Resultados para "Terror" en Distopía

"Escalofriante pesadilla futurista en la que el canibalismo es legitimado en gran parte del mundo a causa de un virus que afecta a los animales y resulta mortal para los seres humanos. ¿Qué resto de humanismo puede caber cuando los cuerpos de los muertos son cremados para...

The end of the world has come not with a bang or a whimper, but with the guttural snarl of walking corpses hungry for human flesh. The "lucky" survivors flee an unstoppable virus spreading death and societal collapse across the globe. As the rules of civilization crumble, a lawyer, a pilot, and a nurse become comrades-in-arms in the fight against extinction. But not every enemy wears a rotting face, and anyone who doesn’t have your back just might have your head. Humankind’s twilight is at hand, and these are indeed... dark days.

A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.

When Sam and the staff of the Blue Dawn Diner arrive at work one morning, it only takes a moment to see that something is very wrong. The streets of the usually bustling town are eerily quiet - even the birds are silent. Sam and his friends soon discover that the world has changed beyond all comprehension, throwing them into a battle for survival as they try to create a new life and a new community. Coming up against other survivors and horrifying creatures, the group are forced to adapt quickly.

After a long, perilous journey, Hell Divers Xavier Rodriguez and Magnolia Katib discover the Metal Islands, a sunny, habitable zone where thousands of people live by fishing and farming. But this "paradise" is really a violent warrior society ruled by the cannibal King el Pulpo. For the first time in X's life, he is forced to lay down his arms and surrender.

Michael Talbot, his squad, and followers have suffered hardship and loss along the way, but finally, after years of searching, they have reached their Colorado homestead and settled in. But the world hasn't finished with them yet. A ferocious and determined enemy draws them back into the war for Humankind, and this time, the battle will be final.

Noch Monate später verfolgen Coco die Erinnerungen an den furchtbaren Hexensabbat, und der Hüter des Hauses gilt ihr als mahnendes Beispiel, sich niemals wieder gegen ihre eigene Familie zu stellen. Doch dann werden eines Tages plötzlich einzelne Mitglieder der Zamis-Sippe von einem unheimlichen Gegner attackiert, und Coco muss sich entscheiden – für oder gegen ihre Familie ...

Die junge Hexe Coco Zamis wird von ihrem Vater nach Trinidad geschickt, wo sie bei dem Hexer Makemake in die Lehre gehen soll. Auf der Insel angekommen, muss Coco jedoch schnell erfahren, dass Makemake nicht der mächtige Dämon ist, der er zu sein vorgibt. Tatsächlich ist Makemakes Leben bedroht und Coco die Einzige, die ihm noch helfen kann.

Darlene Bobich, the zombie killer, is on a mission to save her family. Can she succeed, even as more obstacles are thrown in her way: survivors bent on their own selfish needs, evolving zombies, and the rotting world around her?

O título da coletânea faz alusão a um livro dentro do audiolivro—mais precisamente, a uma peça teatral fictícia—e a seu personagem central, uma figura sobrenatural cuja existência extrapola a narração. A peça O Rei de Amarelo é mencionada em quatro dos contos, mas pouco se conhece de seu conteúdo. É certo apenas que o texto, em dois atos, leva o ouvinte à loucura, condenando sua alma à perdição. Um risco ao qual alguns aceitam se submeter, dado o caráter único da obra, um misto irresistível de beleza e decadência.

Carefully, I removed the thick syringe from its satchel. The liquid inside was almost colorless. Without hesitation, I pressed the needle against my abdomen, letting it puncture the flesh, another point in a neat field of tiny dots. I couldn’t really feel the methanal coursing through my body, but I knew the dead muscles were soaking it up, revitalizing, shaking a stubborn, scornful fist at death.

Dean Brown is a survivor. Dean Brown is a father. Dean Brown is a husband. Dean Brown is a brother-in-law. Dean Brown is a psychopath. Before all of this, Dean Brown was just a normal boy....

In a world where walls provide safety, Heidi finds herself wanting nothing more than to run free. Trapped in a community with people she despises, she volunteers to be the runner for them. The supply runs offer her relief in an otherwise claustrophobic environment.... They also leave her vulnerable to attack in a broken city.

Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only the last 4,000 have been of any significance. So, what did we do for nearly 250,000 years? We huddled in caves and around small fires, fearful of the things that we didn't understand. It was more than explaining why the sun came up; it was the mystery of enormous birds with heads of men and rocks that came to life. So we called them "gods" and "demons", begged them to spare us, and prayed for salvation.

In the real world, it’s 2027, and disgruntled, lone-wolf, data analyst Adam Harker works for a corporation he hates. In this dystopian future, many seek to lose themselves in virtual reality games, but Adam is dead set against playing Darkworlds, until he's tempted by two quite different people. In the game, it's 1927, and Adam Harker is in London battling against the minions of Cthulhu, but then come hints and suggestions that something else stirs - something wicked and secret, something new, rising up and replicating itself within the code, and taking on the form of ageless evil.

We know that we pose a threat to humanity. But so does every person with a common cold stepping into a metro on their way to work in the morning. We don’t ask to be hailed as heroes, or the next evolutionary step in human life, because we sure aren’t that. We just ask for the same fair treatment any patient gets, no matter what their disease might be. The humans call us zombies. We call ourselves humanz.

The Divided, the sixth book of The Orphans series, picks up directly where Civil War, the fifth book, left off. The action and speed of this will leave your heart pounding.

After witnessing his father's murder and his home burned to the ground, Michael is left wandering the violent streets of London alone. Having been captured and managing to escape the clutches of the most heinous of men, he's terrified of recapture. All Michael wants to do is find somewhere safe. Somewhere he can call home. To do that he must survive in a city where he's the weak and the hunted - with no family or friends to help him.

George had begun to question his membership in the gang of murderers and rapists, but now that blood coats his hands, he can feel his humanity slipping away. All he wants to do is leave, but the leader of the gang is his psychotic brother-in-law and the only one who knows where George's pregnant sister is being kept. With just a few weeks left until she gives birth, George knows that leaving the gang now would mean condemning her and the child to the life he wants to escape.

The end of America is near. A plague that kills its victims and resurrects them as flesh-eating ghouls has decimated the American population, forcing what's left of the government to take shelter underground in the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia. President Cole must decide whether to start nuking his own country in order to save it from the virus that has a hundred percent kill ratio. Whether America survives or not, it will never be the same.