Meet Semi-Dual, the Occult Detector. The investigator who walks into a room full of questions nobody else can answer, sizes up the impossible, and gets to work. What you have not seen is one who casts a horoscope before dusting for fingerprints - and turns out to be right every single time.The Stars Do Not Lie introduces Semi-Dual, the occult detective pulp fiction left behind and modern readers are finally ready for. He does not fit neatly into any category, which is exactly what ...

"YOU can't always tell what a thing is by how it looks," said Bryce.I nodded. We had been talking over cases we had handled, that morning in our suite of offices on the seventh floor of the Urania Building, indulging in reminiscence—as much as anything.Jim was my partner in "Glace and Bryce-Private Investigators," and had been an inspector of police before our partnership was formed. He was a big-boned, heavy-set chap with a round head and a stubby brown mustache above the ...

Semi Dual returns in another suspenseful mystery which only his occult skills can resolve. Dorien, a wealthy man about town, is shot and wounded in his apartment in the course of what Inspector Johnson suspects is an extortion attempt. But Dorien won’t talk, leading the Inspector to call on Glace & Bryce—private investigators—and their strange partner, Semi Dual, the recluse and astrologist who uses his occult powers to straighten out the tangles of human affairs.

Imer Lamb is locked up for a strange attack on a friend. Semi-Dual sets out to find out the truth behind this mystery…

The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.

AS SEEN IN THE MOTION PICTURE STARRING LIAM NEESONThe big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact.

A "witty, affecting novel" of a friendship between a troubled teenager and his well-meaning teacher—and the tragic path it sets them on ( Financial Times).Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly insolent smile. So, Charlie's decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family…but his high-minded intention...

Every version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in one beautifully formatted e-book with historical footnotes, audio links and stunning original art.The Eleanor Mure pamphletThe Robert Southey versionScrapefootSilver-hair and the Three BearsThe Three BearsThe Story of the Three BearsAnd more ...*Stunningly illustrated with original art from renowned artists John Batten, L. Leslie Brooke, H. J. Ford, Peter Newell, Kay Nielsen, Charl...

Originally published in 1949, Tomato Cain and Other Stories is the sole collection of short fiction by Nigel Kneale. Drawing on his experiences of growing up on the Isle of Man, many of Kneale's tales conjure up a remote, old-fashioned community where mythology and superstition are part of everyday life. Several stories go further, making imaginative leaps into the kind of weird, eerie territory with which Kneale would go on to make his name, as the writer of TV's Quatermass, The Road, Bea...

"Includes one of my favorite Steampunk shorts of all time..." -Gail Carriger, New York Times Bestselling author of The Parasol ProtectorateThe author of The Antithesis Progression and The Clarke Lantham Mysteries brings you delicate, humorous, and brutal visions of a future that never was and a past that might have been. Here you will find collected tales of satire, romance, whimsy, and comic horror to delight every sensibility.Contains:

' "She's an adventuress. Yes, an adventuress, but an end-of-the-century one. She doesn't travel for profit, but for pleasure." 'Offering an entertaining introduction to the fin-de-si**ècle, this selection from the notorious magazine The Yellow Book includes stories and poems by famous writers such as Arnold Bennett and John Buchan, brilliant pieces by lesser-known writers such as Ada Leverson and Ella D'Arcy, and illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.One of 46...

‘The Christening’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. It was the ninth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. The theme of the unmarried mother, and the frictions the situation caused in the family and in the local community were further explored in his play ‘The Daughter-in-Law’. In this s...