Born in 1951 on a North Florida farm just south of the Georgia line. Most of the people back then were poor and doing hard farm labor. Graduated high school and also received an AA degree from a local college.The difference I had was the depression I developed from an illness called tetanus. is happened when I was 11. Most people died from it. e doctors saved me but it wrecked my nerves and mind.Growing up is tough enough but to have that added to it, no doubt would be fata...

In the early morning hours of March 29, 1911, a fire broke out in the New York State Capitol at Albany. By sunset, the entire western portion of the building had sustained extensive structural damage. Within lay the entire collection of the New York State Library, almost completely reduced to ashes. Founded in 1818, this had been one of the finest research libraries in the country and home to innumerable manuscript and printed rarities. In a particularly bitter irony, the fire struck as th...

With a bottomless taste for the absurd, nothing is too outrageous for Doug Lansky. In the plucky, hilarious, and irreverent spirit of Lansky's popular syndicated travel column, "Vagabond," comes Last Trout in Venice, a book of adventurous and wacky travel essays that will have you laughing out loud. In Naples, Italy, Lansky rents a car precisely because of the city's reputation as one of the worst places to drive in the world. In Berlin, he dons a full-body latex suit, preparing f...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Hugh Mercer was born in 1726 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland...Although trained as a doctor he would go on to serve in a military capacity as physician in Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1746 Jacobite rebellion. Following the decisive failure of the revolt at the battle of Culloden, Mercer fled his native country and sought refuge in the American colonies...His fighting days were only just beginning, seeing service in the Seven Years War and most famously in the American War of Independence."In ...

Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of...

"The Classic Collection of H.G. Wells" presents a captivating anthology of novels and stories from the visionary author. Renowned as one of the pioneers of science fiction, Wells's works continue to enthrall readers with their imaginative storytelling and thought-provoking themes.At the forefront of this anthology are some of Wells's most iconic works, including "The Time Machine," a groundbreaking tale of time travel and its consequences, and "The War of the Worlds," a gripping acc...

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form…As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves.H. P. LovecraftHorror intends to cr...

Three Gothic Novels is a compelling collection that brings together three quintessential works of Gothic literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Each novel delves into the macabre and the supernatural, exploring themes of fear, horror, and the unknown, while also probing deeper questions about humanity, morality, and the boundaries of science and nature.In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the haunting tale of Victor Fra...

Contents:Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Gold BugThe Black CatThe Pit and the PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarHop-FrogThe RavenBram StokerDraculaMary Shelley

Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the horror genres. Darker, edgier and on the Romanticism end of Romanticism. In addition to being important to the horror genre, the first scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, and adventure authors drew inspiration from Gothic horror, so it's sometimes considered the parent of all modern genre fiction. Content: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Bram Stoker: Dracula The Judge's House Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case...