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El fantasma de Canterville
by Oscar WildeCuando el millonario Hiram B. Otis y su familia se instalaron en el antiguo castillo de los Canterville, Simon, el fantasma, se restregó las manos: tendría por fin la oportunidad de aterrorizar a un grupo de odiados norteamericanos. No sabía lo que le esperaba. En esta divertida historia Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) despliega su inmenso talento para el humor, la ironía y el sarcasmo
El fantasma de Canterville: Y Otros Cuentos (Laurin Ser.)
by Oscar WildeUna adinerada familia norteamericana compra un castillo inglés de pasado tenebroso. El conflicto entre el materialismo de los nuevos inquilinos y el espíritu idealista y romántico del fantasma de sir Simon -único habitante de la mansión- provoca persecuciones, intriga y la revelación de una profecía. Los otros cuentos que componen este volumen muestran también el humor, la fantasía y la genialidad del autor.
El fantasma de la Cabaña Bluebell
by Claire Voet Myrna Valeria Sánchez CruzUna historia de amor y traición se entrelaza irremediablemente con el pasado y el presente. Una misteriosa niebla rodea el castillo. Sus dedos helados se curvan y persisten entre cada muro de piedra. En el pueblo, los lugareños están inquietos mientras se lanzan y dan vuelta en su sueño. El clip-clop de los cascos del caballo se puede oír en los adoquines, y gritos de hombres borrachos en la distancia. Un hombre misterioso con su perro está de vuelta, pero ¿quién es? El pueblo del Castillo de Corfe alberga un secreto oscuro que se remonta al siglo XVII, de cuando Lady Bankes luchó por proteger el castillo y cuando Anthony Dickinson, un buscador de brujas, tortura decenas de mujeres desprotegidas en todo Dorset. Dibujado a una foto de la Cabaña Bluebell en una ventana de bienes raíces, Greg tiene un inusual, anhelo de renunciar a su vida en Londres, después de su ruptura matrimonial reciente, desea vivir en esa casa de campo. Parece que Greg no es el único recién llegado a la aldea, como Helen, que recientemente ha dejado Bournemouth después de romper con su novio, se mueve a Lilly, una antigua casa del siglo XVII, no lejos de Bluebell. Ella también es atraída hacia el pasado con extraños sueños y experiencias paranormales. Se hace evidente que trescientos sesenta y siete años después, una historia de amor y traición se entrelaza irremediablemente con el pasado y el presente.
El Fantasma de la Muñeca (Lo Viejo Es Oro #5)
by F. Marion CrawfordLas muñecas tienen algo realmente espeluznante. Algunos dirán que lo que es aún más espeluznante un hombre mayor obsesionado con las muñecas. Esta historia tiene ambas cosas. Además de la espeluznante muñeca, también tenemos una niña desaparecida. Una niña humano. No una muñeca. Así que, aunque nos asuste lo sobrenatural, también hay elementos muy reales en juego.
El fantasma de la Ópera
by Gastón LerouxLos clasicos más escalofriantes en una edición actualizada y adaptada.Con ilustraciones de Antonio Navas. Un fantasma enmascarado recorre las galerías secretas de la lujosa Ópera Garnier de París aterrorizando a los empleados. ¿Quéhorror se oculta tras la máscara? ¿Un malvado ser de ultratumba? ¿O solo un hombre obsesionado con vengarse de quienes lo rechazaronpor su aspecto repulsivo? Sea cual sea la respuesta, nadie está a salvo del fantasma.
El fantasma de los mares (Serie Bat Pat #Volumen 36)
by Roberto Pavanello¡Atrévete a acompañar al murciélago detective Bat Pat y a los hermanos Silver: Martin, Leo y Rebecca en esta espeluznante aventura! ¡¡¡HOLA!!! SOY BAT PAT.OS VOY A CONTAR UNA HISTORIA QUE OS PONDRÁ LOS PELOS DE PUNTA...¿ESTÁIS PREPARADOS? ¡Nos vamos de viaje, amigos! ¿Sabéis dónde? A Portwind, el pueblecito pesquero donde vive el tío Charlie. Nos ha invitado a la inauguración de una nueva reserva marina. ¡Seguro que veremos muchos delfines! Pero una vez ahí descubrimos que la actividad pesquera del lugar está siendo perjudicada por... ¡un barco fantasma! ¡Esas son las aguas por las que tenemos que navegar! ¿Os atrevéis a acompañarnos?
El fantasma de Manhattan
by Frederick ForsythEn El fantasma de Manhattan, Frederick Forsyth rescata a un personaje legendario de la literatura y el cine: el fantasma de la Ópera. Aprovechando la enigmática personalidad del atormentado ser que habita en los sótanos de la ópera de París, reelabora el mito del monstruo solitario, aislado del mundo a causa de su repulsiva fealdad.La novela empieza con los primeros años de Erik Muhlheirn, el "fantasma", en su lóbrego refugio del subsuelo parisino, donde, contra toda previsión, desarrolla una sensibilidad única para la música. Joven, incapaz de asumir su soledad, se enamora perdidamente de Christine, una de las cantantes. Movido por un deseo irreprimible, rapta a la muchacha. Pero sus planes, obviamente, están condenados al fracaso y Erik, prófugo de la justicia, debe abandonar Francia. Su huida lo lleva a Manhattan, donde lo aguardan el éxito y la fortuna. Sin embargo, deberá permanecer oculto tras la máscara, alimentando su obsesión, dedicando la vida entera a recuperar a su amada. Dando un giro imprevisto a su trayectoria novelística, Forsyth crea una obra conmovedora, impregnada del encanto de un tema clásico y el vigor narrativo de uno de los escritores más leídos de nuestro tiempo.
El fantasma del Doctor Tufo (Serie Bat Pat #Volumen 8)
by Roberto PavanelloAcompaña al murciélago detective Bat Pat y a los hermanos Silver: Leo, Martin y Rebecca en esta fantasmagórica aventura. ¡¡¡HOLA!!! SOY BAT PAT.OS VOY A CONTAR UNA HISTORIA QUE OS PONDRÁ LOS PELOS DE PUNTA...¿ESTÁIS PREPARADOS? ¡Hogar, dulce hogar! Era una gris y perezosa mañana de domingo, y en casa de los Silver todos dormíamos como murciélagos. Bueno, todos menos Rebecca, quien se había despertado a las siete y había salido a pasear (¿esta chica no descansa nunca, o qué?). De pronto, algo nos puso a todos en pie: una paloma mensajera había traído noticias frescas (y fantasmagóricas) para mí...
El fantasma del teléfono y otros cuentos de miedo (Cuentos Escalofriantes de Michael Dahl)
by Michael DahlNo apagues la luz cuando leas esta coleccio´n de cuentos escalofriantes. Una chica extran~a y silenciosa solo aparece en las fotos del tele´fono. Una broma en la escuela con un duende naviden~o sale terriblemente mal. Una tiza hace dibujos a una velocidad espeluznante. Y un nin~o tiene un encuentro espantoso ¡con la pasta de dientes ma´s increi´ble del mundo!
Fantasmi e Chiaro di Luna
by Cristina Ventrella Malcolm R. CampbellIn una notte di luna piena, l’intuizione di Randy lo fa tornare indietro all’ospedale psichiatrico abbandonato dove una volta lavorava. Lui e la sua amica, Alice, hanno sentito le affermazioni dei cacciatori di fantasmi secondo cui l’edificio è infestato da strane luci, apparizioni e voci di ex pazienti che chiedono aiuto. Il Dimenticato indirizza Randy ed Alice verso un crimine in corso…non c’è più molto tempo per salvare la vittima.
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
by Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs and Stefan L. BrandtContributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.
Fantastic Fables
by Joan AikenThis final collection of Joan Aiken's stories, taken from nearly sixty years of her writing career, is rooted in the classic fables and fairy tales familiar to us all, but which she has brought up to date by adding her own voice, and a touch of that mysterious added ingredient that makes you return to them again and again, at any age. They range from fantastic fairy tales to science fiction, from a future where the sun no longer shines thanks to human folly, to one where all the best words are kept locked away in a forbidden forest . . . they take us to lands that could be from our own past, where we can call upon magical friends like the mysterious Miss Samphire, or long lost magic spells to save a castle from Viking attack. These are absolutely timeless tales, for as she said:'They come from nowhere, and they are aimed at nobody's ear; or rather they are aimed at the ear of anybody who happens to pass by just at that moment'
Fantastic Tales
by Iginio Ugo TarchettiLawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life.In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper. First published by Mercury House in 1992.
FantasticLand: A Novel
by Mike BockovenSince the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction-novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant
by Jeffrey FordAt times literary, at other times surreal, this collection offers an eclectic group of stories that deal with real-life conflicts, human values, and coming-of-age experiences all placed within fantastical settings. One tale recounts the author's search for a Kafka story that can only be found in an elusive and quite possibly cursed edition. Other stories feature humans dressing in full-body protective exoskins in the personas of old Hollywood movie stars to barter old Earth movies for an alien aphrodisiac and a young boy coming to terms with creation and moulding his own man out of detritus from a nearby forest. In the title story, a great fantasy writer loses touch with the world he has created and pleads with his young assistant to help him visualise the story's end and enable him to complete his greatest novel ever.
Far Cry
by Michael StewartEfforts to cure Jonathan's seemingly split personality through advanced brain research only make matters worse, merging the little boy's twin worlds of good and evil into a horrifying evil. By the author of Monkey Shines. Reprint.
Far Far Away
by Tom McnealJeremy Johnson Johnson hears voices. Or, specifically, one voice: the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm. Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next. <p><p>But Jacob can't protect Jeremy from everything. When coltish, copper-haired Ginger Boultinghouse takes a bite of a cake so delicious it’s rumored to be bewitched, she falls in love with the first person she sees: Jeremy. In any other place, this would be a turn for the better for Jeremy, but not in Never Better, where the Finder of Occasions—whose identity and evil intentions nobody knows—is watching and waiting, waiting and watching. . . . <p>And as anyone familiar with the Brothers Grimm know, not all fairy tales have happy endings. <p><p>Veteran writer Tom McNeal has crafted a young adult novel at once grim(m) and hopeful, full of twists, and perfect for fans of contemporary fairy tales like Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and Holly Black's Doll Bones.
The Far Far Better Thing: Saga of the Redeemed: Book IV (Saga of the Redeemed)
by Auston HabershawAuston Habershaw's epic fantasy series, The Saga of the Redeemed, which began with The Oldest Trick, comes to a powerful conclusion in The Far Far Better Thing.War has come to Eretheria.With Tyvian Reldamar feigning his death, the forces that still carry his banner are left to fight a vicious battle against the warlord Banric Sahand and the noble houses that flock to his side. Led by Myreon and Artus, this band of freedom fighters and angry rebels is faced with an enemy the likes of which they’ve never faced before: one who will do anything, no matter how brutal, to secure victory. Having had his fill of death, Tyvian tries to run away from the war fought in his name, but it just isn’t that simple. With his mother held prisoner, Artus and Myreon in grave danger, and Xahlven pulling the strings in the background, the ring drags Tyvian to return and set things right. But how can one man fix a world this broken? And what will be left behind when the smoke clears? No one can say for sure. Least of all Tyvian.
Far From Heaven, Safe, and Superstar: Three Screenplays
by Todd HaynesThree acclaimed screenplays from one of today’s most provocative filmmakers, including the Oscar nominated screenplay Far from Heaven. An award-winning auteur and a pioneer of the New Queer Cinema movement, Todd Haynes has achieved both critical acclaim and box office success with his original, intelligent, and often controversial films. Collected here are three of his most celebrated screenplays. Far from Heaven: Winning fifty critics’ prizes and appearing on two hundred Top Ten lists, Far from Heaven was also nominated for four Academy Awards. Inspired by the films of Douglas Sirk, it tells the story of a 1950s housewife who is alienated by her neighbors when she pursues an affair with her African American gardener after learning of her husband’s homosexuality. Safe: Haynes’s breakthrough feature was voted Best Film of the 1990s by the Village Voice Film Critics Poll. It tells the disturbing story of an affluent suburban housewife whose life is shattered by a mysterious illness. One character suggests that perhaps she is “allergic to the twentieth century.” Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Told with a cast of Barbie dolls, this short film about Karen Carpenter’s battle with anorexia was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 50 Cult Movies in 2003. Though the film was ordered destroyed after a lawsuit by the Carpenter estate, it remains an underground classic and “the most talked-about, least-seen film of the ’80s” (The A.V. Club).
The Farm
by Scott NicholsonThe latest Appalachian Gothic thriller from award-winning author Scott Nicholson, The Farm explores the legend of a 200-year-old circuit riding preacher who pays a visit to the tiny mountain community of Solom. At the heart of the story is the relationship between a mother and daughter who are new to the town and are just discovering its strange history and dark secrets.
Farthest House: A Guide To Communication Basics For Small Business Owners And Managers
by Margaret LukasWhen Willow is born and her mother dies moments later, only the narrator of this spellbinding debut novel knows the death isn't from complications of childbirth. Amelie-Anais, buried on the Nebraska hilltop where the family home resides, tells the story of deceit, survival, and love from beyond the grave. Following Willow's life and Willow's incredible passion to paint despite loneliness, a physical handicap, and being raised by a father plagued with secrets, Amelie-Anais weaves together the lives of four enigmatic generations.
Fartsunami #2
by M. D. Payne Amanda DockeryChris Taylor and his friends are sent on an unexpected school field trip to a remote tropical island--only to find their new monstrous friends waiting for them. Once again, they need the boys' help: A new evil is on the rise. And it's a frightening sea monster made entirely out of dead skin. Will the boys be able to help defeat such a monster?
Fat White Vampire Blues (Fat White Vampire)
by Andrew FoxHe&’s undead, overweight, and can&’t get a date Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night—whatever you call him—Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he can&’t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he can&’t get his big ol&’ butt off the ground. What&’s worse, after more than a century of being undead, he&’s watched his neighborhood truly go to hell—and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules he&’d better confine himself to white victims—or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isn&’t kidding, Malice burns Jules&’s house to the ground. With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coast—Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. It&’s enough to give a man the blues.
Fatal
by Ta BrockFirst love can be brutal. Sometimes it can be Fatal. Grayson Patch hasn't been human since he was seventeen years old...and that was nineteen years ago. When he rose from the dead, he had no memory of his former life. Grayson desperately wants to recapture his lost humanity, and he's been told that there is one person in this world who can save him from his current fate before he begins to decompose. One person whose life must be sacrificed for his. Cori Abbott has a million things to worry about. She's the new girl in a school that's a fraction of the size of her old one. Her antisocial tendencies are crippling her ability to make new friends. And then there's the recent, sudden death of her father, the only man who ever understood her. The last thing Cori wants is the attention of a strange, withdrawn, and consistently angry guy who seems to hate her for no apparent reason. A guy she can't stop thinking about. Will Cori break through Grayson's cold exterior and find the human within, the boy who can love and understand her like no other? Will Grayson sacrifice Cori to rid himself of his undead curse, even if it means losing her forever?
Fatal Attractions: Hot Blood Xi (Hot Blood #11)
by Jeff Gelb Michael GarrettFatal Attractions, edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, is the eleventh Hot Blood erotic horror collection -- and according to Cemetery Dance, "one of the best volumes in this long-running series - a top rating." Like a moth to a flame, Fatal Attraction draws a diverse array of award-winning authors from the horror, mystery and thriller genres (and Hollywood) into its orbit, including Max Alan Collins, P. D. Cacek, Graham Masterton, Edo van Belkom, Nancy Holder, Brian Hodge, David Schow, Mick Garris and Yvonne Navarro. In fact, Fatal Attractions is the most lauded roster of contributors in the rich three-decade history of the Hot Blood series. Be Manhandled. Have an Epiphany. Work the Graveyard Shift. Go on Separate Vacations. Awaken to Moist Dreams. Fatal Attractions is One to Die For, the pinnacle of erotic horror and a must read for fans.