A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters. Included works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) — The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) — The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) — The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) — The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) — Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M...

Une collection captivante de recits d'aventure signes par cinq maitres du genre : Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Pyle, Rudyard Kipling et Jack London. Voyages en mer, iles mysterieuses, jungles indomptees et grands espaces sauvages composent cet ensemble intemporel, ideal pour les amateurs d'aventures classiques.

Robert Louis Stevenson emerges here as a writer of uncommon warmth, vitality, and moral force, moving with ease from lyrical celebration to searching reflection. These essays and poems explore memory, beauty, fame, nature, and the hidden life of the mind, while tracing a larger philosophy of joy grounded in simplicity, observation, and courage. Stevenson contrasts the cramped habits of city routine with the liberating pleasures of open air, walking, travel, and the disciplined imagination ...

What de nes Scottish Gothic, speci cally, what separates it from traditional Gothic ction yet keeps it in that mould?The landscape, the history and the people play a part, but there is also a 'certain something', often elusive. Scottish authors are close to the source, familiar with cultural and linguistic peculiarities, and write with authenticity, but sometimes it is non-Scottish authors, looking in, who capture an essence so familiar to native Scots that is often overlooked....

A Rejected Mate Paranormal Romance of Betrayal, Power, and a Destiny She Never WantedAlondra Bauer has always known what it feels like to be unwanted. Branded an outcast and rejected by the very clans that should have protected her, she survives by relying on herself and trusting no one. But when an ancient bloodline awakens within her, Alondra discovers that her family was never weak—they were erased.As hidden enemies threaten the lycan world, Alondra is forced to uncover ...

She was never meant to belong to him.But fate chose the one woman who could bring a powerful Lycan king to his knees.Brylee Ray has spent her life surviving in the shadows, trusting no one and refusing to become a pawn in the dangerous games of supernatural rulers. But when an ancient conflict between Lycan kingdoms, witches, and wizards erupts, she finds herself captured and taken to the fortress of the most feared ruler in the paranormal world.Arlo Stevenson is th...

Rosalyn Trujillo has always known her place in the Trejo Pack: at the bottom. As an omega with a gentle nature and no obvious signs of dominance, she is treated as fragile, overlooked, and unworthy of standing beside a powerful alpha.Then the impossible happens.Her fated mate is Clyde Trejo, the feared Alpha of the pack. The bond between them should change everything, but instead of claiming her, Clyde rejects Rosalyn in front of the entire pack because he believes she is t...

My Alpha Mate Poisoned MeShe was supposed to become his greatest alliance.Instead, she became the target of his greatest betrayal.Seraphina Vale has spent her entire life being valued for one thing: her rare healer bloodline. To the powerful wolf packs that seek her family’s ancient knowledge, she is not a woman with dreams and desires. She is a key to power.When she is forced into a bond with Kael Draven, the ruthless Alpha of Blackthorn, Se...

A year ago, one death shattered many lives…Dr Jenna O'Hara has lost her private practice and is struggling to rebuild her career. But with a wedding and a move to Scotland on the horizon, she's determined to leave the past behind – and nothing is going to stop her fresh start.Until the first note arrives.Someone knows the truth about what happened last year… and they want Jenna to pay the price.Refusing to be cornered, she continues to manip...

A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature. This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this collection traces the evolution of a literary tradition that shaped the modern world. Organized chron...

Someone is watching. Someone is waiting. Someone wants to destroy you.Nothing matters more to Lorelai than creating the perfect Christmas. The house must look beautiful, the food must be spectacular and everything must be magical for her family.But this year, things won't go to plan.At first, Lorelai convinces herself she's imagining things. She's exhausted and determined not to let anything ruin the festive season. But when a chilling threat is del...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...