Aficionados of supernatural fiction will take perverse pleasure in the hair-raising horrors recounted in these outstanding examples of the genre. Featuring a gallery of ghostly characters, forbidding landscapes, gloomy country manors, and occult occurrences, this spine-tingling collection features works by such masters of the macabre as Bram Stoker (the creator of Dracula), J. S. LeFanu, Ambrose Bierce, and M. R. James. The ten classics included in this volume are: "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, E. G. Swain's "Bone to His Bone," "The Rose Garden" by M. R. James, Dickens's...
Aficionados of supernatural fiction will take perverse pleasure in the hair-raising horrors recounted in these outstanding examples of the genre. F...
Thirteen compelling and influential documents: Patrich Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," Delcaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, James Madision's The Federalist, George Washington's First INaugural Address, The Monroe Doctrine, Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and more.
Thirteen compelling and influential documents: Patrich Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," Delcaration of Independence, The Constitution of th...
"Contains a number of excellent stories, including several considered Bierce's best. I have to say, all of them were quite good, and I was impressed at how so many of them are still terrifying and suspenseful over a hundred years after Bierce wrote them." --Battered, Tattered, Yellowed & Creased Famed for the mordant wit and satire of his essays and newspaper columns, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) also possessed a fascination with the macabre. His masterful tales of the supernatural bespeak an imagination generations ahead of its time, exhibiting impressionistic conceits of reality in...
"Contains a number of excellent stories, including several considered Bierce's best. I have to say, all of them were quite good, and I was impresse...
Concise collection of the Founding Fathers public and private writings provides an introduction to his life, personality, political career, and influence. Includes political essays, selections from the Federalist Papers, and personal correspondence.
Concise collection of the Founding Fathers public and private writings provides an introduction to his life, personality, political career, and influe...