John Thornton returns home from the war in Iraq, being wounded, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from his combat experiences and attending the United States Homeland Security School and returns to his job at the Center City, Oklahoma, Police Department as a detective.
Frozen Ghost is about three kids from the tiny hamlet of Eclectic, Alabama--Isaiah, Elijah, and Ruth Knight--who, upon seeing a black ghost dog guarding a Native American and African American slave graveyard, accidentally disturbed that graveyard.
An old manuscript unleashes the great priest Cthulhu from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, for him to rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
Once in a long time a man is fished out when it is just too late, and dies in the boat before you can get him aboard, and-well, I don't know that I ever told that story since it happened-I knew a fellow who went over, and came back dead.
In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel.
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes.
Professor William Dyer of the the Miskatonic University knew that the Antarctic was a forlorn, dangerous place, but nothing could have prepared him and his expedition for what they would find in the Mountains of Madness.
The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health.
In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel.
With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley's paragon of horror vividly back to life-published to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the infamous night of its creation.
After passing through the Ultimate Gate, a man encounters an entity which explains that all conscious beings are facets of much greater beings, which exist outside the traditional model of three dimensions.
A lighthouse keeper engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a robed, bearded man is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full, walking out across the water on a bridge of moonbeams to join him, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.
The history of a New England street, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately followingWorld War I.