Resultados para "A" en Antologías y relatos breves

1 – LA MARQUESA: Casada a los 16 con un Marqués entrado en años, viuda 6 meses después, la marquesa de R, tuvo una mala primera experiencia con el sexo opuesto, que le llevó a despreciar a los hombres. Pero una mujer sin marido o amante no tiene apoyo en la sociedad depravada de la época y sufre la humillación, el sarcasmo, el ridículo, al que le acosa su entorno social.

Chegou a hora do último acerto de contas... Conheça o desfecho da aclamada trilogia legado do coração de dragão! Após a derrota de Odran na Batalha do Portal da Escuridão, seu plano de tomar Talamh foi interrompido – por enquanto. Mas as consequências do terrível embate abalaram a...

Si al morir pudieras transformarte en cualquier cosa y permanecer cerca de tus seres queridos, ¿en qué te convertirías? En el umbral entre la vida y la muerte, el guardián de almas hace una última pregunta a cada recién llegado: «¿Tienes algo por resolver en este mundo antes de partir?...

Ein alternatives New York im Jahr 1920: Wohlstand und imperiale Architektur prägen das Bild, doch unter der Oberfläche lauert ein schleichendes Gift. Willkommen in der Welt von „Der Wiederhersteller von Rufen", der berühmtesten Kurzgeschichte aus Robert W. Chambers' legendärem Sammelband „Der König in Gelb". Wir folgen Hildred Castaigne, dessen Geist sich nach einem schweren Sturz und der Lektüre eines mysteriösen, verbotenen Theaterstücks verändert hat.

Welcome to Aearth Brave Adventurers Wanted! This collection of six short stories will introduce you to the broken world of Aearth. Glimpse moments in time. Where magic and the gods still influence the world. Step foot into the world since the loss of magic. Where monsters haunt more than nightmares. Aearth was once a place of magic and wonder. A world where the gods were said to walk among its people and gift champions with great power. Aearth, once so powerful and grand, fell to the Great War over two-thousand years ago.

Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.

Inside the Dragon's Tower, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. To win, climbers from all corners must brave the harrowing floors one by one. Each floor is tougher and the higher the floor, the less success there is. After a hundred floors filled with unique challenges, a prize awaits—a dragon's egg. To Tem, the Dragon's Tower seems simple from his distant farmland on the frontier. The harsh truth of the situation involves politics, personal sacrifices, and unfathomable struggles to keep advancing.

Os leitores que percorrem essas páginas fazem uma incursão pelas narrativas repletas de alumbramento da autora, que mais uma vez os arrebata com seu dom único para criar mundos fascinantes e os convidar a habitá-los. Marina Colasanti é uma das mais premiadas escritoras brasileiras, com livros de destaque em todos os segmentos. Em 2023, esse reconhecimento se tornou ainda maior: Marina recebeu o Prêmio Machado de Assis – o mais antigo e importante do país – pelo conjunto de sua obra. Este Sereno mundo azul é seu primeiro livro inédito a ser publicado após a premiação.

Des voyageurs surpris par l'orage se réfugient chez un homme qui a autrefois passé un pacte avec le DIABLE... Repenti, il attend vainement que son pacte cesse. Or, cette nuit-là, nos voyageurs mi-goguenards mi-effrayés vont le tenter… Un récit fantastique ou SF, qui grâce à l'interprétation magistrale de Marc Deroy vous fait dresser les poils et vous donne la chair de poule !

Ambientado en las desoladas regiones del Ártico, el texto presenta la figura de un anciano enigmático —el "matusalén"— que encarna la memoria de un mundo antiguo y olvidado. A través de una atmósfera gélida y melancólica, Blavatsky explora temas como el paso del tiempo, la soledad del conocimiento, la decadencia de las civilizaciones y la permanencia del espíritu frente a la materia. El hielo y el silencio del paisaje polar funcionan como metáforas de la eternidad y del olvido, convirtiendo el relato en una meditación sobre la condición humana y los ciclos de la existencia.

Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He’s also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he’s worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity and all too often he’s become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble.

Some truths are carefully concealed; others merely forgotten. In this spellbinding collection, seven acclaimed fantasy authors create characters who venture into the depths where others fear to tread. But when forbidden knowledge is the ultimate power, how far can they go before the darkness consumes them?

Mark wanted to clock out of work, like an average guy, to have an average night with dreams of kicking his feet up. Fate happened to have another plan. After a dust storm envelops him, Mark awakes in the mythical land of Lathinia where adventure awaits. The land is teaming with magical monsters, and yes, fearsome dragons. Armed with a legendary sword and a very unique mount, he'll utilize a skill point system in the hopes of returning home.

Rockstar reúne tres relatos en los que la narrativa de lo extraño dibuja un hilo conductor.

"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights. The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.

The Haunted Palace: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace— reared its head.

"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. An unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia).

The City in the Sea: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest.

When darkness comes, those who are sworn to protect the light must stand. The dragon Queen has awakened from her slumber and she has her eyes set on one thing. During the century of her absence, her people failed to find the egg that was stolen from her. The Queen will do whatever it takes to...

In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person’s so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic heritage, they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures. These aren’t your usual vampires and werewolves - it goes much deeper than that.