Tems
4) Blood kin
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blood Kin is told from the dual points of view of Michael Gibson and of his grandmother Sadie. Michael has returned to the quiet Appalachian home of his forebears following a suicide attempt and now takes care of his grandmother--old and sickly but with an important story to tell about growing up poor and Melungeon (a mixed race group of mysterious origin) while bedeviled by a snake-handling uncle and empathic powers she but barely understands. In...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's where horrors go the be themselves, and the where the dead pause to rest between worlds. Recently widowed and unemployed, Richard Carter finds a new job, and a new life for him and his daughter Serena, as manager of the mysterious Deadfall Hotel. Jacob Ascher, the caretaker, is there to show Richard the ropes, and to tell him the many rules and traditions, but from the beginning, their new world haunts and transforms them"-- Cover verso.
10) Ubo
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Daniel is trapped in Ubo. He has no idea how long he has been imprisoned there by the roaches. Every resident has a similar memory of the journey to Ubo: a dream of dry, chitinous wings crossing the moon, the gigantic insects dropping swiftly over the houses of the neighborhood, passing through walls and windows as if by magic, or science. The creatures, like a deck of baroquely ornamented cards, fanning themselves from one hidden world into the next....
12) Thanatrauma
Author
Publisher
Valancourt Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty-one stories--four published for the first time--that explore fundamental fears including death, loss, grief, and aging.
14) The Monstrous
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, including Peter Straub, Kim Newman, and Caitlín R. Kiernan, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. These electrifying tales redefine monsters from mere things that go bump in the night to inexplicable, deadly reflections of our day-to-day lives. Whether it's a seemingly devoted teacher, an obsessive devotee of swans, or a diner full of evil creatures simply seeking oblivion,...
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Klaus is an ex-Nazi, a doctor whose war-time post in a concentration camp enabled him to commit the most appalling sex crimes against boys. After the war, living incognito in Spain, he again gives in to his depraved desires, until shame and despair drive him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Now confined to his room and kept alive on an iron lung, he is ministered to by his resentful wife, Griselda, and her daughter, Rena.
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This deliriously affectionate tribute to the master of horror features riveting stories paired with incomparable illustrations of his wicked progeny. Celebrating Lovecraft's most famous beasts in all their grotesque glory, each story is a gripping new take on a classic mythos creature"--provided by publisher.