Resultados para "Skin" en Terror

In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious", in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste", a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus.

When Garrett Walkinshaw pays a visit to his sister, he finds her murdered—his albino niece left emotionally scarred on her bed. Determined on getting revenge, the two set out after the killer, following a bloody trail of skin-lacking bodies. After Garrett's best friend—a recently freed slave—joins the road-trip hunt, they're forced to teach Garret' s niece the dark world of survival and assassination in the gritty wild west, where they're met with myriad of roadblocks in the form of evil lawmen, bizarro brothers, a swamp witch, and more.

Tess welds metal. Bibi molds flesh. Together, they make art that moves, dances, burns, and bleeds, and the Surgeons of the Demolition become the hottest ticket in town. But Bibi wants more, always more, no matter who gets hurt. And Tess needs to burn, no matter what.

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

Tucked away in northeastern Vermont, picturesque Askergan County is the perfect place for a winter vacation - for the lucky few who know about it. Askergan is so peaceful, crime so nonexistent, that they don't even have a full-time police force, just a Sheriff and two deputies who spend most of their time dishing out parking tickets and breaking up the occasional bar fight. But that was before the storm.

READERS LOVE GEMMA's DARK WORLD 'If you are after something that is both shocking and horrifically beautiful then take a journey and discover this little atrocity for yourself'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I kept telling myself I really should turn off the light and get to bed now, eyes dry, head heavy...

Lorsque sa nourrice lui racontait l'histoire de Peau d'âne, le jeune Louis XIV était incapable de trouver le sommeil. Imaginez si on lui avait lu cette version revisitée, dans laquelle la jeune fille n'a rien de passif et d'ingénu comme celle du conte de Perrault....

The Skin Show has existed all over the south for generations–hidden clubs offering their patrons a location to be whoever they desire, in a playground with free reign to do whatever they want without judgment or castigation. There is no cover charge, the drinks are free, and rules do not exist within the walls of The Skin Show. However, once you’ve entered, you’ll never leave, for what exists underneath each club is something of fairytales. Danny Raab was drawn into The Skin Show's inescapable clutch, and he never returned. Now, Andy Raab is in the midst of a desperate search for his brother.

In the remote desert town of Black Hollow, Arizona, something ancient stirs. People are vanishing, and the ones who return... aren’t the same. Their skin peels away to reveal fur, teeth sharpen into fangs, and yellow eyes burn with hunger. When Jesse, Dana, Ty and Holly encounter the creature responsible—a cursed Skinwalker trapped between human and beast—their lives spiral into a nightmare they can’t escape. As the curse spreads, warping animals and townsfolk alike, they race to uncover the truth buried deep in the desert.

When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style...

No one tells you what to do when the boy who shattered your heart comes back to steal it. Roman Riviera was my everything once upon a time. I found my knight in shining armor in the form of a fellow foster kid. He protected me and promised to stand by my side forever. But Roman Riviera is a liar. He left me with monsters.

In the chilling corridors of Perfect Skin Dermatology, an unsettling truth festers. During a visit to his dermatologist, Joe meets nurse Helen Hives, and together they are caught in a twisted web, where routine medical procedures morph into ghastly experiments. As patients vanish, then reappear as beings that only echo their true forms, Joe and Helen must navigate vast underground lairs, battle genetically modified creatures, and devise a rescue plan before it’s too late.

These men were a part of a conspiracy that reached far back into ancient times. If this was taking place in a Podunk town like Draper, where else might there be branches of the cult? Were they everywhere? Did ancient relics, impregnated with dark energy, line the basements of buildings in Washington, DC? How could I fight an organized effort as potentially huge as this one? If I escaped, how could I evade others of their group? Were they controlling everything? Was my hope of freedom just a cruel joke?

Randi Wade is a survivor. She followed in the footsteps of her father, became a cop, and now is working the P.I. trade. But her past still haunts her. And the vicious animal attacks that took her father's life have sprung up anew, claiming victims once again in this sleepy town. George R.R...

Jayce has spent her whole life by the ocean as part of the close-knit communities found across the Îles de la Madeleine. With a place to call her own, a job she adores, and a girlfriend she loves, her life has always been a comfortably predictable one. But after a night in the waters at Pointe aux Loups Beach, Jayce quickly finds her world upended as something calls to her from the ice-cold waves. When blisters filled with saltwater ooze from her skin and ropes of seaweed slither from her body, Jayce realizes she can’t ignore the voice for much longer.

The High King now wages open war in the east, and the stirrings can be felt even where Mag and Albern wander. The weremage Kaita continues to elude them, and their hunt has stagnated—until war finds them at last, and they are forced to choose a side. On the battlefields between Feldemar and Dorsea, loyalists and rebels pay a heavy price in blood—and the Uncut Lady once again unleashes her skill upon her foes. But not even Underrealm’s traitors represent the darkest threat in the land. Whispers slither through the towns and cities of a dark wizard roaming.

Myles Carver is dead. But his estate, Watermere, lives on, waiting for a new Carver to move in. Myles’s wife, Annabel, is dead too, but she is also waiting, lying in her grave in the woods. For nearly half a century she was responsible for a nightmarish reign of terror, and she’s not prepared to stop now. She is hungry to live again...and her unsuspecting nephew, Paul, will be the key. Julia Merrow has a secret almost as dark as Watermere’s. But when she and Paul fall in love they think their problems might be over.

Willow Burrow: the most isolated town in America. A small mining town tucked away against the base of the mountains in the upper reaches of the United States. After a cave-in at the mine reveals a previously undiscovered underground chamber, something is awoken from an ancient slumber. Cut off and being closed in on, the people of Willow Burrow will have to fight for their lives against the thing that has been stirred from the depths.

Lilly is running from what is done: her demons. Alone, she finds herself in the capable hands of David, proprietor of a reclusive shelter. Tormented by visions of the damned, Lilly struggles to fit in, shadows cast from the past, fear of where the future lies ... but something isn’t right. There is something odd about David. The police are omnipresent. The soil bleeds.

What better way to exact revenge by the murdering and skinning of innocent victims in lashings of blood-soaked depravity? But hold on, those flayed skins are coming to life? And thus begins the insanity. After losing his mother to a brain tumour, Trevor King feels totally alone in the world. Someone needs to pay for her death and Dr Mellick, Trevor's work colleague and family GP, is the man he holds responsible. Trevor's yearning for vengeance leads him to concoct a vicious plot to frame the doctor for multiple murders.