Author: Kurt McCoy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387298887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Count Carl von Bruno's efforts to establish a personal empire in Africa have been thwarted by three Englishmen. As he departs in defeat, a mysterious Portuguese merchant offers to sell him a strange Creature captured in the jungles of South America. Von Bruno acquires the Creature and returns to his home, The Black Castle in Austria. There he plans to use the inhuman beast as part of his revenge on the three Englishmen who thwarted him. Von Bruno does not count on the Creature escaping from its confinement, nor does he anticipate the unnatural attraction it has formed for his beautiful but strange fiance. What ensues is a desperate monster hunt through the passages under the Black Castle and the surrounding countryside, ending ultimately in a fatal showdown.
Creature from the Black Castle and other tales
Author: Kurt McCoy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387298887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Count Carl von Bruno's efforts to establish a personal empire in Africa have been thwarted by three Englishmen. As he departs in defeat, a mysterious Portuguese merchant offers to sell him a strange Creature captured in the jungles of South America. Von Bruno acquires the Creature and returns to his home, The Black Castle in Austria. There he plans to use the inhuman beast as part of his revenge on the three Englishmen who thwarted him. Von Bruno does not count on the Creature escaping from its confinement, nor does he anticipate the unnatural attraction it has formed for his beautiful but strange fiance. What ensues is a desperate monster hunt through the passages under the Black Castle and the surrounding countryside, ending ultimately in a fatal showdown.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387298887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Count Carl von Bruno's efforts to establish a personal empire in Africa have been thwarted by three Englishmen. As he departs in defeat, a mysterious Portuguese merchant offers to sell him a strange Creature captured in the jungles of South America. Von Bruno acquires the Creature and returns to his home, The Black Castle in Austria. There he plans to use the inhuman beast as part of his revenge on the three Englishmen who thwarted him. Von Bruno does not count on the Creature escaping from its confinement, nor does he anticipate the unnatural attraction it has formed for his beautiful but strange fiance. What ensues is a desperate monster hunt through the passages under the Black Castle and the surrounding countryside, ending ultimately in a fatal showdown.
Dragons at Crumbling Castle
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544466594
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
New York Times best-selling author Terry Pratchett's irreverent and irresistible tales for children in a lavishly designed and extensively illustrated volume.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544466594
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
New York Times best-selling author Terry Pratchett's irreverent and irresistible tales for children in a lavishly designed and extensively illustrated volume.
Fantastic Tales
Author: Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life. In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper. First published by Mercury House in 1992.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life. In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper. First published by Mercury House in 1992.
Thirteen Skulls and Other Tales
Author: Art Wiederhold
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595480004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Thirteen Skulls & Other Tales is a collection of eleven stories that span four years of the reign of Arka-Dal, the legendary Emperor of Thule. The Emperor and his friends encounter vengeful witches, demonic armies, undead pirates, dragons and invading armies. To make things even more interesting, they have to contend with magical powers run amok, explore the Haunted Ruins and search for a mythical lost continent. Along the way, Arka-Dal picks up two new wives, sires four children and makes a couple of unusual allies. Thirteen Skulls & Other Tales is one of the best-written collections of short adventure stories of all time. It adds new dimensions to the Thulian Chronicles and proves beyond a doubt that Art Wiederhold is the best fantasy writer on the planet!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595480004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Thirteen Skulls & Other Tales is a collection of eleven stories that span four years of the reign of Arka-Dal, the legendary Emperor of Thule. The Emperor and his friends encounter vengeful witches, demonic armies, undead pirates, dragons and invading armies. To make things even more interesting, they have to contend with magical powers run amok, explore the Haunted Ruins and search for a mythical lost continent. Along the way, Arka-Dal picks up two new wives, sires four children and makes a couple of unusual allies. Thirteen Skulls & Other Tales is one of the best-written collections of short adventure stories of all time. It adds new dimensions to the Thulian Chronicles and proves beyond a doubt that Art Wiederhold is the best fantasy writer on the planet!
Cousin Phillis, and other tales
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Pages : 788
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Works: Cousin Phillis, and other tales
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Pages : 780
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The Works of Mrs. Gaskell: Cousin Phillis and other tales
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Pages : 784
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The Metamorphosis and Other Tales
Author: Aida Dahlvrlegg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409298809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The Metamorphosis & Other Tales is a collection of six fictional stories that includes The Metamorphosis, The Magic Carpet and The Groovy Wallpaper, Butterfly, The Stranger, Customer Disservice and The Boston Stranger. Interweaving postmodernist narrative forms of intertextuality with realistic fiction, Dahlvrlegg weaves a sumptuously rich tapestry of life contained within stories of the outsider, many of which might draw comparisons with the modernism of Kafka and Camus, though she undoubtedly still retains her definitely distinct artistic stylistic imprint.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409298809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The Metamorphosis & Other Tales is a collection of six fictional stories that includes The Metamorphosis, The Magic Carpet and The Groovy Wallpaper, Butterfly, The Stranger, Customer Disservice and The Boston Stranger. Interweaving postmodernist narrative forms of intertextuality with realistic fiction, Dahlvrlegg weaves a sumptuously rich tapestry of life contained within stories of the outsider, many of which might draw comparisons with the modernism of Kafka and Camus, though she undoubtedly still retains her definitely distinct artistic stylistic imprint.
Roarin'Ned: and Other Tales. Illustrated
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Pages : 116
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The Wise Man of Stainmore, with Other Tales & Legends of Olden Time. Forming the Third Volume of “Tales and Legends of Wertmoreland”
Author: John Close (of Kirkby-Stephen.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Pages : 244
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