Horror genre books (198)
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Casa de campo by José Donoso ES
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
La gran metáfora histórica de Donoso; la representación en clave del Chile de los años 70 y del golpe militar. Una brillante alegoría del poder y la rebelión. La mansión señorial donde los Ventura, sus cónyuges y sus treinta y cinco hijos pasan el verano, lejos de la civilización, se alza como un espejismo en medio de la llanura. Por sus salones, pasillos, escalinatas y torreones deambulan los niños, poblando la casa con intrigas, transgresiones y juegos que cuestionan una perversión mayor: el orden impuesto por sus aristocráticos padres. Los Ventura organizan un fastuoso día de campo para los... continue
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Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized. Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn... continue
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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. "Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themsel... continue
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Arnie Cunningham is in love with his car. Christine, the car, is in complete control. "Vintage King . . . breathtaking, awesome. Carries such momentum the reader must force himself to slow down."--"New York Times Book Review" Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Cometierra by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
U.S. poet/writer 1809-1849.
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Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall—until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only different. The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them. . . . Forever. Coraline is an extraordinary fairy tale/nightmare from the uniquely skewed imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
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Dark Matter by Michelle Paver EN
MalawiDescription:
A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.
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NorwayDescription:
Als in einer Kleinstadt ein Jugendlicher verschwindet, steht der Schuldige schnell fest: Hat Richard seinen Freund Tom im Wald von einer Brücke in den reißenden Fluss gestoßen? Richard wehrt sich gegen die Anschuldigungen, doch er verstrickt sich dabei in Lügen. Niemand glaubt ihm. Dabei ist Toms Abwesenheit so ungeheuerlich, dass Richard selbst kaum noch zu atmen wagt. Seine Suche nach dem Freund führt ihn auf die dunkle Seite von Ballantyne. Dort steht das Nachthaus. Was geschah in jener Nacht?
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Das Phantom der Oper by Gaston Leroux DE
FranceDescription:
In den Kulissen der Pariser Oper geht ein Phantom um. Geschickt verbirgt es sich den Blicken der Menschen, und doch nimmt es Einfluss auf das Bühnengeschehen, denn dank seiner Hilfe wird die Sängerin Christine Daée zum Star des Ensembles. Als das abstoßend hässliche Phantom sich ihr offenbart, kommt erst ein großes Erschrecken und bald darauf die Liebe ins Spiel – und löst eine komisch-turbulente Lawine von Ereignissen aus.