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Pee Wee Scouts: Blue Skies, French Fries
by Judy Delton"Rat's knees!" said Molly Duff. "School starts tomorrow."Luckily, the Pee Wee Scouts have a meeting the next day. That's when they find out about the big surprise ahead.At the Pee Wee weenie roast, their Scout leader, Mrs. Peters, tells them about a football game coming up. A Pee Wee football game. "We're going to play against Troop 15 from Oakdale," she says."Yeah!" cheers Roger White. "We'll win!"Every day, under blue skies, the Pee Wees practice hard. Rachel cheers. Roger tries. But Sonny just wants french fries. Team spirit is what it takes.Can Troop 23 win the big game?
Peeps (Peeps #1)
by Scott WesterfeldA year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying than in attending biology class. Now, after a fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, biology has become, literally, Cal's life. Cal was infected by a parasite that has a truly horrifying effect on its host. Cal himself is a carrier, unchanged by the parasite, but he's infected the girlfriends he's had since Morgan. All three have turned into the ravening ghouls Cal calls Peeps. The rest of us know them as vampires. It's Cal's job to hunt them down before they can create more of their kind. . . . Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that are fast becoming his trademark, Scott Westerfeld's novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror. .
Película de Miedo
by Historias Del AticoA diferencia de la mayoría de los niños de doce años, Charlie no es más feliz en la práctica de fútbol o jugando videojuegos, para él, el mejor y más fascinante lugar del mundo es la tienda de VHS de Wenzel, especialmente en la sección de terror. Fascinado por los demonios y monstruos que alcanzan y arrancan las portadas de los videos, Charlie se obsesiona con tener en sus manos una de estas películas. Entonces, cuando un recepcionista sin escrúpulos le ofrece un trato, un trato que le permitirá llevarse una de estas terribles golosinas a casa, aprovecha la oportunidad. Sin saber qué podría llevarse a casa junto con la cinta. Peliculas de Miedo es una historia de adolescencia, amistad y terror que hará que el lector sienta nostalgia por esas películas de terror en VHS pero tenga miedo de volver a ver una.
Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story
by Tonya Hegamin Marilyn NelsonAs fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, New York, home for small-town Connecticut, a black history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a mulatto girl who was once a slave in her house.
Pemberley Shades
by Dorothea Bonavia-HuntOriginally published in 1949, the unusual plot takes the Darcys into the realm of the Gothic. Mr. Darcy must appoint a new rector at Pemberley, which affords the author the opportunity to introduce a host of new characters to mingle with the beloved and familiar ones of Jane Austen.A delightfully witty plot, full of surprises:"Who could have foretold that Dr. Robinson, who had done nothing of note in all his lifetime should, by the common and natural act of dying, set in motion a train of events so strange, so startling, so far removed from probability as to emulate the riotous fancies of a disordered mind?""The kind of story Jane Austen would have delighted to tell."-J. Donald AdamsWhat readers are saying:"Really a great book and captures Austen's characters quite well. I was excessively diverted.""A very original plot.""A wonderful addition to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice sequels!"
Penance
by Rick R. ReedBound by misery. Marked by sin. Set free by death.Barely into their teens, without homes, they dwell in neon shadows, the violent eddies of urban America. They trade their innocence for money, abuse their hopes, and then a monster comes ...A monster without fangs or claws, but more deadly. Because of them, he has lost everything: his wife, his family. And he vows to clean the streets of Chicago ... for good.One of the street kids and a man of the cloth form a desperate pact. Together, they will find the madman whose basement has become a chamber of horrors ...
El péndulo de Foucault
by Umberto EcoEn un primer momento dicha relación se mantiene estrictamente profesional, pero poco apoco van estrechándose los lazos. Editores y autores inventan juntos, por puro juego, un complejo «plan», urdido supuestamente por los templarios siete siglos atrás. Pero alguien toma demasiado en serio el juego, y todos ellos se verán inmersos en una inquietante pesadilla.
The Penguin Book of Dragons
by Edited by Scott G. BruceTwo thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of ThronesA Penguin ClassicThe most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils, and as avatars of the Antichrist, servants of Satan, couriers of the damned to Hell, portents of disaster, and harbingers of the last days. Here are accounts spanning millennia and continents of these monsters that mark the boundary between the known and the unknown, including: their origins in the deserts of Africa; their struggles with their mortal enemies, elephants, in the jungles of South Asia; their fear of lightning; the world&’s first dragon slayer, in an ancient collection of Sanskrit hymns; the colossal sea monster Leviathan; the seven-headed &“great red dragon&” of the Book of Revelation; the Loch Ness monster; the dragon in Beowulf, who inspired Smaug in Tolkien&’s The Hobbit; the dragons in the prophecies of the wizard Merlin; a dragon saved from a centipede in Japan who gifts his human savior a magical bag of rice; the supernatural feathered serpent of ancient Mesoamerica; and a flatulent dragon the size of the Trojan Horse. From the dark halls of the Lonely Mountain to the blue skies of Westeros, we expect dragons to be gigantic, reptilian predators with massive, bat-like wings, who wreak havoc defending the gold they have hoarded in the deep places of the earth. But dragons are full of surprises, as is this book.For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
by Michael NewtonThis terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernaturalPhantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret.Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology.Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
The Penguin Book Of Vampire Stories
by Alan RyanThey're lurking under the cover of darkness … and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Careful—they are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.
Pennies From Across the Veil
by Dennis HigginsPennies From Across the Veil is a love story... about death. Karl Himmel tells the story to an unknown presence, of how he met, fell in love, and married the woman of his dreams, Jenny Engels. But at the time of the telling, Karl and Jenny find themselves on different sides of the veil—the separation we call death. But not even death can stop true love. Powerful signs come to those from loved ones who have passed. They can be found any and everywhere, we just need to look for them. The most significant for Karl and Jenny was the finding of numerous wheat-back pennies. However, could there have been many others, and did these signs have a deeper meaning?
Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde Bram Stoker Mary ShelleyBlood, gore, murder, and sin--Victorian literature’s darkest horrors await you. The penny dreadfuls were cheap nineteenth-century English stories that featured gothic, lurid, disturbing, and tantalizing content. These horror serials cost a penny per issue, hence their name: penny dreadfuls. The penny dreadfuls often paid homage to--and even inspired--many of the more famous narratives of the horror genre. This book pairs three obscure yet influential penny dreadfuls with three of the most notorious literary giants of the nineteenth century: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray, all in one authentic collection of the best Victorian gothic horror ever written. Originally published at a time when dramatic scientific discoveries sparked a cultural fixation on the paranormal, these stories remain timeless in their uncanny ability to prey upon our primal fear of that which is strange, violent, and unknown. This book contains a total of six haunting tales: * Dracula by Bram Stoker * Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker (Dracula’s original first chapter, not published until after Stoker’s death) * Frankenstein by Mary Shelley * Wagner the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. Reynolds * The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde * Varney the Vampire by Thomas Preskett Prest Curl up with The Penny Dreadfuls on a dark, moonless night and rediscover these chilling classics.
Penpal
by Dathan AuerbachIn an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable horror that he never could have expected. Each chapter completes a different piece of the puzzle for both you and the narrator, and by the end of it all, you will wish that you could forget what he never knew.
The Penrose Treasure (The Cornish Sagas)
by Janet TannerAfter her mother is almost murdered, a young woman takes a job at a Cornish manor riddled with secrets in this gripping gothic saga. When Tamsin Hardy returns home from her post as a lady&’s maid to attend her beloved mother&’s sickbed, her childhood playmate Isobel Penrose offers her a post as her companion at Trevarrah House. Tamsin reluctantly accepts, but she feels instinctively uneasy about Trevarrah House despite her growing attraction to Isobel&’s brother Adam, recently returned from the war in America. There is a bitter rivalry between Adam and his brother Nicholas, and Tamsin increasingly fears for her growing involvement with the Penrose family . . . Perfect for fans of Linda Finlay and Gloria Cook.Praise for The Penrose Treasure&“A lost treasure, a little romance, an old murder, and a surprise villain: once again Tanner, in the tradition of Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt, conjures up an excellent gothic you can&’t put down until the last villain is revealed.&” —Booklist
People Live Still in Cashtown Corners
by Tony BurgessA small town Ontario gas station owner finds himself on a killing spree in a “disturbing read” where “nothing . . . is as simple [as] it seems” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). Bob Clark owns the Self Serve in Cashtown Corners. It’s the only business in town. And Bob is the only resident. Truth be told, he’s never been comfortable around other people. But then something very strange happens. He starts to kill them. And murder, Bob soon discovers, is magic. Told from the idiosyncratic perspective of its protagonist, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners is Bob’s account of a tragedy that would appear to be senseless. But as his body count rises, subtle clues—including a true crime-esque photo insert—begin to paint a picture even more disturbing than the one Bob so bluntly describes.
People of the Lake
by Nick ScorzaAn enthralling, historically rich, small-town mystery in which a teen works with her deceased sister to solve an assumed murder. Sixteen-year-old Clara Morris is facing an awkward summer with her father in the tiny upstate town of Redmarch Lake. Clara’s relationship with her parents—and with life in general—has been strained since she lost her twin sister, Zoe, when the girls were eight. As a child, her sister had been her whole world—they even shared a secret invented twin language. Clara has managed to rebuild herself as best she can, but she still feels a hole in her life from the absence of her twin, and she suspects she always will. She soon finds that Redmarch Lake, where her father’s family has lived for generations, is a very unusual place. The townspeople live by odd rules and superstitions. The eerily calm lake the town is named for both fascinates and repels her. The town’s young people are just as odd and unfriendly as their parents. Clara manages to befriend the one boy willing to talk to an outsider, but he disappears during a party in the woods. The next day, he is found dead in the lake under mysterious circumstances. The townspeople all treat this as a tragic accident. Clara isn’t buying it, but she doesn’t know what to do until she receives a mysterious note hinting at murder—a note written in the language she shared with her twin sister, Zoe.
The People On Privilege Hill
by Jane GardamIt is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, OLD FILTH, will be delighted to encounter Filth, now almost ninety, making his immaculate way to Privilege Hill, named perhaps for the Prive-Lieges who arrived with the Normans, but more probably for the village privies. Ranging from a Victorian mansion converted into a home for unmarried mothers to a wartime hospital in the middle of the Blitz, from ghost stories to brilliant observations of love and loneliness in their various manifestations - including, in 'Pangbourne', a woman who falls in love with a gorilla - to reflections on the haphazard nature of intellect and memories in 'The Last Reunion', the stories in this collection mix Jane Gardam's trademark sardonic wit with a delicate tenderness and a touch of the surreal.
The People On Privilege Hill
by Jane GardamIt is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, OLD FILTH, will be delighted to encounter Filth, now almost ninety, making his immaculate way to Privilege Hill, named perhaps for the Prive-Lieges who arrived with the Normans, but more probably for the village privies. Ranging from a Victorian mansion converted into a home for unmarried mothers to a wartime hospital in the middle of the Blitz, from ghost stories to brilliant observations of love and loneliness in their various manifestations - including, in 'Pangbourne', a woman who falls in love with a gorilla - to reflections on the haphazard nature of intellect and memories in 'The Last Reunion', the stories in this collection mix Jane Gardam's trademark sardonic wit with a delicate tenderness and a touch of the surreal.
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising: A Novel
by Raymond A. VillarealIn this ambitious and wildly original debut--part social-political satire, part international mystery--a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only to also vanish. Soon, the U.S. government--and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church--must come to terms with what they're too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world. With heightened strength and beauty and a stead diet of fresh blood, these changed people, or "Gloamings," rapidly rise to prominence in all aspects of modern society. Soon people are beginning to be "re-created," willingly accepting the risk of death if their bodies can't handle the transformation. As new communities of Gloamings arise, society is divided, and popular Gloaming sites come under threat from a secret terrorist organization. But when a charismatic and wealthy businessman, recently turned, runs for political office--well, all hell breaks loose. Told from the perspective of key players, including a cynical FBI agent, an audacious campaign manager, and a war veteran turned nurse turned secret operative, A People's History of the Vampire Uprising is an exhilarating, genre-bending debut that is as addictive as the power it describes.
The People's Police: A Novel
by Norman SpinradNorman Spinrad, a National Book Award finalist for his short fiction collection The Star-Spangled Future, has now written The People's Police, a sharp commentary on politics with a contemporary, speculative twist. Martin Luther Martin is a hard-working New Orleans cop, who has come up from the gangland of Alligator Swamp through hard work. When he has to serve his own eviction notice, he decides he's had enough and agrees to spearhead a police strike.Brothel owner and entrepreneur J. B. Lafitte also finds himself in a tight spot when his whorehouse in the Garden District goes into foreclosure. Those same Fat Cats responsible for the real estate collapse after Katrina didn't differentiate between social strata or vocation.MaryLou Boudreau, aka Mama Legba, is a television star and voodoo queen—with a difference. The loa really do ride and speak through her.These three, disparate people are pulled together by a single moment in the television studio when Martin, hoping for publicity and support from the people against the banks, corporate fat cats, and corrupt politicians. But no one expects Papa Legba himself to answer, and his question changes everything."What do you offer?"At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The People's Will: (The Danilov Quintet 4) (The Danilov Quintet #4)
by Jasper KentThe next moment he was upon him, his eyes blazing, his mouth open to reveal his fangs. Osokin began to pray, not that he would live but that he would truly die . . .Turkmenistan 1881: the fortress city of Geok Tepe has fallen to the Russians. Beneath its citadel sits a prisoner. He hasn’t moved from his chair for two years. Neither has he felt the sun on his face for more than fifty . . . although for that he is grateful.Into this subterranean gaol marches a Russian officer. He has come for the captive. Not to release him, but to return him to St Petersburg – to deliver him into the hands of an old, old enemy who would visit damnation upon the ruling family of Russia: the great vampire Zmyeevich. But there is another who has escaped Geok Tepe and followed the prisoner. He is not concerned with the fate of the tsar, or Zmyeevich or the officer. All he desires is revenge.And other forces have a part to play. A group of revolutionaries has vowed to bring the dictatorship of Tsar Aleksandr to an end, and with it the entire Romanov dynasty. They call themselves The People’s Will . . .
Peppa Pig: La lección de ballet (Peppa Pig Ser.)
by Elizabeth SchaeferA ballet-themed 8x8 storybook featuring Peppa -- a lovable, slightly bossy little piggy!The Spanish edition of Peppa Pig: Ballet Lesson! Peppa Pig goes to her very first ballet lesson where she learns a graceful dance routine. But when Peppa decides to teach Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig how to dance, too, she finds out they might just have some dance moves of their own!La cerdita Peppa asiste a su primera clase de ballet, donde aprende elegantes pasos. Pero cuando intenta enseñárselos a su mamá y a su papá, ¡descubrirá que ellos ya tienen su propio estilo de baile!
El Pequeño Cuarto Oscuro del Alma
by Adriana Rojas Matthew PallamaryNo puede haber luz sin oscuridad. El sol no puede levantarse sin la noche que le precede, y el sol poniente del día debe inevitablemente desvanecerse en oscuridad. Si la vida todo fuera rayos de sol y rosas, no habría contraste. La luz perpetua seria ambos cegadora y devastadora. Necesitamos la oscuridad. Es una parte integral del todo. Parte de nosotros. Las historias de terror son un reflejo de nuestro lado oscuro. En una era de verdaderos terrores como el SIDA, cáncer, y terrorismo, las historias que nos asustan pueden desarrollar una función útil dejándonos a los lectores vivir y experimentar el miedo en una moda controlada y lidiar con horrores en sus propios términos. Si llega a ser demasiado, siempre pueden cerrar el libro y ponerlo aparte. Experimentar el horro de esta manera funciona como una liberación de ansiedad porque es una forma tangible de lidiar con el escape de terrores en la vida moderna. La emoción de horror nos mantiene en contacto con los aspectos más oscuros de nuestro ser mientras nos permite confrontar nuestra vulnerabilidad y muerte inevitable. Leer horror es una válvula que nos permite desfogar para escapar cuando el muro es demasiado grande, aun la funcionalidad de esto nos da un escape de una confrontación que podría sobre abrumarnos. Provee una liberación catártica sin oprimiéndonos con no más de lo que podemos soportar. Demasiado seguido rehuimos nuestro lado oscuro, en la esperanza de que si no lo vemos, no existe. Aun nos da un Ed Gein, Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy, Hannibal Lecter, Jeffrey Dahmer, a cualquier otro ejemplo macabro del lado oscuro de naturaleza humana, y expresamos una mórbida fascinación que es el borde del frenesí. No podemos evitar más que desacelerar en la autopista a papar moscas en la carnicería de la prematura, desordenada muerte de otro o espiar ele culpable vistazo de la deformidad o des fortuna de otro. Solo tenemos que mirar.
Pequeños robots malvados
by Damien LoveMagia, robots y peligro... ¿qué puede salir mal? Un día de invierno, Alex recibe un misterioso regalo de su abuelo: un pequeño robot con una nota que dice "este es especial". Extraños sucesos comienzan a tener lugar, y Alex sospecha que su nuevo robot, más que especial, puede ser... ¿mortal? Damien Love vive en la ciudad de Glasgow, donde probablemente llueva mientras lees estas palabras. Ha trabajado como periodista durante muchos años, escribiendo sobre películas, música, televisión y otras cosas para una variedad de publicaciones, entre las cuales destacan The Sunday Herald, The Guardian y The Scotsman. Tiene la capacidad de hablar con los gatos, pero no hay evidencia de que lo entiendan. Pequeños robots malvados es su primera novela, un fascinante despliegue de imaginación y acción que te tendrá pegado a sus páginas.
Pequeños Tormentos
by Andrew Lennon Alfonso ColmenaresDiez historias cortas escalofriantes La malevolencia es la sombra oculta en los más traumatizados cerebros. La estrechez de un nudo sólido que empuja el último aliento de un ahorcado condenado. Una palabra usada para describir el lado más oscuro, sórdido de la sociedad. El sonido escalofriante de la risa maníaca de un extraño espeluznante. De Andrew Lennon viene Pequeños Tormentos. Con un prólogo del futuro de horror, Michael Bray, esta colección de diez cuentos se adentra en el lado más oscuro de la sociedad. Con cuatro cuentos inéditos, entre ellos devorador, Asesino y Lágrimas de un payaso, las palabras dentro te provocaran pesadillas. ¿Entonces que tenemos? Un marido que vislumbra su futuro siniestro; un hombre atormentado por las pesadillas vívidas; maníacos homicidas; criaturas de las profundidades del océano, y un niño acosado que se defiende. También nos trae al auditor en el borde de la locura; una joven acosada por la muerte de su mejor amiga; un cirujano en una misión con sangre vengativa; una historia de los no-muertos, y un payaso vengativo. ¿Suena familiar? Deben, después todas estas personas podrían ser su vecino, su amigo, su madre, la maestra de su hijo, su repartidor, su ginecólogo, o incluso usted - apenas debe darle tiempo al tiempo... Pequeños Tormentos - la duración es corta pero la memoria vivirá por mucho tiempo.