Alien Alert!

Avec ce nouveau recueil, Joe Hill nous propose quatre récits horriblement addictifs et délicieusement dérangeants, qui allient l'angoisse au surnaturel et le thriller au drame apocalyptique. Instantané : Dans la Silicon Valley, en 1988, un adolescent inventif se retrouve traqué par un homme armé d'un appareil photo Polaroid capable d'e­ acer les souvenirs. Chargé : Dans une ville de Floride, un agent de sécurité d'un centre commercial, qui a prétendument arrêté une fusillade de masse, devient un héros du mouvement de défense des armes à feu. Mais à la lueur des projecteurs, son histoire com…

The basis for the Peacock TV series Teacup: An extraterrestrial bounty hunter turns a Southern community into its private hunting ground in “the ultimate horror novel” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The West Texas desert towns of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. The Snake River isn’t the only thing that divides them. Racism and gang wars have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them now, it’s the UFO that comes crashing through the clouds. It brings with it a young alien named Daufin, a fugitive who has taken human form. She knows the terro…

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations. Some of those who observe her rituals in the river wil…

Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. With over 35,000 copies sold, On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume Idiscusses specific and applicable ideas for your writing, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire. Volume II, a sequel with a host of new topics, released in December 2021. On Writing Prologues The First Chapter The Exposition Problem Foreshadowing Villain Motivation Hero-Villain Relationships Final Battles The…

In the tradition of Camilla Sten and Victor LaValle, Melanie Golding’s newest novel is a chilling carnival-set suspense, perfect for fans of Stranger Things. Look into her eyes—she can tell you how you'll die . . . As a child, Faith acquired the ability to see when and how people would die—a “gift” she neither wanted nor could get rid of. After foreseeing a family tragedy and being ostracized, Faith learns to control her visions, and returns to perform in her family’s traveling carnival. But when an unruly customer attacks her, she has a vision in full view of a crowd. She is banned from th…