Nadie sobrevive si su nombre está escrito en la lista de la Dama de Fuego Un embalsamador, a bordo de su coche fúnebre, deambula desesperado en la madrugada por las calles de Bogotá, buscando el mejor lugar para esconder el cadáver de su exnovia.
Los Otis, una familia norteamericana de clase alta, compran el viejo castillo de Canterville con la advertencia de que desde hace siglos está habitado por el fantasma de Lord Simon Canterville, un anciano amargado que mató a su esposa y que desapareció de forma misteriosa.
Geppetto –un carpintero trasgresor y amante del punk que anda en la inmunda– tiene la loca idea de fabricar un títere con el cual hacer presentaciones en las plazas públicas para volverse millonario.
La muerte se adueñará de todoJon Gallaham es un joven estudiante de medicina que, tras estar a punto de morir, siente que no encaja en este mundo y encuentra como único escape a sus problemas la adrenalina que le genera lastimar a criminales y personajes peligrosos de su ciudad.
Sin razón aparente, Lorena, Rosalía y Alberto son testigos de los asesinatos de sus familiares, los cuales fueron perpetrados por tres criaturas: las Malasombra.
Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance.
Since its publication in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has defined the modern vampire myth and terrified readers with its chilling tale of seduction, fear, and the supernatural.
Bernard Capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late Victorian period, producing dozens of short stories, articles, and more than forty novels across multiple genres, culminating in the first original crime novel published by Collins, The Skeleton Key.
Legends of abandoned old graveyards and some not so abandoned abound-the crying dog in the cemetary well, the wandering ghost of Long Tom March, who carries a deck of cards and won't rest until he finds a winning poker hand.
A ghoulish collection of true American classics From North to South, coast-to-coast, and legendary to forgotten classicsLyons Press American Classics deliver stories rooted in their time, place, and topicDistinct series design for impulse- and collect-them-all sales With frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O.
The world of golf is rife with unexplainable happenings that seemingly defy the rules of gravity and logic: There are those badly hit shots last seen disappearing into a grove of trees, only to be rediscovered on the putting green.
When Abu Walid travels and takes his son to offer his condolences, and Hamdi travels on a business trip that lasts a day and a night, the evening is pleasant and the two friends gather and prepare snacks, sandwiches, hot drinks and fruits, and cover themselves with a heavy blanket and sit in front of the TV watching the evening movie, while the storm roars outside their small, warm, simple world.
THE COVEN IS BACK in HUMAN RITES, the spectacular, hotly anticipated conclusion to Juno Dawson's SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE bestselling HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL COVEN series.
In einer Welt, in der Mythen und Legenden die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion verwischen, erhebt sich die faszinierende Figur des Merlin als der geheimnisvolle Prophet und Zauberer.
The hero begins at the beginning of the novel by saying that many of us find ourselves in a situation that has nothing to do with him, that he did not ask for or seek, but he is a person, as he describes himself, who is always looking for problems and troubles, who loves to open the gates of hell upon himself, and he is in all his joy and pride.
Discover the utterly terrifying, chilling and gripping new novel from international bestseller YRSA SIGURDARDOTTIR, author of THE DOLL and GALLOWS ROCK'Lyrical landscape descriptions combine with intimations of terrible events in the past in this haunting story' SUNDAY TIMES'A generator of fear quite as adroit as Stephen King' THE INDEPENDENT'A magnificent writer' KARIN SLAUGHTER_________THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY.
Wie leicht man sich von Äußerlichkeiten täuschen lassen kann; ein seelenloses Herz, welches urplötzlich nie zuvor empfundene Gefühle entwickelt; Missverständnisse, die zu heroische Handlungen führen; verfressene Werwölfe, die man trotzdem streicheln möchte; ehrenvolle Retter, die allerdings auch aus Eigennutz handeln und ein Teenager, der alles riskiert um seinen Vater zu finden.
Vielversprechende Begegnungen, die in Horrorszenarien ausarten; Bösartige Alptraumwesen, die einen dennoch in ihren Bann ziehen und man daher nicht umhinkommt, sie sympathisch zu finden; schicksalsgebeutelte Charaktere, bei denen man am liebsten sofort einen Adoptionsantrag stellen möchte; Schiffseigner, die gern mal ein Auge auf einen Vampir werfen; Spinnen, die trotz guter Absichten ihrem unvorteilhaften Ruf gerecht werden … und noch vieles mehr.
Weit im Süden der heutigen Mexiko-Stadt, in einem Gebiet aus unzähligen Wasseradern und Inseln, liegt die Isla de las Muñecas – ein kleines Stück Land, in dessen Bäumen hunderte verstümmelter Spielzeugpuppen hängen …Ein Team junger Dokumentarfilmer wird während ihrer Dreharbeiten auf der Insel Zeuge eines brutalen Mordes.
*First published as THE CLEARING in 2023*From the author of the Sanctus series comes a brilliant new serial killer thriller featuring forensic specialist Dr Laughton Rees and Detective Inspector Tannahill Khan'The ending is genuinely one of the most jaw-dropping ones I've read in a long time.
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
A chilling and eerie tale of monsters, teen angst and small-town America for fans of Stranger Things, The Thing, and the 1990sThree girls went into the woods.