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Richardson had several guided tours that he alternated throughout the week. His favourite was a trip around the Old City, visiting several of the locations where over the years, apparitions had, allegedly, been seen. He would then lead his group into the tunnels and the catacombs beneath street level—into the so-called Undercity; a labyrinthine warren of vaulted, coarse-brick, underground chambers that dated back hundreds of years. In this dark subterranean environment, the poor had lived a...
| Автор | Edmund Glasby |
The trial of the man apprehended with a crimson hatbox containing a skull continues with the shenanigans of the Moffit brothers, Silas and Saul, trying to thwart the efforts of Elsa Colby, the young defense lawyer who must win her first case – or it will be her last!<P> Elsa finds herself visiting the darkest parts of Chicago in her quest to prove that when her client told the archbishop that the box contained «Wah Lee’s skull,» he didn’t know the box actually had a skull...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Herbert did not look forward with very joyful anticipations to the new engagement he had formed. He knew very well that he should not like Ebenezer Graham as an employer, but it was necessary that he should earn something, for the income was now but two dollars a week. He was sorry, too, to displace Tom Tripp, but upon this point his uneasiness was soon removed, for Tom dropped in just after Mr. Graham had left the house, and informed Herbert that he was to go to work the next day for a farmer...
| Автор | Horatio Jr. Alger Jr. |
Q: The Queermance Anthology – celebrates the best of queer Australian romance writing.<br /> <br />Commissioned to celebrate Melbourne's inaugural Queermance Literary Festival this is an anthology of erotically-charged romances from famous, emerging and aspiring writers.<br /> <br />Volume 1 features fabulous tales of love and lust by Kerry Greenwood, Matthew Lang, NM Harris, Julie A Pollard, Susan Beck, Alison Evans, Kristen Henry, Mary Borsellino, Anders and Nicole...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A World This Size. You will have a restaurant like this in your city. And, if you have spent time eating alone in restaurants, you will have felt the reverie of the imagination, which will cause you to scrutinise other diners for clues to their personalities and attribute to them lives you could find interesting. This is the story here. A little Baroque music struts overhead. Here a man sits by himself. He is waiting on a martini. His fingers drum the cloth. Soon he falls to searching faces at...
| Автор | John Bryson |
Panthers and the Museum of Fire is a novella about walking, memory and writing. The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney cafe to return a manuscript by a recently-dead writer. While she walks, the reader enters the narrator's entire world: life with family and neighbours, narrow misses with cars, her singular friendships, dinner conversations and work. We learn of her adolescent desire for maturity and acceptance through a brush with religion, her anorexia, the exercise of that...
| Автор | Jen Craig |
The day was humid and overcast. Somewhere in the far distance thunder could be heard. The old man was seated at the table and toyed with his hearing aid as he read the racing guide. A transistor radio blared results of the October Cup at Randwick. His old Labrador retriever lay at his feet, its head hugging the cool linoleum floor. It was a simply furnished kitchen, unpainted and, but for the 1968 calendar by the fridge, unchanged since his wife's death ten years earlier. Through a door one...
| Автор | Michael Tyquin |
Stories of Laughter and Lament, set among the filthy rich and the dirt poor, seven stories first selected and published by Penguin Books.<br /> <br />Widows<br />Charles Rand fell off his yacht, somewhere in the middle of the bay, on one of the first pale blue evenings of autumn. Later, the Coroner would be unable to fix that time more precisely than between six and ten o'clock. Newspapers, reporting that he had sailed off without crew, used terms which pictured Charles as...
| Автор | John Bryson |
Stephen Crane, an American writer and journalist, is best known for his critically acclaimed Civil War novel «The Red Badge of Courage». In addition to this remarkable work, Crane also wrote many short stories about the Civil War, among other subjects. His best short stories are collected here in this volume and include the following tales: The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Monster, Death and the Child, The Pace of Youth, A Desertion, An Experiment in Misery, A...
| Автор | Stephen Crane |
Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his finest works are his short stories. Together in this collection are collected some of the best of these...
| Автор | Николай Гоголь |
There is no greater detective in fictitious London than Sherlock Holmes. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1880's, the nimble-minded detective was known for his logical reasoning and early forensic science skills to solve England's most gruesome crimes. Along with his trusted sidekick Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes proves his ability as a gumshoe and a master of disguise. Stories like «The Adventure of the Speckled Band» require inventive and creative measures for Doyle's...
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
"The Aspern Papers" is the story of an unnamed narrator who travels to Venice in search of some letters by Jeffrey Aspern, a famous and now dead American poet. Inspired by a true story about a fan of the poet Shelley who sought out similar papers, «The Aspern Papers» is one of Henry James's more popular novellas. It is included in this volume with the following three shorter works by Henry James: «The Private Life», «The Middle Years», and «The Death of the Lion».
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection «The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings.» Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining. In «The Tell-Tale Heart,» the narrator has just killed a man and buried him under his floor. As he sits right above the body, he begins to hear the dead man's heart thumping loudly in his ears. Guilt and paranoia flood the narrator, and the...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
A man stood on a streetcorner with a crimson hatbox in his hand. An archbishop approached him and asked what was in the box.<P>"Wah Lee's skull. I cracked Vann's pete," is the enigmatic reply. From this simple encounter stems the trial of the century. The crimson box does indeed hold the skull of a long-dead Chinaman (or is it?), and the man did break into D.A. Vann's safe (or did he?) One thing is certain: a man died when the safe was cracked, and now somebody has to...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Thubway Tham is a small, short-tempered gnome of a man, a professional pickpocket with an annoying lisp. But he is no mere thief…he is the king of his chosen profession, a master «dip» who works only in the subways of New York City. Like all such villains, he faces a cunning adversary in Police Detective Craddock, who is always half a pace behind. Craddock has sworn to put Tham behind bars, where he belongs. But Tham is clever enough to always remain one step ahead of Craddock – and everyone...
| Автор | Johnston McCulley |
In «Gothic Tales,» Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), the eminent Victorian author, brings us nine chilling gothic stories. Collected here are tales that set a precedent for ghost and horror stories of the era. In «The Poor Clare» a young innocent girl named Lucy is haunted by an unrelenting ghost invoked by her aging grandmother. In the novella «Lois the Witch» the young Lois sails to America to join her distant family. She is greeted by a New England engulfed in the fever of the Salem witch...
| Автор | Элизабет Гаскелл |
This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe. A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories. Contained within this volume are the following: The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Balloon-Hoax, The Purloined Letter, A Descent into the Maelström, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Tell-Tale...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
"Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories" is a collection of supernatural stories by one of the greatest writers of such stories to have ever lived, Algernon Blackwood. This collection contains the title story, «Ancient Sorceries», which is the tale of a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange French town and the ancient secrets that are hidden there. Also included in this collection is one of Blackwood's most celebrated stories, «The Willows», the story of two campers who pick...
| Автор | Algernon Blackwood |
"Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood" is a collection of supernatural stories by one of the greatest writers of such stories to have ever lived. This collection contains the story, «Ancient Sorceries», which is the tale of a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange French town and the ancient secrets that are hidden there. Also included in this collection is one of Blackwood's most celebrated stories, «The Willows», the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for...
| Автор | Algernon Blackwood |
Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his finest works are his short stories. Together in this collection are collected some of the best of these...
| Автор | Николай Гоголь |
These eclectic short works of fiction should be read as lyric essays of the human condition—comparable in intensity and emotion to lyric poetry—created out of the human spirit and brought to life by the experiences and imagination of the writer. Each story is a vignette of the human heart in conflict with itself as it struggles to resolve those human dilemmas that confront, confound and confuse us in making the choices that determine how we live our lives. The more troubling and controversial...
| Автор | Thomas Grissom |
These stories explore the human heart in conflict with itself, created out of the human spirit and brought to life by the experiences and imagination of the writer. Each story depicts the struggles to resolve those human dilemmas that confront, confound and confuse us in making the choices that determine how we live our lives. The more troubling and controversial the questions, the more relevant and compelling the story. These are emotionally charged stories about things that matter—love and...
| Автор | Thomas Grissom |
Эта книга написана с болью в сердце из-за той чудовищной лжи, которая лавиной вылилась на светлые деяния страны Советов. Данное произведение – это:
– вдохновенный труд;
– опровержение утверждений «правдолюбов», которые несут клевету;
– раскрытие фальсификации фактов, происходящих в рядах Красной армии.
| Автор | Геннадий Тихонович Фёдоров |
Новая книга Михаила Марголиса посвящена истории российского шоу-бизнеса и ключевым фигурам на его авансцене и за кулисами. В основе ее – уникальная документальная хроника. Это интервью, сделанные когда-то самим Марголисом. Сохранившиеся в газетных и журнальных подшивках, записях диктофона и различных эфирах – свидетельства эпохи, прямая речь героев и очевидцев событий. Вместе с автором мы перенесемся на 10, 20, 30 лет назад. Во времена, где Игоря Талькова только-только застрелили перед...
| Автор | Михаил Марголис |