James Herbert fut une figure de proue de la fiction thriller et horreur britannique et mondiale. Son style innovant mêlait avec maestria des éléments d'horreur et de thriller, explorant les territoires d'ombre du mal pour évoquer une menace pesante et une tension croissante. Ses œuvres, largement traduites, ont obtenu une reconnaissance mondiale, consolidant sa réputation d'écrivain de profondeur et d'originalité dont les romans sont devenus des classiques du genre.
Rayon : SF Editeur : J'ai lu Date de parution : 1986 Description : In-12, 351 pages, souple, occasion, bon état . Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les commandes sont adressées sous enveloppes bulles. Photos supplémentaires de l'ouvrage sur simple demande. Réponses aux questions dans les 12h00. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. Merci. Référence catalogue 4677. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks
Cela commença par un tremblement de terre. Dans la confusion, au milieu des cris des victimes, personne ne prêta vraiment attention à ce brouillard jaunâtre qui s'échappait de la terre éventrée et que le vent eut tôt fait d'emporter vers la campagne anglaise. Puis des massacres inexplicables, déments, furent signalés sur le passage de la nappe de brouillard. Elle se mit à croître, progressant inexorablement vers les zones les plus peuplées d'Angleterre...
Un Boeing 747 s'écrase près d'Eton. C'est l'une des plus effroyables catastrophes de l'histoire de l'aviation : 332 morts. Un seul survivant : Keller, le copilote, n'a aucun souvenir de l'Occident. Tandis que tout le monde essaie d'oublier l'horreur du drame, lui cherche à comprendre pourquoi il y a échappé. Bientôt, il est hanté par des voix, celles des passagers morts dans le crash. Et cette hantise gagne peu à peu l'ensemble de la ville et des habitants d'Eton. Le jour de vérité approche, une vérité insupportable à laquelle Keller refuse de croire...
Les rats attendaient leur heure. Ils n'eurent pas à attendre très longtemps... L'apocalypse nucléaire. Londres rasée, anéantie. Ses habitants carbonisés, irradiés, ensevelis sous les décombres. Mais, pour une poignée d'entre eux, réfugiés dans les abris ou les couloirs du métro, la survie est peut-être encore possible. Ils ne se doutent pas que le pire est à venir. Car, sous la surface de la ville, les rats les épient. Les rats qui ont compris que l'Homme, affaibli, sans défense, est désormais leur proie.
In 'The Ghosts of Sleath', nothing ever happens in this quiet village - that is until the ghosts start to appear. A psychic investigator is called in but the events which unfold drive him to the edge of his sanity. In ''48', Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain in 1945 as his final act of vengeance.
We thought we'd found our haven, a cottage deep in the heart of the forest. Charming, maybe a little run down, but so peaceful. That was the first part of the Magic. Midge's painting and my music soared to new heights of creativity. That was another part of the Magic. Our love for each other -- well, that became the supreme Magic. But the cottage had an alternative side. The Bad Magic. "What happened to us there was horrendous beyond belief. The healings, the crazy sect who wanted our home for themselves, the hideous creatures that crawled from the nether regions, and the bats -- oh God, the bats! Even now those terrible things seem impossible to me. Yet they happened..." 'Beautifully orchestrated crescendo of suspense...Herbert had brought the shivers back to the genre.' Washington Post
"There is an old, empty house in Devil's Cleave, a deep gorge that leads from the high moors down to the harbour village of Hollow Bay. The house is Crickley Hall and it's large and grim, somehow foreboding. It's rumoured to be haunted. It's thought to hold a secret." "Despite some reservations, the Caleighs move in, searching for respite in this beautiful part of North Devon, seeking peace and perhaps to come to terms with what's happened to them as a family. But all is not well with the house. They hear unaccountable noises. A cellar door they shut every night is always open again in the morning. They see things that cannot be real." "The house is the last place the Caleighs should have come to, for the terror that unfolds is beyond belief. Soon they will discover the secret horror of Crickley Hall."--BOOK JACKET.
Private eye Nicholas Dismas is hired to find a baby taken at birth. His investigation leads him to a home for the elderly. Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. In an astonishing and spectacular finale, he will resolve the enigma of his own existence.
The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to The Lair. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh.
He was a stringy mongrel wandering the streets, driven by a ravenous hunger and hunting a quarry he could not define. Somewhere in the depths of his consciousness, the dog they called Fluke knew that he was once a man.
This horror story brings one of humanity's most potent fears to terrifying life, as the after effects of an atomic blast produce a race of super-rats who subjugate the common species and then turn on man.
Partially incapacitated by a stroke, Thom Kincaid travels back to the wooded land where he grew up to recuperate. Surrounded by the comforts of Castle Bracken, Thom plans to relive old, forgotten memories. But his return stirs an ancient evil, one cloaked in the guise of a friend. His only chance for survival lies in a world in which he no longer believes.
As it feeds off human souls, who will stop the darkness from destroying mankind?
In Haunted, James Herbert introduces the cynical paranormal investigator David Ash, as he reviews his beliefs and confronts his scarred past.
James Herbert transcends the horror medium with '48, a blistering tale of post-World War II London overrun with fear and blood. Delivering not only terrifying imagery, but pulse-pounding action and historical adventure, it is destined to become a classic. It is a London Too Terrifying to Imagine. Already crippled by the relentless Nazi bombing, this once-beautiful city has been depopulated by a hideous blood plague unleashed in the final convulsive collapse of the German regime. Now, human vampires wander the rubble-strewn streets, desperately searching for the only thing that can cure them... But not all survivors have been afflicted, and Hoke -- a lone hero accompanied only by his trusty dog and bitter memories -- is relentlessly pursued for the clean blood that courses through his veins. Yet his flight soon takes on a different meaning as he saves two women and a former German soldier. Banding together, they flee into the city's underground tunnels where an unexpected betrayal that delivers them right into the hands of their deadly adversaries prompts Hoke to take a stand against these monsters once and for all. "With '48, James Herbert delivers another triumphant thriller that blends two-fisted action with the supernatural". -- Douglas E. Winter
In this novel, Jim True has been murdered but he is still aware. Freed from his body Jim pursues his killer to discover why and how he has managed to survive. As he closes in, he discovers a web of betrayal and meets his killer - and the killer can also leave his body at will.
Featuring James Herbert, M. R. James, John Carpenter, Robert Bloch, Daphne Du Maurier, Shirley Jackson
Cinema audiences all over the world enjoy a good ghost story, and for over half a century stories by the famous writers of supernatural fiction have been adapted for the screen. Classics of the Supernatural brings together the best of these chilling, inspirational tales.Collected here for the first time are short stories and self-contained episodes from works which inspired such classic pictures as The Old Dark House, The Ghost goes West, Dead Of Night, Ghost Story and Beetlejuice. As several of these stories have not appeared in paperback before or have long been out of print, Classics of the Supernatural is a must for anyone who loves a chilling tale.Content (in the book's contents list, movie titles are used):- Halloween's Child (Haunted) by James Herbert- Night Sequence (The Old Dark House) by J.B. Priestley- Sir Tristram Goes West (The Ghost Goes West) by Eric Keown- A Smokey Lady in Knickers (Topper) by Thorne Smith- Samhain (The Uninvited) by Dorothy Macardle- The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy (Dead Of Night) by Gerald Kersh- Casting the Runes (Night Of The Demon) by M.R. James- The Bus (The Haunting) by Shirley Jackson- The Trespassers (The Stone Tape) by Nigel Kneale- Lucy Comes To Stay (Asylum) by Robert Bloch- Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier- Harlequin (Halloween) by John Carpenter- Halley's Passing (Beetlejuice) by Michael McDowell
Sometimes horror is in the mind and sometimes its real. Telling the difference isnt always easy. It wasnt for Joe Creed. Hed just photographed the unreal. Now he had to pay the price, because he always thought that demons were just a joke. But the joke was on himand it wasnt very funny. It was deadly.
A horror novel originally published in 1985, in which a man flees from the terrors of his past, finding refuge on a quiet island until the 'monster' comes to the island to seek him out.
Horror. By the author of The Ghosts of Sleath.
When Steadman agreed to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he had no idea he would be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy of neo-Nazi cultists bent on unleashing an age-old unholy power on an unsuspecting world.
Ghosts and conspiracy theories, enter the horrifying world created by James Herbert.
There is a house called Neath that holds a dark and terrible secret. In that house there is a psychic called Kline who is part of its secret. The Keeper is guardian of the house, of the psychic, and of the secret. But now an outsider must protect them from a terrible danger. Halloran will combat men who thrive on physical corruptions; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront his soul's own darkness. And eventually he will discover the horrific and awesome secret of the Sepulchre.
A horror story which tells the story of an undercover man who seems to be jinxed - whenever he was involved, jobs went wrong. In order to beat this curse he must solve the secret of his own strange life.
In this richly illustrated work, watch expert Herbert James recounts the exciting histories and notable moments of the 23 most famous watch brands in the world and the histories of their most legendary models, with more than 290 wristwatches included. In this updated edition, the list of luxury watchmakers, with names such as A. Lange & Söhne or Blancpain, Breitling, Cartier, and Glashütte Original through to Rolex and Zenith, has been expanded to include the IWC, Longines, and Tudor brands. The 272 pages of this handbook offer fascinating insights into international watch culture.
Marken & Modelle. Über 600 Fotos und 272 Seiten geballte Information für Uhrenfreunde und Sammler!
Die große Armbanduhren-Bibel zum kleinen Preis! Aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage aus dem Jahr 2021! Dieses Buch zeigt die schönsten und bedeutendsten Armbanduhren aller Zeiten in einem kiloschweren Bild- und Geschenkband zum absoluten Top-Preis! Über 600 Bilder und 272 Seiten geballte Information! Dieses mit über 600 großformatigen Uhren-Bildern illustrierte Werk erzählt die spannenden Entstehungsgeschichten der berühmtesten Uhrenmarken der Welt. Die umfassenden Informationen und die Vielzahl an erstklassigen Bildern lassen keine Wünsche offen - eine wahre Fundgrube für Uhren-Liebhaber! In diesem reich illustrierten Werk erzählt Uhrenexperte Herbert James die spannenden Entstehungsgeschichten der berühmtesten 23 Uhrenmarken der Welt und ihrer legendärsten Modelle. Manufakturen mit so klingenden Namen wie A. Lange & Söhne oder Blancpain, Breitling, Cartier und Glashütte Original bis hin zu Rolex und Zenith wurden in der aktualisierten Ausgabe durch die Marken IWC, Longines und Tudor ergänzt. Auf 272 Seiten bietet dieses Handbuch faszinierende Einblicke in die internationale Uhrenkultur. Eine Fundgrube für Uhren-Freunde und das ultimative Geschenk für Uhren-Liebhaber!
Гэйб Калег, опасаясь за душевное состояние жены, которая винит себя в исчезновении их младшего ребенка, снимает дом в тихой провинции, куда и перевозит семью. Несуразный и зловещий особняк мало похож на тихое, уютное жилище - Крикли-холл полон призраков и загадок. Много лет назад, еще во время Второй мировой воины, эти места сильно пострадали от страшного наводнения, а все обитатели Крикли-холла погибли. Только ли стихия лишила их жизни? И чего желают призраки, населяющие таинственный дом? Новый роман Джеймса Герберта, признанного мастера мистики, соперника самого Стивена Кинга, писателя, книги которого переведены более чем на тридцать языков, впервые на русском языке!
