Literary Horror

Nelle vene di Marco Predieri scorre sangue di strega buona: questo è il segreto che sua madre gli ha tenuto nascosto. Essendo il figlio di Sibilla, Marco deve frequentare la scuola di Miss Orwell, dove imparerà a capire quali siano i suoi poteri. Già il ragazzo si è reso conto di poter viaggiare nel passato. Ma quali altre misteriose doti possiede? Nella nuova scuola conoscerà ragazzi e ragazze come lui, ma minacciose presenze diaboliche faranno di tutto per indurli a scegliere la via del Male, e della magia nera, anziché quella del Bene e della magia bianca.

Sembrava una chiesa come tante altre, quella di Ponte Romeo, solo molto antica e qua e là diroccata. L'unica cosa strana era che appariva regolarmente nei sogni di Marco. Sogni spaventosi, che lo facevano svegliare in un bagno di sudore, attanagliato dalla paura. Ma un giorno succede qualcosa che sembra un incubo, e invece è realtà. Durante una visita alla chiesa in compagnia di Rico, il becchino del paese, Marco scopre un dipinto che raffigura una donna che brucia su un rogo dalle fiamme altissime. E sotto, una misteriosa iscrizione in latino.

Caty sa che un'orribile sciagura sta per abbattersi su Mirandola, il suo paese, già devastato dal terremoto: lo ha capito grazie agli incubi che la tormentano nel sonno. Ma i fantasmi come lei non dovrebbero fare né sogni né incubi, e questo è solo il primo di molti, inquietanti episodi che si ripetono un giorno dopo l'altro. Per fortuna, Caty non è sola: c'è Pinky, il suo gatto e animale-guida, e Doc, il fantasma-scienziato, e molti altri spettri, uno più strano dell'altro. Riusciranno Caty e i suoi amici a sventare la terribile minaccia?

Al risveglio da una caduta, Caterina, detta Caty, si ritrova davanti un gatto nero che parla. E non è l'unica stranezza: lei è diventata invisibile, impalpabile... Incredibile, è diventata un fantasma! Nella nuova dimensione, Caty entra in contatto con spettri buffi, antichi e moderni, con cui riesce a comunicare. Ma come mai è diventata uno di loro? Come è morta? Mentre i ricordi affiorano, Caty scopre di essere stata assassinata. Adesso, però, non c'è un minuto da perdere: l'assassino sta per colpire ancora e l'omicidio di Caty è solo l'inizio.

The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the...

This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love’s unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions” (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)—from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland...

Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. With this mesmerizing tale of one woman’s potent affliction, award-winning Finnish writer Laura Lindstedt makes her American debut. Narrated by an unnamed, ungendered therapist who leaps at the chance to employ their most experimental methods, My Friend...

Will Shaw just wants a simple life. A former Army Ranger and ex-con, he’s trying to leave his past and demons behind...but he can’t escape what he is. Something inside of him wants to come out. Everyone has an animal spirit, but very few can call upon their primal power. Some are heroes, others monsters. They are skinwalkers...skinners. Children have been going missing. When the mysterious and seductive Janae Jones comes to Will for help taking down a ring of child traffickers known as “The Pack", Will knows he can’t refuse.

Sir Charles Ravenstreet, in his mid-50s, is unmarried, childless, and lives only for his work in the fast-paced world of business. When he is forced out of his job to make room for someone younger, Sir Charles finds himself at a loose end and facing the dismal prospect of an empty future.

En la aldea medieval de Lapvona, el pequeño Marek vive en la más absoluta pobreza con su padre Jude, viudo, devoto y agresivo. Cojo, con la cara deforme y una concepción distorsionada de la realidad, Marek solo halla consuelo en su temor de Dios y en sus visitas a Ina, una anciana con saberes ocultos que vive alejada del mundo. Cuando una muerte violenta lo sitúa en el epicentro de la vida palaciega, Marek pasa a convertirse en un auténtico aristócrata dentro de la corte del corrupto y ensimismado señor feudal que gobierna Lapvona.

In a sleepy, quiet neighborhood, Billy Teags comes home to the house where he feels safe - to his mother, brothers, and father. But Billy doesn't know he's about to step into a scene of unimaginable terror and carnage, as he comes face-to-face with the monster who's appeared in his dreams. The neighbors are unaware of what's lurking behind the drawn blinds and closed door of the house down the street. They're not prepared for the bloody rampage about to shock the neighborhood.

Fourteen years ago, deep in the steamy backwoods of Georgia, a 12-year-old girl is bound and ritually tortured. The details of the crime are bizarre, and the few citizens of Lucerne who know the shocking truth of the crime keep it secret. Now, a young orphan boy arrives in the sleepy town and in the dark woods something inhuman stirs in the "snake well". An ancient hunger has awakened. Soft voices call out from the dark forest, drifting over the bayou, echoing in the crawl spaces. The townsfolks' darkest nightmares stalk the moonlit streets.

In a small New York State college, beautiful 18-year-old Laura Clark is blossoming, reaching out for love and trying to escape her controlling mother. But for Laura, there is no escape. Not from her mother, not from the unnameable horror that haunts her dreams, and not from the coven's spell of darkness.

In Sharon Vallery, at teen slumber parties and around campfires, the story is told. Seventy years ago, on Halloween night, Nathaniel and Myrantha Ober made a pact sealed by bloody human sacrifice...a pact with the devil himself. Nancy Snell is the most popular girl in high school. She is beautiful and wealthy, and she has discovered the key to unlimited power: The occult force that was summoned to this sleepy town decades ago. She has already chosen the perfect victim needed to perform the ritual: the new girl in town, Lana Bremmers.

Benjamin Latham is young and handsome, his 18th-century mind wakened to a bizarre 20th-century world. And there is the need deep within...an animal need, frightening, murderous, unholy...a vital need that must be fed. And with his need comes a power over men and women to do his bidding, to quiet his dark craving...Until the murders begin...Now Benjamin must find a sanctuary: a lover, a partner, a friend. Someone who can share his darkness. Someone he can lead to...the awakening.

After the sudden death of her husband, Ann Southold and her two teenagers travel to the island of Maui to shed their old life. There Ann meets a man who sparks a desire she had never experienced: dark, mysterious Kam Smith, a diving instructor who knows the sea. And who awakens a hunger inside Ann that terrifies her.

This work contains the same stories as Don't Go to Sleep: Tales to Keep You Up, but with four more stories of absolute horror. Don't go to sleep. These 12 tales of terror will surely haunt your dreams. No one awakens from their dark embrace. If your nightmares are not filled with a child murderer and a reanimated, murderous corpse, you will never find rest from the deadly secrets of the past, dismemberment, cannibalism, life after death, body-snatching spirits, or being buried alive. Sleep, if you dare. Run, if you can. You will never be safe again.

El callejón de las almas perdidas nos adentra en el mundo del espectáculo, y las sombras que se amparan en él. Stanton Carlisle es un joven listo y ambicioso que trabaja en una feria ambulante. Junto con otros personajes, como una adivina, un forzudo o un fenómeno humano llamado «el monstruo», la feria viaja de pueblo en pueblo. Pero Stan quiere medrar en el negocio. Y poco a poco, aprenderá a engatusar, engañar y seducir para conseguirlo. Una novela macabra y absorbente que arrastrará al lector hasta las profundidades del mundo del espectáculo.

1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. At the height of the stifling summer, unexplained noises and occurrences in the house begin to disturb the family, until they intrude on every waking moment....

Enid Graham could only wonder why handsome, brilliant, wealthy Pierre St. John should have chosen her as his bride. But when the lovely American girl arrived with her husband at his lonely chateau, the reason become terribly clear. Pierre had a wife before Enid, a bewitching temptress who could have been Enid's twin in appearance.