In the large room of a house in a certain quiet city in Flanders, a man was gilding a devil. The chamber looked on to the quadrangle round which the house was built; and the sun, just overhead, blazed...

MARY STEWART was born at Linlithgow on December 8th, the Festival of the Immaculate Conception, 1542, sole heiress of one of the most splendid families, and one of the greatest misfortunes in Europe....

“A man of unwearied industry, inflexible constancy, sound, clear, and deep understanding and untainted integrity; so that whenever he was blinded, it was by the passion that he had for that which he esteemed...

“You look as if you was going to cut your throat.” “Funny, Min, I was thinking of it.” “Got any beer or gin — a mouthful of the real ‘knock me down’?” “No, I haven’t.” “Oh, ain’t it shocking. Any luck...

There was very little for her to see as Mrs. Sacret closed the mean door on her empty home. There was no one in the street of small, ugly houses, the sky was a fleckless and pallid blue, the highroad...

"A man of unwearied industry, inflexible constancy, sound, clear, and deep understanding and untainted integrity; so that whenever he was blinded, it was by the passion that he had for that which he esteemed...

The Viper of Milan was first published in 1906 when its author, Marjorie Bowen, was only sixteen years old. The book has been hailed by many critics as an exemplary first novel, and one of England’s leading...

Ireland 1796 – the dream that became a nightmare Every Irish patriot was dreaming of the day when his country would be free from the tyranny of the English. Fired by the success of the revolution in France,...

In the year 1676 Madame de Brinvilliers was executed in Paris for the murders of her father, her two brothers and a sister. It was known that she had procured the mysterious poison that she had employed...

The plot revolves around the 1689 Massacre of Glencoe in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. The story with intrigue, danger and conspiracies at every level. It is also known by the alternative title...

Laura hesitated. She moved from her brother and looked out from the tall window across the landscape that she found so distasteful. At the bottom of the gentle slope on which the house stood the grey...

Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this chilling early horror work (set in the middle-ages) by Marjorie...

CONTENTS:ALGERNON BLACKWOOD1. ConfessionARTHUR B. REEVE2. The Beauty MaskARTHUR CONAN DOYLE3 to 14. The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH15. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-SandsARTHUR STANWOOD...

Algo assombra os antigos Natais. Em uma seleção especial com doze histórias de grandes mestres do suspense e fantasia, incluindo contos inéditos no Brasil, acompanhe fantasmas, moradores de mansões inadvertidos,...