A new collection of six tales of dark fantasy by a master storyteller. What happens when an occult scholar obtains an ancient grimoire and uses it to summon up the Devil? … Three tramps find a metal vessel akin to Aladdin’s Lamp and release a Jinn who grants them a wish they might come to regret… The excavation of an ancient dolman releases an imprisoned evil… Could anyone trust the proprietor of the strange little shop who claimed to be a deale ...
A new government has been elected and, as usual, savings must be made in the public service. Some individuals in the Department of Multifarious, Extraneous and Artistic Affairs will go to any lengths to be made redundant and to leave with lucre, but Alan Mewling is not one of them; he is unashamedly desperate to avoid bureaucratic irrelevance. At the very time, though, when he needs to demonstrate his indispensability to senior management, his d ...
Queen City and Other Dimensions is a humorous satire of manners, mythologies and social conventions. Satirized are a small circle of friends, Supreme Court Judges in the guise of Roman Catholic Cardinals, more than a few politicians, some evil benefactors, religion and science. There is an infamous book from a distant planet pursued by many, including the Vatican. As the book goes through a succession of hands each reader is changed by its magic ...
Москва. 2050 год. Кремль уже давно превращен в музей. Два брата отрываются от экскурсии и открывают дверь в одной из башен. В комнате за дверью аттракцион виртуальной реальности, который предлагает погрузиться в любое время в истории Кремля. Братья выбирают 1812 год…
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Ольга Громыко – популярный русскоязычный автор из Беларуси. Писательница снискала известность своими книгами в жанрах фэнтези и космической фантастики. Перед нами сборник историй по знаменитой вселенной автора, написанный в жанре космооперы. Думаете, в паузах между приключениями члены экипажа «Космического мозгоеда» скучают? Вот уж нет! Они находят другие приключения! Как тут расслабиться? То поступают весьма оригинальные грузы, то на кону би ...
Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's «serious» works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Accused of murder and denounced for repeatedly marrying his wife and attempting to live in various houses (all of which turn out to be his own), Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognize an important idea: that l ...
Stephen Leacock Collection<br><br>Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich <br>The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada <br>Frenzied Fiction <br>Further Foolishness <br>The Hohenzollerns in America <br>Literary Lapses <br>The Mariner of St Malo <br>Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy <br>Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town <br>Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense ...
Esmeralda is a shy witch who longs to be noticed. This year she and her cat Pickitywick are attending The North American Spell In, a large witch's convention and she has a plan to get the attention she deserves.<br><br>In an old spell book she finds a mysterious recipe for Changing Tea and brews up the potion. The spell is supposed to turn you into the person you have always wanted to be, and seems to be working very well unt ...
