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1) The Undying
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A daring and thrilling journey into a fantastical world of shamans, vampires and werebears where aboriginal Dreaming and Gothic horror are woven together to create a powerful and seamless narrative. I, the stranger with strange habits which make me avoid the full light of day, enter into the warm circle of your fire and will exchange my yarn for your company... The stranger, George, tells a story of wonder and horror. Jangamuttuk, his father and Master...
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The Undying Fire' is a modern retelling of the Book of Job, written by H. G. Wells. The protagonist of The Undying Fire is Job Huss, a schoolmaster who has fallen on evil days. The public school at Woldingstanton in Norfolk that he has reformed has been struck by a measles epidemic, an explosion in the chemistry lab that has killed an instructor, and a fire that has killed two students. The day after the fire Huss's solicitor has committed suicide...
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2015
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A thrilling new Victorian-era urban fantasy for fans of Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid Chronicles, the Showtime series Penny Dreadful, and the Sherlock Holmes movies featuring Robert Downey, Jr.
With a flood of dark magic about to engulf Victorian London, can a handful of heroes vanquish a legion of the undead?
When monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane comes across the gruesome aftermath...
With a flood of dark magic about to engulf Victorian London, can a handful of heroes vanquish a legion of the undead?
When monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane comes across the gruesome aftermath...
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The Undying Monster (1922) is a horror novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. Recognized as a groundbreaking work of lycanthropy, or werewolf fiction, The Undying Monster was adapted into a successful 1942 horror film starring James Ellison, Heather Angel, and John Howard.
Haunted for generations, the Hammand family has grown accustomed to tragedy. Early deaths, suicides, and gruesome injuries plague their family tree, and they have long been regarded...
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The Undying Light continues the cross-genre saga as the darkness of the Abyss spreads across a world in turmoil. Reeling from a pandemic, global economic instability and a war between the world's greatest powers, people of all nations look with hope toward a fast-rising light who leads the World Summit's Peace Commission: Kaira Antipalos. Those closest around her know that she is the realization of the Convergence, the final step in bringing the...
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A NEW PUBLICATION BY PRANAV RK, Wombedden Best Selling Author, THE UNDYING STAR. "Yet another thrilling read, that tickles my senses!" - Lukemann Andrews, Author of Bhooman. Follow As-Iem Navigator Edward Liason as he struggles to survive in a foreign country, full of light, and mystery. Fighting the loneliness of a sole survivor, Edward starts to unravel the truth of the enigmatic planet he is stranded on.
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The Undying Man' is a slight unfinished piece, drawing its inspiration from Shelley's 'Frankenstein' about the creation of life and the fear of death. It is interesting to speculate where Lawrence would have gone with the story but the sound of broken glass is the most likely ending.
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Sandstorm Miguel has claimed the lives of millions of people.
In an effort to restore the workforce and the economy to former glory, corpses are brought back to life-'reactivated'-and coded to work until they expire a second time. Alex Horizon, a 30-year-old farmer in a desert town, is surrounded by these Reactivations and has given up trying to find a living partner among the walking dead. With no one for company besides his drug-addled, often-cruel...
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Ridmark Arban is the Gray Knight, and he quests for the ruined citadel of Urd Morlemoch, seeking a way to stop the return of the dreaded Frostborn. For if he does not find a way to stop them, the Frostborn shall entomb the world in ice forever. Morigna is the cunninng Witch of the Hills, feared and mistrusted by the townsmen of Moraime. Yet darker things stir in the hills. A trap that might devour both her and the Gray Knight…
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I was diagnosed with cancer. Aelius wrote down the dreams sent to him by Asclepius, and he writes about the experience of living in a body and experiencing suffering in a specific historical moment. The dream journal itself is the rejected way of telling this story, but its existence allows us to hear the voice of someone who lived through this illness and who tried...
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After the death of his father, young Leviticus is left to
face the truth that he is a vampire. Everything he has
ever known has changed. He is forced into a world of
violence, confusion, and isolation. His family is now terrified of what
he has become, and they struggle in this new life. What lengths does
he have to go in order to survive and keep his family safe? Does he
have enough strength and courage to overcome these new obstacles in
a...
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Over 60,000,000 people died worldwide during the course of the Second World War and, in contrast to those slaughtered in The Great War, it was civilian populations that bore the brunt. They perished in the Holocaust, in internment camps, in bombed towns and cities and as 'collateral damage', in war zones, such as the Eastern Front and in Asia.
Among this carnage were hundred of individuals of all nations who had competed in Olympic Games. Imagine...
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"Matt and Jennie" talks about the life of a couple and their commitment to one another. Matt is a hardworking man who learns to toil in life at a young age. His tall built is his ticket to employment. No one has ever questioned his credentials for he appears very able physically and mentally. A former Navy, Matt works in saw mills and cotton fields. One day, he lays eyes on the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Jennie is a simple beauty with...
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Casebook of Rabbit Black volume 1
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Rabbit Black - a freelancer who makes a living solving other people's problems - unexpectedly finds himself murdered but not dead. This unusual state is likely thanks to two facts: 1. magic, like heat, rises and 2. the necromancer in the unit below is terrible at wards. Tied to said necromancer by the same magic that's keeping him alive(ish,) Rabbit has no choice but to drag Ira Smith around with him as he solves his final problem: who killed Rabbit...
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Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data, sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying. A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing...
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The Story of the Glittering Plain', also known as the 'Land of Living Men' or 'Acre of the Undying' is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. The book concerns the quest of Hallblithe of the House of the Raven to rescue his fiancée the Hostage, who has been kidnapped by pirates, which...
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