Each volume in the Collector`s Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Dickens` fascination with ghosts and the macabre is traced to his childhood, to the grim and ghoulish stories told him by his nursemaid, Mary Weller, whom he referred to as Mercy, `though she had none on me.` Along with the horrors of the `penny dreadful` magazine, The Terrific Register - a publication which made Dickens `unspeakably miserable and frightened the very wits out of my head` - the stories recounted by Weller were so powerful as to color Dickens` imagination and shape much of the enduring fiction he created. Here are chilling...
ISBN: 978-1-905716-54-8
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Original / British English Katy and her boyfriend Tom are happy in their band, Steel City. But then Tom gets a new guitar and the trouble begins. Suddenly he can play very well, but he seems to be a different person. Why is he always so angry? When Katy discovers the secret of the guitar she is very afraid. Can she save her boyfriend`s life? This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2552-1
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: январь 2013
When he was seventeen, motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze proved he would do anything to save his terminally ill father - even make a deal with the sinister Mephistopheles that would cost him everything, from the woman he loved, the beautiful Roxanne Simpson, to Johnny`s own immortal soul. Years later, as Roxanne reenters Johnny`s life, Mephistopheles returns to collect on his part of the and as night falls and evil rises, Johnny Blaze becomes his bounty hunter - the Ghost Rider - a flaming host of vengeance and twisted justice annihilating anything daring to escape from the depths of the abyss. Now charged with destroying Mephistopheles` greatest nemesis, Blackheart, Johnny Blaze`s curse becomes his power, and perhaps his
ISBN: 978-1-4165-3818-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Original / British English Katy and her boyfriend Tom are happy in their band, Steel City. But then Tom gets a new guitar and the trouble begins. Suddenly he can play very well, but he seems to be a different person. Why is he always so angry? When Katy discovers the secret of the guitar she is very afraid. Can she save her boyfriend`s life?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8184-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America`s most exclusive holiday retreat. But it`s no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Mike McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw in an extraordinary plot that will shake the very foundations of international security. For McAra was a man who knew too much. As ghostwriter to one of the most controversial men on the planet - Britain`s former prime minister, holed up in a remote ocean-front house to finish his memoirs - he stumbled across secrets which cost him his life. When a new ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project it could be the opportunity of a lifetime. Or the start of a deadly assignment propelled by deception and intrigue - from which there will be no...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951466-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
