Publisher: Merkaba Press
The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X.
'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?'In Odour of Chrysanthemums D.H. Lawrence explores the concept of human isolation and the nature of love and relationships. This is the story of Elizabeth, a young wife and mother waiting for her alcoholic husband to return home from what she assumes is another night of drinking…Show book
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third and last of The d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850.In the English translations, the chapters of this large volume are usually subdivided four individual books:1. The Vicomte de Bragelonne2. Ten Years Later3. Louise de la Vallière4. The Man in the Iron MaskSet in the 1660s and concerned with the early reign of Louis XIV, the novel has been called an "origins" story of the King, "a tale about the education of a young man who went on to rule for over 70 years and become one of France's most beloved monarchs". Naturally, in a novel about Dumas' musketeers, the characters play an important role in Louis' education.Show book
A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce: Ambrose Bierce's truly chilling tale of death.Show book
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.The House-Surgeon is a strange tale about a haunted house. Not that there is an actual ghost in evidence. Indeed, nobody has ever died in the house since it was originally built. But a strange all-pervading depression haunts the place intermittently which overwhelms its occupants.When the current owner of the house tells the strange tale of the house to a fellow passenger, Mr. Perseus, on a trans-Atlantic steamer, he invites him down to the house to experience the horrible phenomenon himself. Mr. Perseus sets out to discover what lies behind this strange ghostless haunting.Show book
From the author of Dracula, one of the first mummy stories and a classic of nineteent-century gothic fiction. In a house full of Egyptian antiquities— A jeweled scarab, mummified cat, and severed hand . . . Unexplained claw marks and comas . . . A mysterious stranger’s wild tales of a hidden tomb and ancient warnings . . . Of violent deaths to everyone who sought the jewel . . . All linked to a forgotten queen’s 5,000-year quest for reincarnation . . . Malcolm Ross, pulled by his adoration of Margaret Trelawny, finds himself embroiled in a centuries old story that challenges human logic. Lovers of the supernatural, occult, and paranormal will enjoy this unique edition of Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of the Seven Stars, which includes the novel’s original 1903 ending as well as an abridged 1912 version.Show book
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-circa 1914) was an American author, journalist, short story writer and satirist who disappeared in 1913 under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again."The Moonlit Road" is a brilliant and eerie ghost story which recounts a terrible murder of a woman from three different viewpoints. First from the perspective of the son of the murdered woman. Second from the perspective of the murderer - the woman's husband whose brain has been so afflicted by the experience that he has amnesia and does not know his true identity. Third from the postumous perspective of the victim as told via a medium.Show book
