Most Popular Books by Robert Holdstock

Deep in the sounds, scents and shifting rhythms of the Amazon forest, a family have lost their seven-year-old child, stolen by the mysterious ''Invisible People'', the tribe which has never been seen. Through ten years their agonised search for him takes them beyond the world''s last great natural frontier into the cruel beauty of the Brazilian jungle. When at last father and son do meet - in a dramatic and terrifying encounter - it is in the emerald forest, a place where the mythical and magical powers of primal existence must clash with the cold-hearted greed of modern man.

From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes this republication of a trilogy of early, pseudonymous adventure tales by Robert Holdstock, WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning author of MYTHAGO WOOD. The Berserker books are raw, primeval stories of a young Norse warrior, cursed by the gods to a life of savage warfare. Possessed by an animal, ferocious rage - implacable, invincible - Harald Swiftaxe fights his way across the Celtic world in search of release from his curse and, finally, peace. The Berserker omnibus contains SHADOW OF THE WOLF, THE BULL CHIEF and THE HORNED WARRIOR.

Un homme occupé à sculpter une effigie païenne dans une église en construction ; une vallée étrange, peuplée de statues, magnifiques, dangereuses ; un enfant capable de franchir les rapides en utilisant l''invisible magie du monde ; une forêt enrichie avec des gènes humains ; Merlin, confronté à un chef de guerre désireux de se venger d''une femme trop belle... Dans ce recueil ont été rassemblés par l''auteur des textes publiés entre 1974 (" Cendres ") et 1995 (" Enfantasme "). Dix-sept récits qui permettent de voir littéralement naître et monter en puissance l''un des plus grands conteurs des XXe et XXIe siècles.

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.