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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.

India Morgan Phelps –Imp para los amigos– es esquizofrénica. Ya no puede confiar en su propia mente, porque está convencida de que sus recuerdos, de alguna manera, la han traicionado, forzándola a cuestionar su propia identidad. Enfrentándose a sus propias percepciones, Imp debe descubrir la verdad sobre su encuentro con una maligna sirena, o un lobo de­samparado que se le apareció como una joven salvaje, o ninguna de estas cosas, sino algo mucho más extraño… algo que transita por los intersticios de la realidad.

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

Lerne einen Firmenchef kennen, der sich nach der Freiheit eines einfachen Arbeiters sehnt und mit Kürbiskopf Mervyn eine sehr spezielle Besichtigung des Traumlandes unternimmt. Verbringe den Neujahrstag mit zwei Elfen fern ihrer Heimat – mit Nuala, die einst ein Geschenk der Elfenkönigin Titania für den Herrn der Träume war, und Cluracan, dem in Ungnade gefallenen Sendboten des Hofes. Reise mit zwei Bewohnern des Traumlandes in die Wachwelt: denn der Korinther, ein fleischgewordener tödlicher Albtraum, muss seine ehemaligen Sünden korrigieren, und Matthew, der Rabe, nimmt menschliche Form an, um gegen einen alten Feind zu kämpfen. Und der frühere Rabe des Sandman, Aristeas von Marmora, erzählt von seinen Abenteuern. Willkommen im Land der Träume – einem weiten, unkartierten Reich, wo deine wildesten Fantasien Seite an Seite mit deinen schlimmsten Albträumen leben und Wahrheit und Illusion Hand in Hand gehen – oder manchmal auch Klaue in Samthandschuh.