Resultados para "Hades" en Gótico

Marlinchen e le sue sorelle sono le ultime vere streghe di Oblya, una città in cui la magia sta lasciando posto all’industria. Di notte, però, riescono a sfuggire alla casa e al padre per godersi i palpiti della città, in particolare il teatro del balletto di nuova apertura, dove Marlinchen incontra un ballerino che le catturerà il cuore. A mano a mano che i loro incontri notturni si fanno più intesi e frequenti, però, la minaccia dell’ira del padre si fa più incombente.

Haunted by fragmented memories of a love once powerful, Persephone finds herself torn between her past and her present. Hades, the king she loathes and yet desires, is the key to unlocking the mysteries of her stolen memories. After a century of reigning as Hades' queen, Persephone is taken, her memories wiped clean by a sinister curse. With his beloved stolen away, Hades embarks on a quest, determined to break the curse and rekindle the flame of their forbidden love.

Orphaned as a young child, Mirin O'Malley has been brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling estate Hob's Hallow. Long ago her family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer, the terrifying creatures who live in the depths of the sea: safety for their merchant ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and their fortunes have suffered as a result. When Mirin's grandfather dies, her grandmother puts in train a plan to restore their glory - but at the price of Mirin's freedom.

Amidst the roots and thorns of her ancestral home, Ivy Midwinter is bound by a curse that has trapped her bloodline for generations. The brambles claw at her path, and a Raven watches over her, a harbinger of truths Ivy cannot yet understand. The land is alive, pulsing with an ancient hunger, its roots reaching for the heart of her past. It calls to her with a voice as old as time, luring her into a pact sealed in blood and bone, an oath her family could never break.

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When nineteen-year-old Elara returns to her grandmother’s ridge house in the Appalachian hollow, she finds more than heirlooms waiting. A sycamore tree as pale as bone stands watch, a cracked pocket watch stops at 10:17 each day, and a ledger filled with rules whispers what it costs to live here: Kin before names. Bread before bargains. Never pay in leaving. The hollow keeps storms, secrets, and sometimes people. If you feed it heels of bread and speak plain, it will mind its side of the fence.

A taut, lyrical folk-horror about buried bargains and the price of memory. When Maren digs up a weathered crate stamped H.V. in her family’s orchard, she releases an old ledger and a lullaby that lodges in Moonreach’s dreams. As bargains traded in seed and silence begin to ripple through the town—barns whispering, neighbors eyeing one another, crates that demand repayment—Maren must defend her newborn’s laugh from a landscape that remembers debts and collects in blood.

For the past 19 years, Rumpelstiltskin has kept his promise to Laila, the miller's daughter. Her son, Tristan, must never know the dark deal they made surrounded by straw and gold. But keeping the truth from a curious Tristan is the least of his troubles. He can't escape the chill of bodiless eyes watching him. Wanting him. Hunting him. When an oracle confirms his greatest fear, she also confirms his greatest hope. A hope and desire he believed long dead. Laila lives.

The international best seller that brings a dark and sensual look at the tale of Rumpelstiltskin. Laila sees her impending death in the mountains of straw waiting to be spun into gold. A shadowy stranger sees an opportunity for vengeance. Born to a nightmarish destiny that crushed and embittered his faith in humanity, he devotes himself to dealing in dark desires and desperate souls, and Laila's is ripe for the trade.

The Gingerbread Men mixes Shining-esque mystery with dark fairy tales, serving up a perfect Highland hotel horror. Joanna Corrance’s nightmarish novel explores the quiet corridors of desire that pull us, and the places occupied by men and women in the tales we’re all familiar with.

In the year 1477 AD, Baron Wilton Abrahams tracked down the last of the Dracul brothers, Stellan, and on a snow-covered mountain in Romania drove a stake into him, sending him tumbling over the edge. While Stellan's body lay frozen, the brides of the Dracul were forced to flee their ancient castle, and the rest of their kind met their fate at the deadly hands of vampire hunter Abrahams. Five hundred years later, explorer Max Lowe and his team make a discovery, dubbed the "Ice Prince".