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Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it’s not a total coincidence that she took the job cleaning house for movie director Javier Castillo. His forbidding graystone Chicago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to bottom with terrifying props and costumes, as well as glittering awards from his career making films that thrilled audiences—until family tragedy and scandal forced him to vanish from the industry.

Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they’re not alone after all. There’s something in the woods that wasn’t there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. Terrible things happen when William is angry.

Celia wakes up in a house that’s supposed to be hers. There’s a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family—and this life—is not hers… Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip—but then her friend’s boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about this trip is very, very wrong.

It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.

Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave anytime she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life, and he's determined to hold on to his mermaid.

In four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood.

When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith’s Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when a teenager starts having terrifying visions, in a chilling horror novel from national best-selling author Christina Henry.

Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Brom says that's just legend, the village gossips talking. More than 30 years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play "Sleepy Hollow boys", reenacting the events Brom once lived through. But then Ben and a friend stumble across the headless body of a child in the woods.

In CinderGirl, Christina tells her piercing and poignant story of leaving behind homelessness to become Ms. California and the founder of a nonprofit organization that provides advocacy for foster-care children.

Alice hat den Kampf gegen den Wahnsinn gewonnen - vorerst. Sie hat die Schandtaten des Kaninchens sowie den Blutdurst des Jabberwocks überlebt und will nun ein Versprechen einlösen: Jenny, die Tochter ihres Freundes Hatcher, zu finden. Doch Alice und Hatcher erwartet der nächste Albtraum. Sie müssen in das Reich der verrückten Weißen Königin vordringen, wo das wahre Spiel um das finstere Wunderland bereits begonnen hat. Jeder Zug führt Alice näher an ihre Bestimmung.

Dr. Felix Hoffmann is about to head home after a grueling night shift when he hears the words, “This gun is loaded!” Hoffmann, long accustomed to helping others on the verge of death, suddenly finds himself - along with several colleagues and patients - at the mercy of a deranged, blind kidnapper in the ICU.

Eine mutige Frau in einer gruseligen Villa – aber sie ist nicht allein ... Der neue Roman der Horror-Fantasy-Queen Christina Henry! Harry Adams liebt Horrorfilme, daher ist es kein Zufall, dass die junge Mutter den Job als Haushaltshilfe für den berühmten Filmregisseur Javier Castillo annimmt. Dessen gruselige Villa ist von oben bis unten mit furchterregenden Requisiten und Kostümen vollgestopft – und Javier legt höchsten Wert auf Diskretion. Doch dann hört Harry Geräusche hinter einer verschlossenen Tür.

So packend war Rotkäppchen noch nie: Der neue Bestseller von Fantasy-Horror-Königin Christina Henry! Geh nicht allein in den tiefen Wald! Doch Red hat keine Wahl: Seit die Krise vor drei Monaten über das Land kam, ist sie auf sich allein gestellt. Ihre einzige Hoffnung besteht darin, sich zu ihrer Großmutter durchzukämpfen. Red fürchtet nicht die Unwesen, die nachts durch die Wälder streifen. Die wahre Bedrohung geht von den Menschen aus: von ihren dunklen Sehnsüchten, niederen Beweggründen und bösen Hintergedanken.

Christina Henrys düstere Neuinterpretation des Meerjungfrauen-Mythos: die berühmte Legende verwoben mit gruseliger Realität. Einst zog ein einsamer Fischer sein Netz an Land und fand darin eine Frau. Anstelle von Beinen hatte sie einen Fischschwanz, und obwohl sie die Worte des Fischers nicht verstand, rührte sie seine Einsamkeit, und sie blieb bei ihm. Ihre Liebe dauerte an, bis sein Tod ihn von der unsterblichen Meerjungfrau trennte.

Die wahre - und schaurige - Geschichte von Captain Hook aus der Feder von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Christina Henry! Du glaubst, meine Geschichte zu kennen. Aber sie entspricht nicht der Wahrheit. Denn Peter Pan lügt. Peter wird euch erzählen, dass ich der Bösewicht bin, dass ich ihm Unrecht getan habe, dass ich niemals sein Freund war. Aber wie ich schon sagte, Peter lügt. Dies ist, was wirklich geschehen ist: Ich bin Peter Pan auf seine Insel gefolgt, weil er mir ewige Kindheit und unendlichen Spaß versprochen hat.

Unverzichtbar für alle Fans von "Die Chroniken von Alice": Brutal, düster, originell! Alice und der Axtmörder Hatcher haben in Christina Henrys finsterem Wunderland schrecklichen Gefahren getrotzt – jetzt erfahren die Fans, wie es mit den beiden weitergeht, und sie dürfen zudem tief in das Innerste von Henrys beliebtesten Figuren blicken: In einer von vier Kurzgeschichten berichtet Hatcher aus der Zeit, als er selbst noch Nicholas hieß und der beste Kämpfer der Alten Stadt war. In zwei anderen erzählt Alice von einem dunklen Geheimnis, das sie sogar vor Hatcher geheim hält.

Enjoy these 10 Christmas pieces by celebrated authors. The experience includes music and a range of lively and touching characters. Add a little poetry to your Christmas!

These holiday poems by celebrated authors evoke a range of deep emotions. Dive in, and savor.

It's been 101 days since Felix Hoffmann's girlfriend, Celine, left Berlin in a humanitarian convoy carrying aid to Kurdish northern Iraq. Now her coffin returns home. With the Iraq War all but begun, the story coming from Baghdad is that the young woman orchestrated the very bomb attack that killed her. But a devastated Felix, doctor at South Berlin Hospital, cannot believe that Celine would willingly participate in such an act, and certain clues - as well as questioning from German, Iraqi, and American agencies - raise the good doctor's suspicions.

This Yuletide collection of stories, poems, and essays has been rescued from obscurity by the editor, who has also edited and annotated them to make these wonderful classics more easily accessible to modern listeners. While some of these authors may be unknown to you, their works have been included in this collection because of their capacity to instantly intrigue and delight. Give them a try, and don't be surprised if a few of them make their way onto your list of all-time personal Christmas favorites!