Переехав жить к отцу, я и подумать не могла, что в моей жизни появятся мачеха и два сводных брата, две занозы в заднице! Один маменькин сынок, второй себялюбивый нарцисс! Новая школа, новые проблемы, и...кровожадный маньяк который охотится по ночам за рыжими девушками... так, стоп! А при чем тут я? ВНИМАНИЕ: произведение имеет возрастное ограничение 18+. При создании обложки, использовал изображение, предложенное автором

«Убить проклятую тварь» — кто из мужчин хоть раз не подумал так о теще. Кое-кто довел дело до конца. Иронический мини-детектив о реалиях нашей жизни

Экскурсионный паром стал местом кровавой бойни, которую учинил Фред Бринкли, внезапно открывший стрельбу по туристам. Четверо убиты. Клэр Уошберн — судмедэксперт и близкая подруга детектива Линдси Боксер — тяжело ранена. Убийца добровольно сдался полиции, однако ловкий адвокат готов помочь ему уйти от ответственности… Линдси, которой поручено вести дело Бринкли, и ее подруги — великолепная команда по расследованию убийств — убеждены: этому необходимо помешать любой ценой. Ведь Бринкли смертельно опасен. И, выйдя на свободу, он будет убивать снова и снова…

Это — 1999 год. Год, который должен был стать временем Апокалипсиса — но не стал. Или все-таки стал, только мы пока не заметили этого — и не заметим, пока не станет поздно? Это — 1999 год. Такой, каким увидели его величайшие из мастеров «литературы ужасов» нашего мира. Писатели, хорошо знающие: Апокалипсис начинается не с трубного гласа, поднимающего мертвых, но со Страха, живущего в душе у каждого из нас. Это — 999 глазами непревзойденного Стивена Кинга. И мчится по дороге Смерть… Это — 999 по Уильяму Питеру Блэтти. И те, что ушли, говорят с живыми… Это — 999 Бентли Литтла. И исчезает грань меж явью и кошмаром… Это — 999 год Дэвида Моррелла, Джойс Кэрол Оутс, Нэнси Коллинз. И еще многих из тех, кому нет равных в умении повергать читателя в черный, иррациональный Ужас…

 Это - 1999 год. Год, который должен был стать временем Апокалипсиса - но не стал. Или все-таки стал, только мы пока не заметили этого - и не заметим, пока не станет поздно? Это - 1999 год. Такой, каким увидели его величайшие из мастеров `литературы ужасов` нашего мира. Писатели, хорошо знающие: Апокалипсис начинается не с трубного гласа, поднимающего мертвых, но со Страха, живущего в душе у каждого из нас. Это - 999 жестоким взглядом Эда Гормана. И Любовь превращается в Смерть... Это - 999 по Стивену Спрюллу. И льется кровь живых в вены Неумерших... Это - 999 Майка Маршалла Смита. И захлебывается человек в пучине убийств и безумия... Это - 999 год Кима Ньюмана, Томаса Лиготти, Джина Вулфа. И еще многих из тех, кому нет равных в умении повергать читателя в черный, иррациональный Ужас

"He doesn't kill for thrills, for sex, or even for power.It's far more twisted than that.... " Cody McFadyen, acclaimed author of The Darker Side, The Face of Death," " and Shadow Man," "delivers this shocking new thriller that brings to light a psychopath unlike any we've ever seen--a killer who thrives in absolute darkness and doesn't derive pleasure from the kill. And only one woman has the ability to see him coming...even if it's already too late to stop her own murder. For FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett, the wedding of one of their own was cause for celebration. Until a woman staggered down the aisle, incoherent, emaciated, head shaved, and wearing only a white nightgown. No one knows who she is or where she's come from--or why she's chosen to appear in a church filled with law enforcement agents. Then a fingerprint check determines that the woman has been missing for nearly eight years--that once she was someone's wife, someone's mother...and a cop. Imprisoning her in a dark cell, depriving her of any contact with the outside world, her enigmatic captor was a man she didn't know and who seldom spoke, who punished her only when she failed to follow his most basic instructions designed to keep her alive. Cold, businesslike, seemingly indifferent to his victims, he's a predator with an M.O. as terrifyingly inscrutable as any Smoky has ever encountered. As she fits together the pieces of what remains of his victim's fractured life, a chilling picture emerges of a killer every bit as calculating, masterful, and professional as Smoky and the team she leads--a professional psychopath who doesn't take murder personally and never makes a mistake. There's a reason he let one of his victims go free. And by the time Smoky pierces the darkness of his twisted mind, it may cost her more than she can bear to lose to escape. For a trap snapped closed the moment she took this case too much to heart

Игра, секс и месть — составляющие части жизни молодого человека, который испытывает искреннюю ненависть ко всему женскому роду. Лучшее развлечение — убийство невинных девушек. Карты — средство заработка. Жизнь — путь мстителя. Блюстители правопорядка бессильны перед его уловками. Женщины не могут устоять перед его очарованием

From the files and pen of world renowned true crime writer Alan Hynd (1903–1974) comes a deliciously dark sampling of some of the most fascinating true murder cases of the first half of the 20th Century. These stories, the first of three short collections, are unified by a single theme: they all involve physicians. And not for the autopsy, but as perpetrators or accused perpetrators. You may never see your family care giver again in the same light. Told in the characteristic wry, anecdotal reportorial style that made Alan Hynd famous in his day (two wartime best sellers in 1943, contributions to The Reader's Digest, Colliers, Coronet, The Saturday Evening Post, True, Liberty, The American Mercury and almost every true detective magazine in print) these tales will have you cringing one minute, laughing the next, and gasping in shock a moment later. Truly, no one could make up classics like these. Take for example, the murder ring of South Philadelphia in which a faith healer and two Lotharios helped restless wives rid themselves of abusive unwanted husbands…or the respected French war hero who was a pillar of the community by day but prowled brothels and music halls by night and was caught with a cadaver sealed within the walls of his home….or the traveling physician who married a farmer's ex-wife and had four step-sons, then three, then two, then… And finally, as a bonus track, relax and savor the wickedly evil doings of "Sister Amy Archer" at the Archer convalescent home in Connecticut, where old folks checked out just a little too quickly for comfort. The events eventually became the basis of "Arsenic and Old Lace," the hit play and iconic movie. As the old adages go, you couldn't make this stuff up… and true crime is always farther out there than fiction. (With illustrations)

Annie Wilkes from Misery… John Doe from Se7en… Hannibal Lecter… For everyone who thinks the bad guys are so much more fun to read than the good guys, we’ve written a book just for you. In the annuls of modern thriller fiction, the villains always steal the show. We love to read and watch great villains. In many cases, they’re the best, most entertaining parts of our books, so it only made sense to write a book featuring every major villain we’ve ever written. They’re all here…Lucy and Donaldson from Serial, Orson and Luther from Desert Places, Locked Doors, and Break You, Mr. K from Shaken, Alex and Charles Kork from Whiskey Sour and Rusty Nail, Isaiah from Abandon, Javier from Snowbound, and many, many more from the Crouch and Konrath/Kilborn books including Trapped, Run, Bloody Mary, Afraid, Endurance, and Shot of Tequila. If you liked Serial Uncut and Killers, Birds of Prey is going to blow your mind, scar your soul, and scare you to death. If you haven’t read anything by Crouch, Kilborn, or Konrath, Birds of Prey is the perfect introduction to the dark side of their universe. And if you enjoy a good bad guy (or bad girl), you’re going to love this. Because there are TWENTY-ONE of them featured in this book. Beyond a thrilling piece of horrifying suspense, Birds of Prey also takes the collaborative literary experiment begun in Serial and Killers to the next level, with most of the novel having been written in a Google Doc, where the authors could simultaneously write in real time. All bets were off, and may the best psycho win. NOTE: Birds of Prey is a 40,000-word novella, which is FULLY CONTAINED in Killers Uncut and Serial Killers Uncut. If you’ve already bought Killers, this is all the new material contained in Killers Uncut except for Killers. If you haven’t read Killers yet, buy Killers Uncut

From Publishers Weekly Iles's previous thriller, 2003's provocative The Footprints of God, featured an omnipotent supercomputer and an on-the-run duo racing around the globe from North Carolina to Jerusalem. This time, Iles returns to more familiar ground: Natchez, Miss.; New Orleans; and the Mississippi delta, where a serial predator has been killing middle-aged men. Forensic odontologist Cat Ferry, an expert on teeth and the damage they can inflict, is called in by the New Orleans PD to explain the bite marks found on the bodies. Cat, the alcoholic granddaughter of Dr. William Kirkland, owner of the sprawling Malmaison estate and the richest, most powerful man in Natchez, has solved previous murders with her married detective lover, Sean Regan. This time, though, she's pregnant with Sean's baby, and this plus the discovery of old bloody footprints hidden in the carpet fibers of her Malmaison childhood bedroom threaten to plummet her into the depression that's plagued her since she was 15. She thinks one footprint might be hers, made on the night her father died of an ill-explained gunshot wound. Iles weaves in dark strains of child sexual abuse and the resulting repressed memories as Cat searches for the serial killer and for answers about her father's death. This overlong novel lacks the scintillating originality that made Iles's last outing so memorable, but he ties up all the loose ends in an exciting climax. From Booklist In his ninth book, Iles returns to the Deep South, an old Natchez mansion to be exact, where 31-year-old Catherine Ferry, a forensic specialist, retreats after panic attacks interfere with her work on what appears to be a string of serial killings. No sooner does she arrive than she discovers that the facts of her privileged if troubled youth in the house, where black servants still cater to the whims of Cat's racist, iron-willed grandfather, are an elaborate fiction. In her quest for the truth, especially about the brutal death of her father, she opens the door to a disturbing family history that puts her at both physical and emotional risk-and, eventually, leads her to the doorstep of an unusual serial killer. Iles' dialogue leaves something to be desired this time around ("I have to keep digging until I uncover the truth. If I don't, I'll go mad"), and a heavy dose of melodrama (Cat, a longtime alcoholic with bipolar disease, goes cold turkey when she discovers she's pregnant) gets in the way of the mystery. Still, this provocative tale of twisted lives and dark, agonizing secrets delivers enough atmospheric suspense to keep Iles' many fans entertained till the last page

A serial killer leaves a college coed to die in the California desert, his signature of fire seared into her flesh.... A beautiful Chinese-American detective, recently transferred from Chinatown to the Upper West Side, is assigned a routine missing-persons case... A famous doctor returns home from a lecture to discover that his actress wife has been living a secret life.... Now, the paths of the cop, the killer, and the psychiatrist are about to converge.... A savage killer is on the loose in New York City.  His calling card is a tattoo of flames; his trail of victims leads from the scorched sands of Californa to the blistering heart of Manhattan. Only Detective April Woo can block this vicious madman's next move.  And with the help of psychiatrist Jason Frank, this NYPD policewoman will prove that the predator she's hunting is no ordinary killer--but then, April Woo is no ordinary cop. From the Paperback edition. From Publishers Weekly All superficial characterization and sadism, this thriller about a serial killer, its plot founded entirely on coincidence, is charmless in the extreme. When a man and a woman show up at NYPD headquarters to file a missing persons report on their college-age daughter, detective April Woo does the paperwork. Woo eventually learns that California cops have found the daughter's apparently fire-branded body near San Diego. Shortly thereafter, a New York psychiatrist approaches Woo with several disturbing letters sent to his porno-star wife. The letters have a San Diego postmark, prompting Woo to connect them with the murderer (3000 miles away, but not for long.) Horrific, if predictable, descriptions of the pyromaniac killer and his methods of torture are interspersed with updates on Woo's investigation. Glass ( To Do No Harm ) attempts a multicultural angle by casting Woo as a Chinese-American in conflict with her old-fashioned immigrant mother, but the tension between them is hackneyed at best. From its farfetched premise to its suspenseless action-drama climax, the novel is a chore to wade through. 

In the Midnight Museum - Bram Stoker Award-nominated for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction, 2005 Martin Tyler is a 44-year-old janitor whose life has come to a sputtering halt; he has no friends, no family, and no promise of better days ahead. In the grip of blackest depression, he attempts to take his own life, only to find himself waking up in a local mental health facility where he has been placed for observation. But something more has happened to Martin than just a failed suicide attempt; certain doors of perception have been unlocked in his mind, allowing him to see fantastic creatures that lurk outside on the streets of Cedar Hill - creatures only he can perceive. Over the next 48 hours, Martin will discover what these creatures are, who controls them, and why he must enter The Midnight Museum, a place with no doors or windows, but many entrances and exits; a place just outside the perception of everyday life; a place where Martin will discover how and why he inadvertently holds the fate of the world in his hands. The Ballad of Road Mama and Daddy BlissIn the novella The Ballad of Road Mama and Daddy Bliss, a man assigned community service duty with the city morgue after a DUI arrest is offered a simple deal: transport an old woman's body back to her hometown, and his record will be wiped clean. But this is no typical old woman, and -- as he soon discovers -- he is taking her to a town that is on no map. The old woman's identity, as well as the reasons behind the town's secret existence, will be revealed to him over the course of a few nightmarish hours between midnight and dawn -- the time when The Road demands its sacrifices.Kiss of the MudmanInternational Horror Guild Award for Long Fiction, 2007 A haunting story behind the lyrics of a rock song from the 70s. It is a story of music, stardom, death, and the combination of notes that brings dirty destruction to the Cedar Hill halfway house. Along the way, a visit from the "ulcerations" of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, John Entwistle and Keith Moon, Kurt Cobain, and Billie Holiday enlighten the legend of just why the greatest guitar player that ever lived was a woman. Music fans will love it, and Braunbeck's fans should not miss it. It has all the things that make his work special: the pain, the despair, and the fear, all combined but with each one allowed its own moment in the sun, each one getting its own time with your nerves before they all come crashing down, leaving you with just enough energy to turn the page.TessellationsA haunted, young actress returns home after the death of her father to discover that her brother has seemingly gone insane. Over the course of one unnerving night she first witnesses — and then becomes a part of — a Halloween nightmare that, piece by piece, physically brings back the past, rips a hole in her consensual reality, and allows demons, monsters, and even a miracle or two to shamble into this world and transform it into the darkest of fairy tales...The Sisterhood of Plain-Faced Women'The Sisterhood of Plain-Faced Women' is the story of Amanda, who gains beauty but at a terrible price as her new physical attributes are torn from other people, the tale never less than compelling and with a heartfelt moral at its core

Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, “Columbine” is an award-winning journalist’s definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history. It is driven by two questions: what drove these killers, and what did they do to this town? On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave “a lasting impression on the world.” Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence—irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting “another Columbine.” When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window—the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy’s tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA22SKaQ5hU

Two weeks after the madman's body is buried, another cannibalistic murder spree begins. Fingerprints, DNA, and modus operandi all link Dahmer to the hideous crimes. Homicide cop Helen Closs is certain it's all a hoax or a clever copycat...until the night her own phone rings, and Jeffrey Dahmer himself begins to speak... Dahmer's Not Deadis the latest collaborative effort by acclaimed horror novelist Edward Lee and serial-killer expert Elizabeth Steffen. Don't expect the same explicit hardcore horror that Edward Lee is so well-known for. Instead, Dahmer's Not Dead is a brilliant and technically accurate police-procedural thriller on par with the best crime novelists working today

The award-winning team of Jones and Sutton once again push the boundaries of fear in this new collection of horror and dark fantasy. Drawing from both sides of the Atlantic, Dark Terrors 3 features stories by some of the genres' biggest names as well as their rising stars, including Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Julian Rathbone, Mark Timlin, and Michael Marshall Smith. An anthology that will take you to the furthest reaches of your imagination — and beyond. British Fantasy Award winner 1998, World Fantasy Award nominee 1998

From Publishers Weekly Iles continues to amaze with his incredible range, this time around crafting a complex serial killer novel with the intimacy of a smalltown cozy and the punch of a techno-thriller. As different from Spandau Phoenix and 24 Hours as possible, it scores with surefooted plotting, a diverse cast of characters and perfectly calibrated suspense. An anonymous painter's series of candidly posed nudes called The Sleeping Woman bursts on the art scene, each painting selling in the million-dollar range overnight amid rumors that the models are not sleeping but dead. Beautiful, burned-out war photographer Jordan Glass chances into a show and recognizes the subject of a painting as her identical twin, Jane, who was kidnapped near her New Orleans home and never found. Jordan contacts the FBI agent who handled her sister's case, thereby setting in motion a hunt that ties the paintings to the disappearance of at least 11 New Orleans women. Persuading the FBI task force to add her to the team, Jordan tags along to Tulane University, where evidence points to art department head Roger Wheaton, who has a peculiar terminal illness, and his brilliant but disturbed graduate students. Meanwhile, Jordan falls for damaged FBI agent John Kaiser, and together they link her sister's case to a French expat art collector from Vietnam who knew Jordan's war photographer father who disappeared in Cambodia. Are all the women really dead? Is Jordan's father alive and involved? Is there more than one killer? Iles keeps the reader guessing right up to the double surprise ending, delivering the perfect final payoff his readers expect

Он знает, каков запах этой чёртовой пади, знает силу её рук и огонь её глаз. И лик её неизменен

A spine-chilling thriller by the bestselling author of Twins. A clairvoyant woman involuntarily "witnesses" a grisly murder in the woods of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York and is inexorably drawn into the violent, horrifying web of a genius serial killer's dementia. “You’re psychic; you can go places, see things no one else can... and that’s fabulous and awesome and most of all useful.” Eve Tilden Dodd Klein, thirty-something scion of a rich Connecticut family, has inherited a powerful and fearsome legacy from her mother: clairvoyance. But she doesn’t see her power as fabulous or awesome or useful or anything except a curse that has robbed her of her emotional peace and driven her husband away. She follows him to a small town in the Adirondacks in an attempt at reconciliation, and, through the hated clairvoyance, “witnesses” a murder in the woods. She is the only one who’s seen the killing, and is inexorably drawn into the violent, horrifying web of the killer’s dementia. Police Lieutenant Dave Latovsky, the tough but charming local cop who has been tracking the murderer, has no leads—until Eve gives him a fragment of a description. “His eyes are light brown. Same color as his hair. And they’re empty. Never saw eyes like that—empty... dead... glassy. Like a doll’s eyes.” Those words lead Detective Latovsky closer to the killer, and in turn, the killer closer to Eve. Before long, the price of Eve’s power may prove too high. “He’s looking for me. Hunting for me.” But both Eve and Latovsky are wrong about why — and can’t imagine what the killer with doll’s eyes would do if he found her

An undead serial killer comes for DJ in this thrilling third installment of Suzanne Johnson’s Sentinels of New Orleans series The mer feud has been settled, but life in South Louisiana still has more twists and turns than the muddy Mississippi. New Orleanians are under attack from a copycat killer mimicking the crimes of a 1918 serial murderer known as the Axeman of New Orleans. Thanks to a tip from the undead pirate Jean Lafitte, DJ Jaco knows the attacks aren’t random—an unknown necromancer has resurrected the original Axeman of New Orleans, and his ultimate target is a certain blonde wizard. Namely, DJ. Combatting an undead serial killer as troubles pile up around her isn’t easy. Jake Warin’s loup-garou nature is spiraling downward, enigmatic neighbor Quince Randolph is acting weirder than ever, the Elders are insisting on lessons in elven magic from the world’s most annoying wizard, and former partner Alex Warin just turned up on DJ’s to-do list. Not to mention big maneuvers are afoot in the halls of preternatural power. Suddenly, moving to the Beyond as Jean Lafitte’s pirate wench could be DJ’s best option

The bed and breakfast was hidden in the hills of West Virginia. Wary guests wondered how it could stay in business at such a creepy, remote location, especially with its bizarre, presidential decor and eccentric proprietor.With the event hotel for the national Iron Woman triathlon accidentally overbooked, competitor Maria was forced to stay at the Rushmore. But after checking into her room, she quickly realized she wasn't alone. First her suitcase wasn't where she put it. Then her cell phone was moved. Finally, she heard an odd creaking under the bed. Confusion quickly turned to fear, and fear to hysteria when she discovered the front door was barred and the windows were bricked over. There was no way out.One year later, four new female athletes have become guests of the Inn. Will they escape the horrors within its walls? Or will they join the many others who have died there, in ways too terrible to imagine?

"Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes and a brutal deep-frozen landscape… Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist." – Lee Child *** When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force (conducted, he suspects, by his own partner), Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career – and his family. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but for another young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captors will kill him. Evoking the Canadian winter and the hearts of the killers and cops in icily realistic prose, Giles Blunt has produced a masterful crime novel that rivals the best of Martin Cruz Smith and introduces readers to a detective hero whose own human faults serve to fuel his unerring sense of justice

From the mind of horror author Edward Lee, comes this horrifying tale of grueling revenge and backwoods terror! Stewart Cummings, a government agent playing both sides of the law, finds himself in the nightmarish crossfire of a bloody family vendetta. Forced to delve deep into a series of gruesome murders, Cummings encounters the most twisted method of revenge ever conceived by man: the header. What's a header? Only redneck Travis Tuckton and his evil "grandpappy" knows for sure… and once YOU learn the shocking answer, you may never be the same. Get ready for the acclaimed horror film that may be the ultimate in violence and gore! HEADER is a tale of unrelenting, twisted terror! A corrupt ATF agent becomes obsessed with capturing a serial killer who kills and mutilates his victims in the most unusual way. Headeris an unflinching tale about two psychopaths who get their kicks and exact their revenge the backwoods way. The locales in this film don’t take kindly to the law and when they have a score to settle they use the“Header”on their enemies. What is a“Header”, let’s just say that it is something that you are not soon to erase from your mind after you have seen it. To go into any more detail about what exactly a“Header”is would lessen the impact of this sadistic torture / revenge device

“What’s a header?” Fifteen years ago, Travis Clyde Tuckton asked that self-same question to his ancient grandfather, and the answer came in a rampage of twisted bloodlust, missing persons, and the most macabre and indescribable act of vengeance that human consciousness has ever devised… Now, in those same desolate woods, amongst dilapidated shacks behind whose rickety doors no one dare look, something even worse has come to curse the land of simple folk, a jubilee of murderous perversity and sexual abomination too hideous to describe. Only the courage of Travis Tuckton could ever begin to set things back to rights but, lo, Travis and his grandfather are long dead…  Ah, but their relatives aren’t! And it will be these stout-hearted men who shall rise to the occasion of the most horrific revenge in the history of the backwoods—an eye for an eye, a head for a head! Not even unearthed graves, molested corpses, abducted tots, and an unspeakable human monstrosity can thwart the might of right. Join steadfast hayseeds Helton, Dumar, and Micky-Mack as they venture forth into a wretched mire of unadulterated horror, where the symbol of ultimate evil is not a psycho-killer, nor a demon, but the full-tilt rev of power tools screaming through the endless night… HEADER 2 Where revenge is all in the mind

The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The victims are everywhere — floating in the Fraser River, buried in a shallow grave, nailed to an Indian totem pole on the university campus. All are women. All are headless. Then the photographs arrive. Carefully posed shots of the women's heads stuck on poles. The Mounties of Special X are up against a unique brand of killer. A killer whose sexual psychosis stretches back through Ecuador's steaming jungle and a scream-filled New Orleans dungeon to a dead-of-winter manhunt in the Rocky Mountains a century ago

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider’s position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime. Both Helter Skelter and Vincent Bugliosi’s subsequent Till Death Us Do Part won Edgar Allan Poe Awards for best true-crime book of the year. The story behind the Manson killings explains how Charles Manson was able to make his “family” murder for him, chronicles the investigation and court trial that brought him to justice, and provides a new afterword that looks at where the killers are today. Reprint

First in the long-running series of erotic horror tales! Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Robert R. McCammon, Graham Masterton, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, David J. Schow, Lisa Tuttle, F. Paul Wilson, Theodore Sturgeon, and other masters of the macabre take readers into their private world of fear, fantasy, and fatal attraction — in 24 tales of dread and debauchery, riveting stories of sex and terror

In Hotter Blood, sex and horror are coupled to an ecstatic effect. This is the second in the provocative anthology series that defined a genre and spanned a generation. Grant Morrison’s Bram Stoker- nominated “The Braille Encyclopedia” spearheads a collection of 24 original stories, with additional contributions from horror stars like Richard Laymon and Nancy Collins, comic book talents Kurt Busiek and John Byrne, and superstar horror director Mick Garris. Explore the dark side of having your lover in “The Tub” with you, find out when “Confession” isn’t good for the soul, and feed your hunger for erotic horror with this delectable collection… Cemetery Dance called Hotter Blood “outstanding,” Gauntlet labeled it “aggressive and riveting, a virtual Who’s Who of modern horror,” and to 2AM Magazine, it’s “Amazing… highly recommended.”

Hannibal Lecter è una psichiatra geniale, un uomo colto e raffinato, un perfetto gentiluomo dotato di un sottile senso dell'umorismo. Ha un unico difetto: è un pericoloso psicopatico e un feroce assassino. Quando Clarice Starling, brillante allieva della Sezione Scienza del Comportamento dell'Fbi, si reca a visitarlo nel manicomio criminale dove è rinchiuso, il dottor Lecter, attratto dalla ragazza e spinto dal desiderio di entrare nella sua personalita, decide di aiutarla. Clarice vuole da lui elementi utili alla cattura di Buffalo Bill, il "mostro" che terrorizza l'America. Ma il prezzo della collaborazione di Lecter è uno scambio perverso: le consegnerà Buffalo Bill solo se Clarice accetteràa di svelargli i suoi ricordi più tormentati

Becca and Randy are Harley riding detectives who join forces to find the ruthless killer the press have dubbed The Florist. What does the flower he places in his victim's hands have to do with the sick, twisted way he ends their lives? Will they track him down before he strikes again, or will a turn of events find one of them at the mercy of a demented killer?

Trzy kobiety cudem ocalały z brutalnego napadu. Napastnik poniósł karę. Ale nagle koszmar zaczyna się na nowo. Ktoś chce dokończyć swoje dzieło i mieć pewność, że tym razem nie będzie ocalonych

Kriss Kuzneskis Krusta zīme Pēc "Krusta zīmes" izlasīšanas daudzi man jau­tā, kuras grāmatas daļas ir reālas un kuras izdomātas. Kā redzams, es to uztveru kā lielāko komplimentu, jo tas suģestē, ka esmu visu tik labi sajaucis, ka izveido­jusies ticama pasaule. Jāteic, ka man nav nolūka nevie­nam (ieskaitot manu māti) stāstīt, kuras detaļas ir pa­tiesas un kuras fantāzija. Domāju, tas ir viens no iemesliem, kāpēc esmu izvēlējies kļūt par autoru. Ilgo­jos sapludināt robežu starp faktiem un izdomājumiem un nekad neko pats nepaskaidrot. Citiem vārdiem, viss ko lasāt, manā pasaulē ir reāli noticis. Kriss Kuzneskis KONTINENTS RĪGA Krustā sišana trīs dažādos kontinentos. Sena sazvērestība, kas var satricināt miljardiem ļaužu mieru. Dānijas krastā tiek atrasts Vatikāna priesteris - piesists krustā. Pēc dažām dienām šis noziegums atkārtojas, šoreiz Āzijā un Amerikā. Tikmēr leģendārajās Orvieto katakombās dziļi Itālijas pazemē kāds arheologs atrod divtūkstoš gadu senus rakstus, kuros atklāti noslēpumi, kas var sašūpot kristietības pamatus. Šāds atklājums padara viņu par vismeklētāko noziedznieku visā Eiropā. Izmeklēšanā iesaistās Interpols un CIP, tomēr visbīstamākie ienaidnieki likumus neievēro… Kriss Kuzneskis ir pazīstams jauno ASV rakstnieku vidū sava neparastā stila dēļ. Jau savā pirmajā romānā viņš iepazīstina ar tēliem - Peiniju un Džounsu. Romānā "Krusta zīme" šis grodais tandēms pārsteidz ar nebijušas spriedzes piesātinājumu. Dinamisks, grēcīgs un noslēpumains piedzīvojums, pilns noskaņu. Stīvs Berijs, romāna 'Tempļa ordeņa sargs"autors Grāmata "Krusta zīme" rada vēlēšanos, kaut tā nekad nebeigtos. Klaivs Kastlers Kriss Kuzneskis raksta enerģiski un aizraujoši! Darbība, spriedze, noslēpums un skaudra humora pavediens… Ko vairāk no romāna var vēlēties? Džeimss Rollinss, USA Today bestselleru autors Kriša Kuzneska romāna "Krusta zīme" publicēšanas tiesības pieder "Apgādam "Kontinents"" No angļu valodas tulkojusi Liana Blumberga Vāka dizains Kristiāns Šics © Kriss Kuzneskis, 2006 © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, mākslinieciskais noformējums "Apgāds "Kontinents"", 2008 Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Rakstīt romānu ir grūts uzdevums, tomēr ne tuvu tik grūts, kā audzināt dēlu, kurš vēlas būt rakstnieks. Tāpēc vis­pirms paldies mammai un tētim. Bez viņu atbalsta es nekā­dā ziņā nebūtu kļuvis rakstnieks. Viņi bija galvenie visā. Vi­ņi vienmēr saprata, kas man vajadzīgs (mīlestība, atbalsts, bezmaksas uzturs vai vēl kaut kas), un to sniedza. Nopiet­ni, nevaru iztēloties divus labākus vecākus. Kā profesionālim es vēlētos pateikties Skotam Milleram (Scott Miller), savam Trident Media aģentam. Tas, kā mēs kļu­vām par sadarbības partneriem, ir ievērības cienīgs stāsts. Viņš Filadelfijas grāmatu veikalā nopirka manis paša publi­cētās grāmatas "Plantācija" eksemplāru (mans pirmais ro­māns par Peiniju un Džonsu), un grāmata viņam tik ļoti pa­tika, ka viņš nosūtīja man e-pastu. Tolaik man bija mape ar vairāk nekā simt atraidījuma vēstulēm no literāriem aģen­tiem, taču šī biznesa labākais jaunais aģents nopirka manu grāmatu (par pilnu cenu) un sazinājās ar mani. Pārdodot šo grāmatu, es ieguvu ne tikai autora honorāru, bet ari brīniš­ķīgu aģentu. Pārsteidzoši! Protams, Skots nestrādāja viens. Vēlos pateikties arī Klē- rai Robertsai (Claire Roberts), kura vada visu manu grāmatu realizāciju ārzemēs, un visam Trident Media personālam. Jūs esat paveikuši kolosālu darbu! Runājot par darbiem, es vēlētos pateikties Berklijai, kas maksāja, lai daru to, kas man patīk. Nē, es nerunāju par fut­bola skatīšanos, ģērbtam apakšbiksēs. Es runāju par grāma­tu rakstīšanu. Milzu paldies Natālijai Rozensteinai (Natalee Rosensteiti), ka riskēja sadarboties ar mani. Esmu tik laimīgs strādāt ar redaktori, kura skatās tālāk par manu pašreizējo projektu. Faktiski viņa cer veidot manu karjeru. Mišela Vega (.Michelle Vega) ir cilvēks, ar ko man Berklijā nācās strādāt kopā visbiežāk, un viņa ir superzvaigzne. Ma­nuprāt, no viņas iznāktu lieliska spēju šova vadītāja, jo viņa atrod atbildes uz visiem maniem jautājumiem. Tomēr man nevajadzētu justies pārsteigtam. Ikviens, ar ko man Berklijā bijušas darīšanas, ir brīnišķīgs. Vēl es gribētu pateikties Petam Lobruto (Pat LoBrutto), Džoisam Kuzneskim (Joyce Kuzneski) un Džo Goldenam (ļoe Golden). Viņi palīdzēja saīsināt manu 711 lappuses garo pir­mo melnrakstu par kaut ko lasāmu. Ā, un es būtu nolaidīgs, ja nepieminētu Ianu Hārperu ([Ian Harper) par atbildēšanu uz visiem maniem urdošajiem jautājumiem vēlās vakara stun­dās un Rendiju Raskinu Randy Raskin) par palīdzību speci­fiskos datora lietošanas jautājumos. Puiši, jūs esat lieliski draugi! Beidzot es vēlētos pateikties kādam ducim cienītāju, ku­rus jau esmu ieguvis. "Plantācijas" pirmā versija iznāca diez­gan sen, un kopš tā laika esmu no jums saņēmis daudz vēs­tuļu - galvenokārt ieteikumus, lai beidzu slinkot un uzrakstu otru grāmatu, kamēr Peinijs un Džonss vēl nav nomiruši aiz vecuma. Cilvēki, kaut tas būtu tik viegli! Par nelaimi, izde­vēju pasaulē ielauzties ir grūti. Gadu gaitā esmu saņēmis da­žu labu mācību (iekšējs joks) un dažas devis arī pats. Vis­beidzot, es ceru, ka "Krusta zīme" bija gaidīšanas vērta. Zinašana ir ticības ienaidniece. Tulkojums no akmens piemiņas plāksnes, kas atrasta Orvieto, Itālijā (Aptuveni 37. gads pēc Kristus)

"Violent, erotic, blasphemous, and extreme." -Fear Zone "Without apologies, White tears through your emotions, from sympathy to hate, humor to shock..." -Horror Web From a world-ending orgy to home liposuction. From the hidden desires of politicians to a woman with a fetish for lions. This is a place where necrophilia, self-mutilation, and murder are all roads to love. Like Porno for Psychos collects the most extreme erotic horror from the celebrated hardcore horror master. Wrath James White is your guide through sex, death, and the darkest desires of the heart

The Wolf, a man who abducts and brutally murders a ten year old girl, is now hunted by retired detective Nathan Cawley. The task is simple, use his knowledge and expertise to locate and assist in the arrest of the killer, but the past haunts every decision. Nathan must step over a boundary he has never been to before, he must adapt to a lifestyle he intentionally stayed away from. Trust is a word he has never used lightly and now he must trust his instincts, to catch the killer he must become a killer.  Note to reader: This book contains violence, brutality and methods of torture which some readers may find distressing

Updated and Revised 2015 Edition of the Best-Selling Creative Non-Fiction Crime Story “Cat and Mouse – Mind Games with a Serial Killer”. As seen recently on British TV Show “Born to Kill” In this startling, twisting, turning story of murder, mayhem, and self-discovery, convicted mass murderer and baby killer Bill Suff “The Riverside Prostitute Killer” is your guide to exploring your personal demons. This is a unique book containing everything that was heretofore known and suspected but meticulously kept “off the record”, as well as details that that only the killer knew until now. There are interviews with principals; transcripts of the illegal police interrogation of Bill; excerpts from the cookbook, poetry, and writings of Bill; a step-by-step reconstruction of the mental chess game between Bill and Brian; and appreciation for how “friendship” with this serial killer led to death for some but salvation for others. For seven years—1985 to 1992—Bill hid in plain sight while terrorizing three Southern California counties, murdering two dozen prostitutes, mutilating and then posing them in elaborate artistic scenarios in public places—he’d placed a lightbulb in the womb of one, dressed others in men’s clothes, left one woman naked with her head bent forward and buried in the ground like an ostrich; he’d surgically removed the right breasts of some victims, and cut peepholes in the navels of others. When the newspapers said that the killer only slayed whites and hispanics, Bill ran right out and raped, torutred and killed a pregnant black woman. When a film company came to town to make a fictional movie about the then-uncaught killer, Bill left a corpse on their set. And, as the massive multi-jurisdictional police task force fruitlessly hunted the unknown killer, Bill personally served them bowls of his “special” chili at the annual Riverside County Employees’ Picnic and Cook-off. William Lester “Bill” Suff. He says he’s innocent, says he’s been framed, says he’s the most wronged man in America, maybe the world. He’s easygoing, genial, soft-spoken, loves to read, write, draw, play music and chat endlessly. He describes himself as a lovable nerd and a hope-less romantic, and he fancies himself a novelist and poet. Brian first connected with Bill on the basis of writer to writer, and that’s when the mind games began. Even in jail, Bill was the master manipulator, the seducer who somehow always got way. But Brian was determined to lose himself in Bill’s mind, in Bill’s fantasies, to get at the truth of who and what Bill Suff is. Only then would he know the truth of how close we are all to being just like Bill. Some readers wrote that the book was “personally important and life-changing”, others that it was “the only serial killer book with a sense of humor”, and others that they wished the author dead or worse. The son of one of Suff’s victims held on to the book as life-preserving testimony to the goodness of his fatally flawed mother and the possibility that his own redemption would eventually be in his own hands. Meanwhile, TV series and movies continuously derive episodes and plots from the unique details of the murders and the spiraling psyches of the characters as laid out in the book. When it was first released, Brian Alan Lane’s genre-bending bestseller “Mind Games With a Serial Killer” was simultaneously hailed and reviled. “Highly recommended: the creepiest book of the year… A surreal portrait of a murderous mind.” (Details Magazine) “This book is an amazing piece of work—it’s like Truman Capote on LSD.” (Geraldo Rivera on The Geraldo Rivera Show) “A masterpiece… that needs to be sought out and savored by all those with a truly macabre sensibility… A post-modernistic objet trouvé… that could have been concocted by Vladimir Nabokov.” (The Boston Book Review) “A new approach to crime… absolutely riveting, utterly terrifying.” (Forensic Science Bookstore)

‘I’m a good person inside, but when I get drunk, I just don't know. It's just… when I get drunk, don’t mess the fuck with me…’ There have been few female serial killers but Aileen ‘Lee’ Wuornos was an incredible example of this rare species of death-row inhabitants. All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers – the killings of Aileen ‘Lee’ Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film ‘Monster’, this is her story in her own words. NB The cover is entitled Monster: My True Story

Spanning over twenty years, 20 masters and modern authors of hardcore horror share their most bad-ass stories in this special edition from Comet Press. Many hard to find and out of print, some that were banned, Necro Files covers every imaginable mode of mayhem including serial killers, necrophilia, cannibals, werewolves, zombies, sex fetishes, psychopaths, snuff, occult, and more stories that dial into the dark side of human nature

Čaks Palanjuks Neredzamie briesmoņi No angļu valodas tulkojusi Silvija Brice ATENA Tik svaiga un intriģējoša balss kā Palanjukam literatūrā nav dzirdēta sen. Savdabīgi pārveidodams Vonnegūta viltīgo humoru, DeLillo dzēlīgo sociālo analīzi un Pincona grotesko sirreālismu, Palanjuks uzbūvē pats savu mirdzošo, noslēpumaino pili. New York Newsday Palanjukam piemīt īsti sviftisks satīriķa talants, kā arī prasme radīt fascinējošus teikumus, kuri, veidojot savdabīgu ritmu, saaužas spilgtā, dzirkstošā prozā. San Francisco Examiner Čaka Palanjuka romāni — bestsellers "CĪŅAS KLUBS" (FIGHT CLUB, 1996), pēc kura motīviem filmu uzņēmis režisors Deivids Finčers, un "IZDZĪVOJUŠAIS" (SURVIV0R,1999). Autors ir studējis Oregonas universitātē, dzīvo Portlendā, Oregonas štatā ASV. Ja jums patīk melnais humors ar pamatīgu šoka devu, tad šī grāmata ir domāta jums! ATĒNA- Korektors Pēteris Upcsbrants Riharda Bargā makets INVIS1BLE MONSTERS © Chuck Palahniuk, 1999 © Silvija Brice, tulkojums latviešu valodā, 2001 © Cannon and Skellett, cover, 2000 © Apgāds "ATĒNA", 2001 Apgāds "ATĒNA" reģistrācijas apliecība № 000330181 PVN reģistrācijas apliecība № 40003301814 Iespiests un iesiets tipogrāfijā a/s Preses nams, poligrāfijas grupa Jāņa sēta Džefam, kurš teica: "Tas ir par to, kā zagt tabletes." Un Ainai, kura teica: "Tas ir lūpu zīmulis." Un Dženetai, kura teica: "Tas ir zīda žoržets." Un manai redaktorei Patricijai, kura nemitīgi atkārtoja: "Tas nav pietiekami labi." Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

P.Dž. Treisija Nākamais gājiens KONTINENTS RĪGA  Baznīcā atrod divus nežēlīgi nogalinātus sirmgalvjus, kuru krūtīs iegriezts krusts... Seko arī citas tikpat neizprotamas slepkavības. Tikai pēc laika izmeklētāji sāk saistīt dīvainos noziegumus ar interneta tīklā atrodamo datorspēli par sērijveida slepkavībām. Izmeklētāji tur aizdomās arī spēles autorus, firmas Mokeewrerch dibinātājus - piecus savādniekus, par kuru dzīvi pirms desmit gadiem, kā par brīnumu, nav saglabājies nekādu ziņu. Ar pseidonīmu P. Dž. Treisija raksta māte un meita -P. Dž. Lambrehte un Treisija Lambrehte. Autores mīt Amerikā, ar šo pseidonīmu sarakstīts jau 2004. ga plaši atzītais romāns Live Bite, savukārt jaunais darbs kopš iznākšanas dienas radījis sensāciju Lielbritānijā Mātes un meitas tandēmā radīts elpu aizraujošs stāsts, kura krasos pagriezienus ļasītājam nav iespējams paredzēt P. Dž. Treisijas romāna "Nākamais gājiens" publicēšanas tiesības pieder "Apgādam "Kontinents"" No angļu valodas tulkojusi Ieva Kupruka Vāka autors Igors Gaivoronskis © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, mākslinieciskais noformējums, "Apgāds "Kontinents"", 2006 Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis ISBN 9984-35-229-3 Edijam un Donas Hepleram Mēs atcerēsimies

Kamilla Lekberga Ragana Apgāds “Jumava” izdod populārās zviedru rakstnieces Kamillas Lekbergas detektīvromānu sērijas desmito grāmatu. Kad četrus gadus vecā Linnea pazūd no fermas Fjelbakā, tas atraisa traģiskas atmiņas. Pirms trīsdesmit gadiem maza meitene pazuda tieši tajā pašā saimniecībā un vēlāk tika noslepkavota. Tajā laikā divas trīspadsmit gadus vecas meitenes tika apsūdzētas par meitenes nolaupīšanu un nogalināšanu. Viņas tika atzītas par vainīgām tiesā, bet vecuma dēļ izvairījās no cietuma. Kopš tā laika viena no viņām mierīgi dzīvo Fjelbakā. Otra tagad ir slavena aktrise. Fjelbakas iedzīvotāji organizē plašus Linnea meklējumus un atrod viņu kailu blakus tam pašam dīķim, kur tika atrasta pirmā meitene. Mazajā kopienā sāk izplatīties bailes. Vai vairākas meitenes varētu būt briesmās? Kamilla Lekberga ir pasaules mēroga dižpārdokļu autore. Viņas romāni ir tulkoti 37 valodās un pārdoti 55 valstīs. Pollijai Bija neiespējami zināt; kāda būtu izvērtusies meitenītes dzīve. Par ko viņa būtu kļuvusi. Kāds būtu bijis viņas darbs; ko viņa būtu mīlējusi, apraudājusi, zaudējusi vai iekarojusi. Vai viņai būtu bijuši bērni; ja tā, par ko viņi būtu kļuvuši. Bija neiespējami pat iztēloties, kā viņa būtu izskatījusies, būdama pieaugusi sieviete. Meitenītei bija četri gadi, tāpēc viņā nebija nekādu noteiktu iezīmju. Reiz zilās acis bija tapušas zaļas, un mati, kas bija bijuši tumši, kad viņa bija nākusi pasaulē, nu bija gaiši, lai gan blondās šķipsnas bija iesarkanas un krāsa neapšaubāmi būtu mainījusies no jauna. Šobrīd par to bija sevišķi grūti spriest. Meitenīte gulēja ezera tālākajā malā ar seju uz leju. Pakausi klāja lipīga kārta sarecējušu asiņu. Gaišo matu krāsas nianses varēja samanīt tikai cirtās, kas šūpojās ūdenī ap viņas galvu. Šajā ainā ar meitenīti nebija nekā īpaši šausminoša. Noskaņa bija tāda, it kā ūdenī neviens nemaz negulētu. Meža skaņas bija tādas pašas kā allaž. Gaisma spraucās pa koku zariem gluži tāpat kā vienmēr ap šo laiku. Ūdens vieglītēm viļņojās ap meitenīti, tikai retumis kāda spāre nolaidās uz rāmās virsmas, veidodama aplīšus. Pārvēršanās bija sākusies, un viņai bija lemts pakāpeniski kļūt par meža un ūdens daļu. Ja neviens viņu neatrastu, daba darītu savu un pamazām iekļautu sevī. Pagaidām vēl neviens nezināja, ka meitenītes vairs nebija.  tulkojusi Laura Ozoliņa ; Tatjanas Zubarevas vāka mākslinieciskais noformējums. jumava 2020

Robert Crain's perfect life is being torn apart... While recuperating at home from a car accident, men in ski masks break into his house and render him unconscious. When he awakens the next morning he is confronted by a nightmarish truth -- that his wife and son are gone. But it doesn't take long before he learns he's not dealing with ordinary kidnappers. They aren't interested in ransom money. No, what they want is unthinkable -- to see Robert fight other strangers to the death... And if he refuses, he will never see his family again. Accompanied by his loyal German shepherd, Robert descends into the darkest journey of his life, awaiting the kidnapper's next dreaded appointment -- and coming out of it alive. Joined later by his best friend Will, he will stop at nothing to rescue his wife and son who are being held by a haunted psychopath. Robert has always had questions about his family's past. About a mysterious oblong box he discovered in his grandmother's attic and his grandfather's deep fear of what lurked within a mountain glacier. Beginning with a ghost that stalked him in the forest while his was a boy to a violent trip he and Will survived in Mexico, Robert has always believed that some force from the distant past would one day come for him. Heart-pounding and unpredictable, RED MOUNTAIN is a journey between the past and present, and what happens when the two collide

Unni Lindela Sapņu ķērājs No norvēģu valodas tulkojusi Mudīte Treimane Vladimira Leibgama vāka dizains Andras Pūces zīmējums © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Apgāds Zvaigzne ABC ISBN 9984-36-406-2 Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Dzīvi var izmērīt vienīgi pēc tā, kā cilvēks dzīvo attiecībā pret mūžību. MORISS L. VESTS [1] Ir kāds, kas tumšām domām tevi acīgi vēro no tumsas. Un varbūt viņš nemaz nav kāds ļauns un biedējošs svešinieks. Iespējams, tu pat dāvā viņam savu uzticību. Un slepkavas lomai viņš tev šķiet pagalam nepiemērots. Bet viņš slēpjas naktī, ēnā un vēlas tevi atbrīvot - atbrīvot no dzīves. Vispirms viņas pazūd bez pēdām, lai pēc laika uzrastos - cita agrāk, cita vēlāk. Tikai - mirušas. Un izmeklētājam Kātu Isaksenam līdz ar paša dzīves samudžinātajiem līkločiem jāatšķetina arī dīvainā un neizprotamā saikne starp divu draudzeņu slepkavību un kādas meitenītes pazušanu, nemitīgi sev vaicājot: kurš būs nākamais? Norvēģu rakstniece Unni Lindela (dz. 1957), kas saņēmusi balvu par 1999. gada Norvēģijas labāko kriminālromānu ..Sapņu ķērājs", apliecina nezūdošas kriminālžanra vērtības: aizdomas par slepkavību krīt uz (Jaudziem, bet tā īsti - ne uz vienu, un līdz pat spraigā sižeta pēdējām lappusēm nav skaidrs, kurš tad ir viņš ^ slepkava. Norvēģijā populārā un atzītā rakstniece Unni Lindela (dzi­musi 1957. gada 3. aprilī) literatūrā debitēja 1986. gadā ar ro­mānu jauniešiem "Zaļā diena". Kopš tā laika Unni Lindela ir sarakstījusi vairāk nekā 20 grāmatu — dažādu žanru darbus gan jauniešiem un bērniem, gan arī pieaugušajiem — un saņēmusi daudzas Norvēģijas literārās balvas. Vairākas viņas grāmatas ir tulkotas zviedru, dāņu, nīderlandiešu un vācu valodā. Latviešu lasītāji Unni Lindelas vārdu pirmoreiz iepazina 2001. gadā, kad Apgāds Zvaigzne ABC izdeva rakstnieces grāmatu jaunie­šiem "Annas bērns". Par Norvēģijas 1999. gada labāko kriminālžanra darbu atzī­tais un kluba Riverton godalgotais "Sapņu ķērājs" ir otrais no pieciem Unni Lindelas romāniem par Oslo policijas komisāru Kātu Isaksenu. Ir gana daudz cilvēku - gan realitātē, gan tāpēc arī literatūras pasaulē -, kuru dzīve rit krustpunktā starp fiasko un panāku­miem. Viens no tādiem ir Kātu Isaksens. Viņš ir spējīgs, pat izcils izmeklētājs, bet dažbrīd pagalam katastrofāls laulātais draugs un tēvs. Un viņa nīkulīgā ģimenes dzīve ar samilzušajām problēmām nebūt neveicina nozieguma atrisināšanu, jo īpaši, kad atklājas, ka Kātu Isaksena vecākais dēls Gards, kas bijis divu noslepkavoto draudzeņu paziņu lokā, šad tad nomēģina narkotikas. Psiholoģiskos zemtekstus, kas virza uz priekšu romāna spraigo darbību, galu galā vainago dramatiskas skriešanās sa­censības ar aukstasinīgu slepkavu. Unni Lindelai piemīt izcila meistarība saistīt lasītāja interesi līdz pēdējai grāmatas lappusei. Un apbrīnas vērta ir arī viņas spēja, atainojot lielu un daudz­pusīgu tēlu galeriju, saskatīt traģismu ikviena cilvēka dzīvē. Tieši tāpat kā slepkava spēlējas ar policijas komisāru Kātu Isaksenu un viņa darbiniekiem, Unni Lindela spēlējas ar mums, lasītājiem. Antra Vagnere

BLOOD RITES There seemed to be no reason behind the series of grisly murders plaguing Orlando. The victims were young and old, women and men, destitute and well-off. Only two shocking similarities linked the deceased; before dying, they had been horribly brutalized..and they were all found with their scalps removed. SLICE OF DEATH Medical Examiner Dr. Dean Grant had previous success teaming with police to hunt down serial killers. But a maniac is lurking in the shadows, secretly studying the M.E.'s every move. And if Grant doesn't crack the gruesome case very soon, he could end up the next victim... (Approximately 80,000 words, the second book in the Dean Grant series.)

Plant yourself under the covers and get ready for Seeds of Fear, fifth in the ground- breaking Hot Blood erotic horror anthology series. Pinup queen Brinke Stevens delivers the Introduction, and 19 original stories cultivated by editors Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett follow. Terror and titillation reach full, florid bloom as Bentley Little invites you to “See Marilyn Monroe’s Panties!” Ronald Kelly introduces a “Scream Queen” you won’t soon forget, Edward Lee follows his Stoker-nominated “Mr. Torso” (HB4) with “Grub-Girl” and award-winning author P. D. Cacek (Stoker, World Fantasy) welcomes her “Devil With a Blue Dress.” These top-name horror writers bring you the freshest works guaranteed to raise goosebumps and scald the blood

Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best–until a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer, Smoky shot him dead–but her life was shattered forever.  Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger one last time. Because for a woman who’s lost everything, what is there left to lose? She’s about to find out. In all her years at the Bureau, Smoky has never encountered anyone like him–a new and fascinating kind of monster, a twisted genius who defies profilers’ attempts to understand him. And he’s issued Smoky a direct challenge, coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live. The killer videotaped his latest crime–an act of horror that left a child motherless–then sent a message addressed to Agent Smoky Barrett. The message is enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. And that child awakens something in Smoky she thought was gone forever. Suddenly the stakes are raised. The game has changed. For as this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder, Smoky is coming alive again–and she’s about to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman, a mother…and a merciless killer’s next victim

Jusi Alders-Olsens Sieviete būrī Kopenhāgenas Kriminālpolicijas izmeklētājs Karls Mērks tiek iecelts par jaunās, īpašas nozīmes lietu nodaļas Q vadītāju. Šī nodaļa vēlreiz izmeklēs neatrisinātas lietas, kuras guvušas plašu ievērību. Pirmā no tām ir par Merētes Lingordas politiķes, apdāvinātas jaunas, skaistas sievietes pazušanu pirms pieciem gadiem. Visi uzskata, ka sieviete ir mirusi un izmeklēšana ir tikai lieka laika nosišana. Arī Mērks tam sākotnēji piekrīt, tomēr izmeklēšanas gaitā rodas aizvien vairāk pārsteidzošu atklājumu. Balss tumsā skan izkropļoti, griezīgi un skarbi. Tā saka, ka ieslodzītās mocības beigsies, kad viņa atbildēs uz vienu vienkāršu jautājumu. Tas ir jautājums, ko viņa arī sev uzdevusi jau simtiem reižu: KĀPĒC tas notiek? "Jusi Adlers-Olsens savas grāmatas raksta tikpat meistarīgi kā Dīns Kuncs, un viņa detektīvi strādā tikpat cītīgi kā Stīga Lārsona romānu varoņi." Jydske Vestkysten ISBN 978-9934-0-2203-6 "Neierasti izsmalcināts un ļoti fascinējošs spriedzes romāns, kas lasot liks jums aizturēt elpu līdz pēdējai grāmatas lappusei." politiken.dk "Jusi Adlers-Olsens savas grāmatas raksta tikpat meistarīgi kā Dīns Kuncs, un viņa detektīvi strādā tikpat cītīgi kā Stīga Lārsona romānu varoņi." Jydske Vestkysten "Romāns "Sieviete būri" ir skarbs, bet lielisks un aizraujošs darbs." WDR 5 "Jusi Adlers-Olsens nav jaunais Stīgs Lārsons vai Jū Nesbē. Viņš ir uzlecoša zvaigzne skandināvu kriminālromānu pasaulē. Ļoti talantīgs ārkārtīgi interesantu, spraigu un lielisku darbu autors." Amazon.com Arņa Kilbloka vāka dizains Vāka dizainam izmantots © knape istockphoto.com attēls © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Apgāds Zvaigzne ABC ISBN 978-9934-0-2203-6 No dāņu valodas tulkojusi Dace Deniņa Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Jusi Adlers-Olsens (Jussi Adler-Olsen, dz. 1950), dāņu rakstnieks, kura radītie detektīvromāni strauji nokļuva bestselleru sarakstos gan Dānijā, gan citās pasaules valstīs. Rakstnieks saņēmis vairākas Dānijas literārās balvas, kā arī prestižo Glass Key balvu 2010. gadā. Sieviete izmisumā skrāpē sienas, mēģinot izlauzties brīvībā, tomēr no telpas nav izejas. Nav iespējams arī izsekot līdzi laika plūdumam; neapturami aizrit dienas, nedēļas, mēneši. Viņas lielākā vēlme ir nesajukt prātā tādu gandarījumu saviem sagūstītājiem viņa nevēlas sagādāt. Tad labāk mirt

The Shroud Shifter speaks: I clipped my self-sharpening, teflon-coated, brushed-steel axe and swung it at her neck. Her head was sheared cleanly off; blood burst from the cavity, her arms and legs twitched spastically, then her whole body crumpled to the floor. The force of my swing spun me around, and for one second my vision eclipsed the entire scene — blood spattered walls, the body shooting an arterial geyser out the neck, the heart still pumping in reflex... Martin Plunkett has struck again

Who Wants Some of Wrath’s Sloppy Seconds? … Who wouldn’t? Each year at the World Horror Convention, the most anticipated event is the Gross-Out Contest, where authors stand up in front of everyone and deliver some of the most disturbing, gut-wrenching tales anyone has ever heard. Wrath James White’s stories are among the best of them. Now, we present his stories for the first time in print — uncut. Here are his four stories from previous years, as well as his entry for the 2008 WHC. But there’s more! We have a bonus story that is “one of the most grotesque and horrific murder/rape/revenge stories I have ever written.”

*For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother, vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway and, suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Then one night, a hardedged FBI agent appears on their doorstep and says, “I know you’re innocent, because Rachael wasn’t the first… or the last.” From Publishers Weekly At the start of this overwrought thriller from Crouch (Abandon), attorney Will Innis's wife, Rachael, fails to come home from a late night at work. Her car is found on an Arizona desert highway, the driver's side window smashed, but no sign of blood. After a belligerent cop interrogates him about his wife's disappearance, Will packs up his 11-year-old daughter, Devlin, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, and flees. Five years pass until FBI agent Kalyn Sharp tracks down Will, who's lived in several towns under various identities, to tell him she believes he's innocent. For a lawyer, Will is incredibly gullible. Based on nothing, he fears he'll be prosecuted, and Devlin will have no one to take care of her. He forgets that the girl has loving grandparents as well as aunts and uncles, and ignores that her disease, though in remission, can be life threatening. He accepts Kalyn's involvement with little thought. The story comes to a less than credible climax at a remote Alaskan resort

This was the way it always started. First he would see them and the air would thicken. Then the image of them bound. Then came the screaming and the Red Room would appear with the glittering, new meathook waiting just for them. And there in the Red Room he could play for as long as he wanted... This volume also contains the short ­stories 'The Filmmakers' & 'Writer's Block'. Review Graphic and gruesome, Hamilton's novel explores voyeurism, sexual predators, child abuse, murder, torture - things I wasn't expecting in a horror novel from Australia. It's not that they don't have horror novels Down Under. It's just that this one is so lean and mean. Spare Key is actually only 170 pages - there are two short stories, The Filmmakers and Writer's Block included (nasty little stories they are as well). But Spare Key is the eye-opener. Think if Edward Lee had a child who grew up Down Under and you might get the general idea of just how horrifying this book is - sexually explicit and violent with an ending I really didn't see coming. --Fatally Yours, September 16th, 2009 But don't be fooled. Hamilton sets out to shock and disgust, making this material limited to a tailored horror audience. The violent sexual nature of many events throughout these stories may see readers placing Spare Key in the "too nasty" basket. So what realm of disgusting and shocking are we talking here? Probably somewhere between Stephen King's darker moments and Bret Easton Ellis's least shocking, and I'm not surprised to find these two authors on Hamilton's list of influences. --[As if!], July 1st, 2009 R. Frederick Hamilton is a young writer going at it hard and heavy in a competitive market. There's a lot of promise in this, his first book. Mark the name down, Hamilton is going to be a voice to be reckoned with in the coming years. --Scary Minds, January 15th, 2010

Some secrets are too terrible to reveal . . . Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve . . . In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and “English” residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. She’s certain she’s come to terms with her past—until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past—and expose a dark secret that could destroy her

Join the breakneck chase through Chicago for a murderous maniac. As the victims begin piling up, detective Keren Collins’s spiritual discernment is on high alert. Will she capture the killer before another body floats to the surface? Ex-cop, now mission pastor Paul Morris has seen his share of tragedy, but nothing prepared him to be a murderer’s messenger boy. Will his old ruthless cop personality take over, leading him to the brink of self-destruction? Can Keren and Paul catch the killer before the corpse count reaches a perfect ten?

And now a new clue has surfaced...a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire shaken to her core...and more determined than ever to find out what happened to her beloved Ruby. When the doll is snatched and the store's owner turns up dead, Claire knows the only person she can turn to is ex-husband Dave Creasy, a former cop who has spent the past seven years imprisoned by his own guilt and despair. He let Claire down once when she needed him the most. Can she make him believe the doll really exists? She'll have to if they're to survive an encounter with a brutal psychopath— the dollmaker—who stole their future to feed an obsession that will never die

Why did he leave her alive? They find the girl in the master bedroom, the bodies of the family around her. She's holding a gun to her head. And she will only talk to Smoky Barrett. Smoky is just starting to pick up the pieces of her own life. She knows what it's like to lose everyone you love. But her tragedy is nothing compared with this case. Because this isn't the first time it's happened. Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kingsley has lost her family before. Not once, but twice. Someone out there wants her to stare death in the face - again and again

Philip Carlo’s The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Richard Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano’s partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino crime family, at Sparks Steakhouse. Mob boss John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor who accidentally ran over his child. For an additional price, Kuklinski would make his victims suffer; he conducted this sadistic business with coldhearted intensity and shocking efficiency, never disappointing his customers. By his own estimate, he killed over two hundred men, taking enormous pride in his variety and ferocity of technique. This trail of murder lasted over thirty years and took Kuklinski all over America and to the far corners of the earth, Brazil, Africa, and Europe. Along the way, he married, had three children, and put them through Catholic school. His daughter’s medical condition meant regular stays in children’s hospitals, where Kuklinski was remembered, not as a gangster, but as an affectionate father, extremely kind to children. Each Christmas found the Kuklinski home festooned in colorful lights; each summer was a succession of block parties. His family never suspected a thing. Richard Kuklinski is now the subject of the major motion picture titled “The Iceman”(2013), starring James Franco, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, and Chris Evans

This new volume of the world's most acclaimed Year's Best Horror series includes a masterful selection of the finest supernatural short stories and terrifying novellas from many of the biggest names and most exciting newcomers currently working in the genre. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre. Contributors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman and Glen Hirshberg. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction. Winner of the 2009 British Fantasy Award

This thriller has just the right mix of suspense, intrigue, and murder, topped off with a little romance to make it sizzle. Pierce Quincy, hard-boiled FBI agent, and Rainie Conner, ex-cop turned P.I., team up to catch the perpetrator of several ingenious murders. The psychopath staged the death of Quincy 's daughter Amanda, then his ex-wife, and is now going after Quincy 's remaining daughter, Kimberly. Kate Burton's ingenious narration pits sweet women and tough cops against stone cold psychopathic killer. Burton keeps up the heat as she seamlessly switches from romance to murder and back again, taunting the listener with every twist of the plot while Gardner dares you to guess the killer's identity and motives before Conner and Quincy do. *** Gardner brings back the quirky team of FBI supervisory special agent Pierce Quincy and Portland private eye Rainie Conner in a fiendishly well choreographed dance of death. The reader knows from the outset (a seduction scene ending in vehicular homicide) that someone has set out to systematically murder FBI profiler Quincy's loved ones. The question is not why, since Quincy has tracked down many killers, but who. Specifically, who would have the resources of time, money, and psychological acumen to devise and carry out such a sadistic campaign? After the first death, Quincy calls upon Conner to investigate; the plot moves to the clock of the killer's agenda. The weak points of Gardner 's writing are his dialogue and characterization: Conner's overly snappy banter and her hardbitten personality are both overdone. But Gardner knows procedure, FBI behavioral science, and the details of such newly minted crimes as identity theft. Not deep but harrowing. Connie Fletcher

Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long enough to kill, just long enough to tear apart a family and a community. When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens' activities, monitoring who goes where-and parents become paranoid. Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn't need the grief. He's already under siege-he's got family trouble, girl trouble, trouble with his high school classes and trouble with the jocks who rule the school. Surely the Howler will kill someone else, somewhere else, and then Don can go back to trying to escape notice. But the Howler likes Ashford. And one frosty autumn night, the Howler chooses Don as his next victim. The attack is swift-but it doesn't go as planned. Suddenly the killer and the boy are surrounded by an unnatural mist, by green fire, by the sound of iron striking iron. And then the real horror begins