An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed, The Last Dangerous Visions was ...

Inspired by songs from AC/DC’s bestselling album, Back in Black, this anthology contains ten murder mysteries from ten bestselling writers—including a new Jack Reacher original by Andrew Child.The third collection in the Music and Murder Mystery Series, Back in Black features one story for each song from the seminal hard rock album of the same name. This book showcases ten brilliant mystery writers at the top of their game, including Reed Farrel C...

There are times on the World stage when you will see bursts of national pride. And there are times when that sense of 'being' is an underlying thread-a part of a national psyche that is unconsciously acknowledged by most if you will-that gives Canadian fiction (in this case, the Crime subgenre) a distinctive flavour and feel to it.So when we put out a call for Canadian short form crime fiction: 'As Canadian as peameal bacon, Buckwud Maple syrup, Roberta Bondar, Timmies, poutine, an...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark short-story collection that put th...

Some houses remember. Some rooms never forget. In this complete collection of twenty-nine classic ghost stories, the greatest names in supernatural fiction — Bram Stoker, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, Edith Nesbit, D.H. Lawrence and more — summon apparitions that refuse to rest.A haunted judge's house that claims its visitorsA monkey's paw that grants three terrible wishesA library window that opens onto another worldGathered here for the first time in one volume: the definitive Chronicle Vault ...

Gathered here are ninety-eight classic tales from the golden age of science fiction, when pulp magazines first carried readers to distant planets, future centuries, and worlds ruled by machines. From first contact and interstellar war to time travel and utopias gone wrong, these stories by the era's most imaginative writers laid the foundation for modern science fiction. A sweeping, career-spanning anthology and the definitive Chronicle Vault collection of speculative fiction's formative d...

For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Nor have I sought in these Islands only, but wheresoever the Muse has followed the tongue which among living tongues she most delights to honour. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve ...

Waxkeep has compiled some of the greatest western novels and short stories ever written and combined them in an easy to navigate collection with a linked table of contents. The mystery collection includes the following:

The first issue of the *SMFS Mystery Magazine-*a combined venture between Murderous Ink Press and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. This is a Tri-Annual publication, with the aim of providing a platform for SMFS members to showcase their writings, be that fiction, reviews, interviews and opinion pieces, as well as an introduction to the Society for new/potential members.

Although the Hebrew language ceased to be the vernacular of the majority of the Jewish people during the last years of the second temple, it has, throughout the various periods, with but few exceptions, persisted as the medium for the noblest literary productions of the nation. Irrespective of the language spoken by the people in the countries of their adoption, the best thoughts of the Jewish writers found expression in the holy tongue. The Gemara, which is preponderately in Aramaic, can ...

There have been pirates from the oldest times in the eastern sea of Canton; they arose and disappeared alternately, but never were they so formidable as in the years of Këa king, at which time, being closely united together, it was indeed very difficult to destroy them. Their origin must be sought for in Annam. In the year fifty-six of Këen lung (1792), a certain Kwang ping yuen, joined by his two brothers, Kwang e and Kwang kwŏ, took Annam by force, and expelled its legitimate king Wei ke...

THE story of the French occupation in America is not that of a people slowly moulding itself into a nation. In France there was no state but the king; in Canada there could be none but the governor. Events cluster around the lives of individuals. According to the discretion of the leaders the prospects of the colony rise and fall. Stories of the machinations of priests at Quebec and at Montreal, of their heroic sufferings at the hands of the Hurons and the Iroquois, and of individual deeds...