Bentley Little

Una aterradora novela escrita por uno de los autores favoritos de Stephen King.En Juniper, Arizona, nunca ocurre nada extraordinario. Así, el anuncio de la apertura de El Almacén supone una gran novedad. Todo lo que uno pueda querer estara bajo un mismo techo y a un precio increible. Pero conviene tener cuidado con lo que uno quiere... Bill Davis es el unico que es capaz de percibir el mal que bulle en torno a El Almacen. Y entonces empiezan a ocurrir cosas extrañas...

Etwas ist seltsam an dem skurril gekleideten Mann, der CompWare aus der Krise helfen soll und dessen Lacheln nie ganz seine Augen erreicht.Zunachst ist der Unternehmensberater lediglich lastig, doch bald gewinnt er so viel Macht, dass er die Firma zu leiten scheint. Er veranlasst einschneidende Veranderungen und bedroht die Angestellten und ihre Familien.Mitarbeiter, die sich ihm widersetzen, werden gefeuert ... oder schlimmer.Bald merken sie, dass es nicht allein um ihren Arbeitsplatz geht: Sie kampfen um ihr Leben.Der Berater ist ein erstklassiger Thriller mit einem Hang ins Makabre, wie ihn nur Bentley Little bieten kann.

With his novels, Bentley Little has created nothing less than a nightmarishly brilliant tour de force of modern life in America.Publishers Weekly (starred review)In Beverly Hills, a wealthy CEO goes on a bloody rampage and videotapes the slaughter. He leaves behind a chilling cryptic message...This is where it begins. Miles away, an alarmed mother receives an unsettling letter from her estranged husband, stained with bloody fingerprints. And all across California, children are becoming affected by a monstrous changeand their parents, by a mounting fear. Social worker Carrie Daniels and reporter Brian Howells are determined to find the link between these baffling crimes. But they shouldnt look too deeply into the lives of the victims. Its quite dark there. And God help them, they wont like what they find.

Bram Stoker Award-winning horror author Bentley Little proves why you should never go home again in this terrifying novel.Welcome to McGuane, Arizona. Population: 200...199...198...197... Gregory Tomasov has returned with his family to the quaint Arizona community of his youth. In McGuane, the air is clean, the land is unspoiled. Nothing much has changed. Except now, no one goes out after dark. And no one told Gregory that he shouldnt have moved into the old abandoned farm on the edge of town. Once upon a time something bad happened there. Something thats now buried in its walls. Something now reborn in the nightmares of Gregorys young son. Something about to be unleashed.

Master of the macabre* Bentley Little is back with an irresistible invitation...Welcome to The Resort. The Reata is an exclusive spa isolated in the Arizona deserta perfect getaway from the city for people like Lowell Thurman and his family, booked for a relaxing five-day retreat. But what unfolds is anything but tranquil...unnerving encounters with strange employees, wild parties in empty rooms, something unspeakable in the pool. Then one by one, guests begin disappearing. The Thurmans are afraidbecause out in the middle of nowhere, with no escape, and no one to hear them scream, theyre left with only one terrifying choice: unlock the dark secrets of The Reata themselves before the real carnage begins.*Stephen King

Master of the macabre Bentley Little offers a new lesson in fear with this terrifying horror novel.With a promise of more freedom and a chance to get out from under the thumb of a reactionary school board, the teachers of Tyler High have voted to become a charter school. Instructors and parents alike are thrilled with the prospect of independence. And yet.... The formerly laid-back principal has become unusually strict. And with her toadying secretary, she seems to be running the show. That isnt all. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things are happening on school grounds that defy rational explanation. But there is an explanation. Its just not anything that anyone can begin to believeor hope to survive.

Bentley Little is a master of horror on par with Koontz and King....The Return is so powerful that readers will keep the lights on day and night.Midwest Book Review Springerville is famous for the legend of the Mogollon Monster. Of course nobody really believes it. Its just a good campfire story, something to attract gullible touristsuntil an excavation team unearths the figurine of a screaming woman, the jawbone of a deformed animal, and a childs toy. How odd that they were buried together. Odd, too, is the foul odor lingering in the air, the strange noises at night, and the mans face found hanging from a tree. Now the locals are locking their doors. Because after sundown, campfire stories can seem very, very real.

With his ability to disgust (and delight) even the most seasoned horror enthusiast (Publishers Weekly), Bentley Little conjures up your greatest fears as he dares you to spend a night with the haunted....Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their citys historic district. But something isnt right.The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire cant shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what hes seen in the corner of the basement, staring at him and shuffling closer ever so slowly. Pity no one warned the family about the house. Now its too late. Because the darkness at the bottom of the stairs is rising....

The perfect getaway turns into a nightmare when a girl vanishes without a trace in this horror novel that could only have come from the mind of Bram Stoker Award-winning author Bentley Little.Gary, his girlfriend, Joan, and their friends intend to make the most of their three day vacation from UCLA partying at Burning Man. But soon after they arrive at the festival in the remote desert, Joan disappears. Calls to her parents home yield only dead air. Her school records are gone. And theres no evidence that Joan, or even her roommate, ever existed. Most disturbing of all is what they do find. Among Joans belongings is a prayer written on a small scroll. Its a safeguardand a warningfrom something called The Outsiders. For Gary and his friends its the only clue. Now, if they want to find out exactly what happened to Joan, they must follow it. But they may not like what they uncover....

Five strangers from across America are about to open the door to an unspeakable evil in this horror novel from master of the macabre!* Bentley Little.They share a dark bond. A haunted childhood. A shocking secret. A memory of the houses they lived ineach one eerily identical to the next. From the remote foothills of the west to the green lawns of suburbia, they are returningto the past, to the unspeakable events they long to forget...to the house.Now, their journeys are about to converge in a terrifying challenge to confront their nightmaresor be trapped inside them forever....*Stephen King

On a par with such greats as Stephen King, Clive Barker and Peter Straub (Midwest Book Review), Bentley Little brings his unnerving talents to the terrifying story of a dysfunctional family in crisis.Steve Nye writes for an alumni magazine and his long-term relationship is on the steady path to marriage. But his quiet life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a phone call from his mother. His father attacked her and has been committed to a mental asylum. The doctor says hes suffering from dementia. But Steves father seems so calm, clear-eyed, and perfectly lucid when he whispers, I killed her Is it simply another symptom of delusion and madness? To find the answer, Steve investigates the cryptic message leading him down a terrifying path of his own makingand of his own nightmares....

If theres a better horror novelist than Bentley Little working today, I dont know who it is. The Store is...frightening. The perfect summer read.Los Angeles Times Juniper, Arizona, is an off-the-map desert town the retail giant called The Store has chosen for its new location. Now everything you could possibly want is under one roof, at unbelievable prices. But youd better be careful what you wish for. This place demands something of its customers that goes beyond brand loyalty. At The Store, one-stop shopping has become last-stop shopping. Bill Davis is the only one in town who senses the evil lurking within The Store. But he cant stop his two teenage daughters from taking jobs there and falling under the frightening influence of its sadistic manager. When Bill finally takes a stand, he will get much more than he bargained for....