Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
Philo Vance is a fictional character featured in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright), published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. The novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine (who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books as well as the author). Also...
| Автор | S.S. Van Dine |
To anyone interested in supernatural fiction, the work of Welsh master Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is a fundamental starting point. In 2008, Stephen King called Machen's «The Great God Pan» (included here) «Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language» in an interview. And H.P. Lovecraft wrote: «Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen, author of some dozen tales long and short, in which the elements...
| Автор | Arthur Machen |
This volume assembles a mammoth collection of modern Sherlock Holmes stories – no less than 25 tales by modern masters, such as Carla Coupe, Gary Lovisi, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, and many more! (It's also an authorized edition, produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.) <P> THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EMERALDS, by Carla Coupe<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND ROUND, by Mark Wardecker<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE MIDNIGHT SEANCE, by...
| Автор | Michael Kurland |
THE SMOKY GOD is an Edwardian era «hollow earth» fantasy novel, presented as a true story. The narrator, Olaf Jansen, voyages through a polar opening in 1829 and spends 2 years in a strange underground world, believed to be the original Garden of Eden. This inner Earth is lit by its own sun, and here underground civilization has diverged from the ways of the surface. Here are giants, monsters, omnipotent High Priests, and lost races that speak Sanskrit – a world of wonders, which Olaf will be...
| Автор | Willis George Emerson |
The Algernon Blackwood Megapack collects 36 classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. More than just ghosts, however, this collection includes tales of vampires and other creatures of the night…and much, much more. Nearly 1,300 pages of great reading! <P> THE SINGULAR DEATH OF MORTON<BR> THE OLIVE<BR> ANCIENT LIGHTS<BR> THE KIT-BAG<BR> THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM<BR> A HAUNTED ISLAND<BR> THE...
| Автор | Algernon Blackwood |
This volume collects two stories featuring Dan Turner, hardboiled Hollywood detective. In “Death Ends the Scene,” a washed-up movie-director is going to knock himself off in order to give his no-good bride a double-indemnity payoff—and Dan Turner, trying to do a couple of good deeds, finds himself facing a murder rap with some very hard gunsels making it tough! In “Phony Shakedown,” Dan thinks the girl shot at him, and it didn’t make him any the less mad because she had missed. But before he can...
| Автор | Robert Leslie Bellem |
The Second Algernon Blackwood Megapack collects 28 more classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. Included in this volume are: <P> SKELETON LAKE<BR> SMITH: AN EPISODE IN A LODGING-HOUSE<BR> A SUSPICIOUS GIFT<BR> THE EMPTY HOUSE<BR> THE LISTENER<BR> MAY DAY EVE<BR> CARLTON'S DRIVE<BR> IF THE CAP FITS—<BR> THE MAN WHO PLAYED UPON THE LEAF<BR> OLD CLOTHES<BR> THE...
| Автор | Algernon Blackwood |
Неожиданно космос сотрясся и наполнился шумом. Все человечество с трепетом наблюдает за ночным небом, на чьем черном полотне разлетаются миллионы разноцветных огней. Это были планеты и звезды ближайшей Галактики, в которой произошел мощнейший взрыв, навсегда стерев ее с лица Вселенной… а так же уничтожив Ад.
Что же теперь ждет людей после смерти? И почему человечество перестало видеть сны?
| Автор | Алекс Блэк |
Thanks to Aunt Peg and her enthusiastic dog show pals, Melanie’s aptly named Bite Club reading group has book lovers all over town burying their noses in thrilling murder mysteries. But another pet project surfaces when Melanie reluctantly agrees to train a Bulldog puppy for elusive member Evan Major. Between the unusual bruise on his face and a bizarre run-in with an unknown dog show attendee, introverted Evan’s penchant for trouble sends him to an early...
| Автор | Laurien Berenson |
Hodgkiss and The Fatal Map / Hodgkiss and the Telltale Eyes / Hodgkiss and the Unsafe Safe<br /> <br />Hodgkiss is a cranky old sod. The continual sniping and point-scoring between him and his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Donald Burke, drives his daughter Esme to distraction. Hodgkiss compensates for his obnoxious treatment of Donald by helping him to solve a series baffling crimes, thus giving a welcome boost to his son-in-law's career. But it is towards the incompetent and...
| Автор | Peter Sinclair |
Hours of great reading await, with mystery and crime tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned authors, including Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro), Sax Rohmer (creator of Fu Manchu), G.K. Chesterton (famous for Father Brown) – and a handpicked selection of modern stories by contemporary masters, including Nora Charles, Marcia Talley, Elaine Viets, and many more! <P> Included in this volume: <P> A SENIOR DISCOUNT ON DEATH, by Nora Charles<BR> MURDER ON...
| Автор | Elaine Viets |
Carolyn Wells was an American author of mysteries, verse, humor, and children's books. In 1910 she decided to devote herself to mysteries and became an early master of the genre, creating two memorable sleuths: Pennington Wise and Fleming Stone. Earlier in her career, she penned two humorous stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and a plethora of other great detectives, both of which are included here.<P> Sherlock Holmes mysteries:<P> THE ADVENTURE OF THE CLOTHES-LINE...
| Автор | Carolyn Wells |
Occult detectives—sometimes called psychic investigators—have been in vogue since the middle of the 19th century. This collection goes back to the roots of the occult detective story. The earliest story in this collection—Fitz-James O'Brien's «The Pot of Tulips»—originally appeared in 1855. Rare stories by Mary Fortune and Bayard Taylor, famous tales from the end of the 19th century by E. and H. Heron, plus 20th Century stories by Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman,...
| Автор | Уильям Ходжсон |