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What if? This is how Jaleta Clegg looks at the world, and her mind is constantly churning through ideas. The most persistent get written down. Waiting for Elephants contains 34 of these ideas-five of them in the form of poetry-and 21 of those appear here for the first time! You'll find twisted and reimagined fairy tales, stories of derring-do and adventure in the far reaches of the galaxy, strange game shows, ramen delivery (no, really!), spacefaring...

It's 1941, and the chill of something evil is spreading around the world like a black plague. Suspicion and fear have replaced the trust of innocence of humankind. The news of unheard-of violence and brutality presses heavily on the hearts of mankind. What is tomorrow going to look like? What has happened to the world as we once knew it? World War II begins its escalation, extending its chaos in all directions, including the outer shores of America,...

Nine O' Clock (1852) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written in the aftermath of Antonina (1850), his successful debut, Nine O' Clock finds the author honing the trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease that would make him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins was a writer with a gift for thoughtful entertainment, stories written for a popular audience...

Una inquietante llamada de teléfono te invita a traspasar la primera de las tres puertas que Maríe Yuset ha dibujado para ti en esta colección de relatos. Tres puertas con tres nombres: dolor, demencia y desasosiego. Encuentros imposibles entre seres que habitan distintas dimensiones, mentes insanas que rigen actos impíos y situaciones al límite de la realidad: un palmeral testigo de la maldad, una flor con poderes mágicos, mariposas vengadoras,...

Victor McCain is used to fighting demons, Satanists and even fallen angels. But, when God's bounty hunter travels to the Windy City to take on one of Chicago's most notorious Mob bosses, he is confronted by an assassin the likes the world has never seen. Literally.

Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce tales that illuminate an unsettling side of. Featuring the O. A woman falling out of sync with the world; a king's servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own-the characters in these twenty-five stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined, revealing the breadth and depth...

Twenty-two-year-old Brittany Carlson has just been signed by Baez Productions to star in a film that everyone in Tinsel town is sure will be the next Oscar winner. Brittany should be thrilled, but instead she is terrified. Her life has been turned upside down and she is trying desperately to keep it a secret. Someone is stalking her and yet the police are suggesting this is merely a publicity stunt! She is even more horrified when her Pulitzer Prize-winning...

From the acclaimed author of "Mr. 8" comes a new novella that twists found-footage horror into an exploration of obsession and the terrifying need to find meaning in what we see. The Garrison Project is a contemporary ghost story, as only David J. Thirteen could imagine. No one knows more about urban legends than Molly Heyworth. She's been studying them for years, hoping to discover a story at the moment it makes the leap from a real-life event to...

Esta historia está vinculada a la trama principal de la novela de horror cósmico BAJO NUESTROS PIES (galardonada con el Premio Forolibro 2018 al mejor libro del año). Sin embargo, puede ser disfrutada sin necesidad de haber leído antes la obra original. «Michelle recordaría siempre con tristeza a ese hombre que una vez llegara a amarla como si fuera su propio padre. Tras conocer la amarga noticia del inesperado suicidio de su tío, la joven...

In a dilapidated cyberpunk city plagued by crime and corruption, an unscrupulous district attorney is savagely murdered and tossed out of a building onto his brand new car. Mysteriously, the district attorney and his car come back to life as a single being with a thirst for vengeance. The eerie driverless car embarks on a vicious rampage exacting revenge on the criminals who murdered him.