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Year One: Chronicles of The One, Book 1 (Chronicles of the One #1)
by Nora Roberts#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…It began on New Year’s Eve. <P><P>The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed—and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river—or in the ones you know and love the most. As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. <P>At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. <P>But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.The end has come. The beginning comes next. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
The Year The Fire Came
by Lori PaigeCollinwood - late 1700's. Jeremiah and Barnabas were as close as brothers. Then the mysterious woman named Laura came to town, an intense rivalry begins - then horrible deaths began occurring...
The Yearbook
by Peter LerangisA high school yearbook editor stumbles on a body—and his school&’s evil secretAccording to his IQ test, David Kallas is a genius, even if his teachers think he&’s a slacker. His sole extracurricular activity is the yearbook, and he only became editor as an excuse to get close to Ariana Maas. On his way to the printer&’s to check on the book, he takes a shortcut to spy on Ariana and her boyfriend—the impossibly perfect Stephen Taylor—and ends up finding something even nastier than two students making out: a butchered corpse floating in the creek. The body leads David to a disturbing secret about his school&’s past. When members of the senior class start dying, David is determined to solve the mystery and save the school—even if he has to destroy himself to do it. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Lerangis including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
by Paula GuranJoin twenty-five masterful authors and talented newcomers with more than 400 pages of the disturbing, unnerving, haunting, and strange. This outstanding annual exploration of the year&’s best dark fiction delivers tales of deathly possession, the weirdly surreal, mysterious melancholy, and frighteningly plausible futures. Confront your own humanity and the fears that stir you—from the darkly supernatural and painfully familiar to the disquieting terror of the unknown.
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Sixth Annual Collection
by Ellen Datlow Terri WindlingMore than four dozen stories and poems, featuring writings by Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Yolen, Harlan Ellison, and many others, investigate the outermost perimeters of the human imagination.
The Year's Best Horror Stories XI
by Karl Edward WagnerHorror story anthology THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES: XI A ghostly whisper... a glimpse of fangs and claws... the rattle of chains... a trail of blood... a vanished loved one... pursuit by something unseen... these are the things that horror grows from, the bizarre, the supernatural, the truly frightening. And, in the magnificent tradition of the genre, here is another splendid collection in that most unique horror series, a gallery of seventeen nightmare masterpieces by such top authors in the field as Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Michael Kube-McDowell, Manly Wade Wellman, M. John Harrison, and Thomas Monteleone.
Year's End: 14 Tales of Holiday Horror
by James S. Dorr John Stewart Wynne Betsy Miller Richard Godwin Nicky Peacock Steve Shrott Leah Givens George Seaton Kathryn Ohnaka Jeremy K. Tyler Byron Barton Steve Bartholomew Ali Maloney Foxglove LeeGet a few extra chills this New Year&’s Eve with these fourteen original horror stories about facing the big countdown. New Year&’s Eve isn&’t all champagne and confetti. For some, it&’s filled with regret for what can&’t be changed and trepidation for what&’s to come. The strike of midnight drags many of us kicking and screaming into a year for which we are not prepared. In the fourteen tales of horror collected here—both contemporary and historical, ranging from the subtly psychological to the downright gory—there will be screams of all kinds. Join fourteen horror authors as they explore the dark side of auld lang syne. This anthology of a holiday gone horrifyingly wrong includes stories by James S. Dorr, Richard Godwin, Nicky Peacock, John Stewart Wynne, Steve Shrott, Leah Givens, George Seaton, Kathryn Ohnaka, Jeremy K. Tyler, Betsy Miller, Byron Barton, Steve Bartholomew, Ali Maloney, and Foxglove Lee.
The Years of Longdirk: The Complete Series (The Years of Longdirk #2)
by Dave DuncanThe complete fantasy trilogy of a feared Scottish outlaw—from the author of the Seventh Sword series and “one of the leading masters of epic fantasy” (Publishers Weekly). In his action-packed fantasy saga, originally written under the pseudonym Ken Hood, Scottish-born, Aurora Award–winning author Dave Duncan tells the tale of Scottish outlaw Toby Strangerson, known and feared by the name Longdirk. In 1244, all of Europe is under the control of Genghis Khan, whose conquering Golden Horde has cut a swath of devastation. Scotland, in addition, lies under the heel of England. But out of the battle-scarred highlands, a hero will rise . . . Demon Sword: Young Toby Strangerson, a half-English bastard reared by a witchwife, wants only to shed his hated Sassenach blood and free his beloved highlands. As the outlaw Longdirk, Toby wields a sword that can cut down men like stalks of corn. But stranger winds are swirling across the lochs—eldritch winds that are ridden by hobs and wisps and demons. The enemy Sassenach king is also a sorcerer. His demon soul needs a body, and his Black Arts can free Europe from the Khan’s Golden Horde. Demon Rider: Longdirk has become possessed by a hob, a murderous demon spirit, as amoral as a child, neither inherently good nor evil. Toby wants his freedom—and the spirit of the tyrant-demon Nevil, ensorcelled in amethyst, can be traded for the exorcism of the hob. In order to make the exchange, though, Toby and his ally Hamish must face the hexer Oreste on his own ground, in the dank and fetid dungeons of Barcelona, where souls are racked and tortured—and ultimately destroyed on the relentless wheel of the Inquisition. Demon Knight: Longdirk has used gramarye—dark magic—to defeat the Fiend and save Europe from abject slavery, but he has also made himself the most feared and envied man in all of Italy. The hordes are reorganizing and plan to sweep over the Alps once more to retake their lost prize of power and conquest. Toby and his friend Hamish struggle to unite the quarreling city-states into a single, powerful force to resist the invasion, in a world where no ally can be trusted and traitors lurk in every shadow. But there is more at stake than freedom and the destiny of a continent—a woman’s love hangs in the balance . . .
The Yellow District
by Mauricio R B Campos Fernando Luiz Schumann SessegoloThe Yellow District is a selection of horror tales written by Mauricio R B Campos, laureate writer awarded with several literary prizes, including the HQ Mix Trophy for his work on the Horror Comics "O Rei Amarelo em Quadrinhos", published by Draco. The author shows facets of horror that will surprise the reader, with a distinctive focus on the themes, redeeming the cosmic horror in the title story or leading the reader to a surprising apocalypse in "The Night Of The Dead Horse". Open the pages of this book carefully because they are pages full of blood and screams of horror, where the madness and fear go hand in hand.
The Yellow Fairy Book: Complete and Unabridged (Andrew Lang Fairy Book Series #4)
by Andrew Lang&“Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting—from all over the world—fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.&”—Kirkus Reviews The fourth installment of Andrew Lang's widely read classics, The Yellow Fairy Book has been admired time and time again, enchanting readers with its carefully crafted prose and eclectic assortment of fairy tales. Originally published in 1894, this collection of celebrated tales has stood the test of time. Some of the famous stories included are: ThumbelinaThe Steadfast Tin-SoldierCat and Mouse in PartnershipStory of the Emperor's New ClothesThe Dragon and His GrandmotherThe Seven-Headed SerpantThe Wizard KingAnd many more! This beautiful edition comes complete with the original illustrations by Golden Age Illustrator Henry J. Ford, and is the perfect gift to pass on these timeless classics to the next generation of readers and dreamers. The imaginations of children throughout time have been formed and nurtured by stories passed down from generation to generation. Of the countless genres of stories, fairy tales often conjure the most vivid fantastical worlds and ideas, which cultivate creativity and bring elements of magic back into the real world. The Fairy Books, compiled by famous Scottish novelist and poet Andrew Lang, are widely consider among some of the best collections ever compiled.
Yellow Fog
by Les DanielsA decadent heir in 19th-century England falls on hard times and encounters a vampire posing as an occultist.
The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers
by Robert W. Chambers S. T. JoshiThis massive collection brings together the entire body of Robert W. Chamber's Weird fiction works. This book offers more than two dozen stories and episodes.
The Yellow Wood
by Melanie TemA grown daughter confronts her father’s dark power in this “smart, creepy, and painfully insightful [novel]” by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly). To forge a life for herself, Alexandra Kove knew she had to escape the claustrophobic forest where her father had raised her. Always headstrong and independent, she was the only one of her siblings to leave. But now, after thirty years away from the yellow wood and her father’s influence, Alexandra is returning to see him, perhaps for the last time. Though she is determined to maintain her independence, Alexandra soon finds herself ensnared in a battle of wills with a man whose control over his children seems somehow more than natural. Alexandra always knew that her father was something of a wizard, but she’s about to discover just how real—and how powerful—his wizardry is. “The Yellow Wood is a terrific book, and I came away from it unsettled, even a bit horrified.” —Tor.com
Yesterday and Today
by Phoebe RiversIn the conclusion to the Saranormal series, Sara discovers the connections between the past, the present, and her powers.Sara was absolutely thrilled to find the diary that her mother left hidden away so long ago--but she's quickly disappointed by what she reads. She learns that her mother had paranormal powers too, and she hated them so much that she somehow managed to get rid of them. How did she do that? And is that the secret message she has for Sara? Will there ever be a way for them to communicate? Meanwhile, Sara's crush, Mason, seems to like her back, but he doesn't want anyone else to know they're hanging out. Especially not after a rumor gets started about Sara and her paranormal powers. Sara doesn't care anymore what other people think--but Mason does, and that's a problem. When Mason begins to fear that his association with Sara will somehow cause his own paranormal secret to be revealed, Sara has to decide: Will she stand up for who she is, even if it means losing the boy she likes so much?
Yesterday and Today (Saranormal #11)
by Phoebe RiversIn the conclusion to the Saranormal series, Sara discovers the connections between the past, the present, and her powers. Sara was absolutely thrilled to find the diary that her mother left hidden away so long ago--but she's quickly disappointed by what she reads. She learns that her mother had paranormal powers too, and she hated them so much that she somehow managed to get rid of them. How did she do that? And is that the secret message she has for Sara? Will there ever be a way for them to communicate? Meanwhile, Sara's crush, Mason, seems to like her back, but he doesn't want anyone else to know they're hanging out. Especially not after a rumor gets started about Sara and her paranormal powers. Sara doesn't care anymore what other people think--but Mason does, and that's a problem. When Mason begins to fear that his association with Sara will somehow cause his own paranormal secret to be revealed, Sara has to decide: Will she stand up for who she is, even if it means losing the boy she likes so much?
Yesterday's Sun: A Novel
by Amanda BrookeYesterday’s Sun, a poignant debut novel from British author Amanda Brooke, finds a young woman having to choose between her own life and the life of her future child.When newly married Holly and her husband Tom move into a charming old manor house in the English countryside, she couldn’t have predicted that a mystical moondial would change her life—and her destiny.In the style of Jodi Picoult, with memorable characters, and tender, warm, prose, Yesterday’s Sun is a brilliant, suspenseful tale of free will versus fate; a heart-wrenching story of family and the risks we take to break from the past.
Yesternight: A Novel
by Cat WintersFrom the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core. A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. There, she begins a journey causing her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation.In 1925, Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There, she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child.Seven-year-old Janie O’Daire is a mathematical genius, which is surprising. But what is disturbing are the stories she tells: that her name was once Violet, she grew up in Kansas decades earlier, and she drowned at age nineteen. Alice delves into these stories, at first believing they’re no more than the product of the girl’s vast imagination. But, slowly, Alice comes to the realization that Janie might indeed be telling a strange truth. Alice knows the investigation may endanger her already shaky professional reputation, and as a woman in a field dominated by men she has no room for mistakes. But she is unprepared for the ways it will illuminate terrifying mysteries within her own past, and in the process, irrevocably change her life.
The Yggyssey
by Daniel PinkwaterA sequel to critically acclaimed THE NEDDIAD told from the point of view of Ned's friend, IggyLa Brea Woman is missing. Valentino, too. The ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing right and left!Iggy Birnbaum is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, no matter what Neddie Wentworthstein and Seamus Finn say.There's just the little matter of traveling to another plane of existence, first...and then, of course, not pissing off a witch once she gets there.From L.A. to Old New Hackensack, fans of The Neddiad will be delighted to join up with Iggy, Neddie, Seamus, and the usual apparitional entourage for another weird and wonderful adventure by Daniel Pinkwater. As Neil Gaiman said about the first book: "it's funny and tender and strange and impossible to describe. What Pinkwater does is magic and I'm grateful for it."THE IGGYSSEY is vintage Pinkwater: laugh out loud funny, incredible characters, dialogue, humor. And like THE NEDDIAD, this book will be similarly illustrated throughout by Calef Brown.
The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There
by Daniel PinkwaterIn the mid-1950s, Yggdrasil Birnbaum and her friends, Seamus and Neddie, journey to Old New Hackensack, which is on another plane, to try to learn why ghosts are disappearing from the Birnbaum's hotel and other Hollywood, California, locations.
Yo fui Jack el Destripador
by Michael Bray Jorge Ledezma MillánCuando Jack el Destripador aterrorizó Londres en 1888, desencadenaría una ola de misterio tras su desaparición y su cadena de violentos y terroríficos asesinatos terminaría tan rápido como había comenzado, dejando a su paso uno de los crímenes no resueltos más antiguos del mundo. Ahora, en 1907, el biógrafo Charles Hapgood está a punto de recibir la visita de un hombre que, sorprendentemente, afirma ser el famoso Destripador y desea narrar su historia antes de su inminente muerte. Escéptico al principio, Hapgood acepta escuchar su historia, siendo más adelante testigo de una prueba indiscutible de que su visitante dice la verdad y es realmente quien dice ser. Conforme Hapgood escucha la historia del hombre, se va sumergiendo en un mundo de dolor, crueldad, horror y tristeza a medida que descubre cómo un niño inocente se convirtió en el monstruo viviente más grande que el mundo haya conocido jamás. A medida que la historia se desarrolla, el escritor comienza a temer por su propia seguridad ya que el hombre alguna vez conocido como Jack el Destripador utiliza sus propias palabras para narrar su historia, un relato que va mucho más allá de la línea de tiempo conocida de sus horrendos crímenes y alcanza nuevas profundidades de terror y depravación que Hapgood nunca podría haber imaginado.
Yokai Attack!
by Matt Alt Hiroko Yoda Tatsuya MorinoForget Godzilla. Forget the giant beasties karate-chopped into oblivion by endless incarnations of Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and the Power Rangers. Forget Sadako from 'The Ring' and that creepy all-white kid from 'The Grudge.' Forget everything you know about tales of terror before reaching for this book.Yokai Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional creepy-crawlies. Yokai are ethereal sorts of beings, like ghosts, nearly always encountered at night; everyone has their own take on how they might look in real life and what sorts of specific characteristics and abilities they might have. This book is the result of long hours spent poring over data and descriptions from a variety of sources, including microfilms of eighteenth-century illustrations from the national Diet Library in Tokyo, in order to bring you detailed information on almost 50 of these amazing creatures for the first time in English.Illustrations, created by the talented Tatsuya Morino, detail the potential appearance of each yokai. Alongside each illustration is a series of "data points," with each yokai's important features at a glance--especially handy for any potential close encounters.Yokai Attack! will surely convince you that Japan's tradition of fascinating monsters is a long one--yet far from being history.
Yokai Attack!
by Hiroko Yoda Matt Alt Tatsuya MorinoForget Godzilla. Forget the giant beasties karate-chopped into oblivion by endless incarnations of Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and the Power Rangers. Forget the Pocket Monsters. Forget Sadako from 'The Ring' and that creepy all-white kid from 'The Grudge.' Forget everything you know about Japanese tales of terror before reaching for this book. Yokai Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional creepy-crawlies and monsters. It will surely convince you that Japan's tradition of fascinating monsters is a long one-yet far from being history.
You
by Austin GrossmanA NOVEL OF MYSTERY, VIDEOGAMES, AND THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THEM, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE.When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment. In part, he's finally given up chasing the conventional path that has always seemed just out of reach. But mostly, he needs to know what happened to Simon, the strangest and most gifted friend he ever lost, who died under mysterious circumstances soon after Black Arts' breakout hit.Then Black Arts' revolutionary next-gen game is threatened by a mysterious software glitch, and Russell finds himself in a race to save his job, Black Arts' legacy, and the people he has grown to care about. The bug is the first clue in a mystery leading back twenty years, through real and virtual worlds, corporate boardrooms and high school computer camp, to a secret that changed a friendship and the history of gaming. The deeper Russell digs, the more dangerous the glitch appears--and soon, Russell comes to realize there's much more is at stake than just one software company's bottom line.Austin Grossman's debut novel Soon I Will Invincible announced the arrival of a singular, genre-defying talent "sure to please fans of Lethem and Chabon" (Playboy). With YOU, Grossman offers his most daring and most personal novel yet-a thrilling, hilarious, authentic portrait of the world of professional game makers; and the story of how learning to play can save your life.
You Are So Undead to Me
by Stacey JayFifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues. All Megan wants is to be normal and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it's a little difficult when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead. Things are about to get even more complicated for Megan. Someone in school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it's looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party--the bloody kind. Megan must stop the Zombie apocalypse descending on Carol, Arkansas. Her life and more importantly, homecoming depends on it.
You Can Stay: The chilling, heart-stopping new thriller
by Elle ConnelShe's the perfect host. He's the perfect victim.Someone is hunting Connor. Alone, freezing, in the wilderness of Bodmin Moor, on an elite Special Forces training exercise, he'd be a fool to scorn the kindness of a local stranger. Wouldn't he?At first, Eilidh seems to be an impeccable host. She offers Connor food and a warm bed - he finds it nearly impossible to leave her charming farmhouse.But the choice isn't his to make.There have been others before. None, though, as perfect as him.Why would she let him leave?Praise for Elle Connel:"Down By The Water takes the reader on a weekend trip from hell... I loved the classy writing and ever-growing sense of unease in this clever subversion of a classic country house mystery" - Harriet Tyce"A chilling drama" Sunday Times"Sinister and atmospheric" - Chris Brookmyre"Absolutely loved this - so dark, yet laced with humour, and such clever plotting. Loved the characters, and the ending is sublime." - Susi Holliday"A gripping mystery." - Nathan Ripley