Paul Tremblay
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"A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller, The Cabin at the End of the World, and A Head Full of Ghosts"--
"A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller, The Cabin at the End of the World, and A Head Full of Ghosts. Featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing...
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"Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart. In "The Dead Thing," a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents' substance addictions and split. One day, her little...
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"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parent's despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim...
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"A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable--and unsettling--friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins--from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal,...
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"In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets...
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Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park.
The search isn?t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy?s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no leads....
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"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"--
Eric and Andrew, with seven-year-old Wen, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. When Leonard appears in the driveway, he is the largest...
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"In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the...
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In Boston a narcoleptic private detective dreams about a reality show contestant asking him to help get her stolen fingers back and awakens to find on his desk a manila envelope containing revealing photos of her.
Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: he's narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnagogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to...
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Like most private eyes, Mark Genevich is something of a lone wolf. So group therapy isn?t a great fit. But his landlord/mother is convinced it will help his narcolepsy?ignoring the fact that his disorder is a physical condition. Truth is, he has the time. It?s been a year and a half since his last big case, and his business could best be described as, well, sleepy. It?s never a wise choice to go on a two-day bender with someone you meet in group therapy,...
11) Phantom
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Prime Books
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2013
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No ax murderers hunting sexy teens . . . no brutal torture for torture's sake . . . because Phantom goes beyond the scare: Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace have collected fourteen stories by today's most thoughtful writers of horror, each asking the questions beyond what is frightening? This is just the beginning, however, with stories from Steve Rasnic Tem, Lavie Tidhar, F. Brett Cox, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Berman, Nick Mamatas, Michael Cisco,
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Today's military is comprised of patriotic men and women who take an oath and are willing to give their lives in defense of our nation. Our nation's service members are well-trained and prepared for the rigors of deployments and combat, but unfortunately, most are ill-prepared for the rigors of marriage.
“Help Me, I'm Married in the Military” is based on my twenty years of experience as a Navy Chaplain and the thousands of hours I've spent working...
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"Tengo la cabeza llena de fantasmas y estoy intentando expulsarlos".
La apacible vida de los Barrett da un giro cuando su hija Marjorie, de catorce años, empieza a mostrar síntomas horribles de esquizofrenia que los médicos no consiguen mitigar. Muy pronto, la situación ha empeorado tanto que su descenso a la locura parece imparable.
Desesperado, el padre pide ayuda a un cura para practicar un exorcismo. Y es entonces cuando se produce una vuelta...
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Cuando la pequeña Wen y sus padres se van de vacaciones a una cabaña junto a un lago recóndito, no esperan recibir visitas. Por eso resulta tan sorprendente la aparición del primer desconocido.
Leonard es el hombre más corpulento que Wen ha visto jamás, pero también es tan amable que se gana su simpatía enseguida, por mucho que a la niña siempre le hayan prohibido hablar con extraños. Leonard y Wen hablan y ríen y juegan, y el tiempo pasa...
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En la década de 1980, Art Barbara no era lo que se dice popular. Era un estudiante solitario que escuchaba
hair metal, tenía que dormir con un monstruoso aparato ortopédico por su escoliosis y había iniciado un club
extraescolar de voluntarios en funerales poco concurridos. Por eso fue una sorpresa cuando una chica se
apuntó al Club de los Portaféretros y le dijo que era una idea genial. ¡Si hasta se llevó su Polaroid para hacer
fotos...
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La apacible vida de los Barrett da un giro cuando su hija Marjorie, de catorce años, empieza a mostrar síntomas horribles de esquizofrenia que los médicos no consiguen mitigar. Muy pronto, la situación ha empeorado tanto que su descenso a la locura parece imparable. Desesperado, el padre pide ayuda a un cura para practicar un exorcismo. Y es entonces cuando se produce una vuelta de tuerca: debido a sus problemas económicos, acepta la oferta de...
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Un virus que se contagia como la rabia ha arrasado Massachusetts. Pero, a diferencia de la rabia, el periodo
de incubación de esta enfermedad es inferior a una hora. Los afectados pierden el juicio y muerden a otras
personas. Los enfermos y los moribundos abarrotan los hospitales, y todos los protocolos de emergencia han
resultado ser insuficientes.
La doctora Rams Sherman recibe la llamada de Natalie, una amiga embarazada que ha sido infectada....
19) In the mean time
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ChiZine Publications
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c2010
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"A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student's home life to deteriorate along with the lessons. A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club. A blog documents a society's slow, unexplained but inexorable end, or is it only a collection of pixel-sized...
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ChiZine Publications
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[2012], ©2012
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"Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier."--Page 4 of cover.