Phyllis Ann Karr
Список книг автора Phyllis Ann KarrThe Gallows in the Greenwood
Ann Karr has found a historical precedent to create a female Sheriff of Nottingham for this retelling of the Robin Hood legend … A remarkable work which recasts the traditional roles and sheds new light on the relationship between the famous characters.
The Fanciers & Realizers MEGAPACK®: The Complete Steampunk Series
The Fanciers & Realizers MEGAPACK® assembles Phyllis Ann Karr's complete series for the first time – 37 stories and novels, totalling more than 1700 pages of great Steampunk/alternate history reading! Included are:<P> CAGEY WARRINGTON THURSDAY <BR> SOMETHING SHADY AT SUNVALE CLINIC <BR> THE CYCLOPS KILLER <BR> THE REALIZERS/FANCIERS WORLD <BR> THE STANDARD MURDER MYSTERY <BR> VARIETY’S NAME <BR> ROSEMARY LOZINSKI LESTRADE <BR> THE MONDAY AFTER MURDER <BR> WHO MOURNS FOR SILVERSTAIRS? <BR> THE BLUE THREAD KILLER <BR> MURDER WITH AN ARTIST’S RAG <BR> LOVE AND DEATH IN THE ASTEROID BELT <BR> HOUSE OF THE PENTAGRAM <BR> CORWIN AND ANGELA <BR> THE SPIDER: AN INCIDENT FROM THE BOYHOOD OF M. CORWIN POE <BR> A PREDICAMENT IN THE BELFRY <BR> THE BREAKING POINT <BR> MAYDAY ON THE MELON <BR> AUTUMN LEAF <BR> THE DREAMSTONE <BR> THE DREAMSTONE I: SOULS FOR TRADE <BR> THE DREAMSTONE II: LICENSED TO KILL <BR> THE DREAMSTONE III: CURLING SNAKES <BR> HELLMOUTH PARK <BR> THE PICKETS OF HELLMOUTH <BR> BLOOD GROTTO <BR> THE HELLMOUTH SEVEN <BR> CLEMENT CZARNY <BR> THE DIAMOND DOVE <BR> THE BIGOT AND THE BARITONE <BR> A COLD STAKE <BR> THE TITLE ROLE <BR> THE DRACULA OF PI RHO <BR> BABBITT’S DAUGHTER <BR> APPENDICES <BR> THE VAMPIRE AS SHAMAN: Clement Czarny’s Theory <BR> THE PURGATORY CLUB <P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!
The Deathguards
The Timelines Keep Trying to Realign! Our neighboring timeline also had its 20th-century warfare. But Act II of their Last Great War, 1939-1945, lined up somewhat differently, with Russia, India, Spain, and Japan versus England, France, Germany, and the Reformed States of America. Now, in the decade following the War, the small university town of Hodag Crossing in the state of Minnemagantic, along with the rest of the world, is hunting down deathguards – the war criminals of Stalin's Eugenics Farms and India's Kali Camps. These include the college years of Clement Czarny, who has learned that all a vampire like him has to do to function in a world filled with crosses, sunlight, and the rest of it, is live like a saint. Meaning that, as a vampire, he must forgive. <P>Everything. <P>Whether it's a would-be Van Helsing who wanted to stake Clement himself, or a deathguard who helped kill millions.<P> Everything.<P> Even if it costs his own romance. And maybe that's what makes vampires unfit to live among normal, honest, righteous people.
All But a Pleasure: An Alternate-History Role-Playing Romance Murder Mystery
The four members of Dante's Delight Purgatorio do not consider what they do to be in any sense sadomasochistic. Of course, society at large takes a different view. And society at large includes Julie Whitcomb's newmet lover, Police Detective Dave Clayton, for whom she hopes to retire from purgatorial activity. Society at large also includes Angela Garvey, childhood sweetheart of the lad Julie hopes to mold into her Dante's Delight replacement, Corwin «Thesaurus Kid» Poe. <P> When murdered bodies start turning up wearing the membership mark of Dante's Delight, it falls to Dave's immediate superior, Detective Sergeant Lestrade, to determine the guilt or innocence of the obvious prime suspects. And Rosemary Lestrade got into police work less to catch the guilty than to clear the innocent.
The Bloody Herring
A Fantasy Historical Romance of the First Decade of Papa's Pride, by Clea Ortiz Newcome—but actually a Gilbert & Sullivan Fantasy in Space Opera Framework, by Phyllis Ann Karr! <P> Some have told me that the events of Ship Years 8 and 9 were far too terrible to use as underpinning for a light fantasy romance, and one that in any case can appeal chiefly to the hundred or so avid Savoyards in the ship's population. My response is that light treatment has been among humanity's most effective defense mechanisms for dealing with disaster, probably since our race became recognizably human back in Old Earth's paleolithic; and that Savoy enthusiasm is as precious in Papa's Pride as any other artifact of our Old Earth heritage.<P> In any case, these things lie more than half a century in our own past, and if half a century does not make them fair game for historical fantasy, what does? Is the past not the past, whether ten or ten thousand years ago, whether back on Old Earth or out here in our great colony starship of twenty-four pylons revolving around a vast central core?<P> While retaining the names of such entities as the Antique Terra Theater, which had not yet split into the Order-sponsored Old Earth Company and the committee-sponsored Players to the Stars, with their respective screenplay arms Universal Aspirations and Pride Productions, I have fictionalized the names and other aspects of individuals actually involved in Chuck Wang's crime – the worst ever perpetrated and, we hope, ever to be perpetrated in Papa's Pride. I have added some completely fictional people to the cast, omitted many historical figures entirely, and somewhat condensed, even rearranged, certain of the events. There were never any deliberate murders connected with Wang's outrage, at least as far as we know. Shipnet will make it very easy for interested readers to collate my tale with as much as we have of the truth.
The Idylls of the Queen
The arrangements for the dinner party were overseen by Queen Quenevere herself. She selected the apples with her own hands. And before the evening ended, a young knight lay dead…and Arthur's beloved, unfaithful queen stood branded as a murderess and condemned to death! <P> Phyllis Ann Karr has taken Celtic legend and given it a fresh new twist in this magical murder-mystery of knights and sorcery, romantic entanglements and courtly intrigues. This is a tale that explores the passions and motivations of the men and women who stride through the pages of Mallory's romance: Sir Kay, the sharp-tongued seneschal; Nimue, the elusive Lady of the Lake; Morgan le Fay, Merlin's complex nemesis; the tormented sons of Lot and Morgawse; and Mordred, Arthur's own bitter, terrified son! <P> "In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy." – Cynthia Ward
Inquisitor Dreams
Spanish Inquisitor Don Felipe considers himself a loyal servant of Holy Church. Despite his lifelong friendship with the Jewish Gamito, despite the courtly love for their Islamic playfellow's sister that inspired him to celibacy and the priesthood (not necessarily in that order). Despite his own secret sin, despite his own arrest and long imprisonment in midlife by the Inquisition he serves, despite his love for and private marriage with the barren Romany woman Pilar.<P> Why, then, these nightmares that recurrently trouble his sleep, in which his ancestress the heretic Raymonde and purported descendant the Pagan Rosemary guide him through terrible visions of the evil humans do to one another in the name of righteousness?