Новинки Пола Дж. Тремблея

An anthology of stories edited by Nick Mamatas

After midnight is as dark as it gets...

Whether thanks to an overnight college radio shift or cable pumping flickering videos into TVs across America, the music of the alternative era was the soundtrack to our lives, and sometimes our deaths. 120 Murders is an anthology of power chord crimes and keyboard horrors--the best noir and dark fantasy, and transgressive fiction from writers inspired by grunge, goth, ska, synthpop, and every electric sound of the alternative era.

Июнь 1993-го. Группа молодых единомышленников практически без бюджета и на единственную камеру за месяц снимает собственными силами артхаусный фильм ужасов с немудреным названием… «Фильм ужасов». Смерти и несчастные случаи сопровождают процесс, а сам фильм так и не выходит в свет. Лишь три сцены из него были опубликованы, но и этого хватило, чтобы постановка обрела культовый статус и обросла огромной армией поклонников.

Наши дни. Голливуд настаивает на крупнобюджетной перезагрузке фильма, убеждая вернуться к старой роли единственного выжившего актера, исполнителя роли зловещего Глиста. Он слишком хорошо помнит весь ужас, царивший на съемках 30 лет назад, необъяснимые события и зловещие тайны, скрытые в оригинальном сценарии. Но желание переснять проклятый фильм и явить наконец миру куда сильнее – и никаким демонам из прошлого его не остановить. Цена этого окажется слишком высокой…

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 buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions — demons of the past be damned.

But at what cost?

Столкновение с Хаосом всегда вызывает смутную тревогу. Человеку кажется, что Хаос можно обуздать, а то и вовсе отменить, если придерживаться правил. Например, запечатлеть его на фотоснимках. Или записывать все происходящее в дневник. Или попросту зарыться в подушки и укрыться с головой одеялом. Однако у Хаоса тоже есть свои правила. И эти правила — расти и расширяться, сметая все препятствия и преграды... Девятнадцать захватывающих историй от одного из ведущих мастеров американского хоррора — о человечестве, балансирующем на краю пропасти, о маленьких людях, пытающихся справиться с ужасом, властно вторгающимся в их жизни, и о том, что…

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club , A Head Full of Ghosts , and The Cabin at the End of the World. 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, The Beast You Are , are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.

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, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.

Okay, that part was a little weird.

So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things—terrifying things—that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?

Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she's making cuts.

Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.

Для некоторых это конец света. Для других это только начало. Обладая блестящим воображением, самые дальновидные современные писатели указывают на будущее в сборнике, подготовленном маэстро технотриллеров Блейком Краучем. Эти истории варьируются от мрачно-комичных до откровенно пугающих, но все они, без сомнения, заслуживают вашего внимания.

Соединенные Штаты охвачены опаснейшей эпидемией бешенства. Койоты, кошки, лисы, мелкие грызуны нападают на жителей небольших городов и мегаполисов, укус приводит к немедленному заражению, в считаные часы развиваются лихорадка и нарушение мозговой активности. Жертвы «нового бешенства», в свою очередь, проявляют агрессию и тоже нападают на людей. Нерасторопность должностных лиц, всеобщая паника, заторы на дорогах, мародерство... Рамола Шерман, молодой педиатр, плыла по течению своей жизни, особо не задумываясь о будущем. Одинокая, старательная, надежный коллега, серая мышь. Но когда опасность подстерегает повсюду и земля горит под ногами,…

15 лет назад. Жизнь семьи Барретт рушится, когда они узнают о диагнозе своей четырнадцатилетней дочери Марджори. У девочки все признаки острой шизофрении, и, к отчаянию родителей, врачи не в силах остановить ее безумие. Тогда Барретты обращаются к священнику, который предлагает провести обряд экзорцизма, веря в то, что в Марджори вселился демон. А чтобы покрыть бесконечные медицинские расходы, родители девочки соглашаются на участие в реалити-шоу... Наше время. Младшая сестра Марджори дает интервью известной писательнице, вспоминая события, которые произошли, когда ей было восемь лет. Ее воспоминания сильно отличаются от того, что…

When it happens, it happens quickly.
New England is locked down, a strict curfew the only way to stem the wildfire spread of a rabies-like virus. The hospitals cannot cope with the infected, as the pathogen’s ferociously quick incubation period overwhelms the state. The veneer of civilisation is breaking down as people live in fear of everyone around them. Staying inside is the only way to keep safe.

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 commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.

Dr. Ramola "Rams" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an infected neighbor—and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.

Natalie’s fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares—terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink.

Эксклюзивный сборник повестей ведущих фантастов и мастеров мейнстрима. Шесть образов ближайшего будущего от лауреата премии «Хьюго» Н.К. Джемисин, мастера технотриллера Блейка Крауча, создателя «Марсианина» Энди Вейера, автора «Дивиргента» Вероники Рот и других.
Моральные проблемы искусственных интеллектов, квантовые компьютеры и видеоигры, клонирование и генная инженерия, климатический антропогенный апокалипсис – чем совершеннее современная наука, тем более изощренными становятся эти темы, но во главе угла остается человечность и способность сопереживать.
Перед вами сборник футуристических повестей от современных фантастов и мастеров прозы, награжденных престижными премиями. Н. К. Джемисин, Энди Вейер, Блейк Крауч,
Амор Тоулз, Вероника Рот и Пол Дж. Тремблей.
Премия «Хьюго» за лучшую повесть.
Бестселлер Amazon.com.
«Этот сборник научной фантастики может похвастаться шестью историями от любимых авторов, каждую из которых можно прочитать не отрываясь». – Paste Magazine
«Мне нравится именно такая тревожность, вызванная технологиями… Счастливого вечера!» – Audible
«Поразительно и пугающе». – Criminal Element
«Привлекательность этих историй заключается не только в том, чтобы понять что происходит на самом деле, и в том горько-сладком чувстве, которое они вызывают». – Kirkus Reviews

Эксклюзивный сборник повестей ведущих фантастов и мастеров мейнстрима. Шесть образов ближайшего будущего от лауреата премии «Хьюго» Н.К. Джемисин, мастера технотриллера Блейка Крауча, создателя «Марсианина» Энди Вейера, автора «Дивиргента» Вероники Рот и других.
Моральные проблемы искусственных интеллектов, квантовые компьютеры и видеоигры, клонирование и генная инженерия, климатический антропогенный апокалипсис – чем совершеннее современная наука, тем более изощренными становятся эти темы, но во главе угла остается человечность и способность сопереживать.
Перед вами сборник футуристических повестей от современных фантастов и мастеров прозы, награжденных престижными премиями. Н. К. Джемисин, Энди Вейер, Блейк Крауч, Амор Тоулз, Вероника Рот и Пол Дж. Тремблей.
Премия «Хьюго» за лучшую повесть.
Бестселлер Amazon.com.
«Этот сборник научной фантастики может похвастаться шестью историями от любимых авторов, каждую из которых можно прочитать не отрываясь». – Paste Magazine
«Мне нравится именно такая тревожность, вызванная технологиями… Счастливого вечера!» – Audible
«Поразительно и пугающе». – Criminal Element
«Привлекательность этих историй заключается не только в том, чтобы понять что происходит на самом деле, и в том горько-сладком чувстве, которое они вызывают». – Kirkus Reviews

A chilling short story collection by the Bram Stoker Award-winner author, including stories set in the world of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock. A thrilling new collection from the award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World bringing his short stories to the UK for the first time. Unearth nineteen tales of suspense and literary horror, including a new story from the world of A Head Full of Ghosts, that offer a terrifying glimpse into Tremblay's fantastically fertile imagination. See a school class haunted by a life-changing video, the forces at work on four men fleeing the pawn shop they robbed at gunpoint, the meth addict kidnapping her daughter as the town is terrorized by a giant monster, or the woman facing all the ghosts who scare her most in a Choose Your Own Adventure. Intricate, humane, ingenious and chilling, embrace the Growing Things.

A chilling anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

In “The Teacher,” a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates’ lives.

Four men rob a pawn shop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene in “The Getaway.”

In “Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks,” a meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster . . . or not.

Joining these haunting works are stories linked to Tremblay’s previous novels. The tour de force metafictional novella “Notes from the Dog Walkers” deconstructs horror and publishing, possibly bringing in a character from A Head Full of Ghosts, all while serving as a prequel to Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. “The Thirteenth Temple” follows another character from A Head Full of Ghosts—Merry, who has published a tell-all memoir written years after the events of the novel. And the title story, “Growing Things,” a shivery tale loosely shared between the sisters in A Head Full of Ghosts, is told here in full.

From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored. As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet, we are compelled to contemplate the darkness inside our own hearts and minds.

“Paul Tremblay has mastered creepy, interstitial spaces with his own brand of supernatural-adjacent horror. This collection proves again that in any form, at any length, Tremblay is a must-read.”
—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers and Invasive

“Both wildly entertaining and deeply unsettling, Paul Tremblay’s writing has a way of sneaking under your skin and messing with your head. Superb. Can’t rate it highly enough.”
—Sarah Lotz, author of The Three and The White Road

“A skilled purveyor of the uncanny who always seeks meaning amidst the fear, Paul Tremblay is one of the key writers who have made modern horror exciting again.”
—Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual

“These aren’t just stories - they’re spirits that linger, shadows that haunt, terrors that follow you even after you’ve closed the book. . . Growing Things is a collection of Paul Tremblay’s most searing and powerful work yet.”
—Christina Henry, author of Alice and The Girl in Red

The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive 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.

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.

One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what’s going to happen is your fault." Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: "Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world."

Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with their closest neighbours more than two miles in either direction. As Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young and friendly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologises and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”. Three more strangers arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads…

The lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents despair, the doctors are unable to halt 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, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls the terrifying events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and…

Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her fourteen-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 his disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration. The local and state police haven’t uncovered any leads. Josh and Luis, the friends who were with Tommy last, may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out at a landmark the local…

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.

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 parents’ 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 of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.

Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.