Resultados para "Billie" en Terror

They meet as children. They grow up together. It’s only after one fatefully misheard conversation that Heathcliff leaves, believing his love for Catherine isn’t reciprocated. When he returns, he is a wealthy and polished man but things have now changed–drastically–and Heathcliff starts to exact terrible revenge on those who wronged him…

Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a property in England, but Harker quickly gets tangled in forces darker than he could’ve imagined, becoming a tortured tool for the development of Dracula’s power.

From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous? Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question. These all-new stories range from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from familiar monsters to the unknown . . . and unimaginable.

Rebaa's adopted tribe lies slaughtered behind her. Rebaa's lover, Juran, lays down his life for hers, and now she must use all of her cunning and extraordinary powers to survive the inhospitable wilderness alone, ensuring that Juran's sacrifice was not in vain.

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

Grace had accepted that dabbling in the occult, traveling back in time, and banishing the spirit of a serial killer had more than likely led to her death. What she hadn't anticipated was what she would bring back with her when she returned to the world of the living. Armed with a battered soul, her fondness for sarcasm, and enough mental instability to keep a psychiatrist busy for a decade, Grace must navigate her new life with Beau and try to harness the supernatural abilities that death had gifted to her.

Vietnam. 1969. Garry Logan witnesses something far stranger than the horrors of war. Something that sticks with him his whole life. Something that is not of this world. Now old, dying, and his mind shattered from his experiences, he has decided to go back to the place where he feels he lost his soul. It is the most logical place to end his time on this earth.

Matthew Herrington has just built a getaway for his friends...friends bonded together by a terrible secret. Lot 150 was supposed to be a place of relaxation, a place to forget about the strange past they all share, but it quickly turns into a place worse than hell itself. Billie Dean Shoemate III offers his greatest novel to date...with a story he cites as the most terrifying one he has ever written.

Mark Thompson fears that life will never change. In an instant, the familiar world he knows will become his greatest nightmare. Volunteering for a top secret government experiment, he gets the chance at a new life, away from the desires that have destroyed his body and his mind. Fragmented memories haunt him. Visions and dreams seem to lead him to a place where the answers hide....beckoning him to a place of no return.

Saul Peterson is having nightmares: fleeting memories of watchful eyes, impossible dreams of being taken while he sleeps, visions of a catastrophic end, and a society on the verge of revolution. Saul Peterson will stop at nothing to reveal the truth, but that truth may come at the greatest price of them all.

Halloween. Such a great time of year for all children. All but one. A great tragedy occurred that night. The last night he saw his parents. It was a night that haunted him well into adulthood. However, those happenings, like all things, happened for a reason...and tradition goes so much farther beyond ceremony.

Steven Grimes is suffering from writer's block. Once an avid writer, he is plagued by an inescapable force that seems to be controlling his mind. After a strange encounter with a man known only as Heflin, Steven is thrust into a world he does not understand. It is a world driven by a faceless evil that has awakened within an ancient festival called Samhain. It wants him to write his greatest masterpiece, a book that can either save humankind from inevitable doom or plunge it into eternal darkness.

In the novel that Billie Dean Shoemate III calls his personal best, he brings you the story of Nick Stanley, a special child who believes he has touched the other side...communing with an ancient Native American spirit. As Nick grows up, he comes to a profound realization. The spirit that visited him as a child left something in him...a mark on his soul. It follows him through life, beckoning his heart into a journey that will redefine the world.

The crew of the ship tell preposterous stories. Stories of dry land, of other ships that sail the ocean. Of vast cities populated by people. Odd visions. Blasphemies that would get a person tossed into the ocean. Still...those on the crew talk in hushed tones. Something about the ocean is haunted, and it has something to do with this ship in particular.

The Queen’s birth was supposed to bring peace, but it only caused animosity between her and her husband’s Mistress. Now, with the Àraid rising in the west, and enemies surrounding her in court, Cerynn is torn between her desire to strengthen her powers, and the maddening need to squash the woman distracting her husband from the war rising against them. But conflict rules his mind, tormenting him with what must be done while filling him with longings from the past to confuse his loyalties.

After a prisoner begs for their life and is granted mercy by The General, his queen is forced to confront her rising jealousy. Jealousy over this prisoner lying for his favor. Jealousy over the mistress he obsesses over. Jealousy that everyone is more powerful than she is. The mounting need to prove her worth distorts the world around her, and blinds her to the powerful position her husband has given her. While the young queen grapples with this urgency to secure the crown upon her head, another kingdom slowly falls into decay waiting for their own ruler to step up and fight for them.

The General’s experiment worked, and he once again has the upper hand. Determined to reestablish his control in his kingdom, The General uses a new, unknown power to remove the threat to his crown. Oblivious to her husband’s manic slaughter, Cerynn seeks out her own people, longing to unite the Àraid and Rak and end the war. She’s forced to confront her own power-hungry decisions face to face as she steps into the Àraid world, and realizes she must pick a side once and for all.

As the General teaches his new queen how to thirst for blood, a long-lost, powerful race scrambles to crown and accept a queen of their own, knowing if they wait any longer, they’ll be forgotten forever. One queen embraces her place in a cruel world. The other longs to recreate a world that accepts her people. Somewhere between the luxuries of being queen and the betrayals of those around them, both queens must choose: Forget the power coursing through their veins and lose themselves, or stand up against a kingdom that's hunted their kind since before they were born.

If Janet Chow hadn’t been such a jerk to everyone at Sewanhaka High, they might have voted her Most Likely to Succeed. Twenty-plus years later, life hasn’t turned out how Janet expected. She’s rudderless, her career in journalism crashed, burned, and buried. How did it come to this? But then one day, Janet recognizes her mortal enemy from high school—Pam Kowolski! Somehow, Pam’s become America’s manic pixie sweetheart, an online psychic predicting the end of the world. Pam’s rich, hawt, and famous, meanwhile Janet looks... middle aged. How did this happen?

A young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost in this gripping novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave...