Libros de N. de Terror 862 resultados

Lovecraft, H.p.

Christie, Agatha

Todo el mundo sabe que Agatha Christie fue una de las más prolíficas y exitosas escritoras de su tiempo. Lo que muchos no saben es que, gracias a su matrimonio con el prestigioso arqueólogo británico Max Mallowan, recorrió todo el Oriente Medio acompañando a su marido. Ven y dime cómo vives es el testimonio escrito de varias temporadas de excavación arqueológica en Siria e Irak...

King, Stephen

Edgar Allan Poe / Poe, Edgar Allan

Según H.P. Lovecraft, la diferencia entre E.A. Poe y sus ilustres predecesores estriba en que éstos habían trabajado a oscuras, sin comprender la base psicológica del atractivo del terror. Poe comprende el mecanismo y la fisiología del miedo y de lo extraño, estudia la mente humana más que los usos de la ficción gótica, y trabaja con unos conocimientos analíticos de las verdade...

Alfred Hitchcock

Un compendio de ingeniosas historias sobre la inevitable acechanza de la muerte, seleccionado por un inigualable maestro del género para deleite de sus muchos seguidores. ...

King, Stephen

Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a gia...

King, Stephen

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day, a small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. A gardener's hand is severed as the dome descends. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts. No one can fathom what the barrier is, where it came from, ...

King, Stephen

Stoker, Bram

During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon h...

Jeaniene Frost

There's always one more grave to digLately, life has been unnaturally calm for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband, Bones. They should have known better than to relax their guard, because a shocking revelation sends them back into action to stop an all-out war . . .A rogue CIA agent is involved in horrifying secret activities that threaten to raise tensions between humans an...

Sebastián Darío Beringheli

Cuentos de: Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Amelia Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Eliza Lynn Linton, Edith Nesbit, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Madeline Yale Wynne, Louisa Baldwin, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Gertrude Atherton, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton y May Sinclair.Los fantasmas no se repiten, a pesar de que su repertorio sea limitado.Aquí hemos preferido recorrer un tipo muy...

King, Stephen

"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, wit...

Edgar Allan Poe

Padre del cuento policial, Edgar Allan Poe, utilizando elementos científicos sin admirarlos ni creer en el progreso mecánico en sí —como vemos en "Un viaje a la Luna"—, lo es también del de anticipación científica, que Julio Verne, su discípulo directo, llevará después al campo de la novela.Mary Rogers fue asesinada en 1841 en Nueva York. Poe se procuró todos los recortes perio...

King, Stephen

#1 "New York Times "bestseller! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. ""Mr. Mercedes" is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses" ("The Washington Post"). In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distr...

King, Stephen

A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in "Mr. Mercedes." "Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who ...

Shelley, Mary

Metáfora sobre la vida, la libertad y el amor, Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo es una maravillosa fábula con todos los ingredientes de los grandes mitos.En el verano del 1816, Mary Shelley dio vida a quien sería su personaje más famoso, el doctor Frankenstein. La historia es bien conocida: un científico decide crear una criatura con vida propia a la que luego rechaza. ...

King, Stephen

El esperado clímax de la increíble saga del maestro del terror, Stephen King.Todo lo que se interpone entre el Rey Carmesí y la disolución de la existencia es Roland Deschain y su ka-tet.El mundo se ha movido. Han pasado nueve años. Desde que los pistoleros protegían el país. Desde la caída de Gilead. Tras el fin de la Afiliación, Roland y lo que queda de su ka-tet se vieron ob...

King, Stephen

El último tomo de la épica historia de Roland y sus compañeros, héroes de la serie La Torre Oscura de Stephen King.Todo lo bueno se acaba, lector fiel, y ni siquiera Stephen King es capaz de narrar una historia que nunca termina. El autor teme que los lectores que han seguido todas las aventuras de Roland desde su principio puedan llegar a cansarse. Sin embargo, ahora queda poc...

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe nació en Boston en 1809 y murió en Baltimore en 1849. Hijo de actores itinerantes; se quedó huérfano a los tres años. Considerado como el maestro del relato corto; es autor; entre otros; de los cuentos de misterio «La caída de la Casa Usher»; «El pozo y el péndulo»; «El corazón delator» y «El tonel de amontillado»; y de los tres cuentos detectivescos protagoniza...

King, Stephen

La sexta entrega de esta saga dejará a los lectores más absortos que nunca.Roland Deschain es el último pistolero en una épica apasionante llena de aventuras, grandes hazañas, peligros que te harán sufrir, tragedias para hacerte llorar e historias de amor verdadero y de amistad tierna y profunda.Cuando John Farson, al que irónicamente apodan Hombre Bueno, invade la baronía de G...

King, Stephen

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a w...

Brandon Mull

Real monsters don't always hide in the woods. Sometimes, they turn out to be people we've known all our lives. .Boulder Creek is a mysterious mountain town known for its Bigfoot sightings and the presence of a group that some call a commune and others a cult. Tormented by bullies and secretly in love with a girl named Prophecy, Mo Kirkland is a teen with everything to prove. Wh...

Bradbury, Ray

"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their f...

King, Stephen

The #1 national bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his "number one fan" and suffering a frightening case of writer's block—that could prove fatal. One of "Stephen King's best...genuinely scary" (USA TODAY).Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who has finally met his number one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader—she is Paul's nur...

King, Stephen

The #1 national bestseller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is "one of Stephen King's most engrossing horror novels. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated...fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming" (Publishers Weekly)."What woke her up was a single drop of blood, no larger than a dime."After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently ab...

King, Stephen

The #1 national bestseller for Stephen King's rabid fans, Cujo "hits the jugular" (New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a sick bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind."Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine."Cujo used to be a big friendl...

King, Stephen

Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem..."I see holes like eyes. My mind is full of them."For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be com...

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

King, Stephen

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic first novel in The Dark Tower series, the basis of the major motion picture starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey!"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."In a desolate reality, on that mirrors our own in frightening ways, a lone and haunting figure known only as Roland makes his way across...