Download or read book As Dark As My Fur written by Clea Simon and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mystery set a nightmarish urban landscape, a seemingly routine case for an apprentice PI and her enigmatic cat becomes something far more twisted. Blackie does not trust Care’s new client, factory owner Mr Gravitz, who has hired the teenage private investigator to shadow one of his workers, a man he suspects is stealing from him. With his feline sixth sense, Blackie knows the client is not telling the truth—but how can he protect and warn his companion, Care, when he is only a cat? Combining elements of feline fantasy and traditional whodunit, As Dark As My Fur continues the adventures of this original and unusual detective duo as they fight for their lives and for the memories of those they love. Praise for The Ninth Life “Noir fans who are fond of felines will find a lot to like.”—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Like a Beggar written by Ellen Bass and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac “Ellen Bass’s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.”—The New York Times “Bass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences of sex, work, aging, and war. Those who turn to poetry to become confidants for another's stories and secrets will not be disappointed.”—Publishers Weekly “In her fifth book of poetry, Bass addresses everything from Saturn’s rings and Newton’s law of gravitation to wasps and Pablo Neruda. Her words are nostalgic, vivid, and visceral. Bass arrives at the truth of human carnality rooted in the extraordinary need and promise of the individual. Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. By the collection’s end—following her musings on suicide and generosity, desire and repetition—it becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.”—Booklist Ellen Bass brings a deft touch as she continues her ongoing interrogations of crucial moral issues of our times, while simultaneously delighting in endearing human absurdities. From the start of Like a Beggar, Bass asks her readers to relax, even though "bad things are going to happen," because the "bad" gets mined for all manner of goodness. From "Another Story": After dinner, we're drinking scotch at the kitchen table. Janet and I just watched a NOVA special and we're explaining to her mother the age and size of the universe— the hundred billion stars in the hundred billion galaxies. Dotty lives at Dominican Oaks, making her way down the long hall. How about the sun? she asks, a little farmshit in the endlessness. I gather up a cantaloupe, a lime, a cherry, and start revolving this salad around the chicken carcass. This is the best scotch I ever tasted, Dotty says, even though we gave her the Maker's Mark while we're drinking Glendronach... Ellen Bass's poetry includes Like A Beggar (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), which was named a Notable Book by the San Francisco Chronicle, and Mules of Love (BOA, 2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award. She co-edited (with Florence Howe) the groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973). Her work has frequently been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Sun and many other journals. She is co-author of several non-fiction books, including The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (HarperCollins, 1988, 2008) which has sold over a million copies and been translated into twelve languages. She is part of the core faculty of the MFA writing program at Pacific University.

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Download or read book Daughter of Darkness Victoria Box Set written by W.J. May and published by Dark Shadow Publishing. This book was released on with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Death Could Stop Her Now Victoria is a Hunter Vampire, one of the last of her kind. She's the best of the best. Book 1 Victoria When Victoria finds out one of her marks is actually her sister she lets her go, only to end up on the wrong side of the council. Forced to prove herself she hunts her next mark, a werewolf. Injured and hungry, she's forced to do what she must to survive. Her actions upset the ancient council and she finds herself now being the one thing she has always despised -- the Hunted. Book 2 Hunted When Victoria finds out one of her marks is actually her sister she let's her go, only to end up on the wrong side of the council. Forced to prove herself she hunts her next mark, a werewolf. Injured and hungry, she is forced to do what she must to survive. Her actions upset the ancient council and she finds herself now being the one thing she has always despised -- the Hunted. Tori has no other option but to run. She's disappointed the Council, attacked and killed an Elder and now Vlad, her abysmal father, is determined to find her. When secrets of the past reveal themselves, she finds herself at a crossroad. Unsure of which way to go, she must trust in other supernaturals to help guide her—something she has never allowed before. Forced to go against other Hunter vampires, she is backed into a corner where her only way out is to fight, or die trying. Book 3 Coveted When Evan is obviously been kidnapped by the Council, Tori will stop at nothing to get him back. At the same time, she's disappointed to learn Malcolm, her old hunting partner, is hot on her trail. Malcolm knows her very well as they worked together for countless decades. He knows her every move and her every hiding spot. She seeks Finns help. Finn has been alive for centuries and has somehow managed to stay completely off the Council's radar by living off the grid. She's confident he can keep her, Eddie, and Trent safe while they come up with a way to get to Evan. Vlad wants her - dead or alive, it seems to no longer matter. Tori will do whatever is needed to keep Evan safe, even if it means coming up against her father and hunting him. Book 4 Twisted Tori's mortal enemy, Vlad Montour, just happens to be the most powerful vampire in the world--and her father. He's got the world's most lethal network of allies, along with a near impenetrable fortress. Trained by him to be a Hunter, she's killed other supernatural creatures for a living. Tori's world is turned upside when she finds herself now being the one hunted. In the past, Tori's lived by the rule: if you love no one, you can't be hurt. Suddenly this rule can no longer hold up. She has a brother to protect, a werewolf she's in love with and is pregnant with his child. Life changes in the blink of an eye. She makes herself a new vow: take out anyone who would hurt the people she loves. The only way to stop Vlad is to beat him at his own game. Except how to you beat someone who never loses? How do you stop an original without dying in the process? How far would you walk through hell, to save the ones you love? This is Tori's story in one complete box collection! Victoria's Journey: Victoria, Huntress, Coveted, and Twisted 4 authors will each take a different daughter born from the Prince of Darkness, Vlad Montour. (Also known as Vlad the Impaler, an evil villain from history) Blair – Chrissy Peebles Jezebel – Kristen Middleton Victoria – W.J. May Lotus – C.J. Pinard Search Terms: shif, paranormal shifter romance, vampires, fantasy witches, fantasy, Young Adult, coming of age, shifter, shifters, coming of, dark fantasy, fantasy new adult, superhero fantasy ebooks, witches, vampires and witches, superhero, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, New Adult & College Romance Paranormal, new adult, new adult and college, New Adult & College Romance, w.j. may, chronicles of kerrigan, Tudor, supernatural, England, romance, mystery, tattoos, superpowers, paranormal, boarding school, series, Young Adu, fairy, fae, dwarves, romance paranormal werewolves and shifters, giantss, giants, kings queens

Download or read book The Animals at Lockwood Manor written by Jane Healey and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1939. Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor to oversee a natural history museum collection, whose contents have been taken out of London for safekeeping. She must protect her charges from party guests, wild animals, Luftwaffe bombs. But she is unprepared for Lucy Lockwood, for whom the arrival of the museum brings new freedoms-- and nightmares. Hetty discovers that the manor is a place of secrets-- and someone is stalking her through its darkened corridors. -- adapted from jacket

Download or read book Prowl written by L. E. Henderson and published by L. E. Henderson. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She escaped slavery. But freedom will be more difficult than she can imagine. As the runt of her litter Mitalla—a member of a feline species—has always survived through her cunning. It was through cunning that she escaped a brutal slave camp alive, even after all her siblings perished. Now, she dreams of building a free life in a new city where she can put her past behind her. But everywhere she looks, her species is viewed as dangerous and inferior. With no safe place to hide, she ends up working as a thief for the dark mage Sebastian, who has illegal feline slaves of his own: a mother and her young daughter who become her new friends. Being forced to rob houses is bad enough. But watching Sebastian mistreat her new housemates is the worst torture of all. Once again Mitalla feels enslaved. But during her darkest hour, she glimpses a path to hope. She learns about a sacred journal, one whose secrets have the power to topple the king and end his cruel policy of feline enslavement once and for all. But to liberate her new friends and her species, she must find the journal. Risking her life by defying Sebastian, she embarks on a dangerous quest for power. But to get her prize, she could lose everything—her friends, her identity and even her life. Prowl is a fantasy novel and Book 2 of the Bastis Archives series. If you like page-turning suspense, characters who feel like friends, and soulful cats, you will love this book by L.E. Henderson. Download the book today.

Download or read book Mystique of the Darkness 100 Gothic Classics written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 16564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you our best ever gothic collection, with all the well known classics, all the hidden gems, and lots of surprises for all the fans of chills, darkness and mystery out there. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Castle of Otranto The Old English Baron Vathek The Ghost-Seer The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian A Sicilian Romance The Romance of the Forest The Monk The Orphan of the Rhine The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christabel Zastrozzi St. Irvyne Manfred Northanger Abbey Frankenstein... Isabella, or the Pot of Basil La Belle Dame Sans Merci The Raven The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado... The Vampyre... The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Porphyria's Lover St, John's Eve The Viy... Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables... The Woman in White Goblin Market The Headless Horseman Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Carmilla Uncle Silas The Man-Wolf The Great Amherst Mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles... The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Yellow Wallpaper The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The Beetle The Turn of the Screw... Dracula... The Necromancers The House on the Borderland The Phantom of the Opera... Wolverden Tower...

Download or read book Into the Darkness written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 14039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Darkness stands as a seminal anthology, bringing together an exceptional array of tales that traverse the spectral corridors of gothic horror, mystery, and the supernatural. This collection boasts an impressive diversity in literary styles, juxtaposing the macabre with the psychological, the fantastic with the eerily realistic. Its range spans from the deep, existential fears tapped by Edgar Allan Poe to the pioneering science fiction horror of H.G. Wells. Noteworthy are the haunted landscapes of Algernon Blackwood and the psychological depths explored by Henry James, which stand as testimonies to the anthologys rich, thematic tapestry and its significant contribution to the literary canon. The anthology does not merely compile stories; it orchestrates a nuanced exploration of the human psyche across different epochs and locales. The contributing authors read like a whos who of the 19th and early 20th centuries literary giants, each bringing their unique voice to the theme of confrontation with the unknown. Collectively, their backgroundsranging from the literary brilliance of Oscar Wilde to the grim realism of Thomas Hardymirror the anthologys overarching investigations into horror and mystery. Their works, ingrained in various cultural and literary movements from Romanticism to the Edwardian ghost story, provide a panoramic view of the evolution of horror and speculative fiction. Through the confluence of these diverse voices, the collection offers a comprehensive historical and cultural context, enriching the readers understanding of the genre. Into the Darkness invites readers on an unparalleled literary journey, providing a unique opportunity to engage with the collective genius of authors whose works have defined and transcended the boundaries of their genres. This anthology is not merely a compendium of tales meant to thrill and chill; it's an educational odyssey through the evolution of horror and suspense literature. Readers are encouraged to delve deep into this collection for its unparalleled insight, the rich dialogue it fosters between epochs and ideologies, and the timeless thrill of exploring humanitys darker inclinations.

Download or read book The Horror Beyond Life s Edge 560 Macabre Classics Supernatural Mysteries Dark Tales written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 13812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to step over the edge? This grand horror collection contains the greatest supernatural mysteries, gothic novels, dark romances & macabre tales: Bram Stoker: Dracula The Squaw... John William Polidori: The Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House... Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House... Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Woman in White Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla... Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables... Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story The City of Dreadful Night The Mark of the Beast... Stanley G. Weinbaum: The Dark Other Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian: The Man-Wolf... Amelia B. Edwards: The Phantom Coach... Pedro De Alarçon: The Nail Walter Hubbell: The Great Amherst Mystery Some Real American Ghosts Some Chinese Ghosts...

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Download or read book Confessions of an Italian written by Ippolito Nievo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overlooked classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy. At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti has decided to write down the confessions of his long life. He remembers everything: his unhappy childhood in the kitchens of the Castle of Fratta; romantic entanglements during the siege of Genoa; revolutionary fighting in Naples; and so much more. Throughout, Carlo lives only for his twin passions in life: his dream of a unified, free Italy and his undying love for the magnificent but inconstant Pisana. Peopled by a host of unforgettable characters - including drunken smugglers, saintly nuns, scheming priests, Napoleon and Lord Byron - this is an epic historical novel that tells the remarkable and inseparable stories of one man's life and the history of Italy's unification. Ippolito Nievo was born in 1831 in Padua. Confessions of an Italian, written in 1858 and published posthumously in 1867, is his best known work. A patriot and a republican, he took part with Garibaldi and his Thousand in the momentous 1860 landing in Sicily to free the south from Bourbon rule. Nievo died before he reached the age of thirty, when his ship, en route from Palermo to Naples, went down in the Tyrrhenian Sea in early 1861. He was, Italo Calvino once said, the sole Italian novelist of the nineteenth century in the 'daredevil, swashbuckler, rambler' mould so dear to other European literatures. Frederika Randall has worked as a cultural journalist for many years. Her previous translations include Luigi Meneghello's Deliver Us and Ottavio Cappellani's Sicilian Tragedee and Sergio Luzzatto's Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age. Lucy Riall is Professor of Comparative History at the European University Institute. Her many books include Garibaldi. Invention of a Hero. 'Of all the furore that came out of the Risorgimento, only Manzoni and Nievo really matter today' - Umberto Eco 'The one 19th century Italian novel which has [for an Italian reader] that charm and fascination so abundant in foreign literatures' - Italo Calvino 'Perhaps the greatest Italian novel of the nineteenth century' - Roberto Carnero 'A spirited appeal for liberté, égalité and fraternité, the novel is also an astute, scathing and amusing human comedy, a tale of love, sex and betrayal, of great wealth and grinding poverty, of absolute power and scheming submission, of idealism and cynicism, courage and villainy' - The Literary Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Beast of Bracksley Woods written by Doreen Hayward and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently widowed and still trying to get over her loss she goes to live in the country to try and build a new life for herself. She would really like to start her own business but finding herself short of money she is forced to look for work. On the way home from yet another fruitless job interview she discovers an old man unconscious in a ditch at the side of the road. She stops to help him by calling an ambulance and seeing him safely to hospital. When he regains consciousness he asks her to take care of his dog until his friend returns. Gradually Debbie gets drawn into Greg's life meeting his close friend Kevin who is the local RSPCA Inspector and Paul the local Vet. These three start a rescue centre for animals at Greg's old farm and Debbie finds herself managing it instead of doing what she really wants to do. Kevin is after a gang he believes is running illegal dog fights and one of them is loose in Bracksley woods. Kevin sets out to find the ringleaders and put them behind bars but what happens when he catches the dog that has been making trouble in the neighbourhood and prowling about in Bracksley woods?Debbie falls in love with Paul and finds herself pregnant after a one night stand. That's not all. Debbie gets kidnapped after a successful open day for the new rescue centre... Who will save her? Will it be Paul or will it be Kevin?

Download or read book Carlocito written by Phillip Gaustad and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlocito, our gentle feline protagonist, runs away from home when his 13-year-old mistress fails to understand his distress at the prospect of being neutered. He discovers that the outside world requires knowledge of the first principles of survival. Even finding sustenance is a challenge for a pampered cat who has eaten nothing but nutritionally engineered cat food all his life. Fleeing to the heart of the city, he is confronted by a gang of eunuch strays who regard his "wholeness" as an abomination. They threaten their own brand of savage testicle mutilation unless he leaves the city depths immediately. Will he defeat the eunuchs and their ally, the pantheresque El Gato, who has laid claim to Carlocito's feline love, the beautiful Peri? And will he be able to return to his beloved human mistress Jaydah, who has fallen deathly ill?