Results for "Knights" in Horror

La profetessa e il cavaliere, in una favola gotica avvolta di mistero dell'autrice bestseller di One dark window e Two twisted crowns. Sybil Delling ha trascorso nove anni sognando di non avere sogni. Come le altre Divinatrici che vivono con lei nella Cattedrale, può prevedere cose terribili prima che accadano, e gente da ogni dove sfida le ventose brughiere del regno di Traum per farle visita e conoscere il futuro. Proprio quando le Divinatrici sono vicine alla fine dei loro anni di servizio, un misterioso cavaliere bussa alla loro porta.

Antony Ferrara is a modern-day sorcerer - a murderer who kills with his supernatural powers. And because nobody believes it, he can work his evil schemes in broad daylight, with a simpering smile. From headless bats to carpets of scarab beetles, from murderous plants to claustrophobic chills in the bowels of a pyramid, Robert Cairn and his Van Helsing-esque father chase Ferrara to Egypt and back to keep him from completing his cunning, nefarious plan.

An exiled priest. A demonic knight. The war between heaven and hell has begun.... Once the chief exorcist for the Vatican, Blake Rossi was thrown out of the church when an exorcism ritual went horribly wrong. And he’s been haunted by his failure ever since. Now, Blake wallows in guilt, and drinks himself to sleep every night. But the former priest knows there are people still plagued by evil. People who need his help. When an old friend offers a chance for redemption, Blake agrees and becomes a freelance exorcist.

The Knights Hospitaller battle ancient evil in medieval Rhodes as mysterious disappearances and insane devil-worshippers threaten to turn the entire island into a bloodbath...When three Hospitallers go missing from a local village outraged Grand Master Foulques de Villaret sends the English knight Sir Richard-at-Lee and his trusted sergeant-at-arms Jacob to discover their fate.

Shattered. Broken beyond repair. Im the shell of the woman I used to be. The deeper I fall from reality, the worse things get. Only theres one person who refuses to let me derail. Romero Pierce. Calloused. Sinister. Lethal. Hes my father's second in command, and so goddamn handsome its...

Canterbury Cathedral, 1170. Four knights break sanctuary to brutally murder Archbishop Thomas Becket for their king, Henry II. Running from their crime, the four knights - Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy, Reginald FitzUrse, and Richard le Brett - flee north to Knaresborough Castle, where Morville is overlord. Initially celebrating ridding their king of the pest that Becket had become, they find themselves increasingly isolated as the church and public opinion turn against them.

There are many things that go bump in the night, and I am one of them. Witches are supposed to be good, powerful, and omniscient, but unfortunately for me, I seem to lack all of those qualities. I have been battling the darkness that lives within me since birth, destined to eradicate goodness from our world, but one day, I have no choice but to embrace who and what I am. In order to stop the destruction of the world as we know it, I must put my trust in not only myself, but also my unlikely companions. 

The immortal knight, Sir Richard of Ashbury, hunts his nemesis through centuries of war.... AD 1190, England. A young knight's family is slaughtered. As the lords of Europe seek to retake Jerusalem from the mighty Saladin, Sir Richard swears an oath of vengeance against Earl William de Ferrers, who has returned from the dead with an insatiable thirst for violence. Richard stalks William and his savage knights across Europe to the Holy Land, fights in the crusades' bloodiest battles alongside Richard the Lionheart and unearths a secret of great evil under the hills of Palestine.

Growing up in Stone Brook with my aunt and uncles, I wanted nothing more than to find my place in this world. I longed to discover more about my missing past and make sense of my wild magic. Little did I know those answers would come with so many more questions. My nightmares are now a reality as the forces against my men and I tear us apart. Heaven and Hell are colliding, the shadows are circling, and the enemy is closing in. But I’m no stranger to the dark.

Growing up in Boston, Chloe Mayfield has always felt a special affinity for the ocean. The salt-filled breezes, fresh lobster from the bay, and familiar songs of the sailors maneuvering their ships in and out of the harbor are just a few of the things she loves. Dead knights washing up on the...

Throughout fiction, there have always been heroes who have fallen from grace. Champions of honor, decency, and order who have become villains through some traumatic event or a deep personal flaw. Blackest Knights is a collection of 19 tales by some of independent fantasy's best authors that follow a collection of those heroes who fell to temptation. From tales of bloody-handed hypocrites to space pirates, you'll find some truly fascinating works within.

My memories and my family had been ripped from me. I have been stalked, tortured, abandoned, and betrayed...but I’m not broken. This world is not what I thought it to be, and while my new relationships only grow stronger by the day, tensions rise, bringing new and old enemies to our door. Only this time, I don't have to face them alone. I’ve learned there are worse things in life than the monsters hiding in the shadows, and I’m done cowering in fear.

Olivia finally has everything she fought for—an unconventional man who loves her fiercely, a family of her own, and the fragile promise of a peaceful life after chaos. But forever was never meant to come easily. When a single overlooked detail cracks open the past, strange shadows begin to follow her and her family, and devotion turns into something darker… something watching, waiting, and unwilling to let go. As love and loss blur together, Olivia is forced to confront the terrifying cost of survival... and the truth that some bonds refuse to break, even in death.

Knight of the Demon Queen is the third book in Barbara Hambly’s fantasy tour de force, The Winterlands – an epic, classic quartet full of high stakes, magic and dragons. Once the most powerful mage in the land, defeater of dragons, Jenny Waynest is now a broken woman. She was possessed and...

It's been a thousand years since the Rising. Earth is a wasteland, and a holy order of knights is all that stands between what remains of civilization and the brigands and demons trying to bring it all down. When the oldest of these knights, Abe, isn't trying to keep his brothers in line, he's tirelessly attempting to decode the riddles that have guided the Knights Eternal for the past two centuries. The visions Abe's been having aren't helping matters.

My mate is being tried for treason, and I’m running out of time to find the Crystals of Harmony. We’ve looked everywhere for the griffin stone, but it remains out of reach. Then our worst fears are realized. The griffin stone lies with the Black Claw. To find it, we’ll have to become members of the cult. The only way to stop the extinction of the fae is to join the dark side. By connecting with my Unseelie past, we have a chance to end the king’s reign of terror. I’ll be leading the charge when it’s time to bring the monarchy down.

The vampire count in Charlotte is at least three. Or more. As far as the unhappy boys are concerned, anything more than two is a crowd not to be tolerated. While tracking down the killer and the competition, they encounter coeds, booby traps (not related to the coeds), and a hirsute bounty hunter with a moon fetish and a bad attitude. To catch the killer, Jimmy will have to survive a dive headfirst into the great unwashed horde of Dorkdom (game night at the local comic shop).

In the fourth installment of The Black Knight Chronicles, Jimmy Black is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day and a darned fine pity party, serving the finest alcohol, when a call from his not-quite-girlfriend-cop forces him to sober up and stare at jawbones. "Cold case" takes on a whole new meaning when vampire detectives risk life and limbs (literally) to connect a series of decades-old kidnappings in Charlotte with current missing persons cases. All clues lead through the veil of Faerieland to the legendary Goblin's Market, a magical bazaar where anything is available--for a price. The boys can barely stay out of trouble in Charlotte. As fresh meat at The Market, they'll be lucky to survive the day.

The Black Knight Chronicles: lots of vampires. No sparkles. Serious snark. This bundle includes books one through there: Hard Day's Knight, Back in Black, and Knight Moves.

When university student Amelia and her best friend Lucas travel to a remote Scottish cabin to search for their missing professor, they expect loneliness. They don't expect the suffocating silence, the blood on the floor, or the way the forest seems to breathe. Something is watching them from the shadows, something that wears their faces and waits in a glassy black lake that shouldn't exist. As Professor Anderson's diary unravels a descent into madness, the line between reality and nightmare dissolves. Tapping at the windows grows louder. Reflections twist into grinning, inhuman masks.