Robert Masello est un conteur magistral, tissant des récits captivants qui plongent souvent dans les énigmes historiques et l'occulte. Son écriture se caractérise par des intrigues complexes qui brouillent les frontières entre le réel et le surnaturel, entraînant les lecteurs dans des mondes empreints de suspense et de savoirs arcaniques. L'œuvre de Masello invite à la contemplation des vérités cachées et des aspects plus sombres de la nature humaine, offrant une expérience fascinante à ceux qui sont intrigués par le mystère et l'inexplicable. Il allie avec brio la précision journalistique à un talent pour la narration imaginative.
Almost a century ago, a desperate young woman crawled ashore a desolate Arctic island carrying a mysterious emerald-encrusted cross and a terrible secret. In the present day, Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is facing a court-martial, but after his punishment is mysteriously lifted, Slater is offered a job no one else wants...
Bram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power...or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city. Stoker, a successful theater manager but frustrated writer, is drawn into a deadly web spun by the wealthy founders of a mission house for the poor. Far from a safe haven, the mission harbors a dark and terrifying secret. To save the souls of thousands, Stoker--aided by the explorer and a match girl grieving the loss of her child--must pursue an enemy as ancient as the Saharan sands where it originated. Their journey will take them through the city's overgrown graveyards and rat-infested tunnels and even onto the maiden voyage of the world's first "unsinkable" ship...
"It's 1914. The Great War grips the world--and from the Western Front a strange story emerges...a story of St. George and a brigade of angels descending from heaven to fight beside the beleaguered British troops. But can there be any truth to it? H. G. Wells, the most celebrated writer of his day--author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man--is dispatched to find out. There, he finds an eerie wasteland inhabited by the living, the dead, and those forever stranded somewhere in between...a no-man's-land whose unhappy souls trail him home to London, where a deadly plot, one that could turn the tide of war, is rapidly unfolding. In league with his young love, the reporter and suffragette Rebecca West, Wells must do battle with diabolical forces--secret agents and depraved occultists--to save his sanity, his country, and ultimately the world."--Provided by publisher.
"While on routine patrol in the tinder-dry Topanga Canyon, environmental scientist Rafael Salazar expects to find animal poachers, not a dilapidated antique steamer trunk. Inside the peculiar case, he discovers a journal, written by the renowned Robert Louis Stevenson, which divulges ominous particulars about his creation of 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.' It also promises to reveal a terrible secret--the identity of Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately, the journal--whose macabre tale unfolds in an alternating narrative with Rafe's--isn't the only relic in the trunk, and Rafe isn't the only one to purloin a souvenir. A mysterious flask containing the last drops of the grisly potion that inspired 'Jekyll and Hyde' and spawned London's most infamous killer has gone missing. And it has definitely fallen into the wrong hands"--Back cover.
In this spine-tingling thriller, the quest to recover a legendary artifact--and plumb its secrets--depends upon one man: David Franco, a brilliant but skeptical young scholar at Chicago's world-renowned Newberry Library. What begins as a simple investigation quickly spirals into a twisting, turning tale of suspense and intrigue.
As war rages in 1944, young army lieutenant Lucas Athan recovers a sarcophagus excavated from an Egyptian tomb. Shipped to Princeton University for study, the box contains mysteries that only Lucas, aided by brilliant archaeologist Simone Rashid, can unlock. These mysteries may, in fact, defy--or fulfill--the dire prophecies of Albert Einstein himself. Struggling to decipher the sarcophagus's strange contents, Lucas and Simone unwittingly release forces for both good and unmitigated evil. The fate of the world hangs not only on Professor Einstein's secret research but also on Lucas's ability to defeat an unholy adversary more powerful than anything he ever imagined. From the mind of bestselling author and award-winning journalist Robert Masello comes a thrilling adventure where modern science and primordial supernatural powers collide.
Journalist Michael Wilde—his world recently shattered by tragedy—has come to the South Pole looking for solace and a new lease on life. But what he finds on a routine dive in the polar sea is something else entirely: the bodies of a young man and a young woman, bound with chains and sealed forever in a block of ice. Beside them is an ancient chest filled with a sinister cargo. Wilde’s search to unravel the mystery of this doomed couple will lead from the battlefields of the Crimean War to the unexplored depths of the Antarctic Ocean, where an age-old curse survives to this day. And as the ice around the lovers begins to melt, Wilde will witness what may be a miracle—or a nightmare—in the making. What is dead, it turns out, is not always gone.
USA Today Bestseller In einer Höhle am italienischen Lago d'Averno in der Nähe von Neapel wird ein in einem Fels eingeschlossenes Fossil entdeckt. Es weist Klauen, aber auch Aspekte der Menschenartigen auf - nur dass es viel zu alt ist, um zu dieser Gattung zu passen. Professor Russo lässt das Fossil nach New York transportieren, wo er gemeinsam mit Carter Cox, einem befreundeten Paläontologen, weitere Untersuchungen vornehmen will. Bei einem Unfall im Labor erwacht die im Fels eingeschlossene Kreatur zum Leben. Ein Mitarbeiter wird getötet und Russo schwer verletzt. Er schwört, dass er ein lebendes Wesen aus Licht gesehen hat. Carter Cox hat Mühe, Russos Geschichte zu glauben, versucht aber, der Wahrheit auf die Spur zu kommen - und bringt sich und seine Frau Beth, eine Kunsthistorikerin, in Gefahr. Unerwartete Hilfe erhalten sie schließlich von einem jungen Religionsforscher, Ezra Metzger, der in Israel eine der Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer gestohlen und in die USA geschmuggelt hat - Teile des verlorenen biblischen Buchs Henoch. Ezra übersetzt sie und stößt auf Antworten auf die Frage, um welche Art von Wesen es sich bei dem Fossil handelt …
Wer die Geschöpfe des Gartens Eden befreit, öffnet das Tor zur HölleDie Kunsthistorikerin Beth Cox erhält den Auftrag, eine kunstvoll illustrierte und äußerst wertvolle Handschrift zu restaurieren. Es handelt sich um ein Bestiarium, eine im Mittelalter verfasste Sammlung an Fabeltierdichtungen mit kunstvollen Illustrationen, die sich im Besitz des Multimillionärs Mohammed al-Kalli befindet. Voller Begeisterung geht Beth ans Werk und ist bald von der ungewöhnlich echt wirkenden Darstellung der Fabelwesen fasziniert. Zudem stellt sie fest, dass die Schrift ein ungeahntes Geheimnis birgt. Zur gleichen Zeit macht ihr Mann Carter, der als Paläontologe in den Teergruben von La Brea in Los Angeles arbeitet, eine spektakuläre Entdeckung. Und auch an ihn tritt al-Kalli heran. Carter soll al-Kallis wahres Bestiarium retten. Denn die in den Dichtungen beschriebenen Kreaturen sind nur allzu lebendig …
