A collection of short stories in the horror genre: some weird, some strange, some downright unbelievable, but all designed to make the reader think...and think again, then leave the bedside light burning through the night.

Two tales that will have the hairs on the back of your neck rising, and alter your conception of the decency of man as you know it.

A collection of tales of the strange, the weird, and the frightening. Just the thing to read on a dark night when the lightning flashes, and the thunder crashes, and all the doors are locked.

In the early days of rail, a shack was built on railway property to house the bodies of those killed on or near the rail. It became known as the Death House.this collection of short stories features mysteries all connected to the death house in some eerie and evil way.

Doctors have a unique view of the human body. Centuries of observing the sick and decades of testing these observations against science. A diagnosis starts with interrogation followed by observation, clinched by the appropriate test. Clinical skills are focused on patients, but friends and family are not exempt. The real test comes when the physician himself becomes acutely unwell without warning. This is a story of the continuing importance of clinical signs in the age of artificial intel...

a family of five vampires are driven out of their lair in Eastern Europe and board ship for australia, the state of van diemen's land, where a new prison colony is being built.saul, the teenage vampire, falls in love and watches in horror as his new love turns from what she was into what she has become. one by one, they are killed off until only one remains. but which one is it?

an old jewish man is murdered in 1800's sydney by a gang of thugs, and his wife, a witch, uses her familiar, a large dog, as a murder weapon to slaughter one by one the gang. blood runs free in the streets, and a journalist is left in the middle of a mystery he cannot unravel...

the greeks say if a body is left unguarded between death and burial it will rise to prey on its kin.charles comstock drowns off the island of Santorini, and is transported to sydney for burial, but he rises to kill his kin one by one - and all that stand between it and success are an old greek woman and a disbelieving young priest.

Alan Carmody, a cattle breeder in South Africa, loses everything when an evil witchdoctor causes his negro hands to run off, after burning and looting his farm and killing his family. He kills the witchdoctor and emigrates to Australia, but the witchdoctor's spirit in the giuse of a cheetah, begins hunting down all with whom he comes into contact in this new country, until only Alan is left.

The Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier offers a rare enlisted man's view of the War for Independence. In plain, vividly observational prose, Martin records marches, hunger, foraging, fatigue duty, and the craft of siege work, alongside skirmishes and campaigns from New York and New Jersey to the final operations at Yorktown. Wry humor and an unsentimental eye strip away heroic varnish, foregrounding material hardship, camp politics, and the moral economy of pay, rations, and broken promise...

The Medicine-Men of the Apache offers a closely observed ethnography of Apache healers: their rites, chants, materia medica, cosmology, and social authority. Bourke alternates translated incantations with case sketches and careful inventories of paraphernalia, embedding practice within mythic etiologies. Stylistically, it blends taxonomic catalog with vivid field reportage, typical of late-nineteenth-century Bureau of Ethnology work, rich in lexical notes and ritual choreography yet inflec...

Sign Language Among North American Indians offers a rigorous survey of the intertribal Plains gesture language and its regional variants. Mallery classifies hundreds of signs by handshape, movement, and position, notes frequent syntactic patterns and pragmatic settings, and provides cross-tribal equivalences. Placing the repertoire within the nineteenth‑century Plains economy of trade, diplomacy, hunting, and war, he also compares it with Deaf sign and classical manuals of gesture, exempli...