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Arthur Roth is a lonely sixth-grader with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting the hell kicked out of him. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town.

Success seems to come easily for some people. They live in luxurious homes, send their children to the best schools, drive fancy cars, travel around the world, and still have resources available to help their loved ones and contribute to the communities in which they live. They are no brighter or better educated than you. They do not work any harder than you do. They do not sacrifice their lives to earn a living; on the contrary, they earn more than enough to fully enjoy their lives. What is their secret?

Eddie Carroll is sick to death of editing the collection America's Best New Horror, sick of reading through second-rate stories in order to find the few "best new". But one afternoon he stumbles across a new story so remarkable that he soon embarks on a quixotic quest to find its author - a quest he may not live to regret.

Charlie Manx ist ein sehr, sehr böser Mann mit einem sehr, sehr bösen Auto. Er entführt Kinder nach "Christmasland", wo ewige Weihnacht herrschen soll. Die Kinder erwartet dort jedoch etwas Grausames, und es gibt keinen Weg zurück. Einzig Vicky könnte dem Schrecken Einhalt gebieten. Als ihr kleiner Sohn verschwindet, entbrennt zwischen ihr und Charlie ein Kampf, der jeden Albtraum verblassen lässt.

Nolan Lerner is guilty. His past is a thing choked with secrets, blood � and sunflowers. Only Nolan knows what really happened that summer in 1977, when his younger brother, an idiot savant named Morris, built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors inside, doors leading into other worlds.

En estos magistrales relatos (dos coescritos con Stephen King), Joe Hill disecciona conflictos muy humanos en escenarios fantasmagóricos. Una puerta que da a un mundo prodigioso y lleno de maravillas se torna sangrienta cuando la atraviesa un grupo de cazadores. Dos hermanos se adentran en un laberíntico campo de hierba alta para ayudar a un niño que pide auxilio entre la maleza. Un camionero se ve envuelto en una sofocante persecución por el desierto de Nevada. Cuatro adolescentes suben a un antiguo carrusel donde cada vuelta tiene consecuencias espeluznantes.

"Instantánea" es la perturbadora historia de un adolescente de Silicon Valley que se descubre amenazado por el dueño de una cámara Polaroid capaz de borrar los recuerdos con cada foto que hace. "En el aire" nos lleva por todo lo alto junto a un chico que, en su primer salto en paracaídas, aterriza como náufrago en una nube imposiblemente sólida.

Uma lenda do rock, o cinquentão Judas Coyne coleciona objetos macabros. Por isso, quando participa de um estranho leilão na internet, não pensa duas vezes antes de fazer uma oferta. O roqueiro arremata um paletó supostamente assombrado pelo espírito do falecido dono. Sempre às voltas com os próprios fantasmas—o pai violento, as mulheres que usou, os colegas de banda que traiu— , Jude não tem medo de encarar mais um. Quando o item é entregue na sua casa, numa caixa preta em forma de coração, logo fica claro que não se trata de um fantasma imaginário.

Jack's mother is a storyteller, a game-player. On an impulsive trip out to the family lake house, she spins a macabre tale for Jack and his father - a tale that, as the weekend progresses, Jack finds more and more difficult to untangle from his family's real life.

Sommerzeit, Ferienzeit: Familie Locke verbringt den Urlaub in ihrem Ferienhaus in der Nähe von San Francisco. Doch die idyllischen Tage enden abrupt, als ein ehemaliger Schüler von Vater Rendell Locke auftaucht und ihn brutal bedroht: Sam Lesser und sein gewalttätiger Kumpel sind auf der Suche nach geheimnisvollen Schlüsseln. Die Situation eskaliert... Nach dem Mord an ihrem Mann flieht Nina Locke mit ihren drei Kindern Bode, Tyler und Kinsey nach Lovecraft Mansion. Dort lebt Rendells jüngerer Bruder Duncan, der die Familie aufnimmt. Nina hofft in dem alten Familiensitz, der unter dem Namen Keyhouse bekannt ist, zur Ruhe zu kommen.

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Ein verwunschenes Herrenhaus, das die wildesten Fantasien entfesselt. Magische Schlüssel, die Türen zu anderen Welten öffnen. Eine glückliche Familie, über die das ultimativ Böse hereinbricht. Eine Graphic Novel, die zu einem spektakulären Dark Fantasy Audiodrama mit einer bombastischen Soundkulisse wird. Im idyllischen Sommerurlaub bricht das Grauen über die Lockes herein: Vater Rendell wird vor den Augen seiner Familie brutal ermordet. Verstört und gebrochen zieht Mutter Nina mit ihren Kindern Bode, Kinsey und Tyler von San Francisco ins Keyhouse, dem alten Familiensitz in New England.

Bobby Conroy's made a lot of mistakes - the biggest, perhaps, when he let Harriet Rutherford slip away from him. And now the two of them � and Harriet's young son � are all extras on the set of Dawn of the Dead, and Bobby has the chance to see what could have been.

Francis is unhappy. Francis is picked on. Francis doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and all of Calliphora, Nevada, will shudder to hear him sing.

Wyatt can't help it: he screws things up, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose. But taking a shortcut home one day, he finds himself caught in the middle of a bizarre, dangerous situation, with one chance � maybe � to save a life.

Come visit Dr. Alinger in his Museum of Silence, where every breath could be your last.

Eine weltweite Pandemie ist ausgebrochen, und keiner ist davor gefeit: Alle Infizierten zeigen zunächst Markierungen auf der Haut, bevor sie urplötzlich in Flammen aufgehen. Die USA liegt in Schutt und Asche, und inmitten des Chaos versucht die Krankenschwester Harper Grayson, sich und ihr ungeborenes Kind zu schützen. Doch dann zeigt auch sie die ersten Symptome. Jetzt kann sie nur noch der "Fireman" retten.

There's no end to the things that terrify Homer Feltz: tinfoil, fast food, his shopaholic Aunt Mandy. Only his father, manager of a disastrously bad major-league team, seems to understand him, and offers him any refuge from a world quickly becoming too big, too grown-up, and too crowded with everyday horrors for Homer to manage.

Life isn't always fair and certainly never easy. As Christians we are often told to "just have faith" or maybe pray a little harder as if the trials of life we face should be easy to navigate if you just recite the right words. But sometimes the journey we are given is filled with obstacles intended for our growth but painful to endure, and the last thing you want to hear is another well meaning cliché or unsympathetic pat on the back. You'd rather hear someone be honest and say "me too" or "I've been there and know just how you feel". If you are looking for a book that fixes your life in ...

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .