Titres dans Humour noir

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin. Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the...

"Paul Tremblay is on fire. . . .As entertaining and pop-culture savvy as this novel can be, it's emotionally wrenching and truly scary." —Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed, Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis Four narrators across five distinct voices bring a...

A collection of two chilling tales of the macabre from Blair Daniels, including The Homeowner's Association, and Attention, Shoppers! ATTENTION, SHOPPERS “ATTENTION, SHOPPERS: Please hide at the back of the store immediately." I'm at a Bluemart, on a diaper run with my kids, when I hear the...

Was kommt in Glücksburg an der Ostsee nach dem Tod? Eine Rede von Mads Madsen. Nicht immer leicht: Wenn einer stirbt, wird auch viel gelogen. Über die Toten nur Gutes, heißt es, aber wer waren sie wirklich? Für Mads oft ein Detektivspiel. Eines Nachts erreicht ihn eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft aus dem Jenseits: Sein alter Freund Patrick ist tot. Sein letzter Wunsch: eine Rede von Mads. Also begibt sich Mads, der seit Jahren keinen Kontakt mehr zu Patrick hatte, auf die Spuren der Vergangenheit.

An anthology of full-cast Gothic dramas and readings from the author of the world’s most famous vampire tale Celebrated today as the creator of the legendary blood-sucking Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was best known in his lifetime as stage manager to the actor Henry...

The rug bites. The suit of armor breathes. The woman in the painting gets closer every second. At Giselle’s Sundries, nothing is quite as it seems—but Nadia doesn’t know that. After messing up her freshman year of college, she’s sent to work at her aunt’s dinky little thrift shop...

Lawyer turned murderer Björn wants to stop killing. Unfortunately, the prisoner in his basement is getting restless, the parents' committee at his daughter's preschool is clamouring for his attention, and to cap it all, he's also being blackmailed. To manage all this stress, he turns to a mindfulness coach to learn about the unmet needs of his inner child. As he begins listening to this inner child, he finds it doesn't just have needs, but solutions: creative ways he can solve his problems. All of them.

When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium than to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...

""The Award begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl’s addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.""—Tom Perrotta, New York Times...

Brought to you by Penguin. Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an...

'If you like your mysteries dark and just a little bit twisted' People.com, 11Festive Mystery Books That Are To Die For This Holiday Season 🔪🔪🔪🔪 Perfect for fans of The White Lotus, Knives Out and anyone who’s ever wanted to strangle someone over Christmas lunch. All Olivia wanted...

Tender Branson - last surviving member of the so-called "Creedish Death Cult" - is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal velocity and crash into the vast Australian outback.

Bloomsbury presents Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger, read by Imogen Church. AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2026 A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED NOVEL 2026 ‘Savage, witty, gory, heartfelt, utterly relatable rage fantasy and a helluva good time' Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls 'A modern feminist...

A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny story. "Um, holy shit ... This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." —Emily Temple, Literary Hub Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers...

In this twisty, uproarious debut, a pop culture obsessive uses her reality TV expertise to investigate a suspicious disappearance aboard a yacht ... while falling for a hot deckhand and avoiding confronting her best friend's untimely passing—perfect for fans of The Wedding People and Traitors...

Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel about a good marriage, bad mistakes, and the enduring power of your local library. Darcy’s life turned out better than she could have...

Blackwood has a serial killer problem. Lucky for her, one of them is obsessed with her. After her messy divorce, Sienna Blake is done with men. She’s trading her wreckage for a sun-drenched future in California until a violent Montana storm sends her car skidding off the road and straight into...

Benjamin Malaussène ha uno strano lavoro, è il capro espiatorio dell'Ufficio Reclami del Grande Magazzino di Parigi. Una cliente è appena uscita dalla sua stanza quando si sente un forte boato. Una bomba, poi due, nel dipartimento giocattoli! Il sospettato numero uno dell'ondata di oscuri attentati è proprio Benjamin. E allora per scoprire chi sia il vero responsabile delle esplosioni si mobiliteranno la sua tumultuosa famiglia e una esilarante banda di personaggi: Thérèse la sorella sensitiva, Jérémy il geniale e pestifero fratello, il Piccolo visionario.

“The Gray House is enigmatic and fantastical, comic and postmodern…Rowling meets Rushdie via Tartt…Nothing short of life-changing.” —The Guardian The Gray House is an astounding tale of how what others understand as liabilities can be leveraged into strengths. Bound to wheelchairs and...

Edgar Poe est le maître incontesté du fantastique et une figure majeure du romantisme américain. Le fameux "Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume" prouve aussi qu'il ne s'interdit pas l'humour noir ! En voyage dans le sud de la France, le narrateur se retrouve amené à visiter une bien étrange clinique psychiatrique, la maison de santé du docteur Maillard. On l'y entretient d'une toute nouvelle méthode mise au point pour traiter la folie, bien meilleure que la "douceur" préconisée dans les autres établissements.