Russian Horror

The doors to my apartment complex have been welded shut. That might have been a good idea. The town has been evacuated. Strange beasts roam the streets outside. Our only choice is to wait for the rescue… But will it come? Yuri - a young man from a backwater Russian town - wakes to find the doors to his crumbling apartment complex welded shut... from the inside. Before anyone can make sense of it, something not from this world kills a postman stranded on the other side of the door. And when the town's old evacuation sirens begin to blare, Yuri and everyone else in the building realize an ...

A Russian Drama best seller now in its second edition! In February, 1959 nine young hikers on a cross country ski trip mysteriously died under horrific circumstances. It is one of the great mysteries of our times. They would be found with missing eyes, even a missing tongue, crushed bones, and stripped of their clothes (later found radioactive) in minus 50 degree temperatures. Theories range from their being murdered by the CIA to space aliens, to even "Abominable Snowmen". This book explores this famous incident using a technique known as "Higher criticism" to explain their terrifying ...

An author retreats to a remote cabin to finish a long-overdue novel. Alone with a mysterious device — a living diorama that brings scenes to life — the writing begins to flow again. Characters form. A world takes shape. And for the first time in months, the story feels real. Too real. Inside the diorama, Dylan and Sinéad are trying to hold their marriage together after devastating loss. But something is wrong. Time slips. Behaviour changes. Each suspects the other is breaking. The author watches it unfold… and begins to realise the story is no longer entirely under their control.

The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel—a brilliant dark fantasy with "the potential to be a modern classic" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and...

A young man leaves his backdoor Russian town and heads to Moscow, never to be poor again. With each day, he grows more and more desperate, until he meets an old geologist with an intriguing and surprisingly profitable offer: to join him on his trip to the depths of Siberia, the largest forest on the planet, and become a "black digger" - one of those who find and excavate mammoth tusks with the purpose of selling them as ivory to the highest bidder.

Un caballero de industria ruso, Chichikov, ha descubierto que si compra a sus antiguos duenos los siervos muertos despues del ultimo censo, puede lograr grandes subvenciones y esas son las almas muertas. La meta del autor fue "tratar de mostrar el alma rusa, con su variedad de dotes y riquezas morales pero tambien con sus defectos, que caracterizan al pueblo ruso".

A spine-tingling, queer gothic horror novel where two men are drawn into an otherworldly spiral. “A gothic masterpiece. A devastating exploration of humanity's capacity for evil."​ —Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters John Sackville will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his...

Nicolai Gogol's classic ghost story set in the streets of St. Petersburg in the 19th century.

The myths of Ukraine were never written in ink; they were whispered by the wind and carved into the banks of the Dnipro. Step into a land defined by extremes – where endless golden steppes meet the crushing density of the Carpathian forests. For centuries, the people here lived by a "dual faith," a survival strategy where the church provided salvation, but the spirits of the earth provided the rules. Whispers from the Dnipro is not just a collection of fairy tales; it is a record of the negotiations between humanity and the wild. In these pages, the spirits are not monsters to be slain by...

Hotel "Mechta". A resort for the wealthy in the Russian wilderness. A place where, supposedly, dreams come true. A wonderful place where your every need is served, where the staff is always polite… And where there are almost no other guests. Arthur comes there as a last resort to save his dwindling career. To partake in that dream life and turn his life around. But he quickly finds out that the image of a perfect hotel is just a façade. That at any moment, that beautiful dream he's living can turn into a nightmare. That the empty halls of the hotel have a life of their own and are host ...

Following the mysterious disappearance of a group of passengers aboard the Bering Express, which routinely travels across the visionary bridge connecting Alaska and Russia, two FBI agents will be sent as the spearhead to that northernmost region of the planet. Their mission is to locate a terrorist group hiding with the hostages on the Diomede Islands, which lie halfway between Russia and the U.S. Upon reaching the area, nothing will be as it seems, and both agents will find themselves caught in a situation where they are outnumbered by individuals with evolutionary advantages.

"Вий - есть колоссальное создание простонародного воображения. Таким именем называется у малороссиян начальник гномов, у которого веки на глазах идут до самой земли. Вся эта повесть есть народное предание. Я не хотел ни в чем изменять его и рассказываю почти в такой же простоте, как слышал." - Н.В. Гоголь.

Книга очерков и новелл в стиле детективного триллера "Кладбищенские истории" составлена из шести самостоятельных глав, каждая из которых посвящена одному из известнейших и загадочнейших кладбищ мира: Донское кладбище (Москва); Хайгейтское кладбище (Лондон); Кладбище Пер-Лашез (Париж); Кладбище Грин-Вуд (Нью-Йорк); Иностранное кладбище (Иокогама); Кладбище Патриархов на Масличной горе (Иерусалим).

PROJECT DENATUS SUMMARY In the frigid, isolated outskirts of a 1940s Russian town, a clandestine laboratory hums with the sterile tension of forbidden science, serving as the epicenter for Project Denatus—an experiment dedicated to mapping the final flickers of human consciousness. Beneath the harsh glow of overhead lamps, men in pristine white coats stand huddled over a long, metallic table where a young woman lies in the threshold of expiration. Nearby, a primitive monitor traces the jagged rhythm of her fading brain activity, its vacuum tubes glowing with eerie amber light. As the ...

He thought he was her savior. He was actually unlocking his own cage. Dr. Julian Reaves is the Agency’s most valuable asset. A brilliant neuro-linguist, he is the man the government calls when a mind is too broken to speak. He is arrogant, controlled, and untouchable. Then they bring him Asset K-9. She is a ghost from a deep-cover Russian program. Shattered, silent, and terrified, she refuses to speak to anyone but the Doctor. Julian believes he is the only one who can save her. He thinks he is meticulously piecing her mind back together. He is wrong. Anya isn’t broken. She is a weapon ...

Something for me, something for you. They took innocent children, whose mothers had struck a deal. In exchange for a cure for a barren mortal woman, they would receive a deathless child. When Renata's grandson was born, his future was already determined by the Rozhanitsy, the three Russian fates who assign destinies at the birth of human children. However, Jasminka, Renata's daughter, had already made a deal. Now, the Leshly were coming for Renata's grandson . Did Renata's actions already seal her own fate?

An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he...

No one is innocent in the eyes of Les Cavaliers de l’ombre. If your name ends up on my list, your time is up. No regrets. No mercy. No conscience. Until the enemy becomes my darkest obsession. Two days ago, I paid a price to fulfill a vendetta. Twenty minutes ago, I threw it all away. I came to take her life but claimed it instead. Now the proud Bratva princess is bound to a monster and chained to the past.

They thought they had captured a rich old man. They were wrong. In the shadowy, frozen outskirts of St. Petersburg, Lucian Farest lives in isolated opulence. An enigma wrapped in wealth, he glides through the city in his Bentley, a ghost with no past and seemingly no protection. To the brutal Voronin crime family, he is the perfect target—a simple kidnapping for an easy ransom. Their mistake will be their last. When the mob’s arrogant young heir snatches Farest, they drag him to a fortified stronghold, expecting fear and compliance. Instead, Farest sits calmly in his chains and delivers...

В своей новой книге Пелевин вновь прибегает к использованному в "Empire V" делению мира на вампиров и жертв. Но кто из них олицетворяет добро, а кто зло и есть ли вообще абсолютное воплощение зла и не запачканное кровью добро - вот то, что пытается понять автор. На первый взгляд все достаточно просто.