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Il y a huit ans, Jersey a dû fuir Bristone city, après avoir vu son père se faire massacrer sous ses yeux. Aucun doute pour elle, les responsables sont les Drunken Bastards, ce gang de bikers impitoyables qui règne sur la ville. Aujourd’hui, alors qu’elle est en cavale et recherche une planque, elle n’a pas d’autre choix que d’aller frapper au Glitter Hall, ce cabaret emblématique dans lequel elle a grandi. Malheureusement, celui-ci est désormais aux mains des motards tant redoutés.

In a post-apocalyptic world where tyranny and medieval torture reign supreme and witch burnings are an everyday occurrence, a top Witchfinder must confront the very Church he serves when he learns of its dark past and twisted plans for the future.

Gertrude Barrows Bennet is better known by her pen-name, Francis Stevens. With a career that only spanned three years between 1917 and 1920, when she stopped writing after her mother's death, she is credited as "the woman who invented dark fantasy". She was a direct influence on H.P. Lovecraft, and in the words of Sam Moskowitz was the "greatest woman writer of science fiction in the period between Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and C.L. Moore"

A fun adventure in a Spain that never was, in the vein of Dumas and Stevenson, with more than a taste of Cervantes. Don Rodriguez is a young nobleman who is banished from the family castle, and must set out with his rapier and mandolin to win his own estate, and perhaps even a bride. Along with his trusty servant Morano, he journeys far into the heart of the mythical Shadow Valley. Echoes of The Princess Bride resonate throughout.

Only in an insane world would a young wizard find herself battling monsters and automatons one day and returning to Convocation Academy to cram for finals the next. But this is the world Alise Phel lives in. Like it or not, Alise must face the consequences of ditching out a second time and dealing with the crushing workload assigned to her as a punishment. Worse yet, succeeding at the Academy means Alise must learn to master her powerful and unusual magic—the same magic that caused her to accidentally murder her own mother.

Getrude Bennet has been called the "most important woman writer of fantasy between Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1759-1797) and C.L. Moore (1911-1987)". This is a complete collection of short stories by the woman who first explored the dark fantasy worlds of the modern era. This book contains tales that were originally published in Weird Tales, Argosy, and All-Story Weekly between 1918-1923.

Tanner is seventeen and finally writing about the horror she experienced as a thirteen-year-old sister who had lost her baby brother to the maws of a hamper from hell; and all on her only day to truly relax! The Lumpin Family Circus had seen its last days after the magicians grew tired and old but Tanner sneaks out of her window and dares a trip to the Art district. She's trying to save her brother and her sanity but finds more than she's bargained for.

Nightmare was the first in a type of fiction that became known as dark fantasy, and remains a high water mark in the genre. First published in 1916, this debut novel began the three year career in which Francis Stevens became the person that launched entire genres of modern fictions. With her vast imagination and flair for the unusual and exciting, Gertrude Barrows Bennett created a seed that has grown into thousands of great works.

En el imperio letherii reina el desconcierto. Mientras el emperador Rhulad Sengar, rodeado de aduladores y comisionados de su maquiavélico canciller, se precipita a la locura, los agentes secretos letherii llevan a cabo una campaña de terror contra su propia gente. El Errante, en otro tiempo un dios clarividente, parece ahora incapaz de ver el futuro. Las conspiraciones recorren el palacio y el imperio, manejado por corruptos e interesados, está al borde de una guerra sin precedentes con los reinos vecinos.

Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s The Citadel of Fear (1918) is one of the greatest dark fantasy classics, a gorgeously written and imaginatively conceived masterpiece. In a career that spanned a mere three years, Bennett published half a dozen books under the pseudonym of Francis Stevens which came to define a number of later genres. She is most popularly known as the woman who invented dark fantasy, but along the way she also invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian sci-fi.

Una novela impactante, rápida, dentro del género de misterio y thriller, donde lo sobrenatural cobra un nuevo sentido para el lector, donde la fantasía en un entorno urbano real como Nueva York, en la actualidad, se hace creíble y apabullante.

The city of Caphedra long stood as a center of commerce and a seat of conquest, until the murder of its king sends the land spiraling into a dangerous war of succession. Now, the army of a prince and his vindictive Lord Marshal has returned to confront the power-hungry zealots of a cloistered queen and the ancient forces that are propelling her toward the throne.

La periodista Lee Hoppe presencia en la trasera de un local de copas cómo una mujer envuelta en llamas asesina a dos hombres con sus propias manos, dos garras de fuego. A continuación, un hombre, hermoso como un ángel, se la lleva en un siniestro furgón negro. Lo graba todo con su móvil. Lee, sin trabajo ni perspectivas, necesita desesperadamente una noticia que la ayude a salir del sumidero por el que se está derramando su vida.

Samoras Leben am Hofe steht auf Messers Schneide, als ein mysteriöser Attentäter Anschläge auf ihn verübt. Doch er kann nicht fliehen, denn Prinz Sengrey hält entscheidende Informationen zurück – Wissen, das den Schlüssel zur Vernichtung eines uralten Dämons birgt. Währenddessen erfährt die gefürchtete Königin des benachbarten Reiches von Samoras Versteck und fordert mit unerbittlicher Entschlossenheit die Rückkehr ihrer entflohenen Waffe. Auch Lusseyras Lage spitzt sich dramatisch zu, als der mächtige königliche Geheimbund ihre verbotene Magie entdeckt.

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Sono iniziate le vacanze di Natale e nel casolare della famiglia di Marco regna il caos: Anna, sua sorella, continua a frequentare Attila Brusa mentre il padre Giuseppe subisce le insistenze di Luzio Brusa che vuole a tutti i costi i suoi terreni. Dopo qualche esitazione, Marco decide di indagare sulla morte di don Silvio – l’origine di tutta la faccenda – partendo da un crocifisso nero con un Cristo filiforme dagli occhi dipinti di rosso. Raduna così gli amici per far luce sulle vicende che affliggono Fossosecco da decenni, tra cui il suicidio di Pillari.

The year is 2076, and mankind has perfected VR technology using the Chip, an implant that interfaces directly with the human brain, using it like an organic computer. Age of Anarchy Online (AAO) is the newest game released by Icestorm, makers of the legendary World of Destiny (WoD). Unlike VR games before it, AAO promises a 110 percent “Better Than Life” realism experience, and to showcase this, Icestorm announces that AAO will have no “Out of Character” rules, save for actions like hacking or exploiting system errors.

Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist. Together, they brought the whole continent to its knees.... Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory.

Kealin Half-Elf has only been like this for a few weeks. He feels a hunger he never had before. Before this, he had mastered the power of his ancient Dwemhar heritage and fought an ascended being, but he, too, was mortally injured. In an act of desperation, vampirism was used to preserve his life and now he must hurry to reverse the effect before he is forever trapped in a state of maniacal blood lust.

Torn by internal strife, Wendar faces deadly raids from the north by an inhuman race, the Eika. And now terrifying portents are being seen; old ruins restored to life under the light of the full moon and peopled by the long-vanished Lost Ones; dark spirits walking the land in broad daylight. And suddenly two innocents are about to be thrust into the middle of the conflict.