Caitlín R. Kiernan Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Odkąd H.P. Lovecraft zaprosił kolegów, takich jak Frank Belknap Long i Robert Bloch (między innymi), żeby przyłączyli się do tworzenia "Mitologii Cthulhu" (pod wymyśloną przez niego mniej znaną nazwą "Yog-Sothery), dziesiątki autorów z różnym skutkiem próbowało swoich sił w tkaniu tego ogromnego... číst celé

In Vile Affections, Caitlín R. Kiernan's seventeenth short fiction collection, the boundaries of desire, fascination, passion, and dread collide. That which is beautiful may easily be profane. Those who love us may devour us alive. A shadow may shine like a supernova. The eye of the beholder is God. In these twenty-two stories, Kiernan's trademark range is on display, taking us from submerged and monster-haunted dreamscapes to quiet bedroom conversation between lovers, from unexpected and uncanny roadkill to an object lesson on the perils of picking up hitchhikers on rainy Appalachian nights. Moving deftly between such disparate genres as cyberpunk, fairy tales, and Southern Gothic, this is Kiernan at their eerie best.

Sarah Crowe opuściła Atlantę - i zgliszcza burzliwego związku - żeby zamieszkać w starym domu w wiejskich okolicach Rhode Island. W jego murach znajduje niedokończony rękopis dawnego mieszkańca, antropologa z obsesją na punkcie prastarego dębu rosnącego na odizolowanym zakątku posiadłości. Powiązane z miejscowymi legendami o nadnaturalnej magii oraz z udokumentowanymi wypadkami i morderstwami sękate drzewo zakorzenia się w wyobraźni Sary, co skłania ją do napisania własnej wersji jego podejrzanej historii. W miarę jak dąb opanowuje jej sny i prawie wszystkie myśli na jawie, Sarah ryzykuje zdrowie fizyczne i psychiczne, żeby odkryć tajemnice sprzed wieków...

“Her stories saturate the mind with color... There is simply nothing out there quite like her.”—The New York Times on Caitlín R. Kiernan A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time. Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling. He wants to learn if she can stop the latest apocalypse. Ellison, once a unique and valuable asset, can barely remember why she ever fought the good fight. Still, you don't say no to the Signalman, and the time has come to face her fears and the nightmare forces that almost destroyed her. Only Ellison can unleash the hound of Tindalos. . .

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible — the Children of the Next Level — and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in. A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from ‘other’ sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact. And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity. Agents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan.

Köstlich unheimlich, ist diese Hommage an den Meister des modernen Horrors eine Sammlung fesselnder Geschichten von seinen bösen Nachkommen. H. P. Lovecraft schuf vor einem Jahrhundert eine Fülle legendärer Ungeheuer, und diese Sammlung von Geschichten verbindet sich wieder mit diesen Vorstellungen: dem massiven, tentakelbewehrten Cthulhu, der unter dem Meer lauert und auf seinen Moment wartet, um zu steigen; dem Dämon Sultan Azathoth, der im Zentrum des Universums vor sich hin murmelt, wahnsinnig jenseits aller Vorstellung; den Deep Ones, die an Land kommen, um mit sterblichen Männern zu zeugen; und dem unsagbar bösen Hastur, dessen Name den Tod bringt. Jede Geschichte bietet eine packende neue Perspektive auf ein klassisches Mythoswesen, begleitet von einer aufschlussreichen Illustration. In einer verfluchten Erzählung schleicht etwas Unnatürliches aus dem Meer in ein Diner, um die törichte junge Frau zu treffen, die auf ihn wartet. In einer anderen Geschichte kämpfen die Hunde von Tindalos ums Überleben, gefangen in menschlichen Körpern, während sie Billardhallen heimsuchen, um Männer in die Dunkelheit zu locken. Seltsam, haunting und unbestreitbar monströs, sind dies die besten Kreaturen Lovecrafts – wiedererweckt und neu interpretiert.

A complex, haunting novel that explores a schizophrenic young artist’s struggles with her perception of reality… including an intriguing ghostly woman who appears to her in the most mysterious ways. India Morgan Phelps—Imp to her friends—is trying to write her memoir, but she struggles with the unreliability of her own mind. Suffering from schizophrenia, as well as comorbid anxiety and OCD, Imp has a difficult time separating fantasy from reality. But for her, it’s most important to tell her “truth.” And for Imp, that truth comes through a stream-of-consciousness tale of her love story with her transgender girlfriend, as well as Imp’s obsession with a mysterious woman whom she finds naked and mute at the side of the road. Imp must push past her mental illness—or work with it—to piece together her memories and tell her story. A rich exploration of mental illness, gender identity, and creative process, The Drowning Girl delivers an eerie and powerful story of a woman’s efforts to discover the truth that’s locked away in her own head. “Caitlín R. Kiernan moves firmly into the new vanguard […] of our best and most artful authors of the gothic and fantastic—those capable of writing fiction of deep moral and artistic seriousness.”—Peter Straub

DAS BLUT DER UNSCHULDIGEN HAT DIE GRÖSSTE MACHT. Chance Silvey ist schwanger. Die Paläontologin will endlich ihre tragische Familiengeschichte hinter sich lassen und den Blick auf die Zukunft richten. Doch immer wieder quälen sie verstörende Visionen, vor denen es kein Entkommen zu geben scheint. Besteht ein Zusammenhang mit den Serienmorden, die ganz Alabama in Atem halten? Der Killer hinterlässt nicht nur zerstückelte Leichen, sondern auch blutige Zeichen an der Wand. Der Einzige, der sie deuten kann, ist Chance’ Mann Deacon. Seine übersinnlichen Wahrnehmungen bringen ihn auf die Spur einer eiskalten Mörderin, mehr Dämon als Mensch. Als Eintrittskarte in die Hölle will sie ein Opfer bringen – das ungeborene Kind von Deacon und Chance. «Caitlín R. Kiernan ist unvergleichlich.» CLIVE BARKER

Chance Silvey grew up in her grandparents’ house on the side of Red Mountain, high above the urban sprawl of Birmingham, Alabama. Now married, with a baby on the way, she wants to move on and leave the house—and the tragic history of her family—in the past. But her future is already tainted. Chance is hallucinating, seeing blood everywhere, and is afraid to uncover what it means. Her husband, Deacon, a gifted psychic, fears being drawn into a police investigation after having a vision of a serial killer’s brutality. And it all leads to a woman with a thirst for violence, hiding from something that haunts her day and night. Something even more terrible than herself…

Recounts the story of a young Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf, who pledges to protect King Hrothgar's people from the monstrous creature Grendel that has been terrorising his kingdom. In the ensuing fight, Beowulf rips off Grendel's arm and the now-mortally wounded monster flees back to his home beneath a mysterious lake.

"Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" — GIRLS' LIFE A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampire contemplating his end, and a fanged brat who drains the patience of a bumbling teenage boy. Here too are a flamboyant young novelist in search of a subject more compelling than his own eerie existence and the daughter of a sorcerer fighting to free her lover — and her will — from sinister bonds. Enter the world of GOTHIC!, a celebration of the literary form made famous by such writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. With chilling stories by: Joan Aiken M. T. Anderson Neil Gaiman Caitlín R. Kiernan Gregory Maguire Garth Nix Celia Rees Janni Lee Simner Vivian Vande Velde Barry Yourgrau

AUS DER TIEFE DER VORZEIT ERHEBT SICH DAS GRAUEN …Es sollte nur ein harmloser Streich sein, als Chance, Deacon und Elise vor vielen Jahren in den alten Wasserwerkstunnel einbrachen. Doch tief im Berg erwachte etwas – und was folgte, war die schrecklichste Nacht ihres Lebens. Sie sprachen nie wieder davon.Doch nun ist die mysteriöse Dancy Flammarion aufgetaucht, die mehr über das Geheimnis von damals zu wissen scheint. Sie zeigt Chance ein Fossil aus dem Nachlass ihrer Großmutter, ein Wesen, das in keinem Nachschlagewerk verzeichnet ist. Langsam begreifen die bodenständige Wissenschaftlerin Chance und ihr Exfreund Deacon, dass es eine Welt jenseits ihrer Vorstellungen gibt. Und dass dort etwas auf sie lauert …«Die Sprachbeherrschung dieser Autorin grenzt ans Unheimliche:» NEIL GAIMAN

Step through the gates of Horn and Ivory and enter the Kingdom of the Sandman...Join a white-collar worker who yearns for blue-collar freedom as he takes a special tour of the Dreaming with caretaker Mervyn Pumpkinhead; Spend New Year's Day with two expatriate faeries - Nuala, once a gift to Dream from Queen Titania, and Cluracan, disgraced ambassador to the Royal Court; Travel with two denizens of The Dreaming into the waking world: The Corinthian, a deadly nightmare made flesh, sent to correct the sins of his past; and Matthew the Raven who takes human form to face an old adversary;And learn of the exploits of one of Dream's former ravens, Aristeas of Marmora.Welcome to The Dreaming - the vast, unmapped realm of dreams, where your wildest fantasy may walk side by side with your greatest nightmares, where truth and illusion walk hand in hand - or sometimes claw in glove.