‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she were to lunge forward, grasping at the air, striking her thin skull against the edge of a stair? What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?’Such are the thoughts of Baxter, a sociopathic bull terrier ...

ELIZABETH CUTTNER: RECUERDA ESE NOMBREEl redescubrimiento de un clásico de terror gótico estadounidense, protagonizado por una adolescente asesina y seductora, que está conquistando Europa«Un cuento tan maravilloso como siniestro. Leer Elizabeth es como permitir que se te meta el demonio dentro, y que te guste. Como un fantasma que se te mete en los huesos y te persigue hasta mucho después de leerlo. Qué cuento de terror tan especi...

A redescoberta de um clássico do terror protagonizado por uma heroína manipuladora e arrepiante, uma Lolita gótica.Aos catorze anos, Elizabeth Cuttner não tem ilusões sobre o mundo nem sobre si mesma. Olhou-se ao espelho e viu a verdade. Depois da morte dos pais, à qual talvez não tenha sido totalmente alheia, esta descendente de uma longa linhagem de bruxas é acolhida pela avó e pelo tio numa mansão em Manhattan, um dos poucos vestígios antigos da cidade que resis...

“If you were to go into your bedroom tonight – perhaps by candlelight – and sit quietly before the large mirror, you might see what I have seen. Sit patiently, looking neither at yourself nor at the glass. You might notice that the image is not yours, but that of an exceptional person who lived at some other time . . .”The image in the mirror of fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Cuttner is that of the fey and long-dead Frances, who introduces Elizabeth to her chilling world of the supern...

When photographer Jonathan Brewster’s four-year-old daughter Joanne tells him about her new invisible friends, he doesn’t think too much about it. But then he sees them for himself: weird and uncanny images of the dead appearing in his photographs. The apparitions seem to have some connection to Childgrave, a remote village in upstate New York with a deadly secret dating back three centuries. Jonathan and Joanne feel themselves oddly drawn to Childgrave, but will they survive the horrors t...

Milyen lehetőségek rejlenek a testi erőmben?Mi lenne, ha az öregasszony egyik reggel, ahogy ott áll a lépcső tetején, hirtelen azt érezné, hogy valami meglöki a lábát hátulról? Mi lenne, ha a levegőbe markolva előreesne, és az egyik lépcsőfok peremébe verné vékony falú koponyáját? Hogyan alakulna a sorsom, miután rátalálnak mozdulatlan testére a lépcső aljában?Ilyen gondolatok járnak a tökéletes gazdira vadászó Baxter, a szociopata bullterrier fejében, miközben első áldozat...