The Bureau of Lost Souls
Title | The Bureau of Lost Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Fowler |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1990-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780099683407 |
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Title | Bureau Publication ... PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1136 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Child welfare |
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Roofworld
Title | Roofworld PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Fowler |
Publisher | Hydra |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2017-06-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0399180427 |
There’s a hidden battleground in the sky—so says this classic novel from the award-winning author of the Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries featuring Bryant & May. You’ll never look at a roof the same way again. . . . Welcome to Roofworld. High above London’s teeming streets exists a timeless universe with laws and codes known only to itself, suspended by a complex system of cables and wires. Two rival factions wrestle for control of this elevated realm—and eventually the city below. When a beautiful, feisty amateur photographer named Rose and a shy, cynical screenwriter named Robert witness a kidnapping on a London roof, they figure it’s an isolated incident. But after strange rooftop murders are reported almost daily, they have to know more. In their clumsy efforts to understand, they’re caught up in an intense power struggle between the forces of good and a power-mad tyrant manipulating society’s most hopeless citizens. Rose and Robert have a part to play in a war that’s nearly invisible from the ground—and nothing less than world domination is at stake. Look for Christopher Fowler’s fantasy and horror classics, now available as ebooks: CALABASH | DISTURBIA | PSYCHOVILLE | RED GLOVES | ROOFWORLD | SPANKY
Ship of Lost Souls
Title | Ship of Lost Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Rod Scher |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2024-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1493081365 |
Of all the stories of ships lost in what has come to be called the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” that of the steamship Valencia is among the saddest. In January 1906, the Valencia set out from San Francisco, bound for Seattle with 108 passengers and some sixty-five crew members aboard. Owing to bad weather and the captain’s mistakes, the ship struck a reef eleven miles off Cape Beale on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. Rocks gashed open the ship’s hull, and a series of further missteps soon compounded the tragedy a hundredfold. Only thirty-seven people survived, largely because of a lack of lifesaving infrastructure in the rugged area where the Valencia ran aground. The wreck of the Valencia was an especially tragic one. To begin with, most on board perished, including every woman and child, many of whom had been lashed to the rigging high above the deck in an attempt to save them from the crashing waves. Additionally, the wreck itself was almost certainly avoidable, due almost entirely to navigational errors the captain made. Finally, rescue efforts—such as they were—were hampered by not just the sea and weather but by the mistakes (and some say the cowardice) of the would-be rescuers. This book pieces together the story of the Valencia and her tragic end, weaving together not just the threads of the ill-fated voyage itself but also relevant contextual history, including the development of radio technologies and lifesaving equipment and services that simply came too late to help the doomed voyagers.
Lost Souls: Abridged Version
Title | Lost Souls: Abridged Version PDF eBook |
Author | Elvis Noble |
Publisher | Club Lighthouse Publishing |
Pages | 677 |
Release | 2022-03-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1772171603 |
Lost Souls Abridged Version is a prolific and mind-bending story filled with action and attention-grabbing suspense. It gives the readers a new outlook on the legendary and infamous Jack the Ripper. A gripping account of Mike Smith dealings with a supernatural force that consumes the souls of innocent victims. Jack, the most prolific serial killer of all time, carves an X in the foreheads of his victims… a must-read novel..
City of Lost Souls
Title | City of Lost Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Cassandra Clare |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442416874 |
When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.
Hell Train
Title | Hell Train PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Fowler |
Publisher | Solaris |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2011-12-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1849973172 |
Imagine there was a classic supernatural chiller that Hammer Films never made. A grand epic produced at the studio’s peak, which played like a cross between the Dracula and Frankenstein films and Dr Terror’s House Of Horrors... Four passengers meet on a train journey through Eastern Europe during the First World War, and face a mystery that must be solved if they are to survive. As the Arkangel races through the war-torn countryside, they must find out: What is in the casket that everyone is so afraid of? What is the tragic secret of the veiled Red Countess who travels with them? Why is their fellow passenger the army brigadier so feared by his own men? And what exactly is the devilish secret of the Arkangel itself? Bizarre creatures, satanic rites, terrified passengers and the romance of travelling by train, all in a classically styled horror novel.