The Tailor's Girl

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her...

A professional hunter returns to Johannesburg from a safari in Tanzania, to find that his wife has started a relationship with another man. She wants a divorce. Still reeling under the impact, he receives a phone call from his brother, a missionary pilot in Colombia, whose daughter was abducted by FARC guerillas. He catches a flight to South America the next morning.The two brothers track the kidnappers down to a remote jungle camp, where a Canadian medical doctor, kidnapped a month earlier, is also held captive. In the events that follow, both pilot and hunter are confronted by...

Each heart-pounding, fast-paced story in this collection features lively writing and young characters who come into contact with the tricks and illusions on life's darker side. A child loses his head inside a pumpkin. A skin-crawling spider spell is cast on a sorcerer's apprentice. A visit to the hospital for a tonsillectomy takes a ghoulish turn. Each story begins with an author's introduction that explains how the idea for it came to him, and features a spooky illustration by artists such as Edward Koren and Bleu Turrell. Historias más sombrías jamás contadas son reunidas en este libro...

Un libro alucinante. Un desafío a la vez que una bofetada. Vallejo se desgarra al escribir, y nos desgarra y nos alucina