The Centaur - formato ePub

En esta excelente recopilación de relatos, Algernon Blackwood deja de manifiesto su maestría para lo sobrenatural. Sus historias van siempre de menos a más, captan la atención del lector gracias a una...

Al evocar las misteriosas fuerzas espirituales de la naturaleza, los escritos de Algernon Blackwood habitan la nebulosa frontera entre la fantasía, el asombro, la maravilla y el terror. Del autor de Los...

And instinctively, once alone, I made for the places where she had painted her extraordinary pictures; I tried to see what she had seen. Perhaps, now that she had opened my mind to another view, I should...

Set on the snaking, sinuous Danube River, Algernon Blackwood's tale "The Willows" represents a high point in the development of the horror genre. Indeed, acknowledged master H.P. Lovecraft regarded it...

Algernon Blackwood played a major role in developing and refining the genre known as 'weird' horror fiction. Concerned with the mystical, mysterious, and uncanny, weird horror writing is tailor-made for...

Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo" tells the story of a camping trip in the Canadian wilderness that goes horribly wrong when the hunters become the hunted. Drawing on the mythical creature known as the...

Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London, but then part of northwest Kent) and educated at Wellington College. His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to...

Questa raccolta di racconti è indubbiamente un capolavoro della letteratura fantastica, scritto da uno dei più raffinati specialisti del soprannaturale. Il medico Silence, l'investigatore, ha la capacità...

The Wendigo is a novella by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Lost Valley and Other Stories (Eveleigh Nash, 1910). In the wilderness north of Rat Portage in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen...

"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been...

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening...

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-known writers of fantasy and horror, set in a place and time Blackwood knew well. The Wendigo. Algernon Blackwood

Although Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe...Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English short story writer and novelist,...

Jimbo is a delicious book, and one that should be read by all who long at times to escape from this working-day world into the region of haunting and half-remembered things. Algernon Blackwood was one...

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance...

Judy, Tim, and Maria were just little children. It was impossible to say exactly what their ages were, except that they were just the usual age, that Judy was the eldest, Maria the youngest, and that...

Travel to exciting and dangerous Dimensions with us...Get Me OutThe day after the Fourth of July, Shaya receives a panicked call from her father: "Come and get me out of here!" His voice trembles with...

Welcome to Lakeside, Montana, a small town nestled on the shores of Flathead Lake.With its tight-knit community, small private college, and an eclectic mix of locals, college students, and summer visitors,...

She might as well be unicorn hunting as dating…Her work saves lives, which is why being a pediatric oncologist comes first in Dr. Cherry Carmichael's life. Dating comes second. Or maybe even third because...

A Christmas Blizard, Four Second Chances, One Unforgettable Holiday Collection Coming Home for Christmas brings together steamy holiday romances where snowy storms, second chances, and Christmas magic...

Discover a world of passion with a box set of eleven steamy Irish medieval and Viking romances! Enjoy tropes such as enemies to lovers, alpha warriors, secret babies, marriages of convenience, and Beauty...

Will winter ever end? As Kimberly grapples with her recent transition into a vampire, the Calem brothers struggle with the aftereffects of drinking Akira's blood. Adding to their troubles, Aaron's hunger...

I have a secret admirer…Ginger:When I got the first letter from my secret admirer, I was flattered.With the second, I grew intrigued.By the third, I'm starting to fall in love with him.I wish that I could...

I'll trade ya a story for a drink.It's a story about a handsome son of a gun and his trusty dragon, Bean, on the hunt for the notorious train robber, Talon. In a land shaped by dragons, magic, and bullets,...

All he wanted was to sell flowers, not fall for the local tattoo artist.After a breakup, Soyer has decided that moving to a quiet small town might just be what he needs to rebuild his life. He has no...

In 1988, five years after suffering the loss of his family, Stephen McCaffery, a former police detective turned private investigator, is lured into the eerie depths of rural Georgia, tasked with finding...

Someone has to speak for the dead. She simply didn't expect to be counted among them. After a mysterious viral attack targets an elite Washington DC event, an intrepid reporter finds herself trapped in...

Amaryllis gave up her profession as a musician when her country's ordinances forbade music.When she stumbles upon someone from her past, she finds herself pulled toward music once again. Is the solace...

Although this book is fiction, it is reflective of the horrible plague being faced by many in Indian Country. This book brings to life the daily struggle of those suffering with addiction, as well as...

Can two people heal together to find love with each other?When Josh Livingston is left at the altar, all that remains is his surgical career in New York City. After a near-fatal mishap occurs, he is forced...

This world—and the others that exist on different planes and time—have numerous running stories of treachery, evil, deceit, magic, and exhaustion. Some lines are bending and twisting with others. Some...

When her enslaved daughter is sold into the clutches of the most sadistic plantation owner on the island, Perreen is desperate to free her. As Master Hodge's barbaric treatment of all on his estate escalates,...

Meet Dashiell Allman—Dash for short. She loves long walks on the beach, Jimmy Buffet, and a good mystery, which is why she became a Private Investigator and lives in a cottage on the beach.Join Dash as...

Shocking. Intriguing. Heart-Wrenching. Connor Whiteley's Uniformed Cabal takes readers on an unputdownable emotional rollercoaster in this sensational new addition to the acclaimed series.As Private Eye...

She swore off love, but can two former flames reignite the spark? Being left at the altar was devastating, but for Regina, it was the final confirmation—she didn't need a man. After all, who needs love...

Noah I never expected this life to be an easy one. My band needs a new deal, and our next tour is our best and maybe only time to find it. I've got plans, though. Good ones. I just need everything to...

When a young woman disappears after a night out in the bustling city, the incident barely makes a ripple—her absence dismissed as voluntary by local authorities. But for Martin Bainbridge, a law student...

  I thought waking up accidentally married to the man I hate was the worst thing that could happen to me.I was wrong.Because now I have a stalker, which is unthinkable in my small town.Did I mention the...

I never thought moving in with my best friend would mean putting my heart on the line. Elise I did it. I pulled the plug on my relationship. After tolerating his childish ways for far too long, I finally...

Life isn't going well for forty-something Josie Roberts. Her marriage has dissolved, and the narcissistic songwriter ex-husband who took everything just happens to be the current darling of the music...

An inexperienced alpha, a terrified omega mate, and a continued unknown threat. Will Gordon be able to protect his mate when he doesn't know when the next attack will happen?Two attacks in his hometown...

No rest ye frightened gentlemenFull of horror and dismay…When the St. Wenceslas Episcopal Church choir bus gets trapped in a snowdrift on the way to a Christmas Eve competition, the eleven members find...

In the heart of Meryton, a grand masquerade ball offers Elizabeth Bennet an unexpected escape from society's expectations, while Mr. Darcy sees it as a tiresome obligation. Yet, hidden behind elaborate...

Canadian writer W.O. Mitchell once said "Humans need other humans to protect each other from the terror of being human". In the three novellas and nineteen stories between these covers, Michael Summerleigh...

The Lincoln Barnes story continues in the second installment of the Lake Superior Mystery Trilogy. Barnes has left the Minneapolis PD and begins a new chapter of her life in Lake County, Minnesota, as...

Chance 'The Troublemaker' Wright was always pushing boundaries and testing limits. But when his reckless antics end in a deadly accident, Trinity High School breathes a collective sigh of relief. Or do...