Thrillers and fantasy

The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on Limehouse in the East End of London. It was a popular success and features several of Burke's best-known stories such as The Chink and the Child and Beryl and the Croucher.

She winked quickly. Accidents were awful things. She winked again. The mast was straight; the waves were regular; the lighthouse was upright; but the blot had spread. "… nothing for it but to leave," she read. "Well, if Jacob doesn't want to play"

"Hunted Down", A rare detective story by one of the greatest writers in the English language.. Chapter 1 Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years..

When Ethan's father vanishes, leaving only shoes, he uncovers a chilling truth: an entity feeds on grief. Trapped in a haunted home, he must confront The Mimic and his own sorrow before becoming another absent memory. A gripping tale of loss and fear.

When he inherits a country house after the Great War, a folklorist discovers that the old stories are real, and so is the fairy’s son wandering about his woods…

Tales of the Boundaries is a series of fantasy stories about what happens where this and the otherworld meet, including fairy tale retellings and original stories. This collection contains the first three tales.

Jack Carter came west carrying more dead than any saddle ought to bear. Haunted by war, grief, and the things he could not save, he rides into the hard country of New Mexico Territory hoping distance might do what time never could: bury the past. But the

Caius Felix Crispus is no senator, no general, no hero sung by Rome. He is a gatekeeper, a soldier-scribe, a careful man with a wax tablet in his hand and a talent for counting what others overlook: names, trades, children, the fragile threads that hold a

There is something exasperatingly something-or-otherish about girls. And they know it—which makes them more something-or-otherish still:—there is no other word for it. * * *

I can just remember one day when Mary and Auntie Gertie were giving me my bath, I thought they were looking at my little spout, as I said saucily: "What are you looking at, Papa has got such a big one."

The thunder of the jets died away, the sound drifting wistfully off into the hills. The leaves that swirled in the air returned to the ground slowly, reluctantly. The rocket had gone. Aron Myers realized that he was looking at nothing.

A queer gothic tale of memory, longing, and survival inside a haunted lighthouse that claws at the past and refuses to let go.

A queer gothic tale of memory, longing, and survival inside a haunted lighthouse that claws at the past and refuses to let go.

A queer gothic tale of memory, longing, and survival inside a haunted lighthouse that claws at the past and refuses to let go.

Death in the Light – The Resistancers of Lokos A bizarre event in broad daylight in the fortified city of Lokos will change the way the light shines in the magical land of Geapa.

Between moments of coming together and saying goodbye, this book gently explores the tender nature of human connections. It takes you through loves whispered softly and those caught in fierce storms, through silences that ache deeply and passions.

In 3 Rizemi’s Core, Rizemi meets her new friend Harriet Moore, tries many magical jobs, and travels to the red planets of the multiverse. It ends the trilogy, but can be read on its own.

Father Sol, a runaway priest condemned by the sins of his past, hitchhikes his way from Newcastle to Cornwall trying to reach sanctuary. Along the way he encounters seven sinners with murderous intent, who challenge his faith in God, humanity and himself.

An artist arrives at a remote château to paint a silent, sorrowful woman — and uncovers a web of secrets, control, and hidden pain. A gothic tale of art, power, and liberation.

Dr. Elias Thorne uncovers digital fractures that threaten humanity. As hidden systems unravel, he’s pulled into a silent battle fought in code and memory. A sharp technothriller about secrecy and the forces shaping our future.

Between geopolitics, innovation, invisible Network-Centric Warfare, societal diplomacy, emerging generations and civilizational engineering, this work of performative science fiction explores a dizzying hypothesis: what if the next transformation of the w

Ever the same—the noiseless entry, the quietly spoken request for the lawyer. Martin repressed a flash of irritation; the little Japanese, with his uncanny soft-footedness and stereotyped address, got upon his nerves.

This highly educational book comprises a series of essays by the intellectual and scientist Grant Allen, author and novelist, and a successful upholder of many scientific theories. As a scientist Allen was an evolutionist..

The speaker had just pushed his horse over the brow of a slope which he and his servant had for some time been mounting, through the steamy warmth of a foggy May morning. The thick haze which lay heavy in this region of marshy ground had hidden the sur

Glassion is a fantasy series created by MYK2CO and is the first book detailing the gods as they exist on Laytome. It is a short story as an opener before the main stories of Glassion.

Ashes and Seeds is a gripping survival thriller set in a dystopian future. It is a story of one young woman’s fight against tyranny and her struggle for freedom in a world that has lost all hope.

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England..

To speak of "Don Quixote" as if it were merely a humorous book would be a manifest misdescription. Cervantes at times makes it a kind of commonplace book for occasional essays and criticisms, or for the observations and reflections and gathered wisdom.

Romance familiar, recheado de momentos emotivos, mas no fundo é apenas uma obra de ficção ,que pode proporcionar bons momentos de descontração

The Discovery of the Future is a philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Before appearing in book form.