Ergebnis für "Gothic" in Familienleben

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and...

Vier Erwachsene, ein Hotel und ein ungewöhnlicher Plan ... Ein mitreißender Roadtrip durch die USA mit einem unkonventionellen Lebensentwurf als Ziel! Als Valentine unerwartet ein Gothic-Hotel in South Carolina erbt, fühlt es sich wie Schicksal an. Denn seit sie, ihre Partnerin Linh, ihr...

Seit 150 Jahren herrscht eine erbitterte Fehde zwischen den Hexenfamilien Montparsson und Landeville. Sie geben sich gegenseitig die Schuld daran, dass die Quelle ihrer Magie versiegte. Inzwischen sind nur noch ein paar Tropfen übrig und die Familien dem Tod geweiht. Trotz des tiefen Misstrauens müssen sich Iris Montparsson und August Landeville daher zusammentun, um die gefährliche Reise zum Gallows House anzutreten, wo sie Zuflucht bei der Obersten ihrer Zunft erbitten wollen.

Horrifyingly vivid in the narration of Stephanie Németh-Parker. 'Trad Wife is terrifying . . . a surreal and slick feminist feast' – Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . . Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the "trad...

'Grisly, addictive fun . . . I devoured it in 24 hours' – Emilia Hart, author of Weyward In deepest winter, beware the coldest hearts . . . London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised...

When Edith Averly is sent to investigate a murder at Green Briar Lunatic Asylum, a rambling gothic institution on the edge of the Cornish moors, she’s horrified to realise that in order to infiltrate the asylum, she’ll have to pretend to be mad herself… Several weeks before her arrival...

"An unforgiving tale of political horror and womanhood... Fascinating." ―Mariana Enriquez THREE SISTERS. A CARETAKER, A TRAVELLER, AND A BRIDE. Mutiara and Maya's lives are irrevocably altered when their younger sister Annisa straps a bomb to her waist and commits a devastating act. As they...

L'autore di questo audiolibro, Maurice Leblanc, ha scritto la fortunata serie di Arsenio Lupin, ma in questo ascolto il ladro gentiluomo fa solo una breve comparsa, mentre la trama si sviluppa autonomamente, tra suggestioni gotiche, superstizioni, fantasmi del passato che perseguitano l'eroina, Veronica, e suo figlio Francesco. Fino alla fine un susseguirsi di colpi di scena, e non manca il consueto gusto umoristico dell'autore. Cornice musicale dello sceneggiato francese del 1979.

""A fairy tale in the oldest and truest sense: a haunting dream full of blood and love, vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole, and I went willingly."" — Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House “Decadence laced with horror . . . A delightfully...

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The...

Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. "Capture[s] what goes horribly...

'Compelling, beguiling and claustrophobic' SFX 'A cerebral twist on the haunted house novel' LEIGH RADFORD 'A fantastic debut' C.J. COOKE The most genuinely haunting book you'll read this year' MEGAN BONTRAGER 'The perfect book to take to a faraway location and read as the sun goes down' KATE...

This final chapter in Daniel Woolrell's Ozark trilogy peels the lid back on a dysfunctional Missouri family as infidelity threatens to consume their world in violence and terror. Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him—she...

There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use it… Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a...

'Sororicidal didn't so much move me as arrest me. It stopped me in my tracks. A far more powerful thing.' - Angela O'Keeffe Sisterhood is a mirror. It can also be a weapon. In the vineyards above Edwardian Adelaide, Mary dazzles while Margot trails in her shadow. But Mary's malice will soon find...

Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But...

Brought to you by Penguin. The new novel from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Pick The Glass House Some secrets need to be set free . . . Lauren, Kat and Flora are half-sisters who share a famous artist father - and a terrible secret. Over the years they've grown into...

Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a mysterious English country garden, waiting to spring to life. Every garden is a story, waiting to be told… At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who’s really following you on social media? The scam of a lifetime brings together two wildly different women in this page-turning thriller about greed, legacy, and betrayal from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear. An ID Book Club...

When they were children, Erica Calcott and her sister, Beth, spent their summer holidays at Storton Manor. Now, following the death of their grandmother, they have returned to the grand, imposing house in Wiltshire, England. Unable to stem the tide of childhood memories that arise as she sorts...