epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Joan Aiken

The Road from Rushout Wood On a frosty Christmas Eve in the early years of this century, it was the misfortune of Hugh Tregear, a young gentleman making his way ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Wilkie Collins & M R James & Charles Dickens

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE BODY-SNATCHER EVERY NIGHT in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham—the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and ...

epub |eng | 2017-11-22 | Author:Arthur Machen & Aaron Worth

and his face flushed with fortune and the lust of the hunter. He turned at once to the first leaf of the pocket-book, and proceeded to read with rapt interest ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-22 | Author:Robertson, Michael [Robertson, Michael]

Chapter 26 The flickering fire threw dancing light across the fronts of their clothes as they stood in a small circle around it. Past eleven in the evening, but none ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Michael Robertson [Robertson, Michael]

As he stepped through the gates, Spike looked around for the diseased and the person who’d reined it in. The woman with the dreadlocks snorted a laugh at him. “It’s ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:Michael Robertson [Robertson, Michael]

Chapter 22 “Where are you taking me?” They’d bound Spike’s hands so tightly, the cord cut into his wrists. The hood over his head reeked of dust. The motes embedded ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Lord Dunsany [Dunsany, Lord]

The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater POMBO the idolater had prayed to Ammuz a simple prayer, a necessary prayer, such as even an idol of ivory could very easily ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Charles Stross

12: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Alex stands in the open front doorway. Cassie squats on the front lawn, clutching her knees, her back tense. They are serenaded by distant traffic ...

epub |eng | 2004-03-23 | Author:John Connolly [Connolly, John]

THE LAST DAY And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds . . . —Macaulay, “Horatius” CHAPTER EIGHT The giant was gone. He left her before the clock ...

mobi, epub | | 1986-10-01 | Author:Clive Barker

It wasn't so hard for Maguire to guess who'd wasted Dork and Henry B. Henry, though the idea of that particular worm turning was hard to swallow. Many of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-26 | Author:John Connolly

Danny was kicking up a fuss, as he always did when his mother tried to leave him for an evening. It came from not having a father around, she believed. ...