A collection of tales of the strange, the weird, and the frightening. Just the thing to read on a dark night when the lightning flashes, and the thunder crashes, and all the doors are locked.

A collection of short stories in the horror genre: some weird, some strange, some downright unbelievable, but all designed to make the reader think...and think again, then leave the bedside light burning through the night.

Two tales that will have the hairs on the back of your neck rising, and alter your conception of the decency of man as you know it.

In the early days of rail, a shack was built on railway property to house the bodies of those killed on or near the rail. It became known as the Death House.this collection of short stories features mysteries all connected to the death house in some eerie and evil way.

Doctors have a unique view of the human body. Centuries of observing the sick and decades of testing these observations against science. A diagnosis starts with interrogation followed by observation, clinched by the appropriate test. Clinical skills are focused on patients, but friends and family are not exempt. The real test comes when the physician himself becomes acutely unwell without warning. This is a story of the continuing importance of clinical signs in the age of artificial intel...

a family of five vampires are driven out of their lair in Eastern Europe and board ship for australia, the state of van diemen's land, where a new prison colony is being built.saul, the teenage vampire, falls in love and watches in horror as his new love turns from what she was into what she has become. one by one, they are killed off until only one remains. but which one is it?

an old jewish man is murdered in 1800's sydney by a gang of thugs, and his wife, a witch, uses her familiar, a large dog, as a murder weapon to slaughter one by one the gang. blood runs free in the streets, and a journalist is left in the middle of a mystery he cannot unravel...

Alan Carmody, a cattle breeder in South Africa, loses everything when an evil witchdoctor causes his negro hands to run off, after burning and looting his farm and killing his family. He kills the witchdoctor and emigrates to Australia, but the witchdoctor's spirit in the giuse of a cheetah, begins hunting down all with whom he comes into contact in this new country, until only Alan is left.

the greeks say if a body is left unguarded between death and burial it will rise to prey on its kin.charles comstock drowns off the island of Santorini, and is transported to sydney for burial, but he rises to kill his kin one by one - and all that stand between it and success are an old greek woman and a disbelieving young priest.

The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier offers a rare enlisted man's view of the War for Independence. In plain, vividly observational prose, Martin records marches, hunger, foraging, fatigue duty, and the craft of siege work, alongside skirmishes and campaigns from New York and New Jersey to the final operations at Yorktown. Wry humor and an unsentimental eye strip away heroic varnish, foregrounding material hardship, camp politics, and the moral economy of pay, rations, and broken promise...

The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier, published in 1830, is Joseph Plumb Martin's unsparing, quick-witted chronicle from the enlisted ranks. From the New York campaign and the winter at Valley Forge to trench duty before Yorktown, he records marches, skirmishes, shortages, and bounty disputes in a plainspoken, sardonic style. Episodic yet closely observed, the narrative pairs humor with grievance, offering a picaresque, democratic counterpoint to officer memoirs—rich in camp talk, fat...

Published in 1913, The Custom of the Country anatomizes the brisk commerce of status in New York and Paris through Undine Spragg, whose radiant will-to-consume turns marriage, art, and lineage into negotiable currency. With cool, surgical irony and supple free indirect discourse, Wharton stages a transatlantic comedy of manners whose settings—from clubrooms to divorce courts—expose the hinge between old money's codes and new money's appetites. Even the title plays on habit and tariff: the ...