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In the gaunt desolation of those dark Kentucky hills, the Dixie Limited, crack flyer, stood gutted of all living passengers… The Spider, the only survivor, stood alone at that bleak scene, vowing silently, solemnly, to destroy the ambition-mad arch-criminal who had plotted this wholesale ruin. For this, and manifold like disasters, were occurring everywhere in the land – at the direction, Richard Wentworth knew, of some diabolical brain which was unleashing hordes of primitive barbarians to lay...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Sinisterly beckoning, the long bony finger signaled Manhattan to its mass death – slaying hundreds of helpless victims who dared sink into a sleep from which there could be no awakening this side of hell! While the Underworld's lawless hordes looted, only Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, dared fight, die and fight again for a fear-crazed people against a murder-Morpheus whose human quarry drowsed into death – and whose grim weapon was a Slaying Sandman sworn to turn New York into a...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
From the beginning, criminals have lived in terror of the Spider. Crime lords cower before his awesome shadow. Single-handedly, the Spider has decimated New York's Underworld. What happens when a bigger, badder arachnid comes to town? How will the Master of Men react when the Tarantula begins operations? Blacking out Manhattan, pillaging with impunity, transforming it into a City of Flaming Shadows, the Tarantula shows no fear of the Spider. Taking up the challenge, Richard Wentworth...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The Severed Hand had brought its grisly warning to New York – its citizens must pay the extortioner's price or die! Nor would theirs be a swift, merciful demise. Their living bodies would be transformed, slowly, agonizingly – inch by inch – into rigid mummies! With the police helpless before the challenge of this new Underworld master, Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, took up Manhattan's desperate cause. Fighting in the dark, against an almost phantom foe, he knew he must work fast....
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Der Yankee aus Connecticut erwacht nach einer üblen Schlägerei im tiefen Mittelalter. Ein Ritter nimmt ihn gefangen und bringt ihn nach Camelot, wo er durch eine List dem Scheiterhaufen entrinnt und mit einer Prise Dynamit den bösen Magier Merlin übertrumpft. Und so macht er Karriere an König Artus' Hof. Mit neuzeitlichen Reklameplakaten und Western-Waffen kämpft er gegen Drachen, wilde Ritter, Dummheit und die Angst vor Dämonen. Er träumt den Traum der zivilisierten Welt, und muss am Ende...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
Without any forewarning, the madness struck. One moment the busy steel-mill town of Keystone was a peaceful industrial community… the next, it had become a shambles of murder, madness and ruthless midnight slaughter. Horror walked its streets, and terror lurked in every close-locked home… Could the Spider, hastening to answer the distressed call of the dismayed inhabitants, prevail against the death which struck from darkness? A stranger in a place of madness, unsupported by friends or allies,...
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Can even the Spider successfully combat the flame master who has no face, yet who masks himself with the features of a thousand victims – as terror spreads throughout a great city? Follow the Spider, Master of Men, as he dodges gangland guns and police bullets in another roller coaster ride of an adventure! Harried on all sides, the target of Underworld assassins and police arrest warrants alike, the Spider gives no quarter as he races to bring another vicious supercriminal to justice. The...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Where does fantasy end and horror begin? Is there beauty in terror? Does horror possess a spiritual dimension? In these five classic tales written by acknowledged masters of the supernatural, these haunting questions are explored…but not fully answered. First, in A. Merritt's haunting «The Moon Pool,» a moonlit pool nestled among cyclopean ruins harbors a vampiric dweller both beautiful and terrible in its unearthly majestry. «The House and the Brain» by Edward Bulwer-Lytton may be the most...
| Автор | Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон |
Just as Adolph Hitler brutally slaughtered his opponents, so did Asmodeus, Master of the Night-Demons, crush New York's police force and lay down his hideous ultimatum to the city: «Surrender… or die!» Could one man – Richard Wentworth – with only his pitifully few loyal allies, and the Spider's sinister garb, stem this monstrous Blitzkrieg of crime! How can millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth, secretly the Spider, battle such an appalling menace and survive to tell the tale?...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Down from the bleak Kentucky hills swept the stark-naked mob of murder- maddened Blancos – sacking and slaying as they came! Neither steel nor bullet could stem that terror-tide of man-made albino monsters, whipped to a frenzy of lust by their criminal chief. Eastward they crept until New York, itself, was at their mercy, and human victims, bloodied and outraged, lay in their path. Once again Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's disguise of doom, fought alone to wipe out crime's crowning...
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She called herself Captain Kidd. As a buccaneer, she put the bloody rogues of the Spanish Main to shame. Merchant ships did not interest her. She and her Pirates went after passenger trains and skyscrapers with a devilish new weapon called the Green Fire. When a looted train filled with electrified corpses crashes into Grand Central Station, Richard Wentworth again dons the dark garments of the Spider-Master of Men! His mission: to track down this distaff demon and bring an end to her vicious...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
From out of the mystic East comes a new foe for the Spider-and a vicious new threat! When tropical orchids begin taking root in living people, their insidious tendrils penetrating helpless bodies, strangling vital organs, Richard Wentworth knows that a hideous new menace has manifested in civilization. For the Golden Dragon has descended upon New York. The Golden Dragon, whose deadly Blood Orchids feed off living flesh, and whose goal is unknown. The Golden Dragon, Asia's most malevolent...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Ein Mensch, der von der Magie beherrscht wird, ein Zwerg, der ganz gut zaubern kann, ein übergewichtiger Zwergelbe, ein hinkender Ork. Sie können die Welt retten – oder vernichten. Leiks drittes Semester an der Âlaburg beginnt und alles ändert sich. Die Universitätsdirektorin Tejal verschwindet urplötzlich und der von Leik verabscheute Magiemagister Jehal wird ihr Nachfolger. Sein orkischer Freund Ûlyer erkrankt schwer und von Leiks geliebter Drena gibt es weiterhin keine Spur. Nur eins ist...
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So devastating was the ghastly power Professor Secundus wielded over the hapless city – and over his sightless, kill-crazy slaves in particular – that Richard Wentworth asked New York to surrender to the King of Crime!… How could the Spider, himself doomed to blindness, prevent the mass tragedy that was due to follow – and at the same time save his sweetheart from Satan's Hell on Earth! Go with Richard Wentworth, alias the Spider, as he blazes his way through a series of horrific death...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Als Novizin der Mystischen Klasse wird Nona in die tieferen Geheimnisse des Universums eingeweiht. Allerdings gelten im Konvent zur süßen Gnade harsche Regeln, und als dann auch noch die Inquisition den Arm nach dem Kloster ausstreckt, muss Nona fliehen. Ihr auf den Fersen sitzt nicht nur eine ehrgeizige Assassine, sondern obendrein der ebenso einflussreiche wie rachsüchtige Thuran Tacsis. Doch Nona wird in noch größere Konflikte hineingerissen: Während Sherzal, die rücksichtslose Schwester des...
| Автор | Mark Lawrence |
By what strange twist of Fate did the fearful menace which was to shadow every man and woman in New York City first rear its venomous head in the distant Caribbean? When terror suddenly boarded a little tramp steamer and left crimson havoc littering its narrow decks a spluttering wireless flashed the doom of every living thing aboard. Within a week, the same ghastly fate struck a gigantic new ocean liner, its luxurious cabins occupied by the elite and powerful of a dozen different nations! Death...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Locke Lamora ist ein Held. Nein, eigentlich ist er das nicht: Er ist ein Dieb, ein Lügner und ein Ganove, wenn auch mit guten Manieren. Mit seiner Bande bewegt er sich in den Kanälen und engen Gassen des Herzogtums Camorr, um die Nobilität um ihre Schätze zu erleichtern. Und darin ist Locke unschlagbar, denkt er zumindest. Bis ein weiterer Verbrecher in Camorr auftaucht. Locke muss handeln – und das Abenteuer seines Lebens beginnt…
| Автор | Скотт Линч |
Liv Beaufont wouldn't want a day off anyway....which is good because being Father Time's only employee is demanding. Liv can hardly believe she has to carry a chicken around while fighting villains. However, the chicken is supremely important. She just doesn't know how…or what the bird wants to eat. And then there's Sophia's dragon egg.Whoever stole it is going to pay big time when Liv gets ahold of them. In the meantime, Subner helps Liv track down the elf who made...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Björn was raised in the Northland, a mountainous country of almost unbearable cold. In this unforgiving environment, the survivors became quick, agile, and incredibly strong. Because the land could support only a limited number of people, a select number of people were expelled to make their way in the outside world. But before they were released, they were highly trained to be mighty skilled warriors. Emotions were systematically suppressed to prevent interfering with the...
| Автор | John E. Elias |
A flash flood in the Arizona desert brings Nastas, a lone Navajo brave, into the national spotlight. His heroic efforts to save a young girl trapped in the melee leave him wounded, and Spirits lead him to an oasis cultivated by Keane, a white-man-turned-shaman whose place in the Navajo tribe is becoming increasingly important. Meanwhile, Keane's brother, Archer, encounters a series of mysterious figures and events in Ireland, where he is spending a semester at Trinity College. Both...
| Автор | Patrick PhD Marcus |
The great nation of Israel lies in ruins, God's temple ransacked and plundered, His people consumed by Babylon. A once unparalleled nation is reduced to slaves, widows, and beggars, their god mocked as a jester.<br><br>Kefira, a headstrong young Jew, struggles to survive in the empire of Persia, orphaned in the wake of her nation's destruction. No longer a child but not yet a woman, she has grown up with no home, dowry, or anything to call her own. Hopeless and...
| Автор | Anneliese Ronda |
A girl receives from the Golden Eagle, in the Land of Mardascan, a magic blue diamond. Demion, an evil being, sends his emissaries to get the magic stone from her. She must get her gift back, and the destiny of Mardascan and possibly all worlds depends on her attitude. So, with the help of an unexpected friend, a journey is started. This journey will take them through the Land of Mardascan, passing by incredible places and situations, and interacting with incredible beings, either good as evil....
| Автор | Lediecio de Negreiros |
Is there life after death? Richard and Karen are sure of it because they died once and, although the doctors brought them back, part of them is still trapped on the other side. But this Afterlife their alter-egos are experiencing isn't what they were led to believe. It seems there is no peace after death, no Heaven, not any more. There is just a decaying land of medieval customs and barbarity, a living nightmare.<br><br>Join two fresh reborns as they enter a world of...
| Автор | Vin Ph.D. Jackson |
Advent of Darkness won 2014 Indie Excellence Finalist Award in Fantasy & Advent of Darkness is a Finalist of 2014 International Book Awards in Fiction-Fantasy.<br><br>Advent of Darkness has been chosen one of the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winners for Summer 2013. <br><br>When veteran and archaeologist John Gideon is transported from Earth by a tall, strange man clothed in ornate red robes, he soon finds himself a stranger in a different world. Unbeknownst...
| Автор | Gary Caplan |