Stories by @elmacho

Loki: Where Mischief Lies

Before the days of going toe-to-toe with the Avengers, a younger Loki is desperate to prove himself heroic and capable, while it seems everyone around him suspects him of inevitable villainy and depravity . . . except for Amora. Asgard's resident sorceress-in-training feels like a kindred spirit-someone who values magic and knowledge, who might even see the best in him. But when Loki and Amora cause the destruction of one of Asgard's most prized possessions, Amora is banished to Earth, where her powers will slowly and excruciatingly fade to nothing. Without the only person who ever looked at his magic as a gift instead of a threat, Loki slips further into anguish and the shadow of his universally adored brother, Thor. When Asgardian magic is detected in relation to a string of mysterious murders on Earth, Odin sends Loki to investigate. As he descends upon nineteenth-century London, Loki embarks on a journey that leads him to more than just a murder suspect, putting him on a path to discover the source of his power-and who he's meant to be

The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense.

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood. But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community

Still with you

Nunca imaginó que dentro de una casa aparentemente normal encontraría a una mujer muerta y a un chico encerrado en el ático, llamado Moon Daehyun, que cambiaría su vida para siempre.

Wolfsong

Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane. Ox was seventeen when he found out the boy’s secret, and it painted the world around him in colors of red and orange and violet, of Alpha and Beta and Omega. Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town and tore a hole in his head and heart. The boy chased after the monster with revenge in his bloodred eyes, leaving Ox behind to pick up the pieces. It’s been three years since that fateful day—and the boy is back. Except now he’s a man, and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them

Mundo Umbrio

Lina es una chica fea, bastante, y es nerd, por si fuera poco. Su vida no es fácil, pero se complicará cuando descubra que su padre es un vampiro, uno perseguido por una secta fundamentalista que jamás le perdonó haberse casado con una humana. Lina deberá bajar al Mundo Umbrío para desentrañar varios secretos y así detener la amenaza que se cierne sobre su padre y sobre ella.

Una Sonata de verano

Casio Oliver está obsesionado con Preludio de invierno, la primera obra de Oscar Salvatierra, un escritor ya retirado. Aguablanca, el pueblo donde se desarrolla la historia, es el lugar en donde Casio pasará el último mes de verano, entre sus pinos, fantasmas y recuerdos olvidados, mientras él intenta dejar atrás la pesadilla en la que se ha convertido su vida desde hace unos meses. Lo que Casio no sabe es que su propia historia ya comenzó hace tiempo, con un chico que le ofreció un paraguas bajo la lluvia, una mansión sobre un acantilado y un libro que esconde magia, muerte y amor entre sus páginas. En el abismo que separa la magia de la realidad, Casio tendrá que decidir por qué luchar, por qué vivir, para que su propia historia se haga realidad.

Cuando reescribamos

Julen Bas solo era un chico que quería pasar desapercibido. Ibai Ayala solo era su antiguo amigo de la infancia. Este solo iba a ser otro curso más, tranquilo y aburrido. Pero todo cambia con un sueño, una luna roja como la sangre, un diario y una muerte. Ahora Julen se enfrenta a una cuenta atrás en la que tendrá que luchar, hacerse valer y, quizás, darle una oportunidad a quién nunca habría pensado. Porque para cambiar la historia tendrá que llegar hasta las raíces de la amistad y enfrentarse a las sombras que la envuelven, para comprender cuánto vale una vida y cuánto estarías dispuesto a entregar para salvarla.

El Vals de la Bruja

LONDRES, 1895. Todo indicaba que podría ser una noche más en la Academia Covenant, cuando Eliza Kyteler y Kate Saint Germain, dos jóvenes Sangre Negra, deciden despertar a todos los muertos del cementerio Little Hill. Lo que parecía una simple travesura, se convierte en una expulsión definitiva de la Academia Covenant. Ahora, lo único que le queda a Eliza es ser presentada en sociedad y encontrar al marido perfecto. Dos cosas que, por más que sean la máxima prioridad de sus tíos, son las últimas en la lista de deseos de Eliza. Pero mientras sus días comienzan a transcurrir entre llamativos vestidos, lujosas telas y bailes donde todo lo que brilla parece ser oro, una oscura amenaza comienza a crecer en los rincones más oscuros de Londres. Veintisiete años después del asesinato de los padres de Eliza, la muerte vuelve a azotar a los Sangre Negra. Y cada víctima aparece en un estado más macabro que la anterior. ¿Quién está detrás de los asesinatos de los Sangre Negra? ¿Cuál es la amenaza que pone en peligro tanto a los brujos como a los no mágicos?

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death, that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career

Death on the Nile

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

The premise is a family reuniting for Christmas, and they find the host of the gathering discovered murdered in a private room

Evil under the sun

A quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Devon is all that Hercule Poirot wants, but among his fellow guests is a beautiful and vain woman who, seemingly oblivious to her own husband, revels in the attention of another woman's husband. She is later found strangled on a secluded beach and the obvious suspects all appear to have an alibi.

The Illustrated Man

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos.

The Martian Chronicles

The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them u

Evil Thing

This latest novel by the author of the wildly popular and darkly fascinating Villains series brings readers a tale told by the Evil Thing herself--a tale of the complicated bonds of female friendship, of mothers and daughters, and of burning, destructive desire. After all, nothing is as simple as black and white

Disney Villains and the Odd Sisters series

The Villains book series by Serena Valentino includes books Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince, Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch, and several more.

Hocus pocus and the all-new sequel

Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (humanand otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on Earth to torment Salem for all eternity. Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don’t quite go as planned, it’s a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches’ latest death-defying scheme.

Song of Achilles

The story is told from the perspective of Patroclus who, exiled by his father to live in the court of Peleus, soon falls in love with his host's son, the superhuman Achilles

Part of Your World: A Twisted Tale

Five years after the (twisted) events of the film, Ariel is now the queen of Atlantica, and Ursula is running Eric's kingdom on land. But when the sea witch threatens Atlantica once more, Ariel finds herself returning to a world (and a prince) she thought she'd left behind forever