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Vickie - Médica durante o dia, caçadora de lobisomens durante a noite. (Vickie #2)
by Eileen SheehanQuando as coisas com os zumbis pareciam estar sob controle e no passado, a vida de Vickie Anderson vira de cabeça para baixo quando seu verdadeiro amor, o muito independente Dr. Peter Thomason, volta para a África. Com a chegada de lobisomens às suas montanhas, Vickie e seus amigos devem descobrir uma forma de lidar com eles e eliminá-los. Para adicionar mais estresse, dor de cabeça, e confusão, amigos que ela achou que eram amigos se mostraram inimigos e um novo amor surge, mas ela está pronta para confiar e aceitar ele? Se você gostou do livro um de as Aventuras de Vickie Anderson chamado, VICKIE: Médica Durante o Dia. Caçadora de Zumbis durante a noite, não perca tempo e leia o livro dois! É muito interessante.
Vickie - Médica durante o dia, caçadora de zumbis durante a noite (Livro Um #1)
by Eileen SheehanQuando Dra. Vickie Anderson se muda para uma pequena cidade para se tornar a médica local, ela mal sabe o que espera por ela. O homem doce e sensual que ela se apaixona é, na verdade, um vampiro, a mulher boa e sábia que ela se torna grande amiga é uma bruxa, e o xerife ‘sensual’ é um caçador de zumbis! Mas, todos que ela conhece também são. Jogada em um mundo que ela nunca acreditou que poderia existir, Vickie deve decidir se ela tem o que é preciso para ser uma médica durante o dia e uma caçadora de zumbis durante a noite.
Vickie. Doctora de día, ghost whisperer de noche: Libro Tres (VICKIE #3)
by Eileen SheehanCon un matrimonio, el amor y la pérdida frente a ella, Vickie descubre algunos secretos y mentiras inquietantes, y casi letales, sobre quienes creía eran sus amigos, y más que amigos. Al mismo tiempo, desarrolla sus habilidades para comunicarse con el mundo de los espíritus. Con la ayuda de su tía fallecida y su amiga bruja se propone librar a su hogar de las entidades malvadas que se han establecido ahí. ¿Tendrá exito? El romance, la emoción y los ecalofríos en Vickie. Doctora de día, ghost whisperer de noche continúan entreteniendo al lector de principio a fin. Los lectores dicen... ¡Empecé este libro y no me detuve hasta el final! Hubo tantos giros inesperados, y también algunas cosas que realmente me disgustó que sucedieran, pero Dios mío, fue increíble. No puedo decir mucho porque no quiero revelar lo que pasa, ¡pero puedo decir que deben leer este libro! Siento como si todos los personajes fueran mis amigos y una vez que termino de leer cada libro es tan difícil soltarlos y dejarlos ir.
Vickie: Libro Dos (Vickie #2)
by Eileen SheehanSEGUNDO LIBRO DE LA EMOCIONANTE SERIE DE ROMANCE PARANORMAL/THRILLER: Vickie. Doctora de día, cazadora de hombres lobo de noche… Justo cuando las cosas con los zombis parecían estar bajo control y superadas, la vida de Vickie Anderson se pone patas arriba cuando su verdadero amor, el muy independiente doctor Peter Thomason, regresa a África y los hombres lobo aparecen en el pueblo. Con la llegada de los hombres lobo a sus montañas, Vickie y sus amigos deben encontrar una manera de hacerles frente y eliminarlos. Para aumentar el estrés, la angustia y la confusión, las amigas en las que confiaba se convierten en enemigas y un nuevo amor le es ofrecido pero, ¿está lista para confiar en él y aceptarlo? Si disfrutaste del primer libro de las aventuras de Vickie Anderson, titulado Vickie. Doctora de día, cazadora de zombis de noche, ¡no te pierdas el libro dos! Es igualmente entretenido e incluso más candente. Esto es lo que los lectores están diciendo… "Este es realmente un gran libro, los personajes están bien definidos y la trama es perfecta, te mantiene absorto y en vilo todo el tiempo. Definitivamente es una lectura que no te debes perder". "Hubo una serie de cosas en este libro que no me esperaba. El calor realmente se disparó en distintas maneras en esta historia. ¡Léelo y convéncete! ¡¡No puedo esperar a que salga el libro 3!!"
Vickie: Libro Uno (VICKIE #1)
by Eileen SheehanLa doctora Vickie Anderson se muda a una pequeña ciudad para convertirse en su médico local sin saber lo que la espera. El hombre dulce y sexy del que se enamora resulta ser un vampiro, la mujer amable y sabia de la que se hace buena amiga resulta ser una bruja, ¡y el atractivo sheriff local es un cazador de zombis! Pero también lo son todas las personas que conoce. Arrastrada a un mundo que jamás creyó que pudiera existir, Vickie tendrá que averiguar si tiene lo que se necesita para vivir como doctora de día y cazadora de zombis de noche.
Victoria Winters (Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross #2)
by Marilyn RossVictoria Winters is the second in Paperback Library's new series of novels based on ABC-TV's continuing suspense drama Dark Shadows. Still trying to uncover the secret of her own identity, Victoria Winters continues her life at Collins House. The unexpected arrival of mysterious strangers at the brooding manor instills terrible fears in her. Horrified at their lies and their evil, menacing gestures, Victoria wonders if these guests have come to kill her. Terror shrouds Collins House as Victoria finds herself the prey of these cruel tormentors. You'll find many more suspenseful, frightening adventures in the haunted mansion by the sea where vampires, and other supernatural beings lurk. Check the Bookshare library for other books in the classic gothic romance Dark Shadows series by Marilyn Ross including #3. Strangers at Collins House, #5. The Curse of Collinwood, # 6. Barnabas Collins, #7. The Secret of Barnabas Collins, #8. The Demon of Barnabas Collins, #11. Barnabas Collins Vs the Warlock, #12. The Peril of Barnabas Collins, #13. Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost, #17. Barnabas, Quentin and the Avenging Ghost, #18. Barnabas Quentin and the Nightmare Assassin, #20. Barnabas, Quentin and the Witch's Curse, #21. Barnabas, Quentin and the Haunted Cave, #22. Barnabas, Quentin and the Frightened Bride and 23. Barnabas, Quentin and the Scorpio Curse, with more on the way.
Victorian Ghost Stories (Ghost Stories)
by Flame TreeThe Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets and long dark lanes.A fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in. Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Sabine Baring-Gould, Vernon Lee, Edith Nesbit and the master of all, M.R. James.FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
by R. A. Gilbert Michael CoxThe Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror.
Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature
by Julian WolfreysVictorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions: What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted ? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts ? In what ways do the traces of such " ghost writing " surface in the works of Dickens,Tennyson,Eliot and Hardy ? How does the work of spectrality, revenance and the uncanny transform materially both the forms of the literary in the Victorian era and our reception of it today? Beginning with an expoloration of matters of haunting,the uncanny,the gothic and the spectral, Julian Wolfreys traces the ghostly resonances at work in Victorian writing and how such persistence addresses isues of memory and responsibility which haunt the work of reading. 'Taking the familiar genre of the Gothic as a point of departure and revisiting it through Derridean theory, Wolfreys' book, the first application of "hauntology" to the domain of Victorian Studies is a remarkable achievement. Wolfreys never reduces reading to instrumentality but remains alert to all the potentialities of the texts he reads with a great attention to their idiosyncrasies. Victorian Hauntings should bring a new tone to Victorian Studies, this clever book is quite perfect. - Jean Michel Rabate, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania 'You'd have to be dead to know more about ghosts than Julian Wolfreys. ' Martin McQuillan, University of Leeds
Victorian Psycho: A Novel
by Virginia FeitoSOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM FROM A24 STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY AND THOMASIN MCKENZIE "This book will be the bloody belle of the 2025 literary ball." (Oprah Daily) Most Anticipated Books of 2025: Vulture, Oprah Daily, Polygon, Reader's Digest, Lit Hub, CrimeReads, The Stacks, LibraryReads, Paste Best Books of the Month: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Goodreads, Gizmodo, Book Riot, The A.V. Club, Apple Books, Amazon The American Booksellers Association's #1 Indie Next Great Read! (Feb 2025) A Matty Maggiacomo Book Club Selection “Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh out loud funny, Victorian Psycho speaks profoundly of horror both within and without us.” —Catriona Ward From the acclaimed author of Mrs. March comes the riveting tale of a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance. Virginia Feito’s Mrs. March was hailed as “a brilliant debut . . . [by] a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes” (Sarah Ditum, Guardian)—from Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley Jackson to Patricia Highsmith. Now, Feito returns with her “silver-polish sentences and her eerie psychological acumen” (Constance Grady, Vox) to unleash an entirely new antihero on us all. Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze. Compounded with her disdain for the entitled Pounds children, Winifred finds herself struggling at every turn to stifle the violent compulsions of her past. French tutoring and needlework are one way to pass the time, as is admiring the ugly portraits in the gallery . . . and creeping across the moonlit lawns. . . . Patience. Winifred must have patience, for Christmas is coming, and she has very special gifts planned for the dear souls of Ensor House. Brimming with sardonic wit and culminating in a shocking conclusion, Victorian Psycho plunges readers into the chilling mind of an iconic new literary psychopath.
Victories (Shadow Grail #4)
by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes LackeySpirit White and her friends Burke, Loch, and Addie have escaped from Oakhurst Academy. But their freedom has come at a terrible cost--a dear friend sacrificed her own life to save theirs. In the wake of Muirin's death, they are also forced to deal with the terrifying truth behind the facade of Oakhurst Academy: all of the legends are true. Queen Guinevere, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table really had existed. With the magic of Merlin, they were able to imprison their greatest foe, Mordred, before he could plunge the world back into the Dark Ages. But Mordred is now free, in charge of Oakhurst Academy, and determined to finish what he started so long ago. Pursued by Shadow Knights, the reincarnated remnants of Mordred's original army, Spirit's small band undertakes a quest to recover the Four Hallows, objects of immeasurable power. Memories of a past life have begun to surface, one in which Spirit wields a legendary sword. She comes to realize that these memories are the true key to Mordred's defeat. Can Spirit and her friends manage to recapture the magic of Camelot in time to save their fellow students and prevent the end of the world? Shadow Grail #4: Victories is he fourth and final book in the Shadow Grail series by theNew York TimesandUSA Todaybestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
Vida En La Isla
by Kevin Heit William MeikleAlgunas leyendas son ciertas... Las viejas historias cuentan de un mal muy por debajo de la tierra. Cuando una expedición arqueológica ignora la sabiduría local y abre un viejo túmulo en una remota isla en las Hébridas escocesas, ellos desatan un horror más allá de sus más oscuras pesadillas. ¿Podrá alguno sobrevivir al ataque de la Vida en la Isla? ¡William Meikle hila un cuento de terror que te mantendrá despierto hasta que voltees la última página!
Video Kill
by Joanne FlukeLights. . . Camera. . . With painstaking care, he "casts" his victims, each woman resembling an Alfred Hitchcock star, each killing echoing six of the legendary director's films. The only clue he leaves behind is a gruesome video of his handiwork. But the Video Killer shoots the death scenes as he believes they should have been done--with total realism. . . Kill! A former actress, Allison Rocca knows her husband, Tony, a screenwriter, has been extra busy lately. And news reporter Katy knows her ex, Chief Detective Sam Ladera, is desperately hunting the Video Killer. Still, each woman senses something unusual about the men's behavior. But as they attempt to find the truth, they unwittingly draw closer to the lens of a calculating madman searching for his next leading lady. . .
Video Nasties: Edizione Italiana
by Duncan Ralston16 storie horror nella tradizione di Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Clive Barker e Ai Confini della Realtà! Alcune storie possono uccidere! Video Nasties: Dopo aver trovato una scatola piene di vecchie videocassette fuori da un magazzino abbandonato, un giovane appassionato di film libera inavvertitamente il regista horror Nicolò Funelli e i suoi "orrori" dalla loro prigionia. Come Uccidere una Celebrità: I necrologi preventivi della neoassunta Annie Watkins a Live @ 5 New Orleans sembrano uccidere le celebrità. Talee: A causa di un furgone per le consegne usato, le vite di Katie e Gavin prendono una svolta inconcepibile in un territorio davvero oscuro. Interferenze: Un'orfana adolescente, con un'eccezionale abilità, è rinchiusa in un laboratorio segreto governativo, costretta a soddisfare i loro capricci. La Resurrezione: Una coppia di turisti prende parte alla Pasqua di una piccola cittadina inglese. Queste sono solo alcuni dei 16 racconti horror che ti attendono in Video Nasties. Sintonizzati, rilassati e alza il volume. Ma attento quando tocchi la manopola… potresti rimanerci secco.
Video Palace: Collected Stories
by Dr Maynard WillsA collection of chilling stories from the leading writers in horror and suspense exploring elusive urban legends. In the popular podcast Video Palace, Mark Cambria, aided by his girlfriend Tamra Wulff, investigated the origins of a series of esoteric white videotapes. Cambria went missing in pursuit of these tapes, but not before hearing whispers of an ominous figure called the Eyeless Man. Fascinated by the podcast and Cambria&’s disappearance, Maynard Wills, PhD, a professor of folklore, embarks on his own investigation into the origins of the tapes and the Eyeless Man, who he believes has lurked in the dark corners of media culture and urban legends for at least seventy-five years. As part of his study, he has invited popular writers of horror and gothic fiction to share their own Eyeless Man stories, whether heard around the campfire or experienced themselves. Get swept away in this thrilling and terrifying collection of tales from contributors including: -Bob DeRosa -Meirav Devash and Eddie McNamara -Owl Goingback -Brea Grant -Merrin J. McCormick -Rebekah and David Ian McKendry -Ben Rock -John Skipp -Graham Skipper -Gordon B. White -Tamra Wulff and Mary Phillips-Sandy
Video a pedido
by Terry M. WestImagina un mundo como el nuestro, pero con una extraordinaria diferencia: todas las criaturas de las leyendas han salido de las sombras, ¡y ahora conviven codo a codo con la humanidad! ¡Bienvenido al Mágico Ahora! La ciudad de Nueva York se ha convertido en un macabro crisol. Los vampiros, hombres lobos, zombies y demonios son los nuevos inmigrantes y están persiguiendo su propio sueño americano. Las Criaturas Nocturnas se han vuelto parte del sistema. Por el momento no hay leyes que defiendan sus derechos, no hay reglas en contra de su exterminio. Hay mucha gente ansiosa por explotar a las Criaturas Nocturnas para ganar dinero y satisfacer sus deseos. Abundan las oscuras posibilidades en este nuevo y desafiante mundo. Gary Hack es un director de cine, explotador y venido a menos. Para alimentar su creciente adicción a las drogas, Gary se involucra en el peligroso mercado clandestino de los videos fetichistas con monstruos. Este es el comienzo de un agitado viaje para Gary Hack. ADVERTENCIA: este cuento contiene violencia, gore y temática sexual.
Viento rojo: Red Wind
by Raymond ChandlerUn detective sin escrúpulos en una sociedad dominada por la corrupción. «Soplaba viento del desierto aquella noche». Así empieza el relato que mejor ejemplifica el estilo de Raymond Chandler, uno de los autores norteamericanos más reconocidos de novela negra. En Viento rojo, publicado por primera vez en 1938, un sarcástico detective es testigo de un asesinato en una coctelería, y se verá obligado a intentar descifrar el misterio tras el crimen y, en el proceso, ayudar a la misteriosa mujer que la víctima buscaba. A través de sus relatos, que publicaba en las revistas conocidas como pulp fiction, Chandler se propuso infundir calidad a las narraciones detectivescas, reivindicando un mayor realismo en este tipo de narraciones. Además, las obras de este autor destacan por ser una clara denuncia social. Con diálogos rápidos e irónicos, consigue hacer un duro retrato de la sociedad norteamericana tras la Gran Depresión, cuando las ciudades parecían estar dominadas por mafiosos y policías corruptos.
Vikram and the Vampire Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance: Classic Hindu Tales Of Adventure, Magic, And Romance (Classics To Go)
by Richard Francis BurtonVikram and the Vampire, translated and adapted by Sir Richard Burton, is a group of tales told by a baital (not really a vampire but a kind of spirit who can inhabit dead bodies) to King Vikram (described by Burton as the King Arthur of India). The stories are somewhat in the style of the tales of the Arabian Nights. (Goodreads)
Vile Men
by Rebecca Jones-HoweVile Men is a collection of fourteen short stories that are transgressive in nature, filled with heart and emotion, leaving you sweaty and spent, your heart pounding in your chest. Stolen moments on the subway, fear of intimacy, sexual perversion and dark fears come home to roost all unite in a powerful mixture of literary fiction, contemporary fairy tales, and late night confessions. Shocking and yet touching, unnerving and yet brutally honest, Rebecca Jones-Howe is an emerging author that you'll want to keep an eye on.ADVANCE PRAISE:"Rebecca Jones-Howe's Vile Men is an exciting, dark, sexy collection that is convulsively beautiful and bright. Each story digs a great hole and is filled with the most savage, brutal, human emotions: love, desire, addiction and the impossibility of satisfaction."-Antonia Crane, author of Spent"Rebecca Jones-Howe fearlessly tackles the ugliness most of us manage to hide. Each broken character blurs the lines between villain and victim as they bathe in sex, horror, dignity, want, resignation, and darkness. Vile Men is the handbook to uncovering your damage."-Mercedes M. Yardley, author of Pretty Little Dead Girls"Rebecca Jones-Howe takes you on a tour of the human psyche that is dark, disturbing, and exquisitely written. The sentences in this book are the best kind of dangerous. Just when you think you're safe another one comes along and draws blood."-Rob Hart, author of New Yorked"Rebecca Jones-Howe's Vile Men shows us characters driven by desperation to do violence to themselves or others, but behind these sharp stories about the horror of gender and sex is an empathetic insight into human weakness. Jones-Howe might bring us to the darkest parts of the human heart, but her stories remind us that we are all a little bit vile, too."-Letitia Trent, author of Echo Lake"Vile Men is dark, provocative stuff. The men found within these pages are indeed bad news, but the most dangerous paths aren't always led by them, as Rebecca Jones-Howe's narrators take us right past the expected awfulness of dead-end, drug-addled relationships, bad sex on ant hills, or navigating the treacherous rubble of the bar scene, where her women can find satisfaction and even surprise flashes of triumph amongst all the emotional jetsam. "There's a certain kind of man who goes for damaged girls," she writes. They may be broken, but as vile as these men may be (and always such needy little beasts) they don't get to have everything."-David James Keaton, author of The Last Projector
Vilest Things: the fiercely addictive and gripping sequel to the epic fantasy romance sensation Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods)
by Chloe Gong** Endpapers available for a limited time only, pre-order to guarantee your copy now!**The games are over. Let chaos reign. Calla Tuoleimi has done the impossible. Against all odds, she won San-Er's bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She now serves as royal advisor to August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne. Only Calla knows it isn't really August. Anton Makusa is still furious about Calla's betrayal in the final round of the games. In an impossible feat, he took over August's body to survive, and has no intention of giving up this newfound power. But when his first love awakens from a years-long coma and reveals a secret that threatens the monarchy, chaos erupts. As tensions come to a boiling point, Calla and Anton will have to journey to the kingdom's furthest reaches to prevent anarchy - before their real identities are exposed . . .
Vilest Things: the fiercely addictive and gripping sequel to the epic fantasy sensation Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods)
by Chloe GongSEQUEL TO THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING EPIC FANTASY ROMANCE IMMORTAL LONGINGS NOW!The games are over. Let chaos reign.Calla Tuoleimi has done the impossible. Against all odds, she won San-Er's bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She now serves as royal advisor to August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne.Only Calla knows it isn't really August.Anton Makusa is still furious about Calla's betrayal in the final round of the games. In an impossible feat, he took over August's body to survive, and has no intention of giving up this newfound power. But when his first love awakens from a years-long coma and reveals a secret that threatens the monarchy, chaos erupts.As tensions come to a boiling point, Calla and Anton will have to journey to the kingdom's furthest reaches to prevent anarchy - before their real identities are exposed . . .Romance, politics and power meld in this pulse-pounding, electric enemies-to-lovers epic fantasy romance, inspired by Antony and Cleopatra.READERS LOVE CHLOE GONG'OH MY GOD I CANNOT PUT INTO WORDS HOW MUCH I LOVED THIS BOOK!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'EXCUSE MEEE??? WHO GAVE CHLOE GONG THE RIGHT TO UTTERLY OBLITERATE MY MIND AND SOUL???' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'5. big. shiny. stars. good f******g god dude she has done it AGAIN. NO MISSES. BANGER AFTER BANGER . . . AND I WILL ALSO BE SENDING MISS GONG MY THERAPY BILL. thank you very much' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I LIVE AND BREATHE The Hunger Games so the second I saw this book I knew I HAD to read it and guess what? I was not disappointed' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This is one of my favourite books I have read so far this year!! (a must read for any chloe gong or any fantasy lovers!!)' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Villa Golitsyn
by Piers Paul ReadSet in the south of France, the novel followstwo men, former diplomat Willy Ludley, who had been accused of a terrible actof treason years earlier, and Simon Milson, Ludley's friend from Cambridge, nowon assignment from the British foreign office to dig into Ludley's past. Milsonfinagles an invitation to the Ludley's house in the south of France, turns upwith an underage school girl he meets in the train, and amidst much drinking,philosophical banter, and sexual temptation, they dig into the past.
Villa Golitsyn
by Piers Paul ReadA superb and intelligent thriller by the number-one bestselling author of Alive: Story Of The Andes Survivors. Set in the south of France, the novel follows two men, former diplomat Willy Ludley, who had been accused of a terrible act of treason years earlier, and Simon Milson, Ludley’s friend from Cambridge, now on assignment from the British foreign office to dig into Ludley's past. Milson finagles an invitation to the Ludley's house in the south of France, turns up with an underage school girl he meets in the train, and amidst much drinking, philosophical banter, and sexual temptation, they dig into the past.
Villain (Gone #8)
by Michael GrantAcclaimed author Michael Grant’s globally bestselling Gone series continues with Villain, where old foes return and new ones rise, with action-packed scenes, gory battles, and plot twists that will leave readers scrambling for more. It’s been four years since the events of GONE. The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters—monsters that walk the cities and countryside, terrorizing all.There are tanks in the street and predator drones in the sky, doomed efforts to stop the disintegration of civilization. Into this chaos comes a villain with the power to control anyone with just the sound of his voice. Dillon Poe wanted to be a comedian once…but everyone made fun of him. Dillon the loser. Dillon the freak. Now he’s sending thousands to their death. Who’s laughing now? The only people who can stop a superpowered villain are superpowered heroes. Dekka, Shade, Cruz, Malik, Armo, and a new mutant with unmatched powers, are all that stand in Dillon’s way. But when the lines begin to blur between hero and villain—some begin to wonder who’s really the monster.Praise for the Gone series:“Exciting, high-tension stories. I love these books.” —Stephen King“Intense, marvelously plotted, paced, and characterized.” —ALA Booklist (starred review)
Villains Academy (Villains Academy #1)
by Ryan HammondBeing BAD has never felt so GOOD! The first in a villainously funny, highly illustrated young middle-grade series from author-illustrator Ryan Hammond. For fans of Amelia Fang, Dog Man and Grimwood. Don't miss the second installment, How to Steal a Dragon, out in October 2023, and the third installment, How to Win the Gruesome Games, out in April 2024! &‘Frightfully fun – Villains Academy had me cackling from the very first page!&’ Katie Tsang, co-author of the Dragon Realm series &‘I loved the spookily funny Villains Academy. It's a work of (evil) genius!&’ Jenny McLachlan, author of The Land of RoarWelcome to Villains Academy – the most prestigious villain school in the ENTIRE land. You will either leave here as a fully-formed villain . . . or in tatters. It's werewolf Bram&’s first day at Villains Academy. He really doesn&’t feel like a villain at all, but the coveted Villain of the Week trophy is up for grabs, and Bram knows he&’ll have to dig deep. With the help of new friends Mona the elf-witch, Bryan the lion, Shelia the ghost and Tony the skeleton, can Bram find his inner badness and become the villain he's always dreamed of being?PRAISE FOR VILLAINS ACADEMY: &‘A charmingly villainous adventure about friendship, school and unspeakable evil. Hammond is an exciting new author-illustrator double threat.&’ Louie Stowell, author of Loki: A Bad God&’s Guide to Being Good &‘Criminally fun!&’ Danny Wallace, author of The Day the Screens Went Blank &‘Heart-warming and hilarious – Villains Academy is a spookalicious treat, set to terrify every other book on your shelf.&’ Jack Meggitt-Phillips, author of The Beast and the Bethany &‘An absolute HOOT! Evil laughs aplenty!&’ Sophy Henn, author and illustrator of the Pizazz series &‘A joyful hug of a book with genuine warmth and heart.&’ Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear &‘A delightfully fun adventure with real heart and humour.&’ Benjamin Dean, author of Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow &‘Immersive, funny, and with a cast of scarily loveable characters, Villains Academy made me feel like I was IN the book!&’ Mel Taylor-Bessent, author of The Christmas Carrolls &‘A fabulously funny adventure. I want to enrol in Villains Academy!&’ Nick Sheridan, author of The Case of the Runaway Brain &‘Wickedly funny and full of quirky yet loveable characters.&’ Iona Rangeley, author of Einstein the Penguin &‘This is a brilliant, bonkers work packed with top-notch illustration.&’ Jack Noel, author and illustrator of the Comic Classics series &‘Full of wonderful characters, Villains Academy is such a FUN read!&’ Rikin Parekh, illustrator of The Worst Class in the World series