Fantastyka i Horror

Londyn zalała fala strachu. Powtarzające się morderstwa łączą trudne do wyjaśnienia okoliczności i złowieszczo brzmiąca nazwa klubu dla satanistów – Kagutaba. Lea, posiadająca niezwykłą moc dziewczyna, z niewiadomych dla niej przyczyn także ma z tym coś wspólnego, i to nie tylko z powodu śledztwa prowadzonego razem ze znakomitym detektywem – Michaelem Kayem. Jej tajemnicza babcia, Harriet, skrywa wiele sekretów, ale Lea nie podejrzewa nawet, że mogą być aż tak mroczne ...

W moim świecie nic nie jest oczywiste – ludzie, którzy żyją dookoła mnie, bywają potworami, a potwory… no cóż, możecie nie wierzyć, czasem są niewinne, a przy tym zupełnie bezbronne. I jesteśmy jeszcze my – świadomi istnienia nadnaturalnych strażnicy sprawiedliwości na granicy dwóch światów. Całe moje życie to ulubiona spluwa, solidne kopniaki adrenaliny i banda, która jest dla mnie jak rodzina. Przynajmniej tak było do czasu, kiedy tuż przed naszym nosem, w tajemniczy...

Trzecia część trylogii Jarosława Prusińskiego, to intrygująca, pełna mistycyzmu opowieść o losach Keiko - córki Szarego Maga i Vivian. Bezimienni zostali wezwani i podążają za głosem, żeby wchłonąć słońca, żeby wchłonąć słowa. Świat stanął u progu apokalipsy. Nikt nie jest w stanie zapobiec zagładzie, nawet najstarsi Nieśmiertelni. Jedyna nadzieja w Wielkiej Księdze i magii, która jest w niej uśpiona. Czy Keiko zdoła ją odnaleźć i odczytać, zanim będzie za późno?Także tym Czy...

Przed czterdziestu laty pozaziemski wirus stworzył obdarzone nadludzkimi możliwościami istoty znane jako asowie i dżokerzy. Od tej pory toczą one walkę o swe prawa i szacunek Akcja szóstego tomu cyklu Dzikie karty  rozgrywa się podczas konwencji prezydenckiej Partii Demokratycznej w Atlancie. W centrum konferencyjnym Omni panuje groza. Fanatyczny przywódca religijny pragnie pozbawić dzikie karty wszelkich praw, a ukryty as władający potężną mocą zamierza wpłynąć na wynik...

Czasem badania genetyczne są przyczyną katastrofy, a nie przełomu. Kiedy w Mieście Krokodyli dochodzi do krwawego stłumienia pokojowej konferencji asymilacyjnej, nikt jeszcze nie podejrzewa, do czego doprowadzi konflikt między Miastem Krokodyli a Twierdzą Kimerydu. Organizatorce konferencji, Annie Guiteerez, antropolog z Uniwersytetu Krokodyli, udaje się zbiec z samego centrum zamieszek i uratowana przez strażnika wąwozu Tyrsa Mollinę, pół człowieka, pół raptora, trafia ...

A novel told in first person by a human abducted mind,describing the world of the ancient alien strange civilization,a world of amazing colossal partial underground costructions that persisted buried for eons. The Shadow Out of Time is the story of Professor of Economics Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee who faints one day in the middle of a lecture and regains consciousness five years later only to find that he–or some entity inhabiting his body–has been pursuing eccentric researc...

Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. There are six short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. The story started of well and gave us a spooky small village setting with the odd family of a Grandfather, deformed Albino mother and inhuman grandson and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manh...

The Thing on the Doorstep is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. Daniel Upton, the story’s narrator, begins by telling that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer. He begins by describing Derby’s life and career. Daniel Upton’s relationship with his friend Edward Derby is abruptly changed after Edward becomes romantically involved with Asenath...

Despite being a horror story about necromancers, mutated creatures and summoning rituals, The Case of Dexter Ward is at its heart a cautionary tale about knowledge. As the story progresses, the full extent of Charles Dexter Ward’s madness is slowly revealed until the evil of the past seems ready to burst into the present with horrific consequences. Charles Dexter Ward is the scion of a well established Providence family who begins investigating esoteric matters and discover...

Lovecraft has proven that he is a master of descriptive writing that creates a sense of mystery, atmosphere, and dismay. On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in these previously unknown life-forms. Through a series of dark revelations, violent episodes, and mi...

The Sea-Wolf is Jack London’s journey deep into the heart of darkness and madness that each person carries within themselves. It is the story of a Danish youth named Humphrey „Hump” van Weyden and his struggles against the sea, as well as his own inner demons. Humphrey Van Weyden is a gentleman, and academic, who has lived a soft life among civilized, like-minded people. He is on a steemer to visit a friend. On this trip, a fog settles and the ship gets struck and sinks. Mr...

The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. An Arkham university professor is contacted by a farmer living in a remote part of Vermont, who claims to have evidence of aliens living in the hills and mining a mysterious metal. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and signi...

The Iron Heel is a distopian utopian socialist novel, told in first person by someone that have read the manuscript finded in a oak, hidden 600 years ago that tolds the life and adventures of a socialist activist Avis Everhard and her husband Ernst Everhard executed in 1932. The Iron Heel is a story with stories within stories...it’s about a past, a present, and a future...all told from the perspective of a man (Jack London) in 1906...read by current readers almost 100 year...

Heavily influenced by Doyle’s growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone’s at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. This is the third and last novel in the „Professor Challenger” series, and is a marked departure from the previous tales. Professor Challenger and Malone return for the adventure, this time exploring the spiritual world. Malone, along with Chal...

The final, and certainly climactic, adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor George Edward Challenger is 1928’s „When the World Screamed”. It is another Professor Challenger story where a new craziness pressures him to make the earth feel the existence of human being on its surface. Professor says the earth is a giant creature and it doesn’t even care or know that we – the human being – exist on its surface. Professor believes that by drilling into the center of the ...

This is one of the works of fiction published during Doyle’s life. Published in 1929, only a year before the author’s death, this short novel amply demonstrates that Doyle still retained all his great abilities as a spinner of riveting yarns, even in his twilight years. The book concerns Maracot’s exploration of the world beneath the sea. Maracot and his companions find themselves stranded on the ocean floor, and discover a very unexpected world, in fact a civilisation, dee...

Mystery of the Cloomber unfolds, revealing Heathstone’s war crime against a Buddhist priest. Narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scottish man, who moves from Edinburgh to Wigtownshire to care for the family estate when his father’s half brother dies. Near the estate is The Cloomber Hall, for years uninhabited, but now the residence of John Berthier Heatherstone, a general of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfold...

„The Poison Belt”, a novella by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is remarkable in that we, with the central characters, are permitted to witness what seems to be a global apocalypse, while enduring only minimal emotional fall out. Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. The mysterious substance suddenly becomes a deadly thre...