"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon, The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects they collect from the various graves they have robbed, they organize the private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls, and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also included statues, frightful paintings, and a locked portfolio bound in tanned human-skin.

Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which has once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem gaol in 1692. Gilman discovers that for the better part of two centuries many if not most of its occupants have died prematurely.

Trapped in the most beautiful place on Earth, what's a fearless birder to do?? ? *? ? ?? Equipped with her Sibley Guide, explorer hat and trusty binoculars, Amanda Byrd tirelessly pursues the most elusive winged species.? Following on her late husband’s footsteps, she explores a beautiful canyon at dawn, hoping to glimpse some desert wrens. After observing a majestuous California condor, Amanda discovers their lift sabotaged, trapping their group at the canyon's bottom. Who did it, and why? Our intrepid birdwatcher must find a way out before the rising sun turns the canyon into a mortal cauldron. * A short and spirited mystery introducing the energetic Lady Byrd, written by Michèle Laframboise, multi-award winner author and amateur ornithologist.

La novela forma un díptico con Do?a Milagros y se centra en las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres en el el matrimonio. A través de los personajes femeninos es posible ver las ideas de Pardo Bazán sobre la situación de la mujer en su época. Se concentra en particular en las jóvenes de clase media.

Jon Gunnarson never meant to transform humanity. He just wanted a normal life. A life where he doesn’t absorb other people’s emotions, lose himself and have to live like a hermit. ? So he jumps at the chance to help develop a scam telepathy app because it will get him to Bhutan, where he hopes an old friend will teach him how to disconnect. ? Sure, he has to work with Ella, a neuroscientist he’s falling in love with, and Venn, a fraudulent Marketer who’s wanted by the FBI. But Jon’s had a lifetime of practice at pulling away and he figures he can handle it while he learns how to manage his condition. ? The problem is, working with others is the least of his worries. Because Jon and Ella unwittingly trigger the onset of mass telepathy. And, as if that isn't enough, they must run for their lives when they discover a way that Venn can avoid arrest. ? But how will they escape someone who can read their minds? ? Tuning In is a well plotted story that’s both mind-bendingly strange and intimately human—a continuously surprising science-fiction/ psychological thriller about our relationship with our thoughts, with each other and even reality itself.

Roman policier (Rouge vif, Lune Bleue, Mise au vert) Rouge vif – Nouvelle Lorsque Katerina Carter, juricomptable menant des enquêtes pour fraude,et Jace Burton, son petit ami journaliste, acceptent une invitation de dernière minute à une fête,le crime est bien la dernière chose qu’ils ont en tête.Mais un investissement réussi dans le vin laisse un go?t amer dans la bouche de Katet elle dévoile une fraude vinicole s’élevant à plus d’un million de dollars,le tout avant le d?ner?! Lune bleue – Roman court La perspective d’un d?ner chic tombe à l’eau pour Kat et son petit ami Jacelorsqu’elle découvre que Fiona, sa voisine ?gée,a installé un ex-détenu chez elle comme pensionnaire.Le programme de jardinage organisé bénévolement par Fiona à la prison locale a changé des vies,mais étendre davantage sa générosité pourrait mettre sa propre vie en danger. Les soup?ons de Kat sont renforcésquand elle apprend l’existence d’une assurance-vie souscrite récemment.Une mort accidentelle rapporte le double.? Mise au vert – Roman Katerina Carter, juricomptable, et son petit ami Jace Burtonpartent passer un week-end dans un chalet de montagne luxueux juste avant No?l.Pendant qu’il écrit la biographie d’un écologiste milliardaire, elle explore la nature enneigée. Quand deux manifestants locaux meurent dans des circonstances mystérieuses,Kat et Jace entament une course contre la montre pour échapper à une catastrophequi pourrait s’avérer encore plus mortelle. Katerina Carter Color of Money Mystery Series Bundle Books 1:3 :?édition fran?aise ? propos de l’auteur Colleen Cross est l’auteur de la série de thrillers best-sellers Fraudes?: Thrillers judiciaires de Katerina Carter et de la série d’enquêtes associées?La Couleur de l’argent?: Enquêtes criminelles de Katerina Carter. On retrouve la même héro?ne dans ses deux séries populaires d’enquêtes et de thrillers. Katerina Carter est une juricomptable pleine de ressources menant des enquêtes pour fraude sur le terrain avec brio. Elle prend toujours les bonnes décisions, bien que ses méthodes peu orthodoxes?vous feront frémir et vous tiendront en haleine. Comptable professionnelle agréée et experte dans la répression des fraudes, Colleen Cross écrit également sur de vrais crimes. Son livre Anatomie d’un Ponzi?: Arnaques passées et présentes expose les plus grands escrocs ayant utilisé le système de Ponzi et explique comment ils ont échappé à la justice. Elle nous dévoile aussi le moment et le lieu exact où le plus grand système de Ponzi de tous les temps sera démasqué ainsi que les signes annonciateurs. Vous pouvez également la retrouver sur les médias sociaux?:Facebook?: www.facebook.com/colleenxcrossTwitter?: @colleenxcrossou sur Goodreads Pour les dernières nouveautés de Colleen, rendez-vous sur son site Web?: http://www.colleencross.com Inscrivez-vous à son bulletin d’information pour être immédiatement informé de nouvelles parutions !

Su modelo de “mujer del futuro” viene encarnada en el personaje de Feíta, hija de don Benicio Neira, un hidalgo venido a menos, situado en la clase media, cuya hija alberga unos inmensos deseos de instrucción, de autonomía personal, de trabajo para independizarse… que la alejan de las “se?oritas” de su clase y del resto de sus hermanas.

HE’S A WILD ROGUE WITH A GUARDED HEART.Notorious rogue, Lawrence Russell has no desire to marry—or heaven forbid, fall in love. Although he enjoys his fair share of pleasure, Lawrence prefers to protect his heart. Yet, when he comes to the rescue of a brave and passionate Persian princess, he discovers his heart may be at risk from the very thing he’s always feared…SHE’S A PRINCESS WITH A DANGEROUS SECRET.Zehra Darzi’s life has been turned on its head. When she flees her home after her parents’ brutal murder, she is kidnapped and transported to England. There, she awaits her doom—being auctioned off for a brothel. But fate intervenes in the form of a heroic man, who purchases her freedom. As Zehra adjusts to life in England, she can’t help but fall for her rescuer, Lawrence. But when an enemy from her past resurfaces in London, she knows it’s only a matter of time before her darkest secret is brought to light.And this secret just might cost Lawrence his life…

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.

Alexandra Lansing is looking forward to a vacation from her job as an operative with the Commonwealth’s counterterrorist task force.?She has three blissful weeks off, and plans to spend the entire time in France. After all, everyone needs a break from stress and worry. But when she’s snatched from the Left Bank in Paris she isn’t sure if her kidnapping is a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time or a direct plot against the task force. When she discovers Praed has also been abducted, the vacation is officially over, and the possibility of an informer at task force headquarters becomes a very real, very frightening possibility.The pair manages to escape, and flees to Praed’s family home where they are forced to defend his brother’s wife and children from armed terrorists determined to recapture the operatives. With no clue as to who is behind the plot, or even a motive to explain why someone wants to take Praed and Alex prisoner, and the identity of the informant at HQ is a complete mystery. While Henry Davison races to eliminate suspects at headquarters, Praed offers himself as bait to draw out the kidnappers, hoping to discover the mastermind behind the plot. ?Alex is in hot pursuit, but will she be able to reach him before his captors extract the information they want and execute him?

"The White Ship" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19) #2, November 1919. A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man piloting a mystical white ship is found sailing upon a bridge of moonlight. Elton joins the bearded man on this ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.

Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev, is a Russian fiction classic and a nostalgic story of a man in his late twenties, torn between his much loved but barbaric homeland and a comfortable but unsatisfactory life in Europe. Translated by Constance Garnett, 1894 edition. The novel begins with the introduction of three of the characters – Aleksandra, Lezhnev, and Pandalevskii. Pandalevskii relates to Aleksandra Dar’ya Mikhailovna’s invitation to come and meet a Baron Muffel’. Instead of the Baron, Rudin arrives and captivates everyone immediately with his intelligent and witty speeches during the argument with Pigasov.

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light. "The Outsider" is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales. "The Outsider" combines Horror, Fantasy, and Gothic Fiction to create a nightmarish story, containing themes of loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife. Source: Wikipedia

A Liverpool, un brick le Forward (en fran?ais : "En avant") attire la curiosité de tous : il est visiblement con?u pour les mers polaires, mais de nombreux détails dans sa constructions intriguent. De plus, les marins sont très bien payés, mais ils ignorent la destination du bateau; le bateau emmène une énorme quantité de poudre, mais peu d'armes. Le capitaine est absent et inconnu, le second en titre, Shandon joue le r?le de capitaine.

"Medusa's Coil" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop. It was first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1939, two years after Lovecraft's death. The story concerns the son of an American plantation owner who brings back from Paris a new wife. It mixes elements of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with the ancient Greek myth of Medusa, but it has also been noted for its racist aspects.

SOCIETY CALLS HIM THE DEVIL OF LONDON…Lord Vaughn, Viscount Darlington, has a dark reputation for sinful pleasures, putting off even the most ardent mamas who crave his title for their unmarried daughters They say he’s dangerous enough to ruin a woman with just one look…But he can’t resist the pleas of a woman who needs his help. This rogue might yet be redeemed.SHE’S THE DARLING OF THE TON…All of London adores Perdita Darby. She receives invites to every party and has eligible gentlemen willing to wait for her, but she has no desire to marry. When she discovers a cruel man wishes to entrap her into a marriage that could spell her doom, she has nowhere left to turn. She makes a bargain with the devil of London, hoping to save herself. But the cost of their false engagement may put them both in danger…

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons. The novel and trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things". As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." Even though the story is set in a fictitious city, it was inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place.

New illustrated edition with original drawings by Walter Paget and Frederic Dorr Steele. 'The Adventure of the Dying Detective', in some editions simply titled 'The Dying Detective', is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, at first published in Collier's magazine and The Strand Magazine, and then part of a collection of eight stories published as a book entitled 'His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes' in some editions titled 'His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes'. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 ? 7 July 1930) was an Irish-Scots writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. This Kentauron edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. We hope you'll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can't wait to hear what you have to say about it. Kentauron is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes. Also available as English-Italian bilingual parallel text editions, and single language editions.

"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1925. It was the first story Lovecraft published in Weird Tales, and indeed was his first publication in any professional outlet. The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial German Navy during the days of World War I. It documents his untimely end at the bottom of the ocean

Whitten was just what Indira hoped for. It was a city that had banned heroes and villains, which meant no more rebuilding her home after a disaster, no more texts from her mother about how her father had been kidnapped, and no more worrying that she might be forced to become a hero herself one day.Indira soon finds out that the city holds a dangerous secret. Keeping superheroes and supervillains out of the city comes at a cost and, if she isn’t careful, she may disappear with the others.

Un re Lear della steppa è un racconto costruito da Turgenev sul modello del Re Lear di William Shakespeare.