Caitlín R. Kiernan

La Joven Ahogada mereció los premios BramStoker y James Tiptree Jr. del año 2012 La Joven Ahogada presenta todos esos elementos de la prosa de Caitlín R. Kiernan que sus lectores esperan: un estilo

En una época legendaria, el poderoso guerrero Beowulf lucha contra el maléfico Grendel, un ser nauseabundo que asola las tierras del corrupto rey Hrogarth. De este modo, Beowulf incurre en la ira de la diabolica y seductora madre del monstruo. Su epico enfrentamiento forjara la leyenda del heroe. Este libro se puede considerar como la version "para todos los publicos" de uno de los textos altomedievales mas emblematicos de la tradicion europea.

They are twentysomething misfits...society's castoffs...urban strays looking for thrill. Something cheap, anything to get them through the night. Only their music is different. Sleepwalking on caffeine, nicotine, and drugs, they wait out the dawn in death-rock clubs and shadowy back alleys.

A FEAST OF TERROR In the second volume of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series, S.T. Joshi the worlds foremost Lovecraft scholarhas assembled eighteen more brand-new and imaginative horror tales, inspired by the twentieth centurys greatest writer of the supernatural, H. P. Lovecraft. Leading contemporary horror authors, including John Shirley, Tom Fletcher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jonathan Thomas, Nick Mamatas, Richard Gavin, Melanie Tem, John Langan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Don Webb, Darrell Schweitzer, Nicholas Royle, Steve Rasnic Tem, Brian Evenson, Rick Dakan, Donald Tyson, Jason V. Brock, and Chet Williamson, will draw upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of the master of the genre to deliver a rich feast of terror.

The ultimate resource to looking your best during and after cancer treatment, from a veteran beauty industry insider. Like many women who receive the shattering diagnosis of cancer, Caitlin Kiernan was concerned about her health and her future, but also about how the treatment would affect how she felt and looked - would she lose her hair? Would she lose her nails? How would she look after a double mastectomy?But unlike other women who battle cancer, Kiernan has spent her entire career as a beauty editor, beauty director (most recently for Life & Style Weekly), and now beauty producer. As someone who works in the public eye and in the fashion industry, Kiernan had to quickly learn how to look her best even when she was feeling her worst. So she called on her list of extensive contacts and beauty insiders - from hair professionals to top medical doctors (at institutions like Memorial Sloan Kettering and Mt Sinai Hospital) to style mavens and even celebrities (including Wendy Williams and Hoda Kotb) - to gather the best and most useful beauty tips for cancer treatment.The result is Pretty Sick: the ultimate guide to beauty during (and after) cancer treatment, covering skin care, hair care (and wig shopping), nail care, makeup, an explanation of breast cancer surgical options, style advice for life post mastectomy, and much, much more. Illustrated with charming line drawings and peppered with advice from celebrities and cancer survivors, Pretty Sick will be a welcome and trusted resource during treatment, helping women to look their best even when they dont feel their best.

A complex, haunting novel that explores a schizophrenic young artists struggles with her perception of reality including an intriguing ghostly woman who appears to her in the most mysterious ways. India Morgan PhelpsImp to her friendsis 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, its 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 Imps obsession with a mysterious woman whom she finds naked and mute at the side of the road. Imp must push past her mental illnessor work with itto 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 womans efforts to discover the truth thats locked away in her own head. Caitlin R. Kiernan moves firmly into the new vanguard [] of our best and most artful authors of the gothic and fantasticthose capable of writing fiction of deep moral and artistic seriousness.Peter Straub

Several years after the events in Threshold, Chance and Deacon have married. Theyre looking ahead to the future, trying to put the past behind them. But new nightmares await them as a woman with a need for violence enters their lives. And something even worse has followed her...

To the residents of her small southern city, second-hand store owner Spyder Baxter is crazy. But her friends and followers know better. Something lives within Spders brain. Something powerful. Something wonderful. Something dangerous. Pray it never escapes.

Niki Ky spends her days in a medicated haze, haunted by the ghosts of those she left behind ten years ago after a confrontation against an unspeakable evil that left her shattered. To find peace, Niki must return to the house on the side of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama-to face creatures no human should ever have to face...

A strange girl speaks of being charged by an angel to battle monsters and claims she cannot do it alone. She needs Chances help.Chance Matthews has suffered enough tragedies. The latesther grandfathers deathhas left her shaken, convinced that she will always be alone. What she needs now is timetime to recover, time to determine what her future will be. What she doesnt need is a strange girl with alabaster skin who knows things about Chance she cant possibly know.Chance doesnt believe in angels. Or monsters. But among the artifacts left by her geologist grandparents, there lies a fossil of a creature that couldnt possibly have ever existed.But it did. And still does

Siobhan Quinn is back and working a new case in the dark and satirical sequel to Blood Oranges.Half-vampire, half-werewolf Siobhan Quinn survived her initiation into the world of demons and monsters. But staying alive as she becomes entangled in underworld politics might prove to be more difficult. When the daughter of a prominent necromancer vanishes, its up to Quinn to find the girl. But her search will land her directly in the middle of a struggle between competing forces searching for an ancient artifact of almost unimaginable power...

Theyre known as the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and raised by ghouls, the changelings serve the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly forbidden and punishment is swift and severe for those who disobey. Eight years ago, Emmie Silvey was born on Halloween while a full moon rose in the sky. Raised in Providence by her widower father, shes a strange, yellow-eyed girl, plagued with visions of impossible worlds and fabulous beings. Now her path is about to intersect with one of the changelings, a violent young woman named Soldier whos quickly slipping from the favor of her ghoul masters. Inextricably linked, together they must face the monsters and unearthly forces that have shaped their lives and threaten their futures.

Dancy Flammarion possesses a savvy awareness and a keen knife for the monsters that lurk in the shadows. She does the bidding of an unholy host, a legion of dark gods guiding her across Americas southern wilds. And a blackbirds grim tales of her battles could be his only salvation from becoming dinner for a boxcar full of beastly hoboes. Collects Alabaster: Boxcar Tales #1#13 from Dark Horse Presents."Caitlin R. Kiernan is the poet and the bard of the wasted and the lost."Neil Gaiman

Dancy Flammarion may look like a frail teenage girl, but her journey through the swamps and byways of the American South brings her into battle with werewolves, monsters, and grotesque secrets, armed only with a knife and a mission to destroy the deadly creatures that lurk in shadow. Collects the five-issue miniseries. "Its gentle and horrific and apocalyptic all at once. Good writing. Good pencil and ink work. Good colors. Thats a good comic."Comics Alliance

An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched back roads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. * Caitlin R. Kiernan is an International Horror Guild Awardwinning author! * A complete collection of the Alabaster prose short stories. "Caitlin R. Kiernan is the poet and the bard of the wasted and the lost."Neil Gaiman

Meet Siobhan QuinnHalf vampire, half werewolf, and retired monster hunter. Or so she thoughtThree years have passed since Quinn turned her back on Providence, Rhode Islands seedy supernatural underbelly, walking out on Mr. B. and taking a bus headed anywhere. She hoped her escape would give her some peace from the endless parade of horrors. But a dead girl who quarrels with the moon cant catch a break, and, on the streets of Manhattan, Quinn finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place. Again.What do you do when youre stuck in the middle of a three-million-year-old grudge match between the ghouls and the djinn, accidentally in possession of a hellish artifact that could turn the tide of the war, all the while being hunted by depraved half-ghoul twins intent on taking the object and ushering in a terrifying Dark Age?Especially when youve fallen in love with the woman who got you into this messand you aint nobodys hero

My names Quinn.If you buy into my reputation, Im the most notorious demon hunter in New England. But rumors of my badassery have been slightly exaggerated. Instead of having kung-fu skills and a closet full of medieval weapons, Im an ex-junkie with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time. Or the right place at the wrong time. Orwhatever.Wanted for crimes against inhumanity I (mostly) didnt commit, I was nearly a midnight snack for a werewolf until I was saved by a vampire calling itself the Bride of Quiet. Already cursed by a werewolf bite, the vamp took a pint out of me too.So nownow, well, you wouldnt think it could get worse, but youd be dead wrong.

En una calurosa mañana un agente especial del gobierno llega a Winslow, Arizona, y se reúne con una mujer para intercambiar información sobre un suceso inexplicable que ha ocurrido unos días antes.En un rancho cerca del mar de Salton el lider de un culto ofrece a sus seguidores algo en lo que creer: el futuro se aproxima y ellos van a participar en su llegada.Un dia despues de los acontecimientos en el rancho que inquietaron tanto al agente del gobierno como para buscar ayuda de "otras" fuentes, el Laboratorio de Fisica Aplicada de la Universidad Johns Hopkins pierde contacto subitamente con una sonda interplanetaria de la NASA, que ha encontrado algo extraño mas alla de la orbita de Pluton. Y una mujer que flota fuera del tiempo busca en el futuro y en el pasado respuestas que puedan salvar a la humanidad.

La Muerte es bella, atractiva, irresistible... Sólo hay que jugar con ella, no es tan fácil de manejar.

En una calurosa mañana un agente especial del gobierno llega a Winslow, Arizona, y se reúne con una mujer para intercambiar información sobre un suceso inexplicable que ha ocurrido unos días antes. E