A collection of unnerving tales: - - by Michael Callahan - - So, It Has come to this, Ten Dollars is All , Clemency, Persephone in Flight, Cherry, Her Story, Fuzibol of Goden (#237 The Mighty Fall) - - by Paul-Thomas Ferguson - - The Wrong Toolbox, From the Heart, The Unforgotten's Reign, The East Stairwell, Just Three More Minutes, My Brother's Keeper, Gnomestradamus, The Bellkeeper - - by David James Keaton - - Suckerpunchingbag

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The Rats in the Walls, In the Vault, The Unnamable, Cool Air, The Festival, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shunned House, Pickman's Model, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, He, The Silver Key, and Lovecraft's first novella, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

A History of Quarston is a book in two distinct halves. Writing under the pseudonym C.Z. Moss, the author uses the first half to relate the history of Cornwall, from ancient times to the early 18th century, with special attention given to an estate near Tintagel called Quarston. Then, switching gears, Moss uses the second half to describe the experience of living at Quarston with his brother, a strange mystic dubbed "Bellwether Moss" by locals. What results is an incredible story of the supernatural, involving people and places that may or may not have existed.

Frontier adventurer and private detective Edward Bonney (1807-1864) tells the story of his hunt for the men responsible for the torture-murder of prominent Illinois pioneer Colonel George Davenport, as well as his efforts to crush the early midwestern criminal enterprise known as the Banditti of the Prairies. Follow Bonney on this dangerous quest, from Rock Island, to Nauvoo and St. Louis - hunting criminals in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.

In 1904, Benjamin Andrews moved to Milwaukee to become the editor of a major newspaper. Less than a year later, he was arrested for murder. Writing from his room in an asylum more than a decade later, Andrews tries to clear his name, explaining for the last time the role he played in a year marked by societal scandal, political intrigue, calculated revenge, and cold-blooded murder. Special features of the 2nd Edition: * A Preface, explaining the origins and evolution of the story * An Historical Note, explaining the true and fictional aspects of the novel * Study Questions, appropriate for both History and Literature courses.

"The Secret Agent" is a grim, gritty, cynical tale set in the world of the anarchists and secret agents around the start of the 20th century. There are no blind romantics, no overwhelming causes, and no anarchistic politics. As is often the case with Joseph Conrad, this is a story about people, people in an exotic world. The setting is London, the crime an attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. The motives are far from pure: money, careerism, hack value, a peaceful mind. Mrs. Verloc, an anarchist's wife, is at the center of the tale. As Conrad tells us, and shows us repeatedly, she is not a woman to look beneath the surface of things, but she is a woman of some depth. The story in "The Secret Agent" is sad. It is a tragedy, and the ending seems inevitable given the players Conrad has set in motion. This is probably appropriate given the subject matter. The writing is excellent and the tale well told. If you are a reader who gives extra points to depressing stories, this one should receive a five on sheer grimness alone.

Weeks after the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, a newly-assembled unit of military prisoners must locate and rescue a platoon of soldiers lost within the forests of Germany - a Dirty Dozen-style mission aimed at making up for their indiscretions and clearing their names. But what begins as a standard, if dangerous, mission soon leaves the members of the rescue team lost amidst horros beyond their imaginations . . . Praise for THE LAST POST: "If you like THE KEEP by F. Paul Wilson, weird war stories, or really, horror novels in general, you will thoroughly enjoy THE LAST POST by Jim Dietz. It's clear Dietz has done his research -- every detail rings true -- and that makes this darkly brilliant historical novel of the macabre even more entertaining." -- Mark McLaughlin, author of BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE and co-author of MONSTER BEHIND THE WHEEL

In ancient China, while searching for the gods, they learned a remarkable skill - the ability to travel to other worlds (ports) through the establishment of doorways (portals) from this world. Using portals, they would escape from countless dangers through the centuries. Using ports, they would introduce the world to ideas and innovations far ahead of their time. From the mountains of China to the pyramids of Pharaonic Egypt, from the hills of Persia to the medieval courts of Italy and France, from the jungles of Brazil to the plains of Roman Britain - they have always been amongst us, changing the world. They were unique. They were important. They were the Zelaznids. In print for the first time in nearly two centuries, The Ports and Portals of the Zelaznids tells the remarkable story of these mythical travelers, as told by the Zelaznids themselves.