Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her brutish employers Jinnie realises she has only exchanged one life of drudgery for another. She is grateful when one of t...more
Was Charlie MacFell just the kind of nice chap who always takes the dirty end of the stick, lacking the inner strength to take a firm stand in either life or love?
For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time—suddenly, shockingly, horribly—the balance of power had shifted and the rats began to prey on the human population.
An illustrated collection of stories by the well-known horror author, including "The Gold Bug," "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
Sports agent Myron Bolitar returns after a six-year hiatus to star in his eighth thriller.. Myron hears his girlfriend’s teenage daughter, Erin, and her friend, Aimee, talking about getting in a car with a drunken driver; hoping to avoid a tragedy, he tells them that he’ll pick them up wherever, whenever they call him--and he won’t tell their...more
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