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This is not just any book. Its a whimsical journey through the eyes of a recluse and a witch, set against the backdrop of London during the tumultuous First World War. Published in 1919, Stella Bensons Living Alone invites you to explore a world where magic intertwines with the realities of wartime life. While it may not follow a traditional plot, its enchanting blend of fantasy, moral musings, and aerial dogfights on broomsticks offers a charmingly eccentric experience. Perfect for witches, wizards, and muggles alike, this little gem is a delightful escape for those with a taste for the ...

Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities. One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication.

This collection contains the best of classic horror writing, with the atmospheric genius of Edgar Allan Poe, the invention and eeriness of Bram Stoker, and the suspense of Wilkie Collins amongst the terrifying gems. In this veritable schooling in the origins of modern-day horror and fantasy, some of the best minds in the history of English literature take on the world of vampires, werewolves, and the supernatural.

Calliope Reaper-Jones is Death's Daughter. She owes a debt to Cerberus, the three headed dog that guards the gate's of hell-a debt that involves a trip to Purgatory, Las Vegas, ancient Egypt, and a discount department store that's more frightening than any supernatural creature she'll ever...

Buffy fans will go wild!SHE WAS TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.Now sheâ€s the author of Aceâ€s hottest new series— killer novels featuring Calliope Reaper-Jones, who doesnâ€t want to be daddyâ€s little girl anymore...Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal...

Calliope just wants to make it big in the Big Apple like any other working girl. But Callie is also Death's Daughter, no matter how much she tries to stay out of the family business. And now her older sister has made a deal with the Devil himself to engage in a hostile takeover of both Death Inc...

Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. Avril 1918. Dans une Europe dévastée par quatre années de guerre, une unité de soldats d'élite italiens est tuée de façon aussi brutale que mystérieuse. Le pouvoir qui court dans les veines de Strangford peut faire la lumière sur ce massacre... mais à quel coût ? Pour sauver l'homme qu'elle aime et empêcher le monde de sombrer à tout jamais dans les ténèbres, Lily n'a d'autre choix que de faire confiance à un don qui ne l'a pas épargnée par le passé. Même si cela doit les propulser au cœur de la guerre.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. Londres, hiver 1914. Depuis toujours, Lily est assaillie de funestes prémonitions, qu'elle tente, en vain, d'empêcher de se réaliser. Mais pour sauver la vie de son amie, elle n'a pas d'autre choix que de révéler ses plus sombres secrets à un homme qui ne lui inspire pourtant aucune confiance : lord Strangford, baron solitaire hanté par ses propres pouvoirs extraordinaires.

Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives within the shadows of society, using their magic to keep the world in balance. But they are being eliminated - and we will all pay if their power falls... When Elyse MacAllister's great-aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her, becomes deathly ill, Lyse puts her comfortable life in Georgia on hold to rush back to Los Angeles. And once she returns to Echo Park, Lyse discovers her great-aunt has been keeping secrets.

Where Huxley and Orwell have often been described as prophets of our political world, Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World has gained some equal praise as a prophecy of the religious world. This dystopian science fiction novel published in 1907, prophesies a modern world where the antichrist reigns in the form of philosophical relativism and secular interference. How the world is further built on tolerance and personal freedoms but how religious life, slowly but surely, becomes the receiver of intolerance.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. Près d'une année a passé depuis que Lily Albright a découvert le Refuge, trouvant acceptation et amour auprès des charismatiques qui s'y sont assemblés. Mais l'homme qui l'a encouragée à déployer ses ailes a disparu, et la guerre l'a éloignée de deux de ses plus chers amis, la laissant plus vulnérable que jamais alors que son monde vole en éclats.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. La suite des aventures d'un groupe de héros extraordinaires. Cinq mois ont passé. Alors que l'ombre de la guerre se profile sur Londres, Lily tente tant bien que mal de dompter son pouvoir hors du commun. Cependant, une nouvelle vision ne tarde pas à poindre, et il lui faudra tout risquer pour déjouer l'avenir et ainsi sauver ses amis charismatiques – et lord Strangford, dont la capacité à lire dans les recoins les plus sombres de son âme menace l'équilibre de leur relation.

The Fanfiction game show! Join the host Leandra and guessers Rin and Lantis for silly fanfiction based shenanigans, conversation, and friendly competition! The game of Smut or Angst is deceptively simple. The host gives the title of a real fanfiction and the guessers must decide if that fic is tagged as smut or angst.

"Il signore del mondo", pubblicato nel 1907 e scritto dal vescovo cattolico inglese Robert Hugh Benson è effettivamente, come da lui stesso affermato nella sua prefazione, per vari aspetti, un libro sconcertante. Anche se il tessuto narrativo non ha lo spessore del capolavoro letterario, è innegabile che quest'opera colpisce perché sembra scritta da qualcuno che (dettagli tecnologici a parte) abbia potuto gettare uno sguardo sul nostro mondo globalizzato, e vedere il progressivo arrendersi dell'umanità al disumano progetto totalitarista e materialista che lo sta fagocitando.

Discover the enchanting world of E.F. Bensons second collection of short stories, Visible and Invisible. Within these pages, youll find tales infused with the authors signature flair for melodrama and the macabre, often straddling the line between the extraordinary and the eerie. These stories explore the depths of the human spirit, presenting a delightful mix of quirky charm and haunting power. Some narratives may feel quaint, while others have earned the admiration of the genres most esteemed authors. Join us on this captivating journey through the visible and the unseen. - Summary by Andy ...

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

The Horror Horn is set in the Swiss Alps and opens in the cosy lounge of a resort hotel, where a string ensemble strikes up with the sugary strains of Puccini. Our hero is further entertained to an unlikely yarn of savage sub-humans living near the Ungeheuerhorn, or Horror Horn, a forbidding mountain peak nearby. Next day, a skiing trip to St. Luigi in the next valley to lunch with a friend marks the start of an unexpectedly terrifying adventure. The Horror Horn is not a ghost story as such: the creatures in it are most definitely flesh and blood and they are hungry!

The Man Who Went Too Far: A Ghost Story by E. F. Benson opens one summer’s day in a beautiful, sequestered garden on the edge of the New Forest. A forty-something artist visits a friend to recuperate from a debilitating illness but is staggered to discover him looking remarkably young and oddly vibrant. He listens as this ‘boy’ explains his new found philosophy, expands on the delight he takes in the natural world all around him and describes the strangely haunting music he has begun to hear in the woods and among the reeds.