Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z najbardziej interesującymi bestsellerami z kategorii fantastyka i horror. Oto najciekawsi autorzy, najlepszych bestsellerów z literatury fantastycznej i horroru: Stephen King, Harlan Coben, Herbert George Wells, Brandon Sanderson, Wojciech Siudmak, Siri Pettersen,
J.R.R. Tolkien, Anna Karnicka, Andrzej Sapkowski i wiele innych. Zapraszamy do mrożącej krew w żyłach literatury.
Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger, better than everyone around him.
He knows drawing attention to himself could be dangerous but lately it's difficult to stay in the shadows. A dark secret is lurking in Smallville and he's not the only one hiding something.
With his best friend, Lana Lang, at his side, Clark is determined to discover what evil lies below the surface of their small town. But there are secrets in Clark's past that threaten to destroy the future Man of Steel.
Before he can save the world, he must save Smallville.
A wanderer and a cursed child.
Spells and magic.
And dragons, of course.
Welcome back to the world of Alagaësia.
It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaësia in search of the perfect home to train a new generation of Dragon Riders. Now he is struggling with an endless sea of tasks: constructing a vast dragonhold, wrangling with suppliers, guarding dragon eggs and dealing with belligerent Urgals and haughty elves. Then a vision from the Eldunarí, unexpected visitors and an exciting Urgal legend offer a much-needed distraction and a new perspective.
This volume features three original stories set in Alagaësia, interspersed with scenes from Eragon's own unfolding adventure. Included is an excerpt from the memoir of the unforgettable witch and fortune-teller Angela the herbalist, penned by Angela Paolini, the inspiration for the character, herself!
Relish the incomparable imagination of Christopher Paolini in this thrilling new collection of stories based in the world of the Inheritance Cycle.
When Princess Irene and her nursemaid stay out too late one night and are chased home by goblins, a young miner boy called Curdie comes to their rescue. So begins a fantastic adventure in which Irene and Curdie must try to stop a goblin invasion, helped by Irene's mysterious great-great-grandmother. This much-loved tale was a personal favourite of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. This edition includes the sequel, The Princess and Curdie.
Tajemnicza paczka musi zostać dostarczona z jednego wybrzeża na drugie.
Tę drogę mogą pokonać tylko prawdziwi twardziele lub ludzie chorzy na
umyśle. UnderHogs to gang chorych na umyśle twardzieli, który podejmuje
się misji. VVendy! WizRad! Monkey Suit!
Ty! Przygotuj się na przygodę pełną przemocy i przyjaźni!
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the UnderHogs to jazda bez trzymanki w świecie, który na każdym kroku
zaskakuje. Łukasz Kowalczuk - odpowiedzialny za zarys historii - dał
upust swojej wyobraźni, a Henryk - twórca rysunków i współtwórca
scenariusza - płynnie opowiedział historię samymi obrazami. To wyborna
rozrywkowa opowieść całymi garściami czerpiąca z kultury szlamowej.
The Wonderful World of the Wizard of Oz, which the the Library of Congress named as 'America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale', is one of the great works of children's literature.
The story concerns Dorothy, a young girl from Kansas, who, with her little dog Toto, is caught up in a terrifying tornado, which whisks her far away to the magical land of Oz. Here she encounters the Munchkins, strange small creatures, who tell her that in order for her to return home she must follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and seek out the mysterious Wizard of Oz. On the journey she encounters the Tin Woodman, the brainless Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion, each of whom wish to make a request of the Wizard. After several adventures, including an encounter with a deadly poppy field and being chased by winged monkeys, the travellers reach the Emerald City. The story rolls along at a tremendous pace in clear and engaging prose, which has helped the novel to become a perennial favourite with children. The appeal of the kaleidoscopic world of the land of Oz with all its incredible and fantastic elements and characters has great appeal to the unfettered mind of the young – and indeed those grown-ups who still retain a romantic imagination.
He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...’
Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni.
A contemporary review commented on, ‘Radcliffe’s uncommon talent for exhibiting, with picturesque touches of genius, the vague and horrid shapes which imagination bodies forth...’
Radcliffe’s work was hugely influential and H.P. Lovecraft, early twentieth century master of the uncanny, was impressed by the, ‘eerie touch of setting and action contributing artistically to the impression of illimitable frightfulness which she wished to convey.’
The novel remains a fascinating, engrossing and unnerving masterpiece of gothic fiction.
In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. The great M.R. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.
‘The worst parts were the great masses of flesh of the monstrous Worm, in all its red and sickening aspect… The sight was horrible enough, but, with the awful smell added, was simply unbearable. The Worm's hole appeared to breathe forth death in its most repulsive forms.’
Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, together in one volume for the first time. It is a double treat for lovers of blood-curdling fantasy fiction.
The Lady of the Shroud, published here in its full and unabridged form, is a fascinating and engrossing concoction of a vampire tale, Ruritanian adventure story and science fiction romance. The novel fully demonstrates the breadth and ingenuity of Stoker's imagination.
The spine-chilling The Lair of the White Worm features a monstrous worm secreted for thousands of years in a bottomless well and able to metamorphose into a seductive woman of a reptilian beauty who survives on her victim's life blood. The novel contains some of Stoker's most graphic and grisly moments of horror.
'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.
With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it?
This collection has been called the most important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a pioneer psychologist.
These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's most accomplished work, which rises above the staid conventions of the age. Although drawing on Gothic conventions - the book features both ghosts and vampires - Le Fanu redefined the parameters of supernatural fiction. He had little interest in the crude depiction of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a pleasurable frisson of fear. Le Fanu concern rather lay in the examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche of his protagonist, in this he paved the way for the work of Henry James and M. R. James.
Included is 'Carmilla', a classic vampire story, pre-dating (but heavily influencing) 'Dracula' by 26 years and establishing many of the traditional facets of the female vampire.
This volume is an indispensable cornerstone of modern horror and remains one of the finest collections of unsettling fiction in the language.
From "The Crystal Egg": There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of "C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities," was inscribed. The contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one human, several moth-eaten stuffed monkeys (one holding a lamp), an old-fashioned cabinet, a flyblown ostrich egg or so, some fishing-tackle, and an extraordinarily dirty, empty glass fish tank. There was also, at the moment the story begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of an egg and brilliantly polished.
The clergyman, without any ceremony, asked the price of the crystal egg.
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It.
From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the fire to reveal a benevolent, resourceful and ingenious Phoenix who explains that the carpet is possessed of magic qualities.
And so begins a series of fantastic and bizarre adventures as the carpet transports the children and the Phoenix to places as diverse as a chilling French castle, a desert island and even the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company's offices, which the Phoenix believes to be a shrine for his followers.
At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sleepy county of Kent a miracle food brings biological chaos that engulfs and threatens the entire planet. H. G. Wells's fertile and mercurial imagination never brought us more bizarre and unsettling stories than those revealed in The Invisible Man (1897) and The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (1904). These are stories of extraordinary physical transformations and are at once extremely funny and richly imaginative. At the same time, Wells poses some very probing questions about the ethical dimensions to science and the human capacity for both pity and cruelty. Brought together for the first time in this new Wordsworth edition, The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods are two of Wells's most entertaining and thought-provoking works.
Trójka licealistów kręci film dokumentalny o bezdomnych. Nieoczekiwanie wpadają na trop miejskiej legendy dotyczącej groźnego psychopaty żyjącego w środowisku dworcowych wyrzutków. Po zmontowaniu filmu przyjaciele umawiają się na obejrzenie materiału. Są zdziwieni, gdy okazuje się, że ktoś jeszcze miał dostęp do ich sprzętu. Osoba ta sfilmowała z bardzo bliska trzech autorów dokumentu. Im dłużej oglądają materiał, tym mniej przypomina on film, którzy sami kręcili.
Znika jeden z chłopców. Wkrótce policja odnajduje jego ciało… Pojawia się za to dziewczyna do złudzenia przypominająca torturowaną ofiarę z filmu. Czy zaginiony licealista padł ofiarą seryjnego mordercy, czy też prawda, którą sam ukrywał, jest dużo bardziej przerażająca? I kim są tajemniczy Dalekowie, pojawiający się coraz częściej w snach i wizjach dziewczyny?
Kraków. W jednym z prowadzonych przez zakonnice domów dziecka dochodzi do morderstwa opiekunek, a w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach znikają wszyscy wychowankowie. Z każdym kolejnym krokiem, który zbliża detektywów do wyjaśnienia sprawy, giną kolejne osoby. W tej precedensowej historii pojawia się coraz więcej znaków zapytania. Jaką tajemnicę skrywała siostra Ezechiela? Kim jest Ewa? Dlaczego wszędzie pojawiają się ćmy?
Połączenie kryminału z pełnym napięcia horrorem to cechy charakteryzujące debiutancką powieść Bartłomieja Fitasa. Szybka akcja i cięty język sprawiają, że powieść wciąga od pierwszej strony.
Powieść z gatunku horroru ekstremalnego.Poznajcie Deana Lohana dziś beznadziejnego mieszczucha i pantoflarza, niegdyś prymitywnego i brutalnego wieśniaka, słynącego z siły w poskramianiu byków i kobiet. Tych drugich również pięścią. Gdy w jego rodzinnej miejscowości dochodzi do serii tajemniczych morderstw, a z życiem żegna się również ojciec Deana, mężczyzna wraca na rancho. Tam odkrywa, że nadprzyrodzone byty istnieją, a walka z bykami nie skończyła się. Musi stawić czoła bestiom, o których istnieniu zapomniano. Demony przeszłości wracają w najmniej oczekiwanym momencie i są silniejsze niż można podejrzewać.
Pośród płomieni zwycięski żołnierz zostanie… generałem. Zmiażdżywszy wrogie siły Kadmów, Aric z Dacji staje na czele całej floty podczas ostatniej bitwy o duszę imperium. Nad Obcą planetą nastanie nowy świt. Jakie zagrożenie przyniesie?
Na drogę do zwycięstwa Arica pada cień. Popularny rysownik Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS) dołącza do scenarzysty z listy bestsellerów New York Timesa, Matta Kindta (DIVINITY, Mind MGMT) i razem tworzą doskonałą, wstrząsającą posadami planety kontynuację jednej z największych serii wydawnictwa Valiant!
Album zawiera materiały opublikowane pierwotnie w X-O Manowar (2017) #4-6.
The Wizarding World journey continues
The powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most of whom are unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore enlists Newt, his former Hogwarts student, who agrees to help once again, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the second screenplay in a five-film series to be written by J.K. Rowling, author of the internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Set in 1927, a few months after the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and moving from New York to London, Paris and even back to Hogwarts, this story of mystery and magic reveals an extraordinary new chapter in the wizarding world. Illustrated with stunning line art from MinaLima with some surprising nods to the Harry Potter stories that will delight fans of both the books and films.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature—they have received prestigious accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike.
Now for the first time ever, they’re all together in one volume—including the early short stories, Le Guin’s “Earthsea Revisioned” Oxford lecture, and a new Earthsea story, never before printed.
With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition will also include fifty illustrations by renowned artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to life in a totally new way.
Utrzymany w klimacie fantasy bajka dla dzieci starszych; jej bohaterem jest Din – młody podróżnik jako rozbitek znalazł się na zapomnianej wyspie zasiedlonej przez dziwne stwory; kiedyś były one ludźmi. Dzięki sprytowi i odwadze Din wszystkie te stworzenia odzyskują ludzką postać i wolność.
Przybysze i gospodarze przyglądali się sobie nawzajem, ale mimo wyczuwalnego dystansu Din posuwał się konsekwentnie do przodu. Chyba trochę się bał, lecz coś trzeba było zrobić z tą nadzwyczaj dziwną sytuacją. Był już o krok od podwyższenia, na którym na stosie kurzych odpadków siedziały potwory, kiedy jeden z nich przemówił do niego w całkowicie zrozumiałym języku i jednocześnie zbliżył do twarzy Dina swój śmieszny nos.
– Jestem Sernik, ten to Piernik – wskazał na fioletową żabę, – a on – tu łypnął chytrze na trzecią paskudę – on jest Marmoladą. A wy kim jesteście, jeśli łaska spytać?
Przysunął swój nochal jeszcze bliżej twarzy Dina i zaczął nerwowo parskać zielonym dymem.
– My? My jesteśmy rozbitkami – wydukał nieśmiało Din i zrozumiał w tym momencie, jak jest mały w stosunku do kolorowych maszkar.
– Rozbitkami? hmm... Z kosmosu? Z odległych galaktyk – pogrążył się w domysłach Sernik. – A z jakiej planety? – zapytał rozdziawiwszy gębę, jakby chciał połknąć ich w całości.
– Z Ziemi – odparł Din zgodnie z prawdą
– tylko z innego lądu, no z innej wyspy, trochę mniejszej, a może większej od tej, na której wy mieszkacie.
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