Author : D. A. Nelson
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385736312
Orphaned Morag and her friends--Shona the dragon, Bertie the dodo, and Aldiss the rat--face the vengeful wrath of the witch Mephista, as they travel once again to DarkIsle to restore the good magic.
Author : A. M. Stuart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984802666
When Harriet Gordon receives word from a friend about a tragic death, she and Inspector Curran are thrust into a web of family secrets that threatens to destroy them both in this all-new mystery from the author of Singapore Sapphire. Singapore, 1910—Harriet Gordon has found fulfillment at last. Her young ward, Will, has settled into his new home with Harriet and her brother, Julian. And Harriet’s employment as a typist at the Straits Settlements Police Force has given her an intriguing way to occupy her time and some much-needed financial independence. But when her friend and employer, Inspector Robert Curran, is called to the scene of a brutal murder and Harriet is asked to comfort the victim’s family, her newfound sense of contentment is abruptly shattered. Sylvie Nolan, the new and much-younger wife of Lieutenant Colonel John Nolan, has been bludgeoned to death in her bedroom. The tightly knit military community in Singapore quickly closes ranks to hinder Curran’s investigation, and Harriet realizes that her friendship with the colonel’s sister might prove useful. But to get close enough to the family’s secrets, Harriet must once again face her painful past, and Curran is forced to dredge up some long-buried secrets of his own. And when more shocking deaths occur that all seem linked to Sylvie’s murder, Harriet and Curran discover that they too are in the sights of a callous killer. . . .
Author : Paul Clarendon West
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN :
Halloween adventures in the pumpkin patch.
Author : Wilhelm Hauff
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 6255 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Trick or Treat! Get a worm cup of tea, curl by the fire, and enjoy the cold chills of this meticulously edited horror collection, jam-packed with the darkest mysteries, supernatural thrillers and gothic romances: James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Spectre Bridegroom Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror From Beyond M. R. James: Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book Lost Hearts Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter Ambrose Bierce: The Death of Halpin Frayser One Summer Night Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Three Impostors William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Arthur Conan Doyle: The Leather Funnel The Beetle Hunter Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement Richard Marsh: The Beetle Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Charles Dickens: The Signal-Man The Hanged Man's Bride Guy de Maupassant: The Horla The Flayed Hand Pedro De Alarçon: The Nail Walter Hubbell: The Great Amherst Mystery Francis Marion Crawford: The Dead Smile The Screaming Skull Man Overboard! For The Blood is the Life The Upper Berth By The Water of Paradise The Doll's Ghost John Buchan: No-Man's-Land The Watcher by the Threshold The Monkey's Paw The Severed Hand The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe) When the World Was Young (Jack London)...
Author : Dario Lisiero
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1300378948
This book is a collection of short fictional stories, written with the only purpose of entertaining and stimulating our human curious imagination. If at bedtime it helps to sleep, that is surely an added bonus.
Author : Misty Evans
Publisher : Beach Path Publishing, LLC.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0999474049
Payback is a bitch and her name is Kali Sweet... I’m Kali Sweet, the best damn vengeance demon on Earth. I work for the supernatural world’s Justice Department and protect innocent humans from otherworldly creatures like me. While I can’t take revenge for myself, I make sure justice is done for others. But when my latest run-in with Chicago’s vampire king backfires, the fallout leaves me with three big problems: a powerful Undead enemy who wants my head, my boss looking over my shoulder, and three personal blood slaves jeopardizing my reputation. One of those slaves happens to be sexy rock star Radison Beaumont – the half-human, half-chaos demon who left me at the altar three hundred years ago. Even if he does need my blood now to survive, Rad and I will always be enemies. = Especially since he’s joined an ancient society of demon killers—and I’m the number one demon on their most wanted list.
Author : James Gelsey
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9781743623404
On Halloween, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang are helping out with an auction in the fancy Brickstone Hotel. Things get batty when a vampire swoops in and steals a magical jewel from Transylvania. Jeepers creepers! It's up to Scooby and the gang to unmask this neck-nibbling thief!
Author : Gustav Freytag
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1863
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Gustav Freytag
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Debit and Credit by Gustav Freytag is a six-part political fiction tale emphasizing the importance of economic stability and criticizing Jewish and Polish citizens in Germany. Excerpt: "Ostrau is a small town near the Oder, celebrated even as far as Poland for its gymnasium and its gingerbread. In this patriarchal spot had dwelt for many years the accountant-royal, Wohlfart, an enthusiastically loyal subject, and a hearty lover of his fellow men—with one or two exceptions. He married late in life, and his wife and he lived in a small house, the garden of which he kept in order. For a long time, the happy pair were childless..."
Author : Sharon Barcan Elswit
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476663041
The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap bag, illustrate facets of traditional Puerto Rican life. Conflict over status, identity and power is a recurring theme--in a story from Trinidad, a young bull, raised by his mother in secret, challenges his tyrannical father who has killed all the other males in the herd. One in a series of folklore reference guides by the author, this volume shares summaries of 438 tales--some in danger of disappearing--retold in English and Creole from West African, European, and slave indigenous cultures in 24 countries and territories. Tales are grouped in themed sections with a detailed subject index and extensive links to online sources.
