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Willy Patrick, respected author of the award-winning young adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind. She is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse, knowing somehow that her daughter, Holly, is being held in the building. But this is impossible—Willy’s daughter is dead.

The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways. The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body - and the shattered souls of all who were present.

Ballard and his considerably younger lover, Sandrine, have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the Amazon River on a luxurious yacht, they spend their days indulging in their macabre pastime. Through a haze of pain and pleasure, the lovers are witness to a series of increasingly sinister portents, dreams and visions that haunt their claustrophobic and disturbing world. With Peter Straub's signature, breathtaking twists and an astonishing climax, you'll never forget The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine.

On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery.

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories....

Willy Patrick, the author of the Caldecott-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind again. Two weeks before her second marriage, on her way home one day, Willy is drawn into the parking lot of a warehouse. Knowing that her daughter, Holly, is being held in that building, she wants to rescue her. But what she knows is impossible, for her daughter is dead.

Nella dormiente cittadina di Milburn, New York, quattro anziani si riuniscono per raccontarsi storie, alcune vere, altre inventate, l’importante è che siano terrificanti. Un passatempo innocente per distrarsi dalla tranquilla routine quotidiana. Ma qualcosa è tornato a perseguitare loro e la piccola città. Una storia che li ha visti protagonisti molto tempo prima. Un errore fatale e crudele, un terribile incidente. E ora scopriranno che nessuno può seppellire il proprio passato per sempre...

L'audiocorso d'inglese di John Peter Sloan vi offre una novità assoluta: per la prima volta imparerete divertendovi, finalmente liberi dallo spiacevole "complesso dell'inglese" e dall'odiosa paura di fare figuracce. Senza perdere tempo a memorizzare vocaboli o espressioni inutili, grazie al metodo Sloan capire e farvi capire sarà una passeggiata. In questo volume dedicato a chi dell'inglese sa poco o niente, John ci svela alcuni trucchi per la pronuncia e per l'uso dei verbi "essere" e "avere". Ci insegna poi una serie di vocaboli (articoli, aggettivi e sostantivi) con cui costruire le prime frasi, e ci spiega i pronomi e le preposizioni. Per concludere, ci guida attraverso i vocaboli della vita quotidiana. Good luck!

Tim Underhill, ora acclamato romanziere, torna nella sua città natale, Millhaven, Illinois, dopo aver ricevuto una telefonata da John Ransom, un vecchio compagno d’armi. Ransom ritiene che ci sia un killer a piede libero, che imita gli omicidi della Rosa Blu di decenni prima, e pensa che sua moglie possa essere una potenziale vittima. Tim chiede aiuto al suo vecchio amico Tom Pasmore, un anziano eremita che ha acquisito una discreta reputazione come esperto investigatore, per aiutarlo a indagare.

Solo quattro uomini sanno chi è Koko. E devono fermarlo. Sono trascorsi ormai molti anni dalla fine della guerra in Vietnam quando quattro reduci appartenenti allo stesso plotone si ritrovano a Washington: un pediatra, un semplice operaio, un avvocato e uno scrittore. Non hanno nulla in comune. Il motivo del loro incontro è legato al passato, a un unico traumatico episodio, improvvisamente rievocato da un agghiacciante fatto di cronaca.

Ogni anno, nel giorno del suo compleanno, Ned Dunstan è perseguitato da visioni di orrore commesse da una figura selvaggia che chiama "Mr. X". Quest'anno, le visioni di Ned diventeranno urla e sangue. Con il compleanno che si avvicina inesorabilmente, una terribile premonizione porta Ned alla sua città natale di Edgerton, Illinois: sua madre si trova sul letto di morte. Tra i sussurri, gli rivela il nome fino ad allora sconosciuto di suo padre e lo avverte di un grave pericolo.

Quando era più piccolo, Tom Pasmore ha quasi perso la vita in un incidente d'auto sull'isola di Mill Walk. Le ferite riportate lo hanno costretto a casa per più di un anno, periodo in cui trascorre molto tempo leggendo romanzi polizieschi. E per qualche oscura ragione, il suo bizzarro vicino di casa, l'anziano di nome Lamont von Heilitz, sembra interessarsi a lui. Tom ha infatti un atteggiamento distaccato nei confronti della vita e delle situazioni. Non è mai stato un ragazzo popolare, semplicemente perché la maggior parte dei suoi amici non lo capisce.

With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.

Two monstrous evils. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous, unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child's play.

An American spy is sent to France on his last assignment. He is to stop an arms merchant from completing a sale to terrorists. Unexpectedly, he learns that his boss has sent a trainee who must learn the tradecraft by observing him from a distance. But soon, all paths violently cross, leaving a trail of bodies.

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders; and much more.

One summer night a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to his home town in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly...

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the ninth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.

Growing older is inevitable. Aging is preventable. In Grow a New Body Cookbook, 9+ delicious, nutrient-dense, plant-based recipes will help you go back to an ancient way of eating that promises to help you on the road to lifelong health. Shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo will show you how to turn your kitchen into a shaman's laboratory so that you can grow potent probiotics to upgrade the health of your biome. Alberto dives deep into the science of why how we eat now is wreaking such havoc on us-and how we can reverse the damage.

Growing older is inevitable, but aging can be prevented, even reversed—but only when you upgrade your brain, using both ancient and modern science, to create psychosomatic health.