On Alder Street, nothing unusual ever happened.Until the mail stopped.No letters.No bills.No packages.Every house went silent.Except one.At the very end of the street, Elena Ward is still receiving mail every day—like nothing has changed. At first, it feels like a mistake. Then the letters begin to feel… wrong...

Lancashire Folk-lore gathers the beliefs, legends, customs, charms, proverbial sayings, and seasonal observances of a county rich in vernacular memory. Moving between anecdote, antiquarian record, oral tale, ritual description, and local history, the volume captures a world of boggarts, witches, omens, healing practices, household rites, and calendar festivities. Situated within the nineteenth-century impulse to preserve regional traditions before industrial modernity effaced them, it pres...

Lancashire Folk-lore is an enthralling anthology that delves into the rich tapestry of traditions, superstitions, and lore across Lancashire, capturing the region's enchanting cultural heritage. Its pages bring to life a plethora of stories and customs, from the whimsical to the eerie, offering readers a dynamic glimpse into the beliefs and practices that have shaped local identity over centuries. The anthology presents an impressive range of literary styles, juxtaposing spellbinding tales...

A new house. An old phone book. A number that should not exist.When Daniel Mercer — a former newspaper editor adrift after his career collapses — moves with his wife Claire into a century-old house on Briar Hill Road, he expects a fresh start. What he finds instead is a small, undated phone book tucked in a closet. And inside it, a name that belongs to the man who lived there before him.Henry Vale.Vale was a mystery in the quiet town of Harlow. A lo...

Lena Morris is tired of being invisible. She is offered a chance that seems impossible: success in exchange for something she can live without.No contracts.No money.No catch she can see.All she has to do is choose what to surrender.At a mysterious company known as Pareto Dynamics, ambition is treated like currency, and everything comes with a price. Some people trade memories. Others sacrifice emotions, talents, or pieces of themselves they barely no...

Embodying the rich tapestry of regional cultural traditions, *Lancashire Folk-lore* offers readers a comprehensive look into the vibrant folkloric history of Lancashire. This anthology, curated with precision by Thomas Turner Wilkinson and John Harland, traverses a range of literary styles, encompassing both prose and lyrical representations of local myths, legends, and customs. The collection captures the pulse of Lancashire's cultural heartbeat, celebrating the significance of its folklo...

Some places remember everything... even what was meant to be forgotten.In the summer of 1978, twelve-year-old Sara Livingston vanished deep within the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Sara was last seen chasing monarch butterflies through a stretch of forest she called The Butterfly Woods.A place of quiet beauty.A place where innocence disappeared.Sara never came home.Her case went cold.Decades later... it's...

A new house. An old phone book. A number that should not exist.When Daniel Mercer, a former newspaper editor adrift after his career collapses, moves with his wife Claire into a century-old house on Briar Hill Road, he expects a fresh start. What he finds instead is a small, undated phone book tucked in a closet. And inside it, a name that belongs to the man who lived there before him.Henry Vale.The book has no date.Most of the numbers are d...

After the Ice Age, the world as we know now looked quite different. While glaciers began to melt all over the planet, water levels started to rise 300 feet, swallowing any evidence of cultures living near the ancient coastlines. However, in the last five decades, archeologists have found new civilizations older than the Egyptians and Sumerians, dating back twelve-thousand years. As history has to be rewritten, we have to ponder who were the heroes and antagonists of a forgotten time of the...

The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed.The heist led to a wave of international money l...

This book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment. It includes country studies of the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Ireland, where there has been increasing concern about the prevalence of such work, and working time uncertainty, as well as varying levels of public policy debate on regulation. The book incorporates a comparative review of zero hours work based on the findings of the country studies. This pays particula...

Get the lowdown on America’s Bloodiest War—the Civil War—with this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history.Do you know which state first seceded from the Union? What about the individual who could be considered the Mata Hari of the Civil War? Or how about which Bible passage Southerners used to justify slavery? You’ll find answers to these questions and many, many more in 101 Things You Didn’t Know about t...