Famous investigator Harry Dickson is just back in London after some well-deserved holidays, and already Scotland Yard are seeking his help again, for there are very strange events afoot. A famous heiress and writer, Delphina Cruikshank, has vanished from a locked house. The corpse of an executed murderer has disappeared … while the doctor who was autopsying him was murdered. And Mysterion, Miss Cruikshank’s new character, may not be entirely fictional!

The Belgian writer Raymond de Kremer (1887-1963) wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and novels, in the horror and mystery genre, under the main pen-names Jean Ray and John Flanders. In the 1930s, several stories by Ray/Flanders appeared in the American pulp horror journals Weird Tales and Terror Tales. The next appearance of Jean Ray in English was not until 1965. GRAVEYARD?SPECTRES?collects five of these translated stories three from the 1930s and two from 1965 as an introduction i...

Discover the magical world of photo transfer and find endless possibilities for creating your own memories in fabric!Anything that can be photocopied or printed on a computer printer can be transferred to fabric. So get out your favorite photograph, letter, child's drawing, flowers from your garden, the final payment on your house, or a favorite piece of needlework—and learn the techniques for stitching a beautiful keepsake!The process is fun and EASY...

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Harry Dickson’s skills were instrumental in getting blood-thirsty killer ‘the Red-Eyed Vampire’ arrested. The detective is invited to the small German town where the murderer was from to witness his execution. However, he cannot help but wonder whether somebody else was controlling the ‘Vampire’ before abandoning him. When an attempt is made to break into the condemned man’s cell the night before his death, Dickson knows that the investigation is not over yet …

The great Icelandic novel written by a Nobel prize-winner, this is a magnificent portrait of the eerie Icelandic landscape and one man's dogged struggle for independence.‘In Iceland it’s the canon, but to me it’s a cult classic’ Zadie Smith‘I defy anyone to finish Halldór Laxness's Independent People without wetting the pages with tears’ Jonathan Franzen‘Favourite book? Independent People… I love it...

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.Far from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in back of the beyond.In The Fifth Head ...

With his "sheer mastery of narrative," the British novelist takes a detour into the uncanny and wondrously absurd in these "compelling" stories ( The Guardian ).An ambitious departure for an author renowned for his realism, this collection of short fiction "collectively . . . [engages] in a reconnaissance through the dustier reaches of man's experience with [the] spectres of doubt, defeat, failure and paradox" ( Kirkus...

The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconcious, or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the artists and writers of the Expressionist generation. Franz Marc called it a magnificent reckoning...

A. Clarence Shandon was just an MBA from Wisconsin before a shipwreck transported him to the shores of the fantastic Commonwealth of Letters. He journeys through history and myth, meeting unforgettable names from Circe to Robin Hood along the way. But the journey changes him from the studious, conceited academic to a legend in his own right: Silverlock.

This is a fantastic story of a ship racing across the Atlantic. She was predicted as unsinkable but it collided with an iceberg and brought atrocious loss of life. Robertson has remarkably described the features of luxurious ship. Appealing!

'The Wreck of the Titan' was written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic. The events in book are eerily similar to the actual events that would not happen for more than a decade. Titan, the largest ship in the line, was considered to be unsinkable; it was roughly the same size as the Titanic with about the same number of passengers; it was not provided with enough life boats for all of its passages; and half of the passengers died when it sank after hitting an iceberg in the A...