THE BESTSELLING QUEEN OF HORROR RETURNSWelcome to Serenity Falls – the most idyllic, and safest, town in the US – a place to grow up, grow your family and grow old together. For Dan and his daughter, Sadie, it’s the perfect relocation option. A fresh start, thousands of miles from their troubled past in the UK.But their idyll is shattered when they find a dead body in the swimming pool of their new house – a house Dan’s late mother kept secret from him all ...

You're trending. They're obsessed.‘Did not disappoint, a top read of the year and will recommend to anyone who will listen’ Reader review ★★★★★‘There was always that tone in the book of someone watching and waiting. And I was watching and waiting with held breath too! A brilliant read’ Reader review ★★★★★**********Maple Clark goes missing.Maple Clark is like many teenage girls. She's awkward around b...

You're trending. They're obsessed.‘Did not disappoint, a top read of the year and will recommend to anyone who will listen’ Reader review ★★★★★‘There was always that tone in the book of someone watching and waiting. And I was watching and waiting with held breath too! A brilliant read’ Reader review ★★★★★**********Maple Clark goes missing.Maple Clark is like many teenage girls. She's awkward around b...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

A unique collection of the finest Golden Age mystiers - puzzling whodunnits that have entertained and delighted readers for centuries.With Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler as guide, delve into an irresistible collection of the finest Golden Age American whodunits, including household names and master storytellers, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart, as well as Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post and Helen Reilly.Featuring a...

The official novelisation of the live-action Masters of the Universe movie, which released on the 5th of June.Please note: this novelisation is an abridged version, it’s suitable for younger Masters of the Universe fans aged 12+. Continue the adventure and watch the movie for more of the epic story!After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam back to Eternia, which has been shattered under the fiendish rule of Skeletor. ...

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words.In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-1 - Christmas. In Stories and in ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland.Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area.Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 1...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural.Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of his own, peopled by creatures out of his own weird imagination.As an adult he w...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Charles Dudley Warner.