Resultados para "Terror" en Contemporánea

***Best seller de The New York Times*** ***Selección del club de lectura de Reese Witherspoon*** ***En los más vendidos según Indie, USA Today y el Washington Post*** Adentraos en una nueva fantasía gótica de la incomparable autora de Las brujas del ayer y del mañana. La ciudad de Eden es...

Quando Nora Seed fa il suo ingresso nella Biblioteca di mezzanotte, le viene offerta l’occasione di rimediare agli errori commessi. Come sarebbe andata la sua vita se avesse preso decisioni diverse? I libri sugli scaffali della Biblioteca di mezzanotte hanno il potere di mostrarglielo, proiettando Nora in una versione alternativa della realtà. Ma le cose non vanno sempre secondo i piani e prima che scada il tempo, Nora deve trovare una risposta alla domanda di tutte le domande: come si può vivere al meglio la propria vita?

In H. P. Lovecraft's classic horror story, an old man consents to a radio interview. In that interview a number of terrible truths come out: The truth about an expedition to Antarctica where everyone died horribly. The truth about an attempt to find the expedition's mysterious killers. The truth about a desolate plateau in the heart of a frozen continent. The truth about life and intelligence on Earth. And the truth about the prehistoric horror that still waits lurking...At the Mountains of Madness.

Undertaker Jean has a secret, she can speak to the dead. Ever since she lost her husband on their wedding day, her priority is to keep their son safe. But when she finds him murdered on his sixteenth birthday, Jean’s world is shattered. She descends into the underworld, determined to bring her son home. Meanwhile in the land of the living, Detective Taura is investigating the boy’s death. Dark secrets that have been following her are brought to the surface. The murder is only the beginning. Supernatural forces are stirring in London.

Sometimes it sucks being a werewolf. People know what I am. Which is rough because normies don’t trust monsters. Mostly, I just try to get by and keep my head down. My vampire and mummy roommates probably don’t help matters. But when a rash of robberies strikes the neighborhood, all eyes turn to the monsters. Even the police cast a distrustful eye our way. As the nights go by and the cops bumble their way through the investigation, it becomes clear that something beyond your average series of smash-and-grabs is going on. For a skittering evil lurks in the dark corners, waiting to pounce.

ADVENTURER WANTED FOR OVERNIGHT HIKE. After losing her job with the US Forestry Service, Celeste Foster makes a desperate gamble by answering an ad for a job in rural Virginia. What she doesn't anticipate is sliding into an alternate version of the Appalachian mountains. Before Celeste understands what’s happening, she agrees to hike up a cursed mountain to save a town from complete annihilation. And in the days leading up to the ritual, she learns that gods and monsters live alongside humans in the Valley.

Tetrarch Mitcham has decided to make Doc into his own personal assassin, and if Doc doesn't play his cards right, the Hidden will pay the price. With only days to unravel Mitcham's master plan, Doc fights to protect both the Hidden and the norm world from civil war. To make matters worse, one of the most powerful beings in existence has just demanded that Doc repay a favor by awakening the most deadly entity the world has ever known: the Black Shaman...

This Mary Shelley's classic short story, The Invisible Girl, is perfect for the fall season. Henry and Rosina's Gothic love story is a classic.

What happens when exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all the roles in Hollywood? Human actors sue, that's what. In a desperate attempt to keep the squabbling inside the Screen Actors Guild from going public, the president of SAG forces the two sides into arbitration. Enter Linnet Ellery, a human lawyer working for a vampire law firm, to serve as arbitrator. Linnet discovers that there are sinister forces at work in Tinsel Town, determined to shatter the fragile peace between elves, vampires, werewolves, and humans.

Teenage delinquent Angel Crawford lives with her redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and has a police record a mile long. But when she's made into a zombie after a car crash, her addictions disappear, except for her all-consuming need to stay "alive".

Professor Ravi Gupta has spent a lifetime guarding the portal he opened as a young man, through magic he never should have touched, and the world of peril on the other side. But the passage is not his darkest secret. That is the woman he left there, and never spoke of again. When his most brilliant student vanishes through the same door, Ravi has no choice but to go back. He returns to that hostile realm to bring the boy home, and finds the world beyond ruled by the research associate he and his partner marooned there decades ago. She has not forgotten what they did.

When Jesse's old girlfriend calls him requesting an immediate meeting late at night, he thinks of a lot of reasons she might have called. None of them are anywhere near the truth. Instead of a late night booty call, Gail brings him into a world he didn't know existed - ghouls, werewolves, and ghosts - and they all seem to be after Jesse's blood. Gail wants Jesse to put a silver bullet in her heart to keep her from becoming the monster she hunts, but there's no way Jesse is going to kill the girl he once loved.

The young son of a popular children's book author vanishes into the dangerous fictional world his father created. And it's going to take more than a vivid imagination to get him back alive.

Gorgons might be stony-faced but they know how to rock. After his adventure in an apocalyptic alternate dimension, Cain is ready for some downtime and mangoritas. But when a gorgon asks Cain to help her remove the curse of Medusa from her bloodline, he sees an opportunity to learn about his origins. He might even be able to help Aura with her curse. Three birds with one stone seems like a pretty good deal. Their quest leads them to the Shalthaes Woodlands, a.k.a., the Dead Forest. Somewhere inside lies the lost city of Fyeth Elunore and its ancient library that may hold answers.

Giles Chamberlain returns to a snowbound Cambridge after Christmas spent with his girlfriend. Determined to prove himself to her family, he sets out to discover what became of her missing brother. But when he encounters a sinister figure prowling the college’s rooftops, he suspects last semester’s creature was not the only entity to cross into our world.

Bleakwood, Oregon—once a sleepy, forgotten town—has become ground zero for an unspeakable horror. When Danielle Pryer’s long-lost brother, Bruce, returns from the Vietnam War carrying a monstrous mutation, reality itself begins to unravel. Vines turn to veins, brick to bone, and the laws of physics become mere suggestions. But Bleakwood’s nightmare is just beginning.

Hi. My name is Will. Apparently, I’m a necromancer. You would think that I might be a little bit more certain about something like that. Magical practitioners apparently go through a lot of training in an apprenticeship. Again with the apparently. In this case, "apparently" is completely appropriate because I didn’t do any of that. I was finally ready to renovate my house, so I was in a pinch for an apartment. I ended up in one that had a bunch of weird reviews. I did say I was in a pinch. It turned out that the apartment had a ghost.

Llewyn Glass, a former Catholic priest, was deceived into making a deal with the Devil. Now, with Halloween looming, he must find a way to break the pact or be condemned to an eternity in Hell. Guided by the enigmatic and powerful Sister Abigail, Llewyn embarks on a perilous journey across the globe, confronting gods and monsters at every turn. Each step toward salvation demands a sacrifice, and the cost may be more than just his soul - but all of humanity.

Et si de simples rêves n'étaient autre que les souvenirs d'une vie passée ? 1692. Salem, État du Massachusetts aux États-Unis. Accusées de pratiques magiques, de nombreuses personnes sont alors mises à mort. Innocentes ou coupables ? Qui méritait réellement la potence ? De nos jours, alors que Max évite de peu la mort, la voilà sous l'emprise de songes qui semblent tous venir d'une époque lointaine où la sorcellerie et les démons hantaient l'imaginaire du commun des mortels.

My name's Bill Ryder and I have no life, but not because I enjoy video games or D&D. I literally have no heartbeat thanks to the night I met Sally. She was too good to be true, a woman to die for. So I did, bleeding out with my throat torn open. Problem is, I didn't stay dead. Now I'm a vampire, surrounded by other vamps who are stronger and faster – not to mention better looking. It's enough to give a guy a complex. Worse, their leader, a douche called Night Razor, can't stand me.