“Keep your mind right, put your body in action and let your spirit guide you.”
These are the words keeping her sane after her husband takes her into isolation in northern Canada. But after three months with only a servant, a television and the screams of another captive keeping her company, she begins to lose touch with reality – even forgetting her own name. With the help of an unexpected ally, she discovers an inner strength and powers previously unknown; changing her perspective and realigning her past, present and future.
كان الجميع يعلم أنه عصبى .. هذه ليست المشكلة، المشكلة أنه كان يعترف بهذا، كان يعترف أنه عصبى، سريع الاستثارة، ومندفع؛ لكنه لم يحاول تغيير ذلك أبداً، كان ينتابه الغضب ويندفع فى السباب كالسيل العارم لأتفه الأسباب، وأحيانا بدون أسباب تذكر، يفقد أعصابه بسهولة فيثور دون أن يبالى بالعواقب، برميل من البارود قابل للاشتعال فى أى لحظة كما يحلو للبعض أن يصفه، تلك كانت طبيعته المميزة، وهكذا مضت حياته، مشاكل له .. ومأساة للآخرين ممن أوقعهم حظهم العاثر فى دائرة التعامل معه...
جيرانه يخشون الاقتراب منه بعد أن علمتهم التجارب أن الاحتكاك به ينتهى دوما بنتائج وخيمة، زملاءه فى العمل يواصلون الشكوى منه ، وأصدقاءه يتناقصون تدريجياً.. فماذا سيفعل فى حياته؟ وما هى المشاكل التى ستواجهه؟ وماذا سيواجه؟ .
The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, 'Darkness Under the Sun' is the perfect read for Halloween — or for any haunted night — and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of 'What the Night Knows', the forthcoming novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
There once was a killer who knew the night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide within its shadows. When to hunt.
He roamed from town to town, city to city, choosing his prey for their beauty and innocence. His cruelties were infinite, his humanity long since forfeit. But still . . . he had not yet discovered how to make his special mark among monsters, how to come fully alive as Death.
This is the story of how he learned those things, and of what we might do to ensure that he does not visit us.
Inspector Wilde is a rabid fan of tit-tat, the broadsheet arguments that get printed several times a day; the Chief Inspector thinks he's an idiot, but Wilde's strange reading habits may just crack this case wide open.
27 fiction, 4 non-fiction entries imagine technology in Victorian era and philosophize on influences. Intro, bios, notes. Fiction “Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn “Addison Howell and the Clockroach” by Cherie Priest “On Wooden Wings” by Paolo Chikiamco “Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham” by Lev Grossman “The Heart Is the Matter” by Malissa Kent “Mother Is a Machine” by Catherynne M. Valente “Possession” by Ben Peek “Beatrice” by Karin Tidbeck “Arbeitskraft” by Nick Mamatas “Study, for Solo Piano” by Genevieve Valentine “Beside Calais” by Samantha Henderson “An Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid)” by David Erik Nelson, Morgan Johnson, and Fritz Swanson “A Handful of Rice” by Vandana Singh “Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer “Salvage” by Margaret Ronald “Urban Drift” by Andrew Knighton “Ascension” by Leow Hui Min Annabeth “Nowhere Fast” by Christopher Rowe “The Effluent Engine” by N. K. Jemisin “To Follow the Waves” by Amal El-Mohtar “Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” by JY Yang “The Seventh Expression of the Robot General” by Jeffrey Ford “The Stoker Memorandum” by Lavie Tidhar “Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak “Goggles (c.1910)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan “Peace in Our Time” by Garth Nix “White Fungus” by Bruce Sterling
Nonfiction “Winding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam” by Amal El-Mohtar “Steampunk Shapes Our Future” by Margaret Killjoy “From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground” by Jaymee Goh “The (R)Evolution of Steampunk” by Austin Sirkin
Meeting the family is scary. Surviving them is a nightmare.
Connie can’t deny she’s nervous about meeting her boyfriend’s family. Spending the weekend at their ritzy woodland summer home, Evan’s already given her fair warning: that his parents are cold, snobbish, and especially unpleasant toward those outside their usual social circles.
So when Evan’s mother warmly greets them with open arms, Connie is as confused as he is. Evan’s parents are nothing like he described. They’re so friendly, in fact, Evan himself can hardly believe they’re real.
Then, while helping Evan’s mother with dinner preparations, Connie overhears strange noises coming from the basement—what almost sounds like voices calling out for help.
Connie doesn't realize that once the door is opened, it can’t be closed. Or that once she descends those rickety steps into the darkness below... she may never see the light of day again.
From horror author Abe Moss comes a relentlessly fast-paced supernatural nightmare that will leave you gripping the pages long into the night, and afraid to turn out the lights long after you're done.
A Story of Yesterday is a concise and straight punch to the jaw of life. Under a sky of different colors germinates a magical story of survival, where the result of each choice, enclosed in this particular tale, will snatch the whereabouts of each story forever.
The singular journey of Odd Thomas is approaching its unforgettable conclusion in Saint Odd. But before Odd’s destiny is revealed, this exclusive eBook short story looks back—way back—to where it all began for Odd Thomas and Stormy Llewellyn, two souls who are destined to be together forever. Amid the dizzying rides, tantalizing games of chance, and fanciful attractions of a state fair, two teenage sweethearts on the cusp of life and love’s pleasures find their way to a shadowy carnival tent brimming with curiosities. There, from the bizarre and enthralling Gypsy Mummy, a mechanized merchant of dreams and prognosticator of tomorrows, the young couple learns what fate promises for them. But fate, for Odd Thomas and Stormy Llewellyn, is something altogether full of dark corners, sharp edges, and things no seer or soothsayer could ever anticipate.
And for Odd Thomas, a gallant fry cook from a sleepy California desert town, the future beckons—to listen to unquiet spirits, pursue unsettling mysteries, and learn shocking truths . . . for a purpose far greater than himself.
Acclaim for Dean Koontz and his Odd Thomas novels “This is Koontz working at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human the nature of evil, the grip of fate and the power of love.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The nice young fry cook with the occult powers is Koontz’s most likable creation . . . candid, upright, amusing and sometimes withering.” —The New York Times
“One would be hard-pressed to find a more satisfying read. . . . Not since Watchers has Dean Koontz created such an endearing and enduring character as Odd Thomas. . . . A superb story from one of our contemporary masters.”—San Antonio Express-News “An inventive . . . mix of suspense, whimsy and uplift.”—The Washington Post “Heartfelt and provocative . . . a wonderfully rich and entertaining story.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“Suspense, tension, and surprising plot twists . . . Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of his work. . . . One of the master storytellers of this or any age.”—The Tampa Tribune
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