Résultats pour "Peter Straub" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

Les Territoires sont peuplés de chimères, de bonnes fées et de démons. Nul n'y entre, pas même un enfant, sans risquer de perdre sa vie et son âme... Une plage déserte, quelque part sur la côte Est des États-unis. Jack Sawyer, douze ans, scrute l'horizon, tourmenté... Sa mère se meurt d'un mal inconnu, et Jack désespère de pouvoir l'aider.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from 25 writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre. Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with the sometimes-predictable hallmarks of their peers. Showcasing this cutting-edge talent, Poe’s Children now brings the best of the genre’s stories to a wider audience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ihr neuester Fall führt Dr. Russel Owen und sein Team zur New Yorker Comic Con. Der erfolgreiche Comickünstler Silas Robinson, Erfinder des Superhelden "Asphalt Boy", stürzte aus einem Fenster des Convention-Hotels in den Tod. Suizid oder Mord? Die Spurenlage ist unklar, noch dazu gibt es eine Reihe an Verdächtigen. Die Rechtsmediziner des NYPD haben wieder einmal alle Hände voll zu tun.

Der erfolgreiche Radiomoderator Steve Brenner wird während seiner Night Show umgebracht und stirbt live on air. Diagnose: Giftmord! An Verdächtigen mangelt es nicht gerade - denn Brenner war ein arrogantes Ekel, das die Leute wie Fußabtreter behandelt hat. Seine Kollegin Connie Ellsworth übernimmt den beliebten Moderationsjob und scheint somit am meisten von Brenners Tod zu profitieren. Doch das Team um Dr. Russel Owen verfolgt schnell eine andere Spur.

Die "totale Überwachung" ... sie ist keine Dystopie mehr, sondern die nackte Realität. Das erleben T-Rex und Nolo am eigenen Leib, als sie plötzlich am Berliner Flughafen von Sicherheitsbeamten in Gewahrsam genommen werden. Den Vorwand dafür liefert die Basis für eine Recherche, die keinen von uns kalt lassen sollte, denn sie betrifft uns alle, jeden Tag.