Ergebnis für "Sanctuary" in Horror

It’s not easy serving Chernobog, the God of Destruction, Darkness and Death…especially during the holidays; and especially when you’re out of eggnog and one of your pesky, freeloading mythic creatures has eaten your last cookie. Roman would like nothing more than to be left alone, but when a wounded boy stumbles into his yard and begs for sanctuary, Roman takes him in. Now elite mercenaries are camped out on his property, combat mages are dousing the house with fire, and strange priests are unleashing arcane magic.

Rom, Ewige Stadt, Hort uralter Geheimnisse. Hierhin führen die Spuren einer Verschwörung, in deren Mittelpunkt Eric von Kastell steht, der Werwolfjäger. Immer wieder trifft er auf das Vermächtnis einer Frau, die im 18. Jahrhundert um ihr Leben kämpfte: Gregoria, die Äbtissin eines entweihten Klosters. Eric und Gregoria sind untrennbar verbunden durch die heiligste Substanz, die sich auf Erden findet: Das Sanctum kann Wunder wirken - oder den Tod bringen.

No more Dark Mode. That’s what Bran had promised Kat—and made her promise him. Which was their shorthand for, “Let’s stop killing people.” But that’s easier said than done when your friend is a hybrid: part human, and part mutated apex predator. Wounded and on the run from their former lives in Northern California, Bran and Kat find themselves in the Oregon wilderness, searching for a place to call home—a place where they can escape their past, with people that will accept Kat for what she is. So it seems like a miracle when they stumble across an old monastery.

After coming face to face with death, Elorion and company have found a dungeon to call their own. They’ve fought hard to earn a stint of peace, but Mistress Nava is still out there and her captain is now on the hunt. The impending arrival of the army of minotaurs will be the greatest threat they have faced thus far. With their new-found freedom comes a myriad of additional dangers. They’re running low on food, the dungeon is in disrepair, and they must find new hunting grounds to continue growing in power.

Rediscover this Faulkner classic--or explore it for the first time. A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of...

Sibilla Fenoglio wants nothing more than to live with her husband in this run-down, derelict watermill. Uninhabited since the Renaissance after a mysterious disaster befell the previous owners, the mill requires extensive repairs. But there is something frightening about the mill. Repairs are violently undone, half-seen figures begin stalking Sibilla through the grounds, and haunting echoes of the previous owners’ lives infiltrate the present. As the disturbances grow more vicious and her husband more secretive, she realizes that she and her child are in danger.

Danger lurks in the shadows... A place where the brave tread warily... Jack Walker has returned from the rescue of his girlfriend with a small band of survivors. Their harrowing journey from the Middle East included a stop at the CDC where they learned vital information about the ferocious new species that hunt at night. The night runners dominate the landscape and a world turned upside down by the sudden death of billions.

She’s never felt like she’s enough. But to another world, she’s more than she’d have ever dreamed. Amy Larkspur is an awkward, socially anxious college girl who loves romance novels, pop music, and ketchup on her steak fries. Despite her crippling childhood inferiority complex, she’s finally coming into her own. She’s a sophomore at the college of her choice, she has a fantastic gaggle of friends, and she’s on the cusp of a new relationship with the frat boy next door.

In his haunting follow-up to the acclaimed Beneath the Mountain, Luca D’Andrea returns to the stunning Italian landscape of Alto Adige in this clever, twisting thriller that follows a woman on the run from her crime boss husband and the assassin sent to kill her. The Italian region of...

The Sanctuary, a story of Satanism. "There was a thump on the ceiling overhead as if someone had fallen, and without a word we ran upstairs into Francis's bedroom. The door of the wardrobe where the vestments were kept was open, some lay on the floor. The panel was open, too, but within it was dark. In terror at what might meet our eyes, I felt for the switch and turned the light on..."

Corey Knight has resigned herself to a quiet, reclusive life spent living out the rest of her days in her childhood home on the fringes of New Orleans' French Quarter. But the unexpected specter of her deceased father plunges her into a mad quest for a missing supernatural weapon unearthed long ago. And unfortunately, her only ally is a lost love she once betrayed.

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic "Lucia" novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. The Sanctuary exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales, this one being particularly disturbing.

A simple rescue mission becomes a desperate trek for survival as the terror closes in on Brandon, and what's worse, the legend of "Pig Man" may not be the most horrifying thing on the mountain any longer...

In a tunnel deep beneath an Alaskan mountain, a man is brutally murdered. Just one in a series of grisly deaths, it is not long before whispers grow that the Qalupalik, a terrifying creature born from centuries of superstition and fear, has come to wreak havoc on the small coastal town of Shackleton, Alaska. With no way to stop the slayings, the town turns to disgraced ex-cop John Decker, hoping he can do what they could not. The assignment, far from his native Louisiana, might be just what Decker needs to put the past behind him.

Previously published as ShadowMan. There is something terribly wrong in Sanctuary City. When Maggie Bychowski starts her new job as a police officer in Sanctuary City, the small northern California town appears as bucolic as its name. But three young girls are beginning to find out that their beloved home town has a dark, writhing underbelly. When Shadowman, an online fantasy character, starts luring local girls into doing his deadly bidding, Maggie is the only one who can save the town from a powerful evil that threatens to destroy everyone and everything in its path.

One woman with the mind of a child, and the world’s ancient secrets are trapped within her. When Kherron meets her, he wishes he hadn’t. Beholden to the man who purchased his freedom from the Iron Pit, he cannot deny Torrahs this one request - get to know the woman-child named Dehlyn. He also cannot reconcile the gorgeous woman with the stunted, naive, unnatural workings of her innocent mind. And yet, she’s been placed under his care.

Nobody is safe as the Primal Virus sweeps the landscape, killing everything it touches and rooting out and infecting the last of the survivors. In the follow up to Torment, the war continues, and Sergeant Gyles pushes forward as his team struggles to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, where not everything is what it appears to be.

Sexy bad boy shapeshifter Michael O'Dare grew up on the streets. When government soldiers finally captured and imprisoned him, he became a lab rat and a collared slave, never again allowed to be human. His escape allowed him to return to human form and head for freedom in the Western Territories.

Book 7 in the Dark Athyx Series continues with the Clergy of Enamor. So much has happened! So many have fallen to the wicked. The citizens of Sanctuary mourn the loss of a great hero. New allies emerge from their populous. Secrets are discovered, but is it all too late?

Saviors start at a young age...Being the only survivor in a tragic car accident that claimed his entire family, six-year-old Jace starts his new life as an orphan in the Sanctuary for Orphaned Children - a place that seems like a dream to those on the outside, but with a world so drastically different on the inside. Surrounded by seemingly endless violence, Jace isolates himself from all those around him as he plunges deeper into a frustrated anger and depression.