Graeme Davis

A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies weren’t alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell, whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle, Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life, while Helene Blavatsky, best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society, conjures up a solid and satisfying ghost story in The Cave of the Echoes. Edith Wharton’s great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize, yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre—which was often subtler, more psychological, and more disturbing.

Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror

More Deadly than the Male

The most spine-tingling suspense stories from the colonial era—including Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and H. P. Lovecraft—are presented anew to the contemporary reader. This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the Colonial era’s stifling religion and its dark and threatening woods. Today the best-known tale of Colonial horror is Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” although Irving’s story is probably best-known today from various movie versions it has inspired. Colonial horror tales of other prominent American authors—Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper among them—are overshadowed by their bestsellers and are difficult to find in modern libraries. Many other pioneers of American horror fiction are presented afresh in this breathtaking volume for today’s reading public. Some will have heard the names of Increase and Cotton Mather in association with the Salem witch trials, but will not have sought out their contemporary accounts of what were viewed as supernatural events. By bringing these writers to the attention of the contemporary reader, the book will help bring their names—and their work—back from the dead. Featuring stories by Cotton Mather, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many more.

Colonial Horrors

The War-Torn, Book 4 (War-Torn)

Blood and Honor

Martin McKenna

Jim Bambra

Phil Gallagher

Death on the Reik (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay)

Assamite

Clanbook

Mark Rein-Hagen

Stewart Wieck

The Masquerade (Vampire)

Vampire

Que el árbol no tapa el bosque, nos recuerda el legendario dicho. En el tema que nos reúne, la extraordinaria antología de cuentos de terror Mujeres letales, el árbol en cuestión es Frankenstein, la novela de Mary Shelley; el bosque otros relatos de Shelley y de algunas de sus contemporáneas más ilustres y de otras casi desconocidas. Frankenstein parecía ser la excepción, y sin embargo era un índice de lo que otras mujeres estaban escribiendo. Aunque la ficción gótica y de terror es un género literario identificado casi exclusivamente con los hombres, desde prácticamente su nacimiento las escritoras lo hicieron suyo: ensancharon las fronteras del miedo y la premura, se internaron en sueños perturbadores y en fatales profecías; en la profunda noche de la fantasía. Graeme Davis realizó una cuidadosa excavación literaria para sacar a luz cuentos exquisitos y olvidados. Hay autoras célebres, como Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott o Edith Wharton, y hay otras que merecen serlo y sin duda lo serán. Los veintiséis relatos que componen este volumen, publicados entre 1830 y 1906, son una muestra evidente de una práctica fecunda, a la que se ha prestado poca atención. Mujeres letales es un tesoro que merece descubierto y un acto de justicia literaria.

Obras maestras de las reinas del terror

Mujeres letales

Discover the evidence that Vikings walked on American soil—centuries before Columbus. When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492 and the Borgia pope declared it a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a five-hundred-year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonization of the eastern seaboard of North America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic, and DNA evidence that supplements the historic account. For four centuries or more, from their first visits around AD 1000 to the eve of the Columbus voyages, the Vikings explored and settled thousands of miles of the coasts and rivers of North America. From New York’s Long Island to the Canadian High Arctic, the New World was a playground for Viking adventurers. And, he argues, the name the Vikings gave to this New World was America.

Vikings in America

Challenges common views that the Vikings had little impact on the discovery, development, and history of America by describing the travels of Vikings on the East Coast and in the high Arctic and Hudson Bay and explaining how their presence in America lasted nearly five hundred years.

From its ancient nights as a clan of mystic diabolists to its present as a group of revered and feared assassins, the Assamites have maintained a special place in the World of Darkness.

In the stories of the ancient Vikings, Thor is a warrior without equal, who wields his mighty hammer in battles against trolls, giants, and dragons. He is the god of storms and thunder, who rides to war in a chariot pulled by goats, and who is fated to fall in battle with the Midgard Serpent during Ragnarok, the end of all things. This book collects the greatest myths and legends of the thunder god, while also explaining their historical context and their place in the greater Norse mythology. It also covers the history of Thor as a legendary figure, how he was viewed by different cultures from the Romans to the Nazis, and how he endures today as a popular heroic figure.

Viking God of Thunder

Thor

Find out what your surname means and trace your ancestors who share it too. Perhaps your surname is that of a Norman who came to Britain after the Battle of Hastings; or a Celtic clan name. Maybe it is an old English trade. It may be distinctive of a particular location. And just possibly you might be related to everyone who bears the name. Find out! Your surname is part of you -- so use this book to discover what it really means. This comprehensive book will show you how to research your surname and your family tree, both in earliest and in more recent years. It provides practical activities to investigate the meaning of any British surname. You will discover: -- The meaning of your surname -- How old it is -- Where it comes from -- What associations it has today -- How to use your surname to trace ancestors You may also be able to take part in a One Name Study or use DNA profiling to make contact with other people who bear your surname and with whom you share distant ancestors.

Research Your Surname and Your Family Tree

This book reveals the huge variety of werewolf types, highlighting their strengths and weakness, and explaining the best methods to capture or kill each variety. It also tells the full history of werewolves and the role they have played in some of history's most significant events, especially their involvement in numerous wars. Finally, it covers the groups and societies devoted to hunting the creatures, whether for safety, study, or sport.

Hunting Werewolves

Dave Gross

Richard Lee Byers

Chris A Jackson

The Ancient Ones are coming to consume our world, and only the bold investigators of Arkham Horror stand in their way, in this chilling collection of eldritch novellas. Hour of the Huntress by Dave Gross – the mysterious disappearance of dilettante Jenny Barnes’ beloved sister triggers a frantic search through Arkham’s darkest shadows. The Dirge of Reason by Graeme Davis – for federal agent Roland Banks, investigating a bizarre incident exposes him to the supernatural horrors of Arkham. Ire of the Void by Richard Lee Byers – the astronomer and professor Norman Withers finds himself the subject of a strange creature’s gaze when he agrees to assist in a fellow scientist’s weird experiment. The Deep Gate by Chris A Jackson – sailor Silas Marsh must return to Innsmouth and confront his harrowing nightmares when he stumbles on a tome foretelling the end of the world.

Arkham Horror: The Collected Novellas, Vol. 1

Dark Origins

he first warp-spasm seized Cu Chulainn, and turned him into something monstrous, horrible and shapeless... This supplement for Of Gods and Mortals delves deeper into the myths of the Celts. Within its pages you will find: More options for existing units, along with brief descriptions of their roles in Celtic history and mythology; Statistics and rules for six new Gods, 18 new Legends, and 10 new Mortal troop types, based on myths and folklore from across the Celtic world; Ten new traits, including a range of warrior-feats from the Irish sagas; Detailed rules for Celtic war-chariots; Optional warband lists to help you build a mythologically consistent warband; Allied forces for more force customization options; New scenarios, based on the greatest battles from the Celtic myths and sagas; A detailed bibliography for more information about the Celts and their gods. Let the red rage descend, and feed the Morrigan's crows with the bodies of your foes!

Expanded Rules for Celts in of Gods and Mortals

Of Gods and Mortals Celts

Andrew Greenberg

Bill Bridges

Steve Crow

Nigel Findley

Lisa Stevens

Succubus Club

What are we? The Damned childer of Caine? The grotesque lords of humanity? The pitiful wretches of eternal hell? We are vampires, and that is enough. I am vampire, and that is far more than enough. I am that which must be feared, worshipped and adored. The world is mine -- now and forever. No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me. Vampire is developed by Robert Hatch. Seize the night in the Storytelling game of personal horror. Vampires live their unlives in a world of deadly Archons and treacherous Tremere, where ancient Inconnu play their games against a backdrop of horrid diablerie. Into this maelstrom come the neonates, striving against all odds to maintain both their freedom and their souls.

The Masquerade : a Storytelling Game of Personal Horror

The Greatest Detective Stories, 1837-1914

Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Graeme Davis draws upon the classic sources to retell the great myths and legends of Theseus, the founder-king of Athens, and backs this narrative with a factual examination of the myth, its variations, and its development over time. Replete with both classical and modern illustrations, this book is a concise exploration of one of the most enduring myths of Ancient Greece. Even before Theseus descended into the labyrinth to face the Minotaur, he was already a famous hero and a veteran of many battles. The son of a man, a woman, and the god Poseidon, he'd journey far across Ancient Greece, fighting numerous monsters including the Periphetes 'the clubber', the Crymmyon Sow, and the insane demigod, Procrustes 'the stretcher'. He also survived several assassination attempts, including one by Medea, the famous witch-wife of Jason. Despite these adventures, it was on Crete that Theseus faced his greatest challenge. Taking the place of a sacrificial tribute to the king of Crete, Theseus used his wits and charm to convince the princess Ariadne and the famous inventor Daedalus to help him defeat the dreaded Minotaur, a hideous combination of man and bull that lived in a labrythine dungeon.

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