Dark Fantasy Mystery Thriller

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked.

From award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes an edgy, genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to reckon with the past she's desperate to forget. One woman. A string of unsolved murders. Only...

Véronique Chevalier parece una hermosa y elegante mujer de éxito que conduce un coche de lujo y regenta uno de los clubs más exclusivos de la ciudad de Detroit, pero, en realidad, es mucho más que eso, ya que oculta un increíble secreto:

"Je tournai la tête vers lui et un nouveau sourire naquit sur mes lèvres. Ils étaient de plus en plus nombreux ces derniers jours. - Parfait, répondis-je. Je claquai des doigts au rythme de la chanson qui passait dans les enceintes de la voiture. Une étincelle attira mon attention. Une étincelle. Dans mes doigts. C'était tout à fait logique. Je claquai à nouveau et cette fois une flamme se mit à danser au creux de ma main. - Je crois qu'il se passe un truc, dis-je.

La guerra más antigua y devastadora de la existencia ha encontrado el modo de continuar, de extenderse por toda la creación. El Cielo y el Infierno ya no son los únicos escenarios para este terrible conflicto. Comenzó cuando el planeta se estremeció. Todos los habitantes perdieron la facultad de moverse, quedando resignados a contemplar impotentes cómo se desmoronaba el mundo. Al fenómeno lo llamaron la Onda y produjo cambios más allá de la comprensión humana.

Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he's no longer a zombie. But after killing his brother, Jamie, Vitus lands in prison on murder charges. Jamie's death exposes secret government projects so deep in the black they cannot be seen - without Vitus, that is. Sprung from jail, the government hires Vitus to clean up Jamie's messes, but tracking down his brother's homemade monsters gone rogue is easier said than done. The first of them is a convicted killer assumed to be safely behind bars.

Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college - each different from the other yet inseparable - until that night. It was the night that began with a bottle of whisky and a game of Ouija but ended with the death of Sania, their unlikeable hostel mate. The friends vowed never to...

In the beginning was the Oak, its hungry roots reaching deep into the earth, its gnarled limbs searching the distant heavens. Two hundred years ago, Obediah Magrute worshipped the Oak and died violently beneath it, feeding it with his blood and bone, shouting his chilling curse to the skies. Now, Laura and Mark Avery have come to the bustling little Vermont village.

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

Set in the wake of a galaxywide war and the destruction of a human empire, The Dangerous Type follows the awakening of one of the galaxy's most dangerous assassins and her quest for vengeance. Entombed for 20 years, Raena has been found and released. Thallian has been on the lam for the last 15 years. He's a wanted war criminal whose entire family has been hunted down and murdered for their role in the galaxywide genocide of the Templars.

Zombie, Indiana explores the impact of an invading zombie horde on a trio of Hoosier protagonists…each of whom have some dark secrets to keep. When the governor’s daughter mysteriously disappears on a field trip, IMPD Special Sergeant James Nolan, scholarship student Kesha Washington, and Governor Hank Burleson must all come together not only to find the governor’s daughter, but also to undertake a quest to redeem the very soul of the state itself…all while under constant attack from the living dead.

A rich and immersive urban fantasy from award-winning author, Angela Slatter. Verity Fassbinder has her feet in two worlds. The daughter of one human and one Weyrd parent, she has very little power herself, but does claim unusual strength and the ability to walk between one world and the other...

Brought to you by Penguin. "Challenging, invigorating, and unique." - Scott Lynch, bestselling author of The Lies of Locke Lamora Maia, the youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But...

"What happens when you have to choose between faith and logic? Temples are places of worship, oceans of tranquillity, or so everyone thinks, till a series of murders threatens to destroy the carefully cultivated reputation of the royal family of Thiruvanathapuram. And when fingers point towards...

Read by the author, Tomi Adeyemi From global sensation Tomi Adeyemi, The Siren is a dark, propulsive speculative thriller that will leave you breathless. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone, soon to be a major motion picture releasing in 2027. When Emery...

Deep in the shadowed heart of Arunachal Pradesh, beyond the forgotten valleys of Dibang, lies a place lost to time—and perhaps deliberately forgotten by it. No map dares to mark it. No local dares to speak its name. It is a place woven from nightmares, where a mysterious golden light burns at...

Als vergessener, ägyptischer Totengott hat Mafed kein Problem mit dem Sterben. Gut, dass er seine verbliebenen Fähigkeiten als Pathologe beim NYPD einsetzen kann. Selbst sein Kollege Detective Ian Barnell ahnt nicht, mit wem er da zusammenarbeitet. Bei einer übel zugerichteten Leiche stößt Mafed auf Hinweise, dass der Täter kein Mensch war. Gemeinsam mit Barnell macht er sich auf die Jagd nach dem Ungeheuer in New Yorks Straße

Gold miner Billy Newman thinks he has made the deal of a lifetime when he buys a remote island in the Philippines. Then crops fail, disease spreads and the islanders insist there is only one explanation: Billy has angered Tadamona, the giant god who claims the island as his own. Billy trusts medicine, dynamite and his own nerve—not superstition. But when Tadamona proves terrifyingly real, disbelief is no protection. With a young girl marked for sacrifice and an island in panic, Billy has to find a way to fight something everyone else believes cannot be defeated. A plague is spreading.