Andrew Pyper

Professor David Ullman is an expert in demonic literature who sees his area of study as one of the imagination, until he accepts a mysterious invitation to Venice and sees his daughter threatened by a demonic entity.

A Novel

The Demonologist

In this terrifying ghost story based on true events, the President’s late son haunts the White House, threatening all who live in it—and the divided America beyond its walls. From the bestselling author of The Homecoming. The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce is traveling with his family to Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. In an instant, their train runs off the rails, violently flinging passengers about the cabin. When the great iron machine finally comes to rest, the only casualty is the Pierces’ son, Bennie. The loss sends First Lady Jane Pierce into mourning, and casts Franklin’s presidency under a pall of sorrow and grief. As the Pierces move into the White House, they are soon plagued by events both bizarre and disturbing. Strange sounds seem to come from the walls and ceiling, ghostly voices echo out of time itself, and visions of spirits crushed under the weight of American history pass through empty hallways. But when Jane orchestrates a séance with the infamous Fox Sisters—the most noted Spiritualists of the day—the barrier between this world and the next is torn asunder. Something horrific comes through and takes up residence alongside Franklin and Jane in the very walls of the mansion itself. Only by overcoming their grief and confronting their darkest secrets can Jane and Franklin hope to rid themselves—and America—of the entity that seeks to make the White House its permanent home.

The Residence

A man's success with a memoir about his near-death experience in a fire that claimed his twin sister's life is overshadowed by memories of his twin's psychopathic nature and her vengeful ghost. By the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Demonologist.

The Damned

Joining a writing circle to try his hand at fiction, Patrick Rush is disturbed when a woman from his neighborhood turns up dead and could be linked to the writing club, but it becomes personal when his son disappears.

The Killing Circle

Bestselling author Andrew Pyper returns with a riveting psychological thriller about how the people you’ve known your whole life can suddenly become strangers. What if everything you knew about the people you loved was a lie? After the death of their absentee father, Aaron and Bridge Quinlan travel to a vast rainforest property in the Pacific Northwest to hear the reading of his will. There, they meet up with their mother and troubled sister, Franny, and are shocked to discover the will’s terms: in order to claim their inheritance they must all remain at the estate for thirty days without any contact with the outside world. Despite their concerns, they agree. The Quinlans soon come to learn their family has more secrets than they ever imagined—revelations that at first inspire curiosity, then fear. Why does Bridge have faint memories of the estate? Why did their father want them to be sequestered there together? And what is out there they feel pulling them into the dark heart of the woods? The Homecoming is at once a gripping mystery, a chilling exploration of how our memories can both define and betray us, and a riveting page-turner that will have you questioning your very existence.

The Homecoming

Don't all kids think there's a haunted house in their neighbourhood? Can you remember yours? What if, as a child, you knew something bad really had happened in that house? What if you actually saw it? Then you tried to forget it for the next thirty years. And then, one day, you had to go back inside that house? Andrew Pyper's THE GUARDIANS is a ghost story for grown-ups. Prepare to enter the Thurman House on Caledonia Street. You have been warned...

The Guardians

Oracle

"A maior astúcia do Diabo é nos convencer de que ele não existe", escreveu o poeta francês Charles Baudelaire. Já a grande astúcia de Andrew Pyper, autor de O DEMONOLOGISTA (DarkSide® Books, 2015), é fazer até o mais cético dos leitores duvidar de suas certezas. E, se possível, evitar caminhos mal-iluminados. O personagem que dá título ao best-seller internacional é David Ullman, renomado professor da Universidade de Columbia, especializado na figura literária do Diabo - principalmente na obra-prima de John Milton, Paraíso Perdido. Para David, o Anjo Caído é apenas um ser mitológico. Ao aceitar um convite para testemunhar um suposto fenômeno sobrenatural em Veneza, David começa a ter motivos pessoais para mudar de opinião. O que seria apenas um boa desculpa para tirar férias na Itália com sua filha de 12 anos se transforma em uma jornada assustadora aos recantos mais sombrios da alma. Enquanto corre contra o tempo, David precisa decifrar pistas escondidas no clássico Paraíso Perdido, e usar tudo o que aprendeu para enfrentar O Inominável e salvar sua filha do Inferno.

O Demonologista

"Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Lily Dominick interviews a criminal suspect who claims that he is more than two hundred years old, personally inspired Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker's novels, and is Lily's father. To discover the truth Lily embarks on a journey that will threaten her career, her sanity, and ultimately her life"--

The Only Child

Danny Orchard conseguiu enganar a morte e ganhou uma segunda chance para viver. Só que ele não voltou do inferno sozinho. Em Os Condenados, Andrew Pyper, autor do fenômeno O Demonologista, explora as conexões de amor e ódio entre irmãos gêmeos, numa história sobrenatural digna de pesadelos. Danny passou por uma experiência de quase-morte em um incêndio há mais de vinte anos. Sua irmã gêmea, Ashleigh, não teve a mesma sorte. Danny conseguiu transformar sua tragédia pessoal em um livro que se tornaria um grande best-seller. Ainda que isso não signifique que ele tenha conseguido superar a morte da irmã. Claro, ela nunca mais o deixaria em paz. Mesmo depois de morta, Ash continua sendo uma garota vingativa e egoísta, como sempre. Mas agora que seu irmão finalmente tenta levar uma vida normal, ela se torna cada vez mais possessiva. Danny parece condenado à solidão. Qualquer chance de felicidade é destruída pelo fantasma de seu passado, e se aproximar de outras pessoas significa colocá-las em risco. Os Condenados é o segundo lançamento de Andrew Pyper pela DarkSide Books. O autor, presente em diversas listas de mais vendidos em todo o mundo, foi consagrado por uma nova geração de leitores brasileiros, que fizeram O Demonologista ser uma das melhores surpresas em 2015. E agora Pyper promete incendiar novamente o mercado com este asfixiante thriller psicológico.

Os condenados

The disappearance of two fourteen-year-old girls from a down-and-out northern Ontario town draws idealistic defense lawyer Bartholomew Christian Crane into a sticky murder trial.

Lost Girls

A leading authority on demonic literature is invited to Venice to witness a phenomenon, but the visit endangers his daughter.

"Danny Orchard died on his 16th birthday-and so did his twin sister, Ashleigh-but only Danny came back. He wrote a bestselling memoir about his experience of heaven called The After, but despite his fame and fortune he's never been able to enjoy his second chance at life. His sister won't let him. Charming and magnetic in life, Ash appeared perfect to outsiders but the budding psychopath privately terrorized her family, and that hasn't stopped with her death. She's haunted Danny for twenty years and now, just when he's met the love of his life and has a chance at a real family, Ash is more determined than ever to keep him all to herself. Danny's already been to heaven. But in order to silence his sister once and for all, he'll have to meet her where she now resides. Which means he has to die one more time before he - and the ones he loves - can go on living."--

During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.

Tras la pérdida de su esposa, el periodista Patrick Rush decide unirse a un grupo de escritura creativa para tratar de dar un giro a su decepcionante vida profesional. La ciudad de Toronto vive en estos momentos la pesadilla de un misterioso asesino, al que la policía no consigue cazar. Bajo la influencia de este ambiente de miedo colectivo, los miembros del taller empiezan a escribir sus primeros cuentos. Angela, con sus relatos sobre el hombre del saco, un ladrón de niños con características sospechosamente parecidas a las del auténtico asesino, es la que más éxito tiene y por la que Patrick siente una atracción especial. Poco después, tras la muerte de ella en un extraño accidente de tráfico, el periodista toma una decisión que tendrá unas consecuencias y que provocará que cada vez le cueste más distinguir entre sueños y realidad. Cuando su propio hijo desaparece de repente, su vida se convierte en una auténtica pesadilla.

Un thriller arrebatador y lleno de originalidad. Novela seleccionada como thriller del año por el New York Times.

Plagio mortal

Deliverance meets Heart of Darkness for the Generation X reader. Imagine your job is to translate for a pair of arrogant technology whizzkids on business in South America. Imagine you are accompanying them on a jaunty boat trip up the river Amazon. Imagine that late one night some foreign bandits steal onto the boat and kill the crew. Imagine that you and your charges are kidnapped at gun point. Would you give your life for theirs in the name of survival? Crossman is faced with just this dilemma. A seemingly straightforward trek through the jungle rapidly breaks down into mayhem and, after the kidnapping, nobody knows who to trust. There are five of them - the whizzkids, their two colleagues and Crossman - buried in a deep, dark pit with the ever-present threat of torture to keep them there. But an escape route is finally found and quickly five become three, stranded in a tiny boat on the enomous Amazon and facing new threats from the surrounding wildlife. But these are as nothing compared with the often violent redrawing of allegiances between the three survivors... Sunday Times Bestselling author Andrew Pyper has written a chilling, tense followup to his debut novel, Lost Girls,

The Trade Mission

Fire chief Miles McEwan, scarred and haunted by a terrible death, confronts the blackened spectre of the past as he races against time to protect the remote Yukon town of Ross River from a raging inferno set by an unknown arsonist and to rescue his innocent young daughter, in a psychological thriller by the author of Lost Girls. 15,000 first printing.

The Wildfire Season

Brad Smith

Kathy Reichs

Nick Cutter

Jennifer Hillier

Robert Pobi

David Rotenberg

Robert Rotenberg

Don Gutteridge

Deryn Collier

Sean Slater

Welcome to The Dark Side, a collection of excerpts from some of Simon & Schuster Canada’s most terrifying, mysterious, and suspenseful novels. From Nick Cutter’s old-school thriller, The Troop, to Kathy Reichs’ internationally bestselling Bones series, these stories will leave you trembling. The Dark Side ebook includes excerpts from: Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper Shoot the Dog by Brad Smith Eye of the Storm by Rob Pobi The Troop by Nick Cutter Open Secret by Deryn Collier A Murder of Crows by David Rotenberg The Guilty by Sean Slater Death of a Patriot by Don Gutteridge Stranglehold by Robert Rotenberg Freak by Jennifer Hillier

A Collection of Mysteries & Thrillers

The Dark Side

Roman

Die Nachhilfestunde

ROSS RIVER, a.k.a. "lost liver," is a town on the edge, clinging to the outside world at the end of the Yukon's loneliest road. It's the perfect hiding place for Miles McEwan, the town's hard-drinking, fist-fighting fire chief. No one gets close to Miles, except the blackened spectre of a young man only he can see, a haunting reminder of the forest fire that scarred Miles's face and psyche, forcing him to abandon his plans for the future as well as the woman he loved. But the slow burn of Miles's exile is about to explode into life—and death—over the course of a handful of days at the height of the wildfire season. A hunting party seeking one of the last giant grizzlies is about to encounter a savagery of a different sort. In the mountains, a flame ignited by human hands begins to smoulder. And amidst the primeval beauty of rock and forest, someone is contemplating murder. As the hunting expedition confronts a chilling new enemy, and the growing inferno races to the edge of town, Miles embarks on a desperate rescue not only for the life of his five-year-old daughter—a child, who, until this dangerous summer, has been a complete stranger—but also for his own salvation. In The Wildfire Season, Andrew Pyper returns to the fictional landscape of the last true wilderness, portrayed with such authenticity in Lost Girls, his bestselling first novel. A blockbuster work of storytelling that drives relentlessly to its heart-stopping conclusion, The Wildfire Season is a dark psychological thriller, a visceral adventure and an unusual, and unusually moving, love story. It is also a lyrical exploration of our most raw emotional truths, of what ultimately binds us to family, to conscience, to what remains of the natural world. The Wildfire Season is storytelling at its very best.

Andrew Pyper

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