'Illusory, frightening, and deeply moving, The Fisherman is a modern horror epic. And it's simply a must read'
Paul Tremblay
In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.
When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir.
It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.
'An epic, yet intimate, horror novel. Langan channels M. R. James, Robert E. Howard and Norman Maclean. What you get is A River Runs Through It... straight to hell'
Laird Barron
More praise for The Fisherman:
'Reading this, your mouth fills with worms. Just let them wriggle and crawl as they will, though-don't swallow. John Langan is fishing for your sleep, for your soul. I fear he's already got mine'
Stephen Graham Jones
'What starts as a slow, melancholy tale gains momentum and drops you head first into a churning nightmare from which you might escape, but you'll never forget, and the memory of what you saw will change you forever'
Richard Kadrey
'The Fisherman is a treasure, the kind of book you just want to snuggle up and shiver through. I can't say enough good things about the confidence, the patience, the satisfying cumulative power of this book. It was a pleasure to read from the first page to the last' Victor LaValle
'Stories within stories, folk tales becoming modern legends, all spinning into a fisherman's tale about the one he wishes had gotten away. Langan's latest is at turns epic and personal, dense yet compulsively readable, frightening but endearing'
Adam Cesare
Quand le jeune agent immobilier Jonathan Harker se rend de Londres aux tréfonds de la Transylvanie pour conclure une vente auprès du mystérieux comte Dracula, il ne se doute pas de l'épopée sanguinaire qui l'attend. Van Helsing, professeur émérite et premier chasseur de vampire de l'histoire de la littérature, lui, semble près à en découdre. Mais ne déjoue pas qui veut les pouvoirs machiavéliques du plus connus des vampires...
Avec la collection NOT SO CLASSIC , lire en anglais devient un vrai plaisir grâce à :
des notes de vocabulaire en marge (en français et en anglais)
un dossier complet pour comprendre l'oeuvre, ses personnages, ses grands thèmes et son contexte
des quiz pour mémoriser l'essentiel, de façon ludique
des activités pour progresser en anglais, grâce au texte d'un auteur d'exception
+ les vidéos "Previously on"
La synthèse (en anglais) du roman, chapitre par chapitre, pour ne pas perdre le fil de l'histoire.
L'extraordinaire récit oublié de Bram Stoker, grand maître de l'horreur et père de Dracula.
Un indispensable pour tous les amateurs de littérature gothique.
« J'imagine que s'il devait se produire un nouveau meurtre de nos jours, lança le garçon, hilare, quelqu'un irait se balancer sur Gibbet Hill ! »
Pour échapper au vacarme de Londres, un homme laisse ses pas le porter dans la campagne anglaise. Quand émergent, aux abords d'une colline au passé macabre, une tombe et trois enfants troublants, dont l'aura semble plus vieille encore que les pierres...
Publié en 1890 dans un supplément du Dublin Daily Express, Gibbet Hill, ou La Colline au gibet, tombe ensuite dans l'oubli jusqu'à disparaître. Redécouvert par hasard dans les archives de la Bibliothèque nationale d'Irlande plus de cent trente ans après sa parution, ce récit offre un aperçu inestimable des thèmes chers au père de Dracula et préfigure son chef-d'oeuvre.
Laissez-vous emporter par cette histoire glaçante inédite en France, présentée dans une édition bilingue, sublimée par les envoûtantes illustrations de Mikaël Bourgouin, et préfacée par l'auteur best-seller Maxime Chattam.
Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction.
American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and international bestseller Neil Gaiman, was brought vividly to life this year in the hottest major TV show of 2017 , and Amazon Prime video series starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning and Gillian Anderson. For fans of The Book of Dust and Mythos by Stephen Fry. After three years in prison, Shadow has served his time. But as the days and hours until his release tick away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before his release date, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But the storm is about to break . . . Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman's epic novel sees him on the road to the heart of America.
Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.
@2@A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life.@3@@2@In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.@3@@2@Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that @18@revival@19@ has many meanings.@3@@2@This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.@3@
La guerre des zombies a eu lieu, manquant d'éradiquer l'humanité. Le narrateur, en mission pour l'ONU, a parcouru le monde pour rencontrer, dans des cités en ruine et dans les territoires les plus inhospitaliers de la planète, les survivants de ces années apocalyptiques. Le mythe des morts vivants revisité sous l'angle de la critique sociale et politique.
The sequel to "Silence of the Lambs" marks the return of Dr Hannibal Lecter. One of Hannibal's victims, the influential and rich Mason Verger - a paraplegic confined to a respirator thanks to Hannibal - is bent on revenge and FBI agent Clarice Starling provides the perfect bait.
THE TERRIFYING, BESTSELLING, NETFLIX RECORD-BREAKING BIRD BOX IS BACK. ''Brilliant, insanely compelling'' Daily Mail ''One of the best horror stories published for years.'' Express * * * * * In the old world there were many rules. In the new world there is only one that matters: don''t open your eyes. In the seventeen years since the ''creatures'' appeared, many people have broken that rule. Many have looked. Many have lost their minds, their lives, their loved ones. In that time, Malorie has raised her two children - Olympia and Tom - on the run or in hiding. Now nearly teenagers, survival is no longer enough. They want freedom. When a census-taker stops by their refuge, he is not welcome. But he leaves a list of names - of survivors building a future beyond the darkness - and on that list are two names Malorie knows. Two names for whom she''ll break every rule, and take her children across the wilderness, in the hope of becoming a family again... * * * * * ''The highly anticipated follow-up to Bird Box and it''s even better. A deliciously dark, disturbing yet captivating novel that I read in one sitting.'' Express ''Cranks the tension and terror to breaking point and beyond'' Daily Mail
A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'' NEIL GAIMAN ''One of the great fiction minds of his generation'' ROLLING STONE In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality.
In A Hypothetical Lizard, two concubines in a brothel for fantastical specialists fall in love, with tragic ramifications. In Not Even Legend, a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In Illuminations, a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman, which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years through several sometimes-naive and sometimes-maniacal people rising and falling on its career ladders, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.
From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that - a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
''One of the most significant fiction writers in English ... Moore''s influence can be felt everywhere-in our literature, on our screens, in our politics'' GUARDIAN
Deux textes essentiels du créateur du célèbre mythe de Cthulhu, qui a inspiré tant d'auteurs de littérature fantastique.
- The Call of Cthulhu L'Appel de Cthulhu Au fond de l'océan, dans la cité maléfique de R'lyeh, l'infâme Cthulhu sommeille en attendant d'imposer son règne sur la Terre, tandis que ses disciples préparent son retour.
The Doom that Came to Sarnath La malédiction qui s'abattit sur Sarnath Les créatures étranges qui peuplaient l'antique cité ont été massacrées par les nouveaux arrivants. Leur vengeance sera terrible.
La série BILINGUE propose:
- une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes;
- une méthode originale de perfectionnement par un contact direct avec les oeuvres d'auteurs étrangers.
Human or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always - always - guard your heart.
The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself.
But winning won''t be easy against the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.
Everything about Raihn is dangerous. He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father''s crown... and her greatest competition. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him.
But there''s no room for compassion in the Kejari - and nothing more deadly than love...
Filled with heart-wrenching romance, dark magic and bloodthirsty intrigue, The Serpent and the Wings of Night is the first book in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, the bestselling TikTok sensation by Carissa Broadbent. It is followed by The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King.
Malorie raises the children the only way she can: indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are nailed over the windows. They are out there. She might let them in. The children sleep in the bedroom across the hall. Soon she will have to wake them. Soon she will have to blindfold them. Today they must leave the house. Today they will risk everything.
15+ pages of new, original content, including a glossary of terms, in-universe writings, and more!
A USA Today Best-Selling Novel!
"Unlike anything I've ever read. " --V.E. Schwab
"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" --Charles Stross
"Brilliantly original, messy and weird straight through." --NPR
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
Of course, some things are better left dead.
THE LOCKED TOMB TRILOGY
BOOK 1: Gideon the Ninth
BOOK 2: Harrow the Ninth
BOOK 3: Alecto the Ninth
Morris Bellamy, a big fan of the novelist John Rothstein, is so disappointed by the fate of his favourite hero that he kills the old author and buries his unpublished material. Young Peter Saubers discovers it years later in an old trunk buried under a tree. Of course Morris feels it belongs to him...
Envie de lire en anglais ? Dorénavant, c'est possible grâce à Harrap's. Découvrez ce thriller de Stephen King, en VO et en version intégrale, avec des traductions en marge pour vous aider à bien comprendre le texte. Emotions garanties ! Avec Harrap's, Yes you can !
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People screamed. People sprang off the pavement..."The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!" With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim.
Imagine a world in which your sin is visible.... addictive and intoxicating, SMOKE is a Dickensian, thrilling, rich novel for fans of PHILIP PULLMAN, THE SECRET HISTORY and THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.
