If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Cham...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

Despite her hidden genius, Avril has lived a life of misery, constantly belittled as useless by her own family.When she is forced to substitute for her wicked step-sister in a marriage to a supposedly lecherous, old duke, Avril expects the worst. But surprisingly, Duke Dylan is actually a breathtakingly handsome young man.He offers her a deal: act as his villainess wife for three years, and then they will divorce. For Avril, this contract is a golden ticket to her ultimate freedom. But as ...

The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries — from Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy to Willa Cather, Damon Runyon and Beatrix Potter. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology.

HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection gathers more than 550 tales of terror, spectral encounter, Gothic suspense, and uncanny mystery into an expansive map of the macabre imagination. Its range extends from antiquarian ghost stories and haunted houses to psychological horror, occult speculation, grotesque satire, vampire lore, and scientific romance. Classic Gothic atmospheres coexist with fin-de-siècle decadence, American weird fiction, folkloric marvels, and sharply comic supernatural pieces, ma...

Down the Chimney gathers more than a hundred Christmas narratives into an unusually capacious map of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century holiday literature. Fairy tale, domestic sketch, moral fable, realist vignette, comic anecdote, supernatural tale, and children's fantasy converge around winter's rituals of generosity, memory, hospitality, and renewal. Illustrated and transnational in scope, the volume moves from hearth-centered sentiment to darker meditations on poverty, estrangemen...

SINS AND SECRETS LAID BARE BEFORE JUDGMENT DAYThe furor over the buried treasure is over, the antidote for Release is complete, and everything seems to be looking up. Unfortunately, conflict between the worshippers of the Sun God and the Earth Mother intensifies, unleashing a new wave of violence and chaos. At the same time, Vincent exposes the truth about Matthew’s background. The kept man is once again in the Paladins’ custody, but their investigation homes in on Arwin instead! The heavy...

This file includes: Beasts and Super-Beasts, The Chronicles of Clovis, Reginald, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, The Toys of Peace, The Unbearable Bassington, and When William Came. According to Wiipedia: "Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 - November 13, 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and...

Come along on a very Russian adventure with the greatest classics the world has ever known! This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: T...