Cherie Priest Bücher

Zwei unzertrennliche Freundinnen Ein mysteriöser Unfall Ein unglaubliches Geheimnis Und die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

Mit Volldampf voraus! Amerika kurz nach dem Bürgerkrieg: Es sollte Dr. Leveticus Blues größte und ruhmreichste Erfindung sein, doch der 'Boneshaker' verursachte eine Katastrophe. Bei seinem Testlauf wurde ein mysteriöses Gas freigesetzt, dass die Bewohner Seattles in seelenlose Kreaturen verwandelte, woraufhin die vergiftete Stadt und ihre Bewohner durch eine riesige Mauer isoliert wurden. Sechzehn Jahre später macht sich Briar Wilkes, Dr. Blues Witwe, in einem Luftschiff auf den Weg nach Seattle, um dem Geheimnis des 'Boneshakers' auf die Spur zu kommen.

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one....   The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny.   But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean’s depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness.   This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.  

When psychic travel agent Leda Foley is approached by a man searching for his sister, she agrees to help. The woman disappeared with a vintage orange car, a fat sack of her employer's cash, and a grudge against her philandering husband--who never reported her missing. Meanwhile, Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt has misplaced his dog. While passing out 'lost' flyers at the Mount Rainier visitor centre, the pooch appears--with a human leg in his mouth. Leda and Grady will need one dog, a fair share of teamwork, and perhaps a bit of clairvoyant karaoke to solve their cases.

Tales of tentacles, terror, and madness from the publisher who brought you Wastelands, The Living Dead, and Brave New Worlds First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu mythos encompass a pantheon of truly existential cosmic horror: Eldritch, uncaring, alien god-things, beyond mankind’s deepest imaginings, drawing ever nearer, insatiably hungry, until one day, when the stars are right.… As that dread day, hinted at within the moldering pages of the fabled Necronomicon, draws nigh, tales of the Great Old Ones—Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Hastur, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, and the weird cults that worship them—have cross-pollinated, drawing authors and other dreamers to imagine the strange dark aeons ahead, when the dead-but-dreaming gods return. Now, intrepid anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has delved deep into the Cthulhu canon, selecting from myriad mind-wracking tomes twenty-seven sanity-shattering stories of cosmic terror. Featuring fiction by many of today’s masters of the menacing, macabre, and monstrous, including Laird Barron, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Thomas Ligotti, The Book of Cthulhu goes where no collection of Cthulhu mythos tales has gone before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond! Do you dare open The Book of Cthulhu? Do you dare heed the call?

Set against a backdrop of devastating floods, the story intertwines the supernatural with the undead, creating a thrilling atmosphere. As a stand-alone sequel to previous works, it continues to explore dark themes and complex characters. The author, recognized as a rising master in the genre, delivers an engaging narrative that promises both suspense and depth, appealing to fans of supernatural fiction.

Set in Chickamauga, Georgia, America's oldest national military park, the story explores the haunting presence of Old Green Eyes, a spectral figure known for his glowing gaze. With a history marked by 35,000 Civil War casualties, the park is said to be haunted, but Old Green Eyes is viewed as a protective guardian rather than a threat. His presence ensures that the dead can rest peacefully, free from disturbance, creating an atmosphere of reverence and respect for the battlefield's somber history.

When the forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going come for him and his invention--a calculating engine called Fiddlehead--ex-slave Gideon Bardsley turns to his patron, former president Abraham Lincoln, for protection until he can end his data-processing research.

Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive

Josephine Early, New Orleans brothel owner and Union spy, has a mission. And it might just end the Civil War. She must deliver Ganymede, an astonishing prototype submarine, to the North. But the giant war machine is at the bottom of a lake, no one has safely piloted it and she must sneak its huge bulk past enemy forces. Luckily, she knows the right man for the job. She hasn't seen former lover and air-pirate Andan Cly for years, but has a sweet job to tempt him back. He agrees to help, but his primary mission is to retrieve supplies for blighted Seattle, where noxious gas has forced residents underground and undead rotters menace the city. Although legit, the Seattle run makes Cly uncomfortable. He no longer flies sap, disapproving of the drug's ugly side-effects, and the job is funded with sap money. Josephine's jaunt could be a great distraction. But will they make history, or end up at the bottom of the ocean? 'Priest is at the top of her game ... the best yet' Publishers Weekly, 'Ganymede centres on intrigue and espionage', SFRevu.com, 'Alternative history storytelling at its finest' BookSlut.com