New Releases by Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro, diretor do aclamado O labirinto do fauno, e Chuck Hogan, apontado por Stephen King como um dos dez melhores escritores de suspense da atualidade, estão de volta com A queda – segundo volume da surpreendente e aterradora trilogia iniciada com Noturno. Depois que um devastador ataque de vampiros tomou de assalto a cidade de Nova York, a pandemia se espalha rapidamente pelo globo. Um pequeno grupo de heróis luta para salvar a raça humana da extinção. Horror, suspense e fantasia carregada em tintas noir dão o ritmo eletrizante deste épico, descrito como o ''encontro de Bram Stoker com Stephen King e Michael Crichton''. Nadando contra a corrente do gênero atual, no qual os vampiros são mostrados com inclinações românticas ou como heróis de almas atormentadas, Guillermo del Toro e Chuck Hogan os apresentam como monstros desagradáveis, parasitas com um apetite insaciável por sangue humano. Desta vez, a praga que começou no aeroporto de Nova York continua a se espalhar pelo mundo. Há relatos de vírus nas principais cidades do mundo: Londres, Pequim, Tóquio, Lisboa. A queda mostra um pouco mais da linhagem que gerou o vírus, e a guerra de poder travada entre os Velhos e os Novos vampiros. No centro do conflito, encontra-se um livro com textos fundadores da história da raça e seus segredos mais obscuros. Quem encontrá-lo ganha a guerra e, em última instância, dita o destino da humanidade. Em meio a duas forças devastadoras, encontra-se o homem, reduzido a mero alimento numa guerra diabólica. Desta vez, o Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, seu filho Zack, a Dr. Nora Martinez, o velho Abraham Setrakian e Vasiliy Fet recebem o apoio improvável de Gus Elizade e sua gangue de caça-vampiros. Juntos, este estranho grupo tem que enfrentar o terror que se alastra. Eles são obrigados a tomar decisões difíceis, quando encontram rostos conhecidos dominados pelo vírus.

A plane lands at JFK and mysteriously ?goes dark?, stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason, all lights off, all doors sealed. The pilots cannot be raised. When the hatch above the wing finally clicks open, it soon becomes clear that everyone on board is dead - although there is no sign of any trauma or struggle. Ephraim Goodweather and his team from the Center for Disease Control must work quickly to establish the cause of this strange occurrence before panic spreads. The first thing they discover is that four of the victims are actually still alive. But that''s the only good news. And when all two hundred corpses disappear from various morgues around the city on the same night, things very rapidly get worse. Soon Eph and a small band of helpers will find themselves battling to protect not only their own loved ones, but the whole city, against an ancient threat to humanity.

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan''s Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event. The Strain They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months—the world. A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold. In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . . So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city—a city that includes his wife and son—before it is too late.

Since its debut in 1994, Mike Mignola''s Hellboy has been one of the most celebrated comics on shelves, winning every major industry award, attracting legions of fans, and seeing Mignola provide artwork for numerous films, including Blade 2 and Dracula. Now, the director of Blade 2, Guillermo del Toro, has brought Hellboy to the big screen, in a major motion picture starring Ron Periman. This lavish tie-in book features del Toro''s complete screenplay, based on Mignola''s Hellboy: Seed of Destruction graphic novel, along with copious production art from Mignola. With behind-the-scenes sketches and photos, commentary from Mignola, and del Toro''s on-set diary, The Art of the Movie is the ultimate guide to the Hellboy film.