Действие происходит в США. Убиты русский эмигрант Аркадий Мандрыга и его семья. На месте преступления полиция обнаруживает 8 трупов, священника и инвалида в коляске. Священнику предъявлено обвинение в убийствах. Все улики указывают на него. Полиция собирается передать дело в суд. Однако "дело кровавого священника" попадает в поле зрения крупнейшего аналитика США, начальника секретных расследований ФБР — Джеймса Боуда. Он начинает изучать дело и вскоре получает шокирующую информацию. В архивах Интерпола зафиксировано 118 полностью идентичных случаев. Людей с такой фамилией убивали по всему миру в течение последних трех лет. Получив эти данные, ФБР начинает крупномасштабное расследование. В итоге они находят единственного оставшегося в живых свидетеля. Свидетель не успевает ничего сказать — его убивают на глазах ФБР. Но он успевает передать им кусочек странной бумаги с непонятными словами. Анализ с точностью определяет — это кусочек документа, написанного около 2000 лет назад. Язык древнеиудейский. Перевод гласит: "Святилище хранит проклятие отца и любовь сына". Один из агентов ФБР выдвигает безумную версию: "Существует послание, написанное рукой Иисуса Христа. Убитые являлись хранителями этого послания"

Когда все хорошо, человек воспринимает происходящее как данность. Когда все плохо, он начинает искать ответы. Очень часто ответы лежат за границами происходящего. И достаток может быть в тягость и знания приносят только боль. Попробуйте вовремя осознать - какой Демон управляет Вашей судьбой. Цель издания: собрать средства на доработку и публикацию в печатном виде произведения в масштабе первоначальной задумки. Стоит оно того или нет, Вы голосуете покупкой

Автор сам по себе писатель/афорист и в книге лишь малая толика его высказываний. «Своя тупость отличается от чужой тем, что ты её не замечаешь» (с)

A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury, published in 1990. It is the second in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator. Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power

Becca Healy always believed she understood the shameful circumstances of her mother’s death — until the night her mother’s spirit whispers a simple message out of the static of a radio: “Not true.” Becca turns to the terse Dr. Joanne Call, an expert in Electronic Voice Phenomenon — ghost voices — to unravel the mystery of this decades-old tragedy. Joanne can coax messages out of the silence of the grave, but coping with this feisty, emotional Healy person might be completely beyond her. Together, Becca and Jo must tackle childhood grief, a serial killer, Xena withdrawal, and a growing attraction between the two most mismatched women in Seattle

Peter James’s first novel-length collection of short stories. These include all the stories in Short Shockers 1 & 2 plus many new ones. With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins... From a woman intent on bizarre revenge, to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen; and from a man arranging a life-changing assignation, to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation... In multi-million-copy bestselling author Peter James’ collection of short stories we first come to meet Brighton’s finest detective, Roy Grace, and read the tale that went on to inspire James’ hugely successful novel, Dead Simple. James exposes the Achilles heel of each of his characters, and makes us question how well we can trust ourselves, and one another. Each tale carries a twist that will haunt readers for days after they turn the final page... Combining every twisted tale from the ebook bestsellers Short Shockers One and Short Shockers Two,with a never-seen-before collection of new material, A Twist of the Knife shows Peter James as the undisputed grand master of storytellers with this sometimes funny, often haunting, but always shocking collection

Тебя невзлюбил твой собственный класс. Что бы ты не делала — ты всегда была одна. Но, однажды вернулась твоя подруга. Твоя умершая подруга…

Виталий Борисович Шумный — в прошлом участковый, а ныне сотрудник более серьезного органа, брошен на расследование преступлений, которые случаются и в глубинке. Обыкновенное, ничем не примечательное происшествие — пожилая женщина падает в лестничный пролет и погибает. Все достаточно очевидно — подобные дела закрываются быстро, пополняя статистические данные, написанные сухим и казенным языком. Вероятно, именно так все бы и произошло, однако к удивлению Виталия Борисовича к нему является покойная…и начинает вести странные и непонятные беседы. Ни родственников, ни близких у погибшей не имеется, единственный знакомый — проживающий рядом сосед. Замкнутый и не менее одинокий Алексей Митрофанович — последняя ниточка, возможно, в какой-то степени позволит пролить свет на трагедию, за которой стоит некая тайна. Вот только как приблизиться к этой тайне, в какую дверь войти, и где эта дверь находится? Сложно, невероятно сложно — чем больше узнает сотрудник, тем больше возникает вопросов, и потому что следы ведут в прошлое, и потому что он сам становится участником событий — но только каких? Мрачные и темные, покрытые пылью истории времена, когда в очередной раз застонала русская земля, привычно умывшись кровью и слезами, когда в одночасье дети стали взрослыми, женщины — старухами, а мужчины — стариками. Когда на смену одному испытанию приходит другое — еще более страшное, так как нет ничего ужасней войны — долгой и кровопролитной, когда люди теряют облик человеческий, и происходит пир во время чумы

Few believed Professor Coldwell could commune with spirits. But in Scotland's oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light. Now, the young are being haunted by night terrors and those who are visited disappear. This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burned-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? A chilling occult thriller from award-winning author Adam Nevill, Banquet for the Damned is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacey modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft

When Dr. Owen Orient is asked to investigate a young man’s sudden disappearance, he reluctantly agrees. What begins as a missing-person case quickly morphs into murder, and before long, Orient is thrust into an international manhunt that takes him from Manhattan’s sado-maso (BDSM) underground to the heart of Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza and... into horrible occult mysteries. After years of dedicated study in Tibet, Dr. Orient has honed his telepathic skills to become a formidable psychic investigator. But he finds himself the target of a powerful Nazi cult and becomes involved with a beautiful woman whose concept of sexual loyalty is slippery at best. With the help of his assistant, Sordi, Dr. Orient faces hostile cops, psycho Nazis wielding massive occult powers, and a hot war in Egypt in a case that races from drug and sex parties at a fabulous Hamptons mansion to the secrets of the ancient world. But will this adventure of a lifetime steal his soul?

Doctor Orient: Fiction series. Occult Esoteric Mystical NOVEL When Dr. Owen Orient is asked to investigate a young man’s sudden disappearance, he reluctantly agrees. What begins as a missing-person case quickly morphs into murder, and before long, Orient is thrust into an international manhunt that takes him from Manhattan’s sado-maso (BDSM) underground to the heart of Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza and... into horrible occult mysteries. After years of dedicated study in Tibet, Dr. Orient has honed his telepathic skills to become a formidable psychic investigator. But he finds himself the target of a powerful Nazi cult and becomes involved with a beautiful woman whose concept of sexual loyalty is slippery at best. With the help of his assistant, Sordi, Dr. Orient faces hostile cops, psycho Nazis wielding massive occult powers, and a hot war in Egypt in a case that races from drug and sex parties at a fabulous Hamptons mansion to the secrets of the ancient world. But will this adventure of a lifetime steal his soul?

A paragon of efficiency, Colette took the next natural step after finishing secretarial school by marrying a man who would do just fine. After a sobering, do-it-yourself divorce, Colette is at a loss for what to do next. Convinced that she is due an out-of-hand, life-affirming revelation, she strays into the realm of psychics and clairvoyants, hungry for a whisper to set her off in the right direction. At a psychic fair in Windsor she meets the charismatic Alison. Alison, the daughter of a prostitute, beleaguered during her childhood by the pressures of her connection to the spiritual world, lives in a different kind of solitude. She cannot escape the dead who speak to her, least of all the constant presence of Morris, her low-life spiritual guide. An expansive presence onstage, Alison at once feels her bond with Colette, inviting her to join her on the road as her personal assistant and companion. Troubles spiral out of control when the pair moves to a suburban wasteland in what was once the English countryside and take up with a spirit guide and his drowned therapist. It is not long before Alison's connection to the place beyond black threatens to uproot their lives forever. This is Hilary Mantel at her finest- insightful, darkly comic, unorthodox, and thrilling to read

Alexi Sokolsky is not your everyday hitman. Introspective, intuitive, and fiercely intelligent, he is also a mage capable of murder with nothing but his voice and the power of his will. However, arcane ability comes with a price: The same powers that make Alexi indispensable to the Russian Mafia also make him a social outcast, an object of fear and superstition. When a high-ranking Sicilian Mafioso is murdered with demonic magic and dumped on Russian territory, the Russians blame the only mage they know—Alexi. Then a key contact in the lucrative cocaine trade disappears, and Alexi is the one sent to play detective. He quickly learns that every mage and his dog are searching for a Gift Horse, a mysterious creature rumored to be made of pure magic who carries the secrets of all creation in her flesh and blood… a creature who is calling to Alexi for help. If Alexi heeds the Gift Horse’s call, he stands to lose everything and everyone he’s fought and killed for. If he doesn’t, the world will be held hostage by whoever finds her first—and given that a demon-summoning murderous psychopath is in pole position, the odds are not in the world’s favor. Magic, mafia and mystery come together in the first installment of the Hound of Eden Supernatural Thriller series. Recieve your complimentary copy of Burn Artist, a 150-page prequel to the series, when you sign up for the Hound of Eden Mailing List here: https://www.instafreebie.com/free/o2OAa

The Brother of the Third Degree is a novel written by Will L. Garver. The story revolves around a young man named Alphonso, who is searching for spiritual enlightenment. This occult novel is a tale of eternal love, albeit chaste. The protagonist, Alphonso Colono is born into a family with connected with the Illuminati, here called the 'White Brotherhood'. He moves to Paris and is initiated into the occult group, where he meets the woman who is to become his soulmate: Iole. They meet St.Germain and other adepts, help a modern Napoleon unite Europe, and eventually pass beyond the mortal realm

It’s 1986. Alexi Sokolsky is a 25-year old Spook, a hitmage for the Russian Mafia, and he is about to face his most difficult challenge yet. The Yaroshenko Organization is neck-deep in a multimillion dollar Wall Street heist when an unseen mage levies a terrible curse against one of Alexi’s comrades. The mage demands that the Russians release his client from the deal, cancel his debt, and forfeit their earnings, or they will suffer the fatal consequences. After the first victim burns to death from the inside out and the deadline closes in, Alexi is sent to hunt the murderer in a feverish game of cat-and-mouse and stop him before more people die. But to save his friends and family and honor his contract, Alexi must also save his worst enemy, the one person in his life who truly deserves to die in a fire. His father. Set 5 years before Blood Hound, Burn Artist is a prequel to the series which reveals more about Alexi’s past. What were the events that shaped him? Why did he murder his own father? And what are his true feelings for his best friend?

Detective Lois Commoner has had enough. Deciding to end it all as an escape to ongoing physical agony, she overdoses one night while Star Trek blares in the background. To her amazement, instead of waking up dead, she finds herself in the Sandlands...a startlingly beautiful world whose inhabitants are shape-shifters. An ordinary woman on Earth, Lois is fought over in the Sandlands, where tough, scarred women are prized as highly desirable mates. And it seems like the entire royal family has turned their attention to Lois, including the king, his heir, and the two younger princes. Let the Bridefight begin

They’re back. PEEPs Lite — More story, less filling. Some stories just need to be told; anyway, that’s what the voices in my head keep telling me. As I prepare for the next full length “Haunted Series” novel (available in the Spring of 2014), I can’t help wanting to tell you a couple stories in between. These novellas fall after “Something Old” the ninth novel in the “Haunted Series.” I hope you enjoy them. PEEPs Lite 9.1 Checking Out: Are all rules made to be broken? And if so, what are the consequences? Burt has just broken his number one rule in paranormal investigating, never hunt alone, and he’s regretting it. The ghost hotel, the Dew Drop Inn, has been serving the lost travelers of southern Wisconsin for decades. It provides a bed and breakfast to the lost and weary traveler then disappears the next day never to be seen by the guests again. Burt has been interested in this urban legend for quite some time. He caught the scent of the fabled ghost inn and took off without out informing his fellow Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners, and now he’s missing. Fortunately, his obsessive method of tracking the B&B has left a trail of muffin crumbs for Mia, Murphy and the PEEPs team to follow. Will they find him in time or will Burt become a permanent guest of the hotel and not be checking out? Join the team as they investigate the Dew Drop Inn in the PEEPS Lite novella 9.1 “Checking Out.”

This Two Thousand Year-Old Sorceress Had the Power to Turn People into Shadows! Here is A. Merritt's masterwork, our publisher's pick for the best of all his classic fantasies. Creep, Shadow! Is based on legends of Ys and an old Breton song. "Fisher, fisher, have you seen/White Dahut, the Shadow Queen/Riding on her stallion black/At her heels her shadow pack?" Had the last King and Princess of wicked Ys, returned after three thousand years? Why were they creating an exact replica of Stonehenge on their New Jersey estate? What was the Mael Bennique, the Breaker of Chests? And what was the dread Gatherer in the Cairn? And can men and women really be turned into shadows and made the helpless slaves of the one who transformed them? Ethnologist Alan Caranac (who may just be the reincarnation of the Alain de Carnac who brought about the destruction of sinful Ys and its evil rulers) has to find out the answer, for one of his best friends has been killed, and perhaps transformed into a shadow, while his fiancee Helen, her brother, Bill, and the famed Dr. Lowell have already been marked for death or worse! But first Alan will have to enter the tower of the Demoiselle Dahut de Ys in New York and journey through it thousands of years into the past to her tower in the legendary city from which she draws her name. And then return, if he can!

История про киберпсихопата, личность которого собрали с помощью душегуба из нескольких человек. Согласно определению в официальных документах «Траума тим», киберпсихоз — это собирательный термин для всех типов психотического и тревожного расстройства, связанных с работой имплантированных киберпротезов и модификаторов поведения. Что это на самом деле? Ответ вас может удивить

История про киберпсихопата, личность которого собрали с помощью душегуба из нескольких человек. Согласно определению в официальных документах «Траума тим», киберпсихоз — это собирательный термин для всех типов психотического и тревожного расстройства, связанных с работой имплантированных киберпротезов и модификаторов поведения. Что это на самом деле? Ответ вас может удивить

История про киберпсихопата, личность которого собрали с помощью душегуба из нескольких человек. Согласно определению в официальных документах «Траума тим», киберпсихоз — это собирательный термин для всех типов психотического и тревожного расстройства, связанных с работой имплантированных киберпротезов и модификаторов поведения. Что это на самом деле? Ответ вас может удивить

Романы в уникальном жанре DreamRPG. Хотите узнать об осознанных сновидениях и больше — эта книга для вас, так как здесь много работающих и уникальных техник для осознания, однако, это не учебник. Внимание! Данная книга содержит вкрапления нецензурной лексики и черный юмор. Содержание: 1. Охотник на читеров 2. Фамильяр 3. Хакеры Рагнарека 4. Сибирская чума 5. Демоны сновидений 6. Война Ведьм 7. Сокровище Софии

After years underground Doctor Owen Orient returns to confront a global conspiracy fueled by two massively powerful occult artifacts: The Spear of Destiny, a mystical weapon of dictators from Charlemagne to Hitler, and the Grimoire of Honorious, the handwritten book of ancient spells compile by the most evil practitioner of the dark arts in history, Pope Honorious III. Doctor Orient, physician and psychic, and Moe Klein, FBI art expert are drawn into a bloody storm of serial murder and kidnapping that sweeps them from Manhattan to Marrakech -- to a Nazi enclave deep in the Amazon jungle where Josef Mengele, Martin Bormann and Aribert Heim (Doctor Death) continue their inhuman experiments seeking immortality -- and the spawning of a New Reich whose temple will be the Vatican itself

Airių rašytojas Oskaras Vaildas dar XX amžiuje išleido romaną „Doriano Grėjaus portretas".Dorianas Grėjus amžinai jaunas… Ir amžiams prakeiktas. Talentingo dailininko Bezilio mūza, nepaprastai išvaizdus ir turtingas jaunuolis Dorianas susipažįsta su lordu Henriu, įkūnijančiu viską, kas nepadoru, nusikalstamai drąsu ir prieštarauja pasaulietinėms normoms. Šis įtraukia į gyvenimą, kurio pagrindinis variklis – egocentrizmas ir savimeilė. Grėjus parduoda sielą velniui – tampa nemirtinguoju, už kurį ima senti portretas…   „Doriano Grėjaus portretas“ yra bene garsiausias Wilde‘o kūrinys, kuriame paliečiamos ir šiais laikais aktualios temos. Šiame romane pasakojama apie jaunuolį, kuris kone parduoda savo sielą velniui. Bet apie viską nuo pradžių: gyveno toks dailininkas Bezilis. Jautrus ir meniškas buvo jis ir turėjo draugą, kontrastingą sau – lordą Henrį, kuris buvo kiek pasileidęs, išdidus ir ciniškas. Kaip jie gebėjo būti draugai, man dar vis lieka paslaptimi. Istorija pradeda rutuliotis tada, kai Henris pamato, kokį Bezilis nutapė jauno vaikino portretą – čia ne tik pats paveikslas buvo gražus, tačiau ir jaunasis pozuotojas buvo aprašomas kaip pasakiškai gražios išvaizdos. Henris prašo, kad Bezilis pasakytų, kas šis žmogus ir taip tiek lordas, tiek skaitytojas susipažįsta su Dorianu Grėjumis, labai jaunu vaikinu, naiviu, kurio požiūris į gyvenimą yra visiškai nesusiformavęs ir atrodo, kad jam ant kaktos parašyta, jog jis yra labai paveikiamas aplinkinių. Jau ir taip akivaizdu, kad Henris darys negerą įtaką Dorianui, kuris elgėsi kaip begalvis………………………………………….. (angl. The Picture of Dorian Gray -iš anglų k. vertė Lilija Vanagienė)

Репортер Джордж Вайн получает необычное редакционное задание: отправиться в сумасшедший дом. По слухам, там кроется нечто загадочное и сенсационное. Между тем, загадки есть и в жизни Вайна, и они сыграют в его расследовании весьма большую роль… Добро пожаловать в сумасшедший дом, и не говорите, что вас не предупреждали!

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade—but escalating—battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face—including his own—he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott’s affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others. From Stephen King, our “most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work” (The Guardian), Elevation is an antidote to our divisive culture, as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Теперь судьбы на небесах и в аду сплетаются по-иному. Второй шанс — подарит ли он надежду и возможность избежать старых бед или станет чередой новых непоправимых ошибок?

В маленькой деревне происходят странные явления в заброшенном доме, которые получили у местных жителей название «Чёрт». При попытке выяснить, в чем дело, бесследно исчез помощник участкового. Позже в Донецке, расследуя обычный угон, следователь Серегин вскрывает преступную сеть, которой руководит неуловимый преступник по кличке Тень, обладающий невероятными способностями к гипнозу. Продолжая расследование, Серегин натыкается на результат эксперимента нацистского ученого времён ВОВ

Lucifer’s War, which damned legions of angels to Hell, is an ancient and bitter memory shrouded in the smoke and ash of the Inferno. The Fallen, those banished demons who escaped the full wrath of Heaven, have established a limitless and oppressive kingdom within the fiery confines of Hell. Lucifer has not been seen since the Fall and the mantle of rulership has been passed to the horrific Prince Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies. The Demons Major, Heaven’s former warriors, have become the ruling class. They are the equivalent to landed lords, each owing allegiance to the de facto ruler of Hell. They reign over their fiefdoms, tormenting the damned souls and adding to their wealth. One Demon Major, however, who has not forgotten his former life in Heaven. The powerful Lord Sargatanas is restless. For millennia Sargatanas has ruled dutifully but unenthusiastically, building his city, Adamantinarx, into the model of an Infernal metropolis. But he has never forgotten what he lost in the Fall—proximity to God. He is sickened by what he has become. Now, with a small event—a confrontation with one of the damned souls—he makes a decision that will reverberate through every being in Hell. Sargatanas decides to attempt the impossible, to rebel, to endeavor to go Home and bring with him anyone who chooses to follow… be they demon or soul. He will stake everything on this chance for redemption

Denver, Colorado: a pretty, clever young girl working for an environmental charity, Victoria Patawasti is sleeping peacefully, unaware that she has barely an hour to live. As her killer slips into her apartment and draws a revolver in the darkness, Alex Lawson wakes up in Belfast. Twenty-four, sickly, and struggling to kick his heroin habit after a disastrous six-month stint in the drug squad of the Northern Ireland police force, Alex badly needs a chance to get back on track. Victoria was his high school love, and when he finds out she has been murdered, he volunteers to help Victoria?s family hunt down the killer. But once in Colorado, Alex has a fight on his hands: wanted by both the Colorado cops and the Ulster police, and uncovering corruption at the highest levels of government, he can solve the case only if he manages to stay alive

«Артур Мейчен никогда не писал для того, чтобы кого-то поразить, он писал потому, что жил в странном мире и прекрасно это чувствовал и осознавал», — отмечал Х. Л. Борхес. «Алхимия слова», которой он владел во всей полноте, позволяла ему оживлять на страницах своей прозы замутненные, полустертые временем образы давно забытых легенд и традиций, чересчур схематичные формулы «тайноведения», превращая их в «живое чудо». В сборник Артура Мейчена «IN CONVERTENDO» вошли избранные рассказы и эссе разных лет

Шарль Нодье (1780–1844), французский писатель, драматург, библиофил, библиотекарь Арсенала, внес громадный вклад в развитие романтической и в частности готической словесности, волшебной и «страшной» сказки, вампирической новеллы и в целом литературы фантастики и ужаса. Впервые на русском языке — сборник Ш. Нодье «Инферналиана» (1822), который сам автор назвал собранием «анекдотов, маленьких повестей, рассказов и сказок о блуждающих мертвецах, призраках, демонах и вампирах»

Обширный сборник «страшной» французской прозы дает довольно широкую панораму готической литературы. Его открывает неоднократно переводившийся и издававшийся «Влюбленный дьявол» Жака Казота, того самого, который знаменит своим пророчеством об ужасах Французской революции, а завершают две новеллы Ги де Мопассана. Среди авторов — как писатели, хорошо известные в России: Борель, Готье, Жерар де Нерваль, так и совсем неизвестные. Многие рассказы публикуются впервые. Хотелось бы обратить внимание читателей на два ранних произведения Бальзака, которые обычно теряются за его монументальными эпопеями. Составитель книги и автор вступительной статьи — С. Зенкин, один из крупнейших на сегодняшний день знатоков французской литературы в России; и это может послужить гарантией качества издания. Сборник включает лучшие «готические» произведения французской прозы прошлого века. Среди авторов: Ж. Казот, С. А. Берту, Ш. Нодье, П. Борель, Ш. Рабу, О. де Бальзак, Ж. де Нерваль, Т. Готье, П. Мериме, Ж. Барбе д’Оревильи, Ж. Буше де Перт, К. Виньон, О. Вилье де Лиль-Адан, Г. де Мопассан. Большую часть сборника составляют тексты, впервые переведенные на русский язык

Гениальному детективу L осталось жить 23 дня. У него всего 22 дня, чтобы спасти мир. Террористы намерены уничтожить человечество, оставив в живых лишь избранных. Они собираются поразить мир смертельным вирусом, действенная вакцина от которого есть только у них самих. L твердо намерен помешать их планам. Кажется, это будет его последнее дело…

Romane „Labirintas“, kuris buvo apdovanotas prestižine „British Book Award“ premija kaip geriausia 2006 m. knyga, susiedama dviejų moterų, atskirtų laiko, bet sujungtų bendros paslapties, gyvenimus, Kate Mosse pasakoja istoriją, persmelktą mistiškų istorinių ir religinių faktų. Knygos centre - paslaptis, susijusi su Katalikų bažnyčios eretikais paskelbtų katarų likimu ir jų saugotu Graliu. Knygos centre – paslaptis, susijusi su Katalikų bažnyčios eretikais paskelbtų katarų likimu ir jų saugotu Graliu

Only one man could match a lady like this—scandal for scandal. Six years ago, eighteen-year-old Lady Isabella Scranton scandalized all of London by eloping the night of her come-out ball with the notorious rake, Lord Mac Mackenzie. After three turbulent years of marriage, she scandalized London once again—this time by leaving him. Now Mac has resurfaced, every bit as charismatic, and with one goal: to seduce Isabella back into his life and his bed even if it means acting like a real gentleman. But when Isabella rises to the challenge of posing nude for Mac's erotic paintings, her pent-up hunger for the decadent rake is exposed as well, and she finds herself unable to resist the smooth strokes of an artist at work. But someone's been watching them—dangerously close. This ingenious forger with designs on Mac's paintings also sets his sights on Isabella herself. Deciding to become Isabella's protector, Mac vows to never leave her side, whether his independent and proud lady likes it or not

Les portes de l'enfer sont béantes ! Le regard que Claude Seignolle promène sur le monde — mais est-ce bien notre monde ? — nous livre, nue jusqu'à l'os, la réalité quotidienne. Là où nous ne voyons qu'un fiacre, un vieux paysan et un oiseau, il révèle l' « ouvrier de la mort » mené par les chevaux sinistres de la nuit ; lou Siblaire avec ses appeaux maléfiques et le mystérieux Hupeur qu'il ne faut pas, qu'il ne faut jamais tuer... Claude Seignolle est un voyant dont les oeuvres nous aident, nous simples mortels, à basculer sans encombre dans l' « autre » univers. Mais dès que le pas est franchi, dès que nous sommes de l'autre côté du miroir, entre le château de Tiburiac et l'auberge de Larzac, il nous devient presque impossible de rejeter la hantise de ce monde cruel et tendre de la grande nuit

Teenaged Wendy, who has the power to help souls cross over to their final destinations, falls in love with a ghost and discovers horrific, dark forces in the afterlife

Выбрав из «книги лиц» двенадцать виртуальных персонажей, чем-то похожих на известных литераторов, агентство Love Tour отправляет их в любовное путешествие, чтобы их сердца, ожесточённые враждой, наполнились любовью, нетерпимость друг к другу переросла в милосердие, а ненависть к несогласным сменилась состраданием к ним

Highland Pleasures 4.5 The Mackenzies gather for a clan Christmas and New Year's in Scotland. In the chaos of preparations for the celebration--the first of Hart and Eleanor's married life--one of Ian's Ming bowls gets broken, and the family scrambles to save the day. Daniel busily runs a betting ring for everything from the time Eleanor's baby will arrive to whether Mac's former-pugilist valet can win a boxing match to who will be the first of the many guests to be caught under the mistletoe. Ian begins a new obsession, and Beth fears the loss of one of his precious bowls has made him withdraw once more into his private world. A Mackenzie Family Christmas will be released in print as well as on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple, and at other e-vendors

Париж, 1900 год, Всемирная выставка. Место и время, где сплетаются архитектура и мифы, промышленный шпионаж и мистическая революция. Город-театр, где заговор оборачивается грандиозным спектаклем абсурда. Город-фабрика, что неуёмно производит желания и амбиции, а их сладостно-горьким осадком, словно углём и чернилами, пишет историю. Город-корабль, что, как верно гласит его девиз, раскачивается на волнах, но не потопляем. Однако выдержит ли он грядущий шторм? Не угаснет ли свет в Городе огней? Наконец, что или кто определяет его конструкт? Всё это — в не лишённом иронии, драмы и магии романе городских приключений «MCM»

Coroner is the perfect job for Dr. Martin Gänsewein, who spends his days in peace and quiet autopsying dead bodies for the city of Cologne. Shy, but scrupulous, Martin appreciates his taciturn clients—until the day one of them starts talking to him. It seems the ghost of a recently deceased (and surprisingly chatty) small-time car thief named Pascha is lingering near his lifeless body in drawer number four of Martin’s morgue. He remains for one reason: his “accidental” death was, in fact, murder. Pascha is furious his case will go unsolved—to say nothing of his body’s dissection upon Martin’s autopsy table. But since Martin is the only person Pascha can communicate with, the ghost settles in with the good pathologist, determined to bring the truth of his death to light. Now Martin’s staid life is rudely upended as he finds himself navigating Cologne’s red-light district and the dark world of German car smuggling. Unless Pascha can come up with a plan—and fast—Martin will soon be joining him in the spirit world. Witty and unexpected, Morgue Drawer Four introduces a memorable (and reluctant) detective unlike any other in fiction today. Morgue Drawer Four was shortlisted for Germany’s 2010 Friedrich Glauser Prize for best crime novel

Decades ago, a young rock and blues guitarist and junkie named Niko signed in blood on the dotted line and in return became the stuff of music legend. But when the love of his damned life grows mortally and mysteriously ill, he realizes he has lost more than he bargained for-and that was not part of the deal. So Niko sets out on a harrowing journey from the streets of Los Angeles through the downtown subway tunnels and across the red-lit plain of the most vividly realized hell since Dante to play the gig of his mortgaged life and win back the purloined soul of his lost love. Mortality Bridge remixes Orpheus, Dante, Faust, the Crossroads legend, and more in a beautiful, brutal, and surprisingly funny quest across a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of myth, music, and mayhem, and across an inner terrain of addiction, damnation, and redemption. Winner of the 2011 Emperor Norton Award for best novel by a San Francisco Bay Area writer

This is the collection of Frank Belknap Long stories, with the complete short novel «The Horror from the Hills». One of the early works of pulp terror, «The Horror from the Hills» is the legendary first tale of the Cthulhu Mythos. It is drawn from the disturbing nightmares of Belknap Long's friend and colleague, H. P. Lovecraft, the master writer of supernatural fiction of the modern age. A blood-sucking demon from the fourth dimension is mistakenly exhibited in a Manhattan museum and feasts on the blood of its admirers. This influential tale of extraterrestrial terror, a bestseller in the 1930s and 1940s, has been out of print for more than three decades. In a relatively short narrative, Long takes us from the remotest origins of our common culture, to the center of civilized mid-twentieth-century, to the cutting edges of contemporary technology to bring us face to face with horrible bloodsucking malevolence. We are fortunate that Chaugnar Faugn is a creation of fiction, drawn from one dark mind into another's pen

Вампиры, Вечные, Истинные. Эн не знает своего прошлого, но ее настоящее – это кровь и секс, погони и драки, исследования и мутации, любовь и предательство. А еще Про́клятый, что приходит каждую ночь во снах. Он рушит ее привычную жизнь идеального убийцы, который не задает вопросов. Этот мир полон клановой конкуренции, коварных интриг, опасных заданий и любовных хитросплетений. Но принадлежит ли Эн этому миру? Пора разрушить оковы страха и найти себя

Алия Дингир снова в бегах. Началась охота, вот только не ясно – кто теперь охотник, а кто добыча. Гвинн Уэссекский и Совет, Легион и Томас Торквемада, эрл Годвин и Инквизиция. Все ведут свою игру, но кто выйдет из нее победителем?.. Никому из тех, кто вступил в это противостояние, не приходит в голову, что именно заставляет их поступать именно так, а не иначе. Заглянуть вглубь времен, чтобы понять конечную цель происходящего куда опаснее, чем все, с чем они сталкивались до того

It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can’t pay, he treats them anyway. But in his own life, Delaney is emotionally numb, haunted by the slaughters of the Great War. His only daughter has left for Mexico, and his wife Molly vanished months before, leaving him to wonder if she is alive or dead. Then, on a snowy New Year’s Day, the doctor returns home to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep, left by his mother in Delaney’s care. Coping with this unexpected arrival, Delaney hires Rose, a tough, decent Sicilian woman with a secret in her past. Slowly, as Rose and the boy begin to care for the good doctor, the numbness in Delaney begins to melt. Recreating 1930s New York with the vibrancy and rich detail that are his trademarks, Pete Hamill weaves a story of hon…

**Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the death to defend his crown. He wants Anita Blake, one of his closest allies, with him as he faces an opponent unlike any he 's faced before. He will ask Anita to risk everything to be at his side.…** **** But some of the wererats fear that Rafael depends too much on Anita and her ties to the vampires. They believe that there is only room in America for one supernatural king, and Rafael will turn them into nothing more than food for the bloodsuckers. Among his enemies, a new challenger has arisen who is younger, hungrier, and has dark secrets that could destroy both the wererats and the vampires. Rafael will go into the magical heart of his people to find the power and violence that he needs to save them all, or die trying

Rain of the Ghosts is the first in Greg Weisman’s series about an adventurous young girl, Rain Cacique, who discovers she has a mystery to solve, a mission to complete and, oh, yes, the ability to see ghosts. Welcome to the Prospero Keys (or as the locals call them: the Ghost Keys), a beautiful chain of tropical islands on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle. Rain Cacique is water-skiing with her two best friends Charlie and Miranda when Rain sees her father waiting for her at the dock. Sebastian Bohique, her maternal grandfather, has passed away. He was the only person who ever made Rain feel special. The only one who believed she could do something important with her life. The only thing she has left to remember him by is the armband he used to wear: two gold snakes intertwined, clasping each other’s tails in their mouths. Only the armband… and the gift it brings: Rain can see dead people. Starting with the Dark Man: a ghost determined to reveal the Ghost Keys’ hidden world of mystery and mysticism, intrigue and adventure

«Ночные истории» немецкого писателя, композитора и художника Э.Т.А.Гофмана (1776–1822), создавшего свою особую эстетику, издаются в полном объеме на русском языке впервые. Это целый мир, где причудливо смешивается реальное и ирреальное, царят призрачные, фантастические образы, а над всеми событиями и судьбами властвует неотвратимое мистическое начало. Это изображение «ночной стороны души», поэтическое закрепление неизведанного и таинственного, прозреваемого и ощущаемого в жизни, влияющего на человеческие судьбы, тревожащего ум и воображение. Замечательная певица потеряла голос. Ее поклонники сочли болезнь связанной с проступком в церкви, и Странствующий Энтузиаст рассказал подходящую к случаю романтическую историю из времен отвоевания Гранады

The most beautiful and powerful people in the world had bargained with the Devil. They play Russian Roulette with seven footprints to world domination-and lost. They had become subject to the Collector of Infernal Revenue-Satan. The Master Player of games would glut his lust with souls and gain world power through diabolical manipulations. But into his collection comes James Kirkham, an American explorer determined to prove that the steps are stacked

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanting to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today. “This delicious first collaboration between Stephen King and his son Owen is a horror-tinged realistic fantasy that imagines what could happen if most of the women of the world fall asleep, leaving men on their own. The authors’ writing is seamless and naturally flowing. Once the action begins, [SLEEPING BEAUTIES] barrels along like a freight train.” (Publishers Weekly) “Another horror blockbuster, Mercedes and all, from maestro King and his heir apparent… In a kind of untold Greek tragedy meets Deliverance meets—well, bits of Mr. Mercedes and The Shawshank Redemption, perhaps—King and King, father and son, take their time putting all the pieces into play: brutish men, resourceful women who've had quite enough, alcohol, and always a subtle sociological subtext, in this case of rural poverty and dreams sure to be dashed… A blood-splattered pleasure.” (Kirkus (starred review)) “Following the renewed interest in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and an increasing climate of wolf-whistle politics, this examination of gender stereotypes, systems of oppression, and pervasive misogyny within American culture feels especially timely… The large cast of characters allows for a multitude of narrative perspectives—from both the affected women and the men they’ve left behind. Violent, subversive, and compulsively readable. The true horror of this father-son-penned novel derives more from its unflinchingly realistic depiction of hatred and violence against women than from the supernatural elements.” (Library Journal)

Интернет-легенда о хаски с чудовищной улыбкой может напугать разве что впечатлительного подростка, но хаски найдет средства и против невозмутимого охранника богатой дачи…

Survival horror says it all. Survival horror… with soldiers. Straining to make that one clip of rounds last. Making sure not to waste a single bullet. Lost in the shadows, low on ammo; only edged weapons; wounded, fighting to survive, the last remnants of the mission team trying to make sense of where they had gone wrong, and how to make it out alive with next-to-no resources. Survival horror, where every bullet counts. Featuring nearly 100,000 words of military fiction and sci-fi

A fractured community. Bodies full of shattered glass. A broken mage, stripped of his power. While Alexi Sokolsky is hiding on the streets from the Russian Mafia, twenty supernaturally-gifted children are kidnapped from a foster home. Their adoptive parents, leaders in New York’s shapeshifter community, are brutally murdered by someone – or something – with incredible magical and physical power. Frustrated by weeks of botched Government investigation, the werecreatures of New York City are searching for an Occult expert capable of doing the dirty work the police cannot. Someone like Alexi: currently ex-magus, hitman, and reluctant finder of lost children. A chance meeting results in Alexi joining forces with the shapeshifters against a mutual enemy, but street justice is rarely as simple as putting a bullet through someone’s head. Backed up by a biker gang of were-cats and a disturbingly attractive Biomancer, Alexi must recover the kids and regain his magic, a dangerous and deadly mission that will test them all to the limit

HOW FAR MUST AN ANGEL FALL TO FIND HIS DESTINY? Having witnessed one too many senseless deaths, Nikolai, a disillusioned Reaper 3rd Class, resigns his commission with the Angel Forces after a tedious century of gathering souls. Immediately, another division recruits him with the promise of a more rewarding career, and issues his initial assignments: To bring down a few very dangerous threats to the human race. In the process, Nikolai falls in love with one of his targets—Hope Matheson, a woman who will lead thousands astray. Caught between conflicting agendas, Nikolai chooses to “fall” from his celestial state and become mortal in order to circumvent angel law and be with her. But for angels and humans alike, things are not always as they appear. Still a target, the threat against Hope’s life intensifies. Now, in order to save her, Nikolai must rally the last remnants of his failing supernatural abilities to prevent her assassination, as well as the destruction of an entire city by a nuclear terrorist strike. But his time and power are running out… Terminus is a perspective-altering saga that delves into ageless themes of redemption, destiny, and the eternal power of love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcrSD3v5Eo0

Welcome to The Seventh Ghost Story MEGAPACK®! Once more we have a wide-ranging assortment of supernatural fiction, with setting across the world — Europe, the Americas, Asia — and across the centuries. You will note that we have a larger than normal number of "Anonymous" stories. No, the authors weren't embarrassed by their contributions. Victorian-era literary magazines and newspapers often ran fiction without crediting the author, or with only vague terms like "A Lady," initials, or humorous pseudonyms (as with the story by "Q.E.D." in this volume). Authors later collected their stories in books, and that's when readers discovered who had actually written what. If a story never got reprinted, its author remained a mystery. Modern scholars are still researching these anonymous stories, but many authors will never be properly identified