Bücher von Joe Hill

A veterinary degree is long and difficult but, above all, scientific. The world of a practicing vet is far from white coats, test tubes and theory, it is complex, full of human interactions and financial decisions. Understanding these concepts and how they can be managed is key to career longevity, a good work-life balance, and a sustainable profession. There is no wonder cure or magic pill, but this book will help to make things better.

13 Geschichten voll Schrecken und purer Magie. Darunter >Vollgas< und >Im hohen Gras

EISIGES GRAUENEin Schiff einer Ölbohrgesellschaft ist seit 1983 spurlos in der Arktis verschollen. Auf einmal aber sendet es nach 40 Jahren ein Notsignal. Kapitän Cage Carpenter und seine Crew werden angeheuert, wichtige Daten von der "Derleth" zu bergen. Doch auf dem einsamen Atoll, auf dem das Wrack festsitzt, erwartet sie der nackte Schrecken! Die Besatzung der "Derleth" tritt ihnen entgegen - von einem außerirdischen Parasiten in lebende Tote verwandelt!Bestseller-Autor Joe Hill und Top-Zeichner Stuart Immonen (Spider-Man) präsentieren eine blutige Hommage an H. P. Lovecraft, John Carpenters Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt und weitere Horror-Ikonen, die dem Leser das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt!ENTHÄLT: PLUNGE 1-6

Vier literarische Juwelen, die unseren ständigen Krieg zwischen Gut und Böse ins Extreme treiben. SCHNAPPSCHUSS ist die verstörende Geschichte eines Jungen, der von einem brutalen Schläger bedroht wird. Dieser besitzt eine Sofortbildkamera, die Erinnerungen löscht, Schnappschuss für Schnappschuss ... In GELADEN stoppt der Sicherheitsbeamte eines Einkaufszentrums mutig eine Amokläuferin und wird zum Helden der modernen Waffenrechtsbewegung. Doch als eine Reporterin die wahren Hintergründe der Geschichte aufdeckt, dreht der Beamte durch ... HOCH OBEN: Ein junger Mann fliegt für seinen ersten Fallschirmsprung hoch in den Himmel ... und landet auf einer festen Wolke, die von einem eigenen Verstand belebt zu sein scheint und Gedanken lesen kann. REGEN: An einem scheinbar gewöhnlichen Tag in Colorado öffnen sich die Wolken und es regnet Kristallsplitter, die jede Person zerfetzen, die ohne Deckung ist. Dieses Phänomen droht sich wie eine Apokalypse auf der ganzen Welt auszubreiten. Kirkus Reviews: »Falls du noch kein Fan von Joe Hill bist, wird dich dieses Buch dazu machen.« Lauren Beukes: »Joe Hill war schon immer gut, aber mit diesem Buch hat er etwas Brillantes geschaffen, anspruchsvoll und originell. Er ist ein Meister des Erzählens, der mit Feuer in den Adern schreibt.« SciFiNow: »Sehr gut gezeichnete Figuren, einige heftige Schockmomente und ein großartiger Sinn für Humor.« Mail on Sunday: »Er greift die Ängste von uns allen auf, dass die Welt untergeht.« Joe Hill: »Novellen sind Killer, keine Füller, sie kommen auf den Punkt, wo Romane ausschweifend werden. Sie haben die Ökonomie von Kurzgeschichten, sind aber aufgrund ihrer Länge in der Lage, eine Charakterisierung zu erreichen, die wir üblicherweise bei Romanen erwarten.«

NEUE GESCHICHTEN ZU JOE HILLS PREISGEKRÖNTER HORROR-SAGALOCKE & KEY ist einer der besten Horror-Comics aller Zeiten. In den poetischen, tragischen und blutrünstigen Storys dieses Bandes werden 1912 die unglaublichen Geheimnisse des Mondes enthüllt. Außerdem wird das magische Keyhouse auf der Insel Lovecraft in der Ära der großen Depression von einer brutalen Gangster-Bande eingenommen, die weder vor Frauen, noch vor Kindern Halt macht. Die Locke-Geschwister Bode, Ty und Kinsey finden in der jüngeren Vergangenheit indes einen weiteren Schlüssel, der eine normale Tür zu einem Tor ins Reich der Albträume und der Fantasie verwandelt...Drei brandneue Storys aus dem Universum des Horror-Meisterwerks von Bestseller-Autor Joe Hill (Teufelszeug, Christmasland) und Ausnahmezeichner Gabriel Rodríguez (TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE - GESCHICHTEN AUS DER SCHATTENWELT) als deutsche Erstveröffentlichung und mit Bonus-Material.

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest purchase, an item he discovered on the Internet:I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder . . .For a thousand dollars, Jude has become the owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. Suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude's restored Mustang . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting?with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand . . .

The spine-tingling, bone-chillingnovel of supernatural suspense from the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe FiremanandHornsnow an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings."e;A masterwork of horror."e;TimeVictoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be.Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble...and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very specialsomething Vic can never replace.As a life-and-death battle of wills builds, Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for allor die trying.

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet.I will "e;sell"e; my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder. . . .For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn't afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsof an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one more?But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. It's the real thing.And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingwith a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . .A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.

Joe Hill's critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserved crown. A twisted, terrifying new novel of psychological and supernatural suspense, Horns is a devilishly original triumph for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship recipient whose story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was also honored with a Bram Stoker Awardand whose emotionally powerful and macabre work has been praised by the New York Times as, "e;wild, mesmerizing, perversely wittya Valentine from hell."e;

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.The fireman is coming. Stay cool.No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else its Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodiesbefore causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now shes discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakobs dismay, Harper wants to liveat least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squadsarmed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isnt as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighters jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Firemans secrets before her lifeand that of her unborn childgoes up in smoke.