Charles Grant Libri

L'antologia di racconti è curata da Robert Bloch, autore del romanzo da cui venne tratto il famoso film di Hitchcock "Psycho". Come in tutti i racconti dell'orrore o nei gialli, sarebbe colpevole raccontare qualcosa della trama, l'unica sicurezza è che si tratta di storie mozzafiato, e che l'unico che non corre alcun pericolo è il lettore.

Opening the X-Files... Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. The cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X." Something out there is killing people, remaining invisible and unseen by human eyes until it strikes with deadly force...

Pestilenze, inondazioni, guerre, tumulto sociale, crimine legato alla droga, leader malvagi, cospirazioni, corruzione e persino visioni di alieni letali: questa straordinaria raccolta di racconti intraprende un'indimenticabile viaggio immaginativo nel terrore e nella trascendenza. Ogni decennio del ventesimo secolo è assegnato a uno dei principali autori di fantasy/horror dell'epoca moderna, che evoca la particolare follia di quel decennio contribuendo a una profezia per il secolo successivo. Decennio dopo decennio, mentre ci si avvicina al millennio, in questi potenti e agghiaccianti racconti, la tensione cresce verso una rivelazione drammatica che è sia un avvertimento profetico che una risposta visionaria per tutta l'umanità. Un evento editoriale singolare, "Revelations" è un'antologia-novela straordinaria di superstar moderne del fantasy e dell'horror.

Black Oak Investigations is a firm that handles office fraud, missing persons, and a variety of white collar crime. But Black Oak also investigates situations that are not so quite the norm as owner Ethan Proctor discovers when one of his operatives turns up dead in a town cowering in fear from something roaming the hills, leaving dead bodies in its wake....

Soon after a small-town preacher discovers that he has the power to heal, he realizes that he will have to use his gift to counter the effects of a possible demon who drives into town, marking the beginning of the Apocalypse. Reprint.

Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling.There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were the victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain and most hideous death.... Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X."

<p>The Mammoth Book of New Terror is a revised and expanded new edition of the touchstone collection of modern horror fiction, selected by the acknowledged master of the genre—the award-winning godfather of grisly literature, Stephen Jones. Here are over 20 stories and short novels by the masters of gore, including Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Tanith Lee and John Kaine. This classic Mammoth title features new and previously uncollected stories from some of the biggest and brightest names on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as classics from acknowledged masters. The contents include: Fruiting Bodies by Brian Lumley Needle Song by Charles L. Grant Turbo-Satan by Christopher Fowler Talking In The Dark by Dennis Etchison The Circus by Sydney J. Bounds Foet by F. Paul Wilson The Candle In The Skull by Basil Copper The Chimney by Ramsey Campbell Dark Wings by Phyllis Eisenstein Reflection Of Evil by Graham Masterton Mirror Of The Night by E.C. Tubb Maypole by Brian Mooney Under The Crust by Terry Lamsley Tir Nan Og by Lisa Tuttle A Living Legend by R. Chetwynd-Hayes Wake-Up Call by David J. Schow The Fourth Seal by Karl Edward Wagner Unlocked by Tanith Lee &amp; John Kaiine Closing Time by Neil Gaiman It Was The Heat by Pat Cadigan Fodder by Tim Lebbon &amp; Brian Keene Open Doors by Michael Marshall Smith Andromeda Among The Stones by Caitlín R. Kiernan Flowers On Their Bridles, Hooves In The Air by Glen Hirshberg Amerikanski Dead At The Moscow Morgue Or: Children Of Marx And Coca–Cola by Kim Newman Among The Wolves by David Case</p>

A maverick FBI agent and the female agent assigned to keep him in line are given the eeriest unsolved cases that must be handled quickly and secretly so the public will not panic--those filed under "X". Original. TV Tie-In.

Inhalt: Nona -- Stephen King In darkness, angels -- Eric Van Lustbader The Sunshine club -- Ramsey Campbell The Typewriter -- David Morrell The Conqueror worm -- Stephen R. Donaldson Something nasty -- William F. Nolan Canavan's back yard -- Joseph Payne Brennan Death to the Easter Bunny -- Alan Ryan The Rubber Room -- Robert Bloch Petey -- T.E.D. Klein Out of sorts -- Bernard Taylor Down among the dean men -- Gardner Dozois &amp; Jack Dann The Crazy Chinaman -- John Coyne Gravid Babies -- Michael Bishop The Chair -- Dennis Etchison Nunc Dimittis -- Tanith Lee Derelicts -- Steve Rasnic Tem The Arrows -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Talent -- Theodore Sturgeon Aim for the heart -- Craig Shaw Gardner

Als der Labor Day naht, sind vier Bewohner einer Stadt an der Küste von New Jersey mit bevorstehenden Veränderungen in ihrem Leben beschäftigt, sowie mit Fragen zum Tod ihrer gemeinsamen Freundin, Julie Etler, die in einem Feuer in einem Gruselkabinett auf einem Vergnügungspier ums Leben kam. Die Fragen häufen sich, als ein Freund, Devin Graham, eine Nachricht auf seinem Anrufbeantworter von Julie erhält und ein anderer sie am Strand sieht. Weitere unerklärliche Unfälle und Todesfälle zwingen Devin, das verbrannte Gruselkabinett zu erkunden.

A terrifyingly believable thriller of biotechnology out of control. When a supertanker crashes off San Francisco, producing the largest oil spill in history, attempts to avert an ecological disaster result in the release of a virus that destroys anything made of petroleum--including everything made of plastic.

Sériový vrahovia môžu mať všakovaké chúťky aj podoby. Tento je obzvlášť nevyspytateľný. Zohavené telá, ktoré sa zjavujú v exotickom prostredí púšte Nového Mexika, nespája navonok nijaká súvislosť. Navzdory existencii rozličných siekt či indiánskeho kmeňa v oblasti nič nenasvedčuje, že ide o násilenstvo alebo rituál. Všetky obete spája navonok iba jedno - zahynuli nevysvetliteľným spôsobom, prežívajúc v posledných okamihoch života neľudské utrpenie... Preto dvaja obľúbení agenti FBI, ktorí zasiahnu do života obyvateľov novomexického mestečka, usadlíkov na rančoch a indiánskej rezervácii v horách, opäť balansujú na hranici života a smrti...

Eine alte Fotografie, die der verschwundenen Tochter seines Klienten auf mysteriöse Weise ähnelt, lockt Detektiv Proctor nach England. Die Bewohner des Dorfes Pludbury verhalten sich merkwürdig: Ein Geist, der Seelen verführt, soll in den Wäldern umgehen...

Das Grauen endet nie... Weiterhin auf der Suche nach der Tochter des Millionärs Blaine, gerät Proctor in den abgelegensten Teil von Kansas. Der Ort ist wie ausgestorben, die letzten Bewohner leben in Panik. Seit Monaten verschwinden Menschen - was bleibt, sind Blutlachen und Fetzen von Kleidern. Und nachts ist die Luft erfüllt vom Geräusch riesiger Vogelschwingen...

Eine Sammlung von drei spannenden Geschichten: "Wenn die Dunkelheit kommt" von Dean R. Koontz, "Die Schwingen des Todes" von Charles L. Grant und "Das Gott-Projekt" von John Saul, die zusammen 877 Seiten fesselnde Lektüre bieten.

Агенты ФБР Фокс Малдер и Дана Скалли направлены в небольшой провинциальный городок, расположенный рядом с военной частью. Там таинственным образом было убито несколько человек, а единственная свидетельница утверждает, что их убили... гоблины.