John Farris

A sus catorce años, Alex Gambier ya ha visto su vida marcada por la tragedia. Marginado por su propia familia, mudo desde muy temprana edad por un brote de difteria, Alex se expresa escribiendo historias cargadas de imaginacion y llevando a cabo temeridades con las que probar sus recursos fisicos. Una de sus escalofriantes hazañas termina con Alex al cuidado de una joven enfermera negra llamada Mally Shaw. Entre ambos surgira una insolita amistad, que concluye cuando ella se convierte en la victima de un crimen atroz. La fuerza del vinculo psicologico entre ambos mantiene a Mally en el inframundo, a la espera de la venganza. Pero ¿puede Alex pagar el precio?

Parce qu''il refuse de croire que son fils Robin s''est noyé lors de l''un de ses séjours dans un institut spécialisé d''une agence gouvernementale ultrasecrète, Peter Sandza va devenir l''homme à ab

John Farris es un autor veterano y venerado por el resto de escritores como una referencia de su trabajo. Entre sus últimos novelas se encuentran Noches fantasma o Elvisland, que aún hoy, tras más de cuarenta años como escritor, lo confirman como uno de los gigantes del terror psicologico contemporaneo, en palabras de Peter Straub. A sus catorce años, Alex Gambier ya ha visto su vida marcada por la tragedia. Marginado por su propia familia, mudo desde muy temprana edad por un brote de difteria, Alex se expresa escribiendo historias cargadas de imaginacion y llevando a cabo temeridades con las que probar sus recursos fisicos. Una de sus escalofriantes hazañas termina con Alex al cuidado de una joven enfermera negra llamada Mally Shaw. Entre ambos surgira una insolita amistad, que concluye cuando ella se convierte en la victima de un crimen atroz. La fuerza del vinculo psicologico entre ambos mantiene a Mally en el inframundo, a la espera de la venganza. Pero ¿puede Alex pagar el precio? Una voragine de suspense, terror y emocion, pero tambien ficcion con trasfondo y sustancia: fenomenal, un Farris de primera Dean Koontz John Farris ha elevado el genero del terror al reino de la literatura Richard Matheson Noches fantasma mezcla personajes perfectamente trazados con una reconstruccion brillante de la era de Eisenhower Book Sense Una insolita mezcla de ternura y carnaza. Farris sigue siendo uno de los mas certeramente sorprendentes escritores de terror de su generacion Publishers Weekly La narrativa elegante y el estilo de Farris son lo que importa aqui. Noches fantasma es otro libro ganador de un escritor legendario Fangoria &

Previously published as "The Uninvited"Her love is a hunger, an obsession...Beautiful eighteen-year-old Barry Brennan couldnt forget. A year ago, Ned Kramer, her fiance, had died in a hunting accident. Her grief threatened to overwhelm her - until the night her car careened off an icy country road to strike a handsome stranger.Naked, helpless, he seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Stripped of speech and memory, his recovery would begin only when Barry roused him from his coma, took him home to her family, and urged him to recall his name. She would be bound to him by a love deeper, more compelling, than any she had ever known. Then the truth would pour out in a rain of blood... and terror.She has opened the door to something...UNEARTHLY

Whitman Bowers has come to survey what was once the Langford estate, but is quickly drawn into the web of fear that surrounds the mountain. His old Army buddy Arn seems insane; claiming that the gloomy, thickly forested slopes of Wildwood conceal twisted creatures more beast than man -- until he displays the trophies that prove it. Arns beautiful Indian wife Faren worships a snake god from before the coming of the white man, a god she sees returning to cleanse Wildwood of the white mans evil.Whit feels the mountain summoning him, drawing him toward horror and death. He is the focus for the evil that has been gathering strength since Mad Edgar Langford destroyed time and space and turned Wildwood into a mountain of terror from which there is no escape.

It happened quickly. Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area found itself in the horrifying grip of a werewolf epidemic. Twenty-eight days of the month, those who change are no different from those who have managed to stay uninfectedthe normals, the High Bloods. But every full moon, they become the most ravenous creatures mankind has ever seen.A new law-enforcement agency keeps tabs on those whose blood runs Lycan. Rawson is a agent for Lycan Control, making sure all the afflicted are found, monitored, and kept locked up the night they change. But the Lycans in Hollywood have risen to cultlike proportions, and Rawsons job is getting tougher.One night a woman changes right in front of Rawson. And its not a full moon. Someone deep in the bowels of Hollywood has managed to rewrite the rules of the werewolves existence. Battling a rising tide of Lycan-rights activists and a growing population of those who choose to become Lycan, Rawson must carve a path to the top of the Lycan food chain before all hell breaks loose.

Shay Waco is a stuntwoman on her way home with her eleven-year-old daughter when a semi sends her car over an embankment. The two must jump nearly sixty feet, and crash through a nest of conifers, in order to escape. Bruised and bleeding, Shay walks with the girl until they discover a lone house. Planning to call for help, they break in, only to find a family sitting around a dinner table with bullets in their foreheads. As Shay fights to free herself from the web of money and drugs shes stumbled into, the killers close in. Only by relying on all of her skill and training will she be able to save her daughter and herself.

To the outward eye the billionaire Trevellian family appears to be the paradigm of culture and class. But when hot young artist Sharan Norbeth is taken under their wing, she discovers that family loyalties have become horribly twisted, and hidden evil festers below the surface. Sharan must pry apart the mystery hidden in the familys innermost coreand fast, if she doesnt want to disappear into a traceless oblivion.

(Originally published as Elvisland)No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories.Stories included in this collection:"Waiting for Mr. Gillray""The Odor of Violets""No Sin Unpunished" (previously titled "horrorshow")"Talking Heads""I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream""Hairshirt""Good Morning, Daddy""More Than Mischief""Storytime with the Bluefield Strangler""Heres Looking at You""Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland""Elvisland""Like Father" (new to this collection)"Bloody Mary Morning" (new to this collection)