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A mediados del siglo XIX, la fragata Labrador abandona el puerto de Marsella y cruza el Mediterráneo rumbo a las costas de Argelia. Son los primeros años de la colonización francesa, y centenares de familias han decidido dejarlo todo atras y probar suerte en un territorio tan desconocido como prometedor. Seraphine es una de las muchas madres que han desembarcado en la colonia y, a pesar de las arengas patrioticas y la incesante cantinela optimista de las autoridades, desde su llegada no ha percibido sino una hostilidad como jamas habia presenciado. En paralelo, un soldado frances a las ordenes de un capitan despiadado narra las brutales campañas en las que los militares arrasan pueblos enteros, violan, asesinan y humillan a aquellos a quienes dicen civilizar.Recibida por la sociedad literaria francesa como la novela definitiva sobre la colonizacion de Argelia y reconocida con importantes premios en su pais, Asaltar la tierra y el sol es una obra de belleza tragica. Alternando las voces de sus dos protagonistas, con una prosa al mismo tiempo lirica e incisiva, Mathieu Belezi nos arroja a las tinieblas de la historia y nos sacude con lo mas atroz de nuestro pasado, y lo hace sin caer en maniqueismos, consciente de que cuando la miseria, la enfermedad y el horror se adueñan de nuestros instintos, la razon desaparece y la civilizacion se convierte en barbarie.

México, 1994. El Candidato Oficial a la presidencia es asesinado durante un mitin en Tijuana. La hegemonía de su partido se tambalea y el país vive momentos de tensión. Mientras la prensa sostiene la hipotesis del asesino solitario y las teorias de conspiracion alteran los animos sociales, otro desconocido mata al Secretario General del partido en el poder. Lo que nadie sabe es que ambos magnicidas fueron visitados, en sus sueños, por una mujer llamada Scheva, quien les encomendo la mision apocaliptica de acabar con los tiranos.Moctezuma un periodista de lo insolito se involucra en las investigaciones de su novia Cristina una reportera de nota politica, y juntos se adentran fatalmente en los sotanos de un culto que se ha conformado con un solo objetivo: concentrar el poder y transmitirlo mediante pactos de sangre.Mezcla de novela negra, terror sobrenatural y thriller politico, El rito del poder reinventa algunas figuras de la historia mexicana y de la cultura popular para desarrollar un argumento tan original como perturbador: los vinculos de la elite politica con la brujeria, el espiritismo, la santeria y el satanismo.

Alberto Chimal nos sorprende con un thriller escalofriante y original donde el horror sobrenatural se confunde con la violencia de una época marcada por las prohibiciones y la manipulación ideológica.Mexico, 1972. Los años del miedo y la represion hacia los estudiantes todavia no se acaban. Gabriela es una joven que llego recientemente a la UNAM para cursar la carrera de contaduria, aunque termina dedicando su tiempo al grupo de teatro experimental de la universidad dirigido por Teodoro, joven promesa de la escena artistica.Tan pronto se integra a los ensayos, se entera de la desaparicion de una de las antiguas actrices, quien aparentemente fue vista por ultima vez el dia de la matanza estudiantil del Jueves de Corpus.Al principio todo parece ir bien, pero el grupo de teatro protege mas de un secreto y una serie de perturbadoras pesadillas comienzan a atormentar a Gabriela, obligandola a encarar un horror inexplicable, aparentemente ligado al brillante director, a sus nuevos amigos y a una fuerza oculta, persistente, que los rodea a todos.

El autor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ocupa un lugar relevante en el panteón de los escritores más admirados, imitados y estudiados de la literatura universal. Considerado por muchos como un precursor del cuento corto y de terror como genero literario, Edgar Allan Poe escribio tambien poesia, ensayos y critica literaria. Fascinado con lo macabro y con un especial talento para ello, Poe tambien exploro diversos temas y tonos en su obra, con relatos detectivescos, humoristicos, historicos y hasta cronicas periodisticas. Su obra ha inspirado innumerables homenajes e influenciado el estilo de autores como H. P. Lovecraft y Arthur Conan Doyle.Con una vida marcada por la tragedia Poe logro dejar una huella indeleble en la historia literaria de su pais y del mundo, como un maestro de la naturaleza humana y de todos sus matices. El presente volumen contiene mas de sesenta cuentos, reuniendo todos los relatos publicados durante su vida.

El escritor norteamericano Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), mejor conocido como H. P. Lovecraft, es uno de los autores más admirados del género de terror y de misterio en el siempre expansivo panorama de la literatura universal.Practicamente desconocido durante su corta vida, el autor alcanzo la fama de manera postuma por la incansable labor de sus colaboradores y editores. Estos consideraron que sus terrorificas creaciones y retorcidas historias debian ser leidas y apreciadas por un publico mas amplio, logrando convertirse con el tiempo en un referente de la literatura de terror y en la inspiracion de innumerables autores.El "terror cosmico", mitologias complejas y expansivas, la exploracion de las profundidades del horror humano y el miedo a lo desconocido e incomprensible serian el sello de la mayoria de sus relatos y novelas cortas, todas ellas recopiladas en este volumen.La presente edicion no incluye los relatos escritos junto a otros autores o aquellos que fueron terminados por otros escritores despues de la muerte de Lovecraft.

Una terrorífica y sorprendente antología de relatos fantásticos firmados por los más destacados autores del siglo XIX francés. Fantasmas, vampiros, espíritus, diablos, amantes que resucitan, objetos con vida propia... El mundo de lo fantastico responde a las angustias y miedos del ser humano; por medio del sueño o la pesadilla, el lector accede a las emociones que provoca la intervencion de lo extraño en una realidad por lo general plana y rutinaria.Exquisitamente traducida y prologada por Mauro Armiño, esta seleccion abarca relatos que, durante el siglo XIX frances, empiezan asumiendo la herencia de la novela gotica y siguen luego la evolucion historica, para rechazar, por medio de la imaginacion, el conformismo hipocrita de la sociedad propuesta por la Revolucion Industrial. De Jacques Cazotte, que a finales del XVIII ya intuia presencias sobrenaturales, a Jean Lorrain y los autores de la Belle Epoque, la nomina de escritores que abordaron lo fantastico incluye a los mas grandes nombres del periodo Nodier, Balzac, Gautier, Borel, Merimee, Flaubert, Nerval, Verne o Schwob, que testimonian como la fantasia creo un espacio de primera magnitud, dando asi lugar a un nuevo genero literario que aun en nuestros dias sigue desarrollandose vigorosamente.Jacques Cazotte, Charles Nodier, Honore de Balzac, Theophile Gautier, Philarete Chasles, Petrus Borel, Prosper Merimee, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Gerard de Nerval, Leon Daudet, Villiers de lIsle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Jules Verne, Edouard Dujardin, Jules Lermina, Marcel Schwob, Henri de Regnier, Jean Lorrain y Jean Richepin.

Azriel es un espíritu enamorado del bien y esclavizado por el mal, que nos abre su corazón para relatarnos su asombrosa historia. Tras siglos de sueño profundo, despierta en la ciudad de Nueva York en nuestros dias para presenciar el crimen de una joven llamada Esther e inexplicablemente siente la obsesion de vengarla.El relato se remonta a su juventud mortal en la magnifica ciudad de Babilonia, cuando era un judio culto, rico y bello, plenamente dedicado a su tribu hebrea en cautiverio y al culto de los profetas.Entonces, victima de un complot palaciego, Azriel es sacrificado al dios Marduk y arrebatada el alma de su cuerpo por sacerdotes y hechiceros que detentan su voluntad al servicio del mal.Genio inmortal, Azriel se enfrenta en el siglo XX a un hombre ambicioso, el televangelista y terrorista Gregory Belkin, que encarna las fuerzas del mal que siempre combatiera durante su existencia peregrina, y al mismo tiempo se le presenta la anhelada oportunidad de redimir su alma.

The nightmarish second installment of a new trilogy of provocative, disruptive and brutally poetic queer horror set in a small New England town.From the Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, an intense, claustrophobic literary horror that is perfect for fans of Agustina Bazterrica, Mariana Enriquez and Paul Tremblay.Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood find themselves trapped in End House and suffering unbearable monotony day in and day out. When a town courier named Pierce arrives at End House and introduces Rupert to a secret organization known as The Perdido Society, Rupert discovers a deeply intricate and intensely sinister web of secrets spreading through the town. It isnt long before more blood is spilled, shameful transgressions are revealed, and temptations are finally satisfied.Captivating and profoundly unnerving, this is the story of two lost souls who are sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity only for them to discover that its quite easy to turn monstrous, to become the thing you once despised. Lyrical, nihilistic and brutally poetic, this is shocking, unflinching, must-read horror from an author at the top of his game.The nightmarish second installment of a new trilogy of provocative, disruptive and brutally poetic queer horror set in a small New England town.From the Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, an intense, claustrophobic literary horror that is perfect for fans of Agustina Bazterrica, Mariana Enriquez and Paul Tremblay.Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood find themselves trapped in End House and suffering unbearable monotony day in and day out. When a town courier named Pierce arrives at End House and introduces Rupert to a secret organization known as The Perdido Society, Rupert discovers a deeply intricate and intensely sinister web of secrets spreading through the town. It isnt long before more blood is spilled, shameful transgressions are revealed, and temptations are finally satisfied.Captivating and profoundly unnerving, this is the story of two lost souls who are sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity only for them to discover that its quite easy to turn monstrous, to become the thing you once despised. Lyrical, nihilistic and brutally poetic, this is shocking, unflinching, must-read horror from an author at the top of his game.

A sensuous, vivid and unsettling modern gothic tale about a couple who move to the seaside town of Hastings and find themselves living in the former home of a notorious local occultist over whom the shadow of former town resident Aleister Crowley looms large. Ideal for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley or Francine Toon.Exhausted by the pressures of life in London, Justine and Adam move to Hastings. With Adams failed career as an artist and a recent miscarriage causing rifts in their marriage, Justine wants this to be a fresh start for them. As they try to settle into their new seaside home, they find a bolted door in their basement, behind which is a cave. Adam feels a strange but enchanting pull to the cave while apprehension begins to claw at Justine.Inside the cave, they find a witch bottle and with this discovery, the couple begin to uncover disturbing rumours about the homes previous owner, John Malachy. A sinister figure, Malachy was known for his obsession with chaos magic, and association with Sacred Disease - a band that rose to fame in the 80s that supposedly experimented with blood magic and occult forces and was made a scapegoat in the media due to their association with satanism. Justine and Adam seek answers from James Blackwood, a local occultist and former member of Sacred Disease. He warns them to leave things be and not to tamper with ancient rituals, dark magic and secrets long buried in the past. But John Malachy is long dead and surely everything the media said about him was only superstition?Despite Blackwoods warning, Adam cant resist opening the witch bottle. With this, a sinister chain of events begins to unfold. Justine notices that Adams behaviour changes and the obsession he once had with his art is reignited but begins to veer into something unnatural. Justine herself wakes night after night, haunted by the screams of a young woman that seem to come from the cave beneath the house.When Justine once again finds herself pregnant, and people in the town begin to turn up dead or missing, the lines between truth, reality and the mystical all begin to blur. The ghosts of John Malachy and the one and only Aleister Crowley himself loom large and a dark sacrificial reckoning closes in on both Justine and Adam.

From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act.After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khawa man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last intimate moment with their beloved...for a price.Hallucinatory, fiendish, and destructively beautiful, Wretch transports us to a world where not everything is as it seems, and those we love may be the ones who haunt us most.

In 50,000 acres of remote Scottish mountains and moor sits Dorcha Hall: a former hunting lodge nestling amongst ancient forests, on the shores of the enigmatic Black Loch. At night, lights glow from within, smoke curls from its chimneys, and in the forgiving murk of the gloaming, it looks magical. In daylight, its mouldering plasterwork and failing plumbing present a less romantic reality.Dr Ava Dickens has come to Dorcha to visit her godson, Andrew a young man whose parents sudden death has taken him from a quiet life in academia to owning Loch Dorcha. He and his very new wife are convinced the only way to make the estate work is to run the Hall as a hotel. But Ava is a rigorous scientist, her specialty animal behaviour, and she is by no means certain that the evidence is indicative of a successful outcome.When one of the hotel guests is found dead in his bed, having gulped down poisonous insect repellant rather than the whisky sitting next to it, Avas knowledge of the female Culicoides impunctatus aka the Highland midge leads her to doubt that it was an accident. And worse is to come

Lovecraftian horror meets the wildly inventive mind of Shirley Jackson award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, in this cosmic horror sequel to Crypt of the Moon Spider, perfect for fans of T. KingfisherThere are two halves of Charlie Duchamp. One is a brain in a jar, stranded on Jupiters jungle moon, Io, who just wants to go home. The other is hanging on the wall of Barrowfield Home on Earths own moon, host to the eggs of the Moon Spider and filled with a murderous rage.On Io, deep in the flooded remains of a crashed cathedral ship, lives a giant centipede called The Bishop, who has taken control of the drowned astronauts inside. Both Charlies converge here, stalking each other in the haunted ruins, while a new Moon Spider prepares to hatch.

A stunning, addictive, genre-bending book that will sink its claws into you from the very first page C.J. Cooke1953. Meis gift of speaking to ghosts is one that she has endeavoured to bury while fighting to survive as a refugee in post-war, post-revolution Hong Kong. When former silent film star Holly Zhang invites Mei to the infamous Maidenhair House, the startling summons revives her link to the man who destroyed her life. During six seances over six nights, each night a medium will be asked to leave until only one remains as the recipient of a staggering reward, but the only prize Mei wants is revenge.Years later, that shocking night in the labyrinthine mansion has become an urban legend, dismissed by the police at the time as a collective hallucination. Mei must uncover the truth of what really happened and see if the ghosts she has carried can finally be laid to rest.The Hong Kong Widow is a tour de force: tense, emotional, poetic, and utterly unputdownable Kate Quinn

The much-anticipated follow-up to word-of-mouth bestseller Bored Gay Werewolf - order now to get your copy with glow-in-the-dark ink!________________Brian, Nik and Darby - three friends practiced in fighting supernatural crime (when Brians not committing it as a werewolf once a month) - have been sent to London to try to track down a missing colleague.Prowling around the city, they stumble across a clairvoyancy smuggling ring. Whos kidnapping all the fortune tellers in Soho and why? And is it coincidence, fate or something more sinister that Maeve, a timid trans woman taking time out of her job to track down her birth mother, turns up on the gangs doorstep... and has the uncanny ability to know just whats going to happen next?____________________Readers love Tony Santorella and Bored Gay WerewolfA very compelling and funny novelI absolutely loved this cosy supernatural mysteryFeels like Buffy meets EuphoriaReally engaging charactersHilarious, witty and something different

A darkly comedic, cinematic horror about a revolutionary group who kidnap an heiress, only to discover shes pregnant with the antichrist, and shes about to give birth.From Ned Beauman, the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of The Teleportation Accident and Clarke Award winning author of Venomous Lumpsucker. Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Joe Hill.Underground revolutionary group, The Nail, and their newest member, Luke have kidnapped 23-year-old heiress Adeline Woolsaw, whose wealthy parents run the Woolsaw Group, a vast outsourcing company. They run everything from prisons and hospitals to military bases quietly suffocating the country with the help of powerful friends in government.The Nails plan: to use the kidnapping to draw attention to the Woolsaw Group and their terrible practices. But with Adeline bundled into their van, The Nail discover two things. The first is that shes just about to give birth. And the second is that this isnt a normal baby. In fact, it has devastating supernatural powers. Because the father of this baby wasnt a man, it was something else. Something that her parents make human sacrifices to on an altar in the basement of their Highgate mansion. And all this time the Woolsaw Group has been preparing the ground for the Woolsaws real aim: an infernal new kingdom that will rise with Adelines son sitting on its throne.

THE TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARSo captivating I read it in a day. So disturbing I thought about it all night - Janice Hallett, author of The AppealThe twists of a Golden Age whodunit, mixed with a wonderfully innovative use of illustrations. Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever - G.T. Karber, author of MurdleA Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of creepy drawings, in which the reader is the detective - from the YouTube sensation UketsuA series of drawings made by a young woman before her death.A childs disturbing picture of his home.A desperate sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments.Each contains a chilling warning.Each reveals a terrible secret, hidden in plain sight.Uketsus eerie mysteries have captivated millions of readers. Can you find the clues in these strange pictures and uncover the sinister truth that connects them all?Readers love Strange Pictures:Unlike anything Ive read before... Insanely clever and imaginativeThis unputdownable read delivers a perfectly constructed puzzle that comes together with a fantastic precision... The strange pictures are truly mesmerizing!This was eerie and so, so clever! I was hooked

The ninth exhilarating and original Firefly novel tying into the critically acclaimed and fan-beloved series, from creator Joss Whedon, follows Mal, Book and the rest of the crew mounting a madcap heist to untangle themselves from a sinister web of lies on a backwater moon.Stranded and Broke It all started with the geese. The Firefly crew is eager to get paid for their latest job, but when payment arrives as a gaggle of geese instead of a purse, their stay on the planet Brome gets an indefinite extension. Dont matter that the geese will fetch a pretty penny once they get somewhere to sell them. Without coin, they cant buy fuel, and without fuel, they cant get off-world. Serenity is stuck.A Figure from the Past Luckily the foreman of the local fuel refinery, Lyle Horne, wants to hire them, but not to work in the factory. A philanthropic authority known as The Governess has been kidnapping his workers. Lyles fixing to get them back with the help of Mal and his crew. Only trouble is, Lyles got a mysterious past with Shepherd Book, one the preacher aint too keen to talk about.Plans Go Awry Out of options and out of time, they launch a three-pronged plan: Mal will break into her fortress of an estate to retrieve the workers, Inara and Simon will pose as potential donors to the Governesss charity as a distraction, and Jayne will stay behind to keep an eye on Lyle. But things never do go smooth, and soon the crew finds they have more than a few geese running amuck on Serenity.

"This book crawls into your psyche, peeling back the cosy layers of Halloween nostalgia to reveal its chilling roots in ancient horror." - Haunted magazineHALLOWEEN. The night when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. When ghosts walk and corpses writhe, and innocent souls had best beware.Let acclaimed storyteller Brice Stratford take you on a wild and witchy ride, fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, through the twists and turns of Allhallowstide, and the forgotten history of Halloween and the wider Hallowmas season.With ghost stories, ancestor worship, bone fires, otherworld pixies, Pagan belief and archaic, Christian mythology along the way, Stratford shares for the first time the deeper tales and stranger lore that lurk beneath the tricks and treats we know so well, and the ancient flame that keeps the Jack oLantern lit. Light the candles, lock the doors, and prepare to be unsettled.Are you sitting comfortably? Then lets begin.

The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesnt want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his familys big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, shes certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route.When they arrive at the enormous island mansion, Dez is flooredshes never witnessed how the 1% lives before in all their ridiculous, unnecessary luxury. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn. For decades, the Ruskins have made their servants sign contracts that are basically indentured servitude, and with nothing to lose, the servants have decided their only route to freedom is to get rid of the Ruskins for good

É noite, o ar frio corre a cidade, trazendo uma neblina densa. As ruas estão desertas, e talvez você ouça um som ao longe parecido com um uivo. Seu pensamento logo se distrai quando você ouve algo co