Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer playground of the Gilded Age for the Astors, Belmonts and Vanderbilts. They built lavish villas designed by the best Beaux Arts-style architects of the time, including Richard Morris Hunt, Charles McKim and Robert Swain Peabody. America's elite delighted in referring to these grand retreats as "summer cottages," where they would play tennis and polo and sail their yachts along the shores of the Ocean State. The coachman had an important role as the dis...

Fourteen fresh tales of madness and monsters from Fractured Mind Publishing that will leave you wanting more while you thank the Old Gods for the Mythos that inspired these stories. The astounding authors that weave these new webs of madness include: Edward Morris Valerie Lioudis Aaron White Jon Tobey Oliver Lodge Ryan Colley L.E. Harrison Kari Leigh Sanders Dale Drake Charles Reis Steve Van Samson Patrick Rahall Michael Clark EV Knight

With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris.David Hume (1711–1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, the passions, and morals. It applies the experimental method of reasoning to human nature in...

A trucker losing his mind on the open road.A rock star living one night in a hundred different hotels.A hardened Santa with a sidearm and a short fuse.A civilization undone by its own creation.Everything That Comes With It is a collection of dark, twisted urban short stories where the ordinary collides with the absurd.Spanning horror, satire, science fiction, and dark comedy, these twenty standalone tales explore strange moments in modern li...

New weird fiction novel, Alphabet of Lightning, tries to fix our war-raged future by diving into our shadowy past. What if all the horrors of our lives, everything we inflict on one another, could be traced to one guy? Morris's horror sci-fi novel, Alphabet of Lightning, brings us Shamus Connelly from a ravaged future, chasing through time that one guy that would destroy us all. And it all starts when he lands in the body of a kid in the 1920s and discovers he's got stran...

"[A] retelling of the careers and the personalities . . . who formed today's world of high finance." — St. Louis Post-DispatchThe 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance.Edward Morris plots in absorbing detail Wall Str...

What if the person who breaks your heart is also the one who helps you find your soul? In this intimate collection of unsent letters, dreams, and reflections, Edward Morris shares the story of a love that never fully arrived yet transformed him completely.Set in a quiet Seattle café and written across seasons of longing, silence, hope, and self-discovery, this book chronicles the tender unraveling of a man who dared to love with his whole heart. Through honest prose and luminous st...

A dark speculative fiction anthology of ecological delights and nightmares. In each piece, Nature prevails, it triumphs, one way or another, with teeth, claws, vines, tentacles, or more over human exploitation. Prose and poetry are equals here, giving you decadent, violent, and elegant delights. Dark humor and dark tales for dreams of a better tomorrow. All speculative subgenres are included, from literary horror, extreme horror, psychological horror to dark science fiction and new weird. ...

A worldwide gathering of award winning horror authors have come together to craft a collection of dark fiction stories covering every album and every era of Black Sabbath. Each story is inspired by one of Black Sabbath's greatest songs from the biggest hits to the most obscure album tracks. SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE: A HORROR TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH is an immediate classic for rock fans and horror fans alike. Featuring the talents of Stewart Giles, J. Rocky Colavito, Sidney Williams, Tom Lu...

Antarctica... a frozen wasteland of penguins, blinding ice and snow, and blizzards to kill the unprepared in minutes. But it is an ancient land, with ancient secrets, mysteries that humanity is only beginning to glimpse. HP Lovecraft introduced the world to the terrifying reality of this lonely continent in his famous novella, At the Mountains of Madness, and now a new team of intrepid authors follows in his footsteps. New dimensions of horror will send chills up your spine, from the pens ...

We don't know what the future might hold. Until now.Offering a collection of terrifying stories of science fiction and speculative fiction horrors, OMINOUS REALITIES is a dark thrill ride to explore what might be in store for mankind.This wicked journey isn't limited by time or gravity. It takes you on an exploration of futuristic and post-Apocalyptic worlds, to experience societies where dark corporations rule, where humanity must consider terrifying alternatives, and to t...

My Papa is a children's book about a little girl who is thankful for and appreciative of everything her grandfather does for her, such as taking her on her first plane ride, going to parks and museums with her, and introducing her to family in other states. The story brings to light the important role a father plays in family dynamics. Fathers, men, and all who serve as examples to children teach, expose, and mentor them to grow into valuable members of society in this complex wor...