This revised fourth edition of The Archaeology of Disease focuses on reconstructing the origin, evolution, and history of disease as seen mainly through human skeletons from archaeological sites. In addition, this edition addresses new concepts in medicine and explores the challenges faced by individuals and populations, including their children.Integrating conceptual frameworks from bioarchaeology, medical history, and cl...

A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, Thin Places is a gothic and atmospheric collection from the national bestselling author of The Bog Wife. This beautiful reissue includes four additional stories.A not-quite-human proprietor menaces guests at a hotel on the edge of a swamp. A composer visits a remote Slavic village where villagers perform soundless songs that accompany violent sacrifices. Four reclusive women conjour children out of unconve...

DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING gathers more than a century of Gothic experimentation into a capacious archive of terror, wonder, and psychological disturbance. Its contents range from foundational castle romances, spectral ballads, and Faustian tales to detective mysteries, decadent fantasies, imperial nightmares, and proto-science-fictional horrors. Recurring images—ruined houses, forbidden manuscripts, doubles, revenants, persecuted heroines, and corrupted inheritances—demonstrate how Gothic wr...

**A School Library Journal Best BookIn this moving picture book on the importance of hope, a small bird—nestled in a dusty crack in the Western Wall—feels a deep shift within, setting her on a path to overcoming her fear of change.**One day, Sparrow wakes up feeling different. Her world is on the brink of change and she knows that she must prepare. As she flies from one familiar corner of her life to the other—from the fruit stand to the top of the bell tower—she searches f...

In this moving book on the importance of hope, a small bird—nestled in a dusty crack in the Western Wall—feels a deep shift within, setting her on a path to overcoming her fear of change.One day, Sparrow wakes up feeling different. Her world is on the brink of change and she knows that she must prepare. As she flies from one familiar corner of her life to the other—from the fruit stand to the top of the bell tower—she searches far and wide for the thing that will h...

Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) gathers biography, correspondence, travel observation, social satire, and intimate self-fashioning into a richly textured portrait of eighteenth-century literary culture. Moving from aristocratic salons to the Ottoman world, from domestic negotiations to public controversy, the volume illuminates a mind at once cosmopolitan, ironic, politically alert, and stylistically brilliant. The letters on Constantinople and inoculation stan...

Journeys into the Extraordinary – 3 Classic Nonsense Fantasies traverses the whimsical landscapes of adventure and imagination where logic is an artifact of the ordinary world left behind. This anthology captures the spirit of nonsensical narrative that challenges conventional storytelling through its rich tapestry of absurdity and whimsy. With a collection ranging from talking animals to peculiar people, these stories explore boundaries with a vivid imagination that delights readers of al...

The Temptations of Satan: 12 Occult Classics gathers a transnational lineage of supernatural, Gothic, Symbolist, and proto-modernist writing around the enduring figure of diabolic temptation. Its twelve selections range from fevered Gothic romance and philosophical fantasy to satirical grotesque, psychological horror, and visionary occult tale. Across scenes of pacts, possession, forbidden knowledge, and moral testing, the volume traces how Satan functions not merely as an antagonist but a...

The Devil's Ultimatum – 12 Horror Classics surveys the devilish, uncanny, and morally perilous dimensions of Gothic and supernatural fiction. Spanning Romantic visions, fin-de-siècle decadence, psychological terror, satire, and grotesque fantasy, the volume gathers tales in which temptation, divided identity, forbidden knowledge, and spiritual dread unsettle the boundaries between the ordinary and the monstrous. Its standout encounters with infernal bargains, haunted consciences, and malig...

Songs of protest have been inspiring activists for millennia, and continue to be created, shared, and reworked across musical genres. From the prophet Habakkuk as proto-protest singer, through a broad spectrum of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and diverse faith traditions, Theology and Protest Music gathers compelling contributions that examine Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation and womanism, esoteric Islam in Five Percenter rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurma...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

'Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition' presents a rich tapestry of haunting narratives and profound horror that delve into the human psyche and supernatural enigmas. This anthology superbly encapsulates the essence of the Gothic tradition, ranging from the grand, brooding Romanticism of the 18th century to the enigmatic complexities of the Victorian era. It features a spectrum of literary styles, from the epistolary form used ingeniously by Radcliffe to the ornate nar...