Weird Fantasy

It takes a demon to hunt a demon... When a powerful demon crosses the Farfall Mountains, the task of tracking and slaying it falls to a man not expected to succeed: Jebediah Skayne, lothario, hustler, hunter of nightmares. Jeb follows the demon's "blood trail" to the fishing town of Portis, where it vanishes. All that remains are the demon's leftovers: corpses, half-dressed, killed in the throes of passion. Forced to rely on more mundane methods of investigation, Jeb uncovers a town rife with corruption, where a man will kill you for looking at a woman the wrong way. A town where his own ...

"This is a series that should be savored like a fine scotch, one whose sweetness lingers in your mouth long after you've swallowed." (Journal of Always Reviews) The reavers are swarming and this time their prey is the supreme ruler of the Templum, the Ipsissimus himself. With Shader dead and his piece of the Statue of Eingana in the hands of Shadrak the Unseen, the threat of the Unweaving of all Creation is one step nearer. Dr. Cadman realizes he’s in too deep and there’s nothing for it but to go on the offensive. If he’s to survive the coming war for the statue, what better allies ...

Take Out & Other Stories: A Collection of Weird Fiction explores what happens to the human mind when one thing enters a life that cannot be explained a way with logic or reason. From a young boy's obsession with horror stories to a kitchen with a mind of its own, these five stories put the weird back in weird fiction.

When Carstone visits his old friend, Brendan, one night, he is intrigued by the empty house next door, which is said to be haunted. Despite his host telling him many of the spooky tales that surround the old house, he accepts a dare to spend the night at The Gables, but his bravado soon falters....

Combinando a sensibilidade gótica do século XIX de Edgar Allan Poe com uma visão interna ousada, os contos de Lovecraft prenunciam um século psiquicamente conturbado. Situado em uma paisagem da Nova Inglaterra descrita de modo minucioso e historicamente fundamentada, suas histórias angustiantes exploram o colapso da sanidade sob o peso dos eventos caóticos. O universo de Lovecraft é um mundo de sombras onde a realidade e o pesadelo se entrelaçam e a redenção ninguém sabe de onde vem.

A man who terrifies women for fun, a would-be mystery writer stalking his unscrupulous editors, an old man fantasizing about shooting his neighbor, Brittany Spears revenging her kidnapping, a wannabe writer actually killing people to work out his plots, madness uniting painters and critics together in a bloodbath, a magical ring revealing a hidden killer, a vampire disguised as the syringe of an old junkie, young communists developing lucid dreaming as an antidote to the class struggle....

Something must be done. Vlad Luxor continues to rule the Timeless Province with a cruel hand, and now he's screaming about Inners and Outers, Others and Us. Then when the meanest boy in school is turned into the stinkiest, weirdest creature ever, Henry, Jo, Apollo, and Pirate Girl are asked to do the impossible. Breaking this spell will force them to go on their most dangerous, frightening adventure yet - through the Wilds, the Forest of Knives, and a lodge in the woods belonging to the most terrible bully of all...Vlad Luxor himself.

Utah can be a weird place, but do you really know just how weird it can be? Find out with this collection of strange tales set in the Beehive State. We're not going to say they're true...but they're true.

"Samyj strannyj nub" - fantasticheskij roman Artema Kamenistogo, pervaja kniga iz cikla "Samyj strannyj nub". Pozabyty vse bylye dogovorennosti o nejtralitete i dazhe druzhbe. Vcherashnie sojuzniki smotrjat drug na druga volkami, i esli by tol'ko smotreli: zvenjat mechi, svistjat strely, gremjat raskaty magicheskogo groma. Vchera eshhe nikomu ne nuzhnyj, pochti ubytochnyj rudnik, stal arenoj ozhestochennyh srazhenij.

When Bethany moves to Windy Falls and into a new house, she doesn't know anything about the weird woman who once lived there or the mysterious cloud that hangs over the gloomy village. Being a born explorer, Bethany seeks the answers to a host of strange events and discovers a magical world in a very unexpected place. She finds a witch in a magical kitchen who teaches her how to cast spells of her own; but is Mrs Etherington-Strange everything she appears to be?

"Bogi Vtorogo Mira" - fantasticheskij roman Artema Kamenistogo, tret'ja kniga iz cikla "Samyj strannyj nub". Vtoroj Mir - virtual'noe prostranstvo bez nerushimyh granic i strogih zakonov. Polnaja svoboda dejstvij v rasplyvchatyh ramkah igrovyh uslovnostej. Plati i naslazhdajsja, a ostal'noe ne tvoja zabota, za vsem prosledjat iskiny poslednego pokolenija. Oni nesposobny oshibat'sja, ih nel'zja podkupit', oni ni na shag ne mogut uklonit'sja ot glavnyh pravil Vtorogo Mira.

"Rab Zapertyh Zemel'" - fantasticheskij roman Artema Kamenistogo, vtoraja kniga iz cikla "Samyj strannyj nub". Telega istorii nashego mira predpochitaet dvigat'sja po pologoj spirali, i, zavershaja vitok, ty ochen' blizko podbiraesh'sja k ego nachalu. Istorija Vtorogo Mira, pohozhe, uprostila svoj put' do kol'ca, vyhoda iz kotorogo ne vidno. Vzjavshis' za posoh maga, ne zhdi, chto ego u tebja nikto ne otnimet.

"Die Sonne schien durch die Nabelschnüre hindurch und warf tausend lange Schatten auf das ewige Grasland. Seit ein paar Wochen waren sie dünn und ausgetrocknet, zuckten nur noch ab und zu. Als würde sterbendes Gewebe aus dem Himmel wachsen und nach der Erde greifen."Sie sind an diesen verlassenen Ort gekommen, weil sie dachten, hier hätten sie genug, um zu überleben. In diesem Niemandsland sind sie allein - da sind nur tausende Nabelschnüre, die aus dem Himmel wachsen und sie am Leben erhalten. Doch die guten Zeiten sind vorbei.

A flesh-eating demon from outer space is loose in a river in the English Roman City. Morgan Le Fay, legendary sorceress and so-called sister of King Arthur of the Britons, breaks through to the 21st century with her dragon Aithusa; her intent is to kill the Welsh because she failed to do so when she was first on earth 1500 years ago. Who do you call when these kinds of disasters happen? Well, it is Danny, Lenny and Me, Investigators of Weird Happenings. Except this time, they may have taken on more than they can successfully resolve. A fantasy to die for.

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the taproom of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. 'The Rival Beauties' is one of the night watchman's most unlikely tales. He narrates the time when his ship came across a giant sea-serpent and they attempted to lure it with them to New York.

"Das ist noch nicht das Ende aller Tage, Jakob, du bist zu voreilig. Der Krieg kann nicht vorbei sein. Vergiss bitte nicht, was du gelernt hast." "Menschen sind böse", flüsterte Jakob in den Hörer. "Menschen sind böse", antwortete die Stimme. Eine Geschichte über den Überlebenskampf einer Familie, die alleine ist, nachdem die Menschheit die Erde verlassen hat.

"Ich hatte davon gehört, dass es hier draußen einsam war. Aber hier waren wirklich nur wir, die Sterne und der Mond. Es war wichtig, was wir hier taten. Wir mussten es tun." Am Ende dieser Nacht wird seine Frau sterben. Das weiß er. Dennoch fährt er mit ihr zum Ort, an dem sie der Tod erwartet. Es ist richtig, das weiß er. Denn der Mond will seine Frau. Der Mond liebt sie.