The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected…
Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she has left behind. She is like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world. And in the stern Puritan community of her relatives, she soon feels caged as well, and lonely. In the meadows, the only place where s…
Wendy Mass turns to another magical birthday: 13! When Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, steals the school mascot, a goat, in order to make some friends with the popular crowd and gets caught, she gets herself in a heap of trouble. In addition, her parents decide that instead of taking her on their summer trip to Madagascar to study the courtship rituals of the Bamboo Lemur, she must…
Anak laki-laki dengan kemampuan yang luar biasa. Pasukan monster mematikan. Pertarungan epik demi masa depan dunia peculiar. Petualangan yang dimulai di buku Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children dan berlanjut di Hollow City mencapai akhir yang menegangkan di Library of Souls. Cerita dibuka dengan Jacob Portman yang berumur enam belas tahun dan baru mengetahui kemampuan dahsyat yang dim…
Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar—the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops—first i…
A Magical Tale About Forgiving Our Past and Believing in Our Future The enchanting, true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro when author Paulo Coelho gives his mysterious master J., the only manuscript for his book The Alchemist. Haunted by a devastating curse, Coelho confesses to J., "I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed about to achieve them." In response, J. gives…
Lingkungan sekitar rumah Hannah akhir-akhir ini sepertinya agak… aneh. Sejak anak lelaki itu pindah ke rumah sebelah. Tapi kapan dia pindah? Bukankah kemarin rumah itu masih kosong? Dan mengapa sekarang masih juga kelihatan kosong? Hannah belum juga berhasil memecahkan teka-teki si tetangga baru. Dia selalu menghilang secara misterius. Dan dia begitu pucat… Apakah Hannah dibayangi oleh… t…
Jangan heran jika mendapatiku sedang bicara sendirian atau tertawa tanpa seorang pun terlihat bersamaku. Saat itu, mungkin saja aku sedang bersama salah satu dari lima sahabatku. Kalian mungkin tak melihatnya. Wajar. Mereka memang tak kasat mata dan sering disebut... hantu---jiwa-jiwa penasaran atas kehidupan yang dianggap mereka tidak adil. Kelebihanku dapat melihat mereka adalah anugera…
Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The slayers of the Lessening Society are stronger than ever, preying on human weakness to acquire more money, more weapons, more power. But as the Brotherhood readies for an all-out attack on them, one of their own fights a battle within himself For Rhage the Brother with the biggest appetites, but also the biggest heart life was…