Resultados para "Terror" en Literatura y ficción

Fantasmas, criaturas espeluznantes, leyendas de todos los rincones del planeta, rituales de invocación al más allá o lugares encantados. Este libro es un viaje terrorífico al lado más oscuro del mundo a través de veinte historias originales ilustradas.

Narrado en distintos tiempos, "El valle del terror" está basado en la verdadera historia sobre los Molly Maguires. El cuento empieza con un mensaje encriptado del archienemigo de Sherlock Holmes, el malvado profesor Moriarty. Días después del contacto de Moriarty, la policía inglesa necesitará la ayuda de la mejor pareja de detectives, debido al asesinato del Sr. John Douglas en Sussex. Sherlock Holmes y el Dr. Watson tendrán la tarea de descubrir el asesino y las razones que lo llevaron a cometer este grave delito.

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s Touchless is a haunting and emotionally devastating story of love, survival, and the unbearable cost of human connection in a world where touch means death. Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Diaz watched civilization collapse in a matter of days. No war. No warning. Just a silent, invisible change—skin-to-skin contact now brings instant death. Families vanished. Cities fell quiet. The simple act of reaching for another person became a fatal mistake.

Enter the nostalgia-laced world of CAMP 1985, a bogus new summer program where parents send their social-media-addicted teens to unplug and make face-to-face connections without the help of a screen. Ander expects a fun weekend getaway with other influencers but instead finds himself trapped in a radical landscape without wifi. Just when Ander gives in to camp life and starts crushing on a cute gamer boy, a little fun with a spirit board unleashes a vengeful spirit of a bygone era.

Summer camp is a time for making new friends, learning valuable life skills, and having fun in the sun…and Cammie Winters is dreading every boring minute of it. That is until weird things start happening and Cammie, with the help of her brother and fellow campers, delves into the mysteries of the camp. Missing children, an off-limits island, and a rumor of an indescribable creature lurking in the waters will make this summer at Camp Silverside anything but boring.

Vigil, once the greatest stone-war athlete in Primum, is thrust into a battle far beyond the arena—into the depths of the Synapse, a vast chasm where agents of darkness harvest the consequences of players’ choices. Assigned to protect a single soul, Vigil must face relentless enemies, impossible odds, and her own doubts as she fights to guide her player toward the light.

Rico knows to stay away from trouble as best he can. But he’s angry and frustrated at the injustices he sees happening at home and around the world. He wants to do something - but what? When he is approached by Speech, a mysterious man who shares Rico's hacktivist interests, Rico is given the...

L'agente Sara Milani e il suo giovane braccio destro, Lauro, tornano a lavorare insieme per un'indagine all'ultimo sospiro... In un piccolo paese nella ridente e florida Val Vignè si aggira un pericoloso assassino, che nessuno riesce a fermare. Ma chi o cosa sarà questa creatura che uccide, per poi svanire nel nulla? Solo due veri esperti del brivido come Lauro e Sara potranno risolvere il caso, a patto di riuscire a sopravvivere alla misteriosa mano che colpisce ogni dodici del mese, senza lasciare scampo.

Jinx looked at the bar, then back at Devon and Todd. "You may want to duck is all I'm saying." As the words left her mouth, three glasses came shooting from the bar, straight toward the brothers. Devon and Todd ducked, and the glasses shattered against a door behind them. A supernatural presence is causing chaos at the bar Todd's family owns. And the threat has a connection to Todd that's deeper than even he realizes....

Nato a Boston nel 1809, Edgar Allan Poe è considerato l'inventore del genere letterario del terrore e del mistero, nonché iniziatore del genere poliziesco. Nei suoi quarant'anni di vita travagliata scrisse centinaia di racconti pubblicati su varie riviste e fu Charles Baudelaire, suo grande ammiratore, che lo fece conoscere al pubblico europeo e che lo definì "uomo dalle facoltà sovracute".

The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, ushered in the French Revolution. Within four years, the king was executed and a revolutionary tribunal was established to judge "enemies of the people." The property of nobles was seized and "enemies" tried and sent to the guillotine. Harry Sandwith, a companion of a French family, wins their confidence and becomes the protector of the three daughters. After the girls are condemned to death in the coffin-ships, Harry saves the girls and the gets them safely to England.

When two teenagers stumble upon a frozen corpse deep in the woods, they make the fateful decision to bring it back to town—unaware they’ve just unleashed the apocalypse. In the morgue beneath the hospital, the dead begin to stir, attacking the living and spreading a relentless infection. The once-quiet town quickly descends into chaos as the hospital becomes a battleground, its halls soaked in blood as survivors fight to escape the growing horde.

Abigail's road will become more dangerous soon.  

When Abigail Anthony is free and wants revenge for being contained in the Shadows house for a long time, she will not stop until her reign of terror is finished. Her thirst for their blood is real and she goes looking for the Smythes who used to live there and sold her haunted house to Tim Terror's haunted house company. When she finds them, she goes on a haunting spree along her road.   

Angry she is walking into Tyras's trap to get rid of her. Ty doesn't want a dangerous ghost running around, especially one that's killed before.

Siete minutos después de la medianoche, Conor despierta y se encuentra un monstruo en la ventana. Pero no es el monstruo que él esperaba, el de la pesadilla que tiene casi todas las noches desde que su madre empezó el arduo e incansable tratamiento. No, este monstruo es algo diferente, antiguo... Y quiere lo más peligroso de todo: la verdad.

Dorian Gray, en una atmósfera de perversión dominada por el arte y los poderes de un misterio que está más allá de la realidad: gracias a los dioses, el culto a la belleza puede trasladar las huellas del paso del tiempo a un cuadro, mientras el rostro de Dorian Gray permanece inalterado e inalterable....

Gaia is ecstatic - and terrified. Now that she can feel fear and all the conflicting reactions that emotion provokes, Gaia can't sit still. And just when she is about to settle into her new life, she discovers her past is looking for her.

Als Max seinen Großonkel leblos im dunklen Keller des Rathauses findet, umklammert der alte Mann noch immer verzweifelt den Schlüssel – das Herzstück eines längst vergessenen Rituals. Niemand im Dorf kennt die ganze Wahrheit, doch flüsternde Stimmen erzählen von einer dunklen Macht, die nur durch das Ritual gebannt werden kann.

Ein moderner Klassiker des Horrors und der Spannung über zwei jugendliche Außenseiter, die im Wald auf etwas Schreckliches, Furchterregendes und zutiefst Böses stoßen … Das Böse hat viele Gesichter. Um den örtlichen Mobbern zu entkommen, wagen sich die besten Freunde Ashley und Jude an den Devil’s Ditch–einen abgelegenen Ort tief im Wald, von dem alle sagen, er sei verflucht. Aber das sind doch nur Geschichten, oder? Zunächst scheint alles in Ordnung zu sein. Doch als Ashley und Jude auf etwas Unerklärliches stoßen, nimmt alles eine düstere Wendung.

A haunting selection of Eve's favorite, chilling, and real-life ghost stories—in one amazing collection: In this delicious anthology, you will listen to some of the creepiest real-life paranormal encounters that have happened all over the world! This includes: Haunted houses, Haunted objects, shadow people, haunted first responders, haunted hospitals, haunted hotels, and so much more....

Teenage climber Ryan Hart is still in Nepal, working at a refugee center with his Tibetan girlfriend, Tashi. His obsession with summiting Mount Everest is as strong as ever, but a climbing accident puts his plans on hold. As soon as Ryan recovers, he and Tashi journey deep into the Himalayas. As they arrive at Base Camp, a violent terrorist attack kicks off. Ryan and his friends are held hostage. Escape is their only option, but all the trails are guarded. They must head for Everest's deadly slopes.