A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Throughout his career, Charles Dickens often turned his hand to fashioning short pieces of ghostly fiction, and began the tradition of "the ghost story at Christmas". Many of his supernatural tales are presented here, including the brilliant novella "The Haunted man and the ghost's bargain", which deserves to be as well known as "A Christmas carol". While all aim to send a shiver down the spine, they are not without the usual traits of Dickens' flamboyant style: his subtle wit, biting irony, humorous incidents and moral observations. This & ... |
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Complete and unabridged. The greatest of all story writers, Montague Rhodes James , summarised the qualities of a ghost story as "malevolence and terror, the glare of evil faces, the stony grin of unearthly malice, pursuing forms in darkness, long-drawn, distant screams, together with a modicum of blood, shed with deliberation". The stories in this anthology all meet these requirements, and they range from the traditional ghost story which is based on folklore and expressed in characteristically gothic fashion to the psychological ghost story where the horror may be in the mind of the beholder, and to the ... |
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Edited by David Stuart Davies. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Blend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with a wonderful facility for recounting a dark, compelling tale, add a dash of the supernatural, and you have a potent brew of spine-tingling tales. This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters as: Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker , Oscar Wilde , W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland. Within these pages you will find strange accounts of haunted houses, death warnings from beyond the grave, and revengeful spirits, all guaranteed to stir the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one, and Montague Rhodes James was a master of the genre. He draws the reader into a narrative that at first seems innocuous, but which becomes darker and darker by gentle turns until he transfixes you with his prose, creating the most unforgettable, alarming and frightening images. "Complete Ghost Stories" by M. R. James contains all his timeless masterpieces from the four collections of his eerie tales: "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" (1904), "More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" ... |
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Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find your kindred spirits at The Sad Ghost Club. (You are not alone. Shhh. Pass it on.) This is the story of one of those days - a day so bad you can barely get out of bed, when it's a struggle to leave the house, and when you do, you wish you hadn't. But even the worst of days can surprise you. When one sad ghost, alone at a crowded party, spies another sad ghost across the room, they decide to leave together. What happens next changes everything. Because that night they start the The Sad Ghost Club - a secret ... |
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Познавате ли добре семейството си? Сигурни ли сте, че знаете всяка малка тайна от вашето родословие? Дори и да е така, никога не можете да бъдете сигурни. Адриана живее съвсем обикновен живот, когато светът и се променя изцяло. Тя се оказва в центъра на древен конфликт, от който може да излезе само ако открие същността си. Дали ще успее да се справи с всички препятствия по пътя си, или тъмнината ще надделее? Ключът към успеха се крие в миналото и в създаването на света. ... |
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A heart-warming series about friendship, compassion and finding your kindred spirits. When two strangers meet at a party and realise they both feel different from everyone else there, they start the "The Sad Ghost Club" - a secret society for the anxious and alone, a club for people who think they don't belong. But when a third ghost wants to join the club, things get a bit more complicated. Can the two ghosts overcome their insecurities and uncertainties in their new friendship, and find a way to welcome new members to the club? Stunningly illustrated, this is Volume 2 in a new graphic novel series, for ... |
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"Роман много по-различен от всичко онова, което излиза днес в областта на белетристиката. Кара те да почувстваш реално нещо, което трябва да признаем, че сме склонни да забравяме, а именно - притежаването от нас на безсмъртна и вечна душа!" Проф. д-р Николай Маджуров "Великолепна книга, която толкова години след нейното написване е все така актуална и пророческа! Книга, която има силата да преобръща и да вдъхва надежда в тънещия в безнадеждност свят. Защото нещата в този живот са гатанки от небето, както казва Св. Николай Велимирович. Изправени пред решаване на личният ни ребус, осъзнаваме че безобидни ... |
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През тази година известният композитор и диригент Александър Владигеров щеше да навърши 75, но вече 15 г. той не е между живите. Съпругата му Вили се обърнала към колеги и приятели на Сашо да напишат нещо за него. Така се ражда книгата "Свободен дух", в която спомени разказват проф. Васил Казанджиев, Милчо Левиев, проф. Георги Бадев, проф. Венцислав Николов, Емил Табаков, проф. Йосиф Радионов, Теодор Мусев, проф. Милена Моллова, проф. Петър Петров, Александрина Милчева, проф. Гинка Гичкова, Мара Чапанова, Златина Коцева и др. Те по един или друг начин подчертават светлата диря, която Александър Владигеров остави ... |
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Retold by Rosemary Border . ... "After dinner we turned the lights out and played hide and seek. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with... with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house! We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen. Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see..." By the book Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the ... |
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The Canterville Ghost Sir Simon de Canterville is a ghost. He has lived in his house for hundreds of years. His job is to terrify the people who stay there. Then Mr. Otis, an American, buys the house. And the ghost is angry - he cannot frighten the Otis family. The Model Millionaire Hughie Erskine loves Laura Merton. But Hughie is poor and he cannot marry her. Then one day he meets a beggar and all his wishes come true. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Mr. Podgers can read people's hands. Mr. Podgers reads Lord Arthur Savile's hand a party. What will Lord Arthur's future be? This book is in ... |
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От трите съчинения, събрани в настоящия сборник, двете представляват писма, писани от Такуан. Първото "Фудочишин мъороку" или "Тайнственият запис (писание) на Непоколебима мъдрост" е писано до Ягю Муненори, глава на школата за майстори на сабята (меча) Ягю Шинкаге и учител на две поколения шогуни. Второто писмо - "Тайаки" или "Хрониките на сабята Тайя", вероятно също до Муненори или може би до Оно Тадаки, глава на школата Итто в бойните изкуства със сабя (меч), а също и официален наставник на семейството на шогуна и близките му подчинени. Докато "Тайнственият запис на ... |
