The Horror from the Mound

The Horror from the Mound
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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Total Pages : 23
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ISBN-10 : 9781473398009
ISBN-13 : 1473398002
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Horror from the Mound by : Robert E. Howard

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in the 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Horror from the Mound' is one of Howard's stories in the weird west genre, a combination of a western and a horror or fantasy. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Mound

The Mound
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066420604
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mound by : Howard Phillips Lovecraft

"The Mound" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
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Publisher : Del Rey
Total Pages : 562
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ISBN-10 : 9780345509741
ISBN-13 : 0345509749
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard by : Robert E. Howard

Here are Robert E. Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard’s best-known characters—Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them—roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,” which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and “The Cairn on the Headland,” Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world’s great masters of the macabre.

Tatham Mound

Tatham Mound
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Publisher : Avon Books
Total Pages : 532
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ISBN-10 : 0380713098
ISBN-13 : 9780380713097
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Tatham Mound by : Piers Anthony

Story of the Indian interpreter, Tale Teller who travels with the Conquistador de Soto.

What Fears Become

What Fears Become
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Publisher : Imajin Books
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9781772230376
ISBN-13 : 1772230375
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis What Fears Become by : Cheryl Kaye Tardif

From classic horror and pure suspense to Twilight-Zone-style dark fantasy, WHAT FEARS BECOME relentlessly explores our basic fears and leaves you with twisted endings that will make your skin crawl… This spine-tingling, international anthology contains contributions from the critically acclaimed online horror magazine, The Horror Zine, and features bestselling authors such as Bentley Little, Graham Masterton, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Ronald Malfi, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Melanie Tem, Scott Nicholson, Piers Anthony, Conrad Williams, and many more. Edited by Jeani Rector of The Horror Zine and featuring a foreword by award-winning, bestselling author Simon Clark, it also contains deliciously dark delights from morbidly creative writers, poets and artists who have not yet made it big―but will very soon. Come and discover… WHAT FEARS BECOME

The Mound Builder Myth

The Mound Builder Myth
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 407
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ISBN-10 : 9780806166698
ISBN-13 : 080616669X
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mound Builder Myth by : Jason Colavito

Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would you call it fake news? In nineteenth-century America, this was in fact a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny. The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s pioneering archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with Presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln adding their approval and the Mormon Church among those benefiting. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history—and enumerating its devastating consequences for contemporary Native people. Built upon primary sources and first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells is a forgotten chapter of American history—but one that reads like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of government, religion, and science. And as far-fetched as it now might seem that a lost white race once ruled prehistoric America, the damage done by this “ancient” myth has clear echoes in today’s arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism, “alternative facts,” and the role of science and the control of knowledge in public life.

The lurking fear

The lurking fear
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4066339535831
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The lurking fear by : H. P. Lovecraft

"The lurking fear" by H. P. Lovecraft. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Horror in the Museum

The Horror in the Museum
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 39
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547055433
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Horror in the Museum by : Howard Phillips Lovecraft

This horror story has a man unable to distinguish between what is real and not real in a museum and finding out in a very horrific way. Stephen King said "H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

The Ruins

The Ruins
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 385
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307266040
ISBN-13 : 0307266044
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ruins by : Scott Smith

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today

Dark Companions

Dark Companions
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Publisher : Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 314
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781609286620
ISBN-13 : 1609286626
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Dark Companions by : Ramsey Campbell

When Elaine was working late at the office, she thought she was all alone. But something sinister was in the elevator shaft--working its way to her floor. Miles, too, thought he was alone in his new house, the house of a murderer, but he, too, had an unwanted companion. And Knox will never forget what had been waiting for him in the dense fog.