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Some Literary Essays revises the work of several important dramatists who cast their influence over contemporary drama and political thinking and some important types of Elizabethan verse. Dramatists like Shaw, Beckett and contemporary ideological writers like David Edgar, Howard Brenton and Edward...

In 1973 the aging Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess was taken from Spandau Prison to the British Military hospital in Berlin for a medical examination attended by specialists from the four Allied powers. Dr Terry supervised the X-rays and was shocked to discover that the prisoner has no scarring on his...

This is the story of individuals who came together from many different places around the world. They endured many trials and tribulations and actively pursued a better life for themselves and their offspring. During that struggle, they were often cruel to each other and failed miserably. Nevertheless,...

The Dark Cloud War is an endless nightmare for Exploitation recon trooper Prophet and his squadies. The alien Choakar are wreaking havoc on Berichros, joined by the Realm, slaughtering millions with GX bioweapons. Strange new aliens suddenly appear in the war zone and Prophet and Exploitation must...

It is 1969 and the Vietnam War has been raging for over five years. The North Vietnamese Army has increased their cross-border attacks on American troops from their hidden jungle sanctuaries in Laos and Cambodia. Operating deep inside Laos and Cambodia, elite Green Beret Studies and Observation, or...

“When we arrived at the 381st Bomb Group at Ridgewell we were advised that the casualty rate was 25%. We were the first replacements for the group in July of 1943. On our very first mission we lost our squadron commander. We didn’t see how we’d survive to see our families again.” The 8th Air...

Johnstown, New York, 1823: It is a time when a wife’s dowry, even children, automatically becomes her husband’s property. Slavery is an economic advantage entrenched in America but rumblings of abolition abound. For Elizabeth Cady to confront this culture is unheard of, yet that is exactly...

When Brooklyn private eye Eddie Lombardi gets his first case after coming back from World War II, it doesn't figure to be challenging: find the part-time waitress at a strip club who's stolen five hundred dollars of the club's money. Trouble is, in the process of tracking down the runaway waitress,...

When New Hampshire-based freelance travel writer Katherine “Kit” McCormick reviews her life, she can only give it three stars out of five. Just a few years shy of fifty, she’s settled into a pleasant but all-too-predictable cadence—until a freak car accident catapults her out of her complacency...

Everyone has seen firemen. Not as many know them. They are brave, trained professionals dedicated to keeping life and property safe. Throughout history, they showed compassion and kindness to every living creature they encountered, and they often risked life and limb for the sake of a puppy as much...

Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, amateur athletics in America have endured radical changes, facelifts that have rendered certain sports -- high school basketball in particular -- almost unrecognizable to an older generation of fans. Deficiencies in our urban-education system, the proliferation...

Graham Young’s gin-soaked life in Jakarta is a dull but comfortable existence, even after the bloody riots that mark the fall of the Soeharto regime. But a chance meeting in a bar with an obnoxious and creepy ex-pat hurls him headlong into a nightmare from which there seems no escape. Hounded by...

Sgt. Windflower is back on the case in Grand Bank. This time there’s a missing girl, trouble at the factory and signs of danger everywhere. But there’s always good food, good friends and good company to make life worthwhile. All the usual characters and a few new suspects are back to help Windflower unravel the web of deceit and deception that threatens the small community.

The Trees of Malice is a collection of sixteen stories of horror and the weird. The stories portray people like you, caught up in events where the ordinary, everyday world they know crumbles. Some of these stories could happen, even if unlikely; others take place only in the improbable world of the...