Résultats pour "Fang Fang" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

I am vengeance. Tate Aaralyn, a lone vampire vigilante who strikes fear into the hearts of monsters. My fangs puncture, and the flavor of iron-infused retribution drips down my throat when I exact justice. Don't be like them. Don't succumb to bloodlust. Make the b*stards pay. These rules have been my guide, leading me through life in the Glenn. And all had been flowing nicely until I met him…

- A Ca la Viuda, un petit mas dels afores d'un poble instal·lat en la rutina, fa temps que no s'hi acosta ningú. Al seu interior, però, hi batega l'essència de tots aquells que hi van viure i que esperen pacientment el retorn de l'última dona de la família. I un dia hi arriba la Maria...

DAINTY ON THE OUTSIDE, FEROCIOUS ON THE INSIDEMylene has it all: She’s the daughter of nobility, she boasts incredible aptitude with magic and the blade, and she possesses striking vermilion-tinged locks that signify she’s been chosen by God. Yet this elegant warrior hides a shocking...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the story's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

Balthamos is a bureaucrat in Immigration, a part of the governmental Hegemony. He's a werewolf utterly unremarkable other than his choice of life partner, Monarch. Monarch, a colorful vampire who takes center stage wherever he goes, lives with Balthamos in the suburbs of Santsz. And then... rumors begin to spread of an illness come to be known as Wolfsbane. Lunids are reported to be Changing into werewolf form without any relationship to their two moons' influences. It doesn't take long for society to begin to unravel and conspiracy theories to point the finger at--vampires.

After his daughter, Vera, suffers a psychotic break at a high school party and is diagnosed as bipolar, Lucas decides to take her on a trip to Vilnius, hoping the change of scenery will help rouse her from the fog of her medication and bring them closer together. Lucas and his high school sweetheart, Katya, had Vera when they were only 18, and Lucas was not part of Vera's life for most of her childhood.

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More.

Since Peaches woke up in a fantasy world full of monsters and fae, she’s been treated like a piece of tasty human meat. After six years as a blood slave to vampires and the evil Unseelie queen—beholden to all, and master of none—there’s nothing left but a broken shell with a fractured soul. Until a deadly warrior turns up unannounced in her room. Vampire Haze is the muscle of the Fae Guardians elite cadre of 12. He is a spy, a protector of the weak, hammer and sword, a rigid enforcer of rules. He allows no one close to his heart, lest they see the shame driving him.

When Fred formed his own parahuman clan out of necessity, he understood that it was going to come with new responsibilities. Much as he hoped those tasks would center around extra paperwork and perhaps the occasional mandatory class, enough time around the supernatural has taught him to be ready for anything. Or so he thought. As a freelance accountant for the Agency, Fred soon finds himself being tossed into new, unexpected, and perilous situations. 

NEW FRIENDS, FAMILIAR FOESNow that things have quieted down at school, Mylene settles into a fulfilling routine, surrounded by adoring friends…until one day, when she notices a student following her everywhere and casting suspicious glances at her. The girl turns out to be none other than...

David wird aus seinem alten Leben gerissen und landet in einem rätselhaften Camp, das vorgibt, seine verborgenen Talente zu fördern. Dort trifft er Caleb – impulsiv, verschlossen und doch auf seltsame Weise vertraut. Zwischen den beiden wächst eine Freundschaft, die mehr als einmal auf die Probe gestellt wird. Während sie versuchen, sich in einer Welt zurechtzufinden, in der Regeln und Kontrolle über allem stehen, erkennen sie: Sie sind Teil eines Systems, das nicht nur formt, sondern auch täuscht. Wahrheit wird hier gemacht – von jenen, die das Bild der Realität diktieren.

In a world where the lines between predator and prey have blurred beyond recognition, Luna and Harry are caught in the crossfire of a brutal new breed of monsters—engineered killers born from twisted science, faster and deadlier than anything the legends warned about. As cities fall silent and extinction looms, they must navigate a shattered world where survival means fighting not just for life, but for the very soul of humanity.

When Fred formed his own parahuman clan out of necessity, he understood that it was going to come with new responsibilities. Much as he hoped those tasks would center around extra paperwork and perhaps the occasional mandatory class, enough time around the supernatural has taught him to be ready for anything. Or so he thought. As a freelance accountant for the Agency, Fred soon finds himself being tossed into new, unexpected, and perilous situations.

A Slayer’s Oath. A Forbidden Passion. After Roxy’s victory in the Pit, she has an even bigger target on her back. She needs to leave Seattle and never return. But her sister lands on her doorstep and the Slayers strong-arm her to return to the roster, forcing her to stay in Seattle and risk O’Malley’s wrath. But staying in Seattle means more time with a certain vampire prince. Tyee’s interest in Roxy has been noted by the Queen and now his courtship of Roxy escalates. Can their feelings grow under the hothouse environment of the Night Court or will they be crushed under the pressure?

Gretchen Jane Darkmood didn’t ask to grow up with a crook for a dad and a woman constantly tussling with crows for a mother. She didn’t ask to steal armed riflemen’s motorbikes, fly giant steam-powered birds, fall in love in the wild, or have to run from the wolves for her life. But since all she had to pay Mother Fate was a penny she stole off the ground, a life of flying with crows and running with wolves was what she got anyway. Only one place on earth had enough gold for her to buy a new fate: Alaska.

This is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, at the end of the 19th Century. The book is characteristic of London's precise prose style and innovative use of voice and perspective, with much of the novel written from the view-point of the animals. White Fang examines (sometimes graphically) the violent world of wild dogs and the equally violent world of supposedly civilized humans.

When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to explore and learn laws of the Wild. But then his mother is caught and held by old memories of a past relationship with Man, and White Fang follows her into service with the Indians. Life among sled dogs is hardly less cruel and dangerous than living in the Wild, but brutality notches upward when his drunken master sells him to a nasty, twisted hanger-on at a riverside town of white men. He is stripped of everything soft and gentle when forced to fight to the...

Some fight for faith. Some fight for power. Some seek a new wold while others seek to uphold the old traditions. Can vampires find the grace of God or are they truly damned souls? It comes down to new beliefs verses old authority. But does one side really have God on their side?

“A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations. Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me *Shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Books Prize* The...

In the swirling sewers beneath Arkham, excavators uncover a crystalline formation that hints at dark events from the city's past. As the discovery makes headlines, so too does a series of bizarre murders. With no leads, the Arkham police are always one step behind. Acting on a hunch, down-on-his-luck former journalist Andy Van Nortwick reunites with adventurer Jake Williams and struggling filmmaker Maude Brion to unearth the truth. The trio know of the supernatural horrors that lurk beyond this world, and the reality haunts them.