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  Murder and Magic

  Randall Garrett

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  The Sidewise Award–winning series. “If you are looking for something different in the way of mysteries a few hours with Lord Darcy is a fun way to go” (Daily Kos). 
   
  This alternate history series starring detective Lord Darcy and his sorcerer sidekick, Sean O Lochlainn, takes us into a reality where Richard the Lionheart’s descendants rule the Anglo-French Empire and the laws of magic have developed in place of the laws of physics. Murder and Magic, comprised of the first four stories of the acclaimed Lord Darcy series, finds Lord Darcy solving murders using his wits, a keen eye for observation, and a few choice magic tricks. 
   
  In “The Eyes Have It,” Lord Darcy must figure out who killed the taciturn playboy, the Count D’Evreux. 
   
  In the political thriller “A Case of Identity,” Lord Darcy picks apart the disappearance of the Marquis of Cherbourg, especially mysterious considering the escalating cold war with Poland. 
   
  Lord Darcy and Master Sean investigate a body coated in blue paint already occupying a coffin built for the late Duke of Kent in “The Muddle of the Woad.” 
   
  Literary humor is at the heart of “In a Stretch of the Imagination,” where the head of an important publishing house commits suicide under suspicious circumstances. 
   
  Praise for the Lord Darcy series 
   
  “Some of the finest fantasy ever written . . . Will certainly guarantee him a lasting place in the genre.” —SF Chronicle 
   
  “He has combined the best of the fantasy and detective genres—and made them work as science fiction.” —Marion Zimmer Bradley 
   
  “I cannot count the number of times I have read ‘Too Many Magicians’—each time with the same pleasure.” —Andre Norton

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  The Bishop of Hell - An abusive...

  Marjorie Bowen

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  Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell was born on 1st November 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire.  
   
  Her childhood was fraught with problems, her alcoholic father left early in her life and was later found dead on a London Street. Life thereafter was poverty with an uncaring mother. 
   
  However, her talents took her to the Slade School of Fine Art and later to study in Paris.  
   
  Her first fiction, written at a mere 16, was a violent medieval historical novel, ‘The Viper of Milan’. Initially rejected by several publishers it went on to become a best-seller  
   
  After this her prolific writings were the main financial support for the family.  Her literary output numbered over 150 volumes, mainly under the pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen but she also used the names Joseph Shearing, George R Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell.  Within this output she assigned the pseudonyms to the various genres she worked across, from Historical fiction to supernatural short stories.  
   
  Perhaps her best known work is the 1909 book ‘Black Magic’, a Gothic horror novel about a medieval witch. 
   
  Several of her works were also adapted into films.   
   
  She was married twice.  The first to Zefferino Emilio Constanza (they had two children), who died of tuberculosis, and then to Arthur L Long (and another two children) 
   
  Marjorie Bowen died on 23rd December 1952 at St Charles Hospital in North Kensington, London after suffering serious concussion from a fall in her bedroom.  She was 67.

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  The Missing Witness Sensation

  Ernest Bramah

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  Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability.In The Missing Witness Sensation, Max Carrados finds himself an unusual witness in what on the surface appears to be an ordinary Post Office robbery. But before the case comes to court, Max Carrados has mysteriously disappeared. Even when the accused is found guilty, the missing witness does not return. The story behind the disappearance is far stranger than any normal detective case.

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  Bone Swans

  C.S.E. Cooney

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  In this debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, a swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confront both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness. Gold spun out of straw has a price, but not the one you expect.

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  The Thursday Night Club - A New...

  Steven Manchester, Lou Aronica

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  An unforgettable Christmas story that will make your heart soar . . . and maybe even help you see the spirit of Christmas in a new way. 
  A lavishly produced audio drama with six original songs. 
  Based on the novella by bestselling author Steven Manchester, here is an extraordinary Christmas story about four friends who discover new ways to live the Christmas spirit and the one remarkable friend who guides them all. Ava, Izzy, Kevin, Randy, and Jesse have been best friends since their freshman year of college, and they've dubbed themselves "The Thursday Night Club" in honor of the Thursday night pot lucks that served as the foundation for their relationship. Jesse, who believes that Christmas is first and foremost about giving of yourself to help others, has been trying to get the rest of the club to follow her lead, and this year – their senior year – they have finally agreed. But, of course, being the Thursday Night Club, they need to turn it into a contest. And what starts as a lighthearted competition among friends becomes something so much more as Christmas Eve draws near. 
  Starring singing sensations Kurt Hugo Schneider and Madilyn Bailey along with Alladin on Broadway's Arielle Jacobs, Dear Evan Hansen's Noah Galvin, Beautiful's Ashley De La Rosa, and two-time Golden Globe winner Kathleen Turner, The Thursday Night Club is a stunning production on every level and one you will want to revisit for Christmases to come.

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  H P Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  CONTENTS: 01. The Nameless City 02. The Festival 03. The Colour Out of Space 05. The Call of Cthulhu 08-17. The Dunwich Horror 18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness 26-27. The Dreams in the Witch House 28.The Haunter of the Dark 29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth 34.Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" 35-42. The Shadow Out of Time  43-54. At the Mountains of Madness 55-80.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 81. Azathoth 82. Beyond the Wall of Sleep 83. Celephaïs 84. Cool Air 85. Dagon 86. Ex Oblivione 87-88. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family 89. From Beyond 90. He 91-96. Herbert West-Reanimator 97. Hypnos  98. In the Vault  99. Memory 100. Nyarlathotep  101. Pickman's Model 102. The Book The Cats of Ulthar 104. The Descendant 105. The Doom That Came to Sarnath 106-111. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath 112. The Evil Clergyman 113. The Horror at Red Hook 120-121.The Hound 122-125. The Lurking Fear 126. The Moon-Bog127. The Music of Erich Zann 128. The Other Gods 129. The Outsider 130. The Picture in the House 131. The Quest of Iranon 132. The Rats in the Walls 133-137. The Shunned House 138. The Silver Key 139. The Statement of Randolph Carter 140. The Strange High House in the Mist 141. The Street 142. The Terrible Old Man 143-147. The Thing on the Doorstep 148.  The Tomb 149. The Transition of Juan Romero 150. The Tree 151. The Unnamable 152. The White Ship 153. What the Moon Brings 154. Polaris 155. The Very Old Folk 156. Ibid 157 Old Bugs 158-164. Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl  165. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson 166. The History of the Necronomicon

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