Ergebnis für "Billie" in Horror

Rebaa's adopted tribe lies slaughtered behind her. Rebaa's lover, Juran, lays down his life for hers, and now she must use all of her cunning and extraordinary powers to survive the inhospitable wilderness alone, ensuring that Juran's sacrifice was not in vain.

From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous? Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question. These all-new stories range from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from familiar monsters to the unknown . . . and unimaginable.

Betrayed by those she trusted, penniless and alone, Darcie Finch is forced to accept a position no one else dares as assistant to dangerously attractive Dr. Damien Cole. Ignoring the whispered warnings and rumors he's a man to fear, she takes her position at his eerie estate, where she quickly discovers nothing is at it seems, least of all her handsome and brooding employer. As Darcie struggles with her fierce attraction to Damien, she must also deal with the blood, the disappearances...and the murders.

They meet as children. They grow up together. It’s only after one fatefully misheard conversation that Heathcliff leaves, believing his love for Catherine isn’t reciprocated. When he returns, he is a wealthy and polished man but things have now changed–drastically–and Heathcliff starts to exact terrible revenge on those who wronged him…

Grace had accepted that dabbling in the occult, traveling back in time, and banishing the spirit of a serial killer had more than likely led to her death. What she hadn't anticipated was what she would bring back with her when she returned to the world of the living. Armed with a battered soul, her fondness for sarcasm, and enough mental instability to keep a psychiatrist busy for a decade, Grace must navigate her new life with Beau and try to harness the supernatural abilities that death had gifted to her.

Grace didn’t believe in ghosts or demons, she thought magic was something that only lived in the pages of fairy tales. How very wrong she was. Hidden away most of his life, Beau had successfully managed to mask his gift from the world. Having the ability to commune with the dead wasn’t exactly the best conversation starter, and that was okay, he didn’t much like people anyway, until he walked back into Gallows Wood and into Grace’s life.

Saul Peterson is having nightmares: fleeting memories of watchful eyes, impossible dreams of being taken while he sleeps, visions of a catastrophic end, and a society on the verge of revolution. Saul Peterson will stop at nothing to reveal the truth, but that truth may come at the greatest price of them all.

Fourteen brand-new 2013 tales of dread ranging from horror to dark science fiction and noir, Sinister will keep you awake at night. Two hundred and forty-four pages of aliens who come from the sky, a detective working his last case, a skull flenser who loves his job, and various evils and dark chills creep through this new collection from the Edgar and Stoker nominated author, Billie Sue Mosiman.

Angie moved with her father from St. Louis to the deep south town of Moon Lake, Mississippi. The lake was huge and peaceful, but the high school wasn't very friendly and Tyeson Dompier thought he owned the lake and everyone who lived around it. He wanted Angie for himself the way he'd had every girl he wanted, but his cruelty ruined everything.

Women write horror and have written it since before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. This anthology highlights the fact that women write great horror and kills the fallacy that they aren't in some way up to standard. They are. Hear stories by Elizabeth Massie, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Lucy Taylor, and a plethora of other great writers as they work on your nerves, get inside your head, and bang out some of the scariest tales written today. Lock the door and windows, put on a light, and remember, it's not real.

“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow....” In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the...

Della Cambian was a senior in high school when she was struck by the family curse; vampirism. With the aid of the ancient known as Mentor, and harried by an aging millionaire with dreams of immortality, Del must find a way to prevent an evil that could endanger every natural vampire on Earth. And what kind of vampire should she be? Does she have the innate violence to be a Predator? Does the future hold nothing but fear and loathing?

“No one mixes romance, mystery, and that faint, spine-tingling sense of the supernatural, that curtain lifting in a breeze that isn't there, the hair prickling on the back of your neck, like Simone St. James. Her novels are the perfect combination of classic ghost story, historical fiction...

After a nearly three-year long hiatus, Billie Dean Shoemate III, author of 10 novels and over 100 short stories, returns with a disturbing trip into seemingly familiar territory. A classic subject is redefined here by the celebrated independent author. A twisted take on the living dead unfolds within this audiobook, told by a master of the art. This unrelenting tale is about a man who has just unlocked the final frontiers of medical science.

Mark Thompson fears that life will never change. In an instant, the familiar world he knows will become his greatest nightmare. Volunteering for a top secret government experiment, he gets the chance at a new life, away from the desires that have destroyed his body and his mind. Fragmented memories haunt him. Visions and dreams seem to lead him to a place where the answers hide....beckoning him to a place of no return.

A young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost in this gripping novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave...

Steven Grimes is suffering from writer's block. Once an avid writer, he is plagued by an inescapable force that seems to be controlling his mind. After a strange encounter with a man known only as Heflin, Steven is thrust into a world he does not understand. It is a world driven by a faceless evil that has awakened within an ancient festival called Samhain. It wants him to write his greatest masterpiece, a book that can either save humankind from inevitable doom or plunge it into eternal darkness.

In the novel that Billie Dean Shoemate III calls his personal best, he brings you the story of Nick Stanley, a special child who believes he has touched the other side...communing with an ancient Native American spirit. As Nick grows up, he comes to a profound realization. The spirit that visited him as a child left something in him...a mark on his soul. It follows him through life, beckoning his heart into a journey that will redefine the world.

Matthew Herrington has just built a getaway for his friends...friends bonded together by a terrible secret. Lot 150 was supposed to be a place of relaxation, a place to forget about the strange past they all share, but it quickly turns into a place worse than hell itself. Billie Dean Shoemate III offers his greatest novel to date...with a story he cites as the most terrifying one he has ever written.

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. 1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her...