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A Play in Four Acts Based on the Novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky

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Based on the novel by Russian writer Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1867-1941), Morlock's dramatic adaptation tells the tragic story of Russian Tsar Peter the Great's conflict with his only surviving son and heir, Tsarevitch Alexis. Peter, an autocrat who was determined to modernize Russia at all costs, dealt brutally with any opposition--but found his most stubborn and potent resistance in his own home in the person of Alexis. This was a battle of wills that could end in only one way, given the nature of the Tsar's personality and the enormous power that he wielded. The ultimate tragedy is that Peter loved his son, and Alexis his father--but neither could find a way in which to reconcile their political differences. Shades of the twenty-first century! A riveting psychodrama.

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When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead him to question Hexleys ex-fiancee, Elsa Farraday. Farraday writes horror-tinged mysteries under a pseudonym, and lives by herself in an old house in the English countryside. She eventually confesses that she murdered the artist and threw his body into a swamp. But the girls odd, even peculiar mannerisms puzzle Calthorp, and he hesitates to make an arrest when no trace of Hexley's body can be found--or even any proof of his death. Ultimately, he calls in Dr. Adam Castle, the redoubtable psychiatrist and investigator, to help solve the case. Is Elsa a cold-blooded murderer mining her own crimes for her lurid novels? Or is she just an unfortunate "lost soul" who was in the wrong place at the wrong time? An absolutely first-rate psychological thriller!

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?My missing person did not hunt, fish, or engage in any type of sport that one would do in a Louisiana fishing village. And after a cursory look at what was called Pointe Nueve, I doubted a decent antique could be found to buy in the entire collection of rusty, metal-roofed buildings. At least I knew not to expect to find a body there. The alligators would have taken care of that weeks ago. OK, so I can be wrong once in a while...?Louisiana antique dealer Marc DeVarney, a well-respected businessman, has suddenly gone missing, and J. Pletcher and Raina Lambert, investigative consultants, are hired by his family to locate the man--or his remains. Their quest sends them scurrying through the area around New Orleans, from the wealthy mansions of the Garden District to the swamps and bayous of small, nearby fishing villages. With the aid of a unique cast of New Orleans characters, including a licensed witch, a game warden, local ?royalty,? a brilliant attorney, flea market vendors, and assorted street people, they must sort through a myriad of deceptions to confront the twisted evil secrets of the past. A marvelously evocative mystery thriller.

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The author says: ?The stories here are among (but certainly not all) my darkest creations; some are sexually disturbing, others visceral and graphically violent, while others are just plain dark in nature. While I wouldnt go so far as to call them all erotic, a few do have elements of the erotic in them. But I doubt most folks would get off on them! Ive also included three of my vampire storiesliterally the first one I wrote, followed by what has been undoubtedly the most successful one (both financially and critically; it was named one of the Years Best Fantasy and Horror stories), and concluding with a previously unpublished story.? Twelve tales that will chill you to the bone, and take you places you've never been before!

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BATTLING BOXING STORIES presents 15 of the most intense and hard-hitting stories about the puglisitic arts collected in one place and written by some of the best of today's new crop of exciting writers. The stories in this book highlight all types of boxers and all aspects of the sport, from amateur bouts and illegal street fights, to heavyweight championship events. These are wonderful stories with unforgettable characters who are full of passion and emotion, action and rage--heartfelt tales about real people fighting for their lives, their honor, and sometimes their very souls. Each story captures that rare magic--the combination of violence and magesty that takes place in the boxing ring. Your ears will still be ringing with the sting of these battles long after you finish this book! The authors featured include: Wayne D. Dundee, Stan Trybulski, Ron Fortier, Robert S. P. Lee, G. D. McFetridge, Arlette Lees, Terence Butler, Marc Spitzer, C. J. Henderson, Gary Lovisi, Garnett Elliott, Penelope Stanhope, Michael A. Black, Lonni Lees, and William Boyle.

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William Boyle, Lonni Lees, Garnett Elliott, Robert S. P. Lee, G. D. McFetridge, Michael A. Black, Stan Trybulski, Wayne D. Dundee, Terence Butler, C. J. Henderson, Ron Fortier, Penelope Stanhope, Arlette Lees, Marc Spitzer, Gary Lovisi

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Maggie came with her sister Rebecca to Heather House, to recover from the drowning deaths of their two husbands. They thought a few months in the country would be wonderful therapy. But the house seems to be haunted by the ghost of its one-time owner, Heather Lambert, who (it is said) waits in the tower room for the return of her errant husband. And when Maggie discovers the portrait of Heather hidden in the cellar, the woman from the past seems to come alive for her. She sees someone just out of the range of her vision, and she smells the scent of heather in the air... Another thrilling tale of romantic suspense by a master storyteller.

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R. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only get worse. Tom's *Feng shui* consultancy implodes when some bastard drives a Mack truck through his heritage office. Fatal things keep happening to his phones. And who's been blabbing about his racehorse-doping past? The love of his life has made a ten-year vow of celibacy to the Virgin Mary. Tom's Goth daughter's girlfriend's obese sister has vanished, extremely foul play suspected. Meanwhile, an unusual racing camel named Nile Fever has become an animal of interest to the Australian Federal Police, and Tom is up to his neck in the middle of the mess. I'm Dying Here is a darkly comic crime caper that leaves no taboo, or cell phone, unviolated. "This is a comic, crazy, original crime novel. You won't find another one like it this year, or, more likely, ever." Bill Crider. "What it reminds me of, powerfully, is a Donald Westlake comic novel about Dormunder. If you did smart, funny caper novels, I suspect you'll like this one as much as I do." Todd Mason. "Think anything Joseph Wambaugh, and then make it much more funny, and you start to get an idea of how much fun this is to read." Amazon five-star review.

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The midnight moon rode high in the sky above the storm clouds sweeping in from the west, and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible and evil. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets of the windows staring intently along the twisting drive. There were eldritch shadows in the house. On the floor of the library at the rear of the house, the strange cabalistic designs glowed with an eerie, devilish light. There was a flickering inside the room as of corpse candles, a cold radiance, a manifestation of the aura of evil that had never left the place, which was crystallised inside its very walls. This was a house of evil, filled with THE LONELY SHADOWS of the dead! 

Also included in this collection are "The Seventh Image," "Shirley's Ghost," and the two Cthulhu Mythos stories, "Undersea Quest" and "Innsmouth Bane."

First-rate horror by a master of the genre!

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The happy camaraderie of the Porthcove Studios holiday hotel is shattered by the arrival of the misanthropic George Bullard. The unpleasant Bullard goes out of his way to taunt and annoy both staff and fellow artist guests. So when he's found brutally murdered, everyone in the hotel comes under suspicion as having a motive to kill him. And when a second guest is pushed down the stairs leading to the beach, the police are baffled--and it falls to the unorthodox lady detective Miss Isabelle Eaton to unmask the murderer. A first-rate British crime novel!

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Roger needed Lenny, or thought he did, but he did not need Zak or Marty, or the way Lenny acted under their influence. And he definitely did not need to have them move in with him. But Roger's needs and wants were no longer on Lenny's mind. He had another agenda: taking Roger for all he was worth. And he didn't particularly care what he had to do to get his hands on the family jewels! A classic novel of gay life.

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Reubin Flood, the most wanted man in the history of the Federation of Planets, is one of the few remaining survivors of "Olde Earthe," as it's now called. He's also the most dangerous human alive, when he finds himself cornered on an agricultural planet named Snister. Following his wife's murder, Reubin vowed to destroy the company world government; but to do so, he has to find some way of controlling the alternate personality that lurks deep in his subconscious--Habu, a primeval berserker of inhuman proportions, whose only purpose is to kill, maim, and destroy. Every major law enforcement agency in the Galaxy has been hunting "Habu" for centuries, following the massacre of another world's entire population. As the forces gather against Reubin/Habu, each intertwined personality must learn to live with the other if they're both going to survive. A stunning SF adventure, available for the first time in two decades!

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"Lost Horizon" is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a movie in 
1937 by director Frank Capra of the same title. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.

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"Good-bye, Mr. Chips" tells the story of a much-beloved schoolteacher and his long tenure at Brookfield, a fictional boys' public boarding school. Mr. Chipping conquers his inability to connect with his students, as well as his initial shyness, when he marries Katherine, a young woman whom he meets on holiday and who quickly picks up on calling him by his nickname, "Chips." 

Despite his own mediocre academic record, he goes on to have an illustrious career as an inspiring educator at Brookfield. Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out, and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He is seen as an individual who is able to connect to anyone on a human level, beyond what he (by proxy of his former wife) views as petty politics, such as the strikers, the Boers, and a German friend.

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The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

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In the longest of the four Cthulhu Mythos stories in this collection, "The Legacy of Erich Zann," the violin and the music that the ill-fated musician left behind become the target, some fifteen years later, for a mysterious searcher who will stop at nothing--including murder--to obtain them. Edgar Allan Poe's great detective, Auguste Dupin, who's endangered because of his connection to Zann, must not only figure out who--but why. 

In the original novella, "The Seeds from the Mountains of Madness," it turns out that the famous Captain Oates, whose body was never found after he left Scott's tent in the Antarctic, did not die after all--or, if he did, still retained his ability to function in the world. Sent back to England with a mission to fulfill, Oates seeks the help of an old school friend, a veteran of the Great War--who must also play detective, endeavoring to determine who or what has sent Oates back--and, of course, why! 

Also included are two short stories, "The Holocaust of Ecstasy" and "The Truth About Pickman." 

Riveting horror--gripping mystery--from a master storyteller.

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The Maltese Falcon and 10 More Detective Stories

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This volume collects the novel "The Maltese Falcon" and 10 short stories by Dashiell Hammett: "Too Many Have Lived," "They Can Only Hang You Once," "A Man Called Spade," "Afraid of a Gun," "The Assistant Murderer," "House Dick," "Night Shade," "The Judge Laughed Last," "His Brother's Keeper," and "The Man Who Killed Dan Odams."

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Heres a potpourri of original stories and poems from up-and-coming West Virginia writers, edited by well-known author Victor J. Banis. The anthology includes: The Reckoning, Metamorphosis, and The Thief by Bev Rees; Rosie and Mac by Sally Brinkmann; Dear Ann Landers: Excerpts from a Novel in Progress, by Craig Tucker; AIDS DiariesFrancel, Day Lights, Night Lights, and Hob Knobbin by Eve Birch; Pappys Angels, Big Easys, and A Wildwood Flounder by Leigh Horne; The Azalea Quartet: An Excerpt from a Novel in Progress by Trish Rudder; The Child Bride of Lester Cooley, The Shiny Black Car, and Love in a Lobster Pot by Calvert Estill; Harai by Christine Kaye; and Precious Child: A Memoir of Healing by Wanda R. Riggle, and an "Introduction" by Victor J. Banis. Although the regional flavor comes through in every page of this book, many of the stories could be set in any milieu, and still be successful. Great writingand great reading!

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Sally Brinkmann, Eve Birch, Christine Kaye, Craig Tucker, Bev Rees, Leigh Horne, Trish Rudder, Calvert Estill, Wanda R. Riggle, Victor J. Banis

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Jenny Kane loves weird science--but it's gone way, WAY out of control. Her mother's moved out, her dad's still moping around, and she's not sure how to cope any longer. And she keeps getting these weird phone calls from a scientist named Rod who's...where?...when?--another time zone? Another time altogether? Another reality? But that'd be crazy, wouldn't it? 

She also has the strangest feeling that she's done all this before. Who's this odd boy she just crashed into--this Tristan? How does she even know his name--or the fact that he can perform parlor-type "magic" tricks?

Hilarious, exciting, touching, ZONES is a classic adventure of time travel: a great SF adventure that grabs you with its opening lines--and then never lets you go!

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The Vampire Megapack collection 27 tales of vampires! Authors represented included Bram Stoker, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Darrell Schweitzer, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and many more. The complete contents are:

"Mrs. Amworth," by E. F. Benson
"Lost Epiphany," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"Weeping Willow," by T. A. Bradley
"The Greater Thirst," by Marilyn Mattie Brahen
"Clarimonde," by Theophile Gautier
"Waiting for the Hunger, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"Kvetchula," by Darrell Schweitzer
"A Vampire," by Luigi Capuana
"Omega," by Jason Andrew
"Accommodation," by Michael R. Collings
"The Art of the Smile," by John Gregory Betancourt
"Renfields Syndrome," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"The Pimp," by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"Runaway," by Darrell Schweitzer
"Sympathy for Vampires," by John Gregory Betancourt
"The Secret of Kralitz," by Henry Kuttner
"The Fourth Horseman," by Peter Darbyshire
"Cravat of the Damned," by Zach Bartlett
"Help Wanted," by Michael McCarty and Terrie Leigh Relf
"Siren Song," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"An Authenticated Vampire Story," by Franz Hartmann
"Draculas New Dress," by Ray Cluley
"Draculas Guest," by Bram Stoker
"The Bats," by David Anderson
"The Room in the Tower," by E. F. Benson

And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Megapack" to see other volumes in this series, from westerns to science fiction to ghost stories to mysteries...and many more!

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Nina Kiriki Hoffman

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They call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ship's biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially appears to be one of the few Earth colonies that's actually prospered since its initial settlement. But underneath the surface of the society, the "Planners" keep a strict, repressive rule over the Florians, while the police are apparently attempting to assert their own authority. But is either group actually what they seem? Daedalus Mission, Book One.

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Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative; Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful hard science fiction visions.

The fourteen stories collected here are glimpses into the most fantastic possibilities of human evolution-biological, social, and cultural. From a New York split into warring walled enclaves, to the destiny of our species as a strain of virus, to an Africa made over by nanotech messiahs, to a future Earth protected by half-alien angels, to wars of liberation from what we have always so tragically been: these are only some of the awe-inspiring transitions to be found in Babylon Sisters. Read here of rebellion by books against their librarian, of cosmic destiny remade by stellar lunatics, of disorienting ventures beyond the boundaries of the human; discover here the perverse and terrible dangers of the age of posthumanity.