American Horror

In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be.

"Ameryka?ski Dom Wariatow" jest kontynuacj? mej poprzedniejj ksi??ki "Zakopia?skiego Domu Wariatów". Ka?de opowiadanie pe?ne humoru, ale te? refleksji. Wszystko toczy si? wokó? mieszkanców wielkiego, wiktoria?skiego domu, o nazwie "Silverstone", którego w?a?ciciele zamienili go w B&B i teraz spotykaj? najró?niejszych ciekawych, a czasem dziwnych ludzi, Polaków osiad?ych w Ameryce, Amerykanów od hippiesów do milionerów, podró?ników z calego ?wiata, jednym s?owem ca?? galeri? postaci.

How does it feel to get everything you've ever wanted? Perfect bliss. This is the life Billy and Wizzie Frank have worked hard for, a life they've both sacrificed for. The perfect marriage and the perfect house with a view, right on the Alabama River, at just the right price. Did they find their dream home by chance or by fate, or was it something more sinister? Instead of the peaceful life, they find themselves enduring violent hauntings and encounters night after night, when the ghost of a Native American chief swears revenge.

Everyone knows the story of Frankenstein, the tale of a scientist that brings back the dead. This is Igor’s story. Igor is always seen as no more than a supporting character, the mere assistant who is eager to please the great Victor Frankenstein. The exception, of course, is in the original work by Mary Shelley in which he did not exist. Or did he?

Simón López Trujillo’s “mind-blowing” (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) novel takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts its own resistance . . . In the disorienting, devastatingly...

The Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf Coast States of the United States have been decimated in a germ-warfare attack. Air Force One is down; infrastructure has failed; and enemies of the United States are after the president. Ella Strong and a group of survivors are thrust into a chaotic world of compromised infrastructure and unforeseen complications. They will have to fight traitorous villains, even those who have sworn their allegiance to protect the president.

In 1934, the body of a beautiful but poor young woman was found alongside a riverbank near The Depot. Beaten to a pulp, only recognizable by a tattoo on her ankle, and yet, days after the discovery, the story all but disappears. Eighty years later, locals claim The Depot is haunted.

Some threads can’t be cut, no matter how far you run. Nerisse thought she had escaped the Loom and the haunting threads that wove her into a nightmare she couldn’t control. After facing trauma and supernatural horrors that nearly destroyed her, she believed her life could finally return to normal. She wanted to move forward, to rebuild, to heal. But the past has a way of finding you. When a series of unsettling events begin to disturb the fragile normalcy she’s built, Nerisse realizes the Loom’s reach is far from gone.

Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: That her presence will prompt him to unearth their painful family history. Ramon launches a haphazard investigation into the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search. Along the way, he falls in love, faces a run-in with a murderous gangster, and uncovers the lives of the lost saints who helped Marisol during her imprisonment.

Grade school teacher and aspiring author Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship - in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman turns up at his door, claiming that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. She doesn't like it, but she has one question: What happened to the little boy of the family, her long-lost uncle?

The Beetle tells the tale of an evil, ancient Egyptian spirit seeking revenge on an up-and-coming British politician, Paul Lessingham. The shape-shifting creature that pursues Lessingham is possessed of hypnotic powers and takes different forms, both male and female, as well as morphing into a beetle - a figure that induces terror in its victims.

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.

In 1673 the first European explorers to travel down the Mississippi River spot on the high, sheer bluffs the painting of a huge, winged monster. Where does it come from? Why did somebody take the trouble and risk to paint it on the bluff face? The Indians told them the terrifying story of a man-eating, dragon-like creature, and the brave chief who killed it.

When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelganger, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of young medical students, including “you”.

This Was Your Life is a story about an African American man who dies and his soul returns back into the real world to confront his stepsister who was rude to his mother and attempted to murder her. This is based on a real-life situation.

It's frustrating for local law enforcement to come up against a piece of scum like Newton Glover. He's dirty as hell, everyone knows that - breaks into and vandalizes his neighbors' homes; cheats and steals from everyone; folks suspect he deals drugs and porn. He's even killed a man and gotten away with it. He gets away with all of it, hinting that he has a secret government background and that he's "protected" by the Powers That Be. Glover may finally have gone too far.

""Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. The story of what went wrong during the postwar period…has never been more intelligently explored."" —Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of...

""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective...

From the author of Fleshbags and The Ghost Toucher comes nine tales to scare, tantalize, puzzle, and make you laugh. Through different times and realities, see how the people change within the same four walls.

Pimps. Demons. Midgets with chainsaws. Demon fighting never looked this good. Smoothen Silky and his rag tag band of agents gear up to fight their most intense adversary yet; a legendary demon hell bent on destroying the human race. Smoothen Silky: Demon Fighting Pimp is the first volume in the Grindhouse Chronicles series. These books are heavily inspired by Grindhouse Cinema and are filled with eclectic heroes, unique villains, and over the top violence. If you love those movies then you’ll love the Grindhouse Chronicles.