Showing results by publisher "Audible studios" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Upon a time. Remember the faery stories you were told as a child? Tales of tiny, magical, winged beings and elves, wicked witches and goblins. Demons... What if one day you found they were true? What if, when you became an adult, you discovered they were all based on fact? What if you met the fantasy and it was all so very real? That's what happened to Thom Kindred. The wonders were revealed to him – but so were the horrors; for not far behind the Good, there always lurks the Bad.

The curse that made Lord Hugh of Stasiek the most dangerous man in the empire also destroyed his will to live. He now yearns for nothing more than dissolution, to lose himself in strong wine, reckless gambling, and in the arms of countless beautiful women. Yet when the call comes from the one man he cannot disobey - his elder brother, the duke - he puts aside his dreams of death and rides forth to secure the fate of a seemingly insignificant border town.

J'ai trouvé un nouveau foyer et je suis tombée amoureuse de quatre princes faes maudits. Faire partie des faes est merveilleux, mais aussi complexe : l'un d'eux veut abandonner sa magie ; un autre semble me cacher quelque chose ; deux dont je suis amoureuse doivent trouver une autre compagne ; et je suis toujours tentée par le méchant Prince des épines. Lorsque des rumeurs de guerre se répandent depuis le Royaume du Printemps, nous nous retrouvons sur le fil du rasoir. Aujourd'hui, plus que jamais, je dois aider Ezryn, le Prince du Printemps, à reprendre son trône.

Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the Seven who would undo the world. Venture through Hell and back, and lands more terrestrial and darker still. Linger a while in childhoods, and seasons of change by turns tragic and monstrously transformative. Lose yourself amongst the haunted and those who can't let go, in relationships that might have been and never were. Witness in dreams and reflections, hungers and horrors, the shadows cast upon the wall, and linger in forests deep.

An incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of alien invaders. From stories of aliens in other worlds to those living among us, these tales will move you out of your comfort zone and open you up to experiencing something - or someone - completely different.

The classy dame who walks into fledgling private eye Philemon's office is like Venus in motion and is most definitely a Witch. But dealing with Supernaturals - or "Supes" for short - is Phil's beat, since he himself is a shape-changing Were. And this sexy sorceress is offering him the "friendship of her thighs" to investigate a murder, so how can he possibly refuse? But the Warlock slaying in question turns out to be only the first in a series of homicides, because someone - or something - is picking off Supes like insects.

De cerca todos somos extravagantes, cada ser humano tiene sus propias perverciones y obsesiones. Hematoma es un libro que invita a observar con recelo y cuidado cada centímetro del cuerpo, con sensualidad e incluso morbo sin censura; cada palabra de la historia, el estilo y narrativa de Yael Weiss parten de lo micro a lo macro y a lo largo de esta historia nos absorbe con su visión íntima y provocadora que explora el límite de la cordura. Con este título Weiss se posiciona cómo una de las escritoras fundamentales en las letras mexicanas contemporáneas.

Um meine kleine Familie zu retten, muss ich regelmäßig in den Verbotenen Wald gehen. Als mich eines Tages Nyfain, der unheimliche Prinz unseres Königreiches, im Verbotenen Wald erwischt, bestraft er mich nicht mit dem Tod, obwohl das sein Recht wäre. Stattdessen verschleppt er mich auf sein Schloss. Anscheinend kann ich ihn retten. Ihn und das ganze verdammte Königreich. Aber dafür müsste ich das Biest in ihm zähmen. Und das würde bedeuten, ihm alles von mir zu geben, was er verlangt.

Aliena is a nice person who turns out to be an alien in a human host. She just has things to learn about the human form and society. When her body starts immune-rejecting the alien brain, and the brain has to be replaced by another alien brain, maintaining the semblance of marriage and family becomes a challenge for both Aliena and the man who loves her.

From an alien spy who falls in love with one of the earthlings he's monitoring to a woman whose souvenir dream catcher calls to her bedroom more than she bargained for to a genetically engineered sex object aboard a space station, these thought-provoking tales of alien sex open up new worlds for fantastical exploration.

Multiple award-winners Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together 22 tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent literary conjurers - including Neil Gaiman, Jan Yolen, Michael Swanwick, and Joyce Carol Oates. Here are stories of incubi and succubi, of forbidden fruits harvested in erotic gardens, of pleasures that persist beyond death. So heed the sirens' song. Lie back, relax, and submit to the darkest delights you have ever experienced.