Literary Horror

The old house waited. For years there had been rumors that the owner, Lilith Martin, had been part of an unholy cult. People spoke of blasphemous rituals, black rites filled with blood, sex...and sacrifices. Then Lilith died and the house sat empty. Until now. Lilith’s nephew, Chris, and his wife, Ellie, are moving in. Ellie isn’t happy about living in such a dark, foreboding place, but she wants to get pregnant and this house has a lot more room to raise a baby than their apartment. Unfortunately, she and Chris will soon learn that Lilith has other plans.

On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winter - strangers in search of answers, a brush with the mystical, or just an escape. To some the boy is a novelty, to others a religion. Just beyond this ragtag circle roams a disconsolate wolf on his nightly rounds, protecting and threatening, learning too much.

After Maureen Coleman is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, her children bring her to live at Summerhome. As her condition deteriorates, siblings Sean Spencer and Meghan Coleman are unsure if they have made the correct decision.

The five stories that made up R.B. Russell's debut collection, Putting the Pieces in Place, were described on first publication as demonstrating 'a subtle mastery of the macabre. Enigmatic and enticing, they combine a pleasing respect for the great tradition of supernatural fiction with a chilling contemporary European resonance.'

Dove sono finite le persone scomparse lungo l'autostrada sull'Appennino? Il mistero è fitto e l'indagine è affidata a due agenti molto speciali: Sara Milani, giovane poliziotta dal grande intuito, e Lauro Sebino, adolescente dotato di facoltà paranormali. Insieme hanno scoperto segreti inconfessabili, risolvendo i casi più complicati: questo non fa eccezione. Forse la chiave di tutto è nelle visioni di Lauro, infestate da occhi color del ghiaccio: a chi appartengono questi occhi letali? Per scoprirlo serve una nuova indagine... da brividi.

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.

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.

Far from the concrete and steel of Boston, the town of Northwood nestles beneath the summit of Mount Sugarloaf. The quiet community seems like the perfect place for Steve and Diane Nailer to raise their family of two children with a third on the way. Their new home is perched on the edge of a forest. A trail through the woods leads to an old Victorian mansion that once housed the town mortuary. But the memories of the dearly departed are the least of what lurks there....

Caty non è come tutti gli altri fantasmi: non sa fluttuare e quando dorme sogna. Spesso i suoi sogni si trasformano in incubi terrificanti. Da quando è uno spettro, poi, lei e i suoi amici, il gatto Pinky e lo scienziato Doc, hanno lottato uniti contro il Male, affrontando mostri terribili. Un giorno però tra loro arriva un nuovo spettro, che cerca di metterli uno contro l'altro. Cosa vuole veramente questo intruso? Per non perdere i suoi compagni, Caty è pronta ad affrontare anche le paure più insormontabili: così ha inizio la sua più spaventosa avventura.

L'agente Sara Milani e il suo giovane braccio destro, Lauro, tornano a lavorare insieme per un'indagine all'ultimo sospiro... In un piccolo paese nella ridente e florida Val Vignè si aggira un pericoloso assassino, che nessuno riesce a fermare. Ma chi o cosa sarà questa creatura che uccide, per poi svanire nel nulla? Solo due veri esperti del brivido come Lauro e Sara potranno risolvere il caso, a patto di riuscire a sopravvivere alla misteriosa mano che colpisce ogni dodici del mese, senza lasciare scampo.

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.

In a small logging town in northern California, young Emma Rose Finnis was born and died. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her grand dreams - but she remembers. She remembers everything. Emma Rose is still here, one hundred years after her death...and she doesn't plan on leaving. But when a determined hunter arrives with instructions to "clean" Emma Rose out of her haunt, the stately Lambry mansion, death suddenly isn't the worst fate imaginable.

After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca' Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her.

Brightness Falls isn't just the name of the TV show that womanizing man-child Andrew Ware has been painstakingly creating for the last couple years, it's also his hometown. A town that he loves as much as he hates. By request of no one, Andrew returns home to help his sister separate from her husband, only to become sidetracked by a beautiful woman. A few drinks and few compliments later the woman is dead, killed in a tragic oral sex accident. In which Andrew would have lost his own life if it weren’t for the dapperly dressed, antler-headed, human skeleton named Doug.

Allison and James Price move to the navy-blue forests of Concordia, Idaho, hoping to leave behind the chaos of Los Angeles and the painful memories of his indiscretions. Once settled in the picturesque town, where time seems to have stalled and life moves at a slower pace, their six-year-old daughter, Reagan, befriends a mysterious young girl who seems too idyllic to be true with her pressed pinafores and perfectly curled pigtails. One late autumn evening, as their playdate winds down, both girls vanish into thin air.

Ava, 14 years old and totally on her own, has still not fully processed her mother’s death when she finds herself on a train heading to New Orleans, to stay with Lane, the grandmother she barely remembers. Lane is a well-known artist in the New Orleans art scene. She spends most of her days in a pot-smoke haze, sipping iced coffee, and painting. Her grip on reality is shaky at best, but her work provides a comfort. Ava’s arrival unsettles Lane. The girl bears an uncanny resemblance to her daughter, whom she was estranged from before her death.

Unique to this title is: A historical introduction and a study of the themes present in A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol and The Chimes. Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He was born in 1812 in Portsmouth. When his father was sent to jail because of unsettled debt, Dickens had to leave school and get a job in a factory. Dickens is believed to be the best novelist of the Victorian era and he became very popular during his lifetime. His novels are still widely read and translated.

The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate.

Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met. While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma—like a witch's apprentice—comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain at will, and shares her home with the ghost of her husband.