Maplecroft pdf

Чери Прист — автор двух десятков книг и новелл, в том числе «Плата», «Семейный заговор», «Дом агонии» и номинант на премию Филипа К. Дика «Мэйплкрофт»; но она, пожалуй, наиболее известна своими приключениями в стиле стимпанк Заводного века, начиная с Boneshaker. Ее работы были номинированы на премии «Хьюго» и «Небула» в области научной фантастики, а также получили премию «Локус» (среди прочего) — и за эти годы они были переведены на девять языков в одиннадцати странах.

Maplecroft pdf Чери Прист

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one....
The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny.
But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean’s depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness.
This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.