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Un homme revient dans sa vieille maison familiale à Kingsport dans le Massachusetts pour la fête familiale traditionnelle de Yule. Là, il voit le Necronomicon parmi un certain nombre de grimoires.

The Homefront Sleuths thought their biggest challenge would be planning Blake and Katherine's perfect autumn wedding. But when a mysterious government inspector turns up dead at the Harvest Festival, their cozy village celebration becomes the scene of something sinister. What starts as a puzzling murder quickly becomes a race against time. Missing microfilm, coded messages, and suspicious "diplomats" suggest this case is far more dangerous than anything the Sleuths have faced before. With potential Nazi spies lurking behind familiar faces, no one in Crofter's Green is above suspicion.

Une nouvelle enquête s'annonce pour Léopoldine Courtecuisse, la coiffeuse de Wahlbourg. Cette fois, c'est sa sœur cadette qui est dans le viseur de la justice. Elle va mener l'enquête avec Quentin Delval, son lieutenant préféré, dessaisi officiellement de l'affaire. Ils vont devoir résoudre ce crime en secret au milieu du festival du livre de la ville. Léopoldine Courtecuisse démêle une nouvelle enquête ! Jocelyne Courtecuisse a une nouvelle lubie avec ses amies du club féminin : organiser un grand salon du livre en mai à Wahlbourg ! Ses filles, Léopoldine et Constance sont sceptiques.

Libby can’t believe her luck when she wins two tickets to the biggest event of the summer: Solstice, a music festival celebrating the longest day of the year. Wanting to escape her problems for a few days, Libby, along with her best friend Dawn head deep into the Welsh countryside for a weekend of sun, fun and festivities. But what promised to be an exciting trip quickly turns into Libby’s worst nightmare. The scorching heat intensifies, the music becomes wilder, the people more unpredictable. When Dawn goes missing, Libby worries that something sinister has happened.

Orly, Lenny, Mel and Thea have been best friends since school. But now it is 20 years later and inevitably they have drifted apart. It is Lenny's 40th birthday, plus Orly and Mel need cheered up, so Thea suggests a weekend away at a festival in their hometown. It's a chance for them all to reconnect. But their holiday soon takes a sinister turn, and not all of the friends will leave the festival alive....

Step into the chilling depths of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Festival, a haunting tale of ancestral secrets, forbidden rituals, and cosmic dread. Set in the eerie town of Kingsport during the Yuletide season, this gothic masterpiece unravels a nightmarish journey where family heritage intertwines with unspeakable horrors.

Le Festival (The Festival) est une nouvelle de Howard Phillips Lovecraft, publiée pour la première fois en janvier 1925 dans le magazine Weird Tales. Le narrateur revient dans la vieille maison familiale, à Kingsport dans le Massachusetts pour la fête familiale traditionnelle de Yule. Là, il voit le Necronomicon parmi un certain nombre de grimoires. Le narrateur commence à le lire jusqu'au moment de la cérémonie qui clôt le festival. Durant celle-ci, l'ouvrage est utilisé et adoré par les participants. Le narrateur devient fou et est interné à l'hôpital de l'université Miskatonic à Arkham.

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.

Dive into Murder at the Maple Festival, a delightful cosy mystery that blends small-town charm, delectable baking, and a dash of suspense in the heart of autumn. When beloved farmer Harold Granger is poisoned at Maplewood’s cherished Maple Festival, local baker Clara Maplethorpe trades her rolling pin for sleuthing skills to uncover a killer hiding among syrup stalls and twinkling lanterns. With her tabby cat, Muffin, purring at her side, Clara kneads through clues—tampered syrup bottles, a missing trophy, cryptic notes, and a deadly foxglove secret—to protect her town’s sweetness.

Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction...

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.

Mystic Caravan is hitting San Francisco. Unfortunately, a magical force in the city is hitting back. On their first night in town, they discover somebody has unleashed skeletons on the city… and there’s an army of them. The good news is that as far as foes go, they’re not very impressive. Poet Parker’s team can take them out with relative ease. The bad news is they’re not stopping… and they’re getting bolder each and every night. San Francisco’s history leads to a lot of questions. Are the skeletons coming from the cemeteries that were closed?

It's Lydstock time again, the most anticipated music festival of the year. Max Effort, chilled ex-chef turned vanlifer, is already there, and when Min arrives to spend the whole weekend with him and Anxious the Jack Russell Terrier, he's as happy as any ex-husband could be. As the first night gets underway, and Uncle Ernie "Elbows" Effort's ska punk band The Skankin' Skeletons headline instead of their arch-rivals The Third Skatallion, things get spicier than a habanero vindaloo.

Olivia Kendrick is excited about Nightmare's annual arts and crafts festival until a vendor winds up dead inside his food truck. Locals and festival artists alike disliked the corn dog seller, but who had enough motive to murder him? The supernatural community at Nightmare Sanctuary Haunted House must pull together to help gather clues, from a siren on a spy mission to witches with connections. Even Felipe the chupacabra is sniffing for clues!

Running low on funds, Macey Spade has accepted a new job—as a teaching assistant at Whaler’s Bay College, presiding over a class on Time-Travel in Film and Fiction. Macey anticipates a relaxed semester grading papers and browsing the stacks of the college library, but fate has several cruel tricks in store for her.

Award-winning horror writer and master of the macabre, Graham Masterton presents a blood-curdling array of treats: twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse. Marvel at the mirror dug up in secret and better off buried... Thrill at a pair of lovers, whose promises to each other lead them down a disturbing path. Observe the haunted house... Come closer, dear reader - the hour of the festival is upon us.

Enormous black-armored knights rampage across town, killing everything in their wake. Their cruel mounts and hellish hounds cause almost as much chaos as the knights themselves. Jen Rice and her friends are helpless to stop as the demonic creatures run rampant through town, killing anyone who gets too close. A rash of high-end thefts has the police department running in circles. Jen is contacted by the thief, who asks her for help. His daughter has been kidnapped by demons, and Jen is the only one he knows he can trust--not only to believe him but to save his daughter.

As the charming town of Raven’s Point gears up for its beloved Christmas Festival, excitement fills the air. Maybelle and her sister eagerly join fellow shop owners to set up their stalls—until the unthinkable happens. When the mayor doesn’t arrive to unlock the town’s storage room, the town janitor steps in. But the moment the doors are opened, the town is faced with a gruesome truth: the mayor has been murdered.

After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival—including the pie-eating contest her bakery is hosting—is the highlight of the summer. But soon Beacon Harbor runs into a patch of trouble. A local real estate agent gets pranked. A parade float gets pelted with water balloons. It's all laughed off until the stunts start escalating—and looking more like sabotage.

Brenda Sheffield Rivers and her husband Detective Mac Rivers have returned from their honeymoon in Italy. They arrive in the depths of winter, ready to prepare for the upcoming Winter Festival. Tourists begin to flood the town and Sheffield Bed and Breakfast is filling up fast. There is only one vacant room due to a cancellation. Brenda is sure her young Reservationist Allie Williams will have it filled before the day is over.