The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Cornell Woolrich. His name represents steamy, suspenseful fiction, chilling encounters on the dark and sultry landscape of urban America …
"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, fluttering wings. He could feel the blood on his hands, his wrists, his neck. Each stab of a swooping beak …
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's domina…
It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a…
Adela Roldán, casada y con un hijo, lleva una apacible vida en familia salvo por una pesadilla recurrente que la perturba desde que era solo una niña. En ella ve cómo una joven es asesinada en presenc…
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life-until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could comple…
Amparo es una mujer peculiar llena de supersticiones y de manías que rozan la obsesión. Sus días transcurren sin altibajos, hasta que tras un suceso inesperado, todo su universo parece desmoronarse y …
Hay novelas imposibles de abandonar una vez leídas las primeras páginas. Historias que reinventan el suspense y hacen dudar al lector cada vez que termina un capítulo. En este thriller absolutamente o…
Escritos entre 2003 y 2007, estos cuentos son deudores del encierro, la depresión y la locura. Algunos fueron compuestos como ejercicios de escritura, otros para conjurar el agobio, los menos para jug…
Pregnant, abandoned by her slimy husband and destitute, Helen Georgesson boards a train going west. In the crowded train car she meets happy newlyweds Patrice Hazzard, also expecting, and Hugh. They a…
In this thrilling tale of greed and deception, Cornell Woolrich tells of middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiancee has died fifteen years ago on the eve of their wedding. Now Louis decides to take one m…
Una apacible mañana en la tranquila existencia de Roberto González traerá de regreso a los fantasmas de su pasado. Tras leer una trágica noticia en uno de los principales diarios nacionales, se verá o…
Novela intimista, escrita en primera persona, que aborda las relaciones entre cuatro personas unidas por diferentes razones: Elena, Julia, Miguel y José Luis. Sentimientos y emociones que indagan en l…
Phantom lady, I was with you for six hours last night, but I can't remember what you look like, or what you wore -- except for that large orange hat. We sat shoulder to shoulder at a little bar in the…
Jon lleva veinte años interpretando a un asesino en la serie más longeva de la televisión española y, pese a que la fama y el dinero le acompañan, vive tan atormentado por el personaje que representa …
He announced himself as Mr. Cash. His calling cars was ten crisp hundred-dollar bills! "My wife has disappeared," he told Perry Mason. "She's in trouble of some sort. I want you to find her." Mr. Cash's …
Shelve The Case Of The Crying Swallow (Perry Mason, #84)
(...) esas pobres ruinas vivientes siguen imperturbables su marcha por el derrotero de la vida, dejando, aun después que se han extinguido, un eterno recuerdo que, si bien hace asomar comúnmente una s…
Navidad: la ocasión para no cerrar las puertas a nadie, ni siquiera a los que se han ido... El más dickensiano de los temas en cinco cuentos inéditos hasta hoy en español.
John Robie is a former jewel thief, formerly known as “The Cat,” who now spends his time tending to his rose garden in France. There is a series of jewel robberies on the Riviera that resemble his sty…
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the w…
"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years outside of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger.
Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to…
Coincidían cada jueves en la misma cafetería. Eran jóvenes y se gustaban, pero su destino estaba ligado al de otras siete personas: un futbolista, un camarero, una abogada, un ladrón, un pistolero, un…