"Doon the wynds an' up the streets,Where revenants sought souls tae eat,The Butcher called for twitching meatAn' Burke an' Hare did answer."-anon.A year after the Cadaver Riots tore the heart from Edinburgh. Fear still chokes the Old Town, for though the revenants were driven back with shot and steel, they still lurk in the city's shadowed closes. When night falls, they strike.In dissecting room...

The fight to survive is all in the mind.There is nothing exceptional about Greg Summers, until the day he returns home to discover that his wife no longer recognises him and is married to a stranger using his name.Perhaps it is an elaborate hoax, yet that wouldn’t explain his vivid flashbacks to childhood, or the violent eruptions of blood that accompany them. Nor does it explain the stray memories that seem to belong to an entirely separate man called Richard James...

Savage Holiday, first published in 1954 by noted American author Richard Wright, is a tense, well-written psychological thriller about Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced into early retirement, who, over the course of a bizarre weekend, is responsible for the accidental death of his neighbor's young son. Tragic consequences follow as Fowler attempts to redeem himself and is forced to question his own life, as events spiral out-of-control to their inevitable concl...

The end of the world started in Glasgow, with a kiss.Two people - two creatures - fated to be eternal enemies downed their blazing spears and loved. To do so, they broke rules hardwired into the DNA of the universe. The universe noticed.The universe broke.Now Heaven and Hell are hunting them. Nobody on Earth can help them. Worst of all, the fabric of reality is unravelling around them, the Apocalypse has been brought forward a millennium, and it might all b...

What the soul would forget, the flesh remembers.When hack reporter Dexter Lomax investigates a series of mysterious craters forming across Northeast England, he expects to convert a well-planned hoax into international news for the weak-minded.What he doesn’t expect is for suicidal beggars to thrust weirdly compelling video tapes into his hands, to be targeted by two opposing groups with deadly agendas, or to be in the centre of a horror that begin...

Introduction:Within the pages of this poetic journey,A tapestry of love, woven so tenderly.Fifteen chapters of romance and delight,Where words dance and emotions take flight.From the endless day to the moonlight's glow,Each poem captures a love that continues to grow.Sunbeam smiles and velvet touches unfold,Melodic laughter and futures bright, so bold.In whispered beliefs and ignited sparks,Our hearts embark on love's...

Title: Balanced Diet: Nourishing Your Body for Optimal HealthIntroduction:Welcome to "Balanced Diet: Nourishing Your Body for Optimal Health." In today's fast-paced world, where processed and convenience foods often dominate our plates, it's crucial to understand the significance of maintaining a healthy and well-rounded diet. This book is your comprehensive guide to achieving and sustaining a balanced approach to eating, ensuring that you nourish your body with the nutrient...

In "Black Boy," Richard Wright compellingly chronicles his tumultuous journey from a childhood steeped in poverty in the Jim Crow South to a fierce assertion of self-identity and personal agency. The narrative, marked by vivid imagery and incisive social commentary, exposes the harsh realities of racial discrimination and the struggle for dignity. As a seminal work in African American literature, the book employs a naturalistic style, wherein Wright's stark prose effectively captures the v...

Bigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago’s slums, reckless, angry and adrift.A respectable job with the affluent Dalton family provides hope but sets him on course for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame.First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence an...

In "Black Boy," Richard Wright offers a poignant and unflinching memoir of his childhood and early adulthood in the racially charged environment of the Jim Crow South. Written in a stark, evocative prose style that combines lyrical narrative with raw realism, the work captures the complexities of identity and survival under oppressive societal norms. Wright's exploration of hunger'—both physical and spiritual'—serves as a powerful metaphor for his quest for freedom and self-assertion again...

The author. The psychic. The vagrant. The hack.An invitation to a crumbling cottage in the lonely wilds. The legend of the witch who haunts it still. A disappearance from a locked room and the rising, ancient power that may be culprit. The hag has waited long for visitors, and guests are encouraged to extend their stay.For whatever remains of their lives.Welcome... to Craven Place..."Part horror, part thriller and part ...

Where souls are made of stories, the desert gods shall feast.After the traumatic events of The Flesh Remembers, all Dexter Lomax and his new charge Kirsteen MacDonald want is time alone to recover. They don’t want conspiracies to find them. They don’t want ancient gods to sing their names from the deep desert. They definitely don’t want to be drawn back to the mysteries of the flesh, and the tales it can tell.Yet a single telephone call from an old...