Download or read book Chariot written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chariot, the Horseman assailing mankind is Plague. A mutated version of smallpox sweeps the famine-ridden world, and people drop dead in their tracks. Only one place seems safe -- Las Vegas, Nevada. But Las Vegas is the current home of the Horseman, who is searching for one of the few men able to stand against evil. Travis has an extraordinary ability. If he lays his hands on a slot machine, the machine will pay off -- just enough to cover his basic needs.Travis has no idea he is the object of the Horseman's search, or that two others are also looking for him, eager to unite him with the heroes of Symphony and In the Mood as the end of the Millennium, and the end of the world, grows ever closer.

Download or read book The Nestling written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE IS A REASON IT HAS RETURNED … Something has caused a grim and sudden change in Wyoming's Windriver Valley, something whose dark power was foretold in an ancient Indian prophecy Now after 20 years Jason Clarke comes home to a town gripped by a devastating force which defies all nature—a force that points to something … supernatural. THERE IS A REASON IT HAS RETURNED … Now some ancient predator, born of bloody midnights, throws the shadow of its wings across the valley. Listen! That cry like a woman's laugh. Look! Those mocking red eyes. Now an evil promise will be kept in the gleaming jaws of … THE NESTLING

Download or read book For Fear of the Night written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amusement park on the pier burned ten days ago. The blackened skeleton of the House of Horrors is a grim reminder of summer's dreams turned to nightmares, of a young life cut short. Julie Etler and her friends had been looking forward to one final summer of freedom before college and the responsibilities of adulthood. Now Julie is dead. Or is she? Her voice is on Devin Graham’s answering machine. Her boyfriend, Tony, sees her walking on the moonlit beach. And something is haunting the ruins of the House of Night …

Download or read book Stunts written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens without warning. The shadow of the wolf fails on an ordinary man, and death begins to walk within him. Everyone he hates will die. The senior class of New Jersey’s Port Richmond High School is busy planning Halloween “stunts"—practical jokes on a town-wide scale. The school’s new principal has outlawed stunts, but that won’t keep Brian Oakland and his friends out of mischief. After all, they’re not planning anything serious, nothing damaging (except to the principal’s reputation). Others have different ideas. Dominic Pastore’s waited all year for Halloween. His rifle is ready, but Dorn hasn’t decided if he’ll fire blanks or bullets. Rich little Mickie Farwood wants to pull a stunt too, but first must choose between Dorn’s danger and Brian’s innocence. None of them knows that this Halloween will alter their lives forever. The shadow of the wolf has fallen on two men. In England, visiting lecturer Evan Kendal flees a murderous madman once his best friend flees for Port Richmond and home. And in Port Richmond, in the woods that surround the town, another killer waits … waits for Halloween, when those he hates will die. At his bidding the whole town will die.

Download or read book Nightmare Seasons written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new season, and the Grim Reaper smiles in anticipation of the harvest to come. No one is safe, no one can be trusted. The lovestruck office boy, the beautiful little girl clutching a posy of violets, the faceless motorcycle gang all seem harmless enough, and yet. Nameless fears stir uneasily, terror bubbles to the surface. and the nightmare is unleashed. Enter the world of Oxrun Station, where evil lurks in unexpected corners, where nerves are stretched to breaking point, where every season brings a nightmare more blood-curdling than the last. Four novellas, each taking as its theme one of the seasons of the year, recount the weird happenings that take place in the fantasy town of Oxrun Station.

Download or read book The Presidency of Ulysses S Grant written by Charles W. Calhoun and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was an embattled president, enormously popular with the American people, yet the target of unrelenting censure by political enemies. For the first time in almost a century, this book by the distinguished historian Charles W. Calhoun examines Grant's administration in depth, offering a fresh look at the 18th president's policies and actions during his two terms in office (1869–1877). Most biographers focus on Grant's military career, giving less attention to the significant and complex questions that marked his presidential terms. These concerns, the issues of politics and governance, are at the core of this book. As a political historian with a vast knowledge of nineteenth-century America and an extensive array of original sources at his command, Calhoun approaches Grant's presidency not as an incongruous or inconsequential sequel to his military career but instead as the polestar of American public life during a crucial decade in the nation's political development. He explores Grant's leadership style and traces his contributions to the office of president, including creating a White House staff, employing modern technology to promote the mobility of the presidency, and developing strong ties with congressional leaders to enhance executive influence over legislation. The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant provides a detailed discussion of the administration's endeavors in a variety of areas—Reconstruction and civil rights, economic policy, the Peace Policy for Native Americans, foreign policy, and civil service reform. It also offers a straightforward examination of the scandals associated with the period, highlighting the “embattled” nature of Grant's presidency and the deep antagonism that marked his relations with key critics such as Charles Sumner, Henry Adams, and Benjamin Bristow. In sum, this book is a long overdue re-evaluation of a pivotal presidency in America's political history.

Download or read book Grant s Final Victory written by Charles Bracelen Flood and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful narrative, a prominent historian brings to life the last year of General Grant's life--a tragic, poignant, and inspiring story.

Download or read book Symphony written by Charles Grant and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after a small-town preacher discovers that he has the power to heal, he realizes that he will have to use his gift to counter the effects of a possible demon who drives into town, marking the beginning of the Apocalypse. Reprint.

Download or read book Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatic Subjects to Great Britain Particularly with Respect to Morals and on the Means of Improving it written by Charles Grant and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay became a much publicized plea for the toleration of Christian educational and missionary activities in India. Being presented to the East India Company's Court of Directors on August 16, 1797 by Charles Grant, and to the House of Commons in 1813, the Commons ordered its general printing in 1813.

Download or read book The Pet written by Charles Grant and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1987-05-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long enough to kill, just long enough to tear apart a family and a community. When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens' activities, monitoring who goes where-and parents become paranoid. Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn't need the grief. He's already under siege-he's got family trouble, girl trouble, trouble with his high school classes and trouble with the jocks who rule the school. Surely the Howler will kill someone else, somewhere else, and then Don can go back to trying to escape notice. But the Howler likes Ashford. And one frosty autumn night, the Howler chooses Don as his next victim. The attack is swift-but it doesn't go as planned. Suddenly the killer and the boy are surrounded by an unnatural mist, by green fire, by the sound of iron striking iron. And then the real horror begins.

Download or read book Raven written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fox in a leg-hold trap may gnaw off its own foot to escape...rats in a too-small cage will devour the weakest members of the pack to ensure survival of the strongest...a group of humans, trapped like animals, will sacrifice anything—or anyone—to gain their freedom.... Imagine Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None: a small group of people trapped in an isolated place, disappearing one by one, prey to all the stresses and strains of being hunted. Add Charles Grant’s proven skill with suspense and his ability to fathom and display the inner workings of the human heart and mind. The result is Raven, a gripping, fast-paced thriller that begins in a familiar classic American setting—a roadside motel and restaurant —and drives, without pause, to an unexpected and startling conclusion. A late-winter blizzard has closed the road beside Maclaren’s Food and Lodging. The staff of three—Neil Maclaren, former cop turned motel-keeper; Julia Sanders, as capable handling trouble as she is mixing drinks; Willie Ennin, whose fondness for knives makes him a superb cook—prepare to entertain their few customers through a long winter night, unaware that they are being watched. The customers are a motley crew. Three locals: Nester Brandt, the town’s greying curmudgeon; and a pair of star-crossed lovers, Ken Hawick and Trish Avery. Three strangers: Hugh Davies, fast-rising star of all-night talk-radio; and Ceil and Mandy, two women he claims are his sisters. They all have secrets, secrets which have attracted the watcher. Nester Brandt is the first to die, gunned down outside the restaurant by a silent man in a long black coat, a man whose pitiless gaze is as fixed and glittering as a raven’s. Nester’s death is only the beginning as this gathering of strangers becomes first prey, then hunters. They have learned too much about each other in a single snow-filled night. Like rats caught in a trap...

Download or read book Grant and Sherman written by Charles Bracelen Flood and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dual Civil War biography presents “[a] powerful and illuminating study of a military collaboration that won the war for the Union” (Josiah Bunting III, Washington Post). “We were as brothers,” William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible. They were prewar failures: Grant was forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman had moved from one job to the next in the years before the conflict. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort. And after taking each other’s measure at the Battle of Shiloh, they began their unique collaboration. Often together under fire on the war’s great battlefields, they also supported each other in the face of mudslinging criticism by the press and politicians. Sharing the demands of family life and the heartache of loss, they built a mutual admiration and trust which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon. Though their headquarters were hundreds of miles apart, they communicated almost daily, strategizing the final moves of the war and planning how to win the peace that would follow.

Download or read book Delors written by Charles Grant and published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1985, when Jacques Delors became President of the European Commission, no politician has made a bigger impact on Western Europe. But while his successes encouraged countries outside the Community to seek membership, they also provoked a wave of anti-Brussels sentiment in the 1990s. As The Economist's Brussels correspondent, Charles Grant had unique access to Jacques Delors, his friends and enemies, and the European institutions. This is the first major biography of the man who, rising from the humblest of origins, became the architect of the new Europe. It is also a fascinating and revealing analysis of how Brussels, the house that Jacques built, really works.

Download or read book Charles Grant and British Rule in India written by Ainslie Thomas Embree and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Midnight written by Charles L. Grant and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Doom City written by Charles L. Grant and published by Tom Doherty Assoc Llc. This book was released on 1987 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greystone Bay's new, ultramodern supermarket, the aisles are endless and the bargains irresistible. At Grandma's, legends are told--including the one about what is kept in the basement. And in the cemetery, a walled-off tomb harbors a flock of deadly butterflies. Classic horror fiction.

Download or read book Something Stirs written by Charles L. Grant and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1993-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United by the death of their leader, Eddie, and the brutal murders that follow it, the group of teenagers who comprise The Pack realize that only they have the power to stop the deaths. Reprint.