Magic Horror

To this day, I see it in my nightmares – the decrepit amalgamation of stone and metal looming in the middle of a barren waste – the place that was supposed to be my tomb. Elian's carefree childhood ends after his older brother gets recruited to serve in one of the five watchtowers overlooking the hostile lands. A grim realization dawns on him of the perils the last human Kingdom has to face. The wild hillfolk of the west, the ferocious beasts of the east, and the vast waters of the southern sea that no ship could ever pass. However, these threats pale compared to the evil looming in the...

Follow Christoph Swift and his diverse band of companions as they navigate the treacherous waters of the Traders World. In a realm where minosium—a gem of extraordinary power—fuels both progress and conflict, every wave conceals a potential ally or enemy. But in this world where ambition and magic intertwine, every alliance harbors a hidden agenda. As Christoph and his unlikely crew sail from sun-drenched archipelagos to mist-shrouded islands, each discovery brings them closer to the mythical Labyrinth—and to danger. Facing ruthless factions and ancient mysteries, they must master ...

Known as the Primal Jewels, the Black, the Quicksilver, and the Sunstone have long been lost. This is the story of their return to the lands of Cymru. Many old evils stir. Four score marriages between the Fae and the River Folk result in interesting offspring that have not been seen for centuries. King Arawn of the Dead schemes to raise an army to invade the River Haven. The Kindred face a mysterious plague, Myrrdin is nowhere to be found and Oberon is up to something.

Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle. Join Matt Parker, stand-up comedian and author of the first ever maths book to be a No. 1 bestseller, as he uncovers the secrets of trigonometry and shares extraordinary stories about the mathematicians, philosophers and engineers who dared to take triangles seriously.

Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a country (perhaps several countries) that seems at once everywhere and nowhere, haunted by birds, ghosts, poverty, tyranny, and the permeability of the line between the living and the dead. These stories offer a heady mix of absurdity and bleakness on the one hand and exuberant magic realism on the other.

Allison Beckstrom is committed to her work tracing illegal spells. Now, there's an apocalyptic storm bearing down on Portland, and when it hits, all the magic in the area will turn unstable and destructive. To stop it from taking out the entire city, Allie and her lover, the mysterious Zayvion Jones, must work with the Authority - the enigmatic arbiters of all things magic - and take a stand against a magical wildstorm that will obliterate all in its path.

A lovely vacation in the Middle East… Where dancing women in veils… Figs and dates abound… And the scent of incense and exotic Meals fills the air. A formula for a wonderful vacation. But for Holmes and his friends, it’s going to be a struggle for survival against a cult that worships a supernatural god… That is both real… And deadly!

4 huge Sherlock Holmes stories filled with mystery, fantasy and adventure. DEATH AND ILLUSIONS Harry’s magic goes awry and his act Even more so…the situation is more Than dangerous…and even Merlin’s Advice might be enough to help him This time. SHUDDERS Harry Houdini performs extremely dangerous Stunts, and his staff risk their lives helping him Do the best show possible. But this time a beloved friend and worker falls to His death. And it was no accident. It was murder! CULT OF THE BLOOD ORCHID This cult has only one way out of it… Violent death! BEAST It had to be smart enough ...

Some would call River Rydell a ‘chosen one’: born with the ability to see monsters and travel to a terrifying spirit world called The Otherwoods, they have all the makings of a hero. But River just calls themself unlucky. After all, it’s not like anyone actually believes River can see these things—or that anyone even believes monsters exist in the first place. So the way River sees it, it’s better to keep their head down and ignore anything Otherwoods related. But The Otherwoods won’t be ignored any longer.

On the new world that Sherlock Holmes lives, there are wonders and miracles that go beyond science into the realm of magic and mysticism. And on this day, Holmes and his friends are about to experience a miracle unlike any other and a series of mysteries that will boggle the mind.

When a beautiful woman approaches Emmet asking for no strings-attached fun, he thinks he's finally hit the jackpot. He's not about to let a little thing like her claiming to be a witch get between them, whatever kind of spell she thinks she's going to cast with his "pent up sexual energy". Mary knows Emmet doesn't believe her, but she doesn't care. He's the perfect specimen for her ritual, just bursting with sexual energy. What she doesn't know is that Emmet isn't only pent up - he's a virgin. And when the spell grows out of control and escapes, it's up to them to go track it down.

Welcome to another kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven exquisite tales of living, dying, and the terror that lies in between.

A businessman makes a deal with a satanic clergymen, and has his daughter baptised into Satan's church. Twenty-one years later, provided she is still a virgin, she is destined to be the centrepiece of a hideous satanic ritual. Molly Fountain, a tough-minded Englishwoman who worked for the British Intelligence during the war, has retreated to her French cottage to write. Next door she finds a new, mysterious neighbour, an intriguing young girl named Christina.

As daughters of the impoverished King of Montenegro, Militza and Stana must fulfill their duty to their father and leave their beloved home for St. Petersburg to be married into senior positions in the Romanov court. For their new alliances to the Russian nobility will help secure the future of the sisters’ native country. Immediately, Militza and Stana feel like outcasts as the aristocracy shuns them for their provincial ways and for dabbling in the occult. Undeterred, the sisters become resolved to make their mark by falling in with the lonely, depressed Tsarina Alexandra.

A college professor encounters a magical computer network and struggles against demonic forces, his life and the lives of his friends hanging in the balance. Aided by a genuine witch and the ghost of his murdered friend, his quest involves crossing the country to go up against the System Operator of the magic web. "The ghost in the machine" can be taken quite literally in this instance. On his hero's journey, the professor runs up against a menagerie of magical creatures, some comic, some threatening, one very dangerous. Not only space and time but reality itself warps to bring the story ...

Readers (see reviews) say it made them scared, made them laugh and made them cry, are you prepared to go through these powerful emotions and read DARK WEAR? “Paul rubbed his eyes. It can’t be! He looked again. The large black cat, the size of an Alsatian dog, continued to stalk its prey. It registered Paul’s existence but had its eyes on a rabbit. Paul grabbed his phone and did his best to stop shaking and try to take a photo. The noise of the camera caused the cat to turn and snarl. Only then did Paul realise his predicament. He was in a field, a long way from help if he yelled, with...

If folks had any business living in the small Colorado town of Hadrian’s Well, there wouldn’t be a meadow called Dead Man’s Field outside of it. That’s where Deputy Joanna Donovan finds bloody body parts strewn across the ground. She thought that rural Colorado would be safer than Chicago. She’s about to find out she’s wrong.

With photo-enhanced world-building, this fast-paced, dark, young adult action novel with humor, love, loyalty, and horror explodes into 30 days of turmoil and drama so intense that recording it takes over 500 pages. Ancient magic causes a powerful Elven dynasty to collapse into present-day chaos as fierce battles spill back into the Elven Homeland. WARNING: This contains spoilers. The Elves enjoy a luxurious lifestyle among us, thanks to wealthy patrons paying a fortune for Elven GodStones. The Elves wield old magic like we use smartphones, and the adoring humans treated our Elven folk with...

Just when Noelle thinks she has her ducks in a row, a woman brings her horse to Flynn Farm for boarding. At first, everything is just peachy: The woman is wonderful and the horse is mannerly and full of personality. Then, par for the course and much to Noe's chagrin, things go sideways.

*** An enchanted tale of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water *** Living in Maine with her grandmother and eccentric aunts is not how sixteen-year-old Ivy Seaforth expected to spend her summer. Working for a peculiar, wealthy man and running errands for a powerful witch who lives in a tree wasn't in her plans, either. Her sister, Zinnia? Well, something was different. Zinnia was making mysterious visits to the forest, and that was certainly forbidden. Ivy longed for the days when she and her sister were best friends. Those days now seemed so long ago. Ivy soon discovers that, along with the witch, ...