Résultats pour "The Lodger" dans Horreur

As an investigative journalist, she’s faced corruption, lies, and relentless threats. But nothing could prepare her for the real terror. Her husband Adrian Holloway, a charming psychology professor, hides his cruelty behind a mask of care. Their marriage is a battlefield, and Harper is losing ground.

More than a century ago, the sea islands of Georgia's coastline were the playground of the ultra-wealthy. Rockefellers, Carnegies, and other aristocrats of the Industrial Age built luxurious southern beach retreats on islands like Jekyll and Cumberland to escape icy New York winters. In time, the grand mansions were abandoned and fell into disrepair, surrendered to the weather and the wilderness.

London in 1919 was a city of ghosts and absences, haunted by the men who marched away but never came back from 'the war to end all wars.' Grace Armstrong believes that she has come to terms with her own loss, the death of her fiancé, the brilliant and dazzling best friend of her brother. He was declared Missing in Action during the Battle of the Somme, but he starts to reappear both in her waking life and dreams. Grace is appalled when a body, dragged from the Thames, is identified as Catherine Smith, who has lodged with Grace and her family before suddenly disappearing.

When Egyptologist Rom Hardy receives a strange letter from his old friend, the bounty-hunting sniper Rex McTroy, he finds himself drawn into a chilling mystery. In the mountains of New Mexico, a bloodthirsty creature is on the loose, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Now, a wealthy big game hunter has offered a staggering reward for its capture, and Rom’s patron – the headstrong and brilliant Evangeline Waterston – has signed the team up for the challenge. 

Die Kingfisher Lodge in Colorado bietet exklusives Fliegenfischen für wohlhabende Kunden. Jack hofft, mit einem Job bei der Lodge zur Normalität zurückkehren zu können – nach einem jungen, von Verlusten geprägten Leben. Seine Aufgabe besteht darin, die Ausrüstung der Gäste zu tragen und sie zu den besten Forellen zu führen. Sein erster Gast ist die prominente Sängerin Allison, es macht Jack Spaß, mit ihr unterwegs zu sein. Doch bald wird klar, dass in der Lodge etwas nicht stimmt.

Maxine Finch and Simon York, a recently married couple with little money, use their limited honeymoon funds to buy a foreclosed inn in the tiny snowy town of Silver Ridge, Colorado. But when strange things start happening in the middle of the night, Maxine and Simon wonder if their investment is a dangerous mistake.

In The Meaning of Blood: and Other Tales of Perversity, award-winning author and Edgar Allan Poe scholar Chuck Caruso combines his deep roots in the American Gothic with his own contemporary sense of macabre humor. These 15 stories of dark fiction range from crime thrillers to western noir to grotesque horror. Each twisted tale displays Caruso's unique blend of wry prose, feverish storytelling, and tragically flawed characters discovering that even the most innocent encounter can lead to death. Or sex. Or both.

George and Marion are veteran detectives, partners for 10 years. But when a bust goes bad, they're killed. George from a shotgun blast, Marion a knife to the back. Filled with shock, they watch as their bodies are bagged and taken away. Seemingly alone and with a thousand questions, they venture to a hilltop to look down on their funeral, exchanging impressions as they watch. But their conversation is overhead by a homeless man. How can that be? They soon learn from a fortune teller that they've left this mortal coil, but not the world they lived in. They're ghosts.

One reporter's investigation into the strange and the unexplained.