Extended digital edition.A collection of twelve dark fiction short stories by prize winning author John Vault, based around the themes of madness and obsession.Essential bedtime reading!Introduction by the author.Contains frequent use of strong language, violent horror and sexual references. Reader discretion is advised.

Gerald Pembroke owns and runs a mushroom farm in the idyllic country setting of Luddensley village. The supermarket buyers are forcing his prices down to subsistence levels, his attention obsessed wife has been engaged in a string of affairs with younger men and to top it all he discovers that one of his employees is using his facilities to grow hallucinogenic Liberty Cap mushrooms as a sideline.After further pressure from his buyers and mounting maintenance bills, Gerald temporaril...

Thaddeus by John VaultDeath is as popular now as it's always been...Hector Crane is a funeral director with no-one to bury. Business is at a standstill, he's on the verge of bankruptcy and his delinquent apprentices are stealing both from him and his dear departed clients.Just when he thinks things can't get any worse he receives a letter from a man whom he thought long dead, who owns half of his business, and who will be knocking on his do...

Penelope Darlin, the romantically challenged proprietor of the Lilac Grange nursing home, is regularly murdering her elderly residents in the name of profit. Next on her to do list is ninety one year old Catherine Scrivens, but Catherine is aware of Ms. Darlin's business model and, determined not to go down without a fight, she recruits two accomplices who are hell bent on getting to Penelope before Penelope gets to them.Meanwhile Linda Hawthorne, a Grange staff member, inherits 'Ma...

The companion series to renowned theologian Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics masterworkHerman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The English translation was edited by world-class Bavinck scholar John Bolt, who now brings forth a manuscript from Bavinck that is being published for the first time. Serving as a companion to Reformed...

The classic work of Reformed theology by renowned theologian Herman BavinckIn partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer the first volume of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics in English for the very first time.Bavinck's approach throughout is meticulous. As he discusses the standard topics of dogmatic theology, he stands on the shoulders of giants such as Augustine, John Calvin, Francis Turretin, and...

Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologistJohan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers together a choice selection of Bavinck's significant writings that are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his approach to wo...

The classic work of Reformed theology by renowned theologian Herman BavinckIn partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer in English for the very first time the fourth and final volume of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics, now also available as a four-volume set.This volume includes the combined indexes for all four volumes. In addition, editor John Bolt introduces each chapter and has enhanc...

The companion series to renowned theologian Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics masterworkHerman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. Leading Bavinck expert John Bolt edited that work, which has received wide acclaim. Now Bolt brings forth a recently discovered manuscript from Bavinck, in print for the first time, which serves as a compan...

Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologistJohan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers together a choice selection of Bavinck's significant writings that are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his approach to worl...

An accessible summary of the classic work by renowned theologian Herman BavinckHerman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The recently completed English translation has received wide acclaim.Now John Bolt, one of the world's leading experts on Bavinck and editor of Bavinck's four-volume set, has abridged the work in one volume, offering students, pastors, and lay readers ...

The classic work of Reformed theology by renowned theologian Herman BavinckIn partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer the second volume of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics in English for the very first time.This masterwork will appeal to scholars, students, pastors, and laity interested in Reformed theology and to research and theological libraries."Bavinck was a man of giant mind...