The plan to destroy Batman and all he has created moves into its final phase with Bane, The Joker's daughter, Mr Freeze and Clayface on the rampage. Batman also has to deal with a hate-spreading na...
Following an epic battle, Commissioner Gordon is arrested for murder - and mob boss Carmine Falcone seizes the moment to rid Gotham of insane criminals, honest policemen and anyone else who stands ...
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunt...
The Reaper returns to Gotham, showing criminals no mercy - and Batman has to concoct a dangerous plan to defeat him and find the killer of his parents.This exciting DC Comics Graphic No...
In the turmoil of a world crisis, can this ragtag group work as a functioning unit at the United Nations - or will they succumb to in-fighting and bad jokes?This exciting DC Comics Grap...
Ra’s Al Ghul is returning from the dead, and the League of Assassins has captured Batman’s son Damian. Robin (Tim Drake) is also captive and appears to be succumbing to Ra’s tempt...
A mass breakout from Arkham is just the beginning for Batman; a mysterious serum is supercharging villains including Two-Face, Clayface and Deathstroke. Help is arriving from Superman, The Flash an...
In an unusual story, Batman works alongside The Riddler and The Penguin to solve a high-society crime. He also takes on a new opponent, Façade, and seeks to discover the consequences of Pois...
Both Batman and Robin are forced to recall a trip to Prague, a shadowy figure named Mother and a very sophisticated organisation - and a secret they hoped would never be revealed, which could destr...
Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent yo...
This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory ...
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark sti...
In this beautifully packaged anthology A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon...
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil...
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal P...
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...
The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they w...
This story of two spoilt and lonely children, whose happiness is regained as they bring to life a neglected garden, has become the best-loved of all Mrs. Burnett's books, but it did not acquire uni...
Baron Munchausen’s absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller’s tales soon became as wel...
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis St...