Joseph Méry (1798-1866) was the nearest French equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe as a ground-breaking pioneer of speculative fiction. The title piece is a significant exercise in alternate history, in ...
Can a house built from the ashes of tragedy ever be a place of lasting happiness? Can the hereditary mix of wild gypsy lore, fierce independence, magic and mystery truly settle in a respectable hom...
Are curses real? After a toymaker magician gives a lecture at a collector's club soiree, an important spell is stolen and a man is found strangled. The investigation into his ...
Her dream account just landed in her lap......So did the future of her familyAnd she's got two months to save them both.Cami Madison's grandmother died, leaving h...
Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three ...
Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in
"Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested." - Franz Kafka, The Trial The Trial by Franz Kafka is the terrifying tale of Josef K. ...
The Trial (German: Der Process, later Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the ...
Edwards, the master storyteller, lifts the resurrection into the realm of the invisibles and makes you a visitor into resurrection's power to end the old creation itself. Resurrection brings forth ...
Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine....
A one-night fling with the best man at her brother's wedding comes with unintended consequences, and school teacher Sophie Faraday is faced with a choice every woman dreads.Old...
'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from o...
She's always getting into trouble. He's always getting hurt.At the turn of the 20th century, New York socialite Jenny Westraven is in trouble . . . again. An o...
Trouble's in the Curses...Halfway through her test year as a magical Protector, Cary Redmond is starting to think she just might survive. With her leopard shifter mate...
Trouble's in the Curses...Halfway through her test year as a magical Protector, Cary Redmond is starting to think she just might survive. With her leopard shifter mate...