Borne-nak nevezi el, aki először semmire se hasonlít. Rachel és Borne között különösen szoros kapcsolat alakul ki, de ebben avilágban minden kötelék csapda. A lány hazaviszi a teremtményt a földalatti menedékébe, és a drogokkal kereskedő szeretőjét, Wicket is sikerül meggyőznie, hogy fogadják be a titokzatos jövevényt. De ebben a furcsa háromszögben mindenkinek titkai vannak,és amit Rachel a Vállalat épületének elfeledett mélységében talált, az mindent és mindenkit örökre megváltoztat.A ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterious biotech firm. A scavenger, Rachel, finds acreature entangled in his fur. She names it Borne.At first, Borne looks like nothing at all? a green lump that might be a discard from the Company. But he reminds Rachel of her homeland, an island nation long lost to rising seas, and she prevents her lover, Wick, from rendering down Borne as raw geneticmaterial for the special kind of drugs he sells.But nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past, not the present, not the future. If Wick is hiding secrets, so is Rachel?and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There, lost andforgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed.

Kísértethistóriák gyűjteménye, mely a Viktoriánus kori ködös londoni utcákon kezdődik és egészen az 1950-es évekig tart. Még ekkor is misztikus, hátborzongató események történnek a külvárosban. A mindennapokat áthaja a másvilág szellemisége. A főcimet isadó történetben egy sötét éjjel a St James klubban különös események történnek és egy paranormális jelenségekkel foglalkozó detektív legkülönösebb történetét meséli el... Ám ebben az angol horror regény gyűjteményben a többi sem marad el borzongatásbanés meghökkentésben...From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. In the title story,on a murky evening in a club off St James, a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building. A lonely boy makes a friend in Boy Number 21 , but years later is forced to question thevery nature of that friendship. Alice Baker tells the story of a mysterious new office worker who is accompanied by a lingering smell of decay. And in The Front Room , a devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence oftheir grandmother, both when she is alive and afterwards. This paperback edition includes the chilling Printer s Devil Court in which three medical students make an unholy pact whose consequences will pursue one of them to the grave - and perhaps beyond.This is Susan Hill at her best, telling characteristically creepy and surprising tales of thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave you wide-awake long into the night.

A collection of award winning author Paul Tremblay's most acclaimed short fiction (many of which are published here in the UKmarket for the first time) and new stories set in the worlds of two of his popular novels, Growing Things and Other Stories isan exciting glimpse into Tremblay's fantastically fertile imagination a nerve rending collection with much to offer fansnew and old,A chilling short story collection by the Bram Stoker Award-winner author, including stories set in the world of 'A Head Full of Ghosts' and 'Disappearance at Devil's Rock'.

Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out to bring them home alive.In Washington D.C., thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock's Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she was entrusted - or some might say cursed -with the extraordinary button box by a mysterious stranger in a black suit. The seductive and powerful box offered Gwendy small gifts in exchange for its care until the stranger eventually returned, promising Gwendy she'd never see the box again.Gwendy has never told a soul about the button box - not even her husband. But one day the button box shows up without warning and without the man in the black suit to explain what she is supposed to do with it. The curious reappearance of the box, alongwith the troubling disappearances in Castle Rock, leads Gwendy home again...where she just might be able to help rescue the missing girls and stop a dangerous man before he does something too terrible to contemplate...