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Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy Book 3 (The Black Jewels Trilogy)
by Anne BishopThe third in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's captivating Black Jewels trilogy. War is coming to the Shadow-Realm. To save millions of lives, Witch must sacrifice only one: hers.Jaenelle, the long-prophesised Witch Queen, has finally healed, and emerged stronger than ever to claim her throne.But for centuries a taint has been creeping across the realms, corrupting those born into power. Now war is coming to the Shadow-Realm - and Witch is helpless to prevent it.The Dreamweavers' webs show two paths. One will see the blood of millions spilled, the other will see the taint destroyed - and only one person needs to die.Her.'A powerful finale for this fascinating, uniquely dark trilogy' - Locus
Queen of the Dead (A Ghost and the Goth Novel)
by Stacey Kade<p>After being sent back from the light, Alona Dare - former homecoming queen, current Queen of the Dead - finds herself doing something she never expected: working. Instead of spending days perfecting her tan by the pool (her typical summer routine when she was, you know, alive), Alona must now cater to the needs of other lost spirits. By her side for all of this - ugh - “helping of others” is Will Killian: social outcast, seer of the dead, and someone Alona cares about more than she’d like. <p>Before Alona can make a final ruling on Will’s “friend” or “more” status, though, she discovers trouble at home. Her mom is tossing out Alona’s most valuable possessions, and her dad is expecting a new daughter with his wicked wife. Is it possible her family is already moving on? Hello! She’s only been dead for two months! Thankfully, Alona knows just the guy who can put a stop to this mess. <p>Unfortunately for Alona, Will has other stuff on his mind, and Mina, a young (and beautiful) seer, is at the top of the list. She’s the first ghost-talker Will’s ever met—aside from his father—and she may hold answers to Will’s troubled past. But can she be trusted? Alona immediately puts a check mark in the “clearly not” column. But Will is - ahem - willing to find out, even if it means leaving a hurt and angry Alona to her own devices, which is never a good idea. <p>Packed with romance, lovable characters, and a killer cliffhanger, Queen of the Dead is the out-of-this-world sequel to The Ghost and the Goth.</p>
Queen of the Slayers (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
by Nancy Holder Joss WhedonNo vacation. No benefits. And the only retirement is an early death. With the closing of the Hellmouth and the awakening of hundreds of potential slayers, Buffy Summers thought she had overturned the Slayer's self-sacrifice and earned herself a much-deserved break. But the thrill of victory is short-lived. The Forces of Darkness are not ones to graciously accept defeat, and the collective rage unites disparate and powerful parties more eager than ever to reclaim dominance. Willow's magickal distribution of the slayer essence left girls across the world discovering their latent power. Giles races to reorganize the now much-needed Watchers Council, and the Scoobies relocate to Europe. And there in Rome, Buffy is drawn to the Immortal -- a charismatic, if inscrutable, figure. But then comes word that a number of the fresh slayers are being coerced to join an army of slayers -- governed by the mysterious "Queen of the Slayers", an awesome evil determined to claim the intoxicating slayer essence for herself. Xander is sent to Africa to learn more about the origin of the slayer essence. Instead, he returns to report that, alarmingly, there's not enough good in the world to counteract the overabundance of evil, and that the deciding apocalypse is drawing much too near. Alliances are formed and loyalties betrayed as it comes down to slayer versus slayer, leading to an ultimate battle of champions -- from Buffy's past and present. And then an unimaginable gift arrives...
Queer Slashers (Icons of Horror)
by Peter MarraFrom Norman Bates dressed as "Mother" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne traces of queer and gender nonconforming behavior since the subgenre's very beginning.Queer Slashers presents the first book-length study of how and why the slasher subgenre of horror films appeals to queer audiences. In it, Peter Marra constructs a reparative history of the slasher that affirms its queer lineage extending back as early as the 1920s. It also articulates the queer aspects of the slasher formula that forge an unlikely kinship between queer audiences and these retrograde depictions of queer killers. Marra establishes a queer history and function for the slasher, analyzing several key contemporary "queer slashers"–that is, slashers that are made by queer filmmakers–to better understand how queer artists take up the slasher iconography and put it toward modern queer aims.Featuring analysis of films such as John Waters's Serial Mom, Peaches Christ's All About Evil, and Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake, Queer Slashers illuminates the queer meanings of slashers, their foundations, and their future possibilities.
Quenched in Blood (Dreamspun Beyond #32)
by Ari McKayAsheville ArcanaWill love mean rebirth… or death? In the course of his work with the Asheville Paranormal Council, reclusive three-hundred-year-old vampire Julian Schaden discovers young Thomas Carter, the heir to a long line of demon hunters—a legacy Thomas knows nothing about. He also knows nothing about the supernatural world or the danger he’s in. As Julian convinces him and later agrees to train Thomas to use his abilities, he struggles against unexpected feelings. Thomas is too young and innocent to become involved with Julian, but opposites attract, and this is one battle Julian is fated to lose…. Julian and Thomas grow closer as the demonic menace advances. A prophecy from a dying mage comes with a bleak warning: to save Thomas’s life, Julian might have to give up the only man he’s ever loved.
Quien pierde paga
by Stephen KingProtagonizada por el mismo trío dispar de héroes que Stephen King nos presentó en Mr. Mercedes llega ahora la continuación: Quien pierde paga, una obra maestra de la intriga sobre un lector cuya obsesión por un escritor va demasiado lejos. «Despierta, genio». Así comienza la fascinante novela de Stephen King sobre un lector fanático. El genio es John Rothstein, un autor de culto, creador del personaje de Jimmy Gold. Morris Bellamy está fuera de sí, no solo porque Rothstein haya dejado de escribir, sino también porque considera que el inconformista Jimmy Gold se ha vendido para dedicarse a la publicidad. Morris decide matar a Rothstein y vacía su caja fuerte para llevarse no solo todo el dinero sino además el verdadero tesoro: los cuadernos de notas de otra novela protagonizada por Jimmy Gold. Morris lo esconde todo y al día siguiente acaba en la cárcel por otro crimen terrorífico. Décadas más tarde un chico llamado Pete Saubers encuentra el tesoro y ahora son él y su familia a quienes han de salvar Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney y Jerome Robinson del vengativo y trastornado Morris cuando salga de la cárcel tras treinta y cinco años encerrado. Quien pierde paga es un thriller absorbente, de ritmo vertiginoso, pero también es un libro sobre cómo la literatura puede moldear una vida para bien, para mal, para siempre.
Quiet as a Mouse
by Asta IdoneaUpon moving to a new town, shy shifter Paul is instantly smitten with local choirmaster Cale. Wanting to spend as much time with Cale as possible, he becomes the proverbial church mouse so he can enjoy Cale's music without revealing his feelings. But when Cale sees him and traps are set, Paul faces a difficult choice. What does he want out of life, and does he have the courage to go after it? Will he be a man... or a mouse?A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Daily Dose package "A Walk on the Wild Side."
Quietus
by Vivian SchillingMoments before her small chartered plane crashes into the treacherous White Mountains of New Hampshire, Kylie O'Rourke notices a raven standing placidly on the wing looking at her through distinctly human eyes. Regaining consciousness in a Boston hospital, Kylie finds that the peculiar raven was a herald of things to come and that her world has been irrevocably altered. She is haunted by improbable memories of the crash: though trapped within the wreckage, she recalls wandering the icy mountainside and speaking with one of the other passengers only to find that he'd died on impact. As the bizarre aftermath grows clearer it appears more ominous, and Kylie must fight for her life despite increasing evidence that she is living on borrowed time.
Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet: Weird Stories Gone Wrong (Weird Stories Gone Wrong #6)
by Philippa DowdingQuinn might get used to the food, Work Bots, and creating the Blue Brick™ … but why are children all around him turning blue? Quinn Fleet, twelve, Packager (QF12P) has only been at the Work Centre for three days, but he’s already seen a Caver run away, faced interrogation, and been made to stand in front of a crowd of children in the Grand Hall to apologize for breaking a Blue Brick™. That's when he notices that all the children at the Work Centre look so thin, ragged, and blue. Why are the children turning blue? Why can they make the strange blue spark when they snap their fingers? What’s the blue shimmer in the air? And why do a renegade Work Bot and an Officer want Quinn to lead the NewBlues to the sanctuary of the Quiet, Quiet? But more than all that, what is the Quiet, Quiet, anyway?
Quintana Roo
by Gary BrandnerIt is a living hell: murderous Mayans . . . reptiles that kill on contact . . . creatures more deadly than crocodiles. No man has ever come back alive from Quintana Roo. John Hooker is hired by beautiful, sexy Connie Braithwaite to discover the whereabouts of her billionaire husband, Nolan, who vanished a year before on an expedition into the Yucatan. Quintana Roo's jungles barely conceal a violent mix of horrors old and new - "Muerateros," whose skill at torture has been honed over centuries, and their modern counterparts, who will stop at nothing to preserve their right to kill . . .
Quintana Roo
by Gary BrandnerIt is a living hell: murderous Mayans . . . reptiles that kill on contact . . . creatures more deadly than crocodiles. No man has ever come back alive from Quintana Roo.John Hooker is hired by beautiful, sexy Connie Braithwaite to discover the whereabouts of her billionaire husband, Nolan, who vanished a year before on an expedition into the Yucatan.Quintana Roo's jungles barely conceal a violent mix of horrors old and new - "Muerateros," whose skill at torture has been honed over centuries, and their modern counterparts, who will stop at nothing to preserve their right to kill . . .
Quintana Roo
by Gary BrandnerIt is a living hell: murderous Mayans . . . reptiles that kill on contact . . . creatures more deadly than crocodiles. No man has ever come back alive from Quintana Roo.John Hooker is hired by beautiful, sexy Connie Braithwaite to discover the whereabouts of her billionaire husband, Nolan, who vanished a year before on an expedition into the Yucatan.Quintana Roo’s jungles barely conceal a violent mix of horrors old and new - “Muerateros,” whose skill at torture has been honed over centuries, and their modern counterparts, who will stop at nothing to preserve their right to kill . . .
Quién se va a quedar con el maldito VHS?
by Gláucio Imada TamuraBasado en la película “La llamada”. Quién recuerda la época de las cintas VHS? Y de los videoclubes abarrotados de esas cintas? Cuando los fines de semana, el mejor programa para hacer en familia era disfrutar de una comida especial seguida del mejor catálogo de terror recién salido de las pantallas del cine? Así es, el tío Ricardo, un eterno burlón, tiene sus días contados. Acostumbrado a burlarse en la cara de Mateus, su sobrino, y de Flavio, su cuñado, cierta noche se topa con una película que le quita el sueño… Suerte de padre e hijo, que no se perderán esta rica oportunidad de darle su merecido castigo
Qué lata dan los muertos: Fantasmas vs. Populares
by Rose Cooper¿Qué hacer cuando los fantasmas te mandan mensajes de texto a cada rato? ¡Qué ingratos son los muertos! Lo único que quiere Annabel Craven es ser una niña normal. Pero eso es difícil de conseguir cuando los fantasmas le mandan whats a cada rato. Además, mantener su secreto a salvo, lejos de su entrometida hermanastra nueva, no será nada fácil. Cuando una chica fantasma llamada Harper le ruega a Annabel que la ayude a regresar como si nada junto a los vivos, Annabel le advierte que eso es imposible. Una vez que has muerto, no puedes simplemente volver de nuevo a la vida# ¿o acaso sí se puede?
R.I.P.D. Volume 1 (R.I.P.D.)
by Peter LenkovWelcome to the Rest In Peace Department—the devoted, yet dead, officers of divine law enforcement. Nick Cruz was gunned down in the line of duty at the height of his personal and professional life. Now he's traded a hundred years of service to the R.I.P.D. in exchange for a shot at solving his own murder. Collects the original four-issue miniseries. * The original tale of Nick Cruz and Roy Powell that introduced the wild world of the R.I.P.D.!
R.I.P.D. Volume 2: City of the Damned (R.I.P.D.)
by Jeremy BarlowJust because Roy Pulsipher and Nick Walker are dead, that doesn't mean their time in law enforcement is over. Roy and Nick are officers in the Rest in Peace Department, sworn to serve the Almighty and protect the living from evil's foul corruption. Their current case has them chasing a ghostly fanatic determined to undo all of creation—a threat with very personal connections to Roy's past, stretching back a hundred years. Collecting the four-issue miniseries. * Prequel to the upcoming film starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges!
RELATOS DE A.M.A.L. (Asociación de Metamórficos, Animagos y Licántropos)
by Debbie Manber Kupfer Alba MasGatos, lobos y tegs. Conoce a Alistair, Ramora y Griddlebone en estas tres historias del mundo de A.M.A.L. Alistair es un hombrelobo viejo pero de apariencia joven, que acaba de coger bajo su protección un neófito, Josh. Una noche, Alistair relata la historia de su cruel padre, que terminó con las vidas de su madre y hermanos solo por diversión, y lo que le pasó durante su primera luna llena. Ramora, una niña de doce años que se tiene que casar con un hombre mayor, conoce a Morgana, una traviesa hada verde -o teg- que le ofrece riquezas y la vida eterna. Griddlebone es resultado de la experimentación de la Gestapo con prisioneros judíos en Viena, combinando su ADN con el de felinos para crear máquinas de matar perfectas en tiempos de la II Guerra Mundial. Mientras mira como los prisioneros entran en camiones, él y otros hombres gato luchan con los Nazis y consiguen salvar a una niña judía, Esther, con la cual visitarán un campo de concentración para ver si los guardas quieren jugar con los lindos gatitos.
RUN!
by O. G. ArionWhat if tomorrow will be your last day on this earth? What if, starting tomorrow, everyone you know will disappear? And what would you do if you had to forget who you used to be? Keep going. Don’t look back. They are out there. Watching. Waiting. All you can do is run!
Rabbits: A Novel
by Terry MilesA deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.&“A taut mystery for a time of conspiratorial madness.&”—Cory DoctorowIt&’s an average work day. You&’ve been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444.Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole?Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas.Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown.So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself.But the deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes. Players have died in the past—and the body count is rising.And now the eleventh round is about to begin.Enter K—a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, rumored to be the winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts, or the whole world will pay the price.Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing.Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline: Eleven begins.And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.
Rabid Growth
by James MoorePeople change all the time. But Chris Corin is noticing some pretty extreme changes in the people around him. His best friend is suffering from a strange Fever, and is Chris being stalked?
Racconti Di Un Assassino
by Donnefar Skedar Lydia Del DevotoHorror allo stato puro ... atmosfere torbide ... personaggi inquietanti ... assassini spietati ... macabri rituali ... corpi martoriati, sezionati, ricuciti. Una serie di Racconti brevi che ci proiettano los un mondo Parallelo, un mondo di privo di regole e moral. Sono storie sospese fra terrore e mistero, che mettono los luce tutte le alienazioni ei mali dell'anima. Le atmosfere sono cupe e gli eventi al LIMITE dell'incubo. Nella Versione italiana ritengo che i Racconti abbiano mantenuto, pur con i dovuti aggiustamenti che ogni traduzione richiede, tutto il macabro e l'orrore dell'originale.
Racconti Moribondi
by Erik HofstatterViaggio nel cuore oscuro della natura umana con Moribund Tales. Ricordando il gotico vittoriano, questi nove racconti esplorano il sinistro e lo strano nel quotidiano. Ultima Goccia di Umanità è una storia agghiacciante di compassione fraterna e cose che è meglio rinchiudere; ricordi confusi di sangue e rimorsi si mescolano in Vetro Rotto; una voce misteriosa guida un viaggiatore cieco in Chaperon, e una ragazza rinata per uno scopo sinistro cerca la sua vendetta Dita di Infante. Comprendendo le acclamate storie Lacrime di Pentimento e Rapimento Interiore, Racconti Moribondi è una raccolta cruda e viscerale del maestro dell'orrore, Erik Hofstatter.
Racconti Oscuri e Versi Contorti
by A. L. ButcherRacconti oscuri sui fantasmi della guerra, il sangue dell'autunno del terrore, l'ira della natura, un omicidio insolito e un vampiro cinico. Poesia contorta di perdita e caos. Alcuni temi e linguaggi per adulti.
Racconti dal Lato Oscuro
by Jenny TwistUn ricordo d’infanzia torna a tormentare una sedicenne Una donna sente una voce aliena chiamarla nella sua testa. Un’anziana signora è terrorizzata da un’oscura sagoma che l’aspetta in fondo alle scale Un fabbro deforme esce solo di notte Una ragazza passa la notte col suo fidanzato e l’eccentrica famiglia di lui ma nessuno la mette in guardia dallo Zio Vernon Una zitella attempata va ad assistere alla Sfilata di Pasqua ma quest’anno c’è un personaggio inaspettato Una madre riceve un telegramma che l’informa che il suo adorato figlio è stato ucciso in azione ed esprime un desiderio fatale… E tredici parole – tre storie brevi… molto brevi
Racconti del terrore
by Harry Glum Alessandro MannaraTre storie di stampo classico che vi faranno rabbrividire. Tre racconti affascinanti per gli amanti del genere. L'EREDITÀ DEL PADRE: una giovane madre scopre che il suo bebè va incontro a strane trasformazioni. "Durante una di quelle notti, il piccolo Pete iniziò a respirare in maniera strana, molto brusca. Sharon si spaventò e accese la luce. Sembrava che suo figlio dormisse tranquillamente, come se niente fosse accaduto. Notò terrorizzata che però si era ricoperto di un manto scuro. Soffocò un grido e cercò di tranquillizzarsi." LA BAMBOLA: la piccola Penny incontra una bellissima bambola di porcellana abbandonata e decide di portarsela a casa. Ai suoi genitori però l'idea non li convince affatto. "Penny guardò il volto della bambola e si accorse che era cambiato. Ne era certa: adesso sembrava come arrabbiata. Eppure la sua espressione finora le era parsa sempre allegra, felice e sorridente." LA CASA ABBANDONATA: un architetto con alcuni problemi trasloca in una casa appartata in cima ad una collina. "Come sempre alle prime luci del mattino. Qualcuno batteva contro la porta. Scese le scale e raggiunse l'entrata sperando fosse soltanto una banda di ragazzini annoiati." HARRY GLUM ci regala tre brevi racconti che delizieranno anche i lettori più esigenti.