Resultados para "Marina" en Gótico

EL GATO NEGRO: Desde prisión, el protagonista cuenta en primera persona los sucesos que le llevaron a ser condenado a muerte. EL HUNDIMIENTO DE LA CASA USHER: En el siglo XIX, un joven apuesto, Philip Winthrop, se presenta en la mansión de los Usher a pedir la mano de su amada, Madeline. EL CUERVO: Es una narración en verso, una historia fascinante, magistral.

Colección de relatos de una de las maestras del suspense gótico y del terror sobrenatural del siglo XIX, Rosa Mullholland. Cuentos para leer bajo las sábanas, junto a la chimenea, a la luz de las velas, siempre de noche. Incluye las historias: "El organista maldito de Hurly Burly", "El espectro de Wildwood Chase", "Una extraña historia de amor", "El fantasma del Rath" y "No tomar antes de dormir".

Once a prominent fixture in Omaha’s high society, Nina Wilson is now drowning in debt and disgrace following the untimely death of her father. Her engagement has been broken off, her family’s grand estate has fallen into disrepair, and her mother, consumed by grief, is incapable of running the household.

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America’s feminist Gothic. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives...

Después de una guardia agotadora, Emma solo quiere llegar a casa. Pero un coche averiado, un móvil sin batería y una carretera desierta la empujan a tomar la peor decisión de su vida. En cuestión de minutos, se convierte en testigo de algo que jamás debió ver. Secuestrada y con su familia bajo amenaza, su supervivencia pasa a depender de un hombre tan peligroso como implacable. Él lidera una organización criminal donde no hay margen para errores. Lo que empieza como un interrogatorio se transforma en una lucha de voluntades, poder y deseo.

This chilling tale of a gruesome monster unleashed into the world by an unthinking scientist was first conceived by 19-year-old Mary Shelley on a dark, rainy night on Lake Geneva. Lord Byron and Percy Shelley challenged their friends to see who could come up with the most horrifying story imaginable. Mary Shelley did, terrifying them all with her nightmare-inspired tale. It is followed by "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge which was an early haunting influence on the young Mary Shelley.

Doze anos atrás, Maven Blackthorn fugiu de sua pequena cidade natal, após a morte suspeita de sua mãe. Agora, de volta para um funeral, ela se vê mergulhada em uma nova trama macabra: o corpo de sua avó desapareceu. Os Blackthorns imediatamente suspeitam dos Crofts, os implacáveis donos de uma empresa farmacêutica, com quem têm uma rivalidade que já se estende por gerações. Mas então Maven se depara com Ronan Croft, filho do único homem que ela já amou, e descobre que a paixão proibida que compartilharam está tão viva–e perigosa–como sempre.

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction. It has been...

The past carries many secrets that are too heavy for our future. Things started to spiral when my best friend and I both fell for Aria Mitchell, a girl we saw reading in her bookstore in the middle of town. She seemed too good for our chaotic lives and complicated pasts. Plus, she doesn't seem like the type of girl who would agree to be shared by murderers. All we wished for was to make her ours for one night. One single taste of her, and she would be out of our system for good.

“A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests Elegant, sinister...

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.” —Peng Shepherd “Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.” —Ms, Magazine A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. “Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of...

""Read this. Right now."" —Brandon Taylor ""Molly Dektar can write like hell. [The Absolutes] is simply ravishing."" —Melissa Febos For fans of Emma Cline and Garth Greenwell, an arresting, seductive novel about one woman’s headlong dive into a reckless affair that leaves her teetering on...

""A feminist gothic that evokes Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House."" -- New York Times Book Review Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives...

Anglo-Saxon England, AD 997. Brother Galen is anxious about leaving the haven of his abbey. Suddenly reconciled with his father after being disowned, he fears he will never again fit in with his estranged family. But when he’s commissioned to produce a manuscript for the king, the shy scribe has the chance to visit his relatives after three years of banishment.

NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year * Waterstones Book of the Year * Costa Book Award Finalist “A novel of almost insolent...

“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” —The New York Times Book Review It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the...

"This is a writer that understands people down to the bones. Her characters are fallible and hopeful, flawed and loving, and so real they have stayed with me." --Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author "A knockout." --Booklist Starred Review This is a story of the rich and the very...