Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change.Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our cities, Future Build reveals how our dependence on five key materials has led to soaring carbon emissions, waste and ecological destr...

Bloomsbury presents Future Build: How Construction Can Heal Our Planet, written and read by Will ArnoldFuture Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change.Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our citie...

Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change.Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our cities, Future Build reveals how our dependence on five key materials has led to soaring carbon emissions, waste and ecological destr...

The Haunters & The Haunted is a genre-spanning anthology that masterfully intertwines the chilling motifs of haunting and the supernatural with the profound depths of human experience. Delving into the realms of gothic, romantic, and early modern narratives, this collection offers a panorama of ghostly tales and eerie ballads, each unraveling immense psychological tension and timeless existential quandaries. The collected works span an impressive array of styles, from the ethereal tones of...

Spooks and inexplicable things that go bump in the night have long exercised creative imaginations and provided source material for our greatest story-tellers.Included in this collection are tales from the heyday of supernatural fiction, when the great names of literature contributed to the genre as a matter of course - authors such as Collins, Conan Doyle, Dickens, Gaskell, Hardy, Hawthorne, O. Henry, James, Jerome, de Maupassant, Poe, Stevenson, Thackeray, and Wilde.You w...

A collection of tales of the strange, the weird, and the frightening. Just the thing to read on a dark night when the lightning flashes, and the thunder crashes, and all the doors are locked.

Thirty-one days, thirty-one chilling stories to scare you all the way to Halloween. On each day leading up to All Hallows’ Eve, you’ll be introduced to a frightening poltergeist. A Haunted October provides a month’s worth of terrifying tales that’ll haunt you for years to come.

Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood.This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguishe...

The First Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK® collects 36 classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. More than just ghosts, however, this collection includes tales of vampires and other creatures of the night...and much, much more. Hours of great reading await!Included are:THE WILLOWSTHE WENDIGOTHE SINGULAR DEATH OF MORTONTHE OLIVEANCIENT LIGHTSTHE KIT-BAGTHE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM

A collection of short stories in the horror genre: some weird, some strange, some downright unbelievable, but all designed to make the reader think...and think again, then leave the bedside light burning through the night.

Back by popular demand, a supernatural detective story revealing the true account of a house haunted by ghosts lingering after a nineteenth century murder.This true story recounts a Philadelphia family's encounter with a spectral presence in their eighteenth-century mansion. After experiencing footsteps at night, opening doors, strange sounds and activity that centered around the library, the Cameron family investigates, unearthing the mansion's tragic past and cha...

Paranormal expert Hanz Holzer investigates some of the most famous poltergeists in historyPoltergeist is a German term that translates simply to "noisy ghost." One of the main characteristics of a poltergeist is its high level of activity; it often manifests itself by moving or even throwing objects. Professor Hans Holzer reexamines these most menacing of hauntings, including the famous case of the Bell Witch of Tennessee, a nineteenth-century spirit, and ...