Basil Hallward painted a picture of a young Dorian Gray, he admires. Dorian isa angry because he will grow old and the picture will stay the same. He wishes that the picture would age instead of him. He buys the picture and he hides it. The years pass and Dorian never seems to age. But his wishe has tragic consequences for many people.
It's not much fun being a private eye. You get hit on the head, nearly killed, and chassed by the police. And you don't always get paid.
I looked up at the high castle walls. There were no loght in any of the windows. I heard the great wooden door being unlocked. It opened slowly. A very old man with white hair was standing there. As I stepped inside, Count Dracula took hold of my arm. He was tembly strong and his hand was as cold as ice.
Ed Malone, a young newspaper reporter, joins a team of explorers, headed by the eccentric Professor Challenger, who claims he has found a lost world where animals believed to have become extinct millions of years ago still survive. Are there really dinosaurus living deep intje Amazon jungle?
A young girl leaves her violent, dissolute father in the town and goes into the country to serach for happiness among the plants and flowers that she loves
The Magic Barber Crossways is a quiet and sleepy town where everyone wears a hat. But everything changes when the Magic Barber comes to town
Five short stories of ghosts, evil spirits and creatures of the night. Beware! Don't turn your light out immediately when you've finished reading. Something may waiting for you in the dark.
A tale of fatal love and jealousy set against the wild moorland background of Dorset. Egdon Heath was a wild and lonely place. The people who were born there, lived there, died there. Except for Clym Yeobright. One Christmas, he return to Egdon Heath, What follows is a story about love, sorrow and death.
In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enchanting world of King Arthur and his Round Table. The book chronicles the adventures of Arthur as he draws the sword Excalibur from the anvil, proving his right to the throne, and as he courts and wins the heart of Guinevere. Later he suffers the treachery of the wicked Morgana le Fay and witnesse…
Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She's found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn't far behind.rnrnThen, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror…