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Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark. Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he's dead, she knows it for sure. Lisey was the light to Scott Landon's dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the public face of the famous author - that he wa... More

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This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of The Prelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poet's death in 1850. In addition the editors include the two-... More

At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created ... More

Presents the novel with annotations, related writings, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century criticism... More

Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you've ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who mu... More

For all its status as a classic text of literary modernism, and despite the mountain of commentary it has provoked since its publication in 1922, The Waste Land has lost none of its power to excite, disturb and infuriate, and continues to pose a fresh challenge to each new generation of readers and ... More

This repackaged edition of one of King's early classics revolves around the town of Jerusalem's Lot, a town that knows darkness--the heavy silence of terrifying images dancing in and out of the shadows; the stark white faces, huge empty eyes, and long gnarled hands that reach out with lustful insist... More

THERE ARE NO RULES IN THE DARK, NO PLACE TO FEEL SAFE, NO ESCAPE FROM THE SHADOWS. BUT TO SAVE THE DAY, YOU MUST...At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their hom... More

On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up by attempting a sho... More

In the haunted city of Derry, Maine, the setting for King's previous novels "It" and "Insomnia, " four young boys stood together and did a brave thing 25 years ago. The boys, now grown men, still get together once a year to hunt in the north woods of Maine. But when a man stumbles into their camp, m... More

There are few readers who are unfamiliar with Washington's timeless story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the terrifying Headless Horseman. But The Legend of Sleepy Hollow offers more than a mere ghost story, providing readers with an excellent social commentary about how people lived outside the ... More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the timeless theme of dualism in human nature. The adventures of the refined, sensitive Dr. Jekyll and the uncouth, depraved Mr. Hyde are followed to a disturbing denouement.Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson's popularity is based primarily on the exciting subject matter... More

Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary family who unwittingly stir something invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber-unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like John Saul could orchestrate. Fo... More

This definitive collection of North American ghost stories includes tales passed on by word of mouth and preserved by memory as actual windows to the nation's haunted past.The latest in the bestselling series of Americana occult folklore collections that have included "Haunted America" and "Historic... More

A refreshing new anthology of stories by Tolstoy, O. Henry, H. E. Bates, Katherine Mansfield, Conan Doyle, D. H. Lawrence, Chekov, Ray Bradbury, Hemingway and R. K. Narayan. Comprehensive notes and exercises are appended.... More