Storm-swept, remote light stations—and the isolated souls who man the beacons—are the perfect inspirations for tales of suspense and horror. Lighthouse Horrors collects 17 of the best from such writers as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Bloch, Jack Vance, and Ray Bradbury.This is a book to save for a fogbound or rain-dark night. Once you've read these pages, you'll never look at a lighthouse in quite the same way again.

For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and the region’s economic future. As humans continue to divert its waters for agriculture and mine its marshlands for industry, Great Salt Lake could vanish entirely within five years. A refuge for more than ...

Kritik und Leser sind sich einig: Sherlock Holmes war – und ist – der größte Detektiv aller Zeiten. Und er wird es bleiben, auch in der Zukunft.Unter der Schirmherrschaft von Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg und Charles Waugh haben sich die gewitztesten Verfasser der Phantastik zusammengetan, um erfindungsreich und wortgewandt zu beweisen, dass der Meister der Deduktion auch in der Ära der Mikrochips und Computer unschlagbar ist – auch wenn gelegentlich Maschinen dazu dienen, sein...

Drawing upon original sources and published material, A Distant War Comes Home is a fascinating survey of the many individual stories that linked Maine with the war hundreds of miles away.

Un recueil de 4 nouvelles anglaises ou américaines classiques, ayant pour sujet Noël.Charles DickensL'Histoire des gobelins qui ont emporté un sacristain – The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (1836)Un fossoyeur détestant Noël se fait kidnapper par des gobelins en plein cimetière.Mary Eleanor WilkinsFreeman Le Fantôme de Noël – The Christmas Ghost (1900)À Noël, une jeune femme découvre ch...

Campaigner, insurgent, fugitive, rebel commander, commodity kingpin, elected president, exile and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his country to change but instead ignited a conflict which destroyed Liberia in over a decade of violence, greed and personal ambition. Taylor's takeover threw much of the neigbouring region into turmoil, until he was finally brought to face justice in The Hague for his role in Sierra Leone's civil war.In this remarkable and eye-opening b...

FIFTEEN STORIES ABOUT THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME OF ALL…Of all the crimes humankind can commit, the act of murder—of cold-bloodedly taking another human life—is often the most shocking, and can tear couples, families, and even entire towns apart.Mystery Writers of America is proud to present this volume in the Classics series, featuring fourteen stories by acclaimed writers, all exploring the terrible crime of murder. From chill-master Robert Bloch comes a stor...

Al igual que ocurre con otros volúmenes de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, la presente antología reúne historias de los más destacados cuentistas de Inglaterra. La cantidad de grandes escritores ingleses es vasta, de tal manera que es una tarea muy ardua seleccionar pocos cuentos entre tantos excelentes. Por otro lado, el lector puede tener la máxima certeza de que encontrará en esta obra cuentos hermosos escritos por cuentistas de talento incuestionable, como Dicken...

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policy makers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a discussion of that information with respect to current and future impacts and possible solutions. This book explores the nexus of climate change and biological invasions, resulting impacts (biological and economic) and a...

The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recounts the manner in which Southern women experienced the war and the changes it brought about in their lives. Filled with excerpts from the letters, books, diaries, and postwar writings the women left behind, it reveals the other side of the war—the women's war—through first-person accounts of women running farms, buying and selling ...

These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story.

London Must Die!Writers have been trashing London for well over 100 years now, and this collection contains some of the best from pioneering science fiction authors such as H. G. Wells, Fred H. White, Owen Oliver, Edgar Wallace, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and more! Disaster fiction was very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and these writers penned many such tales of doom and despair.Tremble as voracious giant insects descend upon the unsuspecting pop...