The Inn and other tales


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Welcome to the Dashing Pony! Varrik, the innkeeper, will be happy to offer you his tasty beer while you get to know his customers... most charming! Between an enchanted sword reduced to slavery and alcoholic elves, take a stool and take a moment to rest.... drink, vomit, and laugh at the misfortunes of masochistic heroes... Sometimes, adventure doesn’t always require going through a door! Afterwards, if you still have a train station to go (or a meal at the end of digestion...), some short stories: "Sekai, where the tribulations of an immortal or divine being...and his gaze on our world." - The Flower, when Faerie invite itself into the trenches of the First World War. - The lift, don’t always escort your friends after a party... - Humanity, the last moments of a condemned man. Good reading (I hope!) to you...




The Inn at the Top


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The Inn at the Top is an entertaining ramble around the Inn, the breath-taking Dales countryside and a remarkable array of local characters, giving an insight into life in a very different different time and place.




Tales of a Wayside Inn


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The book depicts a group of people at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts as each tells a story in the form of a poem.




We Have this Moment


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In addition to brisk weather and glorious foliage, autumn brings the chance to rekindle the joy of lost love in Acorn Hill. Alice takes a chance by trying to bring one of her patients together with one of the inn's guests. Will she and her sisters be able to see two lovers reunited, or will their efforts result in failure and heartbreak?




Daughter of Regals & Other Tales


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A short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author—available in trade paperback for the first time. “Donaldson proves that he is as adept at the short story as he is at the novel" (Denver Rocky Mountain News), in this superb collection. The famous outtake from The Illearth War, “Gilden-Fire,” headlines eight tales of mystics and unicorns, angels and kings—all written with the dazzling style and imagination that have made Stephen R. Donaldson one of the top fantasists of the day.




Miss Harriet and Other Stories


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The Insanity of Jones and Other Tales


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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Blackwood's best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". Contents: The Willows The Insanity of Jones Ancient Sorceries The Man Who Found Out The Wendigo The Glamour of the Snow The Man Whom the Trees Loved Sand




Our Lady Fetta and Other Tales


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Our Lady Fetta opens in Portland, Me., and involves a small Hollywood estate with too many beneficiaries. The disposition of the will naturally carries the protagonist back to the Midwest and ultimately to the Southwest to reconnect with his former college classmates, one of whom acts as his attorney. The novel¡¦s diverse settings include Halifax, Chicago, Mesa, Santa Fe oand Tucson, where a couple of transplanted Mainers also figure among the hero¡¦s allies. Sanctimony, greed, religiosity, acculturation, the preservation of natural habitats, and other topics are explored; in addition to commentary and ideas by Robert Louis Stevenson, Somerset Maugham, Carlos Castaneda, Jim Morrison, Bram Stoker, and William Peter Blatty. Jet-setters, one of the short stories featured in the book, centers on a hilarious two-year romp in the Samoan islands at the onset of the global AIDS crisis. Other notable tales include New America, in which the author proposes a simple but macabre solution to overcrowded, tax-draining prisons, nnamely, banishment aboard galleons; Cardinal du Jour, about a teenage boy who narrowly escapes being molested by a high-ranking priest; Louse Party, about an LSD party and the horrors of addiction and drug abuse; and House with Ghost, based on actual events, about a man suffering from spirit attachment, whose ghostly companion haunts the home in which he rents a room and drives him out of the house.







Hidden History


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While giving the laundry room of Grace Chapel Inn a thorough cleaning, Alice Howard finds an old hatbox containing her father's journal from the early 1900s. As she reads it aloud each evening to her sisters Louise and Jane they discover fascinating events their beloved father had never even hinted at. With Alice dressing up for a change, Jane concocting delicious new recipes for the inn's guests and Louise knitting a beautiful pink sweater--for a pig--the sisters move through the one year anniversary of their father's death with a deeper love and respect for their life together.




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