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By Charles Stearns. 2012
By Arthur Machen. 2012
From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more…
mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice. Machen loved the medieval world view because he felt it combined deep spirituality alongside a rambunctious earthiness.By Chas A. Stopher. 2012
By Bram Stoker. 2012
By Dick Purcell. 2012
By Charles Louis Fontenay. 2012
By Charles Dickens. 2012
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social…
campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public.By Charles Dickens. 2012
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy is one of Charles Dickens's Christmas stories. It was first published in his All the Year Round…
magazine's Extra Christmas Number (12 December 1864). Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy is a sequel to Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings. A mysterious benefactor turns out to be the last person anyone could have expected.By Anne Walker. 2012
By Walter M. Miller. 2012
No one knows the heart of a rebel until his own search for the reason of right or wrong is…
made. Lieutenant Laskell found the answer to his own personal rebellion deep beneath a turbulent Atlantic, and somehow, when the time came, his decision wasn't too difficult....By Walter M. Miller. 2012
The manner in which a man has lived is often the key to the way he will die. Take old…
man Donegal, for example. Most of his adult life was spent in digging a hole through space to learn what was on the other side. Would he go out the same way?By Walter J. Sheldon. 2012
By Walter J. Sheldon. 2012
By E. G. von Wald. 2012
Cooperation was all right back in the dark ages but this was an era of super culture and hi-psi intelligence.…
And love was no laughing matter. People who cooperated, even biologically, were unlawful and....By Don Thompson. 2012
By Charles V. Devet. 2012
By Charles V. Devet. 2012
By Charles Louis Fontenay. 2012
When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you…
have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus.By C. M. Kornbluth. 2012
Professor Konrad Leuten, author of the bestselling bookFunctional Epistemology is on a dangerous mission to undo the work of one…
reader who has taken his theories a little too far. His defense? Stand on one leg and thumb his nose.By Susan Gee Heino. 2011
A handsome earl and a beautiful seamstress are looking for answers. Both are willing to do what it takes to…
get them-even if it requires a little seduction. After the Earl of Lindley's search for the double agent who killed his family leads him to Miss Darshaw, he decides bedding her is the best way to get some answers...