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A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.

Mallory is delighted to have a new job looking after gorgeous four-year-old Teddy. She's been sober for a year and a half, and she's sure her new nannying role in the affluent suburbs will help keep her on the straight and narrow. That is until Teddy starts to draw disturbing pictures of his imaginary friend, Anya. It is quite clear to Mallory and to Teddy's parents, even in his crude childlike style, that the woman Teddy is drawing in his pictures is dead. 

In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple - maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three...

Now a major motion picture, Other Mommy, starring Jessica Chastain. 'This is the rare novel that's authentically scary' – Stephen King, the bestselling author of The Shining and IT From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman is a chilling...

Plus on regarde, plus ça devient étrange. Un blog inquiétant, un enfant qui disparaît, un cadavre massacré, une jeune fille dans un centre de redressement… Quelle vérité choquante se dissimule dans ces « étranges images » ?!

'Josh Malerman is such an insidious architect' - Clay McLeod Chapman A woman becomes the unknowing subject of an artist's dangerous work in this intense Hitchcockian horror from Josh Malerman, the New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House. After a magical night out on the...

“I loved it." —Stephen King From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh...

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes, the ending is deadly. Ruby Blake is desperate for a fresh start. Uprooting her two children, Mory and Cameron, she’s convinced this move will finally be the one that sticks. The house is ideal, the neighbors seem friendly, and when she meets Justin...

Mags Barkworth still suffers the effects of a life-changing tragedy over a decade ago. She knows her husband loves her. She knows he would never do anything to hurt her, or their daughter. But what if the voice in her head, the one she's pushed away with therapy and anti-depressants, is telling the truth? What if it's all a lie? When Tam, their daughter, draws an uncannily detailed picture of a place she's never been, Mags's life starts to unravel. But even in her most paranoid moment, Mags could never have guessed the secret she is destined to uncover.

From bestselling author Deborah O’Connor comes a biting psychological thriller following one woman whose vision board comes to fruition with violent consequences, exposing shocking truths that call into question everything she thought she knew about her family…Gail Duke is ready to put the...

"Portret Doriana Greja"- edinstvennyj opublikovannyj roman Oskara Uajl'da. Vpervye napechatan v ijule 1890 goda. Posle publikacii romana v obshhestve razrazilsja skandal. Vsja anglijskaja kritika osudila ego kak amoral'noe proizvedenie, a nekotorye kritiki trebovali podvergnut' ego zapretu, a avtora romana - sudebnomu nakazaniju. Uajl'da obvinjali v oskorblenii obshhestvennoj morali. Odnako obychnymi chitateljami roman byl prinjat vostorzhenno.

Dorian Gray embodies every artistic element for artist Basil Hallward. But when Lord Henry reveals the phenomenal world experienced only to the young and beautiful, Dorian makes a devious deal. Thus begins Dorian Gray's extensive journey into dissipation, while somehow maintaining every element of his youth and innocence. What is his secret? And why does he keep Basil Hallward's painting hidden from prying eyes?

Sarah Windsor is desperate for a fresh start. Newly separated and haunted by her brother's tragic death, she's determined to reclaim her life—until a late-night grocery run with her best friend takes a chilling turn. A strange van in the parking lot. A man with blue gloves inside. A few quick photos snapped from the shadows. By morning, the news is filled with reports of a shocking crime at the very store where Sarah stood the night before.

Mavis Forthright carefully rehearses her jump from Portsmouth's Round Tower. She's existed for over five decades. Lived hardly at all. She delays another day to lend Janice a book. As if to balance her survival, a number of people connected to Mavis die. At first, that doesn't matter. They're people she dislikes. Mavis continues painting, tending her garden, feeding the birds, and keeping her home properly clean, without additional concern. Then, people who've been kind to Mavis are killed or injured. That shouldn't happen.

The Eagle Scout Picture. Book 1 of the Shadow and Subterfuge Series. Texas was a lifetime ago. Now, there is only the uniform of the enemy and the weight of a lie that could end with a firing squad. In the heart of Nazi Germany, an American Eagle Scout has done the unthinkable: he has become a ghost within the Hitler Youth. But in the shadows of the Gestapo, identity is a fluid, dangerous thing. As the line between the mission and the monster blurs, one young man must navigate a landscape of moral decay where the cost of a mistake isn't a lost badge-it's a mission undone and death.

It’s late, and Dez should go to bed, but instead, she keeps watching horror movies for the Mayhem & Madness Film Festival. She sees a new one pop up in her to-review queue: Adam. That’s a funny title, she thinks, since there’s another judge named Adam. But instead of watching, she goes to bed, and by the time she wakes up, the judge named Adam has killed his wife and himself, and the film, Adam has disappeared from the judging queue. In its place is a film called Grant — the name of another judge. Is Grant doomed to Adam’s fate? Will Dez see her own name as a film title?