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Sixteen long-neglected classics by renowned writers include "The Drunkard's Path," "An Unexpected Journey," "The Haunted Mill," "The Page-Boy's Ghost," "In the Court of the Dragon," and 11 others.
Author : Hugh Lamb
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486147800
Sixteen long-neglected classics by renowned writers include "The Drunkard's Path," "An Unexpected Journey," "The Haunted Mill," "The Page-Boy's Ghost," "In the Court of the Dragon," and 11 others.
Author : Hugh Lamb
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486138852
Prepare yourself for a spine-tingling journey into the heart of darkness. In this bone-chilling collection, you'll encounter thirteen long-lost tales of terror by famed authors. Whether the setting is an English village, the Brazilian countryside, or the Barbados coast, the madness lurking beneath the beauty of each location will haunt your imagination long after the last page is turned. In Dick Donovan's "The Mystic Spell," a young man finds the love of his life in Rio, but the deadly curse of an old crone could destroy their dreams if they marry. "The Black Reaper" by Bernard Capes, takes place in 1665 during The Great Plague, a time of wild fear and confusion. When the residents of an English village come face-to-face with the deadly scythe of the Black Reaper, only one daring act of courage can save their lives. In "A Tropical Horror" by William Hope Hodgson, the crew of a ship undergoes a series of attacks by a giant, eel-like sea monster. Will the young apprentice who relates this story survive? Filled with a mix of the macabre, the mysterious, the supernatural, and the sinister, this anthology is Victorian suspense at its finest.
Author : Edward Lucas White
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486810631
This original compilation presents 10 chilling tales of terror, two haunting poems, and an essay by an unjustly neglected author. Edward Lucas White weaves a tapestry of weird stories populated by ghouls, monsters, and creatures of ancient myth.
Author : Sarah Sceats
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317890655
Image and Power is an important work of literary and cultural criticism. This collection of essays focuses on some of the major issues addressed by women's writing in the twentieth century, concerning genre, subjectivity and social and cultural expectations, issues which in the past have been regarded from an essentially male perspective. The text introduces women writers whose novels have been widely read and provides an important contribution to the debate about women in literature.
Author : Sakyo Komatsu
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486802922
An island in the Japanese archipelago disappears overnight, raising fears for the entire country. Prescient 1973 novel, acclaimed by The New York Times as "a chillingly realistic work of science fiction."
Author : Robert Hugh Benson
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486803813
This 1907 novel unfolds in a world in which God has been supplanted by a religion of humanity. Gripping tale of the apocalypse, hailed as prophetic by Pope Francis.
Author : Douglas G. Greene
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486808025
When Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his fictional sleuth in the 1893 story "The Final Problem," distraught readers resorted to producing their own versions of Sherlock Holmes's adventures―thus inventing the now-common genre of fan fiction. These tales by famous and lesser-known devotees offer the best of early Sherlockian tributes and parodies. Editor Douglas G. Greene's informative Introduction provides background on each of the stories and their authors. The collection begins with Robert Barr's "The Great Pegram Mystery," a satire that appeared less than a year after the very first Holmes short story. Thirteen additional tales include Bret Harte's "The Stolen Cigar Case," praised by Ellery Queen as "one of the most devastating parodies" ever written about the Baker Street investigator; Mark Twain's "A Double-Barrelled Detective Story," featuring Holmes's nephew, Fetlock Jones; and "The Sleuths," by O. Henry, in which a bumbling New York private eye struggles to outshine a rival.
Author : Max Allan Collins
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486798119
Colorful characters with murderous motives populate this illustrated mystery in which the heated rivalry between a pair of cartoonists ends in homicide and a stripper-turned-detective and her stepson-partner seek the killer. "Great fun." — Mystery Scene.
Author : James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486802957
In this gripping Gothic drama of the 1840s, the bloodthirsty title character repeatedly dies but is reborn and forced to renew his relentless search for victims. Volume 2 of 2.
Author : J. J. Connington
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 048680156X
When a bacterial strain transforms fields into wastelands, a magnate assumes dictatorial powers to save the planet's starving population. "Realistic, reasoned, sociologically observed, and credible." ― Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.