Querido lector, entre tus manos tienes un libro que reúne 18 cuentos que van de lo fantástico a lo maravilloso, que desnudan los disímiles intereses del autor, en el despliegue de lo mapuche, lo deslenguado del realismo sucio, visiones de futuros distópicos y una mirada descarnada de cómo sería un apocalipsis Z.
Parupak, un soldado extraterrestre, llega a nuestro planeta durante los albores de la civilización con la misión de estudiar el comportamiento y las acciones humanas.
Wie ein böses Omen saß eine dicke, bläulichschwarz schillernde Schmeißfliege auf der Türklinke, träge hob sie ab und schwirrte davon, als Julia näherkam.
,,In meinem Buch geht es um vieles, mal um eine alte Freundschaft die zerstört wurde wegen Gier und Geiz oder mal um eine Oktopus Königin die nur drauf wartet das du kommst .
A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023'A superb writer' EMMA STONEX'Stylish and raw' ANNE ENRIGHT'Mesmerising and beautiful' DAILY EXPRESS'Gripping and visceral ' IRISH EXAMINER'A powerful, riveting read ' ELIZABETH MACNEAL'Astonishingly absorbing' i PAPER'That's a good thing about you, Martha.
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.
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.
