Robert Holdstock Books

Includes two volumes in the Nighthunter:- The Hexing- The Labyrinth Below London a lost river flows through an ancient temple. When some children discover it, they disturb its phantom guardian and are gruesomely hunted down.For Dan Brady, their sinister discovery may be a clue to the location of his abducted family. But is there a connection with the strange warning he receives... and with the chilling symbols of witchcraft around his house?First he must face the blood-crazed ghosts of another age. And beyond them looms the horrifying secret power of Arachne. The clue is Magondathog, the place where Arachne's dark occult forces will finally triumph - where civilisation will end. And time is running out for Brady...for his missing children...for the entire world

A young boy with amazing--and incredibly dangerous--psychokinetic powers is able to travel into the past and, with guidance from a shadowy spirit, return with artifacts of great value. But, unknown to him ir his family, each trip into the past brings him closer to a terrifying fate, a fate that only a psychic investigator may be able to change.Originally published as The Fetch

Alien worlds have always captivated science fiction enthusiasts, with their imaginative landscapes playing a crucial role in the narratives they inhabit. These worlds are often meticulously crafted, featuring realistic details and vibrant imagery. This exploration delves into ten of the most renowned fictional worlds, providing insights into their history, politics, climate, geography, flora and fauna, and galactic locations. Accompanied by 30 original paintings commissioned from top science fiction and fantasy illustrators, readers can visually experience the stunning environments of Arthur C. Clarke's Rama, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, James Blish's Okie Cities, Hal Clement's Mesklin, Harry Harrison's Eros, Frank Herbert's Arrakis from Dune, Larry Niven's Ringworld, Asimov's Trantor from the Foundation Trilogy, Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, and H.G. Wells's End of the World. These illustrations bring to life the diverse landscapes and societies of these alien realms, offering a vivid glimpse into life beyond our planet. The talented illustrators include Jim Burns for Rama, Roger and Linda Garland for Pern, John Harris for Okie Cities, Tony Roberts for Mesklin, Colin Hay for Eros, Terry Oakes for Arrakis, Stuart Hughes for Ringworld, Angus McKie for Trantor, Bob Fowke for Hothouse, and Les Edwards for End of the World.

A horror novel set in a quiet English town where a church font is surrounded by legend and stories of suicide and madness. To June Hunter it is a prison, holding the soul of her son - and for all it is a deadly danger.

Two winners of a trip with the first package tour to the Aurora-Magellan Federation spend six months visiting alien planets

A powerful and compelling return to Robert Holdstock's award-winning Mythago cycle.

Jack Chatwin has visions. When the glimpses of this strange realm affect him, his body shimmers and the distant sounds of the lost world can just be heard. But is he witnessing events from the past, from the future, or from a world in parallel to his own?

This companion volume to Alien Landscapes is a spectacular voyage of exploration, in words and pictures, through the fabulous landscapes of the immensely popular and fecund world of fantasy fiction. Castles and citadels, dark towers and impregnable fortresses, riven mountain and hidden valleys, primordial forests and dead sea bottoms are populated by wizards and demons, dragons and giants, and still stranger creatures from alien mythologies and the writer's mind. And there are heroes: such champions of Order as Conan, Robert E. Howard's mighty barbarian; J.R.R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring; Michael Moorcock's brooding albino antihero, Elric; and Stephen Donaldson's bitter and reluctant Thomas Covenant. Ten fantasy realms, from Middle-earth to Shangri-La, from Gormenghast to Earthsea, are illustrated, mainly in colour, by a wide range of top fantasy artists, and examined and discussed in a lively and informative text by two leading authorities on the field. Despite fantasy fiction's vast and loyal audience, Realms of Fantasy is the first work of its kind, and will appeal to devotees and newcomers alike. Its combination of illustration and text will enable those adventurous travellers who have already discovered these realms to explore them further, and for those who are yet to do so, it will open new horizons of the imagination.

A planet where eerie time displacements, like winds, can dump alien artefacts from the past and future into now, or sweep things away from now into anywhen.' 'A planet that attracts both scientists and fortune hunters, rummaging among the strangenesses, risking oblivion, carrying with them their own hang-ups, desperations, odd urges and searches. 'You won't easily forget this haunting, fully-realised world.' TRIBUNE.

The triumphant return to the world of MYTHAGO WOOD, one of the greatest fantasy novels of the twentieth century.

Back in print after over a decade, the haunting sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning Mythago Wood

The victim of a violent attack, Alex Bradley is a damaged and visionary child. Little does he know that the distorted creations of his mind are alive inside nearby Ryhope Wood. Then the forest claims him, and his father goes in pursuit, along with a scientific expedition looking for the secret of 'mythago-genesis'.

Earthwind tells the story of two people trapped on the planet Aeran. What has happened to the colonists of this world to obliterate their memories of who and what they were, and to have rebuilt in their place a precise and accurate copy of a stone age culture that had flourished in Ireland during the fourth millennium BC? Elspeth Mueller, fighting against time as her memory decayed, tried to find out; deformed and embittered by the barbaric rituals of her ‘civilised’ home world, she struggled against her own fear to accept the cruel customs of Aerani society, knowing that the answers she sought lay in those same rituals. Peter Ashka, his life inextricably interwoven with the I Ching, tried to find out as well — but his quest brought him into conflict with the two authorities that guided his life.

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4to, Oversized, profusely illustrated with color illustrations, 219 pages with an Index at the rear in green paper

A fabulous tale of honour, vengeance and magic by one of the great fantasists of modern times.

After the death of George Huxley, his sons take up his life's work. What they discover goes beyond conception for the wood is a place where myths gain flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams and propel you into terrifing insanity.

Robert Holdstock seamlessly blends myth and history into a fabulous tale of Merlin, hundreds of years before the coming of Arthur schovat popis

The Fear - mysterious, unstoppable, this deadly plague is slowly wiping out humanity. And only one world seems to offer hope of sanctuary - Ree'hdworld, home of the only other intelligent beings in the universe. But Ree'hdworld is not as safe as it seems. For something has been happening to the natives - both the friendly Ree'hd and their more primitive kinsmen, the Rundii. And only three people stand any chance of discovering and surviving the danger that the humans of Ree'hdworld will soon face: Kristina, an Earthwoman who is slowly "going Ree'hd"; Maguire, a blind man who should have died centuries ago and who, living, has seen all the secrets of the universe; and Zeitman, a brilliant scientist who holds the key to salvation on Ree'hdworld in his mind - if only he can discover it in time...

Crying in the Rain by Tanith LeeThe Facts of Life by Christopher EvansSmall Heirlooms by M. John HarrisonThe Emir's Clock by Ian WatsonThe Price of Cabbages by Brian W. AldissFullwood's Web by Graham CharnockScarrowfell by Robert HoldstockThe Frozen Cardinal by Michael Moorcock The Black Wedding; Murderers Walk; Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands by Garry KilworthSanctity by R.M. LammingMoonlighter by David S. GarnettIn a Land of Sand and Ruin and Gold by David LangfordPiper's Wait by Keith RobertsThe Wound by Lisa Tuttle

The Fear - mysterious, unstoppable, this deadly plague is slowly wiping out humanity. And only one world seems to offer hope of sanctuary - Ree'hdworld, home of the only other intelligent beings in the universe. But Ree'hdworld is not as safe as it seems. For something has been happening to the natives - both the friendly Ree'hd and their more primitive kinsmen, the Rundii. And only three people stand any chance of discovering and surviving the danger that the humans of Ree'hdworld will soon face: Kristina, an Earthwoman who is slowly "going Ree'hd"; Maguire, a blind man who should have died centuries ago and who, living, has seen all the secrets of the universe; and Zeitman, a brilliant scientist who holds the key to salvation on Ree'hdworld in his mind - if only he can discover it in time...

Die Unheimlichen Bücher Band 26: Vor vielen Jahrhunderten verehrten die Menschen von Higham den Geist der Steine. Heute beten sie, dass der Schrecken ein Ende nehmen möge. In einer kleinen Stadt westlich von London stehen die Ruinen einer ausgebrannten Kirche. In den Ruinen befindet sich ein steinernes Taufbecken, um das sich dunkle Legenden ranken - Legenden von Blut, Selbstmord und Wahnsinn. Für eine junge Mutter bedeuten die Ruinen ein Gefängnis, in dessen Mauern die Seele ihres Sohnes gefangen gehalten wird. Für einen ehrgeizigen Wissenschaftler bedeuten sie ein Forschungsobjekt, eine Herausforderung. Für eine französische Hellseherin sind sie ein Schlüssel in die Vergangenheit. Für alle aber birgt dieses alte Gemäuer eine tödliche Gefahr!

Deset povídek. Za jedním domem na anglickém venkově je les, který je plný kostí – ale i mytág, tajemných bytostí stvořených z lidské fantazie, jimž kosti kdysi patřily, než si je les, který je zrodil, zase vzal zpět. Chlapci Christian a Steven Huxleyovi, kteří v tom domě žijí, jsou svědky toho, jak jejich otec, který se snaží les vědecky zkoumat, jeho zhoubnému kouzlu nenávratně propadá a stává se postupně někým, kdo je ochoten přinést své posedlosti na oltář cokoli, včetně své rodiny. Vedle novely, která předchází ději jedinečné románové série o Ryhopském lese, přináší sbírka Les kostí další příběhy prostoupené jedinečnou atmosférou a poetikou, kterou dokázal Robert Holdstock svým příběhům vdechnout. Opět v nich ožívají prastaré rituály, čímsi povědomé a zároveň děsivé vším, co bylo dávno zapomenuto. Nové české vydání uvozuje předmluva anglického spisovatele Garryho Kilwortha a těšit se můžete rovněž na česky dosud nevydanou Holdstockovu povídku, ukázky jeho básnické tvorby a na závěr také na fascinující novelu Trnatec. -- zdroj: legie.info --

Rok poté, co jeho otec pronásledovaný svým podivným šílenstvím definitivně mizí v Ryhopském lese, se Chris Huxley sám vydává do tajemného lesa mytág, aby nalezl odpovědi na několik palčivých otázek, aby odhalil rozdíl mezi pravdou a lží, které střeží Brána ze slonoviny, brána z rohu. Do Ryhopu vstupuje poprvé, a tak máme i my možnost znovu objevovat tuto tajemnou končinu jeho smysly a spolu s ním pocítit „zmatek na okraji dění, smyslovou kakofonii zvuků a obrazů, záblesky vizí a ozvěn lesa, které se takřka nedají postihnout, děsivých i svůdných“.

1. kniha série Merlinův kodex. Staletí předtím, než se setká s Artušem, kráčí Merlin světem, věčně mladý, poutník po cestách magie a poznání. Při svém putování se setká s Iásonem pátrajícím po zlatém rounu a přidá se k jeho výpravě. Za své rozhodnutí jednou draze zaplatí. O stovky let později uslyší Merlin volání lodi v jezeře na dalekém severu. Tou lodí je Argó a Iáson na její palubě stále oplakává své syny, které považuje ze mrtvé. Ale smrtí nic nekončí a Merlinova cesta na sever vede ke vzkříšení lodi i jejího kapitána, k nové výpravě s novými druhy a novému cíli – nalezení Iásonových synů. Keltika je první kniha dvoudílného Merlinova kodexu. Merlinova cesta, začínající na mrazivém severu a pokračující přes strašidelný ostrov Artušova království a hluboké lesy do prastarých svatyní antického Řecka, je bohatá na události, mistrně vykreslené postavy a dějové zvraty. V Keltice se mísí rozměry epické ságy s tajemstvím a magií fantasy.