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Guy Pratt

Guy Pratt's life as bass player to the stars. The book behind the successful comedy show.Guy Pratt came of age just as playing bass became cool, with the likes of Paul Simonon and Bruce Foxton. Having dallied with Funkapolitan, Pratt suddenly found himself on Top of the Pops and supporting David Bowie with smooth Australian outfit Icehouse.At a ludicrously young age Guy Pratt became a sought after bass player to the stars, finding himself crawling from stud...

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H. Rider Haggard, Algernon Blackwood, Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, Guy Boothby, Mrs. Loudon, Ambrose Pratt, Victor Appleton, Baroness Orczy, Charlotte Bryson Taylor

Revenge of the Mummy: 10+ Occult & Supernatural Classics gathers tales in which antiquity, forbidden knowledge, and uncanny return unsettle the modern world. Moving among Gothic terror, imperial adventure, occult romance, sensation fiction, and proto-scientific fantasy, the volume traces the mummy not merely as a monster but as a charged emblem of colonial desire, archaeological trespass, and death's resistance to confinement. Egyptian curses, animated relics, secret rites, and spectral vi...

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GuyP. Wyser-Pratte

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Guy P. Wyser-Pratte

Known internationally as The Dean Of Risk Arbitrage, Guy Wyser-Pratte is a force majeure of shareholder activism.Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and an Austrian-Catholic mother, Guy (Ghee) has lived a life shaped by history, ambition, and risk. From an idyllic childhood on the beaches of Cannes to narrowly escaping war-torn Europe, his journey is one of resilience, fortune, and survival against all odds. His background as a US Marine Corps infantry officer foreshadows hi...

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Buddy Guy, David Ritz

"A colorful account of [Guy's] 50-year-long tenure as perhaps the most influential guitar slinger in Chicago blues." — Los Angeles TimesAccording to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues.Guy's epic story stands at the abso...

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Bob Carruthers

This is the ultimate critical guide to the music of and career of Pink Floyd, brought together in one amazing collection. Using the actual words of the band and critics, this is the definitive review of the work of the band on stage, on record and on film from the Syd Barrett era to Pulse. This eBook also features many rare photographs spanning the entire career of Pink Floyd.

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Bob Carruthers

When Genesis announced their reformation and tour dates early in 2007, the shows sold out in just a few hours - proof, if any were needed, that despite being in hibernation for some years, they remain on of the most popular acts in rock music.Now the band has just three original members; but fans hark back to the golden period of the early seventies, when the ranks included superb guitarist Steve Hackett and above all the charismatic front man Peter Gabriel.This fully illustrated eBook tel...

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Mark Blake

Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters’ world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums.Now, Mark Blake’s superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gi...

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Edgar Allan Poe

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those...

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Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, John Buchan, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Ralph Adams Cram, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Daniel Defoe, Brander Matthews, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Walter Hubbell, Leopold Kompert, Florence Marryat, John William Polidori, Vincent O'Sullivan, W. W. Jacobs, M. P. Shiel, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Shelley, Margaret Oliphant, Frank R. Stockton, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Leonard Kip, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Pedro De Alarçon, Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William F. Harvey, Fiona Macleod, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando

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Julian Hawthorne, William Melmoth

Delve into the spine-chilling world of the "HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 200+ Mysteries, Horror Classics & Supernatural Tales," a compendium that embodies the multifaceted landscape of horror and supernatural fiction. This anthology gathers an eclectic array of works, spanning over two hundred stories that trace the evolution of eerie narratives from classic to contemporary styles. A delicate balance is struck between haunting mysteries, ghoulish horrors, and the supernatural, encapsulat...

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Quick Read, Mrs. Loudon

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 15 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 35 minutes"The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" is a three-volume novel written by Jane Webb in 1827. The story is set in the year 2126 and revolves around the reanimation of the Egyptian mummy of Cheops. Webb's inspiration for t...

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Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson

ARABIAN NIGHTS: Andrew Lang's 1001 Nights & R. L. Stevenson's New Arabian Nights breathes new life into the rich tapestry of Arabian folklore and fantasy. This anthology skillfully combines the traditional tales retold by Lang with Stevenson's inventive narrative in New Arabian Nights, highlighting a broad spectrum of literary styles from the straightforward narrative to richer, more allegorical contexts. The collection serves as a culminating point where the intricate old-world charm meet...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe

Collection of 100 classic short stories, selected for use in middle school and high school. These include: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius, Present at a Hanging and Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, The Man Without a Country by Hale, The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story by Harris, The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Harte; Ethan Brand, The Gorgon's Head, The Gray Champion, The Great Stone Face, The Miraculous Pitcher, My K...