Джемма Файлс – лучшие книги

Преподавательница Луиз Кернс растит сына-аутиста и подрабатывает кинокритиком, пытаясь связать концы с концами. Однажды на закрытом показе она находит странную пленку с обрывком немого фильма и связывает ее с личностью миссис Айрис Данлопп Уиткомб, светской дивы и собирательницы фольклора, которая таинственным образом исчезла из закрытого купе поезда в 1918 году. Надеясь упрочить свою академическую карьеру, Луиз решает доказать, что Уиткомб была первой женщиной в Канаде, ставшей кинорежиссером. Но чем глубже она погружается в исследование, тем больше понимает, что с историей экспериментального фильма тесно переплетена странная легенда о…

Когда-то давным давно жили-были две сестрицы в самой чаще леса, и не было у них ни отца, ни матери. Жили они в доме у своей бабушки, которая частенько отправлялась в долгие путешествия и оставляла их одних...

История, пронесенная сквозь годы — от Китая периода Второй мировой с жестокостью того времени до конца прошлого столетия с неимоверными тяжестями прожитых лет на душе. И неотступным желанием отведать единственное блюдо, уходящее корнями в давние эпохи и повергающее самых видных шеф-поваров в ужас.

Two years after the Civil War, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercoverwith one of the weird West's most dangerous outlaw gangs the troop ledby ""Reverend"" Asher Rook, ex-Confederate chaplain turned ""hexslinger,"" and hisnotorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter. Morrow's task: get close enoughto map the extent of Rook's power, then bring that knowledge back to helpProfessor Joachim Asbury unlock the secrets of magic itself. Caught between apassle of dead gods and monsters, hexes galore, Rook's witchery, and theruthless calculations of his own masters, Morrow's only real hope of survivallies with the man without whom Rook cannot succeed: Chess Pargeter himself! ButMorrow and Chess will have to literally ride through Hell before the truth ofChess's fate comes clear the doom written for him, and the entire world,in A Book of Tongues.

Всё началось во время Французской революции, когда убили короля и выпили его кровь. И обнулили летосчисление. И 1793 год стал нулевым годом...

Heard the one about the Airbnb that eats your dreams or the iron-crowned king who preys on his own bloodline from the air, still smoldering centuries after being burnt alive? How about the cloudy antique bottle you can wish your excess rage inside, or that crooked alley down which something waits to replace your disappointing child with a far more pleasant facsimile? We all know the truth, especially in times like these-in an anxiety-ridden, sleepless world such as ours, it's only ever our very worst dreams that come true. Here streets empty out and people pull themselves apart like amoebas, breeding murderous doppelgangers from their own flesh; houses haunt, ideas possess and a cold and alien moon stares down, whispering that it's time to spawn. New myths rise and ancient evils descend. From the seemingly mundane terrors of a city just like yours to all the most dark and distant places of a truly terrible universe, nothing is as it seems...not even that dimly-recalled cinematic memory you've been chasing all these years, the one you think might be just something you stumbled upon while flipping through channels after midnight. The one that still disturbs you enough to raise a cold sweat all over your body, whenever you try to will its details clear.

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien and the sadly familiar. Her characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but.

An embittered blood-servant plots revenge against the vampires who own him; a little girl’s best friend seeks to draw her into an ancient, forbidden realm; two monster-hunting sisters cross paths with an amoral holler-witch again and again, battling both mortal authorities and immortal predators. From the forgotten angels who built the cosmos to the reckless geniuses whose party drug unleashes a plague, madness, monsters and murder await at every turn. And in “The Speed of Pain,” sequel to the International Horror Guild award-winning story “The Emperor’s Old Bones,” we find that even those who can live forever can’t outrun their own crimes….

Following in the footsteps of her critically praised Kissing Carrion, The Worm in Every Heart and We Will All Go Down Together, this is the first of two new Gemma Files collections from Trepidatio Publishing, bringing together nine of her best stories from the past ten years. So whether you’re returning to Files’s dark dreamlands or visiting for the first time, we advise you to get ready to review the—

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