Ergebnis für "Düster" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

James Colton is back with 20 more tales for your darkest nights. My dad found a secret room hidden in our walls. It had a door that led to another, and another… Every morning, my alarm clock flashes strange symbols. Then the unseen baby cries. My husband’s cheerful whistling echoed from upstairs. Then my phone rang, and his voice came through the receiver.

Twenty unique nightmares await you in this chilling short story collection. Lost in a pitch-black labyrinth, I followed the footsteps of my missing expedition. My wickedest friend committed suicide just to see if he could conquer death. Now, a silent figure in a black veil is following me home. My daughter is having terrible nightmares about her older sister. But my daughter is an only child. Five of us broke into the abandoned Morgan House on Halloween night. We really should have listened to the local legends.

Lock your doors and check the closets. James Colton returns with 20 tales designed to make your blood run cold.The man who sold us the house had one rule: never leave the cobblestone path. My husband didn’t listen.I was looking through our old photo album. In every picture, a shrouded man is...

Keep the lights on tonight. James Colton delivers another 20 tales of creeping dread guaranteed to ruin your sleep. There's a hidden crawlspace behind my toddler's closet. Something in the dark has been building a nest. We thought it was just an unmapped cave. Then an icy hand out of the darkness grabbed my girlfriend. I work security at an abandoned school. The cameras just detected movement in an empty room. My son refuses to enter the parlor. He says one face in the floral wallpaper has a bad smile.

Ein Kind verschwindet spurlos und der einzige Zeuge schweigt für immer. Wie sieht die Rache einer hinterbliebenen Mutter aus? Und wie der "Berufsalltag" eines Auftragsmörders? Die Geschichten enthüllen Unerwartetes — gewitzte Wendepunkte zeugen von gekonntem Handwerk der Schriftsteller:innen. Die Erzählungen ziehen den Leser in ein Labyrinth aus Täuschung, Gefahr und düsterer Spannung.

Four volumes. Eighty stories. One complete collection of things best left in the dark. The rule is simple: never leave the path. Her husband did. Now she refuses to make the same mistake. A family knocks through a wall and discovers a room that cannot possibly fit inside their house. A night...

DREI SYLTTHRILLER ALS WEIHNACHTSEDITION ZUM ABSOLUTEN SPARPREIS! Enthalten sind die Bücher: Deine perfekte Lüge, Das Verborgene, Keine perfekte Ehefrau.

Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common: they are brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is. 'The Unsettled Dust', 'The House of the Russians', 'No Stronger Than a Flower', 'The Cicerones' and 'Ravissante' first appeared in the Sub Rosa collection in 1968, but the stories were published together as The Unsettled Dust in 1990.

A continent. A climate. A future no one can ignore. The Danube is one of Europe's great lifelines. But what happens when even this mighty river loses its way? THE DANUBE IS DUST is a Climate Fiction story about water, climate change and the future of Europe. A young man sets out on a journey along the Danube. He is searching for freedom, nature and a life beyond the digital world—and discovers a future that may have already begun.

Leaving the desolation of the Dust Bowl behind, Daniel Doughnut and his family embark on a journey to the bustling city of Los Angeles, their hearts filled with hope and trepidation. Along the way young Danny gets a surprize kiss from another by • Len. In the glittering lights of 1930s Los Angelos, Danny and his family find unexpected Hollywood opportunities • Daniel lands a role in a film, he later discovers Len the boy who kissed him on the road is also working at the film studio. But their newfound success is tempered by the need to conceal their relationship.

This bundle includes What Doesn't Destroy Us, The Scars That Define Us, The Fear That Divides Us, The Lies Between Us, and What Might Kill Us. 

After three tours of duty in Afghanistan, Liam Andrews is home safe in Queensland. His weekly life drawing class, full of colourful local artists, helps him manage his post-traumatic stress disorder. But he's struggling to open up about a past that still haunts him. Belourine, 'Billy', is an Afghan refugee who lost everything before arriving in Australia as a child. She finds joy in her daily swims in the lake. After years of upheaval, she's still searching for a place to call home. But her past makes it hard to trust people.

"The Pond" by James Agee Jr.: The Pond is an exclusive body of water that offers magnificent healing powers for those who can afford to visit. One struggling family has faced hardship and saved to be able to visit The Pond, but is it truly everything that they thought it would be? "Meet Me on the Next World" by Chris Manning: Maria is stuck in a rut. Bored with her life as an office drone, one day, she begins to see mysterious words appearing in the most unexpected places. Interpreting these words as instructions, she follows them to their thrilling conclusion.

What begins as an ordinary day for Grace Winters quickly turns to horror when her plane for a company retreat crashes somewhere in the North Atlantic Sea. The following days become a test of survival for her and her co-workers, and threaten to expose their true character. Complicated by Grace's ongoing health struggles, the burden of surviving until help arrives rests heavier upon her shoulders. We Are but Dust thrusts you into a world of chaos, and leaves you stirring with questions.

A tense and brilliantly dramatic short story from the bestselling author of The Throne of the Caesars Series. This thrilling short story opens at the end of BLOOD AND STEEL and is the perfect trailer for Harry Sidebottom’s new novel FIRE AND SWORD. AD 238. When Gordian the Younger is brutally...

Dust storms pop up out of nowhere and are a danger for drivers on the open highways of the southwest. But when you can't see what is in front of you, maybe, with a little help, a fresh pair of eyes, you see something new. Something that might not even be there other times, something that is accessible only when dust storms may exist!

Bisnu finds how dangerous and lonely life can be for a boy who has to leave his home to earn money for his family. As he sets to work on the limestone quarries with the choking dust enveloping the beautiful mountain air, he longs for home more than ever...

A Yellow Duster follows the story of a couple that has recently come into a large amount of money. They spend a year traveling with an old friend of the husband, who notices that the husband is never without a certain collection of curios. The friend is fascinated by the curios, and decides that he needs to talk to the husband about the collection. When he asks about a specific piece, a yellow duster, the husband recounts the tale of how he discovered his wife's true love for him.