検索キーワード： 著者 "William Meikle" すべてのカテゴリー

DIE KREATUREN RUHEN NICHT – ZEIT FÜR DAS S|SQUAD! Bei dem Versuch, eine Gruppe Archäologen aus einem Kriegsgebiet zu retten, findet sich das S|SQUAD in einer verlassenen Wüstenregion voller vergessener antiker Städte und Tempel wieder. Dort müssen sie schnell feststellen, dass sie nicht allein sind... Zuerst stoßen sie auf Leichen, dann auf die Netze, und schließlich auf hungrige Spinnen. Große, hungrige Spinnen. Monster. Riesige Kreaturen. Kugeln. Und Flüche... jede Menge Flüche.

DIE KREATUREN RUHEN NICHT – ZEIT FÜR DAS S|SQUAD! Eine Nachkriegs-Forschungsstation von allem zu befreien, was sich für die britische und norwegische Regierung als belastend erweisen könnte, klingt erst einmal nach einem einfachen Job. Doch während das S|SQUAD versucht, diese Mission zu erfüllen, werden sie von etwas, das den Legenden entsprungen zu sein scheint, durch die Berge und Fjords gejagt. Sie haben ein schlafendes Ungeheuer aufgeweckt. Und das ist wütend, kampflustig... und hat seine Freunde mitgebracht. Monster. Riesige Kreaturen. Kugeln. Und Flüche... jede Menge Flüche.

It starts with an odd hum that brings headaches and nosebleeds to the inhabitants of a remote, sleepy country town. Then a sinkhole begins to form...and out from that hole comes the townspeople's worst nightmares.

A trip to a war zone to rescue trapped archaeologists finds the S-Squad in a remote desert region of lost cities and temples. They quickly discover that they are not alone among the ruins. First they find the bodies, then they find the webs, then they're in real trouble when the spiders attack.

DIE KREATUREN RUHEN NICHT – ZEIT FÜR DAS S|SQUAD! Nach ihren Strapazen in den eisigen Regionen der Welt zieht es das S|SQUAD in wärmere Gefilde. Deshalb kommt eine vermeintlich simple Mission im Amazonas wie gerufen. Was sie dort aber erwartet, sind drückende Hitze, lästige Insekten und ein Schlangenproblem. Ein großes Schlangenproblem... Schon bald finden sie sich in einem Kampf ums Überleben wieder. Und die alten Schlangengötter kennen den Dschungel und die Flüsse weitaus besser als unsere schottischen Draufgänger... Monster. Riesige Kreaturen. Kugeln. Und Flüche... jede Menge Flüche.

DIE KREATUREN RUHEN NICHT – ZEIT FÜR DAS S/SQUAD! Froh darüber, endlich wieder in heimischen Gefilden zu sein, übernimmt das S/SQUAD einigermaßen sorglos den Auftrag, Berichten über seltsam verstümmelte Tierleichen in den schottischen Highlands nachzugehen. Was soll da schon schiefgehen? Doch es dauert nicht lange, bis das S/SQUAD feststellen muss, dass auch ihr Heimatland nicht immun ist ... Irgendetwas fällt mir räuberischer Gier über Tiere und schließlich auch die Bewohner der schottischen Highlands her, und seine Spur führt zu einem ganz bestimmten, mythenumrankten Ort – den dunklen Gewässern von Loch Ness.

A remote high valley in the Canadian Rockies hides an ecosystem that has been lost in time. A small team of prospectors and their local guides are looking for gold. What they find is blood and terror and death. The valley's monstrous inhabitants are not about to let go of its secrets lightly.

Ein neuer historischer Sherlock Holmes Kriminalroman von William Meikle: Der Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes lässt sich auf ein höchst mysteriöses Abenteuer ein. Wie gewohnt widmet er sich aber auch diesem bizarren Fall mit größter Akribie.

At first, it is a rescue mission, but soon Danny, Stefan, Ed, and Elsa find themselves in a fight for survival. A perilous journey across an underground sea brings them to a lost island and fresh adventures, but their attempts to return to the surface only serve to make their situation worse.

A treasure hunt into the deepest cave system in Europe takes a turn for the worst. Now, rather than treasure, it is survival that is at the forefront of the spelunkers' thoughts. But their attempt to escape out of the dark deep places is thwarted. Men are not at home in the depths. But there are things that are... pale terrifying things. Huge things. Things red in tooth and claw.

The case of a lost husband leads Holmes and Watson into the bowels of the new Underground system, where they uncover a fiendish scheme – the recently deceased are being forced to work as unpaid labor in the tunnels. And soon the walking dead come up into the city itself, spreading mayhem and disease. Holmes must find the perpetrator of these atrocities, and stop him, before the plague engulfs London.

In this collection, you'll find some Mi-Go, Yog-Sototh, Shoggoths, King Arthur, British soldiers, some Deep Ones, scientists of various competencies, Roman centurions, the Antoinine Wall, a fair bit of singing, and some green blobby stuff. 

When the end came, it wasn’t zombies, asteroids, global warming, or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a lab. Something small, and very hungry. It starts with deadly rain that delivers death where it falls, but soon the whole planet is under threat as the infection spreads, consuming everything before it. A band of survivors on the Eastern coast of Canada watch as their world falls and crumbles to ruin. The infection seems relentless. More than that, it seems to be learning, adapting, and evolving faster than they can fight it.

In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, held an informal dining club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest. These are their stories, containing tales of revenant loved ones, lost cities, weird science, spectral appearances, and mysteries in the fog of the old city, all told by some of the foremost writers of the day. In here you'll find Verne and Wells, Tolstoy and Checkov, Stevenson and Oliphant, Kipling, Twain, Haggard, and Blavatsky alongside their hosts.

A terror from the past has returned, bringing with it death and destruction that threatens to overrun the town. The old stories tell of a postwar experiment gone wrong, one that opened the way for the fog - or whatever was behind it - to begin its reign of terror. A small team of workmen are the last hope to keep their town alive through the long, storm-filled night. But the many horrors that await them are beyond anyone’s worst nightmares.

For Tor and Skald this is their first Viking raid, and their minds are filled with thoughts of honor and glory. What awaits them are beasts - huge, hairy, and fanged, the Alma, who will not suffer intruders in their domain. When the Vikings slaughter a female Alma, they soon find themselves in the middle of a battle with vicious creatures bent on bloody revenge. Now they must stand and be counted, for destiny awaits in the mountains, where the hairy ones dance.

Patty Doyle holds the secret to eternal life, but it may only bring her an early death. Patty is working on a journal of a 14th Century alchemist. But after mentioning it in her blog she gets to the office to find everyone brutally murdered. Now she's on the run pursued by a killer who wants the secret of eternal life it contains.

It all begins with a dead whale on a Boston shoreline - not in itself an unusual occurrence. But the things that claw their way out of the blubber are very unusual indeed. A cast of giant crabs, evolved over centuries, descends on a small coastal town and, having feasted, make their way to the city using the sewer system. Soon they are swarming around Manhattan, hunted and harried by a SWAT team tasked with ridding the city of the menace...before the menace gets big enough to rid itself of the city.

Derek Adams is on the lam, framed for a strange murder and chased by a cult intent on getting their hands on the skin belt that writhes in Derek's pocket. When a firm of lawyers offers him a way out, he grabs it with both hands. Then things really go to the dogs!

At first it's a simple lost son case, but for PI Derek Adams things turn quickly to the twilight zone. Soon he's on a remote island and up to his hips in mer-women, shape-changers and ancient fisher cults. Running back to the city doesn't help; there's magic and mayhem loose on the streets. An ancient god is waking up, and only blood will stop him!