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Can You Keep a Secret?: A Fear Street Novel (Fear Street)
by R. L. StineWatch the movies, read the books! The Fear Street movies are coming to Netflix this summer! R.L. Stine has built his legacy on scaring children and teenagers. Now he's back with another spine-tingling tale of horror in this new Fear Street book about temptation, betrayal, and fear.Eddie and Emma are high school sweethearts from the wrong side of the tracks. Looking for an escape their dreary lives, they embark on an overnight camping trip in the Fear Street Woods with four friends. As Eddie is carving a heart into a tree, he and Emma discover a bag hidden in the trunk. A bag filled with hundred-dollar bills. Thousands of them. Should they take it? Should they leave the money there? The six teens agree to leave the bag where it is until it's safe to use it. But when tragedy strikes Emma's family, the temptation to skim some money off of the top becomes impossible to fight. There's only one problem. When Emma returns to the woods, the bag of money is gone, and with it, the trust of six friends with a big secret.Packed with tension and sure to illicit shivers in its readers, this new Fear Street book is another terrifying tale from a master of horror.
Canada: A Novel
by Richard FordThe only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boy’s family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace.A powerful and unforgettable tale of the violence lurking at the heart of the world, Richard Ford’s Canada will resonate long and loud for readers of stark and sweeping novels of American life, from the novels of Cheever and Carver to the works of Philip Roth, Charles Frazier, Richard Russo, and Jonathan Franzen.
Canary Fever
by John CluteCanary Fever is a collection of reviews about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. The title refers to the canary in the coal mine, who whiffs gas and dies to save miners; reviewers of fantastika can find themselves in a similar position, though words can only hurt us.
Candelaria: A Novel
by Melissa Lozada-Oliva"Candelaria is a masterpiece from a writer destined to produce many." —Jamie Loftus, author of Raw Dog"Candelaria sticks to your soul and leaves you seeing the world and the people in it a bit differently." —Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of Olga Dies DreamingJulia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents meets Cormac McCarthy's The RoadYour granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she's not even sure ever existed. None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston. Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet—for a reason you still cannot disclose—battling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world.Author of Dreaming of You Melissa Lozada-Oliva delivers an unsettling, raucous debut novel written with tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism that unearths one troubled family&’s legacy, feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost.A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive.
Candlenight (Phil Rickman Backlist Ser. #1)
by Phil RickmanA supernatural thriller exploring the darker side of rural life in a remote Welsh mountain village, where primal fears and ancient longings haunt the present dayCorpse-candles. Phantom funerals. The bird of death. It was insidious . . . For Bethan, the schoolteacher, the old superstitions woven into the social fabric of her West Wales village are primitive and distasteful, which is why she's pleased to welcome the sophisticated newcomers: London journalist Giles Freeman and his wife Claire. Surely they'll let in some fresh air. But the Freemans are keen to absorb this different culture, a whole new way of life, rejecting the advice of an old colleague who warns them of a hard and bitter land where they've always danced on the edge of the abyss. They soon learn that this community hides an ancient, bloody, and pagan secret—one that will haunt them forever.
Candles Burning
by Tabitha King Michael McdowellAn extraordinary southern saga begun by Michael McDowell and finished after his death by Tabitha King. Known for his chilling Blackwater series, author Michael McDowell left behind the unfinished manuscript for Candles Burning upon his death in 1999. In the spirit of the ghost stories that Michael loved, Tabitha King has taken up where he left off, weaving a Southern gothic fabric of murder, guilt, innocence, corruption, and survival, in the voices of the living and the dead. Calliope "Calley" Dakin is just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no discernible motivation. In the aftermath, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach, where-in a house that's a dead ringer for Calley's late great-grandmother's house-a woman awaits their presence. For Calley is no normal little girl.
Canibalismo en los vagones del tren (Flash Relatos)
by Mark TwainCuando el hambre se mezcla con la política, el resultado solo puede ser terrorífico. Atrapados en un tren durante una terrible tormenta de nieve, 24 pasajeros deben elegir cuál de ellos debe sacrificarse para que el resto sobreviva. Y no es sencillo. Los tejemanejes de la política se mezclan con un hambre atroz, dando como resultado una historia que mezcla la ironía, la crítica mordaz y... el canibalismo. Su historia está servida y lista para comer. «Canibalismo en los vagones del tren» aparece enCuentos completos de Mark Twain (Penguin Clásicos, 2016)
Canine Caper!
by Diana G. GallagherAlex had a dog-waking business. the business had become so successful, taking notes to keep track of everything was an absolute necessity. Suddenly, the business starts losing its clients. Will the mystery be solved?
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book (Penguin Modern Classics)
by M. R. James'The lower jaw was thin - what can I call it? - shallow, like a beast's; teeth showed behind the black lips...'M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spirits, but by terrifying, palpable forces of evil. In these four stories figures appear in paintings, demonic voices are heard, books awaken ancient horrors - and ordinary objects and situations are transformed into inescapable nightmares.This book includes Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, The Mezzotint, The Rose Garden and The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.
Canyons
by P. D. CacekPicture this: you're riding the bus home from work, with the very first newspaper article every published under your byline clutched in your hot little hand, when a coked-up idiot attempts to hold up everyone on the bus. He takes a dislike to you and is about to slice you open when a large, gorgeously hairy man attacks him and saves your life. Only your rescuer is not a man, but a giant wolf who leaves a bloody pawprint on your newspaper, all over your precious byline . . . If you're an intrepid reporter, you don't panic. You run for the newsroom to get a photo of the pawprint before it disappears . . . because the paper you work for thrives on stories of alien invasions and Elvis sightings and Bigfoot's baby, and this, unlike all of those stories, this is real. Of course, it's not that simple. The highly civilized Denver werewolves don't want anyone to know of their existence, not even beautiful young reporters who make Lucas, the leader of the pack, think lustful thoughts. But Lucas and his pack have a much bigger problem to deal with: there's another were-pack hunting in their territory--and being messy about it. If the police solve any of those brutal, apparently random, murders, Denver's more patrician lycanthropes may wind up in big trouble. The last thing they need is an eager-beaver reporter on their trail, especially one who is falling in love with Lucas.Canyons is a terrific novel of horror, humor, sex, and shapechanging, written by a rising star of the genre.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Caped Fear: Superhuman Horror Stories
by Bryce Stevens Christopher Sequiera Steven ProposchThey are superhuman champions: hyper-charged, meta-guardians of humanity; protecting the innocent from the corrupt, saving us from the sadistic; shielding us from human or inhuman evil in all its forms. But, what if the gleaming smile from the chiseled jaw was actually the animalistic baring of teeth? What if THEY were the nightmare threat? They are not superheroes, but superhorrors! This dark potential is revealed as we present tales of shock and the macabre from a roster that includes some of the greatest creative minds from the realms of fantasy, science fiction, horror and comic-books. What sort of dark and chilling fates arise when those with powers far beyond mere mortals are the central figures not in tales of triumph, but of terror? Welcome to CAPED FEAR. Short horror fiction by some of the world's best writers: Barry N. Malzberg & Jack Dann, Colleen Doran, Jim Krueger, Robert Bloch, Karen Haber, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Jim Starlin, & Howard Keltner, Jonathan Maberry, Neil Gaiman & Roz Kaveney, Heather Graham, Ramsey Campbell, Janeen Webb, William F. Nolan, Brian Lumley, and Joe R. Lansdale.
Caperucita y otros relatos vascos de terror
by Mikel Rodríguez ÁlvarezMikel Rodríguez ensayó en Sacamantecas y otros relatos vascos de terror un cruce entre el género fantástico ?muy particularmente tal y como lo entendió H. P. Lovecraft? y la tradición vasca más truculenta y esotérica. Aquel experimento, que se saldó con notable éxito, tiene continuidad en los ocho relatos que constituyen el presente volumen, entre los que se encuentran, además de Caperucita, que le da título, otros como La reina de Navarra debe morir, En el viejo internado de Lekaroz o Cartas marcadas. El autor se sirve de su condición de historiador para ambientar sus tramas con absoluta verosimilitud en el tiempo y en el espacio, ya sea en el siglo V, durante una incursión de los suevos en el valle de Baztan; en el XVI, en la refi nada corte navarra de Pau o en la cubierta de la legendaria carabela San Lesmes rumbo al Pacífi co; en la Nueva Orleans de piel negra del XIX o en la Guinea colonial de las primeras décadas del XX. Asimismo, los relatos están transitados por personajes históricos, tales como la reina Juana de Navarra, la guerrillera Martina Ibaibarriaga, el escritor Joannes Leizarraga, el espía Sebastián de Arbizu, el corsario Jean Lafi tte o el explorador Manuel Iradier. Rodríguez vuelve a aportar con este volumen un apreciable caudal, fresco y renovador, a una corriente literaria, la del género fantástico y de terror, que, aunque quizá no afl ore con excesiva frecuencia, fl uye desde lo más profundo de la tradición y la historia vascas.
Capital Mysteries #12: The Ghost at Camp David (Capital Mysteries #12)
by Ron Roy Timothy BushAll aboard the D. C. train for the 13th book in the Washington mystery series, Capital Mysteries! Marshall and KC have tickets to ride! They're taking the express train from Union Station-it even has a special VIP car at the back just for the vice president, the kids, and the secret service agents to travel in. But while KC and Marshall are exploring the train, someone unhitches the vice president's car! And now that someone is searching, car by car, for KC and Marshall. There's nowhere to run! Fro...
Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film
by Joshua GoochWhat contemporary horror films teach us about the cruelties of capitalist societyCapitalism Hates You uses the horror film genre as a tool to diagnose and expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism. Through incisive critical analyses of popular films such as Get Out, Drag Me to Hell, Hereditary, The Babadook, and many others, Joshua Gooch draws connections between Marxist theory and contemporary narratives of psychological unease. Gooch highlights the work of women, trans, and nonwhite filmmakers to show how the remarkable diversity of twenty-first-century horror cinema can provide an expansive catalog of capitalism&’s varying forms of oppression. Studying films that interrogate such urgent topics as gentrification, climate change, and reproductive labor, he demonstrates how contemporary horror films give affective shape to the negative undercurrents of our present socioeconomic system. Capitalism Hates You argues that these films and their material conditions can deepen our understanding of essential concepts in contemporary Marxism, from the theory of value and changing forms of commodification to the labor of social reproduction, the abolition of the family, and the necessity of ecosocialism. Synthesizing various strands of Marxist thought, Gooch sheds light on the growing field of socially conscious horror films, examining how they pinpoint and exaggerate latent feelings of dread and discomfort to reflect the ills of society. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
Capricho Do Destino
by Owen JonesCapricho Do Destino A História de Wayne Gamm Wayne Gamm nasceu em uma fazenda remota em uma montanha galesa de criadores de ovelhas no dia 21 de junho. Sua mãe e sua avó, ambas bruxas, tinham mostrado que ele seria um bebê grande com poderes incomuns. Elas não sabiam exatamente o que isso significava, mas achavam melhor que Gwynedd o tivesse em casa, porque ambas sentiam que poderia haver problemas com Wayne se ele percebesse que médicos, enfermeiras ou parteiras eram uma ameaça, o que ele poderia se sua mãe estivesse gritando ou alguém batesse em seu traseiro para começar a respirar. Wayne deu sua primeira demonstração real de que ele poderia mudar o destino quando ele fez seu pai, Sam, cair depois de uma discussão barulhenta com sua mãe, mas isso foi apenas o começo dele. Ele faz com que tanto seus professores quanto colegas na escola o temessem, o que levou ao seu ostracismo. No entanto, Wayne não vai acreditar que ele é causa dessas reviravoltas do destino, boas e más, dependendo do seu humor, porque ele não tem controle consciente sobre sua capacidade. Se as pessoas o fazem feliz, se coisas boas estão acontecendo ao seu redor, elas melhoram, mas se alguém o aborrece ou a atmosfera é ruim, então só pode piorar. Ele cresce solitário e em negação em sua montanha como um pastor, depois que o diretor da faculdade efetivamente o exclui da escola. Eventualmente, ele faz amizade com alguns especialistas em corridas no pub local e eles começam a tirá-lo de si mesmo, porque isso leva a mais ganhos. Um dia, ele conhece um homem na montanha que é um palhaço em um circo. Ele lhe dá dois ingressos gratuitos para qualquer local. Enquanto lá ele "miraculosamente" cura um cavalo aparentemente manco, e várias semanas depois ele recebe um emprego como cavalariço no circo pelo dono do cavalo e logo ele está viajando com eles. Enquanto viajava pela Espanha, ele apr
Captain Quad
by Sean CostelloPeter Gardner has all the qualities of a renaissance man until a tragic accident leaves him paralyzed from the neck down. Trapped inside the prison of his immobile body, the former prodigy of music, sports and flying is confined to his hospital bed where the only passion he feels is hatred. Each day his blind fury grows, focusing on anyone in his path. As his rages intensify he begins to fantasize about leaving his broken body behind and traveling anywhere. And one day he realizes that he actually can! Kelly Wheeler is left unharmed from the accident she shared with Peter. Ignoring his insistence that she forget him, Kelly cannot erase her former love. Her fierce and unwanted devotion places her directly in the line of fire of Peter's rage. Is her love enough to shield her from Peter's deadly new gift? Dr. Harrison Lowe has pledged to further mankind with the magic of science, but his genius has gone too far. A desperate man hooked on drugs, this Frankenstein monster breaks all rules of morality and ethics with his new medical breakthrough.
Captivate (Need Pixies #2)
by Carrie JonesZara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It's made him vulnerable. And now there's a new king in town. A turf war is imminent, since the new pixie king, Astley, is moving in quickly. Nick nearly killed him in the woods on day one, but Zara came to his rescue. Astley swears that he and Zara are destined to be together, that he's one of the good guys. Nick isn't buying it, though Zara isn't as sure -- despite herself, she wants to trust the new king. But it's a lot more than her relationship with Nick that is at stake. It's her life -- and his.
Captivating the Witch
by Michele HaufEverything Witch makes him wary. Everything Demon captivates her. Edamite Thrash is a big, bad, sexy demon overlord with a personal grudge against witches. When fate and a wild, undeniable attraction bind him to Tamatha Bellerose, he must learn how to work as a team to stop a campaign of violence against his kind. But not succumbing to her sensual spell proves infinitely more difficult. Tamatha is enchanted by all things demon, especially the potent demon boss and his dark past. Now, with evil and a centuries-old curse surrounding them, Tamatha's only hope is that love-and her unpredictable magic-will be strong enough to save them...
Captive of Gor (Gorean Saga #7)
by John NormanA woman from Earth is forced into sex slavery on the fantasy planet of Counter Earth in this Gorean Saga novel. In this installment of the Gorean Saga, beautiful and headstrong Elinor Brinton of Earth finds herself thrust into the savage world of Counter Earth, also known as Gor. Brinton must relinquish her earthly position as a beautiful, wealthy, and powerful woman when she finds herself a part of the harsh Gorean society. She is powerless as a female pleasure slave in the camp of Targo the slave-merchant. Forced to learn the arts of providing pleasure to any man who buys her, Elinor is determined to escape. Nevertheless, she is sold for a high price, and her master is determined to get his money&’s worth . . . Rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire. Captive of Gor is the 7th book in the Gorean Saga, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Captives
by Shaun HutsonThe murders had been savage and apparently motiveless. Carbon copies of killings committed years earlier and by men currently incarcerated in one of Britain's top maximum security prisons. How could this be? Detective Inspector Frank Gregson must find the answers. Answers which will bring him into conflict with one of those prisoners, a man framed for a murder he didn't commit and determined to discover who framed him and why. These two obsessive men, on their private quests, will clash as they seek the truth which links Whitely Prison with London's seedy underworld of sex-shows and drug barons. One wants vengeance, the other wants the truth. What they discover threatens not only their lives but their sanity ...
Captives (Nightmare Hall #18)
by Diane HohFour friends become the prisoners of a crazed killer who decides who will live—and who will die Molloy, Lynne, Daisy, and Toni are headed for summer school at Salem University, where they&’ll officially be freshmen in the fall. But their journey takes an unexpected detour when they&’re stranded by a violent storm. They take refuge at the deserted Nightingale Hall, an off-campus dorm haunted by a tragic past.What the four girls don&’t know is that someone else has taken shelter there: a psychopath who&’s on the run after murdering a prominent psychiatrist.The electricity is off. The phones are dead. Someone has locked the doors from the inside and nailed all the windows shut. There&’s no escape for Molloy and her friends, who are at the mercy of a madman with no intention of letting any of them leave—at least not alive.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Captivity
by Deborah NoyesThis masterful historical novel by Deborah Noyes, the lauded author of Angel & Apostle, The Ghosts of Kerfol, and Encyclopedia of the End (starred PW) is two stories:The first centers upon the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. Their followers included the famous and the rich, and their effect on American spirituality lasted a full generation. Still, there are echoes. The Fox Sisters' is a story of ambition and playfulness, of illusion and fear, of indulgence, guilt and finally self-destruction.The second story in Captivity is about loss and grief. It is the evocative tale of the bright promise that the Fox Sisters offer up to the skeptical Clara Gill, a reclusive woman of a certain age who long ago isolated herself with her paintings, following the scandalous loss of her beautiful young lover in London.Lyrical and authentic-and more than a bit shadowy-Captivity is, finally, a tale about physical desire and the hope that even the thinnest faith can offer up to a darkening heart.
Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper #4)
by Kerri ManiscalcoIn this shocking finale to the bestselling series that began with Stalking Jack the Ripper, Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the White City Devil.A deadly game of cat-and-mouse has them fighting to stay one step ahead of the brilliant serial killer -- or see their fateful romance cut short by unspeakable tragedy.Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell have landed in America, a bold, brash land unlike the genteel streets of London. But like London, the city of Chicago hides its dark secrets well. When the two attend the spectacular World's Fair, they find the once-in-a-lifetime event tainted with reports of missing people and unsolved murders.Determined to help, Audrey Rose and Thomas begin their investigations, only to find themselves facing a serial killer unlike any they've encountered before. Identifying him is one thing, but capturing him---and getting dangerously lost in the infamous Murder Hotel he constructed as a terrifying torture device---is another.Will Audrey Rose and Thomas see their last mystery to the end---together and in love---or will their fortunes finally run out when their most depraved adversary makes one final, devastating kill?
Car Nex
by Terry M. WestPleasant Storm, Texas. 1965. Um homem de família, temente a Deus, encontra um livro cheio de segredos ancestrais e é induzido a realizar um ritual sangrento. O Car Nex é trazido à nossa dimensão - o inferno ganha forma e presas. Armas não podem detê-lo. Orações não podem pará-lo. Está chegando, e está com fome.
Car-Nex
by Terry M. WestPleasant Storm, Texas, 1965. Un padre di famiglia timorato di Dio trova un antico libro di segreti ed è spinto a celebrare un rituale di sangue. Il Car-Nex arriva nel nostro mondo per dare forma e zanne all'inferno. Le armi non lo rallenteranno. Le preghiere non lo fermeranno. Sta arrivando. E ha fame.