Résultats pour "Richard III" dans Horreur

Richard III has been characterized for hundreds of years in the vilest terms, but does he deserve the infamy that surrounds him? When an extraordinary set of circumstances leads to the discovery of his body under a car park in Leicester, an unusual opportunity presents itself for the ghost of Richard III to rewrite history...

Quand Gwendy Peterson avait douze ans, Richard Farris, un homme étrange coiffé d'un chapeau melon, lui a donné une boîte munie de boutons capable de distribuer friandises et pièces anciennes, mais aussi de détruire des mondes. Les années ont passé ; Gwendy est devenue sénatrice du Maine et une écrivaine célèbre. Un jour, la machine maudite réapparaît dans sa vie. De mystérieux hommes en jaune veulent mettre la main dessus, et Gwendy doit les en empêcher, quel qu'en soit le prix. Mais où dissimuler un objet avec de tels pouvoirs ?

Toby Jugg, a fighter pilot shot down in combat, is now confined to his bed with little hope of walking again. He is also the heir to a considerable fortune—a fortune that is being administered by a board of trustees until he comes of age. But night after night, out there in the moonlight, Something was trying to get in at the bedroom window. A huge malevolent Something. Something not of this world. Inside, Toby thought first that he was hallucinating, then that he must be going mad, finally that this evil Something was real and striving to reach him.

A woman scorned. The sanctity of her sanctuary threatened. The betrayal of trust...even loyalty. Don’t ever tell her not to take it personally, because that’s exactly what it is. Personal. Your first blunder was mistaking her kindness for weakness. Your second was betraying her. The third? Underestimating her. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Take the plunge into these tales of deadly women who will stop at nothing until vengeance is theirs. The Better Off Dead series delves into the farthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk.

Sharing a beer with Death - one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - really put a few things into perspective for this foul-mouthed, billionaire wizard. Like finally getting the stones to propose to his girlfriend. But the Brothers Grimm - legendary supernatural assassins - have escaped their prison, and the number one thing they want after their centuries-long incarceration is Nate Temple’s head. With the entire wedding party also on their hit list and the Temple family fortune in jeopardy, Nate realizes they can’t run and they can’t hide. So, time to do magic and stuff.

Queen Serena and her allies have fled the massacre, taking Princess Linka with them. For Jean, it’s heartbreak; for his friends, far worse. Leaving the arctic ice behind, Jean and the others must come to terms with their losses as they close in on the Baltic home of the hated Duke Gorgon. As the lies around him unravel, Jean marches from one infuriating revelation to another. Finally, he must do what he’s never done before: place his trust in others. For only at the end of all things, as the sun dies and Shangri-La falls, will Jean know what it means to step into eternity.

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works - something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris - now closely watched by the Gestapo - is to send in a personal courier. Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.