Résultats pour "Peter Straub" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

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...

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....

Welcome to another kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven exquisite tales of living, dying, and the terror that lies in between.

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.

24 Stunden lang können die Menschen im Alzir-System ihre Stimme abgeben und damit über das neue Staatsoberhaupt der Solaren Republik entscheiden. Während die Wahl ihren Lauf nimmt, versucht Admiral Isa Jansen mit einer kleinen Gruppe Verbündeter Santana Pendergast zu retten und den Plan des Ketaria-Bundes zu vereiteln. Gleichzeitig macht sich Commodore Ashton dazu bereit, die Dunkle Welle einzusetzen und damit der Republik den Todesstoß zu versetzen. Auch Sjöberg ahnt nicht, dass er durch diese Tat Richard Meridian direkt in die Hände spielt.