Ergebnis für "Terror" in Historische Romane

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Terror by Dan Simmons, read by Tom Sellwood. Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' bestselling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror' and it's now a chilling 10-part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott...

Hawai'i 1893: Noch wiegen sich Kokospalmen im Wind, stehen Regenbögen am Himmel, da braut sich am Horizont bereits ein Sturm zusammen. Amerikanische Großkapitalisten stürzen in einem Staatsstreich die Königin und bereiten die Annexion durch die USA vor. In Honolulu brodelt es, gehen die Risse auch durch die einflussreiche deutsche Gemeinschaft des Archipels, denn ein Land wird gestohlen – und wehrt sich.

Tauchen Sie ein in Arthur Machens erschütternde Geschichte von unerklärlichem Grauen, das die abgelegene walisische Landschaft während der dunkelsten Tage des Ersten Weltkriegs heimsucht. Während mysteriöse Todesfälle und Verschwinden die Region Meirion plagen, kämpfen der örtliche Arzt Lewis und andere darum, einen übernatürlichen Terror zu verstehen, der jeder rationalen Erklärung trotzt.

Based on the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during the Sir John Franklin Expedition in 1845, The Terror is a meticulously researched and fascinating account of 19th century seafaring life. "Masterfully chilling." —Entertainment Weekly The men on board the HMS...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is...

En 1847, dos barcos de la Armada británica, el HMS Erebus y el HMS Terror, que navegaban bajo el mando de sir John Franklin, están atrapados en el hielo del Ártico. En su anhelada busca del paso del Noroeste, parecen haber fracasado. Sin poder hacer nada para continuar su marcha y completar su expedición, rodeados del frío polar y de inminentes peligros, sólo pueden esperar a que llegue el deshielo que les permita escapar.

¿Qué puede escuchar detrás de la puerta el hijo de un guardia civil en un pueblo de Jaén en 1947? Nino, hijo de guardia civil, tiene nueve años, vive en la casa cuartel de un pueblo de la Sierra Sur de Jaén, y nunca podrá olvidar el verano de 1947. Pepe el Portugués, el forastero...

Chosen for Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club, this is the chilling new ghost story from the bestselling author of Dark Matter. The Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all. Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred...

Stationed on the Russian Front and now equipped with armoured vehicles, Sven Hassel and his comrades from the 27th Penal Regiment fight on remorselessly... All of them should be dead: Life expectancy on the Russian Front is measured in weeks. But Sven, Porta, Tiny and The Legionnaire fight to the end, not for Germany, not for Hitler, but for survival. Wheels of Terror is a sobering depiction of war's brutalities, and the violence and inhumanity that the history books leave out.

The next book in the thrilling Flavia Albia series, by acclaimed author Lindsey Davis. Saturnalia, the Romans' mid-December feast, nominally to celebrate the sun's rebirth but invariably a drunken riot. Flavia Albia needs a case to investigate, but all work is paused. The Aventine is full of...

Based on the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during the Sir John Franklin Expedition in 1845, The Terror is a meticulously researched and fascinating account of 19th century seafaring life. "Masterfully chilling." —Entertainment Weekly The men on board the HMS...

Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as condemned dignitaries have their sentences carried out. Among them is the Comtesse de Bercheny, Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he know she must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her - to survive, no matter what. When Paul rescues a girl from attack the two form an allegiance, but with the world at war and traitors in every corner, just how far w ill Paul go to ensure his ow n survival?

In order to get away from the married doctor she had fallen in love with, Susan Moore took a job as a private psychiatric nurse on Sanctuary Island, at Duncarlie Castle. The castle had been brought over stone by stone from Scotland and people said it wasn't haunted.... But if there were no ghosts, there were tragedies that still held sway over the castle and its inhabitants. And Sanctuary Island was a sanctuary only for the birds who lived there, watched over by the enigmatic Park Ranger, Ross Hunter.

December 1984. SIS field asset Heidi Sperling [codename Thistle] exfiltrates from East Berlin with the sole copy of a critical intelligence leak: a naval log containing a solitary message received from a previously unidentified Soviet submarine. Incredulously – impossibly – it seems the...

The Terror: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. But what they don't expect is a monstrous predator lurking behind the Arctic ice. When the...

Una lectura trepidante en la que la intriga y el humor se mezclan con el terror y la erudición histórica. «Un narrador cínico y ético, mujeriego, solitario y aficionado al bebercio… En la prosa española dudo que haya algo mejor. ¡Bravo!» Ángeles López, La Razón «Hay en este autor...

A stylistically bold and innovative, cinematic horror novel about greed and paranoia, set amongst the grit and mud of the trenches in WW1. Perfect for fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Alma Katsu. From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, and the co-author of The Shape of Water...

The Knight of Maison Rouge is the story of what happens when two people from opposite political camps fall in love during Robespierre’s reign of terror. Paris, 1793. Lieutenant Maurice Lindey is an ardent young republican who hates tyranny and injustice whether they come from the left or right...

Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauútiverse, following the success of Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology. Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the...

After Hurricane Iniki slammed the Hawaiian island chain in the late summer of 1992, a historical artifact of great military importance, dating back to World War II, was exposed on a dry riverbed, west of the remote and sparsely populated Kaupo district in Maui. The newly discovered rusting vessel of war prompted the federal government to assemble a band of explorers to investigate the anomaly.