Resultados para "Flora" en Terror

Considerada la obra maestra absoluta del género fantástico más extremo, grotesco y a la vez sensible, esta novela narra la historia de un ladrón que asalta a los viajeros del paso de Suzuka, y su relación con una misteriosa mujer que lo encandila y a la que decide raptar para hacer su esposa. El influjo de esta mujer lo hará trasladarse a la capital, donde caerá en una espiral de muerte y locura con un final demoledor.

El libro en que el se basa la exitosa adaptación televisiva Flores en el ático, un best seller clásico sobre la terrible experiencia vivida por cuatro niños que crecen en un lúgubre encierro, aislados del mundo...

El famoso psiquiatra Salomón Lewin ha dejado su labor humanitaria en la India, para ocupar el puesto de psiquiatra jefe del Centro para Enfermedades Psicológicas de la Ciudad de Londres. Un trabajo monótono pero bien remunerado. Las relaciones con su esposa Margaret tampoco atraviesan su mejor momento y Salomón intenta buscar algún aliciente entre los casos más misteriosos de los internos del centro.

Betty Cox ha terminado su segundo año de universidad y la tensión con sus padres no deja de crecer. Los Cox son una de las familias conservadoras más influyentes de los Estados Unidos y el centro de todas las miradas de la alta sociedad de Houston, pero todo está a punto de cambiar. Después de un sábado de fiesta con su novio Robert, Betty descubrirá que sus padres han desaparecido junto a sus dos hermanos pequeños.

Cuatro amigos y sus parejas deciden tomarse unas cortas vacaciones al norte del estado de Maine, en las inmediaciones de Clayton Lake. La región es una de las más deshabitadas de los Estados Unidos, pero el grupo necesita relajarse y reencontrarse después de varios años sin mantener el contacto. Todos ellos se conocen desde que estudiaron en el instituto de secundaria en Brooklyn.

El fantasma de la Ópera es la historia de un tenebroso personaje, quien, a pesar del tormento que le provoca su fealdad, lucha por vivir para satisfacer su pasión por la belleza.

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother's twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen.

Private investigator (and secret werewolf) Sara Flores has made a life out of rescuing people from men who think they can get away with murder. But this case is different. This time someone has taken Mason Spencer — her partner, her resident hacker, and the closest thing to family Sara has. Mason is the one person Sara can’t afford to lose. His computer skills were how they’d found all those missing people. Tracking them down was his job, not hers. She’d come in later — a one-person rescue committee with a big surprise for any bad guy trying to stop her.

"WOW! What a twist! Another zany mystery!" "I love, love, love these characters. They are so funny sometimes I can't stop laughing." It's Not the Heat, It's the Stupidity... When Bobbie and Grayson go in search of a new RV, a chance encounter at a homeowner’s fire sale ignites a hidden flame burning deep within Grayson. And it’s not spontaneous human combustion … Or is it? People in St. Petersburg, Florida keep mysteriously bursting into flames. While the pair investigate potential causes, sparks soon begin to fly between them as well, threatening to snuff out their budding romance.

Deep in the sewers of New York City, the rat population is growing. Dr. Randolph Finch is determined to break the cycle. His new rodenticide, Degenesis, doesn’t kill rats. It sterilizes them from reproducing. But nothing adapts faster than a New York rat.... City exterminators and soon-to-be divorced Chris and Benita Jackson think they know how these rats think. They know how rats breed. And they fear that Degenesis has only made these rats stronger. More aggressive. More intelligent. And more ravenous than ever...

Another disturbing discovery outside the manor leaves little time for Tom to get settled in. Mason is determined to keep news of the mangled corpse quiet, but after meeting a few others who live on the property, it seems as though the secret of the southern sasquatch isn't so secret after all.

Hope. Magic. Balance. The true, holiest of causes. Eighteen-year-old Gracie Caine wants to live a simple, normal life after leaving Ariel’s Gate Orphanage. All she has is a photographic memory and a twisted club foot, but she feels good about herself until a shocking set of unexpected wings and a deadly war turn her hopeful future into something very different. She has awakened to a secret world of angels and demons, bloody war and terror.

When Bobbie and Grayson head back to Plant City to help out some old friends, they run into a “hole” new set of problems. While investigating a rash of missing persons, it’s not long before they get under each other’s skin. What’s making them all hot and bothered? Each other. In more ways than one. Bobbie’s down-to-earth explanations for the missing men irritate Grayson, while his otherworldly theories have her itching for a sane solution. But when new, conflicting evidence emerges in the case, they soon realize they’ve only scratched the surface of the mystery at hand.

Deirdre Green is no stranger to losing it all. Nearly two decades after her father's mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend, her job, and her London flat all go up in smoke. But when she suddenly inherits what’s left of her family’s publishing business, Deirdre is shocked to discover the cryptic magical conspiracy revealed in its remains.

The City of Floria has a tragic history. Something haunts its streets, something dark, something evil. For centuries, thousands of peasants and merchants have vanished without a trace, with no explanation or motive. Out of fear, the port’s inhabitants have never investigated what is happening, merely accepting this curse that plagues their city. Not until a troubled man running from his past calls the forsaken city his new home.

Mr. Silver hatte erfahren, dass ein gefährlicher Zauber namens Marbu aus Afrika nach London gekommen sein solle. Was hatte es mit Marbu auf sich? Was verbarg sich hinter dieser afrikanischen Geheimreligion? Marbus Anhänger wollten, dass ein höllisches Buch geschrieben wird, das packend, faszinierend und erschreckend daherkommen solle, jeden in seinen Bann ziehen und zu einem willenlosen Sklaven Marbus machen würde. Ein Buch, das die Macht dieses afrikanischen Gottes über den europäischen Kontinent bringen sollte.

Charlotte Slater is freshly divorced and starting over again in her hometown of St. Petersburg, FL. When a dog-sitting job in the nearby upscale neighborhood of Roser Park falls in her lap, Charlotte jumps at the chance to make some easy money and enjoy a little peace and quiet. But as usual, when things seem to be too good to be true, they often are.

From Florida Gothic horror author Wendy Dalrymple comes a collection of 13 terrifying tales centering the female experience. From doting mothers to twisted girl scouts, unsuspecting lovers and vengeful young women, Strange Little Ghouls explores the darkest parts of our hearts and minds.

Chelsea is vain, and self-absorbed, driven in life only by want and her obsession with being the best. However, despite wanting to portray an outwardly perfect image, things at home are crumbling between her and her boyfriend, Brendan. Together they harbor a secret that has been slowly chipping away at their relationship, and now, things have come to a breaking point.

When Jeremy Wolters discovers an ancient, alien substance in the Triangle Forest, his desperation to fix the past turns into an obsession. Dabbling in such powers is dangerous but doesn’t compare to the consequences of learning he isn’t the only one with desire to control it. Jeremy means to go on this journey alone, but when Ezra Ortiz discovers the truth, he tries to stop his friend from making a terrible mistake.