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Brouhaha

Van klipdagga en dawidjieswortel uit die Karoo-aarde wat krag en gesondheid aan mens en dier gee tot die luis van Auschwitz wat jou dood beteken – dis die reikwydte van die wêreld wat in Brouhaha aangevat word. Stories om oor te lag of treurig te word. En as jy laatnag nog aan die verhale knibbel en ’n bietjie angstig word, gaan kombuis toe en maak vir jou ’n Warmtoddy.Die resep is op bl. 288.

Met koffer en kaart

Helena Gunter

The Room Next Door

Nicolas Papaconstantinou

Written between 2006 and 2018, this collection features short stories (and other weird writing) that find the strange in the mundane, or make the normal seem peculiar. A dusty night across a sleeping city. A hole in a wall. Rooms next door and days at the office gone long. Encounter artificial intelligences on the run and cold zombie landscapes. Meet strangers that look somehow familiar, or people you knew but long ago lost. See small acts of defiance. Feel existential terror. And look deep into the magic eight-ball of your soul.

Комсомольская Правда. Санкт-Петербург 89п-2020

Редакция газеты Комсомольская правда. Санкт-Петербург

Комсомольская правда. Санкт-Петербург

The Sicilian, Book 1: Augustus, The Undefeated

Gary Lovisi

He was Gaetano Salvidienus Rufus, better known by most simply as The Sicilian. He had been raised by the Greek, Apollodorus, upon the Mediterranean island of Sicily after his father Quintus Salvidienus Rufus had been executed by Mark Antony as a traitor, even though his father had secretly been working for the young Roman prince, Octavian. Octavian, who was the nephew, adopted son—and heir to the Great Julius Caesar. Caesar had been assassinated and soon afterwards had become a god—and young Octavian at just eighteen years of age had become the son of a god among the Romans—and eventually became the sole ruler of Rome. He quickly took the name Octavian Caesar. Years later he would transform himself yet again and take the name Augustus—meaning revered, auspicious, augmenting. All honor due to him. The young heir to Julius Caesar seemed to many a bit full of himself in those early days, some like Mark Antony often derided him his youth and arrogance—but few realized the greatness hidden within that youth—until it was too late. Octavian was a young man who had been given many honors and titles, and he would hold the office of Consul of Rome a total of thirteen times throughout his life, more than any other man in the history of Rome. He would be hailed Imperator—victorious general; and Princeps—First Citizen—all important honors and titles he held among many others that he had contrived the Senate to bestow upon him. But honorable titles and grand names were not the true power held by the man. His control over the Roman legions was where his true power lay. And for Octavian—Augustus—that control was absolute. The legions were loyal to him—to a man!

The Man with the Wooden Spectacles

Harry Stephen Keeler

The trial of the man apprehended with a crimson hatbox containing a skull continues with the shenanigans of the Moffit brothers, Silas and Saul, trying to thwart the efforts of Elsa Colby, the young defense lawyer who must win her first case – or it will be her last! Elsa finds herself visiting the darkest parts of Chicago in her quest to prove that when her client told the archbishop that the box contained «Wah Lee’s skull,» he didn’t know the box actually had a skull inside.This classic mystery tale by webwork master Harry Stephen Keeler is every bit as confusing as it sounds – until Keeler pulls it all together!

Devil's Peak

Brian Ball

"Stranded in a High Peak transport café during a freak snowstorm, Jerry Howard finds himself in a vortex of Satanism. Brenda was a motorway girl with a strange scar on her back. The Mark of the Beast. She knew the history of the Brindley legend. And she alone knew the rites. She had been on Devil’s Peak before. Now it was Walpurgisnacht and the horned goat was expected. Events moved to a horrendous climax…"

Ghouls of the Undercity

Edmund Glasby

Richardson had several guided tours that he alternated throughout the week. His favourite was a trip around the Old City, visiting several of the locations where over the years, apparitions had, allegedly, been seen. He would then lead his group into the tunnels and the catacombs beneath street level—into the so-called Undercity; a labyrinthine warren of vaulted, coarse-brick, underground chambers that dated back hundreds of years. In this dark subterranean environment, the poor had lived a squalid, cramped and disease-ridden existence, shut off from the world above. There were countless tales of bloodcurdling horror attached to this place; ones that he would relate and embellish with his own sense of macabre flair… But was it all fiction…?

The Jonas Lie MEGAPACK ®

Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie (pronouced «Lee» in English) is one of the greats of Norwegian literature, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Alexander Kielland. Although considered a Realist, he also worked with Scandanavian folk-lore, penning a number of fine supernatural tales (some of which are included here). In all, this volume collects 14 of his finest works, including 11 short stories and 3 novels: INTRODUCTION: MEET JONAS LIE, by Julius E. Olson INTRODUCTION TO LIE'S «WEIRD TALES FROM THE NORTHERN SEAS,» by R. Nisbet Bain THE FISHERMAN AND THE DRAUG JACK OF SJOHOLM AND THE GAN-FINN TUG OF WAR "THE EARTH DRAWS" THE CORMORANTS OF ANDVAER ISAAC AND THE PARSON OF BRONO THE WIND-GNOME THE HULDREFISH FINN BLOOD THE HOMESTEAD WESTWARD IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS "IT'S ME" THE PILOT AND HIS WIFE THE VISIONARY ONE OF LIFE'S SLAVES And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see more great collections, ranging from fantasy and science fiction to mysteries, westerns, adventure stories, and more! (View them by publication date to see the most recent additions.)

The Second Achmed Abdullah Megapack

Achmed Abdullah

If you've picked up this volume, you may already be familiar with Achmed Abdullah's work from the first volume, «The Achmed Abdullah Megapack.» If not, no harm done; both Megapacks contain short stories which can be read in any order. The only real difference is that Volume 1 contains quite a few supernatural stories, while Volume 2 focuses more on «contemporary» (early 1900s) life in exotic locales, like the Middle East, China, and New York City (primarily in Chinatown). Crime is frequently touched upon; many of these stories qualify as mysteries. Included: THE EVENING RICE THE HATCHETMAN FEUD REPRISAL THE HOME-COMING THE DANCE ON THE HILL THE RIVER OF HATE THE SOUL OF A TURK MORITURI THE JESTER THE STRENGTH OF THE LITTLE THIN THREAD GRAFTER AND MASTER GRAFTER THE LOGICAL TALE OF THE FOUR CAMELS THE TWO-HANDED SWORD BLACK POPPIES THE PERFECT WAY TAO A note for the sensitive: Some of these stories are not «politically correct» by today’s standards. Please keep in mind that Abdullah was writing in a different age, with different standards of propriety. The world has changed a lot in the last 100 years. And if you enjoy this Megapack, please take a look at the many others available…search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see the list – mysteries, adventure, horror, science fiction, westerns, humor, and many more subjects and authors are available. (And always at a bargain price!)