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Peter Wacks was an unimpressive and weak man until he came across a mysterious «red paste.» Suddenly, from a harmless being, he turned into a ruthless and cold-blooded killer! Like Jekyll and Hyde, he goes on a murder rampage in the night and during daytime becomes a detective to find the so-called murderer. Will Peter be able to outwit himself and stop his descent into chaos and madness? Or will he succumb under his negative self? Excerpt: "I shall never know what dreadful impulse...
| Автор | Arthur Gask |
Two children chance upon a mysterious creature and soon find out that it is none other than an alien from another planet! Hiding it from their parents and trying to keep him safe, will the children be able to help him go back home? Excerpt: Red kept to his croaking whisper, «Quiet! You want to wake somebody?» Slim noticed all at once that the sun scarcely topped the low hills in the east, that the shadows were long and soft, and that the grass was wet. Slim said, more softly, «What's the...
| Автор | Isaac Asimov |
In Paradise is one of the best-known novels by the German writer and translator Paul Heyse first published in 1875. Excerpt: "On slender pedestals stood a multitude of figures, most of them of half life-size, such as are used for the decoration of Catholic churches, chapels and cemeteries. Some of them were just begun, some were almost finished works; and in all could be clearly recognized the hands of the pupils who had their execution in charge–sometimes more and sometimes less...
| Автор | Paul Heyse |
Set in England during the time of Cromwell, The Tavern Knight follows a manly knight on his mission of vengeance. Crispin Galliard is a very skilled and famous soldier with a rough reputation, known in the army as the Tavern Knight because of his drunken and rowdy behavior. He carries a grudge against some people who ruined his life and stole his innocence, and he patiently awaits for an opportunity to extract his revenge. When he meets Kenneth, a young man with some useful ties, he starts...
| Автор | Rafael Sabatini |
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of world's greatest classics with the most influential female protagonists in literature: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Harding Davis) Little Women (Louisa...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
This meticulously edited Sabatini collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Scaramouche Series: Scaramouche Scaramouche the King-Maker Captain Blood Series: Captain Blood Captain Blood Returns The Fortunes of Captain Blood Novels: The Lovers of Yvonne The Tavern Knight Bardelys the Magnificent The Trampling of the Lilies Love-at-Arms The Shame of Motley St. Martin's Summer Mistress Wilding The Lion's Skin The Strolling...
| Автор | Rafael Sabatini |
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest werewolves classics of all time: The Lay of the Were-Wolf (Marie de France) The Wolf Leader (Alexandre Dumas Père) Wagner the Wehr-wolf (George W. M. Reynolds) The Werewolf (Eugene Field) The Man-Wolf (ÉmileErckmann&AlexandreChatrian) The Mark of the Beast (Rudyard Kipling) The Horror-Horn (E. F. Benson) In the Forest of Villefére (Robert E. Howard) Wolfshead (Robert E. Howard) Werewolf of the Sahara...
| Автор | Редьярд Киплинг |
Musaicum Books present to you this meticulously edited and formatted Lovecraft collection: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror At The Mountains of Madness The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson Polaris Memory The White Ship The Doom That Came to Sarnath Statement of Randolph Carter The Street Terrible Old Man Cats of Ulthar The Tree Celephaïs From Beyond The Horror at Red Hook The Temple Nyarlathotep Picture in the House ...
| Автор | H. P. Lovecraft |
Seymour Merriman would not have even imagined that a little bit of help from strangers would catapult him into the world of crime syndicate, spanning two continents. He had only followed Lorry Number 3 in the hopes of getting some petrol for his bike. But that ended up with him noticing that the number plates had been changed! Why were the number plates changed? Who were these people whom Seymour had inadvertently met?
| Автор | Freeman Wills Crofts |
Musaicum Books present to you this unique collection of the darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales: Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki) Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Story of a...
| Автор | Джером К. Джером |