Ergebnis für "N K" in Horror

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that...

Alyc Halcyon is born of grief and prophecy. Raised in the war-hardened kingdom of Emberfall, she is a child of steel, trained by her swordmaster father to fight before she can even mourn. Her life is a series of traditions and combat, a rigid path meant to forge a champion for the sacred Trials of Valor. But when the Trials begin, assassins move in the shadows, champions die, and the throne itself turns traitor. In a moment of horrifying betrayal, Alyc's father is executed. Hunted and alone, she flees, vanishing into the underbelly of a world on the brink of war.

There is a river that flows through the misty landscape of imagination, seeping up through the rocky earth high in the Appalachian Mountains. It winds southward through the foothills and the piedmont: It tumbles past the fall line, widens and deepens, and then meanders across the coastal plain until it finally reaches the gulf of Mexico.And all along its length the great river inspires stories to tease listeners into wonder, or send a shiver down their spines.

Headed for some well-deserved shore leave, Shepard is gunned down in the streets of Seattle, a victim of "a mugging gone stupid." He awakens, not in a hospital bed, but in the surreal world of Purgatory. Within seconds of his arrival, he is saved from a gruesome and painful end by his new best friend, Horace. That's Quintus Horatius Flaccus the philosopher, to you Roman history buffs. Horace explains to Shepard the cold, hard rules for surviving in Purgatory. More than just the walls have ears, and he's not sure how long Shepard will last.