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A Dirty Job: A Novel

Autor: Christopher Moore

Foucault's Pendulum

Autor: Umberto Eco

Charlie Moschner und der König von Scheißegalien

Autor: Karsten Gläntz

The Overcoat

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Fortune Box

Madeleine Swann

Abgründe/Ohne Hoffnung: Sämtliche Kurzgeschichten

Sean Beckz

Fake Like Me

Barbara Bourland

Exercise Bike

Carlton Mellick III

Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel

Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past, who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists. . . .

Fear

Roald Dahl - editor, Cynthia Asquith, Mary Treadgold, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, L. P. Hartley

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Fear collected by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kevin Eldon, Tom Felton and Rory Kinnear. An audio collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Roald Dahl himself. . . .

Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring 14 classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you listen.

They include such timeless and haunting stories as Sheridan Le Fanu's ' The Ghost of a Hand', Edith Wharton's ' Afterward', Cynthia Asquith's ' The Corner Shop' and Mary Treadgold's ' The Telephone'.

Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions featuring his own stories: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and War.

Full list of authors includes Rosemary Timperley, E. F. Benson, Jonas Lie, A. M. Burrage, Robert Aickman, Richard Middleton, and F. Marion Crawford.

The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

Drew Hayes

LAST FINAL GIRL

Stephen Graham Jones

The Informers (Vintage Contemporaries)

Bret Easton Ellis

Act of God: A Novel

Jill Ciment

From the author of Heroic Measures [" Smart and funny and completely surprising - I loved every page" ( Ann Patchett)], a contemporary noir novel that starts out a comedy of errors and turns darker at every hairpin turn - about a lethal form of mold spreading throughout New York City, about the townhouse in which it's first discovered, and the people living in it whose lives are suddenly upended.

It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet. It seems to be phosphorescent; it's a mushroom. . . and it's sprouting from their wall.

Upstairs their landlady, Vida Cebu, a Shakespearian actress far more famous for her T V commercials for Ziberax (the first female sexual enhancement pill) than for her stage work, discovers that a petite Russian girl, a runaway au pair, has been secretly living in her guest-room closet. When the police arrest the intruder, they find a second mushroom, also glowing, under the intruder's bedding. Soon the H A Z M A T squad arrives, and the four women are forced to evacuate the contaminated row house with only the clothes on their backs.

As the mold infestation spreads from row house to high-rise and frightened, bewildered New Yorkers wait out this plague (is it an act of God? ) on their city and property, the four women become caught up in a centrifugal nightmare.

Part horror story, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant suspense novel looks at what happens when our lives - so seemingly set and ordered, yet so precariously balanced - break down in the wake of calamity. A novel as well about love (familial and profound) and how it can appear from the most unlikely circumstances.

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