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A fascinating Crime Thriller of the times of King Louis XIV.

The story begins with a series of letters between Nathanael, his fiancée Clara, and her brother Lothar. Nathanael describes a childhood fear of a creature called The Sandman who was said to come at night and steal the eyes of children, which intermingled with a the appearance of a man named Coppelius...

Contents Weird Tales, Vol. I.(of II) - THE CREMONA VIOLIN, THE FERMATA, SIGNOR FORMICA, THE SAND-MAN, THE ENTAIL, ARTHUR'S HALL, Weird Tales, Vol. II. (of II) - THE DOGE AND DOGESS, MASTER MARTIN THE COOPER, MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDÉRI, GAMBLER'S LUCK, MASTER JOHANNES WACHT, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES,

It was perhaps natural, after a thousand years of celibacy, that the Immortal Jade Lady should petition the Moon Goddess for a lover. The trouble was that he was a mortal and she was a spirit--which made for certain difficulties. Then she had to fall in love with him! Ju-hai had troubles enough...

Rod Garvin, governor of North America and Mars, is supposed to be on vacation, spending time in France with his wife, Flora, and the son he had never met, Felix. But the war leaders of North America have a new assignment for Garvin: find Lani, Imperatrix of North America, and convince her to come out...

Rod Garvin just made too many waves for the Thought Control Board that controlled the 21st century. Throwing him in an insane asylum didn't restrain him. Nor, when that didn't work, did sentencing him to a suicide job on Mars. Garvin was bright, driven, and stubborn. The only thing Thought Control could...

In the 21st century, Avery Jarvis "Doc" Brandon lived in luxurious seclusion on subtropical Nameless Island. An immensely wealthy gene-engineer who dabbled in illegal baby-making, Doc was 186 years of age and looked 35. But a storm loomed on the horizon. Bureaucrats had blundered across Doc's real age....

SATAN’S FOOTPRINTS GUIDEBOOK tourists to Southern France concentrate on Biarritz; but those who love unspoiled antiquity prefer Bayonne, that gray-walled city that basks in the warmth of the Pyrenees and guards the road to Spain. The moat that girdles the citadel is dry, and the drawbridges are no...

Alexander Heflin, Imperator of North American, had his hands full: a war was brewing that could destroy the Imperium. Seeking to protect his wife, Lani, from their increasingly powerful enemies, Alex called on the one person he could trust: ex-war hero Rod Garvin. Babysitting an Imperatrix seemed too...

No man is happier than Li Fong -- until he discovers his lovely wives are really serpent-demons! Long and long ago, before the foreign devils came, old China was a land of ancient culture and strange magic. There, Li Fong, a student of apothecary, seems the luckiest of men. By what has to be happy chance,...

This novel is based on the real-life story of the author, only some names have been changed. It begins in 1929, in a small rural village near the northern edge of the Black Forest in southern Germany. During the annual visit of the Gypsies from Hungary, the Gypsy matriarch tells his mother of her...

Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Inhalt: Die Heilige und ihr Narr (Agnes Günther) Das Geschenk der Weisen (O.Henry) Der kleine...

Es duftet nach Tannen, Zimt und Glühwein - die Vorfreude auf das Weihnachtsfest steigt in uns auf. Wir schmücken die Stube, backen Plätzchen, besorgen Geschenke, hören stimmungsvolle Musik und halten stille Einkehr. Weihnachtsgeschichten lenken unseren Blick auf das Wesentliche dieser Zeit und...

A forbidden fling Jack Quinn has always been his widowed mother's fiercest protector. So, when his mom decides to reunite with her childhood sweetheart all the way out in California, there's no question-Jack's going with her, and to hell with the consequences…. Mia McMahon isn't exactly...