Ergebnis für "The Dead" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan collects brand-new stories of murder, myth, and misadventure including contributions from international bestsellers Garth Nix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Tamsyn Muir, and featuring stunning illustrations from Galen Dara. We are all going to die...

Es gibt nicht genug Kaffee oder Tacos auf dieser Welt, um die Probleme in Darby Adlers Familie ertragen zu können. Wenn sie sich nicht mit ihrem todbringenden Vater, ihrer wiederauferstandenen Mutter oder ihrem Geistergroßvater herumschlagen muss, dann mit ihren lange verschollenen Geschwistern und deren Machtgelüsten. Da beim ABI Funkstille herrscht und sie ihre Geschwister finden muss, steht Darby vor einem großen Problem – vor allem, als der ansässige Hexenzirkel herausfindet, dass ihr Vater nicht mehr gefangen ist. Kann Haunted Peak, Tennessee, dieses Familientreffen verkraften?

Nachdem sie versehentlich einen Dämon befreit, den Alpha der Werwölfe auf die Palme gebracht und möglicherweise einen Krieg angezettelt hat, bringt Darbys Job als Wächterin ein ernsthaftes Risiko mit sich. Der Rat ist in heller Aufruhr und ein waschechter Gott steht vor ihrer Tür, also muss Darby ihr Leben unter Kontrolle bringen, und zwar pronto. Wenn sie das nicht schafft, könnte das Verlieren ihres Jobs das geringste ihrer Probleme sein.

Charlaine Harris' smash-hit Sookie Stackhouse series may have reached its conclusion, but the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, lives on in this all-new collection of 15 stories. Written by a killer lineup of authors, including New York Times best-sellers Rachel Caine, MaryJanice Davidson, Jonathan Maberry and Seanan McGuire, and with introductions read by Charlaine herself, Dead but Not Forgotten puts your favorite characters center stage.

The weird, wild west - an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time travelers, and steampunk! Twenty-three of science fiction and fantasy's hottest and most popular authors create all-new tales, written exclusively for this anthology. Aliens and monsters, magic and science are introduced to the old west, with explosive results.

This collection is a multicast production, narrated by Johnathan McClain, Heath Miller, Deepti Gupta, Simon Vance, Victoria Villareal, Fred Berman, Peter Ganim, Ron Butler, Emily Woo Zeller, Shayna Small, Ewan Chung, and Nicola Barber We are all going to die. But how? Will it hurt? Where will we...

In 1968 the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark film Night of the Living Dead. This was something new...and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture. But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse. Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to where it all began.

In Conan and the Emerald Lotus, the seeds of a deadly plant grant sorcerers immense power, but turn its users into inhuman killers. In the exclusive, long-awaited sequel Conan and the Living Plague, a Shemite wizard seeks to create a serum to use as a lethal weapon. Instead he unleashes a hideous monster on the city of Dulcine. Hired to loot the city of its treasures, Conan and his fellows in the mercenary troop find themselves trapped in the depths of the city’s keep. To escape, they must defeat the creature, its undead followers, then face Lovecraftian horrors beyond mortal comprehension.

The Stoker Award–winning author of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead and an all-new lineup of authors from every corner of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and resurrection—and with zombies! The stellar...

Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club Café’s success, so Suzanne doesn’t mind going out to Mike Mullen’s dairy farm to pick up some wheels of cheese. She’s looking forward to a nice visit with the mild-mannered farmer before heading back to the café’s hectic kitchen. But when she arrives, Mike’s nowhere to be found. The moaning of his cows leads her to look in the barn, where she discovers a bloodcurdling sight - the farmer’s dead body.

Throughout history and infinite dimensions, there exists a secret group of supernatural investigators operating on the fringes of society, lurking in the shadows, working strange cases with little reward. They are hardboiled zombies and ghosts, mythological creatures, ass-kicking vampires, tortured humans, and uncanny sleuths whose normal is the bizarre and weird.

Artificial Intelligences, Space Elevators, Time Travel, Robots, Steampunk, Fantasy, Horror, Magic and Romance. The stories in this book were published, podcasted, and broadcast by various e-zines internationally.

Kate and Michael, twenty-something housemates working at the same Trader Joe’s supermarket, are thoroughly screwed when people start turning into zombies at their house party in the Oakland hills. The zombie plague is a sexually transmitted disease, turning its victims into shambling, horny, voracious killers.

The fire’s gone. The dead stayed behind. Ethan Matthews thought coming back to Crestwood High would bring closure. He’s not a student anymore. Now he’s a teacher. And he’s married to Hanna, his high school sweetheart, one of the few who survived the fire that scarred them both. But something’s still lurking in those halls. Whispers echo through empty classrooms. Shadows shift when no one’s there. The ones who died? They never left. And they’re not here to haunt Ethan. They’re trying to make him remember. As old memories crawl back, Ethan starts questioning everything he thought he knew.

Angels and aliens, a bargain with the devil, voices from beyond the grave, and voices raised in terror. From an old-fashioned ghost story, to a mind-bending tale of mental illness, and a bite-sized vampire romance, this collection of short stories by Wondra Vanian will explore more than one side of the crazy, terrifying thing called life and teach us to remember that we're A Long Time Dead.

The living dead are more alive than ever! Zombies have become more than an iconic monster for the 21st century: They are now a phenomenon constantly revealing as much about ourselves - and our fascination with death, resurrection, and survival - as our love for the supernatural or post-apocalyptic speculation. Our most imaginative literary minds have been devoured by these incredible creatures and produced exciting, insightful, and unflinching new works of zombie fiction.

Between the Dead and the Deep Blue Sea is a bone-chilling trio of early Lovecraft tales, which evoke cosmic horrors, creeping madness, and ancient unknowable forces. Strange events unfurl on storm-lashed coastlines, in crumbling villages, and in dream-like realms beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. Brought to life by the spine-tingling narration of Dr. Jon Overton, each story lures the listener into unsettling encounters with the weird and uncanny...

Undead Tales: Fifteen Thrilling Zombie Stories is the audio version of the new zombie anthology, published by the best-selling authors, J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon. Get it now and start listening!

The worst part isn’t being dead, but finding a job. Francis Lee Lemons wakes up in the land of the dead, unemployed and bored. As a criminal in his life in modern America, he figured that the best plan in his afterlife is to stick to what he knows. But getting in with the local crime syndicate - run by an 1800s gunslinger, Alicia - isn’t that easy.

The Idaho Territory gold mines and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom come together for a wilderness-dwelling drifter in this tale of the Weird West.