Joe Hill

Uma lenda do rock, o cinquentão Judas Coyne coleciona objetos macabros. Por isso, quando participa de um estranho leilão na internet, não pensa duas vezes antes de fazer uma oferta. O roqueiro arremata um paletó supostamente assombrado pelo espírito do falecido dono....

Eleven short stories from award-winning author Joe Hill, building on the success of his blockbuster novels. Some new, some previously published, all terrifying....

Jack's mother is a storyteller, a game-player. She spins a macabre tale for Jack and his father - a tale that Jack finds more and more difficult to untangle from his family's real life....

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

There's no end to the things that terrify Homer Feltz: tinfoil, fast food, his shopaholic Aunt Mandy. Only his father, manager of a disastrously bad major-league team, seems to understand him....

Arthur Roth is a lonely sixth-grader with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting the hell kicked out of him. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town....

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Bobby Conroy's biggest mistake was when he let Harriet Rutherford slip away from him. And now the two of them � and Harriet's young son � are all extras on the set of Dawn of the Dead....

Francis doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and all of Calliphora, Nevada, will shudder to hear him sing....

Max van Helsing's father is a man haunted by the darkest of secrets...secrets which he will, one cold night just after the turn of the century, unfold at last to his oldest son....

Wyatt can't help it: he screws things up. But taking a shortcut home one day, he finds himself caught in the middle of a bizarre, dangerous situation, with one chance � maybe � to save a life....

Nolan Lerner is guilty. Only Nolan knows what really happened that summer in 1977, when his younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors inside, doors leading into other worlds....

Eddie Carroll is sick of editing America's Best New Horror. But then he finds a new story so remarkable that he embarks on a quest to find its author - a quest he may not live to regret....

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet....

Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions....

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a hangover, a headache, and a pair of horns growing from his temples....

Come visit Dr. Alinger in his Museum of Silence, where every breath could be your last....

In this chilling collection, five acclaimed authors invite you into a world where the supernatural hides in plain sight.

Nadie sabe dónde y cuándo se originó, pero una plaga se ha extendido por todas partes. Los médicos la llaman Trichophyton draco incendia...