Author : Tim Kelly
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Anatomists
ISBN : 9780822211242
THE STORY: The action takes place in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where Dr. Cyrus Norton, a brilliant but eccentric surgeon, is creating an anatomical museum to further his standing as a recognized expert on anatomy and dissection. The proble
Author : John Manning
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499057555
Twenty tales of terror, dark fantasy, and macabre humor from authors in Canada and the United States spanning seven decades 1860 thru 1929. Ten authors from What Scares the Boogeyman? return and are joined by ten new writers: Jason Cordova Michael H. Hanson Richard Groller Rie Sheridan Rose Brian Bigelow Larry Atchley, Jr. Forrest Hedrick Shebat Legion Shirley Meier Ethan Nahte Benjamin Bement Deborah Koren John Manning Austin Sirkin W. B. Alexander Jack W. Finley Wayne Borean Robert M. Price and Charles Garofalo Bill Snider Tom Barczak Tobias Fox rides into a dusty Texas town to investigate stories of terrible doings in Nightwalker. What he finds is not what he expected. Two men face off against an alien terror on the moons surface in The Strange and Terrifying Mystery of Luna Colony a tale of horror in a steampunk setting. It is the lunch hour on Fleet Street. Conversations and chance encounters take place amidst the delectable aromas of Mrs. Lovetts savory meat pies in Cab Ride.
Author : Hugh Lamb
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
14 stories from America and Europe, as well as Great Britain, written during the 19th century, guaranteed to chill your bones as you read about the evil eye, voodoo, and other aspects of the supernatural. Includes notes on the authors.
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472113667
Best New Horror has established itself as the world's most admired annual collection, showcasing the very best in contemporary horror fiction. For this latest bloodcurdling feast of terror, the multi-award winning editors have chosen such modern masterpieces as the first book publication of a new ghost story by Clive Barker; Peter Straub's stunning novella set in a fear-haunted Vietnam; John Lennon's alternate history by Ian R. MacLeod, and Kim Newman's acclaimed novella about Victorian vampires. Plus razor sharp stories on the cutting edge of horror by some of the greatest contemporary masters of fear, including Peter Atkins, Poppy Z. Brite, John Brunner, Christopher Fowler, Thomas Ligotti, M. John Harrison, Lisa Tuttle, Karl Edward Wagner, Kate Wilhelm, Douglas E. Winter and many more.
Author : Hugh Lamb
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486152626
Easy-to-use, well-illustrated volume explains grozzing, roughing, mitering, smoothing, polishing; joining bevels with lead or foil. Patterns in Victorian and contemporary styles for 14 projects: mirrors, lamps, hanging ornaments, panels.
Author : Jack Dann
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006210070X
Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear! Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.
Author : Charles Prepolec
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1894063708
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON BAKER STREET! Between the shadowy realms of fear and the unforgiving glare of science lies a battleground of unspeakable horror. In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare. CAN REASON PREVAIL WHEN ELIMINATING THE IMPOSSIBLE IS NO LONGER AN OPTION? Faced with his worst fears, Sherlock Holmes has his faith in the science of observation and deduction shaken to the core in 13 all-new tales of terror from today's modern masters of the macabre!
Author : John Manning
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524501778
Theres something terrifying around every turn. When the world as we know it has ended and all that remains of humanitys earthly ways are the stories that reside within the libraries of the space habitats, the view of humanity can be skewed. In these twenty-four stories is a sample of how the earthly mind worked, how it delighted in terrifying, how it indulged in the horrific. What must our future selves think of us? This second volume in the Night Chills series offers tales from authors who joined us in Terror by Gaslight, as well as some new and delightful minds. Rie Sheridan Rose, Wayne Borean, R. E. Hinkle, Catherine Stovall, and John Manning himself are among those who have filled the pages of this volume with a sprinkling of humor and a large dose of chills.
Author : Nene Adams
Publisher : P.D. Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : Lesbians
ISBN : 9781933720128
"August 1888: On a foggy night in London's notorious Whitechapel district, Rhiannon Moore - reduced to prostitution to survive - meets two people who will change her life forever. The first is Lady Evangeline St. Claire, brilliant, unconventional and wealthy, determined to be the foremost consulting detective in the world, but also battling demons from her own past. The second is the murderer who has been terrorizing the city - Jack the Ripper. Evangeline and Rhiannon are plunged headlong into danger and romance as they struggle to solve a deadly mystery, while at the same time understand their growing attraction to one another. Will love come in time to save lives and sorely tested hearts, or will the women learn - because Saucy Jack already knows - that blood is always ... Black by Gaslight"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625791100
Fantastic tales of devilish delights. A collection of fourteen fantastic and frightening tales from such renowned writers as Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, and Jack Vance, featuring worlds inhabited by darkness, wicked devils, dark tords, playful imps, and shapechangers. "The Willow Platform" by Joseph Payne Brennan "The Night of White Bhairab" by Lucius Shepard "The Mangler" by Stephen King "The Last Demon" by Isaac Bashevis Singer "The Golden Rope" by Tanith Lee "Basileus" by Robert Silverberg "Twilla" by Tom Reamy "The Purple Pterodactyls" by L. Sprague de Camp "Goslin Day" by Avram Davidson "Nellthu" by Anthony Boucher "Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher "One Other" by Manly Wade Wellman "An Ornament to His Profession" by Charles L. Harness At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
