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Author
Language
English
Description
This book is an investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness. Have you ever seen something that was not really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins México, S.A
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela escrita a ritmo de rock, con guiños a los clásicos de terror y una vuelta de tuerca que te llevará a un sitio del que quizás nunca puedas, o quieras, salir. Damián huye de dos asesinos que lo persiguen en una solitaria carretera en el desierto. Logra eludirlos pero su automóvil se está quedando sin gasolina. A la distancia descubre un hotel que por fuera parece abandonado. Llama a la puerta y lo recibe Mercedes, una hermosa rubia...
5) Búscame
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"A veces elegimos ver solo lo que queremos ver. Otras veces lo que vemos cambia nuestra forma de ver todo lo demás. Hace cinco años, Rosa recorrió el muelle en plena noche, miró el agua oscura y turbulenta y saltó. Era una estudiante de Cambridge, una joven brillante que acababa de perder a su padre. Su muerte fue trágica pero no inesperada. ¿Fue realmente eso lo que sucedió? El juez de instrucción afirma que sí, pero Jar, el novio de Rosa,...
6) Find me
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by sightings of his girlfriend who has committed suicide, Jarlath Costello is drawn into a dark underworld when her aunt gives him a hard drive containing a diary that reveals information about her suspicious death.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple--from the bestselling author of all We Ever Wanted Was Everything"--
"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously,...
Author
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El esperadísimo cierre de la bilogía Salvajes: Uno de nuestros finales de Elsa Jenner. ¿ES EL AMOR O LA MUERTE LO QUE DA SENTIDO A LA VIDA? Por mucho que deseemos que no suceda, nada nos asegura que nuestro mundo no vaya a desmoronarse. En la vida podemos equivocarnos, pero los errores conllevan consecuencias con las que debemos aprender a vivir. Una obsesión, una ilusión perdida, una mentira terrible y una dolorosa realidad: el precio por alcanzar...
12) Moon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the company. Believing he is alone on his mission, his sole...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of two mentally ill boys--Erik, who believes he is a saint, and Thorn, who believes he is a demon--as their minds devolve into hallucinations, showing the way their worlds intersect, and culminating in a final stand-off.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Kay Effiel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revovles about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she is putting down on paper. Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life. He begins...
15) The illusionist
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancee rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him in a dramatic challenge of wills, Eisenheim prepares for...
17) Illusionarium
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As apprentice to his father, the second-best medical scientist in the empire, Jonathan leads a quiet life in a remote aerial city. Then the king arrives, calling on them to find the cure to a plague that has struck the capital city and put the queen's life at risk. A newly discovered chemical, fantillium, may help, but the side effects will also put at risk all that Jonathan holds dear.
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Stir of echoes: After Tom is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, he changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the visions intensify, he realizes they are echoes of a crime calling out to be solved.
Stir of echoes 2, the homecoming: After returning home from a tour of duty in Iraq, Ted Cogan is haunted by horrifying visions. He soon realizes that he may have brought back more than just a medal of honor.
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