In the swamp-bound village of La Foubelle, a mysterious nocturnal horror is draining the townspeople of life, leaving behind shriveled corpses and a trail of panic. Doctor Hugo Lamontaine, a hard-drinking physician steeped in voodoo, demonology, and folk magic, suspects a force far older and stranger than disease. When schoolmaster Noel Pelletier begs him to save Evelyn l'Brest, the woman he loves, Lamontaine reveals a terrifying truth: an elemental spirit is feeding on human vitality, and...

A medium wielding dark sorcery accidentally unleashes nightly horrors that drain the life-force from the people of an isolated village. Each night brings twisted corpses, gaunt mothers, and the silent dread of a cemetery too full to hold the lost.As terrified villagers vanish into the swamp’s shadow, a disillusioned physician versed in voodoo and demonology teams with a devoted schoolmaster whose beloved girl teeters on death’s edge. Together they erect iron wards, hypnotic ploys, ...

Horror author Harold Ward is perhaps most well-known for his Doctor Death series of stories published in the 1930s. Before that, Ward released a series of horrific and strange stories in the earliest days of Weird Tales magazine. Settle in for a sinister story that delves into the heart of the macabre! -

Ninth in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, this book discusses the pervasive use of service-learning in environmental studies programs and explains why it often is a required part of the environmental studies curriculum. Contributors from a wide range of college and university environmental studies programs discuss the benefits and challenges these programs provide and the consequent natural fit between environmental studies and service-learning.

Apes! Sex fiends! Gangsters! Mad scientists! Tentacles! Yes, this MEGAPACK has them all, no less than 25 lurid tales ripped from the pages of pulp fiction magazines. For The Pulp Fiction Megapack, we selected stories with great pulp titles. (Where else are you going to find stories like "Blood for the Vampire Dead," "Mistress of Snarling Death," or "When Super-Apes Plot"?) Of course, these stories were all written in a different time, with different standards of what was acceptable. They a...

Vancouver's streetscapes and neighbourhoods have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes, and a maturing architectrual melange is emerging. This book invites the reader to explore the city's continually evolving urban landscape in a highly readable, yet authoritative, guide to its architecture.In this completely updated edition of Exploring Vancouver, w...

Tracing the material and intellectual development of one of the nation’s leading law schoolsOver two centuries, UVA Law evolved from a regional, segregated law school into a nationally recognized leader in legal education. As this collection highlights, its changing curriculum—always in conversation with broader historical, cultural, and social forces—proved crucial to this profound transformation. Initially shaped by white Southern perspectives on race, gender, an...

The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras--past, present, and future! Included are:MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA'S, by Jay LakeTHE CASE OF THE PECULIAR SAFECRACKER, by G. D. FalksenTHE ACQUISITION OF MANDRAKES AND ASSISTANTS, by Jillian VentersTHE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS, by H. P. LovecraftTHE BRASS GOGGLE FACTORY WORKER, by John LeavittTHE PATH OF PROGRESS, by Brian StablefordTHE TAILED MEN, by Ar...

The Weird Fiction Megapack collects both modern and classic stories from the classic pulp magazine, Weird Tales, with selections ranging throughout the 20th Century, but focusing mainly on the classic era of the 1930s. Included are works by many famous authors, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, E. Hoffmann Price, Tennessee Williams, and many more -- with an emphasis on great but less-well-known stories that readers may not have encountered be...

The H. Bedford-Jones Pulp Fiction Megapack collects 20 classic stories and novels from the "King of the Pulps"! Bedford-Jones, among the most prolific and popular of pulp magazine writers, penned thousands of short stories and more than 100 novels in the early to mid 20th century. His work is full of adventure, mystery, suspense, romance, and action -- always a gripping story, well told.THE HOUSE OF SKULLSWRITTEN IN REDYELLOW INTRIGUEDOWN THE COAST OF BARBARY

Occult detectives—sometimes called psychic investigators—have been in vogue since the middle of the 19th century. This collection goes back to the roots of the occult detective story. The earliest story in this collection—Fitz-James O'Brien's "The Pot of Tulips"—originally appeared in 1855. Rare stories by Mary Fortune and Bayard Taylor, famous tales from the end of the 19th century by E. and H. Heron, plus 20th Century stories by Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, Seab...

The Anna Katharine Green Mystery Megapack selects 35 novels and stories by the classic author, including the complete Amelia Butterworth series and the complete Violet Strange series. If you are not yet familiar with Green's work, you will soon be a fan -- she was a major influence on the development of the modern mystery story and a strong influence on Agatha Christie. (Miss Marple was modelled after Amelia Butterworth.)THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOORLOST MAN’S LANETHE CIRCULA...