Editorial: Bu Classics Books
Seeking solitude for his studies, a student rents an old house with a sinister reputation, ignoring the warnings of locals. As the alarmingly intelligent rats gather, the portrait of a malevolent hanging judge seems to come alive. Tension mounts in a crescendo of terror as the past exacts a deadly toll on the intruder.
London has been accumulating its dead for two thousand years. These are their stories. This collection brings together twenty of the finest ghost stories set in the capital, drawn from the Victorian and Edwardian periods and selected by Tony Walker, narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. The authors gathered here represent the best of their age: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Riddell, Algernon Blackwood, M R James, E F Benson, H G Wells, and others whose names are synonymous with the supernatural tale at its height. The streets, squares, and buildings in these pages are real. A surgeon walks home through Soho on a winter night. Something stirs in a house on Vauxhall Walk. A man keeps a strange appointment in a part of the city that looks, on the surface, entirely ordinary. London has always been this way — layered, ancient, and not quite done with its past — and these writers knew it. Tony Walker's introduction sets the stories in context, and each story carries a note on its publication history. Whether you are visiting London for the first time, have lived here all your life, or simply carry the city in your imagination, this is a book to read after dark, when the streets outside are quiet and the old town is doing what it has always done.Ver libro
How far would you go to see again? Conflict photographer, Sara Miles, loves being embedded with the military out in the desert. Her pictures pay tribute to those who fight, suffer, and die for freedom and the images she captures can turn public perception in the never-ending war. Her photography matters. But when Sara is caught in an explosion out on patrol, her eyes are damaged by a face full of shrapnel. She may never be able to see through a lens again. The military offers her a cutting-edge operation to restore her sight, but it comes with a price … A short story with a supernatural edge from award-nominated, USA Today bestselling thriller author, J.F. Penn.Ver libro
What truly caused Blake's accident? He falls off the stage in the middle of a magic act? He ends up in a lot of pain, with broken bones and bruised pride.Ver libro
Although Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand in 1888, she spent much of her short life in England and on the Continent. As she wrote about the privileged worlds she encountered there, her stories quickly attracted literary attention. Prelude was hand-published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press. Readers today still applaud the grace with which Mansfield fuses image, mood, and meaning. Here are ten of Katherine Mansfield’s extraordinary tales. A whispered phrase, a ring twisting on a finger—each becomes a symbol for the broader emotional forces at work. Included are: The Baron, The Modern Soul, Prelude, At the Bay, Bliss, The Man Without a Temperament, The Daughter of the Late Colonel, The Garden-Party, Miss Brill, and The Doll’s House.Ver libro
Lucy and her young family have moved to a cottage on a quiet lane in a peaceful coastal town. Her husband is moving work but she is running away from the memory of the son she lost. She wants a fresh start, but the house is not going to let her look to the future, not when the past has so much it wants to show her. The first night in the house will confuse her. The second night will terrify her. The third will change everything, because a door to the other side has opened and they are coming…Ver libro
When 12-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never returned home.Three months later, her body is found inside her sleeping bag in the most frequented area of Cocoa Beach, and the town is outraged.The girl isn't just any child. She's the town's most beloved surf idol, and it was believed that she could be the next Kelly Slater.As another child, the son of a well-known senator is kidnapped, and the parents receive a disturbing video. FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas - who has just returned to her hometown, divorced and out of a job - plunges into the investigation, breaking her promise to her children not to do police work again.Local law enforcement, with her old flame Matt Miller in charge, are the ones who ask for her help in a case so unsettling that only she can solve it. But the deeper they dig, the deadlier it becomes for Matt and Eva Rae. Soon, everyone she holds dear is in grave danger as this case hits a little too close to home.Don’t Lie to Me is the first book in the Eva Rae Thomas Mystery series and can be enjoyed as a stand-alone.Ver libro
