Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

• 

  When Lambs Eat Lions

  Jerrimiah Stonecastle

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A tall, mysterious white man moves into a neighborhood that is caught in a turf war between three rival gangs. He becomes a threat to the gangs when the residents begin to lose their fear of the gangs and they begin to lose members. 
  They plot to take this bible thumping interloper out, but soon discover they had made a mistake of biblical proportions. 
  Who or what is he? 
  The residents think he’s an angel sent from heaven. 
  The gangs think he’s a demon sent from hell. 
  The local clergy think he’s the Lamb returning as the Lion to usher in the End of Days. 
  Or is he something else?

  Mostra libro

• 

  Dancer in the Dark The (Unabridged)

  Reggie Oliver

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010.
  THE DANCER IN THE DARK: Against a black backdrop strewn with stars the silver figure in a
  long, floating dress sang and swirled, the little silk-shod feet mirrored in the polished black floor. Her voice trilled and swooped like an upper-class nightingale, with those odd strangulated vowels so alien to us today.

  Mostra libro

• 

  The Locked Tomb Mystery - And...

  Elizabeth Peters

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Four classic stories by the New York Times bestselling grandmaster of mystery, each paired with an incisive new introduction. 
   
   
    
  A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead with her hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. Two sisters take shelter in a shuttered old house at the end of a country road . . . only to discover they're not alone. And the author's most beloved characters, Amelia Peabody and Radcliff Emerson, make an appearance in a newly uncovered tale with a witty nod to Sherlock Holmes. 
   
   
    
  Settle in with this quartet of short stories—now available for the first time in a single volume—from one of the most popular mystery writers of all time. The Locked Tomb Mystery and Other Stories features a preface and introductions to each story by mystery authors Tasha Alexander, Juliet Blackwell, and Daniel Stashower, and Egyptologist Salima Ikram.

  Mostra libro

• 

  The Shadow Over Innsmouth

  H. P. Lovecraft

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  H.P. Lovecraft's dark tale of fate and fear.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Tales of the Revenants The - A...

  Tom Newton

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The first three books in the bestselling vampire series, collected in one volume. 
  Book 1: A Bloody Kiss - Alex Sinclair enjoyed a simple and safe life, until a chance meeting with a mysterious woman changed things forever. Gifted with immortallity and plunged into the complex world of the undead, Alex finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict, forcing him and his friends into a fight for survival. 
  Book 2: Suspended in Dusk - Alex Sinclair, lost in mourning and desperate for redemption, embarks on a journey that leads him deep into forgotten occult arts. He must journey through hell to find what he seeks, but what he discovers will change the world of the revenants forever. 
  Book 3: The Last of the Elders - The revenants have enjoyed a time of peace, following the world-shaking events of previous years. But that will soon change. Now, the greatest horror the undead have ever faced emerges, threatening their very existence. Alex Sinclar must unravel the mysteries of the past if he and his companions are to save the future.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Whittington's Cat - Is this...

  Lady Eleanor Smith

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics. 
   
  Part of her education was at Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate.  Here she met and befriended several other young women that the British tabloid press would later call the ‘Bright Young Things’, a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London. 
   
  Smith's paternal great-grandmother, was said to have been a Gypsy, and this sparked an early and life-long interest with the Romani people, she even went so far as to learn to read and speak the language, which she called ‘musical and broken.’ 
   
  Her life was full of adventure and mishaps.  A mistaken encounter with a man she thought could help her into the film business turned out to threats of marriage and death from a man wanted for the murder of his father.  She was even arrested twice.  Once for listing her career as a journalist and another, in Rome, for walking around in a sleeveless dress. 
   
  Smith began her career writing society gossip columns for various newspapers but later received an offer to write for the newly-formed Great Carmo Circus, with which she travelled for several years and was the source material for many of her books. 
   
  Her first novel, ‘Red Wagon’, was published when she was 28 and it was an immediate bestseller.  A prolific writer several of her works were also adapted for films. 
   
  Smith also wrote ghost stories and others flavoured with evil.  Her support for the Conservative party may be forgiven but her attributed quote to be a ‘warm adherent of General Franco’ less so. 
   
  Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith died on the 20th October 1945 in Westminster after a long illness. She was 43.

  Mostra libro