Casa editrice: Honno Press
Anthology of wholly original ghostly tales from new and established Welsh women writers
Edward Alexander Crowley (1875-1947) was a British writer, poet, magician and follower of the occult who wrote under the name Aleister Crowley. His works scandalised Victorian England with their diabolical and deviantly sexual themes. "The Drug" is the story of a man who accepts a strange drug from an alchemist and goes on a terrifying psychic trip.Mostra libro
Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925) was a British author of popular Victorian ghost stories. She spent much of her adult life as a bedridden invalid. Her hatred of idleness, combined with her imagination, led her to write. Her son was Stanley Baldwin, who became the British prime minister.'The Shadow on the Blind' is a classic gothic ghost story. An old, abandoned house, Harbledon Hall, is rented by the Stackpoole family. Mr. Stackpoole's chief hobby is doing up old derelict country houses, including installing the latest fittings, such as electric lighting. Although they hear stories beforehand about Harbledon Hall being somehow haunted, the Stackpooles pay little attention to such rumours...after all, there is no such thing as a ghost.But then on the night of the masked ball, several of the family have strange and terrifying experiences which are impossible to explain....Mostra libro
Discover the Caribbean's ancient sea dragon and the origins of the gold treasure she guards. After losing his place in Queen Isabella’s court, Fernando, the illegitimate teenage son of Christopher Columbus, embarks on a journey with his adopted Taíno brother Diego to the West Indies where they encounter the ancient sea dragon. And when Fernando witnesses the blood the colonists shed for gold, he decides he must courageously document these atrocities before the Taíno people are gone forever. Will the young Fernando, a lover of books, use his quill and journal as a brave knight might use a sword and shield? Dragon of the Sea is a standalone historical fiction short story, and also serves as the historical prologue to the contemporary Sci-Fi Thrillers Killing Dragons, Dragon Gold, and Dragon Clan. Dragon of the Sea is book zero in the Order of the Dolphin book series by Kristie Clark. It may be read in any order with other books in the Order of the Dolphin series. Dragon of the Sea won a Finalist Award for the Chanticleer Short Story Awards in the Chaucer category.Mostra libro
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.The Silver Mask is a multilayered tale of an elderly lady who falls victim to an insidious but dreadfully attractive confidence trickster. Like a fly trapped in a spiderweb, she cannot extricate herself from the clutches of this gorgeously wicked man...and he is so very attractive...so very, dreadfully attractive....Mostra libro
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the scariest of them all… An ancient South American cathedral extracts a heavy price from a visiting photojournalist. Ghost hunters stumble across a cursed field from which there is no escape. And a friendly neighbor discovers the new girl in town is more than she appears… Peer into the depths of Scare Street’s latest collection, a fun house mirror full of terror and nightmares. This spine-tingling tome is packed with fourteen tales of supernatural horror. And every page reveals a distorted reflection of your own worst fears… Go ahead, take a look… What do you see when you look in the mirror? Is it your own face, looking back at you? Or something else… a dark doppelgänger returning your gaze? Your evil twin leaps from the silvery glass, wrapping its clawed fingers around your throat. It wants out, into the real world. Leaving you trapped in its mirror realm—your reflection frozen in a scream for all eternity…Mostra libro
"A Chameleon" is a short sketch about the occurrence at the town square, where the main characters were a craftsman Hryukin, policeman Otchumyelov and stray puppy, surprisingly turned to be a property of the general's brother. Hearing about the bite suddenly turns into a scene of Otchumelov's attempts to save face in front of the curious crowd and maneuver between his ambitions and subservience. It is obvious that the story contains a satirical generalization. Psychology of this early story is not expressed verbally, not through the inner speech of the characters and not through the speech of the author-narrator, but through the external behavior - gestures, facial expressions, body movements, actions.A SmartTouch Media production.Mostra libro
