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Bedrohlich ragt die Silhouette des leerstehenden Irrenhauses über Blackstone. An seiner Stelle soll ein modernes Einkaufszentrum entstehen und der Kleinstadt neuen Wohlstand bringen. Doch als die erste Mauer fällt, erwacht das Böse in dem alten Gemäuer wieder zum Leben. Eine dunkle Gestalt schleicht durch die Straßen Blackstones und verteilt geheimnisvolle Geschenke mit einer grauenvollen Vergangenheit... Das exotische Feuerzeug, das sie auf dem sonntäglichen Flohmarkt aufstöbert, scheint Rebecca Morrison genau das richtige Willkommensgeschenk für ihre Cousine Andrea zu sein.

Every parent's nightmare becomes a reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom during the night. The police suspect that the girl is just another moody teenage runaway, angry over leaving behind her school and friends because her family is moving. But Lindsay's recent eerie claim - that someone invaded her room when the house was opened to prospective buyers - drives Kara to fear the worst.

A terrible deed from the past threatens to overtake the life of a young man only recently rescued from the claws of death… In one fateful moment, in the split second it takes to move from normalcy to tragedy, nearly everything that Alex Lonsdale holds dear was ripped from him. But when a doctor is able to bring him back from the very brink of death, he is considered a medical miracle - those who love him rejoice. But when they look closely into Alex’s eyes, there is something missing there.

When 21-year-old NYU student Jeff Converse is convicted of a brutal rape and murder that he did not commit, his nightmare has just begun. Jeff is just the latest innocent man to be made a target of the society that controls the underground hell called the Manhattan Hunt Club.

Just as their troubled marriage is reaching the breaking point, Ted and Janet Conway inherit a home that has been in the family for more than a century. Eager to make a new beginning, the Conways and their three children head for the promise of a better life in the small Louisiana town of St. Albans. But within the long-abandoned, sprawling Victorian manse lies the dark history of the Conway name.

John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death—and hell-bent on revenge. For five years Seattle journalist Anne...

Bedrohlich ragt die Silhouette des leerstehenden Irrenhauses über Blackstone. An seiner Stelle soll ein modernes Einkaufszentrum entstehen und der Kleinstadt neuen Wohlstand bringen. Doch als die erste Mauer fällt, erwacht das Böse in dem alten Gemäuer wieder zum Leben. Eine dunkle Gestalt schleicht durch die Straßen Blackstones und verteilt geheimnisvolle Geschenke mit einer grauenvollen Vergangenheit... Ein Unbekannter hinterlässt ein geheimnisvolles Päckchen vor Harvey Conallys Tür.

Bedrohlich ragt die Silhouette des leerstehenden Irrenhauses über Blackstone. An seiner Stelle soll ein modernes Einkaufszentrum entstehen und der Kleinstadt neuen Wohlstand bringen. Doch als die erste Mauer fällt, erwacht das Böse in dem alten Gemäuer wieder zum Leben. Eine dunkle Gestalt schleicht durch die Straßen Blackstones und verteilt geheimnisvolle Geschenke mit einer grauenvollen Vergangenheit... Als der Anwalt Ed Becker in einem alten Schrank aus der Anstalt ein Stereoskop entdeckt, ist seine Tochter Amy ganz begeistert.

Bedrohlich ragt die Silhouette des leerstehenden Irrenhauses über Blackstone. An seiner Stelle soll ein modernes Einkaufszentrum entstehen und der Kleinstadt neuen Wohlstand bringen. Doch als die erste Mauer fällt, erwacht das Böse in dem alten Gemäuer wieder zum Leben. Eine dunkle Gestalt schleicht durch die Straßen Blackstones und verteilt geheimnisvolle Geschenke mit einer grauenvollen Vergangenheit... Auf der Suche nach alten Anstaltsunterlagen stößt Oliver Metcalf auf ein wunderschönes, handgenähtes Taschentuch.

Bedrohlich ragt die Silhouette des leerstehenden Irrenhauses über Blackstone. An seiner Stelle soll ein modernes Einkaufszentrum entstehen und der Kleinstadt neuen Wohlstand bringen. Doch als die erste Mauer fällt, erwacht das Böse in dem alten Gemäuer wieder zum Leben. Eine dunkle Gestalt schleicht durch die Straßen Blackstones und verteilt geheimnisvolle Geschenke mit einer grauenvollen Vergangenheit.

Bedrohlich ragt die Silhouette des leerstehenden Irrenhauses über Blackstone. An seiner Stelle soll ein modernes Einkaufszentrum entstehen und der Kleinstadt neuen Wohlstand bringen. Doch als die erste Mauer fällt, erwacht das Böse in dem alten Gemäuer wieder zum Leben. Eine dunkle Gestalt schleicht durch die Straßen Blackstones und verteilt geheimnisvolle Geschenke mit einer grauenvollen Vergangenheit... Der angesehene und besonnene Bankdirektor Jules Hartwick führt seit Jahren eine glückliche Ehe.

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a...

Caroline Evans, a recently widowed mother of two, thinks things have finally fallen into place when she meets the charismatic Anthony Fleming. They are quickly married, and she and her two children move into his luxury apartment in the legendary Rockwell on Central Park West. Caroline dismisses the oddities of their new neighbors as pleasant eccentricities - until things begin to change.

Karen Spellman is leaving Los Angeles behind, packing up her life and her daughters, and returning to her hometown to marry her high school sweetheart. In the countryside of her childhood, she is looking forward to a fresh start. But her life quickly turns dark and a malevolent force beyond her control threatens to take her daughters from her and ruin her dreams of a new life. Little does anyone know that an evil thought to be long dead has only been lying in wait, quietly anticipating the day when it will finally be able to satisfy its vengeful desires.

Another terrifying, classic horror novel from best-selling author John Saul. An insidious madman haunts the peaceful town of Borrego, New Mexico. His goal is singular, as is the focus of his hate and rage. The teenagers of the town seem to have gone too far, and now he will strike back - while they sleep and even during their waking hours - and silence them forever.

Amanda: A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came - taunting, teasing - until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea. Michelle: Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends...until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists - the hand of a blind child. She is asking for friendship...and seeking revenge.

Thirteen-year-old Angel Sullivan falls in love with her family's new home - the house that stands at Black Creek Crossing in the small town of Roundtree, Massachusetts. But the idyll is soon shattered as Angel learns a shocking secret about the house.

The House: Lush and deceptively tranquil, with its pristine beaches and blossoming vegetation, the island basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina coast. Here, where sudden storms unleash the murderous rage of wind and sea, stands the Devereaux mansion, a once-great plantation house now crumbling amid ancient oaks dripping with Spanish moss. Here, Marguerite Devereaux, fifty and childless, has cast off her dreams to care for her aged, demanding mother.

Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts....something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent's darkest fears. Something unexplained that is taking the children, one by one. An entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next child to be taken. They all know there must be a reason for the terror, but no one ever expected...The God Project.

Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth. But his sister is haunted by fearful visions. And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways, the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople, only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark's Harbor and some supernatural force?