There are times on the World stage when you will see bursts of national pride. And there are times when that sense of 'being' is an underlying thread-a part of a national psyche that is unconsciously acknowledged by most if you will-that gives Canadian fiction (in this case, the Crime subgenre) a distinctive flavour and feel to it.So when we put out a call for Canadian short form crime fiction: 'As Canadian as peameal bacon, Buckwud Maple syrup, Roberta Bondar, Timmies, poutine, an...

A striking deluxe edition profiling the visionaries, writers, and thinkers whose ideas shaped the United States. Elegantly bound and thoughtfully curated, this volume offers readers a compelling journey through the intellectual and cultural foundations of the nation.Made in America: Thinkers Who Defined a Country explores the lives and ideas of the key figures who helped shape the political, social, and cultural landscape of the United States. This collection highlights influential...

The house is quiet. Other worlds await. It's Saturday morning and you're alone with the TV.You turn it on, inviting all kinds of weirdness into your home. You feel safe.It's all behind the screen, miles away. Nothing can hurt you.Can it?This is SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION, where terror comes at you in airwaves. Featuring new fiction & poetry from:Die Booth, Monica Carroll, Adrienne Clark, Tom Coombe, Mia Dalia, Jude Deluca, Buzz Dix...

Discover the dark, whimsical wonder of ancient Korea in this spellbinding collection of magical tales, gorgeously jacketed with bespoke cover illustrations from award-winning artist Bekologic.Leave behind drab, dark nights to trek across moonlit snowfields, shiver in horror at wild-cat women, explore the enchanted halls of fairy palaces, and follow the strange cries that beckon from beneath the Mysterious Hoi Tree.Uncanny and entrancing, shadowy and sorcero...

The 15 stories contained in this eBook have been selected from the books that make up the series “Fairy Tales, Folklore, Myths and Legends from Around the World”Fifteen stories have been selected from the books in the series. So you will find stories from ancient Celtic England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. As well as Roma and Gypsy stories which have travelled across Europe from the Black Sea region. There are also stories from the Zulus and Bushmen of South Africa, to th...

Greatest Love Stories brings together timeless tales that explore love in its many forms—romantic, tender, tragic, passionate and quietly transformative. These stories move beyond simple romance to capture the emotional complexity of love: its hope, its ache, its misunderstandings, its sacrifices and its lasting power.The collection offers readers a rich literary journey through desire, longing, devotion and heartbreak. Some stories celebrate the sweetness of affection, while others...

A gathering of the ghost story at its height: Le Fanu, Bulwer-Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Mrs Oliphant, Dickens's signalman on the line below the tunnel mouth. The Victorians produced these by the hundred for Christmas numbers, and the best of them survive because the machinery is domestic — a bell, a stairs, a letter, a man doing his job.

True animal stories gathered for young readers: a grizzly cub raised by hand, a fight with a catamount, a lynx in Canada, a droll fox-trap in the Maine woods, beavers at home and the ships of the desert. From The Young Reader's Treasury, with a reading guide by William Allan Neilson of Harvard. Complete and unabridged.

A trail of pawprints vanishes under falling snow. A pair of eyes glints in the darkness outside. Something brushes past your leg ... but your beloved pet is nowhere to be seen.Curl up by the fireside and settle in for another set of festive cat-themed detective stories, from the greatest writers of the genre. A perfect stocking-filler that will mystify and delight long after the last turkey drumstick has mysteriously disappeared, The Case of the Christmas Kitten is essenti...

Brace yourself for the 25th issue of the acclaimed horror anthology series Hello Darkness!Fans of the divine nunsploitation series Marian Heretic from writer Tini Howard are in for a treat as Marian herself makes her first return to the pages of Hello Darkness since the breakout series’ debut! This Marian Heretic four-parter revisits our favorite heathen as she doles out judgment to a whole new host of supernatural opponents.

Nothing like a visit from Santa himself to get you into the Christmas spirit! The world's most famous gift bearer invites Archie back to his work shop to see what goes on behind the scenes of his busiest time of year, but is it real? See for yourself in 'The Visit!'

This theosophical magazine declares itself a "light-bringer," using the scandal of its title to challenge ignorance, superstition, and prejudice. Edited by H. P. Blavatsky and Mabel Collins, it ranges far beyond occultism alone, engaging religion, philosophy, psychology, science, and social criticism in a bold forum for free thought. Its pages defend Lucifer as a symbol of illumination, not evil, and argue that truth, science, and religion need not be enemies. Through witty polemic, imagin...