César un gran noble del sur de Francia enloquecido tras asesinar a su propio hijo durante una batalla, vive con su esposa Bonne y su hija Flore refugiado en un castillo en ruinas, en un país devastado por las guerras entre Roger Trencavel y su señor feudal. A partir de estos personajes, Watson transporta al lector a una época en la que la imperaba el código del amor cortés y desarrolla una profunda reflexión sobre la melancolía, el amor y la locura, temas que no son exclusivos de la época histórica en la que se desarrolla la acción, sino que son universales.
Książka o charakterze autobiograficznym, w której Wharton opisuje przeżycia związane ze śmiercią swojej córki, zięcia i dwóch wnuczek. Dzieli się miłością, smutkiem, gniewem oraz pragnieniem doskonałej sprawiedliwości.
"Niezawinione śmierci" to powieść, która w tym samym stopniu jest afirmacją życia, co opowieścią o śmierci. To książka o życiu pogodzonym za śmiercią, o duchowej przemianie i pogłębionym rozumieniu naszych codziennych zmagań.
"Sądzę, że Wharton jest jedynym współczesnym pisarzem, który trafia wprost do czytelniczych serc i przyśpiesza ich bicie…".
"London Evening Standard"
Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need.
But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle’s in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interracial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of “Physical Therapy” consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture.
And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life.
"Violent, erotic, blasphemous, and extreme." -
"Without apologies, White tears through your emotions, from sympathy to hate, humor to shock..." -
From a world-ending orgy to home liposuction. From the hidden desires of politicians to a woman with a fetish for lions. This is a place where necrophilia, self-mutilation, and murder are all roads to love. collects the most extreme erotic horror from the celebrated hardcore horror master. Wrath James White is your guide through sex, death, and the darkest desires of the heart.
Twenty souls for his brother’s life is a price that seductively beautiful Samson is willing to pay. Twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. A fair trade for the life of a brother. A fair trade for the life of a priest. And everyone he meets seems so willing to give theirs away. Samuel’s faith often wavers. Diagnosed with HIV and in rapid decline, he hides his disillusionment in the rituals of the priesthood. But when Samson brings him the first blood-signed contract for a young woman’s immortal soul, the steamy world of high fashion male models and the quiet decay of a sickly priest begin to writhe against the realities of life, death, and otherworldly power. Brotherly love is a deadly seduction, beauty a dangerous game. Come worship in the brutal temple of Orgy of Souls. Your faith will never be the same again.
Who Wants Some of Wrath’s Sloppy Seconds? …
Who wouldn’t? Each year at the World Horror Convention, the most anticipated event is the Gross-Out Contest, where authors stand up in front of everyone and deliver some of the most disturbing, gut-wrenching tales anyone has ever heard.
Wrath James White’s stories are among the best of them. Now, we present his stories for the first time in print — uncut.
Here are his four stories from previous years, as well as his entry for the 2008 WHC.
But there’s more! We have a bonus story that is “one of the most grotesque and horrific murder/rape/revenge stories I have ever written.”
One of the most distinctive volumes of American weird fiction, all of which were based on nightmares of the author, a classics teacher in the Baltimore area and a longtime sufferer from migraine ("sick headaches," as he called them) who killed himself after the death of his beloved wife.
White wrote fiction in the summer to supplement his income, his most successful work being the solid but now rather dull works of historical fiction. Another motive, for the stories, was to get them out of his system. All of the stories in this collection have an unforced strangeness to them that is emblematic of their origins. The title story, anthologized twenty-three times according to Ashley and Contento, is fairly well known, but all of the others are worth reading as well. There is nothing else quite like this stuff. It is doubly unusual for its period, when American fiction underwent a divorce between the slicks and the pulps. White's nightmare stories were too grotesque for the slicks, and too "literary" for the pulps. Like the work of many another genius they turned out to be better suited for posterity than for his own time.
There is little of the overt fantastic in this great, bloody sprawl of a novel, in which tortured souls follow twisting paths through WWII Shanghai; rather, there is a gradual stretching of the ordinary to the extraordinary. And eventually all those twisted paths converge at the final, dreadful performance of Quin's Shanghai Circus.