The Extra Day (Annotated) - 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...

When a man Violet Campbell never thought to see again arrives in Silver Falls claiming she agreed to marry him, she denies it immediately. When the persistent man won't take no for an answer and has no...

Scarred. Broken. Alone. Until an angel shows up and proves I'd only been waiting… for her.Elena -- I lost my parents as a kid, but a reverend and his wife took me in. They were good to me, even if there...

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...

  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...

Hope Walker's world is turned upside down when a medical report reveals her dream of motherhood is slipping away. With her biological clock ticking loudly, she's willing to settle for a loveless marriage...

Tiff hates her job, where her boss tears her down every chance he gets. Her mother always has something to say about how she lives her life. Running is her escape from her constant anxiety, until four...

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...

Embark on a captivating journey through time with our Renaissance Bride Anthology, where tales of love and destiny unfold against the rich tapestry of the 15th and 16th centuries. Delve into the stories...

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...

The POTO quartet returns for more adventures in 1889! Christine goes on an inspiring visit to the new Eiffel Tower, Meg realizes how chaotic babysitting can get and Raoul is forced to face the sour music....

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...

Hally, an exiled elf, thought the worst was behind her…but the fae have other plans. After a century hiding among humans, her life was upended by an elven mage seeking to exploit her magic. As Hally settles...

When scientist Luke Ashburton arrives to open the Earl of Bexley's new museum, the last thing he expects to find is the building on fire.Luke is tasked with overseeing its salvage, but needs the late...

Death. That was the omen that the crows and ravens brought to Inkeri, a half-Fae wielder of the elemental power of Water.Deep in the desert Idros Ahdreide, men had lost their lives in battle against a...

Twilight's Brightest Star, the final chapter of the Winds of Change Trilogy, follows Starla Silverson from a small town in California to an epic global adventure, transforming her life in ways she never...

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,...

Picture the classic story of Job, reimagined as a Princess Bride fractured fairy tale, co-written by C.S. Lewis and Monty Python, and you'll have a picture of the warm, witty and wonderfully romantic...

From Kindle #1 bestselling author of Wall of Silence comes a gripping psychological thriller where dark family secrets and chilling winter mysteries lie just beneath the surface.Some promises can kill.Then:...

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...

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...

From USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Xavier Neal comes the second installment in this MMF, age-gap, dark romance series!One determined female with lifechanging news.Two protective, small-town best friends...

Dylan's life began humbly in a small town in the Netherlands in 1984. The youngest of three brothers, he was an exceptionally bright child with a high IQ and highly sensitive personality. While his intelligence...

The four of us were inseparable. Until we weren't. Until that day that changed everything. The race that took him away from us, from me. The day that tore us apart. Now, six years later, the two that...

A Mothers quest to find out what happend to her son, why he was murdered. Both Where investigative reporters, This mother will not stop to find out answers.

'Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row'' Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post'Grady is a master...

April, 1941. At the former Whitechapel Road Underground station, repurposed as an air raid shelter since the onset of the Blitz, the body of a woman has been discovered, stabbed and eviscerated. With...

TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and...

Bologna, 1575.A talented seamstressA powerful merchantA fierce battle of willsElena Morandi has gained a fragile foothold in the workshop of a master tailor, despite the profession being officially barred...

When gods war...Death is everywhere, Hopelessness. Despair. Dark Days.Fate has chosen her champions, and no one will expect what two children can do against the might of the Last God.They don't know it...

It was Fern Honeycutt's eyes that gave her away. Not witch. All demon.Her coven saw her as an abomination, handing her over to pure evil.She escaped, but a lone female is an easy target. When breeder...