Our study is a rare case exploring in detail the ethnic roots of John Morton (1725-1777), a leading politician from Pennsylvania and the Signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He stood out from many other Signers, since his roots were in Northern Europe. Morton descended from the settlers in the colony of New Sweden (1638-1655) on the Delaware.A key factor to study Morton’s disputed roots is his great-grandfather, Marten Martensson, Sr. When he arrived in 1654 in the co...

John Morton (c. 1420–1500) was one of the most important men in the land from the Wars of the Roses to the start of the Tudor dynasty. Yet he has been largely ignored in recent times. He was a man of great character and influence over politics and the Church. He lived into his eighties, having served three kings as a councillor, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chancellor, bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal. He was a key figure in the early Tudor state. He had escaped from the Tower of...

***Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Anthology category***Want to see something weird?Embrace the odd? Satisfy your curiosity? Surrender to wonder?From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-winning co-editor of the smash hit Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories comes Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Your personal transformation as a parent starts with observing how your child communicates and understanding the words or gestures they use to let you know their wants and needs.The road to better communication deepens as you reconnect with your own childhood… during the time you were also learning about the world, and you required patience, love, and an understanding of your uniqueness.You are far more ...

Bram Stoker Award-winner for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction!Nightmares come to life in this comprehensive how-to guide for new and established authors…Book two in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series picks up where the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Where Nightmares Come From left off.It's Alive focuses on learning the craft in order to take your story from concept to completion.With an introduction by Richar...

Take a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this new science fiction anthology! There's something for every genre fiction fan in this follow-up to the hit "18 wheels of Horror - a Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors."From the back cover: An alien fuel additive shows just how fast a big rig can go... A disembodied driver wages war on self-driving trucks... A haul through time takes an unexpected turn... Reality shatters for a t...

Sehr geehrter Leser! Mit Dr. Glenn Morton hat Autor John Ball eine der faszinierendsten Figuren der Grusel- und Horror-Literatur geschaffen, wenn nicht die fesselndste und bedeutsamste überhaupt. Außergewöhnlich, initiativ, zielstrebig, ungeheuer ehrgeizig, geachtet, geehrt – genial – und doch hart, rücksichtslos, gehasst: das ist DR. MORTON, Arzt und Wissenschaftler! Verbrecher und Mörder – das sagen die anderen. Urteilen Sie selbst! Lassen auch Sie sich von der Ausstrahlung seiner schill...

Sehr geehrter Leser! Mit Dr. Glenn Morton hat Autor John Ball eine der faszinierendsten Figuren der Grusel- und Horror-Literatur geschaffen, wenn nicht die fesselndste und bedeutsamste überhaupt. Außergewöhnlich, initiativ, zielstrebig, ungeheuer ehrgeizig, geachtet, geehrt – genial – und doch hart, rücksichtslos, gehasst: das ist DR. MORTON, Arzt und Wissenschaftler! Verbrecher und Mörder – das sagen die anderen. Urteilen Sie selbst! Lassen auch Sie sich von der Ausstrahlung seiner schill...

'It's hard to imagine things getting back to normal after this though. I don't suppose they do from now on, not really.'In the kitchen of an old Devon rectory, the daughter who stayed and the son who moved away make conversation with their current and former partners, the milkman, the postman, the care workers. They talk about the weather, the roads, the toaster, the bins. About anything except the simmering tensions between them, as their father lies mortally ill in the n...

Sehr geehrter Leser! Mit Dr. Glenn Morton hat Autor John Ball eine der faszinierendsten Figuren der Grusel- und Horror-Literatur geschaffen, wenn nicht die fesselndste und bedeutsamste überhaupt. Außergewöhnlich, initiativ, zielstrebig, ungeheuer ehrgeizig, geachtet, geehrt – genial – und doch hart, rücksichtslos, gehasst: das ist DR. MORTON, Arzt und Wissenschaftler! Verbrecher und Mörder – das sagen die anderen. Urteilen Sie selbst! Lassen auch Sie sich von der Ausstrahlung seiner schill...

Sports and Life, an Olympian's View is a collection of 133 stories, essays and commentaries covering a wide variety of topics related to sports and life. For two decades, John Morton broadcast short commentaries on Vermont Public Radio and wrote a monthly column in the regional newspaper Vermont Sports Today. Morton was an Olympic biathlete (Sapporo '72 and Innsbruck '76) and a Nordic ski coach (Dartmouth College '78-'89). His stories related to skiing were published in 2...

Weird Fiction Quarterly does Folk Horror!Once again we bring you the finest in our now-signature 500 word flash fiction and exquisite poetry contributions, featuring over 60 writers from all around the globe and a dubious burlap sackful of color illustrations by our own Sarah Walker!Visit a strange, quaint village where the yearly festival is Everything.Call on the cunning woman or the witch doctor for a cure that might cost your very soul....