Ergebnis für "Delivery Horror" in Literatur & Belletristik

Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems...

I’m nothing but a payment, bartered to the most powerful cartel in the northern hemisphere and forced to marry a man I do not know. My father sold me to save his own skin. He might as well have ushered me to the gates of hell. The Marino family is sadistic. If rumors are true, they’ll own me, use me, control me, and strip me of every freedom I’ve taken for granted. I’ll be a shiny new toy in a dark and deadly underworld.

Dallas and Hallie, a young couple expecting their first child, receive a mysterious, unmarked package on their doorstep in the middle of the night. While Hallie is away, Dallas discovers the box, curious about the strange arrival with no return shipping label, and stores it in the closet, unaware of the horror it conceals. They later find the box opened and empty, and will soon discover something terrifying has emerged.

Wo ist Björn Hellmark? Noch immer ist er verschollen. Carminia Brado und ihr neuer Verbündeter Rani Mahay versuchen alles, aber sie finden einfach keine Spur. Bis sich der Inder Ajid Lekarim bei Rani meldet. Er behauptet, zu wissen, wo sich Björn befindet und wie man ihn zurückholen kann. Rani macht sich auf den Weg nach Kalkutta - und folgt Björn auf einem wahren Horror-Trip.

I’m a beast pacing around my cage waiting for the next fight. It’s all I have, those brief moments of rage and destruction. It’s a sort of freedom. Then I go back into the cold, dark emptiness. That’s why I don’t speak anymore. What’s the point? I stopped being human a long time ago. I’ve given up on anything but that cycle of violence and isolation—until they throw him into my cage. They expect me to kill him as soon as he gets me through my injuries. That’s what I usually do.

On a snow-covered Halloween night in the town of Aberlea, Jonathan Harker, a reclusive and wildly successful novelist, lives in an eerie Victorian mansion where the eyes in the paintings seem to watch your every move. Known for his chilling horror novels, Jonathan hides more than just dark tales within the walls of his grand but decaying home — there’s a secret buried in these walls that he’s desperate to keep hidden. Karlee Monroe, filling in for the local takeaway driver, arrives at Harker's mansion with a tale of a broken-down car. But nothing about her arrival is accidental.

College student Brock Clouser is working a summer job delivering pizzas. During a run to the outskirts of Harrington, Indiana, he wrecks his car at an isolated country home. Though most everyone there has been violently murdered, he's not alone.

He counted out the money for the payment of their order and handed it to me. And then, he pulled out another 200 bucks and showed it to me. He told me that he would give me a couple of hundred bucks if I deliver a package for them. If I do, the receiving end would also give me another 200 when I arrive.

Truck drivers drive thousands of miles to deliver the goods, and when they're late, there is a penalty. What happens when that penalty puts lives on the line?