Weird
Стив Гейтс, ночной служащий отеля, так как должность отельного детектива официально в штат не введена, был вызван портье с целью успокоить Кинга Леопарди, гениального джазового тромбониста с мерзкими привычками пьяницы и дебошира, который посреди ночи решил устроить джем-сейшн в коридорах отеля...
"Matador поневоле" - это продолжение романа Луиса Риверы "Matador", повествующего о судьбе человека, не отказавшегося от своей мечты, несмотря на огромные препятствия на Пути, воздвигнутые ему Судьбой. Чтобы получить право на надежду, герою предстоит пройти через многочисленные схватки с быками, несчастья и лишения, познать радость любви и горечь потери. Где и в чем он найдет силы и вдохновение?...
Роман «Резинки», написанный в 1953 г. — одно из первых сочинений французского писателя Алена Роб-Грийе (род. 1922), считающееся ныне классическим образцом так называемого «нового романа», призванного в свое время преодолеть традиционное назначение литературы. Прикрываясь весьма занимательной детективной интригой, воссоздавая структуру детективного романа, писатель ставит и решает здесь множество т...
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you fac...
Среди многочисленных произведений бельгийского писателя Жана Рэя (он же Раимон Жан Мари де Кремер) особое Место занимают сочинения, посвященные персонажу по имени Гарри Диксон. В 1930-е годы появилась многотомная эпопея о его приключениях. Рэй — по просьбе издателя, которому требовался - новый Шерлок Холмс», — создал образ сыщика-американца. За 9 лет вышло в свет 178 выпусков, с интервалом то дваж...
A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. "Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece." - Thomas Ligotti
Woodring, a modern master of hallucinatory cartoon fables, specializes in comics that look normal but aren't. Woodring's hallmarks are inventive, often bizarre creatures who inhabit otherworldly landscapes and dreamlike narratives. This book's hero, Frank, is a catlike anthropomorph who lives in a surreal, exotic world. Woodring uses cartoon grammar brilliantly: within a single pane...
A female killer stalks the streets of London, sleeping with young men before slashing their throats and mutilating their bodies. The crimes have baffled the police and enraged Londoners, who demand the murderer's arrest. Mary, Duchess of Dove, a gentle young widow who is beloved by all who know her, seems an unlikely suspect, but the clues all point to her. The police have a variety of theories -...
What's lurking under the bed? Who's casting that shadow outside my window? Common questions children ask themselves in the dead of night. But what if, instead of those rather innocuous queries, the child asks things like: What's inside this bunny that makes him move? What if I put a raisin in a dead man's nose? If I leave the paw of a deceased mole in the sun, will it grow spro...
The Book of the Damned records over 1,000 events of the most mysterious and provoking character that have occurred in the world on which science has remained strangely silent. Such amazing phenomena as black rains, triangular clouds, discoveries of weird and ancient artifacts and ice falling from the sky have all been deliberately ignored by scientists. Charles Fort's scathing attack on the...
For years, Eric Basso's novella, The Beak Doctor, has sustained a cult reputation among a hard core of avant-garde writers. This collection of short stories begins with a tale of death and hideous resurrection, moves on through a quest for the great horse who rules a subterranean polar kingdom, an atmospheric cycle of short prose pieces, a tragicomic roman noir set in exotic Istanbul (in whic...
Sur le point de penetrer dans sa limousine, un homme est abattu froidement. Ses gardes du corps, impuissants, ne rattrapent pas le meurtrier. Ce dernier, visiblement satisfait, retrouve une femme au lit. Alors qu'il rentre chez lui, d'etranges effluves flottent dans l'atmosphere, faites de sang, de sperme, de l'air vicie qui plane sur la ville. Et se materialisent en un magma i...
For Mary Stevenson Crye, a beautiful young housewife, life had been wonderful -- loving husband, two delightful children, meaningful existence in a small Southern community. Then it all fell apart: with the sudden, unexpected death of her husband, Stevie must struggle to earn a living as a freelance writer. When her typewriter -- the sole economic support for her surviving family -- breaks down, S...
Buried deep in the reaches of vast antiquity lie the ancient customs, the vicious 'games,' the laws of the privileged lord and his enslaved minions. Sarban's preoccupation with the remote brooding past which, in certain circumstances, refuses to die, but jealously invades the present through the life and sanity of just such a healthy young animal as the heroine of Ringstones.
Alan Querdilion, a young naval lieutenant, is captured by the Germans and wakes up in a hospital bed - more than 100 years later. The Germans have won the war, and the Third Reich stretches from the Urals to the Atlantic. Non Aryans are bred as slaves. Deprived of speech and intelligence by the surgeon's knife, they serve their masters with their bodies. Count Hans von Hackelnberg, master of...
