Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Cripple's Game - cover

We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

The Cripple's Game

Jonathan Birdsall

Publisher: Jonathan Birdsall

  • 1
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

The Cripple, is a preadolescent demon, summoned from his home realm to replace the soul of a peasant's still born son. While in the world of man, he sets out to educate himself on the ways of exploiting and manipulating others. He discovers humanity to be an inferior people to his way of thinking, leading him to underestimate those he seeks to control. 
    He sets out to manipulate a nobleman, through convincing him a local tavern maid possesses the ability to transform straw into gold. The Cripple then makes a bargain with that maid to turn the straw into gold on her behalf, in exchange for the things he requires to grow up and return to his realm as an adult demon. His pact with the girl however, may lead to the failing of his efforts and cost The Cripple his way home.
Available since: 08/06/2016.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - cover

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll...

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This little novel by Robert Lewis Stevenson is a real classic of the "horror literature". Moreover, its popularity with time only increases.
The scientist puts on a daring and dangerous experiment. From the depths of the subconscious, he releases his dark personality, the sinister scoundrel and murderer, Mr. Hyde. He causes an inexplicable disgust for everyone who communicates with him. Dr. Henry Jekyll, nevertheless, leaves a testament in which, in the event of his death, leaves all to Hyde.
    Show book
  • Programmed Cell Death - a Sci-fi Revenge Thriller - cover

    Programmed Cell Death - a Sci-fi...

    Jonathan Hendricks

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Growing up in rural Minnesota wasn't easy for Arturo "AJ" Garcia. Now most of his family are dead, and AJ will stop at nothing until he gets his revenge on the rich white pharma bro who ruined his life. The problem is, though... that rich white guy? He's on a research team that's about to pin down the cure for cancer. For all cancers, forever. Killing him would undoubtedly throw the whole project off the rails… Oh, and there's one more thing: they used to be best friends. 
PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH: a Sci-fi Revenge Thriller 
by Jonathan Hendricks, a perpetually hopeful optimist who is not now, and never was, a cold-hearted killjoy.
    Show book
  • The Folcroft Ghosts - cover

    The Folcroft Ghosts

    Darcy Coates

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    When their mother is hospitalized, Tara and Kyle are sent to stay with their only remaining relatives. Their elderly grandparents seem friendly at first, and the rambling house is full of fun nooks and crannies to explore. But strange things keep happening. A bedroom remains locked at all times. Doors slam and curtains shift when no one is inside. And there are whispers of a sister who drowned in the lake long ago. 
Something is being hidden away, kept safely out of sight...and the children can't shake the feeling that it's watching them. 
When a violent storm cuts off their only contact with the outside world, stranding them in the haunted manor, Tara and Kyle must find a way to protect themselves from their increasingly erratic grandparents… and from the ghosts that haunt the Folcrofts' house. All at once, they're forced to confront the secrets of the manor. But can they ever hope to escape the unforgivable secret that has ensnared their family for generations?
    Show book
  • Major Wilbraham - cover

    Major Wilbraham

    Hugh Walpole

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    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. 
"Major Wilbraham" is the extraordinary tale of a respectable ex-army officer whose mysterious death is shrouded in the greatest mystery of all. What could have led to Major Wilbraham to behave like that? Causing a scene on Piccadilly, staying out all night in Green Park with a street fighter and a prostitute, causing a fight at Covent Garden Market in which he was fatally injured....
    Show book
  • The Girl (Harbingers) - Episode 4 - cover

    The Girl (Harbingers) - Episode 4

    Alton Gansky

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    When a small, barefoot girl is found holding a tiny scroll in the snowy Oregon mountains, Tank, a big-hearted jock with an affinity for healing, and the rest of the Harbingers team have an impossible mystery on their hands. She is sweet, innocent--apparently not of this world--and something wants to kill her.
    Show book
  • Ravenscroft - cover

    Ravenscroft

    Dorothy Eden

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    In this acclaimed, classic Gothic romance by bestselling author Dorothy Eden, a woman falls in love with the nobleman who rescues her from a life on the streets . . . only to find herself in deadly danger at his haunted country estate Orphaned and cast adrift in the world, young sisters Bella and Lally McBride travel to London—only to fall victim to criminals who traffic in human flesh. Rescued by an aristocratic stranger, Bella soon finds herself mistress of a sprawling country estate plagued by the ghost of her new husband’s dead first wife.With his first wife gone, Guy Raven needs an heir. And when scandal threatens to destroy his political ambitions, he finds the perfect solution. But marriage to the bold, outspoken Bella is not what he imagined. She arouses a passion that the grieving widower is determined to resist. But danger has followed Bella and Lally to Ravenscroft. As a cloud of revenge and murder descends upon his wife, Guy will risk everything to once again save the woman he swore never to love.
    Show book