Edited with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence' It rose with a steady movement I saw it pale & huge through the whirling funnel of cloud
- a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss It rose higher & higher Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it' Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder an Edwardian psychic detective investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as ' The Whistling Room' the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in ' The Horse of the Invisible' & the demons from the outside world in ' The Hog' Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge To complicate matters he encounters human skullduggery also Armed with a camera his Electric Pentacle & various ancient tomes on magic Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage These exciting & frightening stories have long been out of print Now rewaders can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series
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With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him' In The Casebook you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective They are perhaps the most unusual & the darkest that he penned Treachery mutilation & the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories along with atmospheric touches of the gothic involving a bloodsucking vampire crypts at midnight & strange bones in a furnace The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with The Red Circle' & the insidious murders in The Devil's Foot' The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government foil a German plot on the eve of the First World War These two fascinating sets of stories make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all & his erstwhile companion Dr Watson ...

One hot summer's afternoon two abandoned infants are brought to Trisha & Mike Merry's door forlorn & afraid Their mother walked out on them (They don't remember her) Their grandmother tried but couldn't manage them & now their young father has given up on them too These cast-off kids desperately need somewhere to live & a family to love them They've come to the right place Trisha & Mike welcome them into their home & their hearts There are now ten children under five in this household where every day is filled with cuddles fun & more than a few challenges After ten eventful years of love & laughter they are reclaimed by their jealous mother a stranger who sets fire to their memories & sends them to a succession of care homes Finally the younger one sets out on a quest to find the only two people who have ever loved him ...

Cowboy Lincoln Costain (James Garner) finds himself shipwrecked on a Hawaiian island & helping widow Henrietta Mac Avoy (Vera Miles) turn her struggling potato farm into a prosperous cattle ranch in this Disney family movie However land baron Bryson (Robert Culp) wants all the land for himself & he holds Henrietta&s mortgage Actors James Garner Vera Miles Robert Culp Eric Shea Elizabeth Smith Directors Vincent Mc Eveety Writers Don Tait Hugh Benson Richard M Bluel Producers Christopher Hibler Ron Miller Winston Hibler Format PAL Language English Subtitles English Swedish Norwegian Danish Finnish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 Aspect Ratio 43
- 1331 Number of discs 1 Classification U Studio Walt Disney Studios HE DVD Release Date 5 April 2004 Run Time 91 minutes
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The Next Caster Chronicles starter deck will be including two full decks (Angel’s Waltz deck & Demon’s Rondo deck)! You can play this with your friends immediately! The casters who appeared in previous sets change their costumes to Angels or Demons & their abilities multiply! This product is good for beginners as well as seasoned players This deck power is similar to Magical Dream 7 It is available to use as parts for your decks that you have already made Included casters Demon’s Rondo Mona Styla Passion Wing Forre Mellow Glory Butterfly Ruka Eremi Zoi Russel Maisey Queen Angel’s Waltz Marigold Fianma Fantasia Chopart Tina Eren Shila All cards will be included as different named cards If you want to use the previous Mona Styla & the new Mona Styla you can use four cards each in your deck Contains 100 cards (50 cards deck 2set) 34 different cards (16 foil cards) Play sheet Rule sheet Game Manual A PR card “” Saaya Matsui” FOIL ...

'K kept feeling that he had lost himself or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before' A remote village covered almost permanently in snow & dominated by a castle & its staff of dictatorial sexually predatory bureaucrats
- this is the setting for Kafka's story about a man seeking both acceptance in the village & access to the castle Kafka breaks new ground in evoking a dense village community fraught with tensions & recounting an often poignant occasionally farcical love-affair He also explores the relation between the individual & power & asks why the villagers so readily submit to an authority which may exist only in their collective imagination Published only after Kafka's death The Castle appeared in the same decade as modernist masterpieces by Eliot Joyce Woolf Mann & Proust & is among the central works of modern literature This translation follows the text established by critical scholarship & manuscript variants are mentioned in the notes The introduction provides guidance to the text without reducing the reader's own freedom to make sense of this fascinatingly enigmatic novel ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more
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The Castle is the story of K the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village & yet cannot go home As he encounters dualities of certainty & doubt hope & fear & reason & nonsense K's struggles in the absurd labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence Kafka began The Castle in 1922 & it was never finished yet this the last of his three great novels draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A saga about a greyhound-racing tow truck driver who never meant to be a hero but ends up in the High Court of Australia with his small-time surburban lawyer mate & a retired QC fighting the expansion of an adjacent airport that would destroy his home ...

A great countryside tale Chris Lisa & Tom spend their days in their secret hide-out in the Castle an old WWII pill-box But the Castle is on Old Rafferty's land & he hates kids They find themselves in big trouble when some local lads lock them in & there is no one around for miles High quality cream paper & a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all ...

The Castle of Adventure is the second exciting instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton one of the best-loved children's writers of all time Why is everyone so afraid of the castle on the hill & what dark secrets lurk inside its walls? Philip Dinah Lucy-Ann Jack & Kiki the parrot are on holiday in the countryside staying on the side of Castle Hill When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower they decide to investigate
- & discover a very sinister plot concealed within its hidden rooms & gloomy underground passages
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