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The daughters of the merchants are dying. Panic has spread, and they are more than content to let their children be taken by this investigator from the mountains, for, they think it to be a hemorrhagic fever from the south. They are afraid of what might be brought into their doily parlors if "vigil for the dead" should be held in their homes. It is not a fever as I am given to understand, though he burns them anyway as is the mountain custom which we can all agree is a more poetic end.

For at least 10,000 years, something has been destroying alien civilisations across the galaxy. And now it’s coming for us. In the 25th century, the two biggest corporations in history are racing outwards, far beyond the boundaries of human space, scattering settlements and habitats as they go. And they’re making a lot of money doing it. But an ARTOK company station has been destroyed and all its inhabitants slaughtered, and now the Anglo-Russian company has been drawn into interstellar war with its historic rival Nippon Deutsch.

Join the adventure through dystopian worlds, to outer planets and into a speculative future. Welcome to the Future Days Anthology. Seventeen authors imagine a future with thrilling tales, starships, unlikely heroes, and exotic aliens, all of which combine to make Future Days a must-listen sci-fi fantasy short story collection.

To save the universe Johnny Mayhem risked his life - over and over and over. He could travel anywhere mentally and enter the body of anyone on any planet. But if he stayed longer than 30 days, Mayhem died. An encounter with aliens had given him an extra-human power. But it had also put him beyond the pale of love and friendship forever.

Yfrey is lost, alone in a world where her kind is persecuted. She has one hope: to find the Roghnaithe, one who is destined to help save her world from destruction by a tyrannical ruler.

When an assistant to the director role turns into PA to her favourite film star, Jen can’t believe her luck. Eleanor Francis is charming, kind, and funny, but she has a secret, and when tragedy strikes, things threaten to unravel at an uncontrollable pace. Despite being out of her depth, Jen has to adapt to her new role quickly, to protect Eleanor, with whom she is rapidly falling in love.

This is a collection of 15 essays on a variety of occult-themed topics, covering the full spectrum of classic esoteric and related subjects, which include Hermeticism, magic, ancient wisdom and philosophy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, spiritualism, metaphysics, and New Thought by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of those subjects.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, often regarded as the greatest preacher of the 19th century, crafted The Treasury of David over the span of nearly half his ministry. Concise and provocative, Spurgeon's magnum opus on the Psalms has been prized by Christians ever since. Available for the first time in unabridged audio, this collection features Spurgeon's crucial commentary on Psalms 120-150.

Udvalgte H.C. Andersen "Jule Eventyr", indlæst af Kasper Holten. En lille perle til de lange vinteraftener med stemningsfulde eventyr, fyldt med glæde og eftertænksomhed: Grantræet, Nissen hos spækhøkeren, Tolv med posten, Det gamle egetræs sidste drøm, Den lille pige og svovlstikkerne, Nissen og madammen, Snemanden og sangen Barn Jesus i en krybbe lå.

An erotic thriller dealing with tickle fetish, S&M bondage, and much more.

Andi is just holding it together. Working two jobs means she doesn't need to rely on anyone but doesn't have much of a life. In her dreams, however, she is a hero: battling monsters and saving innocents. When her dream woman turns out to be very real, Andi's life begins to spiral out of control.

1936, Shreveport, Louisiana: Pretty young New Yorker Miriam Levenson finds herself here employed in the only job she can get - interviewing the elderly for the Roosevelt Administration’s Federal Writers Project. Among the people she meets are an aging Civil War hero, a French muralist and his common-law wife, and a 95-year-old Irish immigrant named Bridget Fenerty, a woman who has known tragedy and refused to buckle under it. Winter turns to spring, and Miriam finds there are people in this town who have secrets. And as she is followed by a mysterious man in a black Cadillac, Miriam finds that she, too, has a secret.

"Out of the fog...out of the night...and into his American adventures comes...Bulldog Drummond." Footsteps in the dark presage the coming of H. C. "Sapper" McNeile's famous British crime-solver! This collection of classic radio adventures stars George Coulouris and Ned Wever. The Captain, along with his sidekick Denny, solves cases of slayings, submarines, and sabotage in ten digitally restored and remastered episodes, hosted by Jackson Beck.

Der junge Sir Johann Adderley Bancroft - Hörern aus Artmanns unvergesslichem "Geheimnis des Werwolfs" als ebenso zaghaft wie begehrenswert bekannt - hat sich mit seiner Verlobten Edwarda Cornwallis auf den Weg zum Grafen Dracula gemacht. Da alle Wege eines britischen Adligen über London führen, hatte er dort auch Bram Stoker aufgesucht, der ihn nicht nur durch seine schier unglaublichen Vampyr-Geschichten, sondern auch durch seine Kenntnis der transsylvanischen Geographie und Tradition beeindruckte.

Tom Parker ist ein Meisterdetektiv, dem keiner das Wasser reichen kann. Schlagfertig, charmant und scharfsinnig löst er jeden Fall. Unterstützt wird er von seinem treuen Butler James, der ebenso formvollendet Whisky kredenzt wie er geistesgegenwärtig Gefahr begegnet. Doch Genie erweckt nicht nur Bewunderung, und ein begnadeter Meisterdetektiv macht sich auch mächtige Feinde. So etwa Lyford Pemberton, einen gewieften Bösewicht, der sich hinter zahlreichen Masken verbirgt und eine Gefolgschaft düsterer Gestalten der Unterwelt befehligt.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1899. Der Lykanthropist Mortimer Grizzleywold De Vere, Colonel Algernoon Towdy und die überaus begehrenswerte Mistress Maud Carruthers machen sich auf den Weg in das kaum bekannte Bergtal von Dhaulmoong. Unterwegs verschwindet ihr Führer, dafür entdeckt einer der Träger Eingegrabenes: Menschenhaut, schlaff und leer wie ein abgelegtes Kleidungsstück. Angelangt auf der Bergfestung von Fürstin Pusphar, geht der Spuk weiter.

Darkness falls. The undead rise to feast on the succulent blood of the living. For years vampires have fascinated great writers of the occult such as De Maupassant, Count Stenbock, E Nesbit and EF Benson. This is The Story Circle's collection of some of their spine-chilling tales told by award-winning actors.

A ghoulish collection of loathsome and macabre tales full of astounding skill and diabolical cleverness. 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton, 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray, 'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda, 'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher, 'The Story of the Spaniards' by E. & H. Heron, 'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow, 'The Anticipator' by Morley Roberts, 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole, 'The Conjurer' by Richard Middleton....

A gripping collection of outstanding American classic short stories by some of America's greatest writers: 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain; 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton; 'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard; 'Pickman's Model' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Adventure of the German Student' by Nathaniel Hawthorne; 'Absolute Zero' by Morgan Robertson; and many more.

A Patch on the Quilt is a short story about an actor who is pursued by a strange woman at the theatre with a very odd request. She has attended every performance of his play since it started, skipping meals to afford the tickets. She now wants him to come with her to a house in Kensington after his performance...which she says is part of her 'plan'. But who is this person and what could she possibly want from him?