2025 Silver Book Award Winner in the category of Humor/Satire awarded by Bestsellersworld.com2025 Bronze Book Award Winner in the category of Biography/Memoir awarded by Bestsellersworld.comNominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life WritingPart literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author...

Frankenstein is written in the form of a frame story that starts with Captain Robert Walton writing letters to his sister. It takes place at an unspecified time in the 18th century, as the letters' dates are given as "17—". In the story following the letters by Walton, listeners will find that Victor Frankenstein creates a monster that brings tragedy to his life.Download your copy now!

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the vernacular phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" referring to persons with an unpredictably dual nature: outwardly good, but some...

This Halloween Horror Collection includes some of the most notable Halloween classics:Frankenstein, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Canterville Ghost.This audiobook is a great listen for all ages, kids, and adults!Download your copy now!

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

In *Masterworks of Masculine Rebellion and Insight – 5 Classic Psychological Fictions*, the reader is invited to explore a rich tapestry of narratives that delve deeply into the psyche of male protagonists navigating societal conventions and personal introspection. The collection brings together a compelling range of literary styles—from the stark realism and psychological depth reflective of Victorian literature to the more experimental and symbolic motifs prevalent at the turn of the 20t...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works...

In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies with which they interacted. Core/periphery exploitation needs to be demonstrated, not simply ass...

A powerful collection of twenty-one SF&F short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Seattle Worldcon 2025!In partnership with Seattle Worldcon, Grim Oak Press is proud to present the third Grimoire for readers who enjoy SF&F stories of the magical and the future. Escape the country through Las Vegas beside Laura Anne Gilman. Regain the time you never know you could with Megan Lindholm. Fight back against a book thief...

100 Mystery Classics of World Literature maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic menace and sensation fiction to detective puzzles, espionage, psychological suspense, adventure, and tales of the uncanny. Its hundred selections place celebrated investigations beside narratives of crime, disguise, inheritance, urban danger, and moral ambiguity. The volume's range reveals mystery not as a narrow formula but as a capacious literary mode, encompassing the locked-room prob...

What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner’s Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean Faulkner, the only niece of William Faulkner, and slowly found himself lost in the Faulkner mystique. While attempting to rebel against the overwhelming influence of his in-laws, Wells had a fro...

In 1570 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 20, Lord Great Chamberlain, a headstrong young nobleman with literary ambitions, enters into a romance with Queen Elizabeth I. As the queen's chief of courtly entertainment de Vere organizes a stable of writers producing plays and masques. His peers nickname Vere "the Spear-shaker."Fearing court gossip about the royal affair, Elizabeth orders Oxford to marry Lord High Treasurer William Cecil's 14-year-old daughter, Anne.After his...