Ужасы и Мистика
Различные книги в жанре Ужасы и МистикаScot Free
Lexy Campbell fights to prove the innocence of a client she's been providing marriage guidance to after she is accused of murdering her husband. It's the Fourth of July in California and Lexy Campbell is headed home to Scotland. But first she must deliver her final dose of marriage guidance to the elderly Bombarros. They don't turn up for the session, but the cops do. Turns out Mr Bombarro is in the morgue and Mrs Bombarro is in the jail, arrested for murder. Certain of the old lady's innocence, Lexy decides to stay and clear her name. But after her own recent whirlwind divorce, she's got no money and no place to stay. So she checks into the Last Ditch Motel. As the plucky little band of motel guests start to take over Lexy's life, and the shady Bombarro relations come to town, one thing is for sure . . . the fireworks have only just begun.
The Wonder Chamber
Creating an exhibition for her college, Lizzie discovers connections to an Italian prince with a family collection from the Renaissance. In Bologna, Lizzie finds ancient alligators, master paintings, unicorn tusks, and rarities from around the globe in a “cabinet of curiosities.” The mummified occupant of a sarcophagus draws her into a mystery that reaches from ancient Egypt to WWII Italy.
The Wandering Heart
Praise for Mary Malloy’s work: “A tour de force—fascinating, highly readable, and meticulously researched.”—Nathaniel Philbrick “Meticulously researched and engagingly written.”—Seattle Times “In the tradition of Byatt’s Possession, Malloy’s debut novel is a complex and masterfully woven tale that will keep readers up far into the night.”—Caroline Preston, author of Jackie by Josie and Gatsby’s Girl Historian Lizzie Manning didn’t set out to become a sleuth, and she had no intention of becoming personally involved in a medieval mystery. Her expertise lay in eighteenth-century maritime voyages, and her assignment was to find a Tlingit Indian corpse robbed from its grave two hundred years ago during Captain Cook’s Pacific voyage. First accident, then compulsion, pull her deeper into the past, through thirty generations of one British family. Lizzie’s sources aren’t fingerprints and firearms, but documents, artifacts, paintings, architecture, and even the landscape—though modern forensic science helps clarify what happened to a few ancient corpses. Lizzie’s work takes on personal meaning as she is drawn into her own family’s history of insanity and a search for a Crusader’s disembodied heart. As with Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody and Amanda Cross’ Kate Fansler, Mary Malloy creates a heroine who is a respected scholar in her field, and who draws on her expertise to solve the mysteries that come her way. Mary Malloy, PhD, is the author of four maritime history books. She is a professor of maritime history at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and of museum studies at Harvard University.
Paradise Walk
Praise for Mary Malloy's The Wandering Heart:"An impressive fiction debut. . . . Malloy mixes history and fantasy with flair and delivers a wonderfully satisfying puzzler."—Publishers Weekly"A fabulous thriller. . . . A modern psychological tale with strong implications of horror."—MBR The Bookwatch"Mystery à la Gothic. . . . Historian Malloy does her research proud."—Mystery SceneThe second book in the Lizzie Manning trilogy. Following the path of a medieval pilgrimage, historian Lizzie Manning finds unexpected danger. Chaucer may have based his Wife of Bath on a real woman, whose descendant holds certain artifacts, but will the investigation lead to something more sinister? Are the bones of St. Thomas Becket, believed to have been destroyed nearly six hundred years ago, hidden in Canterbury Cathedral, and is someone willing to kill to protect the secret?Mary Malloy is the author of four maritime history books, including Devil on the Deep Blue Sea, which won the 2006 John Lyman Book Award for best maritime biography. Her first historical mystery The Wandering Heart introduced historian Lizzie Manning. Malloy has a PhD from Brown University and teaches maritime history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Museum Studies at Harvard University.
The Long Fire
Natalie is propelled through life by pica, a disorder that has her eating a wide variety of inedibles—from pencil shavings to foam peanuts to plastic doll parts. A lowly staff worker for the local news, she follows the inane demands of the station’s senile weatherman and comes home to an empty apartment, unless of course her father uses the spare key.But Natalie’s past stalks her at every turn. With her mother recently killed in a tragic house fire, and her runaway brother, Eliot, missing for years, Natalie and her father Boris only have each other. When a cryptic voicemail implicates her mother’s Gypsy roots in her untimely death, Natalie begins to consider the demons that consumed her mother, and drove her brother away. With increasing suspicion, she traces her mother's mysterious family legacy back to the Gypsy neighborhood she left behind.As a wary Gypsy community tracks her every move, Natalie resolves to confront the dysfunctional and tragic figure at the heart of the mystery: the dead matriarch herself. Smart, elegiac writing, and a page-turning drive, make this a wonderful literary thriller with a hero as intriguing as the mystery.
The Devil and the Detective
Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue, but hapless Robert and his sidekick can't stop drinking and philosophizing long enough to keep up.
Vile Men
This collection of stories will appeal to fans of short stories and collections. While maintaining a literary voice, these stories touch on a number of genres including horror, fantasy, and crime. These stories will appeal to those looking for fiction with a bit of heat, but not willing to purchase or embrace erotica. These stories also represent primarily a female perspective, focusing on both vulnerable and resilient women.
Exigencies
Edited by Richard ThomasForeword by Chuck WendigCover art by Daniele SerraInterior illustrations by Luke SpoonerTABLE OF CONTENTS:Wilderness by Letitia TrentMonster Season by Joshua BlairCat Calls by Rebecca Jones-HoweCeremony of the White Dog by Kevin CatalanoThe Armadillo by Heather FosterThe Manuscript by Usman T. MalikSingle Lens Reflection by Jason MetzThe Mother by Nathan BeauchampEverything in Its Place by Adam PetersonWhen We Taste of Death by Damien Angelica WaltersFigure Eight by Brendan DetznerMy Mother’s Condition by Faith GardnerFragile Magic by Alex KaneThe Eye Liars by Sarah ReadSearching for Gloria by W. P. JohnsonAnd All Night Long We Have Not Stirred by Barbara DuffeyDull Boy by David James KeatonBrujeria for Beginners by Marytza RubioHeirloom by Kenneth CainThe Owl and the Cigarette by Amanda GowinDesert Ghosts by Mark JaskowskiBlood Price by Axel Taiari
Ночь кровавых слез
Напоминание о том, что люди, которых уже с нами нет, пристально наблюдают за нами и хотели бы нас поддержать в трудные времена. Девушка потеряла своего брата и мать, виной тому – бездушная аристократия. Зная, что слова в мире знати, имеют огромный вес, она решает отомстить всем присутствующим на приеме знатным господам, исполнив песню, в которой, она раскрывает их замыслы. Однако, на бал заявляются, странные, ни кем не приглашенные гости…
Терзающий небо
Старуха, оставшаяся в глухой деревне по неизвестным причинам совершенно одна, спасается от ужаса из её прошлого, который вернулся за ней. Используя накопленную годами мудрость, она точно знает, что нужно делать. Ведь знает?