"An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, includin...
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"Come inside one boy's high-rise apartment complex, where his backyard is the space between his neighboring apartment buildings, and his basketball net is tucked into a bedroom. His parents sometimes complain their home is too small, but the boy's balcony view of the city and the...
"This collection of tales will transport you to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind, or by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, these stories com...
The Scorpion King: Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's adv...
"1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their young son Harry. Until, that is, ...
Amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, the master of deductive reasoning, solves several mysteries with the aid of his friend, Dr. John Watson.
"An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, includin...
Detective and mystery stories. A dark and exciting historical novel that is both an adventure story and a powerful rendering of 1890s Chicago.
Holmes is on the trail of Jack the Ripper, the nefarious killer who preys on the women of London's East End.
"An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, includin...
In a remarkable expedition led by Professor Challenger, a team of adventurers set out to explore an isolated plateau rising above the Amazon jungles where dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters together with primitive ape-men make The Lost World a terrifying yet exciting experi...
A look at the phenomenon of SNL during the 1980's. Juxtaposes 80's musical acts from the show to illustrate the mood of the times combined with interviews and story from SNL alumni. Features rare musical performances as well as interviews and footage that have never been seen bef...
In 1891, Nicholas Alexandrovich, the Tsarevich of Russia, was travelling in a fragile Meiji-era Japan on an official tour when he was almost assassinated. The Otsu Incident, as this came to be known, led to fear of an international incident , perhaps even a declaration of war fr...