The 8 books on this stack
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The Raw Shark Texts. Steven Hall
Steven Hall · 2008
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. Instructed by a mysterious note to visit a Dr. Randle, Eric learns that the agony of losing the love of his life in a scuba-diving accident three years before has destroyed his memory. As Eric begins to examine letters and papers left in the house by 'the first Eric Sanderson,' a staggeringly different explanation for what is happening to Eric emerges, and he embarks on a quest to recover the truth and escape the remorseless predatory forces that threatens to devour him.
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Última sesión ES
Marisha Pessl · 2015
Prepárate para entrar en la última sesión... Un escenario oscuro, tremendo, envolvente y profundamente aterrador y también un thriller psicológico al más puro estilo de Perdida . Una noche húmeda de octubre, la joven Ashley Cordova aparece muerta en un almacén abandonado del Bajo Manhattan. Scott McGrath, un desacreditado periodista de investigación, sospecha que detrás de este aparente suicidio se oculta una verdad mucho más retorcida. Las extrañas circunstancias que rodearon la vida de Ashley se mezclan con el legado de un padre excéntrico: el enigmático Stanislas Cordova, un legendario director de cine de terror que ha permanecido fuera de escena durante más de treinta años y que ha conseguido convertir su vida en un secreto absoluto. Sus películas de culto están prohibidas en el circuito comercial y solo pueden ser visionadas en proyecciones clandestinas. La obsesión de McGrath con el cineasta sumergirá al investigador en un mundo profundamente hipnótico y siniestro, mientras el lector, a través de una serie de documentos, pistas y fotografías, le acompaña en la misma búsqueda obsesiva. Última sesión es mucho más que un thriller psicológico: una lectura completamente adictiva que conduce a lugares inexplorados, una aventura cinematográfica que contiene el suspense de Hitchcock, el perfeccionismo enfermizo de Kubrick, los personajes torturados de Polanski, los escenarios claustrofóbicos de Lynch y el humor de Tarantino. La crítica ha dicho... « Última sesión ha sido minuciosamente escrita para ser leída a toda velocidad, y su energía sería la envidia de cualquier bestseller de verano.» Joe Hill, The New York Times Book Review «Maniáticamente inteligente. [...] Cordova es un genio monomaníaco que se arrastra por el interior de las más oscuras grietas de la psique humana. [...] El argumento te hace sentir como en una pesadilla de Escher sobre Edgar Allan Poe.» The Washington Post «El Perdida de este verano. Un thriller literario completamente absorbente.» Library Journal
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Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez · 2019
"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals. For Gaspar, the son, this cult is his destiny. As Gaspar grows up he must learn to harness his developing supernatural powers, while struggling to understand what kind of man his mother wanted him to be. Meanwhile Gaspar's father tries to protect his son from his wife's violent family while still honoring the woman he loved so desperately"--
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Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo · 1955
Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Paramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.
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The third policeman
Flann O ́Brien · 2014
FINALISTA PREMI LLIBRETER 2007Muchas son las razones que hacen de El Tercer Policía una novela singular. El título del libro se refiere a un misterioso personaje que posee las llaves para escapar de una serie de extraños sucesos que se irán repitiendo a lo largo de la narración. En su alucinante recorrido por parajes del todo extravagantes nuestro protagonista —que no puede recordar su nombre— tropezará con edificios bidimensionales, bicicletas altamente sexuales, toneladas de ómnium y un científico loco llamado De Selby dispuesto a demostrar que la tierra no es esférica sino «asalchichada». A lo largo de esta insólita e ingeniosa novela, el autor nos introduce a la manera de Lewis Carroll en el territorio de las grandes preguntas dándonos así algunas claves para entenderla:«El infierno da vueltas y más vueltas. Su forma es circular y su naturaleza interminable, repetitiva y muy próxima a lo insoportable».«El Tercer Policía aparecerá de manera sobresaliente en un momento clave... Lo hemos escogido por una razón muy concreta... Quienes compren el libro tendrán muchos más argumentos en su bolsillo para reflexionar sobre esta obra. Tendrán mucho más material sobre el que hacer especulaciones, y habrán leído —que no es cosa de poca importancia— un libro verdaderamente bueno.»Craig Wrightguionista y productor de Perdidos
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 2006
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
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S. - El barco de Teseo
J.J. Abrams · 2013
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. THE WRITER: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him. THE READERS: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. S. , conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand. It is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.
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House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 1998
THE MIND-BENDING CULT CLASSIC ABOUT A HOUSE THAT’S LARGER ON THE INSIDE THAN ON THE OUTSIDE • A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel. ''Simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent—it renders most other fiction meaningless." —Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho “This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore.” —Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices, the story remains unchanged. Similarly, the cultural fascination with House of Leaves remains as fervent and as imaginative as ever. The novel has gone on to inspire doctorate-level courses and masters theses, cultural phenomena like the online urban legend of “the backrooms,” and incredible works of art in entirely unrealted mediums from music to video games. Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.