The tales of terror and hysteria published in the heydey (1817-32) of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine became a literary legend in the nineteenth century. Blackwood's was the most important and influential literary-political journal of its time, and a ...
This book is pure fiction. Is was to be nothing more than a method the author used to take up his time while recuperating from a heart attack. As time went on, however, the author found he enjoyed the writing of the book, and, not wanting to trash ...
When they brought her out she looked quite emaciated, with circles under her eyes as large and dark as bruises and the skin of her face stretched taut over high cheekbones. Her hair, a mousy blonde in the photos, now almost matched the pale brown col...
A dark cloud of sin hangs over the puritanical village of Omer, a town lost to history and bound there by the stifling doctrine of its evil pastor, Icabod Kroll. Under the pretense of a curse, and encouraged by Kroll, the pilgrims of the town shun Ev...
A masterful biography of England's most notorious literary figure.Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of le...
Choosing a site for this adventure/romance story was easy. Grand Island lies just a bit over a mile from Munising, Michigan. It was owned by the Cleveland Cliff Iron Company until 1990 when they sold it to the U.S. Forest Service for the paltry sum o...
History sometimes suggests that the only thing worse than a man without a purpose is a man with one. Be that as it may, Danny Kaneen, failed novelist, womanizer, part-time gourmet chef and problem drinker, is unwittingly and hilariously failing his w...