Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews (the Princes in the Tower) in order to usurp the throne of Engl&. Since Tudor times he has been painted as the black legend the murderous uncle. However the truth is much more complicated & interesting. Rather than looking at all the killings Richard III did not commit this book focuses on the one execution for which we know that he was responsible. On Friday 13 June 1483 William Lord Hastings was hustled from a meeting of the Royal Council & summarily executed on Tower Green within the confines of the Tower of London. Peter A. Hancock sheds light on the mystery of this precipitate & unadvised action by the then Duke of Gloucester & reveals the key role of William Catesby in Richards ascent to the throne of Engl&. It explains his curious actions during that tumultuous summer of three kings & provides an explanation for the fate of the Princes in the Tower. ...

A major new biography of the young Richard III. Richard III is a paradox
- the most hated of English kings yet the most beloved
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Includes: regular exercises for students to complete practical ideas to try out examiner's tips & suggestions for further
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THE STAKE In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town horror writer Larry Dunbar & his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble on a coffin hidden under the stairs. Within lies the corpse of a naked female
- with a stake through its heart. Was she the innocent victim of a gruesome murder? Or was she a vampire? Theres only one way for Larry to solve the mystery
- he must pull out the stake...FUNLAND A series of unexplained disappearances has cast a dark shadow over the summer pleasures over the seaside town of Boleta Bay. & holiday-makers are being threatened by a growing army of leering foul-mouthed bums who have taken over the promenade. Convinced that the down-&-outs are behind the abductions a gang of local teenagers decide to wreak violent revenge. Led by the charismatic Tanya the gang graduate from simple beatings to more sinister punishments. & as they grow more daring their campaign leads them to the old abandoned Funhouse where the real truth of the disappearances awaits them...

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DARKNESS TELL US It starts at an end-of-term party. Six college kids & a Ouija board. The board that Professor Coreen Dalton had hidden at the back of a cupboard & sworn never to touch again
- not after Jakes death. & now here are these kids falling for the revelations of a spirit called Butler swallowing its promise of a fortune hidden in the mountains. Not that Corie believes they would be stupid enough to head off in to the wilderness on the say-so of a childs plaything. To embark on a two-day hike into the unknown where any foul danger may lie in wait to cut & slice & tear them limb from limb. But then professor or not Corie could be wrong...ONE RAINY NIGHT The water drops like a shroud on the town of Bixby. Warm viscous & unnatural it coats the inhabitants in an unending torrent
- & turns them into crazy hate-filled maniacs. A helpful stranger at a gas station shoves a petrol pump down a customers throat & squeezes the trigger. A soaking-wet queue of cinema-goers smashes its way inside the movie house to slice up the dry people within.A loving wife attacks her husband bouncing the back of his head on the marble floor until it sounds like sloppy wet meat...

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THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW is coming to town & Dwight Rusty & Slim are determined to go. But its for over 18s only. They decide to go & watch the crew set up anyway hoping to catch a glimpse of Valeria billed as the only known vampire in captivity. But when the three teenagers break the rules they run into big trouble. DREADFUL TALES Shane Malone sits sweltering in front of his computer trying to write an anthology in which every chilling tale must end in the death of a twenty-two-year-old woman in her apartment. But the deafening music from next door is not helping. He furiously bangs on his neighbours door & discovers shes a twenty-two-year-old woman who will not be argued with. Shane is about to find out that life really can imitate art. ...

SAVAGE Whitechapel November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known act of butchery in the one-room hovel occupied by the luckless harlot Mary Kelly. & beneath the bed on which the fiend is cruelly & cheerfully eviscerating his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy... This is just the start of the extraordinary adventures of Trevor Bently a boy who embarked on a errand of mercy & ran into the most notorious serial killer in criminal history a boy who became a man as he travelled on a quest of vengeance across a wild & untamed continent
- a boy who brought the horrors of Jack the Ripper to the New World. IN THE DARK Nothing much happens in Donnerville at least not in the public library. Then the new librarian Jane Kerry receives a strange envelope. Inside is a fifty-dollar bill & a note instructing her to Look homeward angel. Mystified Jane pulls Thomas Wolfes novel of that title off the shelf & finds a second envelope. This one contains a one-hundred dollar bill & a clue to another pay-off. Like the first one it is signed MOG (Master of Games). Suddenly Jane is hooked this is one game she must play to the end.
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AMONG THE MISSING Its 2:32am. Behind the wheel of a jaguar sits the beautiful wife of Professor Grant Parkington. She has left Grant behind. The man she wants is waiting for her on the roadside. Where to? she says. He suggests the Bend where theres a soft sandy beach
- an ideal place for love. But in the morning a naked body will be found
- a body missing more than its clothes...COME OUT TONIGHT Its the hottest night of the year so far & its also young couple Sherry & Duanes first time. Discovering they have no condoms Duane throws on his clothes & makes his way down to the twenty-four hour Speed-D-Mart. Not a place anyone would want to visit at night. Suddenly Sherry hears a noise from down the street. It sounds like a gunshot...

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NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER Its been a long summer for Ed without Holly. But in September Holly doesnt return to campus. Ed receives a letter from her
- she has fallen in love with someone else & wont be coming back. Heartbroken he leaves his apartment & takes a walk. But hes not the only one out on this October night. There are others
- roaming the streets lurking under bridges seeking prey...NO SANCTUARY Rick would do anything for his girlfriend. Hed even spent his vacation walking the trails around Fern Lake
- though after what happened last time its the one place in the world hed prefer not to go. But Rick & Bert are not the only ones heading to there. Gillian likes breaking into peoples homes while they are away & living there. But this time she chances on the home of a serial killer...


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ISLAND When eight people go on a cruise to the Bahamas they plan to swim sunbathe & relax. But after their yacht blows up they find themselves stranded on a desert isl&. As they wait to be rescued it becomes clear theyre not alone on the isl&. In the jungle behind the beach theres a maniac on the loose with murder in his heart. & hes plotting to kill them all one by one...QUAKE Twenty minutes before the quake hits Stanley is ogling a pretty female jogger through his living-room window. He watches Sheila every morning & thats not all hed like to do to her. As the quake hits Sheila becomes separated from her husband & daughter. Will her family get there before Stanley does? > ...