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Gathered together for the first time and featuring two brand new stories, this collection contains all of the short stories and novellas featuring Bunny McGarry, star of the million-selling Dublin Trilogy. Spanning his entire career in law enforcement and beyond, these stories give a whole new perspective on Ireland’s most truly unconventional police officer as he juggles being a force for justice and managing the world’s worst under-12s hurling team.

1979 ging Simmons nach 20 Dienstjahren als Master Sergeant der Air Force in den Ruhestand. Die Instabilität, die auf seine Militärzeit folgte, verstärkte sein Verlangen nach Kontrolle über seine Familie.

Join Jason, a construction worker with a fresh start after a decade behind bars, as he embarks on a much-needed holiday with friends. His joy is cut short. A routine trip back to fetch a forgotten item for his boss before he clocks out takes a horrifying turn when Jason finds himself trapped and impaled on a rebar, with little hope of rescuing him for four harrowing days.

احذر قبل أن تبدأ بالاستماع إلى هذا الكتاب فأنت تدخل بقدميك عالم المقابر وتستمع إلى قصص لم تروى من قبل عن عالمٍ يغصُّ بالأسرار يرويها ذلك الشخص الذي يمضي كلَّ وقته...

Premio Regional de Cuento Ciudad de La Paz 2014. Seis relatos sobre periodistas llenos de ilusiones que, al paso del tiempo, se vuelven codiciosos y están dispuestos a todo por la fama, pero en todos los casos el destino les tiene deparada una amarga sorpresa...

In these stories, dear student, retribution visits a lothario lecturer; the sinister truth is revealed about a missing professor; a forsaken lover uses a séance for revenge; an obsession blooms about a possible illicit affair; two graduates exhume the secrets of a reclusive scholar; horrors are uncovered in an obscure academic department; five hopeful initiates must complete a murderous task and much more!

El protagonista de esta espiral de incertidumbre ha resucitado por equivocación una leyenda que acabará por devorarle. El fantasma de un adolescente asesinado treinta años atrás en un remoto cementerio de submarinos se convierte de pronto en el sanguinario paladín de una libertad que nadie...

Con una prosa ágil, desinhibida y acertada, Rafael Medina nos entrega estos relatos en los que se vale del humor negro para poner ante nosotros, con tonos de retrato más que de denuncia, historias que fácilmente podrían estar sucediendo en este momento a unas cuantas cuadras de nosotros...

Un recueil de 14 nouvelles inédites : envoûtantes, effrayantes, captivantes. Deux jeunes couples accros au tourisme macabre, des enfants face à la cruauté de leur famille d'accueil, un présentateur télé prêt à tout pour faire exploser l'audience, des animaux subitement délivrés des hommes, un prêtre trop beau pour être honnête, des chats animés d'étranges intentions, un aviateur de la Première Guerre mondiale confronté à une entité primitive et perverse.

A truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, this newly-commissioned anthology of 17 superbly-crafted stories, each inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Justin Scott, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Lawrence Block himself.

A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his "perimeter" from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival underground, forming themselves into vicious gangs with only the graffiti of the "last journalists" accepted as truth. Andrew Vachss collects 20 tight, powerful stories - all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time - along with an original screenplay.

Fresh from the cutting room floor, The Silver Scream exposes the bloodiest behind-the-scenes details of the most gruesome, shocking true-crime tragedy of our time. Part autopsy, part grisly director’s “cut,” this is the only book with a comprehensive exploration inside the mind of America’s notorious, celluloid-obsessed rock-star-turned-cinema-copycat murderer, Spencer Charnas.

In a quiet farmhouse, the ordinary folds into the unseen. A Jury of Her Peers turns a simple domestic scene into a mirror of justice, conscience, and the unspoken weight of women's lives. With spare, careful strokes, Susan Glaspell reveals how silence can testify and how understanding sometimes takes root where authority fails.

A desperate scientist's radical attempt to cure his dying daughter unleashes an ancient, predatory potential within humanity, forcing him to confront a shadowy conspiracy and the monstrous consequences of playing God before his creation reshapes the world. Dr. Marcel Johnston, a brilliant scientist driven by the imminent loss of his terminally ill daughter, Calista, stakes everything on Project Fledge—a revolutionary serum designed to unlock humanity's ultimate potential and conquer disease.

A hired assassin with a terrible mandate to kill a country's leader lies in wait. Has his meticulous attention to detail secured him safe passage from the location of his deadly task? Will he succeed or will he be discovered? Tension mounts as the minutes count down...

In Hunted, a chilling blend of thriller and horror, Dr. Cassandra Stokes leads a team deep into the unforgiving wilderness on a mission not just about scientific discovery, but personal revenge. A series of brutal killings in the northern forests has left the locals terrorised, their whispers filled with tales of wolves, wolves, not quite wolves.

في عام 2009 لم تكن كتبي قد حققت انتشاراً يذكر، وعلاقتي بالوسط الأدبي لم تكن كمثل هذا الوقت، لذا كان لزاما علي أن أندهش عندما عدت لشقتي يوم 11 فبراير عام 2009، ليلاً لأجد...

"الظُّلمة الممتدة رداءٌ آمنٌ، والشرطيُّ الضخم الذي يضع مسدسه على جنب يقف في النور بعيدًا جدًّا عنَّا في الطرف الآخر. تمتلكين ذخيرة لا بأس بها من حيل تمكِّنك من...

يُقال بأنَّ أدب الرّعب ينقسم إلى مدرستين؛ مدرسة "ستيفن كينج" ومدرسة "كليف باركر" ونحن الآن مجرَّد طلاب في مدرسة كليف باركر نستمع إلى قصتين من أشهر قصص الرّعب التي...

رجلٌ يُصاحبه أزيزٌ مرعب في أذنه طوال الوقت ويفكِّر بالانتقام!؟ مراهِقيْن يقرِّران قضاء ليلةٍ كاملة في الكابينة28؟! بابا ..أنت بتعمل ايه؟ هذا آخر ما نطق به الطّفل...