Showing results for "The Parasite" in Genre Fiction

La jeune capitaine Marie Lesaux, fraîchement débarquée au sein de la brigade de protection de la famille de Clermont-Ferrand, est chargée de tester les capacités de son nouveau coéquipier, réputé infaillible. Un "policier" pas comme les autres puisqu'il s'agit d'une intelligence artificielle nommée Valmont.

The Parasite is an 1894 novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Parasite makes use of a form of mind control similar to the mesmerism of the Victorian era; it works on some hosts but not others. The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilroy. He studies physiology and knows a professor who is studying the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa, who has a crippled leg and psychic powers. She is a friend of the Professor's wife.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets THE VEGETARIAN in this chilly and chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance. Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her lonesome son, Yuchan. But Mira is not who...