Ergebnis für "The Republic" in Übernatürliches

Wie bekämpft man am besten Monster? Mit anderen Monstern. Das ist die Idee, die hinter der Spezialeinheit Freak Force steht. Diese Eingreiftruppe setzt sich aus Wesen wie Vampiren und Ogern zusammen und gibt diesen Kreaturen die Möglichkeit, den für sie vorgesehenen Ghettos zu entkommen, indem sie die Menschheit vor übernatürlichen Bedrohungen beschützen. Doch der Dienst in der Freak Force ist alles andere als ungefährlich.Das müssen auch Nathan und Sarah erfahren.

Auto accidents. Mysterious fires. Cultists. Mythological figures. Poisoned lands. What's real and what isn't? Is danger spreading from sinister Dubbs House? These bloody tales and events come alive under the watchful eye of Albion-born doctor Kathryn Cross, a former victim of the town-turned-survivor.

When Fiona and James Brett move into their fashionable London home, they discover the attic room harbours a dark and deadly secret. James locks himself away inside, ostensibly to take up oil painting, but he soon becomes moody, even violent. Local prostitutes are being attacked, and then the Bretts’ Polish cleaner is murdered. Another murder soon follows and this time it is even more close to home. James’s former lover is found mutilated, mirroring the Whitechapel killings of over a century ago.

Lucy and her young family have moved to a cottage on a quiet lane in a peaceful coastal town. Her husband is moving work but she is running away from the memory of the son she lost. She wants a fresh start, but the house is not going to let her look to the future, not when the past has so much it wants to show her. The first night in the house will confuse her. The second night will terrify her. The third will change everything, because a door to the other side has opened and they are coming…

After her sister goes missing for two weeks without a trace, a woman, Mimiteh, enlists the help of a detective, Vincent Quarterbaum, whose hours of operation strangely are from 12am to 5am. The further they venture into the night looking for clues in search of her sister, the more supernatural forces appear to stop them. Once Vincent explains the true meaning of the Witching Hours, and his own personal background with it, Mimiteh is exposed to another side of the night she never knew existed.

Like every other grad student at Miskatonic University, Owen Merrill knows about the Great Old Ones, the nightmare beings out of ancient legend that H.P. Lovecraft unearthed from archaic texts and turned into icons of modern fantasy fiction. Then a chance discovery - a lost letter written by Lovecraft to fellow Weird Tales author Robert Blake - offers a glimpse into the frightful reality behind the legends, and sends Owen on a desperate quest for answers that shatters his familiar world forever.

The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is a science-fiction classic. First published in 1827, it tells the story of a mummy from Cheops that is brought back to life in the year 2126.

This book will take you on a journey through covert meetings, paranormal encounters, and mystical phenomena. A secret group of people brought the author into an uncharted world rich in mysticism, psychological awakening, and elitist deception. This book will put your beliefs about life after death to the test and open up possibilities you never imagined.

Brady, the young man who talks with angels and who can call on the Light of the Blessed Virgin to both heal and destroy, retreats to a sanctuary, far off the grid, to protect his wife and unborn child. But there is a prophecy on his destiny, passed to him through his grandfather and great grandfather, which will not allow him to dwell in peace and safety. Brady is a warrior, chosen by God and sealed by his relentless courage and obedience. With his brothers at his side, he has wreaked death and devastation on Satan’s plans to create a new world order.

As the smoke clears from the bloody showdown between Mark Emerson (aka Mike Anglekee) and demented, possessed, one-eyed UPS deliveryman Stanley “Watches” Markesan at the House on the Rock Museum, everyone is relieved that the maniac is finally dead, and life can go back to normal. But soon Mike’s boys and their best friends begin to suspect that Watches isn’t finished with them yet. So, with the help of the enigmatic Mr. Fallway, they form a group called the Armybrats.

Charles Shipman and his daughter, Lily Shipman, flee from an evil spirit that has taken hold of the body that belongs to a prince of Dubai. They find themselves depending on a professional thief, Adriana and the holy man who hired her, for their safety and well being as they search out clues and artifacts to recreate a sacred ceremony to banish the djinn back into darkness from which he was born. The djinn proves to be very clever as he herds the unwitting group straight towards his lair.

John Ballard is a PI with a condition. One in a million born with a sensitivity. He absorbs the memories of whatever or whoever he touches, whether he wants to or not. He's an outcast - one that's useful to the cops - but it makes for an isolated life. Called in to consult on a gruesome and inexplicably artistic murder, it's clear that only someone with his gift can hope to solve it...but absorbing the memories of the body is going to send John's life spiraling out of control.

«Y aunque mi increíble empresa lograra terminar de modo satisfactorio, no crea que habremos escapado por tanto de nuestro terrible final, pues no es posible huir de aquello que no puede ser evitado». Esas fueron las últimas palabras que John D. Lindgren leyó del puño y letra de su mentor, el profesor Kleinman. En Salem (Massachusetts), durante 1921, aún con un espléndido futuro académico por delante, el profesor guillotinaría su destino tras recibir una inesperada carta anónima.

A missing artist has painted a fantastic mermaid portrait that is taking the art world by storm. Larry Settlebottom, a lonesome Chicago museum curator, is hired to find the artist and his model at any cost. His encounters with sea pirates, exotic gypsies, and oceanographers lead him toward a secluded island with a secret guarded by a madman. Did mermaids once inhabit the Earth? To unravel the mystery, Larry must also face his own buried past.

The settlers of Arcana have been promised prosperity and freedom from the fae creatures which have assailed humanity for the past millennium. Reality is somewhat different, as the young warrior-priest Bugen discovers when he is summoned to deal with the fallout from a spate of unexplained kidnappings and murders.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published in 1890, is still one of the most riveting novels ever written. The genius plot has everything to capture and hold the imagination, from lust, debauchery, and doomed romance though blackmail, murder, and the disastrous effect of a morally depraved French novel. That’s not even counting the visits to the opium den, the addiction, the stalking, or the string of deaths - accidental or self-inflicted.

Clara, 37, has been living with her brood of children at a Nob Hill mansion with her best friend, Ah Toy, 58, now an affluent art dealer. At a Rosicrucian gathering, Clara meets Adeline Quantrill, a distressed young woman who can hear thoughts from the living and the dead. She's a disciple of Rosicrucian Dr. Paschal Beverly Randolph, another historical figure, who wrote a banned book on sexual magic.

The disappearance of the most powerful magician in all the lands has left a power vacuum. In his absence, something beneath the ocean is preparing to take the world for its own. And as a portent washes upon the streets, making them slick with rain as red as blood, the operatives at The Circle must take it upon themselves to save the world

A man who can control shadows is terrorizing the magical community of London. Performing a grand ritual that could rip the very fabric of reality apart. Rafe and Ana are reluctant to investigate, it's definitely not their kinda gig - too apocalyptic for their liking.... But when they discover their connection to the Prince of Darkness, they find themselves pulled in to his scheme whether they like it or not. Because the Shadowmancer is not working alone. Someone is pulling the strings.

It is 1979, and the Cold War tensions between the the United States and Soviet Union have risen to a peak of intensity that makes MAD—mutually assured destruction—seem inevitable. But the nuclear arsenals are not the true weaponry. Spiritual forces, powers of darkness and light, are gathering to battle for the soul and future of the world. Off the coast of Brazil, Brady, a young man who has received a beautiful and terrible gift from the Blessed Virgin, begins the dance of death, delivering long overdue vengeance on a Nazi war criminal.