Alabama, 1960. Alors que Dean Howell fait ses classes avant d’être envoyé au Vietnam, un accident sur le champ de tir le laisse dans un état végétatif. Sa femme Sarah voit sa vie déjà morne devenir une agonie sans fin : après d’harassantes journées à l’usine, elle doit laver et nourrir son mari léthargique, tout en supportant son odieuse belle-mère, Jo, qui accuse la ville entière du sort de son fils. Lorsqu’elle offre une étrange amulette à l'homme qu'elle tient pour responsable, se met en branle une implacable danse macabre. Et tandis que les meurtres inexplicables et les morts accidentelles s’enchaînent à un rythme diabolique, Sarah doit faire face à l’impossible réalité : cette amulette joue peut-être un rôle central dans cette hécatombe et elle doit à tout prix mettre la main dessus.

When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Halfmoon Hunt will soon follow. Whoever is able to kill the hala will earn fame and riches, and unlock an ancient magical secret. If Margaret wins the hunt, it may finally bring her mother home. While Margaret is the best sharpshooter in town, only teams of two can register, and she needs an alchemist. Weston Winters isn’t an alchemist--yet. Fired from every apprenticeship he's landed, his last chance hinges on Master Welty taking him in. But when Wes arrives at Welty Manor, he finds only Margaret and her bloodhound Trouble. Margaret begrudgingly allows him to stay, but on one condition: he must join the hunt with her. Although they make an unlikely team, Wes is in awe of the girl who has endured alone on the outskirts of a town that doesn’t want her, in this creaking house of ghosts and sorrow. And even though Wes disrupts every aspect of her life, Margaret is drawn to him. He, too, knows what it's like to be an outsider. As the hunt looms closer and tensions rise, Margaret and Wes uncover dark magic that could be the key to winning the hunt - if they survive that long.

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

Six autrices des plus singulières de la littérature française contemporaine s'en vont explorer l'étrange. Six expéditions qui bousculent et métamorphosent le réel pour s'en émanciper. Six voyages à travers l'envoûtement du féminin, de la nature et de la création. Six immersions dans les mystères du monde et de l'intime. Six aventures épousant les reflets profonds de l'ombre. Six expériences comme autant d'incantations pour l'obscurité, la sorcellerie et la littérature. Ce morceau de nuit qui a toujours une longueur d'avance. Fictions inédites de Caroline Audibert, Marie Cosnay, Bérengère Cournut, Clara Dupuis-Morency, Hélène Frappat, Karin Serres accompagnées par les paysages décomposés de l’artiste lillois Jérôme Minard.

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, Juliette seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. But as they delve further into their grief, both uncover more than they set out to. Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror.

'He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration ... doomed to perish in tortures the most severe' Shocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His internal battle leads to sexual obsession, rape and murder, yet this book also contains knowing parody of its own excesses as well as social comedy. Written by Matthew Lewis when he was only nineteen, it was a ground-breaking novel in the Gothic Horror genre and spawned hundreds of imitators, drawn in by its mixture of bloodshed, sex and scandal.

Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean treasures of Eblis. Underlying the elegant prose is a strong element of self-indulgent personal fantasy on the part of Beckford, youthful millionaire, dreamer, and eventually social outcast. Byron, Poe, Mallarmé, and Swinburne are some of the literary figures who have admired Vathek's imaginative power.

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching View our feature on George Orwell s 1984 Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality This beautiful paperback edition features deckled edges and french flaps a perfect gift for any occasion Alternate cover edition can be found here.

Servir le royaume qu’importe le prix, qu’importe le moyen. Bien au Nord, sur le royaume de Cnàimh, les Dieux, les Anciens et le Os veillent. Le souvenir du roi Teodor dit le Boucher hante toujours ses habitants. Pour survivre aux hivers glacials du dieu Wyrn, ces terres doivent rétablir les alliances défaites sous la lame des conquêtes du feu dirigeant sanguinaire. Nayla appartient au sang sombre, la chamane l’a désignée ainsi lors de son rituel de passage. Corbeau, elle devra devenir. Elle doit rejoindre cet ordre de femmes pour devenir les yeux et les oreilles du roi des Os, Ingvar le Juste. Guidée par la Reine des Corbeaux, Frihër Agn, Nayla devient Nå, son héritière.