Showing results for "Rot" in Literature & Fiction

When Kalu drops Aima at Lagos Airport, it marks the end of their four-year relationship. Shattered and broken open, he thinks that's the last he will see of his girlfriend. But Aima is drawn back into the city - to the scandalous, decadent nightlife of her best friend. As Kalu grieves, his friend offers him an exclusive invitation to one of his sordid, global parties - a way for Kalu to escape, if only for a night. Kalu knows it will offer every possible indulgence and something even more precious: time with the man he loves, but whose actions will plunge them all into a whirling descent.

Nine children travel with their families to their Grandfather's vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people's faces don't hang right anymore—except they do, once you look more closely. Transformations warp the children's sense of time and place, the very land itself seeming to encroach upon them.

Fünfhundert Jahre nach dem von allen nur als "Etwas, das passiert ist" bezeichneten Ereignis ist eine neue Gesellschaft entstanden. Eine Gesellschaft, in der die eigene Stellung davon abhängt, welchen Teil des Farbspektrums man sehen kann. Dies ist die Welt, in der Eddie Russett und Jane Grey leben. Jane und Eddie müssen die engen Regeln der Farbpolitik überwinden und die Wahrheit über ihre Welt herausfinden: Was ist sie, wo ist sie, ja sogar, wann ist sie? Während sie die Lügen entlarven, die ihre Existenz bedrohen, kommen sie zu einem beunruhigenden Schluss: Sie sind nicht allein.

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

Cast aside since birth and denied my true heritage, they know me as the bastard prince. For years I played their game, doing allI could to assist my half-brothers shuffle refugees from the castle, while keeping them and the dying Nobles safe in the old mine tunnels. The Prince of Rats, one girl called me.

Something is very wrong in the town of Dunswell. At only seventeen years of age, Liv feels as though she has lost everything. But she will come to learn there is always something more to lose. Leonard is a sexual deviant. Although he doesn't yet know it, the dark visions plaguing his dreams have been guiding him towards this town.

Across the country, a genetically engineered fungus has escaped its laboratory confines and now grows at an unstoppable, impossible pace, consuming everything in its path and releasing spores so deadly that even a single breath can kill. In the rugged Colorado Rockies, three generations—grandfather Charlie, father Steven and grandson Jack—are on their yearly camping trip when they receive a mysterious text message from home warning of the catastrophe.

With the population decimated and hellish creatures loose upon the world, Andra and her family retreat to Quinn’s farm where they hope to build a new life. But the monsters are still a mystery and their habits unpredictable, making it impossible to know what’s going to happen next. The more they learn, the more questions they have, and the more Andra worries for her daughter’s safety.

Alone in the northern wilderness, Callan makes a single mistake while field-dressing a deer. The knife slips. The wound is deep. Contaminated. And hours from medical help. What follows is not a heroic survival tale, but a clinical countdown.

From Nick Cutter—the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Dorians and modern classics The Troop and The Deep, and “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste)—comes an unforgettable collection of four all-new novellas. The Coffin Worms: A young woman’s obsession with a...

The Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes, and abject injustices of the world. A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, these poems expose the fraying nerves and tendons of a speaker refusing to avert their gaze from the death of Country, death on Country, and the bloody violence of settler colonies here and afar.

Rosenkrieg in der deutschen Provinz! Wieder einmal klappt Ingrid Noll eine ihrer bitterbösen Beziehungskisten auf - und beim Zuklappen liegt natürlich eine Leiche drin. Als die brave Hausfrau Annerose hinter das Dreifachleben ihres spießigen Ehemanns kommt und sich selbst auf den Kriegspfad begibt, zeigt sich, wozu bürgerliche Gattinnen fähig sind.

I punish lies and deceit, an eternal damnation of agony and pain. Yet, when it is my wife whose deception plagues me, I know what I must do. Shackle her soul to the lying, cold corpse that she is, ensuring that she never escapes me. My wrath, my torture, my pain, and my pleasure. I am the King of Flesh and Bone. Every part of her I possess and own. She is mine, death shall never do us part. Welcome home, my queen.

Kyle Brubaker, a carefree California surfer, finds little to celebrate in a small Wisconsin town until he meets beautiful and spirited Marianne Avery. But their budding romance is snuffed when they are brutally attacked by three hoodlum brothers. With his life unraveling around him, Kyle accepts an offer of help from a mysterious carnival fortune-teller. Soon after that, things really go to hell....

Den Palast zu betreten bedeutet, einen blutigen Pfad zu beschreiten. Joseon (Korea), 1758. Unehelichen Töchtern stehen in der Hauptstadt nur wenige Möglichkeiten offen, aber durch harte Arbeit und Studium hat sich die achtzehnjährige Hyeon eine Stelle als Palastschwester verdient. Alles, was sie will, ist, den Kopf unten halten, gute Arbeit leisten und vielleicht endlich die Anerkennung ihres entfremdeten Vaters gewinnen. Doch plötzlich wird Hyeon in die dunkle und gefährliche Welt der Hofpolitik gestoßen, als jemand in einer einzigen Nacht vier Frauen ermordet.

In Monktree, Wyoming, a biker rally is held every year. Over 1000 outlaw bikers descend on the small town, creating a smorgasbord of beer, bikes, and badasses. Of course, when the zombie apocalypse hits, loyalties will be tested, and blood will run.

Eight years ago, an infection hit London, before spreading outwards. Ninety percent of the population was either contained by the military, trampled during the riots, or infected by the disease. A disease that came to be known as The Rot. Colin Bolton survived the incident, but not without losing everything he held dear to him - his life, his love, and his humanity. Now, he's living at a farmhouse, acting as a bodyguard for a new surrogate family. Life is stable. He's making do. He’s surviving. That is...until a vagrant scavenger comes knocking at the door.

Franziskas Flucht aus der eintönigen Ehe mit dem reichen Vertreter Herbert und aus dem Verhältnis mit dessen Chef, dem Industriellen Joachim...

Long after the zombie apocalypse wiped out most of the human race, a young man named Noah resides in a remote mountain cabin. Several years have passed since he last saw another human being. The long period of isolation and loneliness has fostered a deep despair in Noah. But Noah is a man who was struggling even before the end of the world, a seemingly helpless slave to his addictions. When the vindictive sister he has long believed dead unexpectedly returns, events transpire that prompt him to leave his mountain refuge and embark on a cross-country trek to find the lost love of his life.

Eine Lawine aus Schlamm und Dreck. Es ist dunkel und kalt in Shetland. Seit Monaten regnet es. Auf dem Weg ins Tal reißt das Wasser gewaltige Erdmassen mit sich, die Teile des kleinen Örtchens Ravenswick unter sich begraben. Bei den Aufräumarbeiten findet man in den Trümmern eines Hauses die Leiche einer unbekannten Frau in blutrotem Seidenkleid. Kommissar Jimmy Perez will wissen, wer sie ist – doch stößt er bei den Inselbewohnern auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Als sich herausstellt, dass die Frau ermordet wurde, ruft Perez seine alte Kollegin Willow Reeves aus Inverness zur Hilfe.