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H. P. Lovecraft - At ​the Mountains of Madness
Long ​acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries–and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization–is a milestone of macabre literature. This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraft’s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature.” This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.

Harlan Ellison - The ​Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
"It ​crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose. It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men. No one has ever seen its eyeless face. When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace. But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals. It knows our fear. It has our number. It waited for our coming and it will abide long after we have become congealed smoke. It has never heard music, and shows its fangs when we panic. It is the beast of our savage past, hungering today, and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows. It lies waiting." --Harlan Ellison

Ismeretlen szerző - Zombies ​Vs. Unicorns
It's ​a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. Contributors include many bestselling teen authors, including Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan. This anthology will have everyone asking: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn?

Stephen King - Shawshank ​Redemption
A ​Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and escape.

Edgar Allan Poe - Különös ​történetek / Curious Stories
Poe ​novellisztikája sokáig csak excentrikussága, akkoriban túlzottnak, már-már betegesnek érzett fantasztikussága, rejtett erotikája, szadizmusa és misztikája okán keltett feltűnést. Igaz ugyan, hogy az író valódi szakembere a szörnyűségeknek, a testi és lelki kínoknak, hagymázos látomásoknak, őrült képzelődéseknek, írásművészetének lényegét azonban nem az ilyen területen végzett bravúrjai adták. A Poe összes műveit felölelő sorozat e mostani kötete a kevésbé ismert, `különös` Poe-novellákból válogat, ám a mai olvasónak ezek az írások immáron egészen mást jelentenek, másról árulkodnak, másféle esztétikumot sugároznak, mint a korábbi Poe-olvasóknak. Mindenekelőtt az író hallatlan pontossága nyűgözheti le az elbeszélésben elmélyülőt. Méghozzá az a pontosság, amely rendkívül szigorúan bánik a környezettel, a külső körülményekkel és a lelki rezdülésekkel. Az érzékenység és a posztmodern lágyság teljes tagadását jelentik ezek az írások, amelyeket pedig álomszerűségük, melodikus nosztalgikusságuk, festőiségük okán felületes akár posztmodernszerűnek is lehetne tekinteni. A nagy amerikai író toronymagasan áll kései utódai fölött, többek közt abban is, hogy történetei intenzív romantikus hangulatot sugároznak, alakjai, helyzetei archetipikusak és mitologikusak, stílusa művészien tömör és költőien egyszerű. A kétnyelvű, magyar és angol szövegű kiadvány kitűnő a nyelvtanulók számára is, mivel a legtöbb történet letehetetlenül izgalmas olvasmány, s így erős motivációjú nyelvlecke is egyben.

H. P. Lovecraft - The ​Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories
One ​of the masters of 'weird fiction', H. P. Lovecraft expanded the vast boundaries of the horror genre with his vividly imagined stories of exotic and fantastical otherworlds, nightmarish dreamscapes or the supernatural terrors lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. The shadow of New England's witch-hunting past hangs over many of the tales, as in 'The Shunned House' and 'The Dreams in the Witch House', in which malevolent spectres return to haunt the region. Others, such as 'Far Beyond' and 'The Shadow Out of Time', depict the catastrophic results when cosmic channels of time and space are opened, while stories such as 'Polaris' and 'The Doom that Came to Sarnath' portray the downfall os mythical civilizations.

Neil Gaiman - Ed Kramer - Gene Wolfe - Steve Brust - Clive Barker - Tori Amos - The ​Sandman: Book of Dreams
"There ​is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of story. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits -- along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers -- the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare -- inspirations, pleasures, and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep. Surrender to him now." A stunning collection of visions, wonders, horrors, hallucinations, and revelations from Clive Barker, Barbara Hambly, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, Nancy A. Collins, and sixteen other incomparable dreamers -- inspired by the groundbreaking, bestselling graphic novel phenomenon by Neil Gaiman.

Stephen King - Hearts ​in Atlantis
Bobby ​Garfield befriends an elderly gentleman, Ted Brautigan, who moves into the boarding house where he and his mother have lived since his father's death. During the summer that follows, his friendship with Ted grows as he spends time reading the newspaper to him and is hired to be on the lookout for any signs for lost animals or strange cars that may be in the neighborhood. Although he and his best friends, Carol Gerber and John "Sully" Sullivan begin to see these strange signs, Bobby neglects to tell Ted with dire consequences.

Stephen King - Just ​After Sunset
What ​would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for. Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: 'workmen' who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife's affair. There are tales of obsession and fights for power: The Gingerbread Girl runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into A Very Tight Place and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a Rest Stop needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he's to intervene. Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people's worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town - and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual - until it happens.

Mira Grant - Please ​Do Not Taunt the Octopus
A ​new Newsflesh novella. As Dr. Abbey knows, there are difficulties in running an underground virology lab in a post-Rising America. And unwanted guests must be dealt with.

Mira Grant - Apocalypse ​Scenario #683: The Box
A ​new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game-- a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before. Word count: ~3,900

Mira Grant - Coming ​to You Live
A ​Newsflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.

Edgar Allan Poe - The ​Black Cat
This ​horror classic short story by Edgar Allan Poe is about a man who loves his animals, but then starts mistreating them. One animal he mistreats in particular is his favorite, the Black Cat. What will the cat do?

Shirley Jackson - The ​Lottery
Shirley ​Jackson's The Lottery is a memorable and terrifying masterpiece, fueled by a tension that creeps up on you slowly without any clear indication of why. This is just a townful of people, after all, choosing their numbers for the annual lottery. What's there to be scared of?

Josh Malerman - Black ​Mad Wheel
From ​the author of the hit literary horror debut Bird Box (”Hitchcockian.” —USA Today) comes a chilling novel about a group of musicians conscripted by the US government to track down the source of a strange and debilitating sound The Danes—the band known as the “Darlings of Detroit”—are washed up and desperate for inspiration, eager to once again have a number one hit. That is, until an agent from the US Army approaches them. Will they travel to an African desert and track down the source of a mysterious and malevolent sound? Under the guidance of their front man, Philip Tonka, the Danes embark on a harrowing journey through the scorching desert—a trip that takes Tonka into the heart of an ominous and twisted conspiracy. Meanwhile, in a nondescript Midwestern hospital, a nurse named Ellen tends to a patient recovering from a near-fatal accident. The circumstances that led to his injuries are mysterious-and his body heals at a remarkable rate. Ellen will do the impossible for this enigmatic patient, who reveals more about his accident with each passing day. Part Heart of Darkness, part Lost, Josh Malerman’s breathtaking new novel plunges us into the depths of psychological horror, where you can’t always believe everything you hear.

Richard Matheson - I ​Am Legend
Robert ​Neville is the last living man on earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this?

Mira Grant - Rolling ​in the Deep
When ​the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses. They didn't expect actual mermaids. They certainly didn't expect those mermaids to have teeth. This is the story of the Atargatis, lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy. Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the bathypelagic zone in the Mariana Trench…and the depths are very good at keeping secrets.

H. P. Lovecraft - The ​Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
H.P. ​Lovecraft, acknowledged master of the horror genre, left a legacy of great short fiction. Unsurpassed in their richness of imagination and range of knowledge, these chilling tales are a brilliant writer's creative response to a world in which he was often an outsider. Now readers have an opportunity to scrutinize and further appreciate the greatness of Lovecraft's strange genius as Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi annotates, for the first time, some of Lovecraft's most famous tales. S.T. Joshi's text illuminates the more obscure references throughout Lovecraft's writings, from an explanation of the chemicals referred to in "The Dunwich Horror" to the definition of one of his favorite adjectives, "eldritch." Readers will also discover which story details are wholly fabricated by H.P. Lovecraft and which are taken from real life, such as the "Moodus Noises" and "Garden of the Gods." Generously illustrated, this remarkable work lets us fully appreciate the awesome details of the author's imagined reality while it helps deepen our enjoyment of the unrivaled master of the weird.

Ismeretlen szerző - Chilling ​Horror Short Stories
A ​supernatural selection of original and classic short stories, packed with monsters, vampires and a host of weird creatures. From the artful pens of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Hope Hodgson and more, these tales of woe and malice are joined by several unpublished pieces from fantastic, modern writers.

H. P. Lovecraft - The ​Call of Cthulhu
H.P. ​Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the 20th century, discarding witches and ghosts and envisaging mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe.