Titres dans Humour noir

On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write. Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood.

Filmfan, Mutters Liebling und völlig gelangweilt Coming-of-Age in Brandenburg — nach Art von Marvin KaminskiMarvin Kaminski lebt ein Leben, das vor allem eins ist: durchschnittlich. Seine Arbeit im Rathaus ist öde, das Haus mit Mutter zu eng, sein Alltag langweilig – bis eine merkwürdige Webseite und ein ebenso merkwürdiger Auftrag sein Leben komplett auf den Kopf stellen. Plötzlich steckt Marvin mittendrin in einer Welt aus verschwundenen Bauern, dubiosen Gestalten, einer zwielichtigen Gaststätte, überraschender Waffenkenntnis – und einem Mord. Oder war es doch nur ein Unfall?

Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate. By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life...

From author Duncan Ralston, the bestselling author of Puzzle House, comes a chilling new supernatural horror novel with a psychological bend. Every mind holds the key to its own subversion. Damien's childhood as a test subject in a paranormal research facility left him deeply reserved but...

A ruthlessly funny novel about a high school outsider’s obsession with the most popular boy in her class—and just how far she’ll go to insinuate herself into his life Bound for Christian college in the fall, Jodie spends the final weeks of her senior year trying and failing to be relevant...

What happens when classic characters outlive their copyright… and someone decides that's unacceptable? Meet the Executor: a man tasked with "protecting culture" by eliminating anything that slips into the public domain. Armed with absolute certainty, questionable logic, and a trench coat...

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Boyle, a virtuoso of the American short story, creates daring imaginative leaps as he affirms the sheer joy of storytelling in this propulsive new work. A timely masterpiece, The End Is Only a Beginning underscores T. C. Boyle’s reputation as “one of the greatest storytellers in this...

In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler – the man Rose credits with rescuing her from a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge. As the odd couple journey across an America on the brink of paranoid disintegration, their journey mirrors that of Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign.

A visceral and darkly comic historical debut about faith, female repression, and the bloody, humiliating extremes to which a young woman will go for absolution, perfect for fans of Lauren Groff, Jen Beagin, and Ottessa Moshfegh. During the suffocating heat wave of 1778, Louise-Hélène arrives...

One man. Five ex-wives. They’re all sharpening their knives . . . but only one of them will finish the job. Robert West has had five wives, but they’ve never all been in a room together—until now. Summoned to the aging movie star’s house in the Highlands, they expect a weekend of...

From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. A...

A stay-at-home dad, along with two buddies from his luckless recreational baseball team, band together to solve a potential murder amongst their squad—all while trying to stay out of trouble with their wives and, someday, someday win a game. Batter up! The Bad News Dads are a recreational...

Your dream home awaits - there's only two things in your way... The great Australian dream is slipping out of reach for Keira and her friends. No partner, no house, no kids. At 30-ahem, she is still languishing in a mould-filled share house, with an unexplained and ever-growing hole in the...

‘If I wasn’t dead, I would sue.’—Bram Stoker This is the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula). The trouble with immortality is that eventually you get sick to death of it, and so to soothe his sickened soul, the Comte De’Ath decides to take a trip. From psychoanalysis...

From internationally bestselling author Louise Candlish, a witty psychological thriller where an older woman's suspicions about her charming new neighbor ignite a deadly spiral in their luxury apartment building. In Columbia Mansions, secrets don’t stay behind closed doors for long. It's rare...

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —The New York Times The eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch, beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal's final story collection returns with further tales of the old friends...

A chaotic young doctor might be the only person who can catch a killer in this "hilarious, macabre, and heartrending" (Lucy Foley) debut mystery from Adam Kay, former doctor and BAFTA-winning author of This is Going to Hurt. “A thrilling, twisting mystery. . . . Impossibly funny but also...

A fresh and darkly funny debut novel about blurred online identities and striving for success (or just security) in a rigged system. Perfect for anyone who's ever enjoyed a good scammer story. I was active and agile. I was a champion. I was a witch. I was a winner. Christina is a single mother...

A darkly comic suspense in the vein of Alls Well and Yellowface, Shes a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion. Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who...