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Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED―ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!―TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of...

Le mal incarné a tout arraché à Abbygaël : elle plaque ce qui faisait son quotidien pour recommencer sa vie à New York, mégalopole où elle espère se fondre dans un anonymat salvateur. Son nouveau job dans un restaurant huppé lui offre une chance de se reprendre en main. Oui mais... Un grain de sable vient enrayer sa routine bien huilée. Un roc même : beau, charismatique, arrogant et affreusement sexy, Bradley est un talentueux architecte, régulièrement sous le feu des projecteurs.

Dans les profondeurs de la ville, là où les ombres dansent au rythme des murmures lugubres, le Mal vient de se réveiller... Luttant pour survivre au brouillard mortel qui recouvre Whisper Town, les jumeaux Crochemort vont devoir faire face à une menace plus terrible encore. Un danger dont Silence n’a pas conscience. Oriel n’a plus qu’un but, la protéger. La romancière à succès Cassandra O’Donnell nous entraîne dans un nouvel univers aussi envoûtant que terrifiant.

When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn’t trust…from bestselling author Isabel Cañas. In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his...

In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an...

Detective Daksh has landed up is weird and complicated case. The girl called Sanjh, who is missing comes in front of Daksh as a ghost and makes her twin sister Seher responsible for her murder. But the story gets even more complicated as Sanjh is now about to destroy her twin sister, her father...

Sophie has done her best to avoid the magical world for fear of the havoc her abnormal ability wreaks on other supernaturals. As a silencer who mutes the powers of those around her, she's spent her life among the mortals her defect can't harm. But when Mother Nature pushes her from her home to do her bidding, Sophie has no choice but to venture to the magical town of Twin Rivers.

Loosely based on sensational press reports of a Moscow student’s murder by fellow revolutionists, The Possessed depicts the destructive chaos caused by outside agitators who move into a provincial town. The enigmatic Stavrogin dominates the novel. His magnetic personality influences his tutor, the liberal intellectual poseur Stepan Verhovensky, and the teacher’s revolutionary son Pyotr, as well as other radicals.

In its original English translation, Dostoyevskys novel was titled The Possessed, but scholars and later translations have embraced the titles The Devils or Demons. This politically charged work serves as a powerful testament to life in late 19th century Imperial Russia, a time when revolutionary democrats began to rise and clash with established ideologies. Dostoyevsky critically examines both the radical idealists, depicting their visions as demonic, and the conservative establishments failures to address the social upheaval. The intellectual conservatism linked to the Slavophile movement of...

Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed—by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn't promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story.

Professor Matt Hunter is an atheist ex-minister and expert on religion, brought in by the police to advise on cases where there is a supernatural overtone. When they receive a report of strange whispers behind a blood-soaked door, they are baffled to discover a man, who will only speak in whispers under his breath, with the name Baal-barith tattooed on his chest.

« Tu l’as dressée, elle est à toi. »Je ne voulais pas qu’on me l’attribue. Cette jolie fleur délicate prononcera sans doute son mot de sécurité après un seul de mes coups de canne. C’est l’ancienne colocataire de la jeune épouse de mon frère de la bratva. Elle ne réussira pas à m’amadouer avec son envie de faire plaisir. Sa soumission totale. Mais quand elle encaisse tout ce que je lui inflige, je comprends vite une chose : elle m’appartient, désormais.

When her mother and sister begin using a Ouija board to contact their dead father, Jocelyn worries that it may lead to horrible consequences. Like the footsteps outside her bedroom door late at night. Or the pounding on the walls. Maybe, even the reason why her sister is trying to ruin her life. Jocelyn finds a rational explanation for every strange incident until logic breaks down and sinister events ratchet up, convincing her that an evil entity has infested her home.

I'm struggling with my dark side - the demon within me - and only Samael can help. He’s decided we're dangerous for each other, but I know we need to join forces. If we can't defeat the Free Men together, I will lose myself to the demon within, and a darkness will spread across Albia.

In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding - once a paradigm of economic rationality - came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the hoard. Possessed therefore considers the hoard as an aesthetic object produced by clashing perspectives about the meaning or value of objects.

We’d heard rumors about the Vandar raiders — everyone in the galaxy had. Terrifying and ruthless, they were a scourge on the Zagrath empire and destroyed everything in their path. Few had actually laid eyes on the Vandar or the notorious warlords who led their fleets of warships — and survived to talk about it. So, when the ruthless aliens boarded our ship intent on destroying it and killing the crew, I did the only thing I could do. I gave myself to the dark and menacing warlord.

Now that Nadia is happily settled into her new life with Zatir, I’m not quite sure what to do with myself. I was the protective older sibling for so long, I’ve forgotten who I am besides that. I need to make my own life on this strange new planet. Need to figure out how I fit in here. So, when a natural disaster strikes a remote village on Kalix, I volunteer to go help with the rescue mission. I want to pay back a little of the debt I owe these fierce alien warriors. But, I didn’t know he would be coming too.

Après "Rosemary's Baby" et "L'Exorciste", le nouveau classique de l'horreur. Malgré une mère alcoolique et un père au chômage, la famille Barrett tente de mener une vie ordinaire dans la tranquille banlieue de Beverly, Massachusetts, jusqu'au jour où leur fille de 14 ans, Marjorie, commence à manifester les symptômes d'une étrange schizophrénie. Alors que des événements de plus en plus angoissants se produisent, les Barrett décident de faire appel à un prêtre, qui ne voit qu'une seule solution : l'exorcisme.

The second volume in the Dark Visions trilogy follows Kaitlyn Fairchild and her four friends as they listen to the psychic voices calling them and travel to an isolated house - where terror awaits.