A historical fantasy set in the backdrop of Nalanda and the end of Gupta Empire depicts the horror of Hun invasion, and power struggle between smaller kingdoms in an alternate universe bounded by magical reality. During the political turmoil, a prince vouchsafed to save Magadha from foreign invasion with the help of Nalanda's intellectual teachers and their secret knowledge of Celestial Weapons. However, palace intrigues compelled him to renounce his claim to the throne and he embraced the...

Twenty years ago, a family in Minnesota was killed by an axman, leaving a small girl alive. Two decades later Mrs. Caren Javier received a dollhouse on her doorstep vaguely resembling the Minnesota house and the cursed day of her parents' death. She got a note attached to it. Caren mysteriously disappeared from her New Jersey home leaving her husband in confusion. Dr. James Javier visited detective Marie Claire and requested her to solve the case.

Mars UnderneathThe story is set in a futuristic world when terra-formation and colonization of Mars have been completed; but human explorers failed to cross the other side of Mount Olympus, the highest mountain of the solar system. There is a secret passageway, which opens up in Twenty Earth Years. Beyond the Olympus, an unknown land awaits, from where Eagle King and his retinue come to the Martian South in search of slaves. However, within the volcano, there are lives and cities...

The story revolves around a haunted mansion in a small town near Edinburgh, where a young lady lost her life due to family dispute. She could not even save her little daughters. Years later another couple came there and experienced haunted events. Finally they realised that death is not an end, but the beginning of another life. Souls often come back for their unfulfilled desires and look for like-minded bodies to possess.

Trichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi have opened new avenues for its varied applications. Divided into three sections, covering taxonomy and physiology, interactions with plants and applications and significance, this book also discusses topics that have seen ra...

To collect more goddess blessings and grow closer to defeating the demon lord, the hero Touya travels to Neptunopolis, a beautiful blue city by the harbor. Soon after arrival, he has a chance meeting with another hero, and then reunites with someone completely unexpected! Unforeseen events occur one after another, but our heroines don't forget to change into swimsuits and splash around at the beach as well. Now then, will Touya's Unlimited Bath have room for one more?

Erik John Stark is sent on a perilous mission into the Valkis and encounters the Queen of the Martian Catacombs.

Did you know that a Hippogriff is supposedly the offspring of a horse and a griffin? Or that a Greek Sphinx generally has a male face, whereas an Egyptian one has a female visage? Where does the Skunk Ape roam, and how can you spot a Kitsune in human form? Is Slenderman the most frightening mythical creature, or is that honour bestowed on the fearsome Gashadokuro? This fantastic book contains details of over one hundred mythical beasts and legendary creatures, organised into categories for...

Roll the Dice of Empire!The Eubian Interstellar Concord. Dominating. Static. A pyramid of cosmic power built on the bones of slaves. Their opponents The freedom-loving, telepathic Skolian Imperialate. Now centuries of war come to head and a new galactic Dark Age looms as rival emperors -- related by blood, love, and an intrigue as deep as the space between stars take a desperate gamble to find a way through the carnage of battle to a new understanding. But first th...

Rose Boy has trained twenty-four years to be the best assassin this world has ever known.Tonight he will take revenge on the indomitable ruler who killed his love.Even if it costs him his life.

From werewolves to King Kong, from Frankenstein's monster to Moby Dick, there are some monsters that children and adults love to be scared by. Monsters and Villains of the Movies and Literature collects 40 of these characters, both from classical literature, with figures such as snake-headed Medusa from Greek mythology and the Ziz bird from the Book of Psalms, to Shakespeare's Caliban and witches from Macbeth, to recent fantasy literature, such as John Wyndham’s triffids and H.G. Wells’ Mo...

A retelling of the Mabinogion fourth branch, including the story of Blodeuwedd, a woman made of flowers. A dangerous tale of desire, DNA, incest and flowers plays out withing he wreckage of an ancient spaceship in The Meat Tree; an absorbing retelling of one of the best know Welsh myths from prize-winning writer and poet, Gwyneth Lewis. An elderly investigator and his female apprentice hope to extract the fate of the ship's crew from its antiquated virtual reality game systrem, but their e...