I can almost pretend it’s an adventure with a new friend—a Contiki tour to a mystical island filled with mythical creatures.When Morgan's helpfulness sees her kidnapped and thrown in the back of a van, the last thing she expects is to end up marooned on a sentient and not-so-mythical island. Even less so, when she finds herself face to face with a tantalizing sea monster who claims they are fated mates.Morgan is faced with figuring out how she’s going to ge...

Between Scylla and Charybdis’ is a work of fiction that explores politics, memory, love, and loss against the backdrop of social and historical upheaval in India. Through the intertwined lives of its characters, the novel examines the emotional and moral struggles of individuals caught between ideology and survival, family and rebellion, hope and despair. Moving between personal relationships and political conflict, it presents a layered portrait of human resilience in times of uncertainty...

Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey, Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places defined in public imagination and media by their associated histories become sites of memory and identity, as their landscape and mythologies turn into insignia of a romanticised antiquity.For the ancient Greeks, Homer had set the marine monsters of the Odyssey in the Strait be...

In Greek mythology, Scylla was a multi-headed monster who lived above the Strait of Messina. Travelers passing through the narrow channel faced an impossible choice: steer close to Scylla's rock and die to her snapping jaws, or veer toward the whirlpool Charybdis and risk being swallowed whole. There was no safe passage. There was only the choice between two ways to die.A year after surviving Charybdis, Diane Wallace and Charlie Bradon are still in the strait.Branded as rog...

What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut 'figure' and proposes instead to define the name 'Scylla' as a combination of three concepts – sea, dog and woman – whose articulation changes over time. While archaic and classical Greek versions usually emphasize the metaphorical coherence of Scylla's components, the name is increasingly treated as a well-defined but also parad...

She’s back and this time she brought a friend…The story continues: the sequel to The Mistress of the Rock, is The Revenge.Still smarting from Richard Cole’s rejection, Aphrodite plans a series of events that will bring about his return to the island. Only this time, his welcome will not be so warm, as he will have to battle bureaucracy and the islanders’ contempt for the devastating aftermath of his chance discovery and his sudden departure. In addition, he confron...

Anaea Carlisle, raised on an isolated space station populated solely by women, believes the rest of the universe has been plunged into anarchy and ruin by an alien-engineered disease known as Y-Poisoning. On a salvage mission, she helps rescue a hypermental named Gwydion who challenges everything she thought she knew. Forced to flee the station with Gwydion, Anaea finds herself in an inexplicable, often hostile world, permanently divided between the Galactic Collective and the Pinnacle Emp...

As the full moon shines on a sacred Himalayan cliff, Kym Blaze falls into a raging white water river and escapes from a hooded killer who plunged after her.Eighteen years later, a global Secret Service assigns Kym, now an attractive botanist and Special Ops agent, to identify the same hooded killer, known as the Unicorn, whose name has reappeared in the Hong Kong underworld.To find the Unicorn, she must track a star trader called Obermeyer, recently freed from jail by Unico...

Sandwiched by is a sexy series of monster girl erotic horror shorts from the master of dark erotica, M. E. Hydra. The fourth in the series, “Sandwiched by Scyllas”, sees a man tangled in the lascivious tentacles of two tempting octopus girls.Neville Salmon, an overweight man with a troubled past, is at Europe’s largest adult entertainment expo when he wanders into a backstage area and comes across two sexy women relaxing in a big bubbly hot tub. To his surprise, they ask h...

When Pavel takes Eldoris up on her offer to get better acquainted, Reina coaxes her way into coming along. Before he knows it, the buxom scylla and the mischievous catgirl drag him out on a date. Their outing ends in Eldoris's bed, where she gives the other two a steamy lesson on what her slick tentacles can do.

The classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds was first serialized by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK between April and December of 1897. It was edited together into a book length novel the next year. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories about an invasion of the Earth by extraterrestrials.The War of the Worlds has inspired a number of movies and television series. The most famous recreation of the story ...

The Food of the Gods – In a venture to solve the problem of world hunger, two Scientists work to develop very large chickens. They discover the ultimate growth food and turn all of the creatures around into giants. Inadvertently they create a new evolution of humans that become giants. What begins with the most altruistic of motives rapidly becomes a world in chaos.This book begins as a farce and a satire with scathing views of naive scientists, craven politicians ...