Resultados para "The Stranger" en Paranormal y urbana

My name’s Bill Ryder. Five years ago, I helped banish magic and monsters to the shadows. I thought it was over, that I was finished with all that supernatural crap. Turns out I was dead wrong. Now the impossible has happened. My goddaughter is conjuring fireballs, I’m seeing ghosts, and two vampires have shown up at my doorstep looking to kick my ass. Seems a group of deranged wizards are hell-bent on reopening the doorway between worlds, once more unleashing unspeakable horrors upon humanity, and they think I hold the secret for how to make it happen.

My name is Cheyenne Summerlin - remember that name. Somebody should. The world can't know I'm a Drow halfling. Not yet. I barely have these powers under my control, but time's up. I'm about to take magic for a test drive. Want to come along? The black ops government group believes it can run my life...but I have plans of my own. Watch out, magical evildoers - I'm about to crash your party. But will my training be enough?

The curse of the lost goddess Inanna would not allow Lukas Aguilar to hide out in obscurity for long. To become the conquering invader, the protective monster, and the selfish Outsider who would risk the end of the world itself, he must instead embrace audacity.

Everyone's always told Aspic that trouble can't help following him because of his heritage. Determined to put the lie to half-demon stereotypes, he's finally landed a good, quiet job as an herbalist's clerk where the owner trusts him to man the shop alone. What could go wrong selling coriander and thyme? When Geoffrey first enters the shop, Aspic finds the little man's eccentric appearance startling, then intriguing. Geoffrey explains, in stops and starts, that he is a theoretical necromancer researching replacements for blood magic.

Arthur Machen has been cited as an influence to many writers of supernatural horror. He was also a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This story, originally from 1888, is about a monk, in charge of the wine cellar at his abbey, who finds a strange jar and decides to take a drink.

Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic! For anyone who's ever wondered what lies beyond the limits of reality, who's imagined the secret spaces where witches wield fearsome magic, come and drink deep. Let yourself fall under the spell of this bewitching collection!

It’s tricky to know what’s normal if you’re not, but Stella’s upbringing is average enough, and her protective if paranoid family work on the principle that the less said about what she is, the very much safer she'll be. Life not surprisingly has its ups, downs, and disasters, but not until she's thrust into a hair-raising situation, face-to-face with the stark reality of medical experimentation and its horrifying consequences does she become certain of one thing. All this hero stuff just isn't her.

A stranger emerges out of a brilliant dawn. His appearance is rough and dangerous. His touch starts to change the world. factory breaks down and the sea erupts. A prisoner escapes and runs to his victim. A youth is stopped with her knife. A Covid nurse drags herself from her shift. A young woman faces pregnancy while an old man faces death. And the town where they all live is being ripped apart. Some of the people are happy, while others are scared. Is the stranger there for good or bad? And is everything all as it seems?

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A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), The Stranger Times is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor...well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own.

Da will man in seinem Buchclub ein wenig Spiritualität ausprobieren und schon hat man aus Versehen den alten Gott Zalas heraufbeschworen. Und Zalas hat natürlich nur eins im Sinn: möglichst viele Gläubige um sich scharen. Mithilfe des unglückseligen Neil Aikens erschafft Zalas ein Winterwunderland, in dem alle Wünsche wahr werden – vom echten Einhorn bis zum Besuch des Opas, der letztes Jahr doch eigentlich das Zeitliche gesegnet hat. Das Team der Stranger Times muss einen Weg finden, um nicht nur Weihnachten, sondern womöglich die ganze Welt zu retten.

Da will man in seinem Buchclub ein wenig Spiritualität ausprobieren und schon hat man aus Versehen den alten Gott Zalas heraufbeschworen. Und Zalas hat natürlich nur eins im Sinn: möglichst viele Gläubige um sich scharen. Mithilfe des unglückseligen Neil Aikens erschafft Zalas ein Winterwunderland, in dem alle Wünsche wahr werden – vom echten Einhorn bis zum Besuch des Opas, der letztes Jahr doch eigentlich das Zeitliche gesegnet hat. Das Team der Stranger Times muss einen Weg finden, um nicht nur Weihnachten, sondern womöglich die ganze Welt zu retten.

Not too long ago, Lukas Aguilar believed only what he could see and feel for himself. Then an earthquake destroyed his home and cast him into a dangerous dungeon world. He fought to survive, gaining experience and levels but losing the goddess Inanna who inhabited his mind. And he wants her back.

Lukas Aguilar used to think he knew everything. Mainly because he believed only what he could prove for himself. No gods, fate, or any such nonsense for him. But that seems like a lifetime ago. Because when an earthquake destroyed his earthly home, he suddenly found himself in a dark dungeon world where gods and monsters are all too real—and supreme goddess Inanna had taken up residence in his mind. Upon learning the rules of his new existence—levels, skills, abilities—Lukas fought his way from victory to victory. That is, until he came up against an anomaly that got him killed.

Lukas Aguilar does not believe in gods. Despite—or perhaps because of—his deep knowledge of mythology and lore, Lukas has always valued what is practical, factual, and verifiable, eschewing faith for what he can see right in front of him. That is, until an earthquake destroys his home, and he wakes up in a dark cavern infested with bloodthirsty and unearthly creatures, wielding strange powers and hearing an even stranger voice in his head claiming to be a goddess.

I accidentally ended up in this dimension. I had nothing. I knew no one. I barely survived the journey but landed in the best possible place; an ancient society of vampire hunters with the medical means to put me back together. I can't go home, but I can use the extra-abilities I gained from slipping dimensions to work for Black Swan and try to keep my friends alive.

Dunkle Kräfte sind am Werk - und The Stranger Times geht ihnen auf den Grund. Die Wochenzeitung ist Großbritanniens erste Adresse für Unerklärtes und Unerklärliches. Zumindest ist das ihre Eigenwerbung... Gleich in Hannah Willis' erster Arbeitswoche bei der Zeitung tritt eine Tragödie ein, und The Stranger Times ist gezwungen, tatsächlich investigativen Journalismus zu betreiben. Hannah und ihre Kollegen kommen zu einer schockierenden Erkenntnis: Einige der Geschichten, die sie zuvor selbst als Unsinn abgetan hatten, sind furchtbar real.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.

洪大业纳了婢女宝带为妾，冷落了正室夫人悦人，悦人内心十分愤懑。狐仙恒娘向悦人传授“媚夫之术”，悦人又重新获得了丈夫的专宠。…… 洪大業納了婢女寶帶為妾，冷落了正室夫人悅人，悅人內心十分憤懣。狐仙恒娘向悅人傳授「媚夫之術」，悅人又重新獲得了丈夫的專寵。

流落青楼的女子，美丽的容貌，惊世的才情，痴情的穷秀才，苦命的鸳鸯。可惜的是美女变成丑女，痴情的秀才一颗心依然如旧。…… 流落青樓的女子，美麗的容貌，驚世的才情，癡情的窮秀才，苦命的鴛鴦。可惜的是美女變成醜女，癡情的秀才一顆心依然如舊。