Riverrun Handling the Undead Линдквист Юн Айвиде

Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die • In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death • These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge

They only stopped watching her for a couple of minutes. That was all it took • It was a beautiful winter’s day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse. There was no one around, so they let her run on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found • Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home of his childhood and his family. But all he finds are Maja’s toys and through the haze of memory, loss and alcohol, he realizes that someone – or something – is trying to communicate with him • His return sets in motion a series of horrifying events which exposes a mysterious and troubling relationship between the inhabitants of the remote island and the sea

He found her as a baby, abandoned in the forest. He saved her life. With her first breath – a perfect, musical note – he realised she was no ordinary child • It was for her own protection that he hid her from the authorities. Was it his fault, what she turned into? Or was that why she was left for dead in the first place? The girl who became a little star. Who became, with her extraordinary powers, the most terrifying thing imaginable • In John Ajvide Lindqvist’s fourth masterpiece, he ratchets up the tension until the story reaches its blood-chilling conclusion. In doing so, he confirms his place as the undisputed new king of horror

Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself • Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city’s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he’s frightened • Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200-year-old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood • John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty

In September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement - and the price of entry is just a little blood • I Always Find You is a horror story - as bizarre and macabre as any of Lindqvist's bestselling novels. It's also a book about being young and lonely, about making friends and growing up. It's about magic, and the intensity of human connection - and a society's communal responsibility for a devastating act of political violence

В сентябре 1985 года юный Йон Линдквист, будущий писатель, приезжает в Стокгольм. Он хочет стать фокусником и снимает квартиру в ветхом здании рядом с Брункебергским туннелем. Довольно скоро он понимает, что с его новым домом творится что-то странное: ему постоянно кто-то звонит и спрашивает одного и того же человека, в квартире невозможно слушать музыку, так как порой из магнитофона доносятся зловещие звуки, птицы падают с неба, соседи ведут себя подозрительно, а в туннеле неприятно ходить, словно за прохожими из стен следит что-то живое. И вскоре Йон, сам того не желая, столкнется с иным миром, миром бескрайней зеленой равнины и неба без солнца, откуда приходят настоящие чудовища

Вашему вниманию представляется антология жутких и чарующих сказок Нила Геймана, Джоанн Харрис и других авторов бестселлеров с иллюстрациями Алана Ли, обладателя премии Оскар в категории «лучшая работа художника-постановщика» за фильм «Властелин колец: Возвращение короля • Лучшие современные писатели соблюли традиции Якоба и Вильгельма Гримм и написали свои собственные сказки с мрачным сюжетом. В сборник “Fearie Tales” вошли новые версии «Золушки», «Рапунцель», «Гензель и Гретель» и «Румпельштильцхена» и многих других сказок из нашего детства • Сказки были отобраны Стивеном Джонсоном, лучшим составителем антологий мрачных сказок, и проиллюстрированы Аланом Ли, который также подготовил дизайн обложки. В сборник вошли произведения Нила Геймана, Джоанн Харрис, Гарта Никса, Юна Айвиде Линдквиста, Маркуса Хайца, Майкла Маршалла Смита, Анджелы Слаттер, Роберта Ширмена, Кристофера Фаулера, Рэмси Кэмпбелла, Питера Краузера, Брайана Ходжа, Брайана Ламли, Реджи Оливера и Танит Ли

The fifth China thriller sees Li Yan and Margaret Campbell uncover an insidious conspiracy on the eve of the Beijing Olympics • THE SUFFERER • A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition • THE LISTENER • Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li's fiancee, Margaret Campbell • THE RUNNER • When Campbell's contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun, and outwit, an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance

Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years • Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the truth • On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun, cutting it off from the mainland. When morning broke Nessa Crowley's lifeless body lay in the garden, her last breath silenced by the music and the thunder • The killer couldn't have escaped Inisrun, but on-one was charged with the murder. The mystery that surrounded the death of Nessa remained hidden. But the islanders knew who to blame for the crime that changed them forever • Ten years later a documentary crew arrives, there to lift the lid off the Kinsella's carefully constructed lives, determined to find evidence that will prove Henry's guilt and Keelin's complicity in the murder of beautiful Nessa

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde • ‘It will be biggest fiasco of the year – but I don’t give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before.’ • The title page of the first complete English translation of Against Nature (published in the French as A Rebours) included the caption ‘the book that Dorian Gray loved and inspired Oscar Wilde.’ It was, declared Wilde, one of the best novels he had ever read • It is the story of Jean des Esseintes, the last of a proud and noble family, who retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois society and leads a life based on cultivation of the senses through art. Des Esseintes distills perfumes from the rarest oils and essences, he creates a garden of poisonous flowers, sets gemstones in a tortoise’s gold-painted shell and plans to corrupt a street urchin until he is degraded enough to commit murder

THE FIRST OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA NOVELS, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE • LI YAN • A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case • MARGARET CAMPBELL • The unidentified cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction for forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work and having left America and her broken past behind, throws herself into the investigation, and before long uncovers a bizarre anomaly • THE FIREMAKER • An unlikely partnership develops between Li and Campbell as they follow the resulting lead

THE NAIL-BITING FINAL CHAPTER IN THE LEWIS TRILOGY, FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COFFIN ROAD • THE NEW START • Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island • THE OLD FRIEND • This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret • THE FINAL CHAPTER • But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future