Gods of the north - formato ePub

"Halcón de las Colinas" de Robert E. Howard es un relato lleno de acción que presenta a El Borak, un audaz aventurero estadounidense en Afganistán. A medida que las tensiones tribales aumentan, El Borak...

En "La Hija de Erlik Khan", El Borak, un aventurero en los desiertos de Asia Central, se embarca en una peligrosa misión para rescatar a una mujer secuestrada. Por el camino, se enfrenta a tribus mortíferas,...

Gusanos de la Tierra (Worms of the Earth) es un relato de terror del escritor norteamericano Robert E. Howard, publicado en la edición de noviembre de 1932 de la revista Weird Tales.

Conan, el bárbaro rey de Aquilonia, tiene más de sesenta años. Su esposa Zenobia ha muerto, y su hijo Conn ya es un hombre adulto. El monarca de la más poderosa nación hibória se distrae del tedio rememorando...

Kull de Atlantis, Kull de Valusia o Kull el Conquistador es un personaje ficticio creado por Robert Ervin Howard. La primera aparición del personaje data del relato El reino oscuro, publicado en la revista...

El protagonista Niord es miembro del pueblo de Nordheim. La emigración le lleva junto con su pueblo a enfrentarse a la tribu del picto Grom. Tras un duro combate en el que Niord perdona la vida a su adversario,...

«Las aventuras de Conan el Bárbaro» recoge cinco cuentos de Robert E. Howard en donde nos presenta a este entrañable personaje en diferentes etapas de su vida, desde sus comienzos en «La Torre de Elefante»...

La bruja Salomé, gemela de la reina Taramis de Khauran y repudiada por haber nacido con una marca impía, conspira para arrebatarle el trono a su hermana. Sin embargo, la conspiración se topará con un...

Uno de los primeros relatos de Conan, La hija del gigante de hielo nos presenta al cimerio después de una gran batalla, único superviviente del enfrentamiento. En medio del campo plagado de cadáveres,...

Una de las primeras y más aclamadas historias de Conan el cimerio. Mientras se encuentra en la ciudad de Zamora, nuestro héroe oye hablar del Corazón del Elefante, una joya legendaria custodiada por un...

Nuestro cimerio favorito, Conan, huye del puerto de Argos debido a una disputa judicial. A bordo del navío Argus, no tardará en sufrir el ataque de los piratas liderados por la fiera Bêlit, la reina de...

El poderoso hechicero Thugra Khotan ha despertado de un sueño de tres mil años. Ansioso de poder, adopta el nombre de Nathok el Velado y decide conquistar las naciones hibóreas. El único obstáculo en...

En una ciuadd sin nombre sita entre Zamora y Corinthia, el aristócrata Murilo y el sacerdote Nabonidus luchan por hacerse con el poder. En el punto álgido de su enfrentamiento, Murilo busca la ayuda de...

Una de las primeras aventuras de nuestro querido Conan el cimerio nos lleva a una huida llena de peligros, acción y aventura. Olivia, prisionera del sádico Shah Amurath, intenta escapar de su cautiverio...

La Era Hibórea es un ensayo del autor estadounidense Robert E. Howard en el que se aborda el universo de relatos a los que pertenece Conan del Bárbaro, famosa creación del escritor. Con tono ensayístico,...

Única novela considerada como tal del autor Robert E. Howard, La hora del dragón es una joya del género fantástico de Espada y Brujería protagonizada por su caristmático personaje Conan el Cimmerio. En...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

This captivating narrative blends stunning descriptions, powerful dialogues, and profound storytelling to bring a fresh totally unexplored perspective to the ancient legend. Encounter unknown characters...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...