"The Man Who Laughs" (first published in 1869) is Victor Hugo's scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britain's political system. It is the story of Gwynplaine, the two-year-old heir to a rebel lord, who is abducted upon the orders of a vindictive monarch, and whose face is mutilated into a permanent grisly grin, then abandoned. After years of living in poverty, Gwynplaine is reintroduced to the aristocratic life and resolves to become the voice of the voiceless--whether he is heard or not. Author David Hine and artist Mark Stafford introduce Hugo's classic to a new generation of fans in this graphic-novel adaptation of abduction, mutilation, loss, and prejudice.

Somewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a neglected road, there is a village called Lip Hook. For its inhabitants, the village is more than the end of the road-it's the end of the world. Beyond it, there is nothing but mist-shrouded marshland. Few travelers take the road to Lip Hook, but one foggy night, a car speeds perilously toward the village. The driver is a dangerously beautiful woman, the passenger a man with a gunshot wound and a suitcase containing a treasure he has risked his life for. Cash-strapped but in need of a place to hide, the two fugitives seek shelter at the Hanged Man Inn, where the woman persuades the innkeeper to accept payment in kind. As days pass and the woman extends her services to more of Lip Hook's men, among them the village priest, a false faith grips the community-and reason, logic, and humanity begin to disappear.

Dreams & Visions is a cutting-edge, eye-opening book that reveals the hidden secrets of dreams dreamed while sleeping, and visions encountered while awake. We spend nearly one-third of our lives asleep, yet very little is even spoken of, or even understood, concerning the vibrant active state of dreaming. Additionally, many things are seen or nearly seen, experienced or sensed, in the waking hours, that most relegate to the unexplained. In Dreams & Visions, Mark Stafford explains these often allusive experiences in detail, and reveals how to maximize the life impact of the one-third of your life often spent in a state of dreaming. Mark applies detailed and specific Biblical Scriptures and, where applicable, affirming Psychological findings and conclusions, to make these truths easy to understand and practical to apply to your life, whether you are sleeping or awake. In Dreams & Visions, you will discover and gain insight to a whole new world of the seen but not touched, the sensed but not understood. A whole third of your life, once thought irrelevant, will now come alive and be made vibrantly relevant in Dreams & Visions.