Resultados para "Americana" en Terror

Anni dopo, anche grazie al ricordo di quello sguardo, lui decide di andare proprio in America, «assieme ai suoi morti», per tentare di scrivere il romanzo definitivo, quello che, ne è certo, sarà finalmente pubblicato. Laggiù, tra il cielo e l'acqua, lo scrittore incontrerà una vicenda più coinvolgente e pericolosa di qualsiasi romanzo abbia mai immaginato: una storia di erotismo e omicidio, di vivi che non sanno vivere e morti che non vogliono morire.

Ornell y Mclennan, los chicos de Hosmer Angel, tienen un encargo especial: traer a Davis “el Cojo” al sótano de Hosmer para darle lo suyo. Nadie juega con la chica de Hosmer, y menos ese cojo de Davis “Patachula”… Pero cuando Ornell y Mclennan encuentran a Davis, parece estar muerto… y muy frío. Ya con Davis en el maletero del coche, se dirigen a casa de Hosmer. ¿Quién podrá negar que no le han dado muerte ellos? Durante el trayecto, unos golpes en el maletero. ¿No estaba Davis muerto? Lo que Ornell y Mclennan no saben… es que tal vez sólo estuviera Casi Muerto.

"Americana" is a haunting anthology of stories by Jordan Hood that delves and takes inspiration from the chilling, mysterious events that have taken place throughout American History. From the earliest days of the colonial era to the modern day, these tales of murder, urban legends, missing persons, and small-town secrets will leave you feeling uneasy and on the edge of your seat. With the blend of horror and historical fiction, "Americana" is a must-hear for fans of both genres.

Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn’t exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle’s nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set out together to track the monster down so they can use its blood in an alchemical formula that will bring Liam back to life.

Everything changed back in Crescent City when Crowley made his choice to stand up to his angelic handler Shargrafein. It was either her or Rosa, and the choice was clear. Now, there’s no going back. Something about Rosa has everyone scrambling—a hidden power. It’s up to Crowley to bring her back to the land of the living and discover exactly what she is. Only then might they have a chance against the forces of Heaven and Hell, both of whom want her for their own devices.

Jonathan Crowley is having a problem with dead men. They just keep getting back on their feet. From the ghost dancers at a strange burial site to the corpse of a man he literally just killed, the dead refuse to lay down and die, and now it's up to Crowley and his traveling companion Lucas Slate to try to figure out why the dead are restless and determined to kill whatever crosses their paths.

Arizona Red Ghost is one of the more bizarre tales out of the Old West based on a true story reported by the 1883 Mohave County Miner, a weekly newspaper of Kingman, Arizona. Joe Crane runs a freight business using camels to carry goods through the brutal Arizona desert. He is attacked by three vicious outlaws looking for a gold shipment.

Malechai ben Pallache, a Ukranian-Jew and soldier of fortune who has made his way through the world fueled by blood and pain has been enlisted to hunt down Dragan, the bastard priest who kicked off the pogroms before fleeing to California. But the profane holy man has more than blood on his hands, he has also stolen a box that holds terrible evil. Brodie is infested with hungry demons and dangerous men, gold and vice drawing in the worst that humanity or demonkind have to offer, all standing between Malechai and the priest. But, he does not travel alone.

An unplanned murder during a bank robbery has another sheriff on the trail of those on the lam.

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.

Deadwood, late 1876. A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in? Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead...and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone who steps out of line. But when a couple Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow.

As a youth, Kochen witnessed the death of his father at the hands of a gruesome spirit that stalked his village's farmlands. From that moment forth, he became a ward of the priests of the village in the cliffs. As he grew, he would begin to experience horrific visions, gifts from the spirits, that all of the other priests dismissed. When the ancient enemies of the Cliff People raid the village and steal Kochen away, they set in motion world-changing events, which threaten to break the shackles that bind the spirits to the Earth.

Most folks worldwide have visited a flea market, swap shop, or bazaar. Still, few take the time to get to know the variety of vendors peddling their lightly used or dubiously acquired inventory every weekend. At the Dusty Bucket, a self-described "androgynous pansexual with no more ambition nowadays than making a living as a flea market 'artist," sets up a table with their recently deceased mother's unremarkable collectibles. The booth neighbor sells discount cigarettes and has a tale of bluster for every occasion.

Small Bites exists at the fulcrum of the idyllic and the dreadful. It invokes the pleasant and mundane memories of the not-so-distant past and violently interrupts them with immediate and visceral terror. These 13 offerings beat from the corroded heart of Americana and prey upon the innocence of our cherished nostalgia. More than a horror anthology, this is a canvas oozing with living paint, pigments selected from our collective nightmares, and imprisoned within this listening experience.

In the heart of the desolate landscape, the ghost of the gunslinger roamed, a spectral figure draped in the tattered remnants of a once-proud duster. His presence haunted the abandoned towns, where the echoes of gunfire had long since faded, replaced by the whispers of the wind that carried tales of his tragic end. This was no ordinary spirit; he was a remnant of vengeance, a protector of the wronged, forever bound to the land that had betrayed him. The locals spoke in hushed tones about the eerie glow that surrounded him at twilight.

Seien Sie dabei, wenn unsere Chronologen ein vom Wahnsinn gefärbtes Potpourri mit dämonischen Kreaturen jenseits des Begreifens, maskierten Legenden des Wilden Westens und Revolverschwingern, die einem nur allzu bekannt vorkommen, verrühren.

What is a lineshack? It's a small cabin used by ranch hands, a place of refuge during storms. Sometimes the only place within miles, a place that can mean the difference between life and death, especially when a winter storm is about to bare down on you. This winter is no different...except that this time there's three murderous brothers, the sheriff, and a group lost skiers who may just need the same lonely building. Then from out of no where surfaces another, a man out of time, out of place.... Who will survive this New Years Eve.

A black tipi mysteriously appears in a Native American village. After tribal members begin to disappear, along with their tipis and families, they must find medicine to rid them of their unwanted guest.

Just like their new home of Sunder Creek, set in the shadow of Blood Ridge, young Ronnie Carpenter and her shy ward Essa Hale harbor strange secrets. In fact, their arrival seems to bring the town’s dark and unspoken terror to light, as it affects Essa in mysterious ways. Soon, inexplicable events all point to an ancient legend being all too real. What does the dreaded ilé nagí, the fiery spirit of the woods, want with the girl? Ronnie must find out before it’s too late.

In 1868, six people sought refuge at a hidden enclave in the high desert of eastern Oregon: A brilliant female doctor dying of a rare disease. A Confederate deserter. Two refugees from a lynch mob. A former slave. A womanizing shootist. These were the first acolytes of Stonegarden Abbey, learning the secrets of Hermetic magic under the tutelage of mysterious prophet Ezekiel Reardon. But their time at Stonegarden ended in fire and tragedy. Those left alive thought the tragedy was behind them. But the dark power they believed was gone and buried only slept....