When Klaus Von Kroft brings his band to the mountain village of Rathburg to perform a concert, a generations old tapestry of blood and darkness draws about him like a shroud. Delving into the disappearance of his parents, Klaus finds himself entranced by Rosa, a sunset-haired woman of mystery and darkness, her companions, and the eerily perfect music they play. But Rosa is far more than ...
Above all things, the most fun for a young Oni is to get into a crockery shop. Once there, he jumps among the cups and dishes, hides in the jars, straddles the shelves and turns somersaults over the counter.-from "The Oni on His Travels"This collection of traditional myths and legends from Holland sings with the spirit of that charming land, and delves into its culture to ...
This is a chilling tale of a student, an old woman and her beautiful, but cursed daughter in the Shetland Islands. It is a riveting selection of short stories from the nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy.
Miss Rachel Goldberg had no idea a knight in shining armor was about to enter her classroom. A Chicago firefighter was expected, an everyday city worker come to tell fourth graders all about his job in 30 minutes or less. But when Vic Koski lifts Rachel to demonstrate the firefighter's carry, she is--literally and figuratively--swept off her feet. Love leads to a happy ...
Je suis reine et je veille sur mon peuple. Je le protégerai des étrangers venus du ciel dans leurs oiseaux de fer.Je suis étudiante et pour obtenir mon diplôme, je suis prête à tout sacrifier et à ignorer mes rêves.Deux destins, deux jeunes femmes que tout sépare, et qui vont voir le sort de leur monde se jouer sous leurs yeux.
"The Cabell case belongs to comedy in the grand manner. For fifteen years or more the man wrote and wrote--good stuff, sound stuff, extremely original stuff, often superbly fine stuff--and yet no one in the whole of this vast and incomparable Republic arose to his merit--no one, that is, save a few encapsulated enthusiasts, chiefly somewhat dubious. It would be difficult to imagine a first-rate ...
There is something about Lux. He’s a thief and a liar; he is selfish and self-absorbed and hopelessly vain. But while he looks like Lana Turner and romances like a true Casanova, Lux is actually more like a bumbling, oblivious Mary Tyler Moore. Amid shouting mobs, police shields, and the hurled bricks of the ’80s Brixton riots, Lux is searching for Pearlthe love of his life. ...
A short story of a man who finds himself...by losing himself on the moon.Deeply soul-searching, heartfelt, and completely fantastical, "The Moon" is one man's unexpected, unexplainable journey into an understanding of life.
The apocalypse has come and gone. The seals have been broken, the horns sounded, and the bowls emptied. God has passed judgment and created a new world for His faithful: Eterni. Settling the supervision of Zion in Archangel Mikael's loyal hands, God leaves with a third of the angelic hosts to create some other reality, universe, world, beings. A thousand years pass in harmonic serenity, but ...