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A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt. Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke. His vast knowledge and magical skills are unfortunately matched by his talent for making powerful enemies and alienating friends. With little more than his integrity left, he accepts an offer of work from Lt. Karin Murphy of Chicago's Special Investigations Unit. He wants to redeem himself in Murphy's eyes and make enough money to quiet his rumbling stomach.

The Winter Queen of Faerie has manipulated Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden into accepting a case to solve a murder and stop a war between the courts of Summer and Winter that could have literally earth shattering consequences. His own soul is up for grabs. Dresden must dig deep to discover that at time a willingness to accept a little help from your friends, be they a cub pack of werewolves, old loves in sheep's clothing, or a battalion of pizza loving dewdrop fairies, is a very good thing.

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden has had a rough couple of weeks. As the only openly practicing professional wizard in the Chicago area, he has squared off against a multitude of supernatural bad guys. Harry has won the day against demons, poltergeists, sorcerers, trolls, vampires, werewolves, and even an evil faerie godmother. You might think nothing could spook him. You would be wrong.

Nobody loves Mary - the heroine of the famous story of Francis Burnett "The Secret Garden." However, she does not burn with love for others, and moreover - she can not stand the whole world. And then her parents are passing away prematurely. There is an impression that nothing good can happen to her in this life. But there is a miracle: the fate itself extends the heroine of the book to the saving hand and leads to the path leading to the beautiful Secret Garden...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend, Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.

Братья Гримм, Якоб и Вильгельм — немецкие лингвисты и исследователи немецкой народной традиции. Собирали фольклор и опубликовали несколько сборников под названием «Сказки братьев Гримм», которые стали весьма популярными. Они также считаются отцами-основателями германской филологии и германистики. Влияние сказок братьев Гримм было огромным, с первого же издания их чудесные истории завоевали любовь детской аудитории. С 2005 года собрание сказок выдающихся немецких писателей и собирателей фольклора фигурирует в международном реестре ЮНЕСКО "Память мира".

Not much happens here. A mole gives up spring-cleaning. A dragon refuses to fight. Children explore gardens, secrets, and grown-up nonsense. And that's exactly the charm. In The Classic Collection of Kenneth Grahame, the smallest moments matter: a picnic basket, a dusty lane, a long afternoon with nowhere in particular to go. These are tales where animals talk, time meanders, and adventure might mean simply getting lost — on purpose. This volume brings together four of Grahame's most loved works: The Wind in the Willows, The Reluctant Dragon, The Golden Age, and Dream Days.

Russian Folk Fairy Tales is a wonderful collection of the most famous Russian fairy tales. The "Russian skazki" ("skazatz" means to tell) are the mass of folk-tales distributed widely throughout all the Russias. Handed down, by constant repetition, from generation to generation, a possession common to peasant's hut and Prince's palace from a time when history did not exist, they are to-day, from Archangel to the Black Sea, and from Siberia to the Baltic, almost as much a part of the life of the people as the language itself.

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories. Many of these stories are time-tested classics. Montague Rhodes James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests.

The epic Vampire Empire trilogy rushes to a heart-wrenching conclusion of honor and love, hatred and vengeance, sacrifice and loss. A war to the death. Empress Adele has launched a grand crusade against the vampire clans of the north. Prince Gareth, the vampire lord of Scotland, serves the Equatorian cause, fighting in the bloody trenches of France in his guise as the dashing Greyfriar. But the human armies are pinned down, battered by harsh weather and merciless attacks from vampire packs.

1870. A time known as The Great Killing. The vampire clans arose and slaughtered humanity with unprecedented carnage in the northern parts of the world. Millions perished; millions were turned into herd animals. The great industrialized civilizations of the world were left in ruin. A remnant fled south to the safety of the ever present heat which was intolerable to vampires. There, blending with the local peoples, they rebuilt their societies founded on human ingenuity, steam and iron.

Ever wonder what Will Shakespeares life was like before he was known as the Bard? Before the queen took notice of him? Before the Globe Theatre? Step back in time and into the Arden Woods about Avon. Find out what transformed the life of a petty schoolmaster into a writer of enduring vision.

In an instant this young son of a glover had his life ripped from him by the king of those that live under the hill, the King of Elves.

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) published by Arkham House posthumously in 1943 in the collection Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that make up his Dream Cycle and the longest Lovecraft work to feature protagonist Randolph Carter. Along with his 1927 novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecraft's writing.

Вий — мистическая повесть Николая Гоголя, впервые опубликованная в его сборнике "Миргород" (1835). Название повести — это имя славянского демонического существа мужского пола, с которым связан сюжет. Оказавшись в доме ведьмы, семинарист-философ Хома Брут едва вырывается из ее рук и пытается забыть произошедшее, как страшный сон. Но ректор приказывает ему три дня читать молитвы у гроба умершей панночки, впоследствии оказавшейся той самой ведьмой, встретиться с которой Хома не собирался ни за какие коврижки. Хоме надо продержаться три ночи...

Лише один раз на рік, перед святом Купала, відкривається дорога до забутого світу Нав. У тому світі мешкають нявки та чаклунки, міфічні істоти з цапиними ногами, перелесники та богині. Ту дорогу може показати Полудениця, назавжди залишаючи вас в потойбічному світі... Хіба лише ви ризикнете розгадати таємницю купальської ночі. Сестри Леся та Ксеня приїхали в Карпати на відпочинок разом, хоча кожна з них радо б позбулася компанії іншої.

Carson moves into an old house in Salem, formerly owned by the executed witch Abigail Prinn. He discovers a hidden "Witch Room" in the basement, designed to revive Prinn's spirit. An occultist, Michael Leigh, intervenes, and together they thwart Prinn's plan, sending her and the entity back to their realm, though a chilling memento remains.

"The Secret of Kralitz" by Henry Kuttner tells the story of Franz, the twenty-first Baron Kralitz, who is summoned one night by two figures cloaked in black. These figures, wardens of the Kralitz lineage's secret, reveal a horrifying truth: the Baron is part of a long line bound to a malevolent curse and dark rituals. The story culminates in Franz's realization that each Baron Kralitz is initiated into a brotherhood of blood, and that his own name is inscribed on a sarcophagus, sealing his fate.

"Master Cat, or Puss in Boots" is one of the most famous fairy tales of the French writer Charles Perrault. The fairy tale "Puss in Boots" was written in the 17th century, but it remains a favorite of children even several centuries later.

Панна квітів Валерія Шевчука – це збірка казок, для яких характерна філософсько-притчева тональність. Автор возвеличує традиційні моральні цінності і перемогу добра над злом. Найвідомішими творами автора є Дім на горі, Три листки за вікном, Тіні зникомі, Набережна 12, Середохрестя, Вечір святої осені, Крик півня на світанку, Долина джерел, Тепла осінь, Двоє на березі тощо. Валерій Шевчук – український письменник-шістдесятник, майстер історичної, психологічної та химерної прози.