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| "Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Stan Redding, Frank Abagnale (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads luxurious lodgings fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches' Frank W Abagnale alias Frank Williams Robert Conrad Frank Adams and Ringo Monjo was one of the most daring con men forgers imposters and escape artists in history In his brief but notorious career Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and co-piloted a Pan Am jet masqueraded as a member of hospital management practised law without a licence passed himself off as a college sociology professor and cashed over 25 million in forged checks all before he was twenty-one Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as 'The Skywayman' Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the run - until the law caught up with him Now recognised as the nation's leading authority on financial foul play Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious stranger-than-fiction international escapades and ingenious escapes - including one from an aeroplane - make CATCH ME IF YOU CAN an irresistable tale of deceit"
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| "Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight' Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals and their haunting sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader The great MR James who collected and introduces the stories in this book considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories'"
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| "Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "With an Introduction by John S Whitley University of Sussex This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum' 'The Fall of the House of Usher' 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included These are the first modern detective stories and include 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'"
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| "The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes I felt as if I were face to face with Satan'Erik the Phantom of the Paris Opera House is one of the great icons of horror literature This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for music which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him because of his ghastly appearance It is in the Opera House that he encounters Christine Daae whom he trains in secret to become a great singer Erik's passionate obsession with a beautiful woman beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale Gaston Leroux's novel is a marvellous blend of detective story romance and spine-tingling terror which has fascinated readers ever since the work was first published"
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| "Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer by Terry Lynch (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Horrific horrendous unspeakable The Whitechapel Murderer Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of East London in 1888 slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him They never succeeded in apprehending him and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma But he did leave clues to his identity and numerous theories have been entertained throughout the one hundred and twenty years since he held London's East End in his grip of terror This book looks at the evidence left by the murderer and the reports and investigative papers which recorded the atrocities that the Ripper performed It takes time to analyse the existing information and evaluate the letters sent to the police It is the strongest and most powerful book ever written on the murders It dispels a lot of myths attached to the Ripper and eliminates a lot of the previously conjectured perpetrators leaving only those who realistically could have beenJack the Ripper"
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| "Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Selected and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you In these twilight excursions Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by The Ring of Thoth to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in The Captain of the Polestar we encounter a monstrous creature in The Terror of Blue John Cap and the beings that live above our heads in The Brazilian Cat and The Leather Funnel; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in Lot 249 Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers"
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| "Tales of Mystery & the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies 'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself and right behind another wicked fearful self so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged' Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but she also wrote some fascinating tales of the supernatural and the macabre which are collected here in this volume The real charm of this dark anthology is its variety Unlike so many writers of this kind of material Gaskell allows the story to fit the style rather than the other way around and as result there is a charming freshness to each tale This remarkable author uses different voices tones and topics to engage her readers and as you turn from one story to the next you cannot be quite sure what to expect"
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| "Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Translated with an Introduction and Notes by John R Williams Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual and his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles Part One presents Faust's pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of his love affair with the young Gretchen Part Two shows Faust's experience in the world of public affairs including his encounter with Helen of Troy the emblem of classical beauty and culture The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition and on modern European history and civilisation This new translation of both parts of Faust preserves the poetic character of the original its tragic pathos and hilarious comedy In addition John Williams has translated the Urfaust a fascinating glimpse into the young Goethe's imagination and a selection from the draft scenarios for the Walpurgis Night witches' sabbath - material so ribald and blasphemous that Goethe did not dare publish it"
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| "Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Translated by WHWhite and AKStirling With an Introduction by Don Garrett Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this enigmatic figure First published by his friends after his premature death at the age of forty-four the Ethics uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity properly called both &39;God&39; and &39;Nature&39; of which mind and matter are two manifestations From this follow in ways that are strikingly modern the identity of mind and body the necessary causation of events and actions and the illusory nature of free will"
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| "The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Translated by H F Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically At the same time he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work The Comedy tells of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three realms of the Christian afterlife Hell Purgatory and Heaven He presents a vision of the afterlife which is strikingly original in its conception with a complex architecture and a coherent structure On this journey Dante's protagonist - and his reader - meet characters who are variously noble grotesque beguiling fearful ridiculous admirable horrific and tender and through them he is shown the consequences of sin repentance and virtue as he learns to avoid Hell and through cleansing in Purgatory to taste the joys of Heaven"
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| "The Monk by Matthew Lewis (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "With an Introduction by Kathryn White Prepare to be shocked This novel written in 1796 is a Gothic festival of sex magic and ghastly ghostly violence rarely seen in literature The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation imprisonment and betrayal Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul Meanwhile two sets of young lovers are thwarted and the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits and is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden and skeleton-crowded vaults Late Eighteenth Century audiences were polarised in opinion as to the novel's merits Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis's daring while Coleridge warned parents against The Monk's suitability for their sons or daughters describing the novel as 'poison for youth If you want a novel that still terrifies over two hundred years after it was written there is none finer than The Monk"
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| "The Last Man by Mary Shelley (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley The Godolphin and Latymer School formerly of Royal Holloway University of London The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation Set in the late twenty-first century the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction Interwoven with her futuristic theme Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the radical philosopher William Godwin Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle and her own reading She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814 In the summer of 1816 she began her first and most famous novel Frankenstein Three of her children died in early infancy and in 1822 her husband was drowned Mary returned to England with her surviving son and wrote novels short stories and accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of PBShelley's poetry and verse"
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| "The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty Royal Holloway University of London Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy Lady Windermere's Fan The combination of dazzling wit subtle social criticism sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner both here and in his next three plays A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband and his undisputed masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention Wilde's plays have never failed to delight audiences and are a lasting testimony to their author's supreme wit and theatrical genius"
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| "Henry V by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Edited introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English Literature University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series with Henry V as its inaugral volume presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film Henry himself astute and charismatic who led his band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt could indeed seem to be this star of England' In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial Kenneth Branagh's film-production reflected the changing valuation Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism? Is Henry's achievement beset by irony? Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama? Henry V demonstrates Shakespeare's acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange the congenial and the harsh the sustaining and the challenging"
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| "Gothic Short Stories by Wordsworth Editions Ltd (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational the supernatural and the bizarre which had been neglected in the Age of Reason' This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story Work by writers such as Poe Dickens Hawthorne Gaskell and M R James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America Some of these stories like the haunting The Lame Priest' are lost masterpieces' and several have never been anthologised before Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling - tales of madness and violence of shape-shifters and spectres that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind - insanity sexuality death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present In a lively authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories' place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature"
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| "The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Edited introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts Professor of English Literature University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies but it remains deeply controversial The text may seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly in performance it has revealed a contrasting nature Shylock though vanquished in the law-court often triumphs in the theatre In his intensity he can dominatethe play challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations What results is a bitter-sweet drama Though The Merchant of Venice offers some of the traditional pleasures of romantic comedy it also exposesthe operations of prejudice Thus Shakespeare remains our contemporary"
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| "Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Edited introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English Literature University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love Defying the feud which divides their families Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism bawdy comedy intimate harmony and sudden violence Long successful in the theatre it has also generated numerous operas ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical"
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| "The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost-Finder by W. H. Hodgson (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Edited with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence' It rose with a steady movement I saw it pale and huge through the whirling funnel of cloud - a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss It rose higher and higher Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it' Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder an Edwardian psychic detective investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventuresEncountering such spine-chilling phenomena as 'The Whistling Room' the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in 'The Horse of the Invisible' and the demons from the outside world in 'The Hog' Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge To complicate matters he encounters human skullduggery also Armed with a camera his Electric Pentacle and various ancient tomes on magic Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage These exciting and frightening stories have long been out of print Now rewaders can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series"
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| "The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories by Wilkie Collins (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Editedand with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?'This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice a city of grim waterways dark shadows and death The action takes place in an ancient palazzo coverted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret The supernatural horror relentless pace tight narrative and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios which include ghosts corpses that move family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all the Devil's spectacles which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness"
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| "Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "MR James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced These tales are not only classics of their genre but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement convincing background and chilling terror As well as the preface there is a fascinating tail-piece by MR James Stories I Have Tried To Write' which accompanies these thirty tales Among them are Casting the Runes' Oh Whistle and I'll come to you My Lad' The Tractate Middoth' The Ash Tree' and Canon Alberic's Scrapbook' There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time For me MR James is one of these' Ruth Rendell"
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| "In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story In a Glass Darkly (1872) one of his most celebrated volumes purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius a pioneer psychologist These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's most accomplished work which rises above the staid conventions of the age Although drawing on Gothic conventions - the book features both ghosts and vampires - Le Fanu redefined the parameters of supernatural fiction He had little interest in the crude depiction of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a pleasurable frisson of fear Le Fanu concern rather lay in the examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche of his protagonist in this he paved the way for the work of Henry James and M R James This volume is an indispensable cornerstone of modern horror and remains one of the finest collections of unsettling fiction in the language"
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| "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Hardback, 2007)" |
| "William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time He excels in plot poetry and wit and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet King Lear Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour ribaldry and tenderness This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece"
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| "The Red & The Black by Stendhal (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Translated by C K Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe) With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great realist' novel of the nineteenth century offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimilitude the moral and morose' France of 1830 However moral and morose' his novel is definitely not Ironic fast-moving entertaining and incisive in its social criticism it is a novel of ambition and passion of indignation and tenderness of polemic and poetry which speaks to us today as clearly as it did to the author's contemporaries of the heights depths and idiocies of which our human nature is capable or culpable"
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| "The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally MinogueElizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850 Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life's work as a poet in part because of a lack of representative but accessible editions of her work Readers will find here not only her well-known sonnet sequence of love poems Sonnets From the Portuguese but also lesser known sonnets some in praise of the cross-dressing bohemian writer George Sand others to contemporary poets and artists Her religious and spiritual poetry echoes that of the Metaphysical poets A different voice emerges in her social and political protest poems such as The Cry of the Children' and The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' Her experimental ballads allowed her to develop a distinctive way of writing about women within an apparently conventional form In the outstanding work of her maturity Aurora Leigh the woman's voice takes centre stage This novel-poem' is full of verve and interest with a female poet-hero who casts a caustic eye on life and on her fellow men - and women We all think we know the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning - the mysterious illness which enclosed her in her room her over-loving but imperious father and her romantic secret marriage to the poet Robert Browning and their life together in Italy But this comprehensive selection of her poetry tells the real story of her sustained creative life as a poet which began with her childhood poetic ambitions and ended only with her death All the major aspects of her poetry are represented in this accessible edition which is well-annotated and contextualised with a wide-ranging introduction which covers Barrett Browning's poetic and intellectual life as well as her personal one Recent critical re-readings including major feminist reassessments of her poetry are covered in the introduction with helpful suggestions for further reading"
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| "Richard III by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas Although it has a huge cast Richard himself gleefully wicked charismatically Machiavellian always dominates the play a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick Laurence Olivier Anthony Sher Ian McKellen and Al Pacino Since in real life political Machiavellianism is never out of date Richard III remains perennially topical Numerous revivals on stage and screen have demonstrated the enduring cogency of this drama about the lethally corrupting quest for power Richard III is the twenty-first play in the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series The Times Literary Supplement says Many students and ordinary readers will be grateful to Watts and his publishers for making such useful editions available at such low cost'"
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| "The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume One by H. P. Lovecraft (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Selected and Introduced by MJ Elliott That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago the Old Ones ruled our planet Since that time they have but slumbered But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more the Old Ones awaken at last The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer HP Lovecraft Included in this volume are several early tales along with the classics 'The Call of Cthulhu' 'The Dunwich Horror' and 'At the Mountains of Madness' Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save HP Lovecraft"
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| "Twilight of the Idols with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Translated by Antony M Ludovici With an Introduction by Ray Furness The three works in this collection all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months show him at his most stimulating and controversial the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the UEbermensch) are forsaken as wit exuberance and dazzling insights predominate forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted 'truth' Thinking with Nietzsche in Jaspers' words means holding one's own against him and we are indeed refreshed and challenged by the vortex of his thoughts by concepts which test and probe In The Twilight of the Idols The Antichrist and Ecce Homo Nietzsche writes at breakneck speed of his provenance his adversaries and his hopes for mankind; the books are largely epigrammatic and aphoristic allowing this poet-philosopher to bewilder and fascinate us with their strangeness and their daring He who fights with monsters Nietzsche once told us should look to it that he himself does not become one and when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you Reader beware"
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| "Dracula & Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Dracula Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers Kingston University 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey the cheeks were fuller and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck Even the deep burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech exhausted with his repletion'Thus Bram Stoker one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism Dracula's Guest & Other Stories Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies The above is followed with a rich collection of Stoker's macabre tales including Dracula's Guest (which was omitted from the final version of Dracula); a devilishly dangerous haunted room in The Judge's House; a fatalistic tragedy in The Burial of the Rats; a terror of revenge from beyond the grave in The Secret of Growing Gold and a surprising twist in the tail in The Gypsy's Prophecy Other strange and frightening episodes provide a feast of terror for those readers who like to be unnerved as well as entertained"
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| "Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls by James Malcolm Rymer (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Fully revised Second Edition With a new Introduction and Bibliography by Dick Collins The exploits of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' have been recounted many times in plays films and musicals but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years The String of Pearls - the original tale of Sweeney Todd a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd the King of the Penny Dreadfuls One of the earliest detective stories it became an important source for Bram Stoker's Dracula but it was after over 150 years of obscurity that it appeared first in book form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005 The one great mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was - or was it possibly the work of more than one man? In his new introduction to this fully revised second edition Dick Collins by means of detailed research of contemporary records has established finally the identity of the creator of this legendary figure So here is the original story of the terrifying owner of that famous London barber-shop and the secret recipe for Mrs Lovett's delicious pies"
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| "The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume Two by H. P. Lovecraft (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "With an Introduction by MJ Elliott My eyes perversely shaken open gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic fear and physical exhaustion'A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit which no man has seen and remained sane A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment A doctor plans a horrible revenge using as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the human soul Within these pages some of H P Lovecraft's more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume"
Price: 4.49 |
