Showing results for "Ritual" in Science Fiction

The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far from figurative. Becoming a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn't take long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted. In fact, if the wrong people gained knowledge of what he was capable of, assassins would appear in droves.

Geh nicht in den Wald... Eine mysteriöse unbekannte Macht hält das Dörfchen Clapham in Atem. Geheimnisvolle Lichter, unheimliche Geräusche und Menschen, die im Wald tot aufgefunden werden, oder dort für immer verschwinden verängstigen die Einwohner. Die Alten sagen: Der Wald ist verhext. Die Jungen sagen: Ein Mörder geht um. Plötzlich geschieht das Unfassbare: Ein kleiner Junge verschwindet. Die abenteuerlustige Alison überredet Fletcher das Kind zu suchen.

A cold sense of dèjá vu becomes reality as the group emerges from a gateway they'd survived before — a grim graveyard of lost friends and nightmares. The consuming need to escape the dangerous melancholy of the place forces Ryan and company onto the frozen tundra, where an even greater menace awaits. The forbidding land harbors a dying tribe — cursed members of the ancient Inuit, who seize the arrival of Ryan and his band as their last hope to appease angry gods...by offering them up as human sacrifice.