Livres - Bibliographie

...Three brothers traipse across a post-apocalyptic landscape, encountering unspeakable horrors...

...A young boy growing up in suburban hell thinks there might be more to his home town than meets the eye, what with all the children going missing...

...A woman dying of cancer is given a way out, if only she is willing to pay the price...

...The crew of a space station must battle their fears and a strange alien relic when they are isolated from humanity... if humanity exists any longer...

These stories and more await inside the pages of The Gate : 13 Dark & Odd Tales, the new compilation by Robert J. Duperre, author of The Fall : The Rift Book I. Also contributing to this collection are the talented Mercedes M. Yardley, David Dalglish, David McAfee, and Daniel Pyle.

Prague, 1787. L'intendant Karl Maria von Weber est confronté à une série de crimes atroces alors que la ville se prépare à assister à la Première de Don Giovanni, l'opéra du fameux compositeur Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

L'assassin laisse près de ses victimes un morceau de parchemin avec un dessin et des écritures que personne n'est capable de comprendre. Toutes les pistes se dirigent peu à peu vers Mozart...

The Yellowstone Caldera has erupted once every 600,000 years. We're 40,000 years overdue.

Lava flows stretch for hundreds of miles. A cloud of ash billows east, burying the Midwest, destroying crops, and falling upon the Pacific Coast like a warm, dead snow. The remnants of the United States flees south as the global temperatures plummet.

Amid this total devastation are stories of families, friends, sons and fathers and wives : the survivors. Within are eleven stories focusing on the human element of such a catastrophe, from an elderly couple gathering to await their death to a father sealing his shelter in hopes of keeping the air breathable for his daughter. Contributing to this collection include many popular and up-and-coming independent authors, including David McAfee, Daniel Arenson, and more.

The world of tomorrow is the world of the unknown.

This collection of eight stories includes :

"Spectrum" - A highly adaptable alien crashes into a Shoney's in Tennessee.

"The Fortune Teller's Lament" - A psychic finds his life slowly ruined by a coin-operated fortune-telling machine.

"The Officefrau" - A strange invasive species is moving into Dave's office.

"The Fixer" - At first, Norton thought he'd found an accounting error. Now he's spending Christmas Eve with a special security agent from his company, and learning he found much more.

"Bad Code" - Donald lost himself deep inside the company network, and now he's trying to put himself back together.

"The Long Night" - A spaceship crew is taking a few hundred million tons of radioactive waste away from civilized space. But there's another kind of evil inside the cargo bay, and it wants out.

Plus two bonus stories by Amanda Hocking - "The Second Coming of Pippykins" and "Of Shoes and Doom".

LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES is a collection of 25 100-word shorts that range from darkly comic to downright terrifying and wrong. Some shorts feature ghouls and monsters while others are simply about people behaving very, very badly. Which is scarier ? Find out in this sick and twisted collection.

They may only be a few words long, but that doesn’t lessen the bloodshed any...

A sinister puppet finally makes a new friend.

A man learns about his bleak future.

A killer has another painful lesson to teach.

From the author of LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES comes this terrifying and amusing follow-up. 30 100-word shorts about horrible ghouls, monsters and deranged, bloodthirsty lunatics. In these drabbles, you'll run into kid-hungry goblins, sadistic dolls, zombies and psychopaths who believe that violence can solve just about anything.

Disgusting, creepy and darkly comic, LESSONS II : ANOTHER MORBID DRABBLE COLLECTION is bound to entertain, as well as horrify.

There's always time for another lesson...

Features bonus story by David McAfee, from his horror collection DEVIL MUSIC AND 18 OTHER STORIES.

A sister's doll doesn't take kindly to insults, and proves it.

A puppet maker believes his creations are out to get him.

A mother can't stand her son's new favorite toy... and for good reason.

In Michael Crane's latest collection of terrifying and darkly comic drabbles, you'll find out why Playtime is only fun for those with vicious intentions. In these thirty 100-word stories you'll run into deranged toys with old scores to settle, homicidal sociopaths and other unapologetic creatures that lurk in the shadows.

We've been expecting you...

The morbid 100-word shorts of chaos and pure, sinister evil are back in LESSONS IV : The Dead Carnival and Other Morbid Drabbles . In his latest installment of twenty-nine horrifying and darkly humorous stories, author Michael Crane takes you on a trip to the carnival you'll never forget (and a trip you may not survive). Oh, there will be games that cheat you out of something far more valuable than money. Rides will break down, but not necessarily by accident. Nobody leaves happy. In fact, nobody leaves at all.

Welcome to the Dead Carnival... a place that truly lives up to its name.

Features bonus drabbles/shorts by authors Daniel Pyle, Robert J. Duperre, Jason Letts, Daniel Arenson, J.L. Bryan, M.S. Verish, and M.P. McDonald.

This latest addition to the bestselling 52 Great Tips series features backgammon — the centuries-old game whose popularity is exploding today, thanks to exciting new opportunities to play online. Starting with the basic rules, Michael Crane, a leading British player, explains everything both beginners and advanced competitors need to know. He shows the newcomer that what looks at first like a simple game of chance offers deep strategic challenges. And for the reader who learns how to calculate the odds, he offers winning advice on the best ways to handle different situations on the board. The tips (some of them contributed by other international players) cover everything from the opening moves to the subtleties of using the doubling cube.

IN DECLINE is a short story collection about people who are trying to get by the best way they can, for better or worse. Gossip, bizarre love, peer pressure, addiction, heartbreak and loss are only a few of the topics covered in these nine stories where characters are faced with tough choices and ugly truths about life, the world and within themselves.

El Libro de la Gloria de los Reyes, el texto sagrado de los coptos, anuncia que llegará un día en que el Profeta revelará al mundo el contenido del Arca de la Alianza. Pero ese momento también es temido por quienes, con tal revelación, quedarán privados de su poder terrenal y espiritual.

Mary Campion es una joven abogada norteamericana, pasional e idealista, que trabaja para una ONG especializada en adopciones internacionales. En la ciudad de Aksun se tropieza con el ejecutivo británico Jack Miles, quien intenta aclarar el destino de ciertos fondos enviados a Etiopía por la multinacional para la que trabaja. De repente se ven envueltos en una intriga que hunde sus raíces en las grutas de la comunidad esenia de Qumrán, en los documentos secretos de los caballeros templarios y en los oscuros pasillos del Vaticano.

Pronto descubrirán que quienes se sienten amenazados por el Arca de la Alianza son demasiado poderosos, y las vidas de ambos demasiado insignificantes.