Lines of Hope and Wonder, is a celebration of our Past, and a hope for the Future; wherever that lies. It also tells more of Jack’s local Environment and working life, as well as events that have influenced him. As always, many of his poems [and even lyrics] were inspired by other people’s photographs and comments. Jack D. Harrison has been told his work touches the lives of others; and he hopes that readers can also relate to these new poems. Only you the reader can know that.

An exciting, safe, and fun guide to a spicier side of sexKink For Dummies is a safe, positive, and easy-to-read roadmap to expanding (and exploring!) your sexual and personal horizons. It walks you through kink basics, shattering stigmas and myths as it goes, and explains how you can integrate these unique-to-you desires into your life using a mutual consent and respect framework.This book offers you multiple avenues to explore and play with your f...

As the newspapers told of the murder of some Duke and his wife in a far-off Eastern European city, the adults around the two classmates speculate on the likelihood of a big war, and whether it would all be over by Christmas that year; in 1914. As the same scene was repeated in cities, towns and villages across Great Britain, Jack and Albert thought it would be such an adventure to run away to join up for the Western Front. But their relatively sheltered background could never have prepared...

The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable - that over a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London's Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations of women. The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick, a depraved drug-taking, womanising, 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this analysis of his diary, investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text, the rigorous...

When the history of horror comics was written, one name stood and still stands above the rest: EC Comics. With equal parts suspense, gore, camp, and revenge, the triumvirate of EC’s horror output laid the groundwork for what was to come from many of the genre’s greatest writers and directors.Now, Pocket Universe Productions (producers of the X-Files and Locke & Key audio dramas) presents EC’s The Vault of Horror, its stories adapted and p...

William Harrison Ainsworth's novel 'Jack Sheppard' is a gripping historical novel that takes readers on a journey through the roguish underworld of 18th-century London. Ainsworth's vivid descriptions and attention to historical detail bring to life the infamous adventures of the titular character, a notorious thief and jailbreaker. The novel is written in a fast-paced, suspenseful style that keeps readers engaged from beginning to end, making it a classic in the genre of historical fiction...

A master of drinking, whoring, theft - and escape!While Jack Sheppard seems marked from birth for a terrible end, his wit and charm might just be able to cheat fate. Fate, however, seems eager to cheat him out of an honest living, when Jack begins visiting the notorious Black Lion, drinking den of the worst criminals in London. Soon he is one of the most famous scoundrels in the city - not for his crimes, but for the wonderful fact that not one of the King's fine prisons can hold h...

A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories th...

Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers 5 - 13 Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sBeside Still Waters by Robert SheckleyHome is the Spaceman by George O. SmithWelcome Martians by Evan HunterSouvenir by Philip K. DickUnfortunately by Fredric BrownThe Stainless Steel Rat by Harry HarrisonThe Cosmic Express by Jack WilliamsonChicken Farm by Ross RocklynneBefore Eden by ...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 29 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Harry Harrison, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Leigh Brackett, Margaret...

On the night of Friday, the 26th of November, 1703, and at the hour of eleven, the door of a miserable habitation, situated in an obscure quarter of the Borough of Southwark, known as the Old Mint, was opened; and a man, with a lantern in his hand, appeared at the threshold. This person, whose age might be about forty, was attired in a brown double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a very narrow collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees; black plu...

Science Fiction Grand Masters 2 - The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have voted since 1975 to name the best science fiction writers and recognize them as, the best of the best, Grand Masters. This vintage sci-fi anthology contains 17 short stories by the greatest writers in the history of science fiction. All of these short stories are written by Science Fiction Grand Masters.The Black Ewe by Fritz LeiberThe Foxholes of Mars...