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Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiThe adventures of Vampire Hunter D continue!Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing of their heads, or exposure to sunlight. By the year 12, 090 A.D. vampires have ruled the Earth for almost 300 years, and it is only these weaknesses that have kept these foul monsters from totally overrunning the world.But what happens when those rules no longer apply? The village of Tsepesh sits in the eternal shadow of an abandoned castle, a onetime stronghold of the Nobility, the vampire lords who rule the devastated wasteland of the future. Ten years ago four children disappeared while playing near the castle, only to mysteriously reappear a month later. Now vampires have begun to hunt in the daylight. Are the two events connected? The villagers turn to the vampire hunter known only as D, but as he follows the children, now adults, the answers he finds may be more terrifying than anything he could ever imagine. FOR MATURE READERS
Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathase
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiThe novel that was the basis for the hit motion picture Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlustis available in English for the first time! The third volume of the popular Japanese series Vampire Hunter D comes to America in Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase. The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. Though humans speak well of Meierlink, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Meierlink before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Meierlink to worry about. The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid. Beautiful illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano complement the post-apocalyptic plot, filled with chilling twists.FOR MATURE READERS
Vampire Hunter D Volume 4: Tale of the Dead Town
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiWhen a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis."The City," a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has long been thought safe from the predation of marauding monsters. It seemed like a paradise.A paradise shattered when an invasion of apparent vampires threatens the small haven. While the Vampire Hunter known only as "D" struggles to exterminate the scourge, a former denizen of the city, the attractive Raleigh Knight, and the brash John M. Brassalli Pluto VIII seize control of the city lurching it onto a new and deadly course. D's travails are just beginning.* The Vampire Hunter D films are two of the most-popular Japanese anime films released in the United States consistently ranking among the top DVDs sold on amazon.com!FOR MATURE READERS
Vampire Hunter D Volume 5: The Stuff of Dreams
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiIn a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in harmony for years. It is there that seventeen-year-old Sheavil Schmidt has slept, neither waking nor aging, for thirty years since first receiving the vampire's immortal kiss. The mysterious Vampire Hunter D is lured to the tranquil oasis by recurrent dreams of the beautiful, undying girl bathed in an eerie blue light and dancing in a ghostly chateau.* Over 100,000 copies of the Vampire Hunter D novels have been sold.* The Stuff of Dreams is volume 5 in a seventeen volume series.FOR MATURE READERS
Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiGranny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle--Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is--and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are . . .* Features six illustrations by the renowned Yoshitaka Amano, illustrator of Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters.
Vampire Hunter D Volume 7: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part One
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiA girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel.Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him? Hideyuki Kikuchi's crackling narrative and Yoshitaka Amano's imaginative artwork make this a must-read entry in the series.
Vampire Hunter D Volume 8: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiThe picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one-Baron Meinster-refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin.Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants. The plague apparently originating, impossibly, from the unforgiving sea-could it be Meinster's Revenge?* More than seventeen million Vampire Hunter D books in print worldwide.* Cover and six interior illustrations by renowned artist Yoshitaka Amano!
Vampire Hunter D Volume 9: The Rose Princess
by Yoshitaka Amano Hideyuki KikuchiIn Sakuri, a young woman is about to be sacrificed to the vampiric Noblewoman who reigns over the village. But before the princess can drain the life from the woman, a young man tries to slay the vampire. He fails and manages to escape, but in doing so incurs the wrath of the entire town. The citizens of Sakuri have entered into a pact with the Undead princess and her monstrous bodyguards. With the ritual offering disrupted, the vampire's armored bodyguards vow to murder the villagers one by one until the would-be hero is captured.When Vampire Hunter D learns of the villagers' bargain he knows he faces several almost impossible challenges-can he rid the town of the parasitic demons that plague it? What if Sakuri's inhabitants don't want to be rescued? And can he uncover the secret that even the vampire Noble is afraid to speak?* The lead character has also been the basis of a best-selling PlayStation console game.
Three Streets (Storybook ND Series #0)
by Yoko TawadaYoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She worries that sugar's still sugar—but why lecture him, since he's already dead? Then white feathers fall from her head and she seems to be turning into a crane . . . Pure white kittens and a great Russian poet haunt "Majakowskiring": the narrator who reveres Mayakovsky's work is delighted to meet his ghost. And finally, in "Pushkin Allee," a huge Soviet-era memorial of soldiers comes to life—and, "for a scene of carnage everything was awfully well-ordered." Each of these stories opens up into new dimensions the work of this magisterial writer.
SINoALICE 01 (SINoALICE #1)
by Yoko Taro Takuto AokiWith creative direction and world-building by the inimitable Yoko Taro, the mind behind the NieR and Drakengard universes, comes... SINoAlice, a gorgeous and gory mobile RPG that blurs the line between dreams and reality, fairy tales and fact! And now you can read the manga adaptation of the popular game!Everything about Alice—her family, her friends, her life, even her crush—is ordinary, no Wonderland to see here. But lately, her dreams have been anything but ordinary. While asleep, she finds herself interrogated by two creepy marionettes, their glass eyes peering into the darkest corners of her heart. &“What is it you desire?&”&“What is it you wish to visit upon the world?&” Try as she might to ignore the dreams, Alice is drawn into their violent, twisted universe. As greed and desire begin to warp the ordinary reality she knows, Alice is thrust into a dark game of slaughter made for fairy-tale heroines who&’ll stop at nothing to bring their creators back to life!
SINoALICE 02 (SINoALICE #2)
by Yoko Taro Takuto AokiWith creative direction and world-building by the inimitable Yoko Taro, the mind behind the NieR and Drakengard universes, comes... SINoAlice, a gorgeous and gory mobile RPG that blurs the line between dreams and reality, fairy tales and fact! And now you can read the manga adaptation of the popular game!Everything about Alice—her family, her friends, her life, even her crush—is ordinary, no Wonderland to see here. But Alice's happy, boring life comes tumbling down one day with the arrival of the mysterious Little Red Riding Hood, who visits death upon Alice's entire family. Hospitalized following the horrific discovery, Alice is crushed by despair. Driven by the unbearable pain, Alice attempts to take her own life by throwing herself off the roof of the hospital. In that moment, however, two creepy marionettes from a long-ago dream appear before her once again...
Señora Sombra
by Ymir A. LetheLady Milla Shade es una consumada cazadora de hombres lobo con un historial impresionante. Hermosa y astuta, su llegada al pueblo marca el comienzo de un tiempo oscuro para los ciudadanos de Bronzeglade. En busca de un hombre lobo conocido como Green-Eyes, Milla pronto se da cuenta de que su objetivo no solo es excepcionalmente fuerte, sino que no es el único en la aldea. Cuando cualquiera puede ser un monstruo, la guerra entre el hombre y la bestia corre el riesgo de desgarrar a la gente del pueblo, literalmente. Superados en número y superados, Milla necesita confiar en su ingenio y decidirse a sobrevivir. Pero al final, ¿quién es la bestia más terrible de todas?
El secreto oculto entre las manos
by Ylenia Fabbio - Roberta FerreriLuana y Massimo están disfrutando su luna de miel en la maravillosa Venecia. El sueño de amor se desvanece cuando, de improviso, la primera noche, Luana desaparece misteriosamente de la suite del hotel. Una serie de acontecimientos y extrañas coincidencias acercarán a Massimo a la verdad, revelándole una realidad desconocida para él hasta ese momento. Logrará Massimo, con la ayuda de su suegro y de su amigo Emiliano, descubrir qué ha sucedido con Luana? Y cuál será el precio de la verdad?
伦敦怪谈
by Steven Savile Ying Cui荣登英国畅销书排行榜首位的作家为您献上一部发生在古老伦敦街道上的超自然惊悚巨著 异常和可怕的事正在这座城市中酝酿 特拉法加狮子已从环绕纳尔逊纪念碑的柱基上下来 捍卫这座城市 实现一个古老预言 而一个已被囚禁数百年的邪恶力量也挣脱了牢笼 正在白教堂区追踪猎物 这位恶魔的目标是天使......还有另外一股势力----伦敦绅士骑士 他们决心迎战来自地狱的死敌 用他们的智慧和魔力誓死捍卫这座城市 成功了意味着拯救无辜的灵魂 但失败的代价叫人不忍去想......
A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts
by Ying Chang CompestinePresents an eight-course banquet of ghost stories centering around Chinese cooking and culture. Each story is followed by a recipe and historical notes.
Their Monstrous Hearts: A Gothic Horror Novel with a Dual Timeline and a Suspenseful Mystery
by Yigit Turhan"A gothic, darkly alluring tale that will leave readers spellbound"—Dua Lipa, Grammy award-winning singer/songwriterA haunting novel about the boundaries people will cross to keep their dreams alive.A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo&’s apartment with some news: his grandmother Perihan has died, and Riccardo has inherited her villa in Milan along with her famed butterfly collection.The struggling writer is out of options. He&’s hoping the change of scenery in Milan will inspire him, and maybe there will be some money to keep him afloat. But Perihan&’s house isn&’t as opulent as he remembers. The butterflies pinned in their glass cases seem more ominous than artful. Perihan&’s group of mysterious old friends is constantly lurking. And there&’s something wrong in the greenhouse.As Riccardo explores the decrepit estate, he stumbles upon Perihan&’s diary, which might hold the key to her mysterious death. Or at least give him the inspiration he needs to finish his manuscript.But he might not survive long enough to write it.
The Invisible Hotel: A Novel
by Yeji Y. HamA work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative tale of political and ideological adolescence in the long afterlife of the Korean War.Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms—and a quiet terror she is desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub. Every house has them, these rotting and fragmented bones, reminders of what they have all lost to a war that never seems to end. Yewon and her siblings were born in this bathtub—and every year women give birth to new babies in the bathtub. Now, Yewon&’s brother is stationed near the North Korean border, her sister has just undergone a life-changing tragedy, and her mother is constantly worried, her health declining. In crisis and in stasis, Yewon&’s dreams of the decrepit hotel lead her to an unsettling truth about her country&’s collective heritage.Recalling international trailblazers like Han Kang&’s The Vegetarian and Yoko Ogawa&’s The Memory Police, The Invisible Hotel marks the arrival of a singular new voice with a sharp social acumen.
Elixir - L'Epidemia Rossa
by Anna Abner Yassine RiahiIl virus 212R si espande nella popolazione a una velocità tale che l'eventuale cura viene lasciata marcire. La diciassettenne Maya Solomon potrebbe essere l'unica superstite a sapere dove si trova. Ma per raggiungere il laboratorio a Raleigh, North Carolina dovrà seminare il ragazzo infetto che la insegue ovunque vada, attraverso una città brulicante di mostri.
Autumn Thorns: Whisper Hollow 1 (Whisper Hollow #1)
by Yasmine GalenornFans of Ilona Andrews, Jeaniene Frost, Patricia Biggs and Christine Feehan will fall under the spell of New York Times bestseller Yasmine Galenorn's spectacular paranormal romance series. Enter Whisper Hollow at your own risk, for in this town spirits walk among the living, and the lake never gives up her dead.Whisper Hollow is no ordinary place. In this haunted town, people don't stay buried.Kerris Fellwater isn't your usual human. She's a spirit shaman who drives the dead back to their graves.Fifteen years ago, Kerris ran away from her hometown. But now she's back, and there are deadly magical forces at work, wreaking havoc.Whisper Hollow holds painful memories for Kerris, but a lot has changed. There's a mysterious new guy in town, Bryan, who Kerris feels powerfully drawn to. Together they unearth a horrifying family secret, and unravelling the mystery means working with - rather than against - the dead. Can they defeat Whisper Hollow's enemy, before it destroys them?Return to Whisper Hollow in Yasmine's next book, Shadow Silence.
Bone Magic (The Sisters of the Moon, Book #7)
by Yasmine Galenorn"A powerhouse author; a master of the craft." -Maggie Shayne, New York Times bestselling author Three sisters ridding the Otherworld of evil-one monster at a time. We're the D'Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah is a Were who turns into a golden tabby when she's stressed. And Menolly's a vampire who's still trying to get the hang of being undead. As for me, I'm Camille D'Artigo, a wicked-good witch who's learning death magic with my youkai-kitsune husband. Until now', the Moon Mother "has pretty much ignored me, but she's about to take me on the Hunt of my life... Another equinox is here, and life's getting more dangerous for all of us. The past is catching up to our friends Iris and Chase. Smoky-the dragon of my dreams-is forced to choose between his family and me. To top it off, there's a new demon general in town, and we can't locate her. And when the Moon Mother and the Black Beast summon me to Otherworld, I think I'm just going to reunite with my long-lost soul mate, Trillian. But once there, I'm forced to undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change my life, and the lives of those around me...
Changeling (The Sisters of the Moon, Book #2)
by Yasmine GalenornThree sisters ridding the Otherworld of evil-one monster at a time. We're the D'Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we're savvy-and sexy-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixedblood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch whose magic is as unpredictable as the weather. My sister Menolly is a vampire trying to get the hang of being undead. And me? I'm Delilah. When I'm under stress, I transform into a tabby cat-and a series of violent murders is really getting me bent out of shape... Someone's been slaughtering the Weres of the Rainier Puma Pride, and my sisters and I have been enlisted to investigate by Zachary Lyonnesse, golden boy of the werepumas. Right away we smelled demon trouble, and we tracked it directly into the snare of the Hunters Moon Clan, sworn enemies of Puma Pride. But there's more than Were rivalry at work. It's that old demon Shadow Wing who's setting a deadly snare for the Pumas. We have to find out why, which means a visit to one of the Immortals. Unfortunately for my sisters and me, our half-human blood is just enough to put us in mortal danger.
Darkling (The Sisters of the Moon, Book #3)
by Yasmine GalenornThree sisters ridding the Otherworld of evil-one monster at a time. We're the D'Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we're savvy-and sexy-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixedblood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch whose magic is as unpredictable as the weather. My sister Delilah transforms into a tabby cat when she's under stress. And me? I'm Menolly, acrobat-extraordinaire-turned-vampire. And I'd give my right fang to make my sire pay for killing me. That is, if he doesn't find me first... All over Seattle, humans have been going missing, only to turn up as newborn vampires-the sure sign of a rogue vamp on the loose. It looks like Dredge is to blame-the same sadistic Dredge who gave me my scars, and who may well be in cahoots with the demon Shadow Wing. If so, Otherworld and Earth are screwed. The only way we can hope to defeat Dredge is for me to travel home to Otherworld, and face my own demons. For unless I sever the ties that bind me to Dredge, all hell is going to break loose...
Ghost of a Chance (Chintz & China #1)
by Yasmine GalenornIt was definitely a ghost. There, at the foot of Emerald's bed. A pen hovered above a piece of paper and scrawled these alarming words: I was murdered by my husband but nobody knows. Help me. True, Emerald was considered the town witch, but she owned a teashop, not a detective agency. What did the spirit expect? But after another darker entity emerges, bent on destroying her world and her family along with it, Emerald's life takes a screeching detour onto a wild and dangerous road. As she careens into a web of deceit, lies, and secrets woven around her ghostly visitor, death strikes again. Now, along with her friends-an ex-supermodel and a cop-and her new love interest, Emerald must search for clues to put the killer behind bars-and this tortured soul to rest... Charm recipe included!
Night Huntress (The Sisters of the Moon, Book #5)
by Yasmine Galenorn"Galenorn's kick-butt Fae ramp up the action in a wyrd world gone awry!" --Patricia Rice, author of Mystic Guardian "A delightful new series that simmers with fun and magic." --Mary Jo Putney Three sisters ridding the Otherworld of evil--one monster at a time. We're the D'Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our supernatural talents always go haywire at the wrong time. My sister Camille's a wicked-good witch who attracts men like honey attracts flies. Menolly's a vampire who's still getting the hang of being undead. And me.? I'm Delilah, a werecat who's been marked by the Autumn Lord as one of his Death Maidens. And wouldn't you Believe it, Karvanak--the demon general who stole the third spirit seal--is back. And this time, he's out for blood... The Hags of Fate enjoy seeing me squirm. First, my boyfriend, Chase, mutters another woman's name in his sleep. Then I discover the Autumn Lord has a very special plan for me. But things go from bad to deadly when Karvanak--the Raksasa-- returns. In order to get his greedy hands on both the fourth spirit seal and his former associate, Vanzir, he kidnaps Chase. Now, we have to find a way to rescue the man I love without risking the safety of both Otherworld and Earth... (Some strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex.)
Night Veil (Indigo Court #2)
by Yasmine GalenornCicely Waters believes she was a magic-born - a witch who can control the wind - but when she returned home to New Forest, she discovered she was also one of the shifting Fae. Now she must perfect her gift, for Myst has captured Grieve, the Fae prince who holds Cicely's heart. To save both her beloved Grieve and her friend Kaylin - whose demon is waking - Cicely must journey into the depths of the Indigo Court. But even as Cicely gathers strength, old alliances are breaking faith.