Winter Journeys is a story about the power of music and imagination.In 1827, a year before his death, composer Franz Schubert wrote twenty-four songs that trace the physical and mental trajectory of a man who has parted from the young woman for whom he had romantic feelings. Wandering the winter countryside, he passes from sorrow to disillusion, anger, confusion, irony, loneliness, and a final surrender—to madness?In 1987, Ilona Miller's final year at university, she is enc...

Every decision has consequences, and logic gets you every time.France Leighton is studying Egyptology at Miskatonic University in Arkham, where a lonely ghost haunts the university library, and strangeness is normal. France's hopes for a return to Egypt are complicated by her talent for rash decisions and the arrival of her twin half-brothers from England. Edward and Peter are contrasts. One is a rational scientist, the other a dabbler in the occult, but they are equally capable of...

Plot Summary: Herbert West can revivify the dead – after a fashion. Miskatonic University Librarian Charles Milburn agrees to help him, compromising his principles and his romance with Alma Halsey, daughter of the Dean of Medicine. West's experiments become increasingly risky, but when he prepares to cross the ultimate border, only Charles can save his life – if his conscience lets him.More Details: Arkham, Massachusetts, 1910. Librarian Charles Milburn takes up a position as catal...

All four novels of the Herbert West Series: The Friendship of Mortals, Islands of the Gulf Volumes 1 and 2, and Hunting the Phoenix. Herbert West, a scientist obsessed with reversing death, is transformed into a physician of last resort. From ancient Arkham to the agony of the Great War, from Acadie to the islands of the West Coast, a brilliant but amoral physician is subjected to travails and entanglements, to become a source of healing -- and of peril.Book 1: The Friendship of Mo...

Seven stories from the world of Audrey Driscoll's Herbert West Series, followed by seven other tales of illusions, delusions, and mysteries on the edges of logic.Discover Herbert West's connections to Egypt, and how a dead man can help solve a mystery. Share Charles Milburn's ruminations as he explores another dimension of his friendship with Herbert. Experience the horror of a long-anticipated revenge.Sample the treats from an ice cream truck from Hell. Ride along with a dad...

Recently turned 21, France Leighton travels to Luxor, Egypt, taking with her two legacies—an antique cello and an emerald ring. Instead of the archaeological adventure she expects, she gets a lecherous dig director, hidden agendas, a risky balloon ride, and an enigmatic nuclear physicist. In the mysteries of the ancient tombs, France realizes she and her gifts may imperil the world—or save it.More details:October 1962. The developing nuclear missile crisis in Cuba is of no c...

Once, he was Herbert West, superlative surgeon and revivifier of the dead. Now he's lost his reputation, his country and his name. Rebuilding his life as a country doctor on Bellefleur Island, he struggles with doubts, emotional entanglements and terrible memories of the Great War. Above all, he must forge a new relationship with his old adversary – death – and negotiate with a new one – love.More Details: Boulogne, France, 1916. Wounded soldier Andre Boudreau awakes to find himsel...

Plot Summary: Abandoned and abused, young Herbert West resorts to drastic measures to survive. At Miskatonic University, he becomes a scientist who commits crimes and creates monstrosities. Decades later, haunted by his past, he finds safety as Dr. Francis Dexter of Bellefleur Island, but his divided nature threatens those he loves and forces him to face the truth about his healing powers.More Details: Seeking relief from grief and illness in the refuge of Bellefleur Island, Franci...

Plot Summary: Journalist Alma Halsey chases the story of a lifetime to Providence, Rhode Island and finds more than she expected – an old lover, Charles Milburn, and an old adversary, renegade physician Herbert West, living under the name Francis Dexter. Fire throws her into proximity with them both, rekindling romance and completing a great transformation.More Details: Middle-aged and cynical, journalist Alma Halsey looks back on the missed chances in her life with bitterness and ...