Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Annie Proulx. years. The Lodge burned on New Year's Eve of 1934. On a rainy May night in 1938 Oscar Untergans fell in his estranged wife's bathroom and died from a subdural haematoma. The postcard endured. 6 The Violet Shoe in the Ditch ...
Dr. Pearce pulled off his other glove and slapped the pair in his hand. “I thought you would know what to do!” he said. “I thought you would stop them!” Mama made a slow gesture with one stiff hand, which took in the bare parlor, ...
And we should not be boring Doctor Pearce and Celia with this farming talk.” He sat back in his chair and at a nod from me the servants cleared the plates. Doctor Pearce and Harry chose cheeses from the board, and the great silver fruit ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874.
I go there briefly where the spirits are dancing around me and throw sparks at me. I am then back with the bear, cuddling into her fur, and I start nursing off her tit. Then the spirits are dancing around us and sparks are flying into ...
Gintaras, his face set in a mask of rage and grief, contemptuously flicked his sword up and out in a circular darting motion, and the torch sped down the corridor, showering sparks on the stone. Hob slid to a stop and staggered back ...
L. Frank Baum. more toys, but lay on his bed as in a dream. The Nymph Necile, she who had reared him and been his fostermother, was still youthful and strong and beautiful, and it seemed to her but a short time since this aged, ...
Rosy and invigorated after pushing their barrows full of wellrotted manure, they paused for a moment on a slight rise in the lane to watch two tiny figures of men at the far end of a ploughed field, still quite a distance away.
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Buyers and auctioneer raced on to the next lot without pausing for breath, while the buyer's labels were dropped into kits that were soon on the barrows, with the boys racing them away over the cobbles to the nearby fish processing ...
Traditional Mother Goose nursery rhymes are rewritten, depicting unruly students attending the school of Spinster Goose.
Four short stories, abridged and illustrated, by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.
The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this collection.
Here are four tales -- The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-Frog, and The Fall of the House of Usher -- by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe.
The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this collection.
A vandal who leaves a red feather at the scene of his crimes has been striking at Camp Nightwing, and when a counselor is found dead, junior counselor Holly Flynn is determined to solve the mystery
Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories. Reissue.
Collecting Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1-20 and Hellraiser Annual #1, prepare your soul for over 500 pages of epic horror from one of the genre's greatest voices, starring one of the genre's greatest characters.