The Body as the Last Link in an Invisible ChainDion Fortune does not write to console, but to shift one’s perspective. In these pages—born from a dialogue with her husband, the physician Charles Thomas Loveday Penry Evans, and published only after her death—illness ceases to be merely a physical mishap. It becomes the culmination of imbalances that originate elsewhere: in the emotions, in the mind, and in the soul’s relationship with its own destiny.The book’s most surprisi...

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of short stories first published in 1892.London, late 19th century. In the fog that shrouds the cobblestone streets of Baker Street, a man of extraordinary intelligence observes what no one else can see. Sherlock Holmes is not just a detective: he is a mind capable of reading an entire life in a single unbuttoned button, a scratch on a ring, or a barely perceptible accent.In this collection of twelve ...

The secret of Chimneys, a novel written by Agatha Christie and published in 1925, tells the story of Anthony Cade, a tour guide with an adventurous past, who accepts a seemingly innocuous assignment: to deliver a scandalous manuscript and some compromising letters to a London publisher. But behind that simple commission lies a web of deceit, blackmail, and international conspiracies that will draw him into the ancient and majestic Chimneys estate, home of the Caterham family. Amid dark cor...

"The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft is a cosmic horror novella written in 1928. In the decaying Massachusetts village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley grows at an unnatural rate, aided by his sorcerer grandfather in dark rituals connected to the entity Yog-Sothoth. When a monstrous invisible presence escapes their farmhouse and terrorizes the countryside, three professors from Miskatonic University must confront an otherworldly horror that defies human comprehension. This tale of forbidden ...

This book follows in the same vein as *Fanny Hill*, but is much more explicit. *Arabella* is the story of a proud and strong-willed woman of the Victorian era. In her own words, she describes the erotic escapades and perverse love affairs that took place behind closed doors in 1890s society.

Poirot investiga, a coletânea de contos policiais escrita por Agatha Christie e publicada pela primeira vez em 1924, representa um dos primeiros grandes sucessos editoriais dedicados ao famoso detetive belga Hercule Poirot. Nesta obra, a “Rainha do Gênero Policial” reúne onze casos investigativos envolventes, oferecendo aos leitores um caleidoscópio de enigmas criminais resolvidos com o inconfundível método dedutivo do detetive de bigode, acompanhado, como sempre, pelo fiel capitão Hasting...

Poirot Investigates, a collection of mystery stories written by Agatha Christie and first published in 1924, is one of the first major bestsellers featuring the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In this work, the “Queen of Crime” brings together eleven gripping investigative cases, offering readers a kaleidoscope of criminal mysteries solved through the mustachioed detective’s unmistakable deductive method, with his faithful companion Captain Hastings by his side as always. Each sto...

The Book of Enoch is a work by R. H. Charles, first published in 1917. This work presents a critical edition of the ancient Hebrew text known as 1 Enoch, a pseudepigraphical work attributed to Enoch, Noah’s great-grandfather. Although not included in the canonical Hebrew Bible, the Book of Enoch held great importance in early Jewish and Christian traditions. Its pages whisper secrets guarded for millennia: gateways between heaven and earth, hierarchies of luminous angels and rebellious s...

One of Wilkie Collins' shorter novels, The Haunted Hotel was published in 1878 as a monthly serial in six parts in Belgravia magazine. Most of the dramatic and sensational parts of the novel are set in Venice, and feature more of an emphasis on the supernatural than is usual in Collins' work. The story deals with the death of the wealthy Baron Montbarry in a hotel in Venice. This follows his inexplicable breaking-off of a previous engagement to a pretty young woman and his subsequent marri...

Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplif...

My father possessed a large and flourishing estate on one of the West Indian islands before the emancipation of the slaves. My baptismal name is Charlotte, but from the fancied likeness to a picture of the English queen of the name, my father called me Queenie, which pet name has clung to me ever since. The first event of any importance in connection with my subject which I can remember occurred when I was about ten years old. I had then a black nurse called Dora, in whose charge I was esp...

An awakening in a whore's bedroom is, as a rule, cheerless. One is vague as to one's whereabouts, as a rule sore on the John Thomas, and a general feeling of having made a bloody fool of oneself is most often mixed with a wonder whose pyjamas you've got on and whether you've got the clap or possibly worse. Charles Vernon St Just Osmond, fifth off the succession to the earldom of Osmond, very much a 'younger son', with a good deal less money even than most younger sons, turned over twice, f...