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After an eviction notice and one too many apple martinis, I wake, stripped bare and alone in a cell. No, wait, not alone. My evil garbage fire ex, Andrew, who suggested he’d let me stay with him “for a price” is here, too. He’s the whole reason I lost my job. My head is throbbing, my vision fuzzy. “Andrew, you piece of… what are you doing?” “Who’s Andrew?” My blood runs cold. That’s not Andrew’s voice. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god.

Thomas Phillips knows he's losing his mind. He's been losing it for as long as he can remember. And yet, when a strange old man asks him to consider that he, out of everyone in the world, knows the real truth, Thomas' life begins to spiral out of control. He loses interest in his job and is fired. He refuses his wife's suggestion of psychiatric care, and she leaves him. In the end, Thomas is alone.

Seventeenth-century England, and a plough uncovers a grisly skull in the furrows of a farmer's field. The skull disappears, but its malefic influence begins to work in insidious ways upon the nearby village of Hexbridge. First, the cows stop milking and the fruit turns rotten on the trees. Then, an insolent ungodliness takes hold of the local children, mysterious fur patches appear on limbs and people start disappearing.... Something evil is stirring in the woods.

All Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Thomas Weaver, haunted by a teenage tragedy, lived a wasted life. He closed his eyes for what he believed was the last time in 2016, but opened them again in his teenage bedroom and body in 1976. Now a middle-aged man in his teenage body, he sets out to fix everything he did wrong in his first life. A budding serial killer in home room, a possible new romance, and high school algebra complicate his plans. What would you do, if you could do it all again?

When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country's most infamous haunted houses, he reluctantly agrees. At least he won't be alone; joining him are three other masters of the macabre, writers who have helped shape modern horror. But what begins as a simple publicity stunt will become a fight for survival. The entity they have awakened will follow them, torment them, threatening to make them a part of the bloody legacy of Kill Creek.

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a secondhand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling adventure of love, sex, death and time travel.

Ex-mercenary, pirate, and gun-runner Dante Bogart knows he's screwed the pooch after he hands one of his shady employers a biological weapon that made the dead rise from their graves, laugh like hyenas, and feast upon the living. Dante tried to blow the whistle via a tell-all video that went viral - but that was before the black ops boys deep-sixed him at a secret interrogation site on the Panama-Colombia border.

Kairhyse - My little demon has been taken again, but this time my journey to get her back is by far more dangerous than the last. My patience is none for those around me, that includes the man that is aiding Sydni and I in finding Xeraphine. Sacrifices will need to be made and I'm willing to give everything fate has for me to make sure I get her back.

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post) Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange...

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.

In der Nähe von Lüneburg gerät ein junges Ehepaar in ein heftiges Unwetter, als plötzlich ihr Wagen streikt. Sie scheinen Glück zu haben, denn sie entdecken, verborgen hinter Bäumen und Sträuchern, ein Haus auf der Klippe, in dem sie verzweifelt Unterschlupf vor dem Unwetter suchen. Zuerst erleichtert, dem heftigen Unwetter entkommen zu sein, stellen sie nach kurzer Zeit fest, dass das Haus ein schreckliches Geheimnis verbirgt und ihr Leben bedroht…

Rachel wusste nicht, wo sie sich befand. Doch sie merkte, dass sich etwas veränderte. Der eben noch durch ihre Hand rasende Schmerz war ebenso verschwunden wie die durch ihren Körper pulsierende Angst. Da war nichts mehr vom unsagbaren, auf ihrer Brust ruhenden Druck. Nur eine ihr unbekannte Verwirrung war zurückgeblieben, die sich erst in dem Moment zu klären begann, als sie die schemenhafte, aus dem dichten Nebel formende Gestalt erkannte.

Das dunkle Zeitalter hielt die Menschen fest im Griff, deren Aberglaube in den Köpfen der Bevölkerung tief verwurzelt ist. Die Betrüger Wilhelm und Issak versuchten daraus Kapital zu schlagen. Doch die Einwohner des kleinen Dorfes kamen ihnen auf die Schliche und stellten sie vor Gericht. Als Wiedergutmachung forderten sie von ihnen, dass sie eine Botschaft in die Kathedrale am Fuße des Berges bringen sollten.

Loxagon hat den Baayle Dämon besiegt und dessen Kraft in sich aufgenommen. Der Sohn des Teufels versteckt sich nicht länger und stellt sich dem mächtigen Krieger Haggas zum Duell. Asmodis erfuhr davon, doch er unternahm nichts gegen ihn. Seiner Ansicht nach würde Loxagon im Kampf gegen Haggas unterliegen. Er blieb in Warteposition. Das Problem Loxagon würde sich von selbst erledigen. In der Gegenwart hat sich Mr.

Mr. Silver hatte erfahren, dass ein gefährlicher Zauber namens Marbu aus Afrika nach London gekommen sein solle. Was hatte es mit Marbu auf sich? Was verbarg sich hinter dieser afrikanischen Geheimreligion? Marbus Anhänger wollten, dass ein höllisches Buch geschrieben wird, das packend, faszinierend und erschreckend daherkommen solle, jeden in seinen Bann ziehen und zu einem willenlosen Sklaven Marbus machen würde. Ein Buch, das die Macht dieses afrikanischen Gottes über den europäischen Kontinent bringen sollte.

Mary und Will Parker erfüllen sich ihren Traum von einem Haus auf den Klippen von Cornwall, doch auf dem Gelände des Hauses gehen Geister um. Um ihr Glück wirklich genießen zu können, müssen sie den Geistern helfen, aber was ist das Geheimnis vom Haus auf den Klippen?

Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. But what if he could go back? Hurled back in time, Isaac has one chance to change it all. A chance to warn humanity of their impending doom. A chance to stop the [System] before shortsightedness and lust for power can render humanity extinct.

“Elisabeth Thomas had me mesmerized from the first page. Dreamy and brimming with dread, Catherine House will swallow you whole."" — Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls Trust us, you belong here. A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded...

After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more charming, no countryside more idyllic than the farming village of Cornwall Coombe. Here they begin a new life: simple, pure, close to nature - and ultimately more terrifying than Manhattan’s darkest alley.

Tony Ballard, Noel Bannister, Joan Kunis, Tab Weaver und Boris Chruschtschenko sind auf dem Weg zur Zentrale der Organisation des Schreckens. Sie wollen verhindern, dass immer mehr Killer-Wespen die Welt unsicher machen, und Prof. Kull und seine Leute endlich stoppen. Sie erwartet ein auf Rache sinnender Prof. Mortimer Kull und eine Übermacht an Gegnern und neue Bestien aus der Brutstätte des Bösen.