Résultats pour "The Tower" dans Anthologies et nouvelles

Discover the Witcher series like you've never heard it before in this brand-new, immersive audio production with music, sound design, and a full cast. Geralt the Witcher races to find his missing ward, Ciri, in The Tower of Swallows, the fourth novel in the bestselling Witcher saga. The world...

They say only fools enter the tower… Dive into the complete box set of the best-selling Tower Climber series with over 2,500 pages of epic LitRPG adventure. All Max wants is to become a climber and search for his long lost sister. But citizens aren’t allowed to climb, they aren’t even allowed remotely in the vicinity of the mysterious and magical tower. Plus, even if citizens could enter, it didn’t change the fact that Max’s body is paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair. No way would anyone let him enter the tower. Ever.

A chilling tale of recurring nightmares and supernatural terror, The Room in the Tower follows a man whose unsettling dreams of a mysterious country house and its ominous tower haunt him from childhood into adulthood. When fate leads him to the very place he has seen in his dreams, he is forced to confront a horrifying presence that has long awaited his arrival.

The revered author’s definitive collection of short fiction, which explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind. From C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist...

Revisit the famous and fantastic realms conjured up by the world's most celebrated authors of fantasy in Legends -- the greatest collection of original fantasy short novels ever published, where the best of the best tell all-new original tales set in the lands they created. Each audiobook...

Movie Star Parking at the White Tower and Other Stories is an assortment of short stories set primarily, over many decades, in and around Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. Halferty mines a full range of emotion from the characters, their situations and their place in America's Rust Belt. In this book we find tales of tragedy, survival, triumph, and redemption in both the extraordinary and mundane.

Inside the Dragon's Tower, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. To win, climbers from all corners must brave the harrowing floors one by one. Each floor is tougher and the higher the floor, the less success there is. After a hundred floors filled with unique challenges, a prize awaits—a dragon's egg. To Tem, the Dragon's Tower seems simple from his distant farmland on the frontier. The harsh truth of the situation involves politics, personal sacrifices, and unfathomable struggles to keep advancing.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. “The Tower of the Elephant” is a dark tower that harbors not only a treasure, but also ancient magic and terrifying secrets. Conan risks everything to obtain the jewel, but is he truly prepared for what lurks in the shadows? Uncover the mystery of...

Hanna and Alex risked their lives to put mob boss Xander Lacroix behind bars. When they learn of his early release from prison and one of his henchmen starts a relentless campaign of harassment and revenge, they both find themselves again on the precipice of chaos and danger. The alarming death of a local woman in Alex's hometown of Dugganville leads to a surprising chain of events that quickly escalates into a deadly struggle with the dark forces of crime and corruption in the Low Country of South Carolina.

The Bell-Tower appeared in 1855 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 32 (August). In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the heart of unexplored Africa lies an ancient secret - the lost city of Eridu. When adventurer Bill Kirby and his scientist companion stumble upon this forgotten Sumerian civilization, they're plunged into a world of dark rituals, forbidden love...

When the mind continues to turn long after the day has ended, The Beacon Tower offers a quiet passage into rest. This sleep story for adults unfolds on calm open water, where a lone seafarer drifts beneath a star-filled sky. There is no destination, no urgency — only the gentle rhythm of the sea and the distant turning light of a lighthouse.

"The Bell-Tower," published in 1856, is the story of an eccentric architect named Bannadonna and his quest to build a magnificent bell-tower. As building progresses, local townspeople begin to hear of mysterious occurrences in the tower, leading to a suspenseful conclusion.

SHORT STORY: A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita's a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she's certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on purpose. But why? Something very sexy but very weird is going on...

Quince magníficos relatos escritos Desde la torre, llenos de intriga, humor, emoción, realismo mágico, fantasía, ficción y realidad a partes iguales. Todos unidos en la desbordante pasión de quien escribe por la convicción de no saber hacer nada más, y la decisión de no hacer otra cosa. Víctor J. Sanz desgrana en estos quince cuentos y en primera persona las pasiones de asesinos y verdugos, viajeros del tiempo y buhoneros astutos... desesperados unos y agonizantes otros, pero ninguno indiferente.

My name is Cynthia Montgomery and I am a fighter. Since the world fell apart, when the dead began to rise, I have searched for my lost love, Vera Lynn. The undead are everywhere, desperate to feed, but I soon learned that those humans who survived can be just as monstrous. I need to make it to safety, to The Ivory Tower, but will it be the paradise that I'm hoping for?

After reading The Song of Songs, a short story by Sholem Aleichem, I was moved to see his original story from a different point of view. This short story retells his autobiographical tale from the point of view of the woman of that failed romance. The story examines the consequences of taking our obsessions seriously and of not saying the things that must be said because we are not allowed to say them.

A beautiful children's story based on an old Chinese tale with a moral. The king sets out to build a big tower. A story of wisdom, respect, and ego. Why? Does he succeed?

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known for his spine-tingling and beautifully written ghost stories. The Room in the Tower is the most famous of these. It describes a horrific recurrent dream of nameless dread, occurring over a period of 15 years, in which the dreamer arrives at a peculiar house inhabited by a sinister silent family, where he takes tea on the lawn and is then shown to the room in the tower where something dreadful, malicious, and evil lurks...

A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.