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This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark reality we all fear. Features works by Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and more. "Gets the adrenaline flowing".--Washington Post.

This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that…

This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.

This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion…

Years after the arcane ceremony in a Cambridge field on a hot summer's night, none of the participants can remember what exactly transpired. But their unclear memories can't rid them of an almost overwhelming feeling of foreboding. Pam Stuyvesant is an epileptic haunted by strange, sensual visions. Her husband, Lucas, believes that a dwarfish creature is stalking him and, with the support of his sickly wife, begins to create an alternate Middle Europe steeped in myth and magic as a kind of psychological sanctuary. Self-styled sorcerer/egomaniac Yaxley becomes obsessed with a heavenly - and terrifying - transcendent reality. The nameless narrator, whose only consequence of participating in the ritual is a recurring smell of roses, tries valiantly to help his friends escape their torment - with utterly shocking (and magnificent!) results.

Years after the arcane ceremony in a Cambridge field on a hot summer's night, none of the participants can remember what exactly transpired. But their unclear memories can't rid…

`This is a book that the person-centered psychotherapy community has been waiting for ... this book opens a creative space in which the ongoing conversation about therapeutic efficacy in times of shrinking resources can be successfully engaged' - Professor Maureen O'Hara, Chair, Department of Psychology, National University, La Jolla, California

`A wide-ranging and scholarly book which shows that person-centred therapy is fully alive to the challenges of the twenty-first century and is breaking new ground both clinically and theoretically' - Professor Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia

"Likely to be of interest to anyone involved in counselling" -
Times Higher Educaton Magazine, May 2009

Can the person-centred approach work in time-limited psychotherapy and counselling? This is a question that many practitioners grapple with as demand for brief therapy increases - particularly in the public sector. Brief Person-Centred Therapies is the first book to tackle the subject, bringing together the experience and insights of a leading international team of person-centred therapists.

The book examines the philosophical and theoretical 'fit' between the person-centred approach and brief therapy. It also explores the issues which arise when working briefly in a range of different settings, including primary care, higher education, business, and prison, with couples and groups.

Brief Person-Centred Therapies is essential reading for all person-centred trainees and for practitioners who want to work in services where brief or time-limited work is required or favoured.

Keith Tudor is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, and has a private/independent practice in Sheffield offering therapy, supervision and consultancy.

`This is a book that the person-centered psychotherapy community has been waiting for ... this book opens a creative space in which the ongoing conversation about…

Тедди - родился в нищете и всю сознательную жизнь пытался добиться успеха. Теперь он талантливый краснодеревщик, мечтающий очистить мир от уродства и безвкусицы. Гарриет - когда-то яркая женщина, теперь развлекающаяся тем, что вызывает к себе на дом молодых ремонтников и склоняет их к сексу. Франсин - студентка колледжа, которая в детстве пережила жуткое зрелище убийства своей матери, а теперь пытается вырваться из-под опостылевшей опеки своей мачехи. Казалось бы, что может связывать этих людей? Тем не менее, судьба самым причудливым свела их вместе, под одной крышей - причем один из них должен умереть...

Тедди - родился в нищете и всю сознательную жизнь пытался добиться успеха. Теперь он талантливый краснодеревщик, мечтающий очистить мир от уродства и безвкусицы. Гарриет -…

"Рождественская песнь в прозе" после первой публикации стала сенсацией, оказав влияние на наши рождественские традиции. Это история-притча о перерождении скряги и человеконенавистника Скруджа, в которой писатель с помощью фантастических образов святочных Духов показывает своему герою единственный путь к спасению - делать добро людям. Второй рассказ почти не издавался в нашей стране. Этот маленький шедевр Диккенса производит сильное впечатление и на старика, и на молодого человека и вызывает необыкновенно яркие детские воспоминания о новогодних и рождественских праздниках. Иллюстрации знаменитого художника прекрасно передают атмосферу Рождества и вновь оживляют незабываемые диккенсовские характеры.

"Рождественская песнь в прозе" после первой публикации стала сенсацией, оказав влияние на наши рождественские традиции. Это история-притча о перерождении скряги и…

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "New Grub Street" by George Gissing. 'If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies'.

In "New Grub Street" George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious journalist, and Alfred Yule, an embittered critic. Here Gissing brings to life the bitter battles (fought out in obscure garrets or in the Reading Room of the British Museum) between integrity and the dictates of the market place, the miseries of genteel poverty and the damage that failure and hardship do to human personality and relationships.

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "New Grub Street" by George Gissing. 'If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold…

Murder, madness and mystery as a girl is turned into a living statue! Fu-Manchu is trapped, cornered in London and cut-off from his resources, including the elixir vitae that grants him eternal life. But under the Thames, the devil doctor practices the dark art of sorcery, and it will be up to Nayland Smith and Scotland Yard to stop him. But Fu-Manchu may possess the key to victory, when he kidnaps Dr. Petrie s wife, Fleurette!

Murder, madness and mystery as a girl is turned into a living statue! Fu-Manchu is trapped, cornered in London and cut-off from his resources, including the elixir vitae…

"August Heat": W.F. Harvey
"The Half Pint Flask": DuBose Heyward
"The Brahman, The Thief, and The Ghost": The Panchatantra (Sanskrit)
"The Treasure of Abbott Thomas": M.R. James
"The Yellow Wallpaper": Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The King of the World": A.E. Coppard
"Perez": W.L. George
"The Wendigo": Algernon Blackwood
"The Furnished Room": O. Henry
"The Screaming Skull": F. Marion Crawford
"The Monkey's Paw": W.W. Jacobs
"The Horla": Guy de Maupassant
"Laura": Saki (H.H. Munro)
"The White People": Arthur Machen
"Concerning Phantoms": Pliny the Younger (Latin)
"Markheim": Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Story of Ming-Y": Lafcadio Hearn
"The Beast with Five Fingers": W.F. Harvey
"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me": A.E. Coppard
"Where Their Fire is not Quenched": May Sinclair
"The Second Kalandar's Tale": Arabian Nights
"Full Fathom Five": Alexander Woollcott
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge": Ambrose Bierce
"The Ghost-Ship": Richard Middleton
"The Feather Cloak of Hawaii": Johannes C. Andersen
"The Gentleman from America": Michael Arlen
The Story of Glam (excerpt) by George Ainslie Hight
The Ghosts of Wulakai by Owen Lattimore
Casting the Runes by M. R. James
A Man with Two Lives • (1905) • by Ambrose Bierce
The Open Window • (1911) • s by Saki
The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • by Algernon Blackwood
The Haunted Hotel • (1878) • by Wilkie Collins
Clorinda Walks in Heaven • (1922) • by A. E. Coppard
The Grendel Episode (excerpt) • by uncredited
Green Thoughts • (1931) • by John Collier
The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • by Edgar Allan Poe
A Visitor from Down Under • (1926) • by L. P. Hartley
The Foghorn • (1933) • by Gertrude Atherton
The Cherry Tree • (1922) • by A. E. Coppard
Afterward • (1910) • by Edith Wharton

"August Heat": W.F. Harvey
"The Half Pint Flask": DuBose Heyward
"The Brahman, The Thief, and The Ghost": The Panchatantra (Sanskrit)
"The Treasure of Abbott Thomas": M.R. James…

An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to Weird Tales, Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1967) is an influential figure in the history of pulp fiction. A close correspondent and collaborator with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was widely celebrated as a master by his contemporaries. Back in print for the first time since 1971, Lost Worlds brings together twenty-three of Smith's classic stories, all of which were originally published in Weird Tales. Rather than center his works on heroes, Smith created fantastical worlds around which he built cycles of stories. Included here are tales from the realms of Averoigne, Zothique, Hyperborea, and others. Told in lush poetic prose, these haunting stories bring to life dark, dreamlike realms full of gothic monsters and mortals. Jeff VanderMeer provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to Weird Tales, Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1967) is an influential figure in the history of pulp fiction. A close correspondent and…

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers"). "There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund…

Своеобразный антипод второй великой антиутопии XX века — «О дивный новый мир» Олдоса Хаксли. Что, в сущности, страшнее: доведенное до абсурда «общество потребления» — или доведенное до абсолюта «общество идеи»?
По Оруэллу, нет и не может быть ничего ужаснее ТОТАЛЬНОЙ НЕСВОБОДЫ... Название романа «1984», его терминология и даже имя автора впоследствии стали нарицательными и употребляются для обозначения общественного уклада, напоминающего описанный в романе тоталитарный режим. Произведение неоднократно становилось жертвой цензуры в социалистических странах и объектом критики со стороны левых кругов на Западе.

Своеобразный антипод второй великой антиутопии XX века — «О дивный новый мир» Олдоса Хаксли. Что, в сущности, страшнее: доведенное до абсурда «общество потребления» — или…

In the forbidding old house, guarded by vicious dogs, lived exotic, mysterious Lola. Murder was done there, it was said, and other deeds, wanton and eerie.

Mary Treagold – The Telephone
Elizabeth Bowen – The Claimant
Evelyn Fabyon – Napoleon’s Hat
Rachel Hartfield – The Bull
L.A.G. Strong – The House That Wouldn’t Keep Still
Mary Fitt – The Doctor
Elizabeth Jenkins – On No Account, My Love
Lord Dunsany – The Ghost Of The Valley
Margaret Lane – The Day Of The Funeral
Ronald Blythe – Take Your Partners
L.P.Hartley – Someone In The Lift
Robert Aickman – Ringing The Changes
Marghanita Laski – The Tower
Jonathon Curling – I Became Bulwinkle
Collin Brooks – Mrs. Smiff
James Laver – Somebody Calls
Rosemary Timperley – Harry
Ursula Codrington – The Shades Of Sleepe
Daniel George – The Woman In Black
Shane Leslie – A Laugh On The Professor
Elizabeth Taylor – Poor Girl
John Cornell – The House In The Glen
Nancy Spain – The King Of Spain
Michael Asquith – The Uninvited Face
Angus Wilson – Animals Or Human Beings
Eileen Bigland – Remembering Lee
Cynthia Asquith – Who Is Sylvia ?

Mary Treagold – The Telephone
Elizabeth Bowen – The Claimant
Evelyn Fabyon – Napoleon’s Hat
Rachel Hartfield – The Bull
L.A.G. Strong – The House That Wouldn’t Keep Still
Mary…

Роман "Талантливый мистер Рипли" блестящего мастера психологического детектива американки Патриции Хайсмит был положен в основу одноименного популярнейшего фильма. Главный герой ведет двойную жизнь, приобретя облик убитого им человека, и пытается сбить столку полицию, ведущую расследование...

Роман "Талантливый мистер Рипли" блестящего мастера психологического детектива американки Патриции Хайсмит был положен в основу одноименного популярнейшего фильма. Главный герой…

Sadegh Hedayat's most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale that defies any attempt to tie it down to a single interpretation. The story is narrated by a young man, a painter of miniatures, whose name we never learn. He feels an overbearing need to recount an experience he went through that has shattered his whole existence, rendered his life meaningless - "I am obliged to set all this down in order to disentangle the various threads of my story. I am obliged to explain it all for the benefit of my shadow on the wall." We are slowly drawn into the hallucinatory and confused world of the young man, a world in which a beautiful young woman, an old man and a cypress tree become the recurring motifs. Not only are they the images he always paints but he sees all three in a vision that comes to plague him. This waking dream ends up becoming a nightmare from which the narrator seems unable to escape... Set in a haze of opium, The Blind Owl must rank as one of the most mysterious, poetic and macabre works of twentieth century fiction. It is a book of enormous power and this well-overdue reissue sees the return to print of one of the greatest Persian novels ever written.

Sadegh Hedayat's most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale that defies any attempt to tie it down to a single interpretation.…

"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - Detroit News

"[S]pine-chilling . . . a far-reaching plot linking the horror camps of the Nazis, the frozen wastes of Russia and the work of British Secret Intelligence. . . . [T]his is 'must' reading for horror fans." - Calgary Herald

"I began to read: and then read and read and read." - John Creasey, Books of the Month

"Good, insomniac science-fiction." - Listener

With a plot featuring Cold War intrigue, Nazi mad scientists, and a pandemic that threatens to destroy humanity by mutating people into fungoid monsters, it is not hard to see why A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and an instant science-fiction classic. After a British ship's crew and a remote Russian village are wiped out in mysterious and horrible fashion, General Charles Kirk of British Foreign Intelligence sets out to investigate. As the plague spreads to England, Kirk's frantic search leads him from the desolate tundra of Russia to the ruins of a Nazi camp, the site of unthinkable wartime atrocities. But who is responsible? Is it a Soviet experiment gone horribly wrong, the work of a depraved madman, or something else entirely? And can it be stopped?

In this, his first and still best-known novel, the prolific John Blackburn (1923-1993) introduced the formula he was to employ so successfully in his career, seamlessly blending mystery, horror, and science fiction to create a thrilling bestseller that readers found impossible to put down. This edition, the first in more than thirty years, includes a new introduction by Prof. Darren Harris-Fain and a reproduction of the scarce original jacket art by Peter Curl.

"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - Detroit News

"[S]pine-chilling . . . a far-reaching…

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them – Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen – has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone’s return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the…