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The battle grows dire. The death toll rises. The end is nigh. Natisse, believing Kullen has fallen to a traitor’s blade, fights on to honor his memory and to complete his final mission: to save their Empire from the enemy fleet threatening destruction. Together with Golgoth, she must stand before the very fires of Hell to protect the city and people she has come to love.

On the frozen shores of Sweden, a freak lightning storm reveals the skeleton of a giant man, his bony fist gripped tight to the shaft of an ancient iron hammer. It's not every day that the remains of a Norse god and his war hammer appear on a beach, and the occult detective called Hellboy knows that whatever is coming next won't be pleasant.

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

In the early 1990’s, Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are drawn into a bizarre case in New York, linked both to Hellboy’s 1980 adventure with Anastasia in Brazil and to The Lobster’s encounter with the Proteus Club in 1933. A strange community of bizarre humans has been living in secret beneath Manhattan for more than sixty years. Now, though, someone is stalking them, murdering them one by one—someone who claims to be the ancient goddess Sem-Karul. With aid from the now elderly Cynthia Tynan, Hellboy and the BPRD must face the Goddess of Manhattan, and the monsters who serve her.

Tränen verschleierten ihren Blick, als sie ihm den goldenen Apfel aus der Hand nahm. Der Schein des Feuers spiegelte sich in seiner glänzenden Oberfläche. Rumpelstilzchen hatte gesagt, dass man Schneewittchen nur in ihren Träumen töten könne. Will betete, dass er recht behielt. Sie durfte nicht tot sein.

Horror maestro Christopher Lee reads this quartet of supernatural tales, adapted from the stories of M. R. James Over a century ago, M. R. James was the provost of King's College, Cambridge. He would gather together a select group of students in his rooms every Christmas Eve, and give a...

Presenting the book World of Warcraft fans have been clamoring for - the true story behind one of the Warcraft universe’s most terrifying villains, Arthas the Lich King.

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No longer only a warrior. Not just a queen. Persinette Basile has a new purpose. The chains she's carried since the curse began are gone, replaced by a crown. But freedom can't exist while enemies surround Bela on all sides. La Dame lurks on the border in Dracon, waiting for her revenge. In Gaule, magic folk are hunted and punished for their Belaen heritage. A journey into Gaule brings her face to face with the one person who can destroy her with one simple act: dying.

Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Only a few months ago, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Points; now, she’s learning to shoot a gun and dance the waltz and throw a grown man over her shoulder. Better still, she’s been recruited to the special branch, an elite unit dedicated to cases of a paranormal nature, and that means spending her days alongside the dashing Thomas Wiltshire.

In their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling present 21 new stories by some of the top names in literature today. Dark, disturbing and delightful, each story was written expressly for this superb collection of distinctly grown-up fantasy - a brilliant companion volume to Datlow and Windling's acclaimed anthologies, Snow White, Blood Red, and Black Thorn, White Rose.

In 525 BC, the Persian king Cambyses sent 50,000 soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the end of their 600-mile trek. The army - all 50,000 men - vanished without a single trace. Fast forward to 1986. A British archaeological team, sent to the edge of the Great Sand Sea to exhume evidence of the incident, has also gone missing.

Alone in a strange world and torn by grief, a vampire accepts the hospitality of the local lord. But can the vampire trust him once he discovers the land’s dark connection to his own quest for revenge?

When the riverboat on which she works as a dancer docks at a zombie-plagued island known as Sourange, Larissa Snowmane must rely on the help of the swamp creatures to save her soul.

Das kleine Städtchen Coventry in New England hatte schon tausende Schneestürme erlebt... aber noch keinen wie diesen. Menschen gingen in das weiße Gestöber und kamen nie mehr zurück. Jetzt, zwölf Jahre später, zieht ein weiterer Sturm auf und die Bewohner von Coventry erinnern sich an diejenigen, die sie im Schnee verloren haben. Ein Fotograf trauert um seinen kleinen Bruder. Der Tod seiner Frau hat tiefe Narben im Leben eines Gelegenheitsdiebs hinterlassen.

In 1994, Mike Mignola created one of the most unique and visually arresting comics series to ever see print: Hellboy. Tens of thousands have followed the exploits of the World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator in comics form and in prose. Now, fans of the comic can enjoy the world of Hellboy as seen through the eyes of some of the brightest creative lights in horror and mystery fiction.

Im Raum war es dunkel. Eine einzelne Kerze war die einzige Lichtquelle. Vor einer Ikone, die das Jesuskind in den Armen seiner Mutter darstellte, kniete ein hoch gewachsener, muskulöser und schwarzhaariger Mann. Seine kräftigen Arme umschlossen den Griff eines doppelschneidigen Schwertes, mit dem er sich abstützte. Sein Haupt war gesenkt. Seine Lippen bebten. Er flüsterte. Dragan Semjon Lyssakowitsch betete... Mit gewaltigem Schwung stand der Führer der goldenen Dämmerung auf. Er trug die traditionelle schwarzrote Kleidung des Ordens. Auf seiner Brust prangte das rote Rosenkreuz. Nun also war es so weit ... Der Krieg gegen die Schattenwelt konnte beginnen!

Der Goldene Thron steht vor dem Fall! Die Königin von Tha ist verstorben, ihre Thronfolgerin wurde ermordet. Von einst nur lästigen, nun gefährlichen Rebellen, die sich immer näher an die Hauptstadt heranwagen. Das Machtgefüge des reichsten Landes Siats steht auf dem Spiel - und damit jenes der Welt! Ilgar und Yorrick werden ausgeschickt, um zu intervenieren, das angeschlagene Großreich zu stabilisieren. An ihrer Seite Klingensänger Halbar, der sich geschworen hat, die Aufständischen zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Politik ist ihm egal, nur die Rachsucht treibt ihn noch an.

Een raadselachtig spannend verhaal over de Kolyma in Siberië: een weg die is aangelegd boven op de botten van de gevangenen van Stalins goelag. De Kolyma in Noord-Siberië staat bekend als de 'weg des doods'. Het draagt de bittere herinnering met zich mee aan de honderdduizenden goelaggevangenen die stierven tijdens de bouw ervan, en wier overblijfselen onder de permafrost werden geploegd terwijl het werk doorging. De nederzettingen langs de snelweg zijn de koudste bewoonde plekken op aarde.

Thrall, wise shaman and the warchief of the Horde, has sensed a disturbing change . . . Long ago, Azeroth’s destructive native elementals raged across the world until the benevolent titans imprisoned them within the Elemental Plane. Despite the titans’ intervention, many elementals have ended up back on Azeroth. Over the ages, shaman like Thrall have communed with these spirits and, through patience and dedication, learned to soothe roaring infernos, bring rain to sun-scorched lands, and otherwise temper the elementals’ ruinous influence on the world of Azeroth.