Ergebnis für "The Bell" in Horror

For 25 years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her off on her personal journey toward redemption.

In this richly atmospheric, dark academia debut novel, a young woman with a secretive past will risk everything—including her life—to fit in. Belles never tell… It’s 1951 at Bellerton, a secluded all-women’s college, and Deena Williams is doing her best to blend in with her wealthy and...

There's No Place Like Oz is a reimagining of Wizard of Oz with a reverse harem twist. This darker, grittier version of a classic tale will keep you as on edge as our heroine, with touches of horror and lots of heat amidst the twisted romance.

Unter der archaischen Oberfläche von Mexiko-Stadt brodelt es heftig - immer wieder sorgen Erdbeben und Vulkanausbrüche für Angst und Schrecken. Doch in jüngster Zeit werden die Ereignisse noch rätselhafter und unheilvoller: schwarze Grillenschwärme und Blutregen verwüsten das Land, Kathedralen brennen grundlos nieder - und mehrere Kinder werden vermisst. Auch Prof. Fernando Navarros Tochter verschwindet auf mysteriöse Weise.

Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg ziehen Mordbanden plündernd und brandschatzend durch das Land. Die Bauern, die unter diesen Verhältnissen schwer zu leiden haben, gründen im Geheimen den Bund der Wehrwölfe, um ihre Höfe und ihre Familien zu beschützen und sich an ihren Peinigern zu rächen. Der Autor Hermann Löns (1866-1914) zeichnet ein eindringliches Bild eines der dunkelsten Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte. Mit seiner Erzählung von der Selbsthilfe der Bauern macht er aber auch Mut und zeigt, dass man sich erfolgreich gegen Willkür und Unterdrückung wehren kann.

Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman - whose doctor says she has one year to live. She replies, "We'll see." Her sudden recovery is a medical miracle. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. Bibi's obsession with finding Ashley sends her on the run from threats both mystical and worldly, including a charismatic cult leader with terrifying ambitions.

Welcome to the dark decadence of Dhonielle Clayton's sharp tale of beauty, obsession and magic.... In the opulent world of Orléans, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle's powers can make them beautiful. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle - the one chosen by the queen to tend to the royal family. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be.

For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, a worldwide plague of insomnia creates a devastating new apocalypse. Sleep Over is collection of waking nightmares, a scrapbook of the haunting and poignant stories from those trapped in a world where the pillars of society are crumbling, and madness is slowly descending on a planet without rest.

"Deeply atmospheric and evocative, Beauchamp provides a consistently dark and foreboding collection that drips with Southern Gothic" Ryan Thomas Labee, author of Killing My Flesh Without You, and Editor-In-Chief of Pyre Magazine. "Beauchamp is a masterful weaver of horrors who works in prose the way Bosch and Goya work in oils. The Ozarks are teeming with unfathomable, long-forgotten terrors great and small, and the Missouri author will ensure they're all embedded in your psyche by the time you've read Horror In The Highlands"

My name is Belle. After Kronos takes control of Delerood, my soldiers and I are forced to retreat. Realizing the blow is a big one, I also realize the only way back into Delerood and through Kronos’ time-loop, which keeps outsiders out, is by returning to Castle Chimera. There, I’ll need to appeal to the three monsters who live there, monsters known as Alder, Horatius, and Beacon.

Brought to you by Penguin. Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then...

Jerica Poole had no idea how quickly life could change until hers is ripped apart at the seams. After a messy divorce and the tragic death of her daughter, she jumps at the chance to fulfill the last wish of her friend, Harper Belle Hayes. The troubled nurse makes the journey to Harper's hometown of Desire, Mississippi, and immediately finds herself swept up in a 75-year-old mystery: what happened to Jeopardy Belle?

The Vampire the Masquerade Clan Novel Saga is a thirteen-volume masterpiece, presenting the war between the established Camarilla leadership and the growing power of the brutal Sabbat on the East Coast of the United States. Each novel is told from the perspective of one of the thirteen clans, intertwining with the others, and filling in missing pieces artfully as we follow battle after battle, intrigue after intrigue...and the appearance of a strange artifact that falls into the hands of a solitary Toreador sculptor.

In the third book in Alice Bell’s Grave Expectations series, Alex has managed to convince Claire, Sophie and Basher that they should incorporate as a private investigation company. They investigate a suspicious death at a pro-wrestling company, with help from the ghost of the deceased.

In Black River, Tennessee, there is a legend hiding in the shadowy trees. The Bell Witch, a vile, vindictive spirit, is said to haunt the dark woods. Driven by rage, she stalks the descendants of four ancient families - cursed bloodlines, doomed to play out her sadistic game for eternity. Until four young survivors take a stand, and vow to end the witch’s curse once and for all. Their journey will pit them against death, madness, and demonic forces. But if they fail, the witch’s curse will claim a new generation of souls....

A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize her ability to see ghosts and team-up with a band of oddball investigators to figure out which member(s) of a posh English family are guilty of murder. “This book has bags of humor, bags of heart...

Berlin 1919 - Kriminalkommissar Paul Morgenthal hat während des Krieges viel erlebt, dennoch lassen ihn die Taten des Berliner Schlächters, nach dem seit Jahren erfolglos gefahndet wird, nicht kalt. Der Gesuchte schneidet jungen Frauen große Stücke der Haut ab, legt danach die verstümmelten Opfer mitten auf die Straße und deckt sie mit einem Tuch zu. Gemeinsam mit der Stenotypistin Ruth Falkenburg sucht Paul Morgenthal Rat bei Gerichtsmediziner David Hornoff, der einen fast schon krankhaften Wissensdrang in Bezug auf die menschliche Psyche hat

On the night her mother dies, eight-year-old Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden. A place of wonder and magic, filled with all manner of strange and spectacular flora and fauna, the garden is her solace every night for seven days. But when the garden disappears, and no one believes her story, Beatrice is left to wonder if it were truly real.

Professional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the West Coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate captain to investigate the theft of treasure from the shipwreck that stranded him there several hundred years ago. But just when she thinks she is closing in on the culprit, a murder takes place, and Claire and her friends quickly become the chief suspects

This tale weaves faith, horror, fantasy, and historical detail into the sodden marshes of Mirebridge, where seven women have died in seven weeks beneath the chapel altar—hands consumed by inner fire, eyes turned milky white—while the bells ring day and night untouched by mortal hands. Lord Stephern, a massive knight of a Crusader House bound by oath to the Church, and Sir Bessian, his keen-eyed and articulate companion, arrive at Father Berengar’s summons to conduct a deliberate investigation.