In 1899 film-maker Georges Méliès gave the world Cleopatre (a.k.a. Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb), in which the Queen of the Nile's mummy returns to life, only to be chopped into pieces by a pair of terrified tomb robbers.Thus was the mummy movie born.Now lifelong horror fan David Whitehead traces the first seventy-five years of mummy cinema, right through the Universal period and Hammer's quartet of movies to other less well-known entries from all across the w...

Thomas Howard of Missouri came out of nowhere, one foggy night, to rescue Countess Elaina Montague from rape and robbery. He was in England, he said, to find his brother, who had disappeared. To repay him, the beautiful Countess offered to enlist her friend, Sherlock Holmes, to help in the search. Despite investigating a rash of audacious jewel-thefts, and already spending altogether too much time at the music-hall, the Great Detective felt there was more to the mysterious Mr Howard, and a...

Somewhere, in another time and another place, lost, scared and alone, young Betsy is drifting, each day blending into the next as she wastes away amidst the ever shifting waves of an endless sea of forgetfulness, her hope a flickering flame growing smaller and dimmer, until she washes up on the docks of Safe Harbor, a sprawling shantytown built atop the decks of a fleet of crumbling ships and held within the cruel grasp of a man known only as The Magistrate.Will her hope be rekindl...

Following a prolonged cocaine binge, Sherlock Holmes is closer to death than Dr Watson has ever seen him before. Fearing for his friend's wellbeing, the pair repair to France, there to enjoy a leisurely convalescence at the home of Holmes's old friend, Henri Gillet. But even before they reach Paris they become embroiled in a perilous mystery of the like even they have never encountered before. Who, for example, is the strange man with the peculiar fascination for raindrops? And why does so...

A brazen daylight robbery at Christie's becomes the talk of London, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are no longer in the business of solving crime. Holmes has retired to Sussex, to keep bees, and Watson, recently widowed, has returned to general practice. But when Watson, desperate for distraction, agrees to accompany his old friend to Vienna, to visit eminent neurologist, Sigmund Freud, it is not long before the pair are pulled back into the murky world of ruthless criminals bent on abd...

Only the most intriguing mystery could lure Sherlock Holmes from the comfort of Baker Street in the winter of 1898 ... and it came with the ghastly murder of a gravedigger in the most bizarre of circumstances. Thus it was that Holmes and Watson travelled to the tiny German village of Darmstadt to unmask a callous killer with an even more terrifying motive ... and all within the long, ominous shadow of Castle Frankenstein ...Soon to be a major motion picture, and novelized by an anc...

The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is, the period best known and most important for the evolution of the polis, a form of political community which combined the aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled either before or since. For us, the inheritors of m...

I Want to Read the Bible, but Where Do I Start?The Bible can seem like an intimidating book, but it may be easier to understand than you think. Making Sense of the Bible will teach you how to enjoy studying it on your own.David Whitehead has been helping people engage with the Bible for years, including through his popular website, The Daily Bible Verse. The Bible is an incredible gift from God to you, and this brief "user's manual" will teach you ...

An essential feature of the classical Greek city-state was the presence of a large body of 'metics', more or less permanent immigrants, most of them from other Greek cities, who played a large part in the economic, social and political life of the community but were excluded from citizenship in all but the most exceptional cases. Despite the importance of the subject, there has previously been no extended account in English. Dr Whitehead's monograph, based on an exhaustive register of the ...

Can a fight for love stand the pain of deceit, betrayal, and lies?Alexander Starr reminds himself that love never goes away. The memories of a heartbreak can make you realize the control you thought you had was never in your control. When you make the game of love a sport, you want to win, not lose. The drama of a relationship can make the sport of love separate you or bring the two together as one love. Trying to give one woman a commitment and promise will keep Alexander Starr in the mid...

Jesus was our model and teacher in prayer. By His life and His lips our Lord's constant fellowship with the Father pointed to the necessity of ours. But Jesus didn’t pray merely as an example to us. For thirty-three years, He lived as a man, tempted in all points like as are we. He prayed because He had to pray. He prayed because He must.In this 50th anniversary edition of The Power of Positive Praying, Dr. Bisagno expands this classic work with eight new chapters on praye...

Answers to Your Most Puzzling Questions about PrayerIn a world where problems grow more and more complex and desperate, the need for prayer is rising. Yet critical needs will go unmet until we have a proper understanding of effective prayer and how it works. Here, in this easy-to-understand guidebook, veteran prayer warrior Charles Simpson answers 21 of your most-asked questions about prayer, including:· Who am I actually talking to?· Do som...