Bennie Barrier returns in another Big City Adventure. When Highway Harry has to go to a dental appointment, he leaves Sally Sign in charge of The City Centre Maintenance Team alongside Bennie Barrier but when an urgent call pulls Bennie and his team onto the motorway for emergency roadworks, even Sally's careful planning is put to the test.

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He wore diamonds to the theatre, forgot his lines on stage, and was booed off by audiences who came purely to laugh at him -- and yet Robert Coates became one of the most talked-about figures in Regency England. This is the extraordinary true story of a man so gloriously, catastrophically devoted to the idea of himself as a great performer that he turned his own failure into a kind of fame. Known across London as Romeo Coates and Diamond Coates, this self-styled Amateur of Fashion crashed ...

Here are over 40 scary, hair-raising, and frightening stories of the supernatural and the paranormal. These are first-person narratives that are unexplained and possibly inexplicable. All of them have been reported to John Robert Colombo, Canada's Master Gatherer of the Arcane, by men and women from various parts of the country, and they're published here in the words of the informants themselves, the witnesses to these wonders.Here, you will have the opportunity to read about:...

As Armancras thrives at the height of its steam-age, its citizens go about their daily lives with little memory of the city's bloody past. They would rather marvel at Kempis Pennington's robot, or travel in the fancy new auto-carriages. A bureaucracy bent on establishing a new secular republic calls the shots, but there is still a deep refusal to let go of the old devoutist ways. While complacency builds, a strange visitor with telepathic abilities is putting his plans into motion....

A short steampunk-inspired tale of horror.In an unnamed gaslit city, awash with corruption and vice, the citizens submit to banality and acceptance of their lacklustre lives. A seemingly innocuous event marks the beginning of a long period of terror. A series of bloody incidents which follow, create a perfect climate in which fear can thrive.Journalist Alfred Hertzfeld, a man dedicated to the truth, is determined to uncover the real reason behind the bizarre hallucinations ...

Watch out! Here comes another mammoth book to thrill you and chill you and to frighten you to within an inch of your life! It comes bumping out of the night ... from John Robert Colombo, the master of the macabre! This new compendium delivers excitement and delight to everyone who finds the unknown and the inexplicable fascinating, baffling, and frightening.The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings offers readers true, first-person accounts of the appearances (and the disappearan...

Few people have read as widely in the field of Canadiana as has John Robert Colombo. The curiosity of this Toronto writer, editor, and anthologist knows few if any bounds when it comes to the lore, literature, history, culture, and character of Canada. He has an inquiring mind and he seems able to find national and even international twists to subjects of interest or importance.Fascinating Canada, his latest book, is the product of over half a century of research, reading,...

TESSERACTS FOURTEEN: Strange Canadian Stories, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, features innovative short stories and poetry by 23 of Canada’s finest speculative fiction writers.This anthology joins a 20+ year Canadian literary legacy that features the writing and editing of more than 200 of Canada’s best known authors, including Margaret Atwood, Robert J. Sawyer, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Spider Robinson and William Gibson.TESSERACTS FOURTEEN: Strange C...

Here are Canada's haunted houses, ghosts and poltergeists, weird visions of the past and improbable visions of the future, and assurances that there is life after death. included are more than 175 accounts of such events and experiences told mainly by the witnessses themselves -- Canadians from all walks of life and all parts of the country.Some of the stories are classics. Others are little known. About one-third of the accounts have never before appeared in print. This fascinatin...

Just when you thought it was safe to peek out from under the covers, along comes Ghost Stories of Canada to remind you that there are plenty of ghouls to watch out for in the True North.Ghost Stories of Canada is a collection of one hundred of the eeriest accounts of ghosts, poltergeists, and hauntings ever told in Canada. Included are descriptions of some the most spine-tingling mysteries of the past - the Mackenzie River Ghost, the Baldoon Mystery, the Wynyard A...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Computer Science - Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen in Iserlohn, course: English Publications and Presentations, language: English, abstract: Nowadays data processing is usually done on computers. On these computers it is necessary to have an operating system (OS) installed which manages the relationship between application software and hardware managing tasks. This kind of system has worked ...