Shortlisted for the inaugural Warwick Prize for WritingA dazzlingly original exploration of literature's limits—and its necessity—Montano's Malady is Enrique Vila-Matas at his most mischievous, self-referential, and intellectually provocative.Both the narrator of Montano's Malady, José, and his son, Montano, suffer from literary illnesses: Montano has writer's block and José can only experience the world as literature. The...

Welcome to Old Castle, where life isn’t as it seems.The Old Castle 5-Book Box Set includes Jonathan Dunne’s first five horror novels: The Squatter, Billy’s Experiment, Crazy Daisy, Hotel Miramar, and Rosie.The SquatterSingle mom Molly Greene loses her restaurant during the pandemic and relocates her family to Old Castle. Their new farmhouse is free—but not empty. At night, a sinister squatter creeps from the firepl...

"The Revolutions of Time" is a philosophical novel that explores the nature of time, reality, and the human experience. The story is set in a fictional world where time is not linear, but rather flows in multiple directions simultaneously. The protagonist, Jehu, is a young man who is struggling to understand his place in this complex and confusing world.As Jehu travels through time and space, he encounters a variety of strange and wonderful characters, including talking animals, wise old m...

Dead Air is more than just silence... Four chilling journeys into the silence.Dead Air Vol. 2 of The Dead Series audiobookREAD BY THE AUTHORBonus material! 2 tales of terror, The Dark Web and Fireman, taken from Dead Ends Vol. 1 of The Dead Series.Bloopers reel included - this narrator is human ;)Bleeding Heart A...

This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning. This work explores how to represent constructions, how to learn constructions from a corpus, and how to arrange the constructions in a grammar as a network. From a theoretical perspective, this Element examines how construction grammars emerge from usage alone as complex systems, with slot-constraints learned at th...

The acclaimed Galician author's novel of the Spanish Civil War is "a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history" ( The Guardian).Novelist and El País journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish authors. Originally written in Galician, his native language, The Carpenter's Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been published in nine countries.Set in th...

Like a year on earth time flows in a circular motion, repeating itself in "seasons". Each one with the same general events. Because of this, the geological record shows not the immediate past, but the events of the last "season" or age, making the fossils and formations show what will happen rather than what has happened. Jehu is transported to the end of his age by the mysterious Lord of the Past, and finds himself caught in the middle of a society at war over how to divert the Big Bang t...

The Revolutions Of Timeby Jonathan DunnTime flows in a circular motion, repeating itself in "seasons" much like a year on earth, each one with the same general events. Because of this, the geological record shows not the immediate past, but the events of the last "season" or age, making the fossils and formations show what will happen rather than what has happened. Jehu is transported to the end of his age by the mysterious Lord of the Past, and finds himself caught in the m...

...The very men who claimed mental superiority because they were free from superstitions and divine disillusionment were themselves victims of their own sophism, and while they thought themselves crowned with enlightenment, it was naught but the Phrygian caps of their prejudices toward the material state. - Jehu, the Kinsman Redeemer. The physical manifestation of the spiritual force is not the spiritual force at all, only a bland deception. If you only focus on what you can see directly, ...

Forty-one enthralling stories from the most talented new science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers.MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on science fiction, fantasy, and horror launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors, and artists from around the world.Since then, it's published hundreds of short stories by hundreds of writers, both original fiction, reprints, and excerpts. The proceeds from this antholo...

The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre. The Boneyard Series Vol 1 READ BY THE AUTHORStep into The Boneyard, ten chilling bite-sized tales of horror.Bonus material! The Formaldehyde Fiend from upcoming The Boneyard Vol.2Blind Spot Chloe loses her sight without warning or remedy, plunging her into darkness—until she realizes she's not alone.

Corpus analysis can be expanded and scaled up by incorporating computational methods from natural language processing. This Element shows how text classification and text similarity models can extend our ability to undertake corpus linguistics across very large corpora. These computational methods are becoming increasingly important as corpora grow too large for more traditional types of linguistic analysis. We draw on five case studies to show how and why to use computational methods, ran...