In the ballroom of the Kaesarian palace, a great celebration takes place, but not all of the invited guests are who they seem to be. A spy takes advantage of this special occasion to infiltrate the palace and reach the most hidden secrets of the Northern Kaesary. She is the best of the best and has a meticulous plan. The only thing lacking is good luck…Dive into a thrilling adventure of secret passages, espionage and deadly pitfalls to discover the boundaries of human endurance in ...

A weary traveller helps a lady in distress. On the brink of the next morning, the lady is still unconscious, the luggage is missing and a few well-armed gentlemen lay siege to the roadhouse where the couple spent the night.In the heat of the morning, the roadhouse becomes an arena upon which the interests of some very important people concentrate...Rain falls, smoke clears and the lady awakes...

Follow an intriguing journey of piracy, adventure and perilous conspiracy. Set in a fictional world of Ion Continents where political ambitions of several powers collide grinding down the secret agents involved... and some of them are on their first mission.Join the self-proclaimed captain of a very special smuggling vessel on a cruise that might just be his last, fall in love with a not-so-beautiful merchant's daughter seeking fortune on her mysterious voyage, enter an ancient cit...

In an ancient keep, on a desolate mountain pass, two dozen men keep guard through a severe winter. The cold numbs all, the snow quiets everything. One by one they die...Join a veteran general in his investigation to disclose a conspiracy against himself. His men die horribly, the killer massacres the bodies, and mutiny is close at hand.This story takes you to the eastern part of Kaesary, where two dozen men are cut off from civilization in the Nestahl Keep. With the killer o...

In the Viking world, the slave-boy they call Fool owns nothing but a rag helmet and a butcher’s knife he stole from the trash. Even so, he will stand this day with the other boys who are fifteen, risking his life at the coming of age sidr for the chance to earn his freedom.Those who set sail today may return as crippled versions of themselves, or never return at all. Fool must try. Now, heart in his throat, he paddles into the dense fog.Then he hears them. The hungry ghosts...

Continuing on from the end of both "Thief" and "Gabrin: The Avatar", this short story sees the people of the ancient city of Ur'gavan facing grave danger. The one-time boy thief, Tirnam, and his friend Gabrin Parr, must seek to forge a new future, a future of hope. They are the only ones who can achieve the impossible, or can they? The risks are enormous, but the rewards are even greater...

“Beautiful and haunting” – The New YorkerSwiss modernist author Robert Walser recounts the Battle of Sempach in brief but violent detail.One day, in the middle of high summer, a military expedition was advancing slowly down the dusty country road that led towards a district of Luzern. The bright, actually more than bright, sun dazzled down over swaying armour serving to cover human bodies, over prancing horses, over helmets and parts of faces, over equ...

PIRATE'S VENGEANCE – 3 Adventure Classics in One Volume gathers three sea-roving tales that display Robert E. Howard's gift for violent momentum, stark atmosphere, and heroic excess. Set amid reefs, taverns, treasure-haunted coasts, and blood-dark decks, these stories belong to the great pulp tradition of historical adventure, where swashbuckling action is sharpened by doom-laden psychology. Howard's prose is muscular and vividly pictorial, fusing maritime romance with the fatalism and fer...

Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.From 1859's Christmas edition of All Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens, a collection set in an aba...

Sailing Adventures of Greece is a collection of nine stories, Mikey Simpson seems to be at his best in the short story writing. The first story, "George Becomes a Seaman", is the longest. George, in spite of the desires of his lawyer father, goes to sea, where he has many adventures, culminating in an event in which he was presumed to have lost his life. Very short of money, and looking somewhat dishevelled, he reaches home, where he is not recognised by his sisters, but a girl who was bei...

"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend named Arsat. Upon arriving, he finds Arsat distraught, for his lover is dying. Arsat tells the distant and rather silent white man a story of his past.

H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".