Thrillers and fantasy

It was supposed to be the best Summer job of all time. It became the most dangerous ever...

Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, "vir doctissimus et amicus neus," at a certain University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much struck with the appearance of two persons.

A glorious vision is Gloucester harbor, whether seen under the radiant sun of a clear June morning or through the haze and smoke of a mellow October afternoon. Gloucester town lies on a range of hills around the harbor, and fortunate..

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict

What makes Bounty’s world compelling is its gritty realism. Crime isn’t neat or predictable; it is a constantly morphing beast shaped by the dark corners of power, greed, and despair. The villains he confronts are not one-dimensional caricatures.

Hawkes jerked upright in his bed, gasping out a hoarse cry, and the sound of his own voice completed the awakening. He opened his eyes to a murky darkness that was barely relieved by the little night-light.

A room in the down-stairs of a summer cottage. High around the wall runs an art frieze of a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean.

IT was Christmas Eve. I remember it just as if it was yesterday. The Colonel had been pretending not to notice it, but when Drinkwater Torm knocked over both the great candlesticks, and in his attempt to pick them up lurched over himself.

It was a small world, a tiny spinning globe, placed in the universe to weather and age by itself until the end of things. But because its air was good and its earth was fertile, Daniel Loveral had placed a finger upon a map and said, "This is the planet.

Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. In a notable crossover event between Burroughs' series, there is a Tarzan story in which the Ape Man travels.

It was the third week in September when the Fairfields left the seashore and returned to their Vernondale home. “Now, my child,” said Mr. Fairfield, as they sat on the veranda after dinner, “I will unfold to you my plans for the coming winter

The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a dark girl of nineteen or twenty, sufficiently like him to be recognizable as his daughter.

Yet, though the world's life then was so wicked and black, there yet remained a few good men and women here and there (mostly in peaceful and quiet monasteries, far from the thunder and the glare of the world's bloody battle).

The joyous, exhilarating call of the wilderness and the forest camp is surely and steadily penetrating through the barriers of brick, stone, and concrete; through the more or less artificial life of town and city; and the American girl is listening eagerl

"So foul a sky clears not without a storm." —SHAKESPEARE "Nostromo" is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the "Typhoon" volume of short stories.

The first part of the trilogy 'Light Eternal', 'Weaving Dawn' is a High Fantasy book with rich world-building and stakes that might be higher than they appear. Follow a diverse cast of characters as the shadow of war threatens to engulf them.

MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering among the pots and dods. He is an old man, well past the prime of life, no longer young, From the fact that there is a burr in his speech.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod..

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges..

The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by the British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 20 October 1930.

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative.

An original necromancer sapphic romantasy that puts a new meaning to "second chance romance."

TUSSENTIJDS is een tijdreisroman over genealogie, geschiedenis en mysterie. Wanneer historicus Thomas Verbelen in Hamme een spoor vindt rond Anna Boel, belandt hij in Vlaanderen in 1623. Een verhaal over liefde, bloedlijnen en tijd.

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him. His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body

At St Gabriel’s Hospice, Room 27 is whispered about: patients enter and die quickly, often after strange dreams. Young intern Anna senses its weight, while chaplain and volunteer navigate the delicate, haunting rhythm of care, faith, and unseen presence

The story continues in this 14th part of the series

It seemed only fitting and proper that the greatest of all leaps into space should start from Roosevelt Field, where so many great flights had begun and ended. Fliers whose names had rung—for a space—around the world, had landed here and been received

In a dark universe of psychology and cynicism, Elin emerges. Using intense manipulation and bodily temptation she lures her prey into her web, where the boundaries between pleasure and power are utterly blurred.

At Sanguine Academy, loyalty is law. A hunter raised to obey the Crown meets the one girl he should see as a threat—but instead she becomes his weakness. Meanwhile, a prince bound by duty faces challenges that could change everything.

The legend from Tir Na Nog is a story about a fantasy planet Prionstar where good and evil fantasy creatures live.The evil demonic King Belial and his evil demonic Queen Lillith fight together with the fairy kingdom Tir Na Nog over the power of Prionstar.