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Summer. Massachusetts. An old Silver Wraith with a frightening history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished business. Anyone could be next. We're going to Christmasland.... NOS4A2 is an old-fashioned horror novel in the best sense. Claustrophobic, gripping and terrifying, this is a story that will have you on the edge of the seat while you listen and leaving the lights on while you sleep.

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.

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.

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, a raging headache... and a pair of horns growing from his temples. Once, Ig lived the life of the blessed. Ig had it all, and more - he had the love of Merrin Williams, a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic. Then beautiful, vivacious Merrin was gone - raped and murdered, under inexplicable circumstances - with Ig the only suspect.

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.

Some flames burn too brightly to be extinguished. This exceptional new thriller from Joe Hill is essential reading for 2016 and perfect for fans of Justin Cronin's The Passage. In a world overtaken by a deadly and dramatic new virus, Harper is determined to live long enough to deliver her baby. But when all it takes is a spark to start a deadly blaze, she's going to need some help from the mysterious fireman.

"Buy my stepfather's ghost, read the e-mail." So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it - because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books, and all the rest of the paraphernalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock.

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.

Four short novels from the author of The Fireman and Horns. 'Rain' explores an escalating apocalyptic event, as downpours of nails spread out across the world. In 'Loaded', a mall security guard heroically stops a mass shooting, but his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. 'Snapshot, 1988' tells of a kid in Silicon Valley who finds himself threatened. And in 'Aloft', a young man parachutes for the first time...and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Noch ahnt keiner der Lockes, wen Bode da aus dem Brunnen befreit hat: Die "Brunnenfrau" ist ein Dämon, dessen Geist dort gefangen gehalten war. Dieser Dämon war es auch, der Sam Lesser damit beauftragt hat, die magischen Schlüssel ausfindig zu machen... Alsbald nimmt die "Brunnenfrau" mithilfe des Geschlechter-Schlüssels die Gestalt eines jungen Mannes an und wird zu Zack. Um an weitere Schlüssel zu kommen, erschleicht sich Zack das Vertrauen von Tyler und Kinsey, den beiden älteren Locke-Geschwistern. Doch ein alter Lehrer an der Schule droht, die Pläne des Dämons zu durchkreuzen: Professor Ridgeway erkennt in Zack seinen ehemaligen Schüler Lukas, der vor Jahren spurlos verschwunden ist.

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.

Eleven short stories from award-winning author Joe Hill, building on the success of his blockbuster novels. Some new, some previously published, all terrifying. Includes 'Full Throttle' and 'In the Tall Grass', both collaborations with Stephen King and both being filmed at the time of writing.

Eric is a 20-something burnout who just lost a girlfriend and a job. Once, though, he was the Red Bolt, and with his home-made cape, he could fly. Now the cape is back in his hands, and Eric's future is looking up... and up....

Imogene is young and beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now.

Max van Helsing's father - infamous, angry, brilliant - is a man haunted by the darkest of secrets...secrets which he will, one cold night just after the turn of the century, unfold at last to his oldest son.