Seth Grahame-Smith se proslavil jedinečným spojením klasické literatury s hororovými prvky. Jeho díla mistrně proplétají známé příběhy s nečekanými zvraty, čímž vytváří podmanivý a originální čtenářský zážitek. Jeho přístup oživuje nadčasové narativy novou energií a oslovuje čtenáře hledající neotřelé pohledy na literární klasiku. Grahame-Smith tak nabízí svěží a zábavnou perspektivu, která si získala široké publikum.
Adaptace klasického románu Jane Austenové s odvážnou Elizabeth, srdečnou Jane, trochu nesnesitelnou paní Bennetovou, povýšeným panem Darcym... a hordou obživlých mrtvol.
Posláním paní Bennettové je provdat co nejdříve všech pět dcer, posláním pana Bennetta je ochránit je před útoky krvelačných zombie, které sužují celou Anglii. Všechny dcery jsou zdatné v boji s nebezpečnými stvůrami, jejich každodenní trénink je však narušen příjezdem mladého a nezadaného pana Bingleyho a jeho přítele Darcyho. Elizabeth Bennettová ovšem neslyší svatební zvony, ale řinčení šavlí a lámání kostí. A jak by se mohla zamilovat do arogantního Darcyho? Bude pro Darcyho a Elizabeth těžší boj s nenasytnými zombie nebo s vlastními předsudky...?
Vampire Henry Sturges returns in the highly anticipated sequel to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter-a sweeping, alternate history of twentieth-century America by New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith. THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Henry's will be an expansive journey that first sends him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Along the way, Henry goes on the road in a Kerouac-influenced trip as Seth Grahame-Smith ingeniously weaves vampire history through Russia's October Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, and the JFK assassination. Expansive in scope and serious in execution, THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE is sure to appeal to the passionate readers who made Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a runaway success.
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes UNHOLY NIGHT, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism. They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing strange gifts? The Bible has little to say about this enigmatic trio. But leave it to Seth Grahame-Smith, the brilliant and twisted mind behind Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to take a little mystery, bend a little history, and weave an epic tale. In Grahame-Smith's telling, the so-called "Three Wise Men" are infamous thieves, led by the dark, murderous Balthazar. After a daring escape from Herod's prison, they stumble upon the famous manger and its newborn king. The last thing Balthazar needs is to be slowed down by young Joseph, Mary and their infant. But when Herod's men begin to slaughter the first born in Judea, he has no choice but to help them escape to Egypt. It's the beginning of an adventure that will see them fight the last magical creatures of the Old Testament; cross paths with biblical figures like Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist; and finally deliver them to Egypt. It may just be the greatest story never told.
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, " henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose ..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln , and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
Vom Schmuddelfilm zur milliardenschweren Industrie - Lange Zeit fristete die Pornobranche ein Schattendasein, doch spätestens seit dem Kassenerfolg von 'Deep Throat' und der Mainstream-Popularität von Stars wie Jenna Jameson ist die provokanteste Kunstform der Geschichte gesellschaftsfähig. Diese farbenprächtige und wunderbar humorvolle Chronik bietet sowohl für den Insider als auch den Neueinsteiger einmalige Einblicke in ein Genre, das lange Zeit als Tabu galt.
