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The debut novel of Percival Everett, New York Times bestselling author of National Book Award winner James.It's the middle of the season and the third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, Craig Suder, is in the midst of an inescapable slump. On top of that, his wife has been keeping her distance and Suder can't shake the creeping fear that he might have inherited his mother's insanity. That's when his team suggests he might enjoy a little break....

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s newspaper or something momentous when a TV or radio programme could be interrupted with...

Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more.These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure—will thrill and chill reade...

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the...

The Death Mask: And Other Ghosts is a collection of short stories by H. D. Everett, published in 1904. The stories explore themes of the supernatural and the macabre, with characters encountering ghosts, apparitions, and other eerie phenomena. The titular story, "The Death Mask," tells the tale of a man haunted by the likeness of his deceased brother, while other stories delve into the dark secrets of haunted houses and the sinister powers of ancient relics.

Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson was born in January 1851 in Gillingham, Kent.Little reliable information on her life is available and almost nothing on her early life.However, at age 18 she married the solicitor Isaac Edward Everett.It was only at the age of 44 that she began her literary career under the pseudonym of Theo Douglas, a popular device in a society that still frowned upon women writing for income.During her lifetime she was a popular author and wrot...

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

A collection of ghost stories blending atmosphere, suspense, and the uncanny.

Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson was born in January 1851 in Gillingham, Kent.Little reliable information on her life is available and almost nothing on her early life.The first concrete information concerns her marriage at age 18 to the solicitor Isaac Edward Everett.It was only at the age of 44 that she began her literary career under the pseudonym of Theo Douglas, a popular device in a society that still frowned upon women writing for income.During her lifetim...

The Haunted House is a house that rules our minds with fear. Once we think a house is haunted we prove the point to ourselves again and again. Every floorboard creak or window rattle or unexplained happening is proof concrete.In this anthology our authors go to exceptional lengths to unsettle our minds and open them up to all sorts of terrors.1 - Haunted House - The Definitive Collection - An Introduction2 - The Lurking Fear - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft3 - The ...

Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson was born in January 1851 in Gillingham, Kent.Little reliable information on her life is available and almost nothing on her early life.However, at age 18 she married the solicitor Isaac Edward Everett.It was only at the age of 44 that she began her literary career under the pseudonym of Theo Douglas, a popular device in a society that still frowned upon women writing for income.During her lifetime she was a popular author and wrot...

A collection of 14 short stories with horror and paranormal themes. The stories are: The Death Mask; Parson Clench; The Wind of Dunowe; Nevill Nugents Legacy; The Crimson Blind; Fingers of a Hand; The Next Heir; Annes Little Ghost; Over the Wires; A Water Witch; The Lonely Road; A Girl in White; A Perplexing Case; and, Beyond the Pale.