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  The Tomb

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Tomb" is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home. "The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a confessed daydreamer. While still a child, he discovers the padlocked entrance to a mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family, whose nearby mansion had burnt down many years previously. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable. Dispirited, he takes to sleeping beside the tomb. Eventually, inspired by reading Plutarch's Lives, Dudley decides to patiently wait until it is his time to gain entrance to the tomb. One night, several years later, Jervas falls asleep once more beside the mausoleum. He awakes suddenly in the late afternoon, and fancies that as he awoke, a light had been hurriedly extinguished inside the tomb. Jervas then returns to his home, where he goes directly to the attic, to a rotten chest, and therein finds the key to the tomb. Once inside the tomb, Jervas discovers an empty coffin with the name "Jervas" inscribed upon the plate. He begins to sleep in the empty coffin each night, yet those who witness him sleeping see him asleep outside the tomb, not inside as Jervas believes. Jervas also develops a fear of thunder and fire, and is aware that he is being spied upon by one of his neighbours.

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  Archform: Beauty

  Jr. L. E. Modesitt

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  Four centuries in the future, the world is rich—nanomachines watch the health of the wealthy and manufacture food and gadgets for everybody—but no utopia, as we see in the lives of five very different people: a singing teacher, a news researcher, a police investigator, a politician, and a ruthless businessman. 
   
   
   
  Theirs is a society where technology takes care of everyone's basic needs but leaves most people struggling to extract a meaningful life from a world crowded with wonders but empty of commitment and human connection. Alternating the voices and experiences of these five characters in a tour de force of imaginative creation, L. E. Modesitt overlaps, combines, and builds their disparate stories into a brilliant tale of future crime and investigation, esthetic challenge, and personal triumph. 
   
   
   
  In the same way that he has built fantasy landscapes of surpassing fascination, Modesitt creates a believable future, one imbued with a deep understanding of the way politics work and how people act and react when their sense of themselves, of justice, and truth, is exploited by others for power and control. When there's nothing left to need or want, will beauty live on in people's lives or disappear forever?

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  Addicted in Blood - A Vampire...

  Kim Allred

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  A Council member murdered… 
  Devon on the run… 
  A vial of Magic Poppy left at the scene could spell Devon’s doom. 
  Cressa was to leave for New Orleans with Devon. But now, her world has turned upside down. Through it all, she refuses to believe Devon has been readdicted to the Poppy, regardless of what the evidence suggests. 
  House Trelane is in turmoil. The mission on hold. Lorenzo pushes his advantage at Council. And Cressa’s headed for New Orleans after all. But will it help Devon or waste precious time to find the real killer and put the Beast to rest?

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  The Happy Prince and Other Tales

  Oscar Wilde

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  A timeless classic of deceptively simplistic and fantastical stories.   Originally published by Oscar Wilde in 1888, The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five short stories packed with heartfelt meaning for children and adults alike. This is a fine new edition of moral tales of selflessness, friendship, sacrifice, and kindness— and the dangers of not having them.   Wilde’s eloquent and poetic writing makes these stories evoke a world in which tenderness and compassion are often endangered by greed, selfishness, and callousness. This new edition includes a new foreword by award-winning author Rick Wilber, and appeals to an entirely new generation of children, while imparting wisdom that withstands the test of time.

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  Beneath the Aurora Veil: A...

  Hang Nguyen

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  Under the aurora veil of Borealis, where northern shamans chant rites to spectral lights and ice phoenixes incarnate in crystalline rebirth, shaman Kael performs a passionate ritual that summons Fenira, the phoenix spirit whose frozen flames yearn for mortal warmth. Their rite, veiled in auroral dances, thaws the north's eternal ice—or awakens slumbering blizzards of vengeance. As they trek aurora-lit tundras and phoenix-nested fjords, pursued by spirit wardens and rival shamans, Kael's chants entwine with Fenira's icy blaze, unveiling a boreal prophecy of veiled union. When a veil-tearing storm unleashes frost ghouls, they must complete the rite to seal the worlds. In the shimmer of auroral passions, where every light weaves fate and every flame chills the soul, their love becomes the veil that guards Borealis's hidden fire.

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  Export Commodity

  Irving Cox Jr.

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  Export Commodity by Irving Cox Jr. - Henig was sent to obtain a soil sample of the planet. It was a routine assignment, but not necessarily the only method for discovering an—Export Commodity 
  Three of the hairless bipeds stood in front of the frame building talking. Concealed by the brush beyond the road, Henig studied them carefully. These were the dominant species on this primitive world, unspeakably grotesque things. The pale, white skinned animals had a culture of sorts—their language, their buildings, their wheeled vehicles testified to that—but an animal society was very different from the rational civilization Henig knew. 
  He was naked and he carried no weapons. That was the logic of the computers. But Henig was a Fleet Lieutenant, not one of the scientists. He put his faith in arms rather than computer logic. Stripped of his weapons, he lost a fundamental part of himself. The computers had said he would be safe, but too many things could go wrong. Too many factors might have been left out of the observer data submitted to the machines. 
  Henig inched cautiously toward the three white things standing near the wooden structure. The telecommunicator, which the surgeons had planted in his skull, caught the sound of alien voices and made a conceptual translation in terms Henig understood. He could have used the same device to communicate directly with the alien minds, but the Scientist-General had warned him against that. 
  "The hairless bipeds," he told Henig, "are only an animal species. They have no civilization. Make no mistake about that, Lieutenant." 
  "And if we decide we need their planet, sir—" 
  "We'll set up reservations for them, so they can't interfere with our operation." 
  "They won't have weapons to match ours," Henig suggested hopefully. 
  "If you go in uniform, Lieutenant, even these witless things would recognize you as an alien.

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