Women Horror

Il primo romanzo di Giovanni Verga, uno dei capolavori della letteratura Italiana. Lo scrittore siciliano, dominando alla perfezione la formula del romanzo epistolare, trasporta il lettore lungo la travagliata vita di Maria, una giovane donna destinata alla reclusione in un convento di clausura. Ma così come il corpo può essere recluso, l'animo, lo spirito e le passioni, sfuggono a qualsiasi costrizione, per rivendicare con incredibile potenza il valore più profondo della libertà.

In Good Grief in Lottawatah, Brianna's first day on the job in the town funeral home is full of surprises, including ghosts with complaints and the unexpected murder of Lottawatah's richest and crabbiest citizen. Now that she's got a job and health insurance, it's time to turn up the heat on her romance with hunky deputy Cooper Jackson.

Emmie's spring break just started. Her idyllic getaway by the ocean is everything she dreamed of. Solitude. Friends. Sunshine. A chance to get away from her psychic past. But things take a chilling turn when she’s confronted by the ghost of a murdered girl. As the restless spirit haunts her every step, Emmie soon realizes that delving into the past is attracting unwelcome attention. A mysterious presence stalks her, their intentions sinister and unknown. The darkness within Shine House is suffocating, and Emmie is holding the last candle for the family that was brutally slain there.

Back from the brink of death and still fangy. Sasha Keleterina is one of the few vampires who have survived the deadly sickness spreading through vampires like wildfire. And now that she’s back at full strength, she’s determined to end this war, once and for all. Just as soon as Arsen convinces her that they’re meant to be together for all of eternity. Nikolai has other plans, including keeping Sasha all to himself, even if it means the end of his rule over the Baetal.

El verano de 1816 en Villa Diodati parece promisorio. Los personajes no pueden ser más ilustres: Lord Byron, Percy y Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont y el Dr. Polidori, secretario privado de Byron. Polidori es quien resulta clave para Las Piadosas. ¿Por qué? Alguien se ha fijado en él para confiarle un terrible secreto. Andahazi descubre regiones insospechadas, turbadoras de la sexualidad y construye la intriga de una verdadera novela gótica moderna en torno a personajes y situaciones que difícilmente se olvidarán.

Detective Matilda White attempts to stop the drug Ice from being smuggled into the country. What she uncovers is her worst nightmare. A fascist regime is on the rise, using addiction and torture to take hold of the city. In order to fight back, Matilda and her all women team have to match the cartels extreme aggression and cunning. They confront the vile leaders and the hideous creatures used to kill and control with absolute terror. This war is like no other, and it tests the four women to their ends.

1691, Salem, New England: la diciassettenne Lois Barclay sbarca dalla Redemption, il vascello che l'ha portata dal Vecchio al Nuovo Mondo. Dietro di sé, l'Inghilterra, il ricordo dei genitori e un amore; davanti a sé la famiglia dello zio che non ha mai visto e tante incognite. L'America che ci racconta Elizabeth Gaskell (Londra, 1810 - Alton, 1865) è quella della nuova frontiera, di un territorio ostile e selvaggio in cui i continui scontri con le tribù dei Nativi aumentano il senso di precarietà e vulnerabilità.

In 19th-century America, making sense of mysterious events often perplexed citizens of the small Southern town of Juniper, South Carolina. Especially the three Chadwick households. Brothers Laurence, Brodie, and Angus Chadwick lost their parents shortly after sailing from England to the New World. Each young man, in turn, would meet the woman of his dreams. Lacey. Fiona. Guinevere. Beautiful, intelligent, sensitive creatures all. And yet, despite their noble virtues, the three Chadwick women are cursed, it seems, for reasons only the occult can provide.

Oh, to be a Beloved - one of those lucky people for whom nothing ever goes wrong. Everything falls into their laps without effort: happiness, beauty, good fortune, allure. Betty Stash is not a Beloved - but her little sister, the delightful Gloria, is. She's the one with the golden curls and sunny disposition and captivating smile, the one whose best friend used to be Betty's, the one whose husband should have been Betty's. Then, to everyone's surprise, Gloria inherits the family mansion. Losing what Betty considers her rightful inheritance is the final indignity.

Nobody in the family talks about Ellen's grandmother Lola, who was swallowed up by the circus and emerged as a woman who tamed tigers and got away scot-free for killing her husband. When Ellen's husband Wayne beats her nearly to death, she runs to the only place she knows where a woman can completely disappear - the same Big Top that once sheltered her grandmother. Though the circus moves from one town to the next, Wayne tracks it, and Ellen, relentlessly.

When New England antiques dealer Annie McCormick sells a religious relic to Curt Devereaux, the charming owner of a new museum on Jarritt's Island, she could not be happier. But when the relic she delivers turns up missing and Annie learns the ghostly secret of the sinister old mansion-turned-museum, her dream adventure becomes a nightmare that puts her life...her very soul...at risk!

Lacey Elliot has been a woman without a past since the day her mother whisked her off to Charlottesville, refusing for 30 years to speak of her father, her family or her history. But when Lacey intercepts a desperate letter from an aunt in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, she sees her chance to confront the past that has terrified her mother and to fill in the gaps in her own life. Against the charm and the colorful, turbulent history of the picturesque town, the violent history of Lacey's own heritage is about to repeat itself.

There's no place like home, they say."Hello, I'm Nina Parker…and I'm an alcoholic." For Nina, it's not the weighty admission but the first steps toward recovery that prove most difficult. She must face her ex-husband, Hunt, with little hope of making amends, and try to rebuild a relationship with her angry teenage daughter, Meagan.

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman’s corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago, another woman, Shenagh Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries.

Half-vampire, half-werewolf Siobhan Quinn survived her initiation into the world of demons and monsters. But staying alive as she becomes entangled in underworld politics might prove to be more difficult. When the daughter of a prominent necromancer vanishes, it's up to Quinn to find the girl. But her search will land her directly in the middle of a struggle between competing forces searching for an ancient artifact of almost unimaginable power...

Jewell Parker Rhodes follows up her acclaimed Voodoo Dreams with a present-day mystery surrounding the gifts of an ancestor of the Voodoo Queen. Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans, or why it's comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can't shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman's baby, Marie knows malevolent forces are at work, and it's up to her to stop them.

A riveting new haunted house mystery boxset that will keep you guessing until the end! The Haunting of Abram Mansion and The Haunting of Quenby Mansion.

Frances Tarantino has felt her mother’s spirit by her side ever since the woman’s tragic death. Fran’s mother sends beautiful ladybugs to land on her dress whenever she feels lonely or afraid. And on those rare occasions when Fran misbehaves, her mother disciplines her. Fran’s grand aunt, Aurora Ciconne, vowed never to take another husband when she became widowed at 22. And now, at 58, Aurora insists she does not need a man. But in secret, she has always been a bride. When Fran develops their family’s gift of sight, Aurora searches for a way to free them both.

A masterpiece of the sexual gothic, this is the story of Andrew Halfnight, whose life, part dream, part nightmare, begins with a mother's tragic choice and ends with a lover's embrace. In between he experiences tempests at sea, on land and in the mind; and relatives who kill for love and lovers who sacrifice their bodies; as all the while he moves ever closer to the central mystery of his and all existence.

Cuando un enigmático escritor llega a la inexperta bruja Fiona DuBois con una petición inesperada, su vida como dueña de una librería cambia para siempre. Mientras los preparativos para la firma de un libro toman un giro siniestro, Fiona se enfrenta a perseguidores maliciosos, conexiones familiares misteriosas y un misterio sobrenatural con raíces más profundas de lo que ella podría haber imaginado. En las profundidades de Black Bayou, ¿puede Fiona descubrir las conexiones a tiempo para encontrar su verdadero poder - y sobrevivir ilesa?