A flicker in the dark

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for…

Batu berkaki

Suatu pagi, Munarto, seorang pematung terkenal sekaligus orang terkaya di Desa Ledok Awu, ditemukan mati. Di pondok kerjanya, sedang memahat patung batu yang tak punya tubuh selain bagian kaki, bersimbah darahnya sendiri. Pertanyaan “Siapa?” hanya akan memunculkan segerombolan tersangka. Meski bergantung nafkah padanya, ada terlalu banyak penduduk desa yang menginginkan kematiannya. Dend…

Tales of terror and mystery

"When the impossible has been eliminated the residuum, however improbable, must contain the truth."

A haunting in Venice

Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party —the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice , directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh—with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts t…

Parasyte

They arrive in silence, out of dark skies. They infest human hosts and consume them. And they are everywhere. They are Parasites: strange creatures who must invade and take control of human hosts to survive. Once they have infected their victims, they can twist their hosts's bodies into any abominable shapes they choose: craniums splitting to reveal mouths of sharp teeth, batlike wings erupt…

The woman in white

'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the…

Dua dini hari

Tiga anak jalanan ditemukan tewas, tergantung di pinggir flyover kawasan Jatinegara. Satu mayat lagi menyusul, kali ini terlilit kabel tiang listrik. Penyelidikan dimulai dengan enggan, para polisi bertindak meski jauh dari kata maksimal. Pemikiran semua orang sama : mereka hanya gelandangan, lebih baik disingkirkan. Seolah ada yang bertekad membersihkan jalanan, mengurangi masalah pelik kota. …

Gothic tales

One of three Signature Select Classics chapbooks steeped in the thrills and chills of the gothic tradition, publishing simultaneously with chapbooks of similarly weird works by H. P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley. This stunning keepsake chapbook-perfect for fans of the mysterious and macabre-comprises three of Edgar Allan Poe's short literary masterpieces: "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Metzengerstein," …

One by one

Snoop, aplikasi musik baru yang berhasil meraih seratus juta pengguna. Yang memungkinkan orang untuk mengintip apa yang tengah didengarkan orang lain secara real time. Berada di puncak kesuksesan, tim inti Snoop melakukan retret ke sebuah pondok ski di Pegunungan Alpen. Di sana, rahasia perusahaan terkuak. Situasi tidak baik-baik saja. Posisi semua orang terancam. Perdebatan memanas. Da…

Skulduggery pleasant playing with fire

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780007257058

Collation

350 p. ; 195 mm

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Call Number

800 LAN s