Ужасы и Мистика
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From sleuth to victim, from sinner to saint and everything in between, women take center stage in this collection of eleven stories by award-winning author B.K. Stevens. Dying for detective stories? Rooting for revenge? Craving suspense? There's something for everyone in these tales of murder and mystery.<P> "These finely crafted stories have it all – psychological heft, suspense, subtle humor – and the author's notes on each story are especially illuminating. A treat for...
| Автор | B.K. Stevens |
The morning after the season's worst blizzard of the year, Deputies Frank «Frack» Telusky and Robely Danner of the small farming community of Abundance, Wisconsin, are called to a remote section of woods, where they find a handcuffed man frozen to a tree. Since no one local has been reported missing they wonder if The Iceman is the driver of the overdue van out of Minnesota, reportedly carrying a fortune in silver fox coats. If so, where's the van and where are the coats? On the far...
| Автор | Arlette Lees |
A car goes off the road in the midst of winter's first snow storm. The lone survivor, Attorney Hal Watson, is left stranded off the grid and far from home. He has just witnessed the gruesome murder of his daughter, Marilyn, but will he be rescued in time to prevent a miscarriage of justice? The busy routine of Attorney Gail Brevard and her colleagues is disrupted when Marilyn's fiance, Damon Powell, is accused of the crime. Gail had successfully defended Damon when he was charged in...
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A pretty girl and a drunken producer are involved in a dramatic motor accident on the road from Lyons to Paris – a fruitful source for blackmail. The first sinister consequence occurs at a party where, among the actresses and producers, Dr. Morelle is present with his secretary. Miss Frayle. The famous criminologist finds himself plunged into one of the strangest cases of his career as he takes to the airwaves to unmask a murderer before he can kill again! A classic British mystery by the...
| Автор | Ernest Dudley |
It galled luscious, golden-haired Alma Chrysler to be tied to a husband as stodgy and unexciting as Norman. She didn't think a man should spend his evenings tinkering with a car. <P> Variety was the spice of love, Almla believed, and proved her theory with Scotty, Jim, Bob, and others she could hardly remember. <P> Now it was Ward Green and he was the best of the lot – a slave to her passion for her – but could she maneuver him into going along with her plan for the...
| Автор | Tedd Thomey |
Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are: <P> Sea Glass Harvest, by Bear Kiosk<BR> The Changeling, by R. Rozakis<BR> The Maiden Voyage of the Ariona, by Dale W. Glaser<BR> One Million & One, by Andre E. Harewood<BR> War is Grimm, by Clifford Beal<BR> Blood Pact, by Sharon Cullars<BR> Something I Have to Tell You, by John B. Rosenman<BR> The Curious Simulacrum of Dr....
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The hereditary rulers of Sherath have psychic powers that can bring great good or evil to their people. When the Makra Theora murders her father and seizes his throne, her sister, the Makra Choria, raises an army, captures her sibling, and removes the «Gift» from both of them. Then Choria tries to undo the damage that her sister has done to Sherath and the surrounding states–and to fix Theora herself, if that's possible.<P> "A fantasy world of great beauty, beautifully...
| Автор | Ardath Mayhar |
The worst flood in decades has isolated an island in the middle of Big River and there’s no telling when the dam upriver is going to give. On the island are four men and three lifejackets. The sheriff’s got the rifle and knows one of the other three men is a brutal and ruthless killer. Each man has his own story and if you don’t think this is a situation ripe for the webwork machinations of Harry Stephen Keeler, you haven’t been reading one of the most original mystery writers of the 20th...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
After the death of wise old Mangan, the Regent of Esphania, many of the regent's skills and qualities seem to have been transferred to his beautiful and intelligent cat, Niffy, who at once attaches herself to the new ruler, Prince Jamas. When the king of a neighboring kingdom seems keen to forge an alliance with Jamas by allowing the prince to marry his niece, the real danger is Yasmin, the wicked queen wife, who poisons everyone she dislikes or suspects of interfering with her ambitions....
| Автор | Anne McCaffrey |
Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:<P> • Iconoclasm, by Adrian Cole<P> • Have a Crappy Halloween, by Franklyn Searight<BR> • Early Snow, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes<BR> • The Dollhouse, by Glynn Owen Barrass<BR> • Elle a Vu un Loup, by Loren Rhoads<BR> • Bringing the Bodies Home, by Christian Riley<BR> • Restored, by Marlane Quade Cook<BR> • Nameless and Named, by...
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:<P> Stories<P> • Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole<BR> • The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> • The Bones, by Erica Ruppertabout<BR> • The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks<BR> • Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook<BR> • Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass<BR> • The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke...
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IMAGINE…<P> It is not hard to imagine that you are a thirteen-year-old (almost fourteen) and you don’t quite feel like you belong in your own family, with a somewhat goofy father who does magic tricks and disappears for long periods of time and might be a secret agent, not to mention a mother who might be a white witch, and a sister is actually normal but doesn't look the slightest bit like you. Then it gets worse when your family suddenly moves into a massive pile of a house deep in...
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
‘Repent in this life, rejoice in the next…’ A murder made to look like suicide. Another that appears an accident. DI Barton investigates the tragedies that have shattered a family’s lives, but without obvious leads the case goes nowhere. Then, when the remains of a body are found, everything points to one suspect. [b][/b] Barton and his team move quickly, and once the killer is behind bars, they can all breathe a sigh of relief. But death still lurks in the shadows, and no...
| Автор | Ross Greenwood |
A black student is shot dead during a demonstration claiming “Beethoven Was Black” in Bonn’s historic Münsterplatz with its majestic monument to the Bonn-born composer. Attending a Beethoven jubilee conference in the city is retired professor turned art crimes detective Megan Crespi with her American colleague and Beethoven expert, Will Meridian. During their symposium on the composer one of the participants is also killed. Who is the assassin or assassins and why do the murders continue? The...
| Автор | Alessandra Comini |
