The Power of Darkness: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries is an expansive anthology that showcases a rich tapestry of tales from the realm of the eerie and the uncanny. This vast collection captures the essence of gothic, horrific, and supernatural storytelling, weaving a diverse range of literary styles from the pens of some of the most renowned authors in the genre. The spectrum of narratives includes psychological thrillers, ghostly hauntings, and sinister myst...

♥ Named one of POPSUGAR's 12 Best Romance Books ♥★ Featured on the Today Show ★Welcome to 1314 Rattlesnake Road—the perfect hideaway to escape your past.After leaving her posh NYC life behind, fashion editor Grey Dalton escapes to the small, southern town of Berry Springs to pick up the broken pieces of her life. On impulse, she purchases a rumored-to-be-haunted house where she finds herself thrown into a decade-old murder mystery, and onto...

London, December 1916. In the middle of the world's most deadly war, a political coup grips Westminster. The carnage of the Somme, the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, and the Easter Rising in Dublin have all left Britain's coalition government in disarray. The press is in open revolt and the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, is under sustained attack from political opponents and key members of his own party. Against this backdrop of mounting chaos, four politicians meet to consider the...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our February 2024 issue (#209) contains:* Original fiction by H.H. Pak ("Scalp"), Rajeev Prasad ("The Flowers That We Intend To Share"), Zohar Jacobs ("The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin"), David Goodman ("Kardashev''s Palimpsest"), Yang Wanqing ("The Peregrine Falcon Flies West"), Isabel J. Kim ("Why ...

This book is a translation of the first part of Jigme Lingpa’s Treasury of Precious Qualities, which in a slender volume of elegant verses sets out briefly but comprehensively the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school. The concision of the root text and its use of elaborate poetic language, rich in metaphor, require extensive explanation, amply supplied here by the commentary of Kangyur Rinpoche.The present volume lays out the teachings of the sutras in gradual stages accor...

This book will teach you to play the erhu at the beginner's level and no prior knowledge is needed. The erhu structure, the ways to choose and set up an erhu, the numbered music notation and six major key signatures of the erhu will be introduced, whereas a number of sheet music will also be provided for practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the erhu and can play some simple songs by yourself.

**Kifaru – A Final Stop in Africa**What does it take to leave everything behind—and start a new life in the heart of Africa?After an extraordinary 5,000-kilometer journey on horseback across the African continent—an adventure the media would later call *“The Ride of the Century”*—Esther and Horst make a life-changing decision. They turn their backs on Europe and take over a remote safari lodge on the slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.Here, far from the pre...

First published in 1964, Asquith was one of the most crucial and controversial of modern Prime Ministers. He was opposed with a bitterness and a violence that English politicians have not subsequently known, yet he enjoyed eight and a half years of unbroken power, and for at least the first six years of these he presided with an easy authority over the most talented government of this century. The issues which he confronted were momentous – Peers v. People, Ireland, and the Great ...

 Decades before the term "serial killer" was coined, H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago "Murder Castle."In his autobiography, Holmes struggled to define himself in the language of the late nineteenth century. As the "first"--or, as he labeled himself, "The Greatest Criminal of the Age"--he had no one to compare himself to, and no ready-made biographical structure to follow. Holmes was thus nearly able to invent himself from scratch.This book ...

Esther and Horst, riding on horseback across one of the most challenging and unpredictable continents on earth, they are pushed to their physical and emotional limits. Day after day, they confront heat, thirst, danger, and the unknown—relying on instinct, resilience, and the bond with their horses.But this journey is more than an adventure.It becomes a deeply personal exploration of the roots of humanity and the limits of their own self. Far from civilization, stripped of c...

A new book by author Meath Conlan, PhD takes select teachings of a modern-day Buddhist Master and reveals how common ground of inter-spiritual wisdom can be found between his aphorisms, or sayings, and teachings of the Desert Elders from the early Christian centuries (250 AD to Late Roman Antiquity). Khejok Tulku Rinpoche is one of the diminishing numbers of “old teachers” in the Tibetan Tradition. Born in the 1930s, he is regarded as an incarnation of a renowned lama from the 5th Dalai La...

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.