Publisher: Charles River Editors
Louisa May Alcott was an American writer best known for coming of age novels featuring young women. Alcott also served as a nurse at a Union hospital during the Civil War and wrote about her experiences there. This edition of Perilous Play includes a table of contents.
A hilarious farce. When the king of the grim reapers's son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it but was it a mistake.Good Quotes From The Haunting of the Necromancer "We are not fake anythings!" said Lance. "I could debate that with you," said Blake. "Where is the ghost?" Blake said changing the subject. "Now I have a ghost and a grim reaper in my lounge room!" said Lance infuriated. "Grand Reaper? What's that?" the ghost asked. "Another name for a couch potato!" Lance hissed, "Dork why you shouting," said Junior walking in the room. "Oh, he's no bother, he has good taste! Anyone who likes Neighbours is alright with me" Blake said. "You sure this isn't The Munsters!" Blake asked. "I want to watch this!" said the ghost standing up. "Quit it stop using the voice let him watch this!" Blake said. "He is a ghost he shouldn't be watching soapies!" said Lance. "Dork!” snapped Junior in protest.Show book
The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others.The first edition, in hardcover, was published in London by Elkin Mathews in October 1916 as Tales of Wonder, followed by a Boston hardcover publication in November 1916, by John W. Luce & Co.. The title of the American edition, The Last Book of Wonder, was Dunsany's own preferred title. The British and American editions also differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently.Show book
Elinor Mordaunt (1872-1942) was an English author, writer and traveller. She lived extensively in Mauritius, Australia and the East Indies, which provided the inspiration and background for many of her works. "The High Seas" is the story of two brothers Bran and Agar Yeld, twins, both sailors, sworn and bitter enemies. Agar has stolen Bran's sweetheart and married her while he was away at sea. Bran is determined to kill his brother. But circumstances keep them apart for many years. Then one day both Bran and Agar find themselves hired aboard the same ship. All Bran needs to do is wait for the right moment...Show book
The office had appeared as if by magic. One day the suite of rooms was empty, the next day furniture was being moved in. The third day the office was open for business. A sign painter was busy lettering the front door as Markham passed it on his way to his own modest office. He read the words that had been painted on the door. GENERAL TICKET OFFICE Tickets here for LUNA, MARS, VENUS Perhaps nothing that could have happened, short of death itself, would have hit him harder than these three words lettered on the door: LUNA. MARS. VENUS. According to the information discreetly conveyed by the lettering on this door, they were selling tickets to the planets right here in this office, just as, down on the first floor, they were selling airline tickets to Europe, Asia, and the islands of the far seas. This—in 1951! Markham was sure space travel was net yet possible. Then how could this unknown travel agency dare sell tickets to other planets?Show book
Howard Lovecraft is an American writer, who became famous for his works of horror fiction. Nowadays he is considered as one of the best 20th-century authors in his genre. "Nyarlathotep" is a story published in November 1920 in The United Amateur. It is written in first person. The story opens with the describing of a strange feeling of anticipation of a big evil. The narrator experienced the end of the world and now describes how it was. "Nyarlathotep" came from Egypt, he looked like a Pharaoh. Wherever he came, the people there started to have nightmares. He organized a demonstration, when he came to the narrator’s city. The observers split into 3 columns: the first group disappeared around the corner, from which was heard a moaning then; the second went into the subway station with the sound of laugh; the third group with the narrator travelled from the city to the country. The narrator lagged behind the group a bit and then saw “graveyard of the Universe”. Lovecraft’s childhood night dream underlay the story.A SmartTouch Media production.Show book
”From a Swedish Homestead” by the Swedish author Selma Lagerloef (translated by Jessie Brochner) is a varied collection of stories, mostly set in Dalarne or Vaermland in Sweden, but also some stories or legends from Kungahalla on the west-coast at the time between Heathendom and early Christianity plus some Legends from Italy and Belgium. The first nine sections, “The Story of a Country House”, is a short Novel, originally published on its own, but here part of the collection.It is the story of how a young orphan girl, Ingrid, is the instrument of saving the student Gunnar Hede, who has lost his wits and memory by a terrible experience, trying to save his home, his Couyntry House, and who wanders the roads as a Pedlar, but at the same time afraid of most everything, especially animals. As told by Lagerloef it is a both fascinating and sweet story, as are all the others. (Summary by Lars Rolander)Show book
