Résultats pour "The Parasite" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

La jeune capitaine Marie Lesaux, fraîchement débarquée au sein de la brigade de protection de la famille de Clermont-Ferrand, est chargée de tester les capacités de son nouveau coéquipier, réputé infaillible. Un "policier" pas comme les autres puisqu'il s'agit d'une intelligence artificielle nommée Valmont.

Auf dem Rückweg von einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung überfährt Doug Callahan in einer regnerischen Nacht eine unbekannte Frau. Aus Angst, der Vorfall könnte ihn die Wahl zum Bürgermeister der Stadt Cravenville kosten, lässt er die Leiche heimlich verschwinden. Damit gerät Dougs Leben jedoch aus den Fugen. Von nun an fühlt er sich beobachtet, scheint vom Pech verfolgt und wird von seltsamen Visionen heimgesucht.

In the aftermath of the life-altering events that shook him to the core, Jack Bishop relocates to Sacramento, California, determined to uncover the truth behind his father's disappearance. His unique ability to perceive the lingering psychic remnants of both monsters and murder victims becomes his only guide in this relentless quest. Little does Jack know that an ancient and formidable psychic entity has been unleashed upon the city, threatening not just his new home, but the entire world.

In "The Parasite," Arthur C Clarke explores the dark and unsettling world of "mental illness" through the eyes of Roy Connolly. But Roy knows he isn't crazy, he has been possessed by Omega, a creature of the very distant future where humanity exists primarily as intellect with severely emaciated bodies. And what fun is that? The solution is to travel back in time to a more physical era

I had no choice but to lift up the bed, and Becca aggressively grabbed our daughter to stop her from behaving wildly. She struggled to get out of her arms, and she succeeded when she sank her teeth into her mother’s shoulder. I ran immediately to the medicine cabinet. My wife was crying as she tried to lull our little Matthew back to sleep. He was awakened because of the loud ruckus in the house. With my youngest child and my wife in tears as I was patching up the wound on her shoulder, my heart was crushed while I was looking at the bite mark of my daughter.

Twelve-year-old Sydney often looks out across the ocean, recalling the night in which the ship sank. He still tastes the salt water that stole his life over 150 years ago. Cane and Jo visit Dungeness, combining a family reunion with a house hunt. Not only do they discover two generations of secrets, they also unearth a local horror beneath the shingle beach. When the lives of Sydney and the couple entwine, the crop has other ideas about the true meaning of happily ever after. Surviving the harvest is the easy part.

Jacob Westergren, an expert in his field of study, gets paid to research the most sickening parasites known to man. But, even when he looks at the most appalling of the species, he does not see the intrusive ugliness that humanity does, he sees himself. He sees a vessel by which to purge himself of an amalgam of detestable emotions. Emboldened by promising experimentation, Jacob is anxious to unburden himself by sharing his emotional parasite, in physical form, with the rest of the world.

At any given moment, the human body contains millions of parasites. This is the story of just one. A really, really nasty one. Benjamin Wilson was having a lousy month even before the stomach pains began. He was about to turn 40. One of his students had been shot while on a homicidal meat cleaver rampage. And, shortly after the funeral, Benjamin didn't feel so good.... Now, everything is changing. His body is being affected in some very unpleasant ways.

Professor Gilroy ist ein Naturwissenschaftler, wie er im Buche steht: nüchtern und sachbestimmt. Bis ihn sein befreundeter Kollege Wilson mit der eigenartigen Miss Penclosa bekannt macht, die übersinnliche Kräfte zu besitzen scheint.

Auf einen Rationalisten wie Gilroy sollte so etwas ja wohl keine Wirkung ausüben. Er nimmt als Versuchsperson an Hypnosesitzungen teil - was sich als fataler Fehler erweist...

Discovering a purpose can be a difficult and daunting undertaking, even for a parasitic entity doomed with a ceaseless hunger for flesh, bone, and suitable hosts.

In diesem Hörbuch sind sieben Gruselgeschichten berühmter Autoren vereint - in diesem Paket noch billiger als einzeln gekauft! Entdecken Sie die spannenden und gruseligen Erzählungen von Meistern der Dichtkunst wie Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson und Bram Stoker...

Some people deserve what’s coming to them, but this punishment...is beyond worse than hell itself. There’s some scum out there in this world, that desperately need to be scrubbed from this land. Lynch John and Tony will experience the treasure that is their stay at Paradise. Locked within Paradise, these three men will try to survive the night in this black, blood-oozing nightmare.