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The Night of the Triffids by Simon Clark
epub |eng | 2001-10-01 | Author:Simon Clark [Clark, Simon]

*** By the time the rumbling Jumbo had reached the gates of the camp - letting fly with its flame-thrower at the clustering triffids for good measure - I had ...
( Category: Horror March 26,2014 )
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-03-25 | Author:Ira Levin [Levin, Ira]

Walter saw something was bothering her and asked her about it. She said, “You’ve got the Koblenz agreement to do,” but he said, “I’ve got all weekend. Come on, what ...
( Category: Friendship March 26,2014 )
Cycle Of The Werewolf by King Stephen
epub |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:King, Stephen [King, Stephen]

SEPTEMBER As the month wears on and the night of the full moon approaches again, the frightened people of Tarker’s Mills wait for a break in the heat, but no ...
( Category: Horror March 26,2014 )
Curfew by Phil Rickman
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-08-01 | Author:Phil Rickman [Rickman, Phil]

'No,' Mr Preece said, 'I won't.' He and his wife had not been inhospitable. Catrin Jones, Guy's production assistant, had been given the second-best chair and a cup of milky ...
( Category: Horror March 26,2014 )
Beyond the Shroud by Rick Hautala
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Rick Hautala [Hautala, Rick]

Chapter Nine The touch was light, almost feathery. For a timeless moment, David thought it must be the Ferryman, still geutly massaging his forehead as he drifted deeper and deeper ...
( Category: Horror March 26,2014 )
3 The Waste Lands by Stephen King
epub |eng | 2003-09-14 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

43 THE HAIL CHANGED TO a hard, driving rain, but Eddie could see gleams of blue sky behind the unravelling clouds in the north. The storm was going to end ...
( Category: Horror March 26,2014 )
Revolution 2020 by chetan bhagat
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:chetan bhagat [bhagat, chetan]

‘Good, you are like me then,’ he said. ‘Practical enough to leave the people who do the funny stuff alone.’ I nodded and bowed to him before I left his ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Red Inferno by Robert Conroy
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Robert Conroy [Conroy, Robert]

CHAPTER 17 The supply trains began in the port of Cherbourg each day and originally consisted of twenty freight cars each. They ran to Paris, where they picked up more ...
( Category: Alternate History March 26,2014 )
The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Ellen Marie Wiseman [Wiseman, Ellen Marie]

CHAPTER 20 The next morning, Christine pulled herself from bed and looked out her bedroom window, her desperate frame of mind mirrored by the cloud-filled sky and heavy rain. The ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Girl with a Pearl Earring, The by Chevalier Tracy
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Chevalier, Tracy [Chevalier, Tracy]

One Sunday Pieter the son came to services at our church. He must have slipped in after my parents and me, and sat in the back, for I did not ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Frederica by Georgette Heyer
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Georgette Heyer

Sixteen If Harry was doubtful of the Marquis, he found no difficulty at all in deciding that the Marquis’s cousin and heir was a capital fellow. The young gentlemen, in ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
The Ghost Rider by Ismail Kadare
epub, mobi |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:Ismail Kadare [Kadare, Ismail]

Despite the efforts of Stres’s men, acting in concert with Church officiants who lectured the faithful day after day, those who believed that Doruntine had returned with her lover were ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
Saint-Germain 20: Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro [Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]

Text of a letter from the Praetorian Centurion Fidelis Mais Paigni to Senator Valericus Hyacinthus Modestinus Vitens, carried by private messenger. To the illustrious Valericus Hyacinthus Modestinus Vitens, Senator and ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy March 26,2014 )
Passionate Brood by Margaret Campbell Barnes
epub, mobi |eng | 1943-12-31 | Author:Margaret Campbell Barnes [Barnes, Margaret Campbell]

Part VI The Holy Land Chapter Twenty Berengaria’s honeymoon lasted for only a week. For seven days Richard held up his crusade and forgot everything in the world but her. ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
The India Fan by Victoria Holt
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]

While I sat leaning against the hedge of the paddock I often found myself looking up at a certain window and remembering how, years ago, Miss Lucille used to look ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )

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