A man must confront a terrifying evil in this captivating horror novel that’s “as much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz.”* Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family’s old estate—the Savoyard Plantation—and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of the Savoyard Plantation still stand. Where a long-smoldering debt of blood has never been forgotten. Where it has been waiting for Frank Nichols....

Those Across the River

"Buehlman...slips effortlessly into a different kind of literary sensibility, one that doesn't scrimp on earthy humor and lyrical writing in the face of unspeakable horrors."* The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found an orphan of the Black Death in a Norman village. An almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that the plague is only part of a larger cataclysm--that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on Heaven. But is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across an apocalyptic landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission. There her true nature will be revealed. And there Thomas will confront an evil wrestling for the throne of Heaven, and which has poisoned his own soul. *Kirkus Reviews

Between Two Fires

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other. Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path. But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford. “The Blacktongue Thief is fast and fun and filled with crazy magic. I can't wait to see what Christopher Buehlman does next." - Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of the Lightbringer series At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Blacktongue Thief

An instant USA Today bestseller! Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, goblin-infested years just before The Blacktongue Thief. The goblins have killed all of our horses and most of our men. They have enslaved our cities, burned our fields, and still they wage war. Now, our daughters take up arms. Galva — Galvicha to her three brothers, two of whom the goblins will kill — has defied her family’s wishes and joined the army’s untested new unit, the Raven Knights. They march toward a once-beautiful city overrun by the goblin horde, accompanied by scores of giant war corvids. Made with the darkest magics, these fearsome black birds may hold the key to stopping the goblins in their war to make cattle of mankind. The road to victory is bloody, and goblins are clever and merciless. The Raven Knights can take nothing for granted — not the bonds of family, nor the wisdom of their leaders, nor their own safety against the dangerous war birds at their side. But some hopes are worth any risk. Also by Christopher Buehlman The Blacktongue Thief At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Daughters' War

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other. Download a FREE sneak peek today! Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path. But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford. “The Blacktongue Thief is fast and fun and filled with crazy magic. I can't wait to see what Christopher Buehlman does next." - Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of the Lightbringer series At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Blacktongue Thief Sneak Peek

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR "As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs), Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his "genre-bending" (California Literary Review) novels. Now the acclaimed author of Those Across the River delivers his most disquieting tale yet... The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most truly yours and I'm not sorry... New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody--he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks. The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It's almost too easy. Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him...or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were. And neither are the rest of us.

The Lesser Dead

The Thrice-Bound Fool is the epic, rollicking next chapter in the bestselling and “awesome as hell” (Nicholas Eames) fantasy adventure series that began with The Blacktongue Thief. Professional thief and inveterate trickster Kinch Na Shannack has always enjoyed a good book. But now his life, and the future of all of Manreach, depends on him deciphering a very bad book indeed; a stolen, sentient tome that tries to kill him every time he opens it—and often when it’s closed. Galva, veteran of the goblin wars and death’s sworn handmaiden, has vowed to protect Kinch while he mines the book for its dark magic and even darker secrets. She does so not for Kinch’s sake—though the cheeky bastard is growing on her—but because the book is the key to stopping the shadowy tyrants out to kill the queen she serves, and loves. The ruthless, all-seeing Taker’s Guild dogs their every step, and thief and knight must flee the known world entirely if they hope to succeed in their mission. But trouble finds Kinch wherever he goes, and the pair may have traded the devil they know for horrors far darker and hungrier as they enter lands unknown. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Thrice-Bound Fool

“Rising horror star”* Christopher Buehlman, author of The Lesser Dead, returns with a chilling and thrilling tale of dark evil lurking on the lonely, open road... Bram Stoker, quoting the ballad “Lenore,” said, “The dead travel fast.” Those words have never rung more true... Remember that car that passed you near midnight on Route 66, doing 105 with its lights off? You wondered where it was going so quickly on that dark, dusty stretch of road, motor roaring, the driver glancing out the window as he blew by. Did his greedy eyes shine silver like a coyote’s? Did he make you feel like prey? You can’t remember now. You just saw the founder of the Suicide Motor Club. Be grateful his brake lights never flashed. Be grateful his car was already full. They roam America, littering the highways with smashed cars and bled-out bodies, a gruesome reflection of the unsettled sixties. But to anyone unlucky enough to meet them in the lonely hours of the night, they’re just a blurry memory. That is—to all but one... Two years ago, they left a witness in the mangled wreck of her family car, her husband dead, her son taken. She remembers their awful faces, despite their tricks and glamours. And she’s coming for them—her thirst for vengeance even more powerful than their hunger for blood. On the deserted highways of America, the hunters are about to become the hunted...

The Suicide Motor Club

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief began a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other, which continues in this rip-roaring sequel . . . Praise for Christopher Buehlman: 'The Blacktongue Thief is fast and fun and filled with crazy magic. I can't wait to see what Christopher Buehlman does next' - Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of the Lightbringer series

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“You think you got away with something, don’t you? But your time has run out. We know where you are. And we are coming.” Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a stylish nonconformist with wry wit, a classic Mustang, and a massive library. He’s also a recovering alcoholic and a practicing warlock. His house is a maze of sorcerous booby traps and escape tunnels, as yours might be if you were sitting on a treasury of Russian magic stolen from the Soviet Union thirty years ago. Andrew has long known that magic is a brutal game requiring blood sacrifice and a willingness to confront death, but years of peace and comfort have left him more concerned with maintaining false youth than with seeing to his own defense. Now a monster straight from the pages of Russian folklore is coming for him, and frost and death are coming with her.

The Necromancer's House

Hell Is Not Mocked

1935. Suite à un héritage, Frank et Eudora s'installent à Whitbrow, en Géorgie, où le grand-père de Frank possédait une plantation. Le village, entouré d'une forêt obscure, se révèle accueillant et le couple s'intègre vite à la communauté. Pourtant, en cherchant à retracer l'histoire de son aïeul, un général de l'armée confédérée esclavagiste, Frank va réveiller des forces qui le dépassent. D'où vient l'étrange coutume des habitants d'envoyer des animaux dans la forêt ? Qui vit de l'autre côté de la rivière ?

Ceux de l'autre rive

Cuando Frank Nichols se traslada al pequeño pueblo donde vivió un antepasado suyo de infausta memoria, su presencia despierta a un espíritu oscuro y antiguo, con sed de venganza. En 1935, a finales de la Gran Depresión, el historiador Frank Nichols se traslada a la tranquila localidad de Whitbrow, en Georgia, con su mujer, la bella Dora. La pareja pretende iniciar una nueva vida en este apacible rincón del sur de Estados Unidos. Frank planea escribir un libro sobre un antepasado suyo de infausta memoria, Lucien Savoyard. De brutalidad legendaria, fue propietario en el siglo XIX de una plantación al otro lado del río que linda con el pueblo, el escenario de cruentas atrocidades que Frank apenas intuye... En un primer momento, el pueblo resulta pintoresco y los habitantes acogedores aunque aferrados a la tradición. Sin embargo cuando Frank inicia sus indagaciones descubre que las supersticiones locales ocultan una antigua deuda de sangre. Los del otro lado es una sorprendente novela de terror, una historia tan sugerente como espeluznante sobre la venganza y los legados familiares, los miedos ancestrales que rigen una comunidad, y sobre la terrible amenaza del otro. Reseñas: «Una de las mejores primeras novelas que he leído jamás.» Charlaine Harris «La escritura es ágil y vigorosa, y los fans del terror la devorarán.» Booklist «¡Qué gusto! Terrible y preciosa. Se parece tanto a F. Scott Fitzgerald como a Dean Koontz. Una lectura grácil y terrorífica.» Patricia Briggs

Los del otro lado

Uma era sombria — de tentação e corrupção, de guerra no céu e de inferno na terra... O ano é 1348. Thomas, um cavaleiro desonrado, encontra uma menina sozinha em uma aldeia normanda dizimada. Órfã da Peste Negra e quase perturbadoramente inocente, ela diz a Thomas que a praga é apenas parte de uma catástrofe maior — que os anjos caídos sob Lúcifer estão se levantando para uma segunda guerra contra o céu e que o mundo dos homens ficou preso atrás das linhas do conflito. Delírio ou fé? Ela acredita ter visto os anjos de Deus. Acredita que os mortos justos falam com ela em sonhos. E agora convenceu o descrente Thomas a conduzi-la por uma paisagem depravada até Avignon. Ali, afirma ela, cumprirá sua missão: enfrentar o mal que devastou a Terra e restaurar para esse cavaleiro traído e assassino a nobreza e a esperança de salvação que ele abandonou há muito tempo. À medida que o inferno desencadeia sua fúria, e conforme a verdadeira natureza da menina é revelada, Thomas se verá em um campo de batalha macabro de anjos e demônios, santos e mortos ressurgidos... no centro de uma luta desesperada por nada menos que a própria alma da humanidade.

Entre fogo e sangue

Kinch Na Shannack le debe una pequeña fortuna al Gremio de los Ladrones, que lo educó en las artes del latrocinio; formación que, entre otras cosas, incluye violar cerraduras, luchar con cuchillos, escalar paredes, caer sin hacerse daño, urdir mentiras, tender trampas y utilizar un puñado de conjuros bastante discretos. Su deuda le ha llevado a esconderse en el bosque junto a la antigua carretera, acechando y listo para asaltar al primer incauto que se cruce en su camino. Hoy, sin embargo, Kinch Na Shannack ha elegido a la víctima equivocada. Galva, una guerrera superviviente de las encarnizadas guerras contra los goblins y leal seguidora de la diosa de la muerte, está buscando a su reina, desaparecida desde que una lejana ciudad del norte sucumbiera a los ataques de los gigantes. Una vez frustrado su intento de robo y afortunado por haber escapado con vida, Kinch descubre que su destino está ligado al de Galva. Sus enemigos en común, y un cúmulo de amenazas bastante insólitas a las que los dos se enfrentan, empujan al ladrón y a la guerrera a embarcarse en un periplo de épicas dimensiones. Deberán luchar contra goblins hambrientos de carne humana y krakens al acecho en las siniestras profundidades. En este mundo, como comprobarán en el transcurso de sus aventuras, el honor es un lujo que no está al alcance de todos.

El ladrón de lengua negra

Christopher Buehlman regénye egy csábítással és romlással teli világba hívja az olvasót, ahol a mennyben háború dúl, a földön pedig elszabadul a pokol… 1348-at írunk. Thomas, a kegyvesztett lovag rátalál egy fiatal lányra, aki magányosan él egy kihalt normann faluban. A fekete halál árvájaként és az ártatlanság hátborzongató megtestesítőjeként a lány elmondja Thomasnak, hogy a pestis csupán egy nagyobb kataklizma része. A bukott angyalok Lucifer vezetésével fellázadtak, hogy második háborút vezessenek a mennyország ellen, és az emberek világa is belekeveredett a viszályba. Vajon csak félrebeszél, vagy az igaz hit vezeti? A lány azt állítja, hogy látta Isten angyalait. Hisz benne, hogy az álmaiban az igaz holtak beszélnek hozzá. És meggyőzi a hitetlen Thomast, hogy átkísérje őt az elfajzott vidéken, egészen Avignonba. Ott elmondja Thomasnak, hogy be fogja teljesíteni a küldetését: szembe fog nézni a gonosszal, ami a földet sújtja, és visszaadja ennek az elárult és gyilkos lovagnak a nemességet és a megváltás reményét, amit oly régen elérhetetlennek hitt. Ahogy a pokol szabadjára engedi haragját, és fény derül a lány valódi természetére, Thomas angyalokkal és démonokkal, szentekkel és feltámasztott holtakkal teli, borzongató csatatéren találja magát, egy kétségbeesett küzdelem kellős közepén, amit nem kevesebbért vívnak, mint az emberek lelkéért.