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Seventeen of the best fantasy stories -- taken from highly acclaimed collections of the '70s -- are presented here with biographical notes. A new introduction by the editors places these stories in the context of the literary traditions which fostered them.

Brings together 8 Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics. According to A Catalogue of Crime, ." . . one marvels again at Doyle's natural gift of story-telling.

The place: a remote shelter on the promenade at Selby-on-Sea, the occasion: a stormy evening in late November, the victim: somebody ready-made for a crack-of-doom from a coal hammer.

These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the children's French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. The era of the 1930s is wittily and shrewdly recreated with amusing illustrations.The P.L. finds herself slogging through the mud of a collective farm, coping with Soviet trains and hotels and almost literally rubbing shoulders ...

Walking on the sand before breakfast, Carolus Deene's cousin Fay comes upon the head of Lilliane Bomberger, the celebrated and universally detested novelist.

It all begins on January 13th, 1943, when Fort York is in the midst of its most complete wartime blackout. Suddenly there are reports of an eerie light in the marshes outside town. Tretheway finds evidence of weird practices that his friend Cynthia Moon identifies as the work of a coven of witches.

The account of a scientific expedition by 4 intrepid Englishmen from the safety of Victorian London to a remote plateau in the South American jungle. In this region beyond time, they encounter hideous survivors from the dawn of history.

From the beginnings of the East India Company in the seventeenth century down to February 28, 1948, when the Somerset Light Infantry became the last British soldiers to leave Indian soil, Moorhouse charts the course of British rule in India.

Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed: Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. The changes that take place between husband and wife and particularly between parents and children are both fascinating and poignant.

Late one rainy night in London a bus is bombed, passengers are maimed and killed. What the police ultimately find leads them to murder, illegal arms sales, and defections from the provisional IRA. The reader finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the tangled relationships of the "Provos." The clash of personalities amidst the ferment and contradictions of the IRA cause makes for absorbing reading.

A detailed and moving account of the indignities and cruelties Jews have undergone at the hands of Christians and others in the West, from St John Chrysostom in the 4th century to Hitler in the 20th. Using Hitler's concentration camps as a point of departure, Hay leads us on a tour of the devilish scenes and spectacles which have been produced by Christian hatred of Jews for some 1900 years.

Carolus Deene becomes involved in his latest adventure when a famous restaurateur is threatened by a protection racketeer and a well-known writer of cookbooks is murdered under extraordinary circumstances.

Five men occupied their usual places in a first-class carriage, but the sixth place was empty . . ." A strange-looking man enters the compartment. When he is told that the sixth seat is taken, he replies, in a deep sepulchral voice, "He won't be coming." He is right.

In a gloomy London suburb, a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing at random with brutal knife thrusts from behind. Three women fall victim, and the terrorized residents wait to see who will be next.

The series that started it all!In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powe...

The father of English literature shines in this authoritative selection from the greatest collection of narrative poems in the English language. Includes footnotes, normalized spelling, and a glossary of Middle English. Reissue.