Volume 6 in the successful and critically acclaimed series of Lovecraftian horror anthologies by the most prominent acolytes of the horror master.From claustrophobic fear in isolated New England towns to terrifying threats that span the infinite cosmos, the tales herein are fuelled by H. P. Lovecraft's creations. While his horrors originate in a vast cosmos outside of space and time, the terrors they bring strike ordinary humans caught up in conflicts far beyond their control. This volume ...

With advanced practice set to transform health service delivery, Demystifying and Preparing for Advanced Practice is the first comprehensive resource that covers all the requirements of the advanced practice qualification, across all health professions and in all settings.Written by expert authors from across the UK, the book explores the four central pillars under which Advanced Practitioners are required to operate: clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research. I...

This practical resource guides elementary teachers through ways to ground their mathematics instruction in key human virtues, which enables both educators and students to better connect to the subject matter. As students and their teachers approach math with varying experiences, these common virtues help level the learning field. The chapters are organized around different human virtues – such as beauty, truth, creativity, justice, and love – each providing practical pedagogical examples, ...

The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these "Best of" tales are selected, stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft's incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right for a retrospective volume that exhibits the choicest items from the series. The task of selection was not a simple or straightforward one, for every tale in the series had some claim to be chosen; let it then be said that this volume does not contain necessarily...

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), the pioneering writer of weird fiction, has himself become an icon in popular culture. Stories, novels, and other works featuring the gaunt, lantern-jawed gentleman from Providence, Rhode Island, have proliferated. These works have been triggered by the incredible amount of knowledge we have on the writer—his family, his friends, his idiosyncrasies and eccentricities—as found in his thousands of surviving letters.This anthology takes the figure of Lovec...

Weird fiction is an incredibly rich and varied genre, running the gamut from supernatural horror to imaginary-world fantasy to psychological terror. This anthology seeks to exhibit the wide range of themes, motifs, and imagery that weird fiction allows, as embodied in the work of some of the leading contemporary writers in the field.The ghost or revenant is a venerable motif, and stories by John Shirley, Lynda E. Rucker, and Reggie Oliver ring fascinating changes on it. Allied to t...

An Alaskan mission priest gets involved in a tale of revenge and the search for a shipment of gold bars stolen off a historic paddlewheel steamboat, the Nenana. Fr. Hardy and his friends, Evie, Andy and William, board the Nenana on her last voyage down the Tanana and Yukon rivers. There's already been one unsolved murder, death by paddlewheel. Can they get to the bottom of it all before there's another?

Southeast Alaska is a new world of islands, float planes and adventure for Will, Elias and Will's dog, Blackie.They're the new float monkeys—dock boys—at Spruce Cove Air who do all the loading, unloading and grunt work. So they—all three—need to adapt to life on the water and in the air—in a hurry!What's up with their fellow float monkey, redheaded, scrappy Ricky? What is Ricky not telling? And pilot Wild Wyatt? Can they survive him?Beneath the fun of a summer job a...

The holidays are fast approaching, and Kathy Grant is hard at work on the renovations of her soon-to-be bed and breakfast. An unexpected winter storm disrupts her friends’ plans, and it looks like her B&B will have to open a little early. And then there are the cryptic notes that hint of a treasure to be found somewhere in the house. Will Kathy and her friends find the cache of cash?The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what put Lorraine Bartlett’s pen name Lorna Barrett...

Old Enough to be UsedYoung Enough to be BrokenSassinak was twelve when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual physical strength. Maybe it was her friendship with the captured Fleet crewman. Maybe it was her spirit. Whatever it was, it wouldn't let her resign herself to the life of a slav...

"Nothing to Fear" is an episode inspired by The Rule of Three, the opening novel in Eric Walter's trilogy of the same name about the terrifying challenges faced by an ordinary suburban kid, his family, and his neighbors, in the first days and weeks and months after a viral catastrophe causes the world to go dark. Sixteen-year-old Adam Daley is taking his girlfriend, Lori, on a picnic in his homemade ultralight aircraft—one of the few computer-free machines that still works. He wan...

A New York Times–bestselling author's moving novel about an astronaut returning to Earth, and the small steps and giant leaps love requires.Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. Join Baedecker as he comes to grips with the son and wife he lost owing to his passion for space exploration, his forgotten childhood, and the loss he experienced during the deadly flight...