Something Wicked: 560+ Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries is an unparalleled anthology that plunges readers into the depths of fear and fascination through an array of foreboding narratives and supernatural encounters. This collection fuses diverse literary styles'Äîranging from gothic horror to chilling mysteries'Äîcrafted by some of the greatest literary minds across centuries. The anthology offers an expansive exploration of horror's evolution, vividly representing ...

Something Wicked assembles more than 560 horror classics, macabre tales, and supernatural mysteries into an expansive genealogy of dread. Moving from Gothic castles, revenants, doubles, and cursed objects to psychological terror, occult investigation, science-fictional menace, and mordant satire, the volume demonstrates horror's remarkable formal elasticity. Canonical narratives stand alongside rediscovered popular fiction, short sensational pieces, ghost stories, and uncanny experiments, ...

SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries invites readers into a universe teeming with the uncanny and hair-raising. This meticulously curated anthology showcases a staggering variety of styles, from the Gothic romanticism to the psychological thriller, offering a comprehensive exploration of supernatural fiction. Across more than 560 stories, its range encompasses chilling ghost tales and enigmatic mysteries, each evoking a sense of unexplained dread. No...

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For 18 years, I've handed out roses made from napkins to strangers.Not because life was perfect—but because it wasn't.This story didn't begin in a garden.It began in a jail cell.What started as a simple act in a broken place became something I never expected—a way to bring kindness into moments where people needed it most.Restaurants. Waiting rooms. Meetings. Airports.Thousands of roses.Thousands of moments.This is the...

Perhaps because of being a math teacher with an avid interest in cosmology, the author has acquired an expectancy of alternatives such as "if not real, then imaginary" all the way to "if not matter, then antimatter." This has led to the "what if factor" demonstrated in his novel. "What if" (to the first power) a man can hear sounds emanating from paintings in a museum? To what end, you might ask: perhaps a hobby of cataloging masterpieces based on tones from one to four? But "what if" (squ...

Battlefield Forensics for Persian Gulf States provides an illustrative reference of various weapons, toolmarks, headstamps, and other traits in order to identify the origins of a variety of guns, casings, and ammunition that can be found in the Middle East. Various conflicts in the region have led to innumerable weapons being used throughout the years. The lead author, Don Mikko, has investigated and examined firearms related items of evidence in countless crime scenes throughout the world...

From the gifted author of A Little Piece of Sky: The poignant tale of a young woman who must come to terms with her biracial identity.Shana Washington is the product of two very different worlds. Her white mother is a socialite with an Ivy League education; Shana’s black father has a weakness for whiskey and can’t stay faithful to any woman, but when his daughter is in peril, he always finds a way to rescue her. Hauntingly evoking the worlds represented by these three chara...

A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of The House on Mango Street with uniquely creative storytelling, painting a story of survival and healing.Unfolding in a series of vignettes, A Little Piece of Sky introduces an endearing new novelist and a truly unforgettable main character--Song Byrd, a young girl who keenly reports on the world around her. She is African American in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood and the unwanted produc...

Shy and awkward, ruthlessly ridiculed by other children and carelessly treated by adults, Claudia Fryar flees her hometown of Philadelphia after her father’s death. But years of shame and silent suffering as the love child of the respected—and married—Louis Harrison finally come to a raging boil when Harrison’s jealous widow cheats Claudia out of her inheritance.Twice-scorned, Claudia transforms herself into Peach Harrison: bold, beautiful…and sinister. Now a successful newscaster,...

Quetzalcoatl "Quetz" Juarez (simply referred to as Quetz in the story) is a 17 year old teen living in modern day Mexico City. He is of American/Mexican/Nahua descent and is looking for his own past through his endless search of the Aztec Mixed Martial Art known as Yaomachtia. Quetz grows as a person throughout the story, as he makes mistakes, corrects them and then learns from each experience.  Set in modern day Mexico City, Quetz embarks on his journey and searches for his ...

In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and sy...