Bryan: 1634 books

"The House Spider" is a chilling tale guaranteed to get under your skin. A man, excited about fixing up his very large, newly purchased house finds that he has lost track of time. Alone in the old house, he becomes troubled by strange noises and even stranger imaginings. As the night descends,...

A man fights back his sinister urges in the house of a young couple.

It is April 5, 1864, when the Count of Samerand busy in his experiments is commissioned by his good friend inspector James Wright in the murder of Robert Melbourne, a wealthy landowner from the states who has been found murdered by the house staff. The case should be a simple one for one so versed...

Jim is basically your average sixth-form drop-out: he drinks too much, and earns too little; he’s gradually working out that he’ll never be the famous boxer he dreamt of being as a kid, and he’s bored out of his mind. Falling under the malevolent influence of Huckleberry Finn and Iggy...

Five short stories that could be called lost episodes of The Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. These tales all involve an archetype of the horror/fantasy genre (ghost, zombie, creature) and promise exciting and surprising conclusions. Trappings of the Past - In a future world where people work...

We human beings had no say in existing—we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified—but faith is not...

Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds – victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected manoeuvre, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military...

Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural,...

Best Western Historical Novel--Western Writers of AmericaBryan Woolley creates a compelling story giving antihero Sam Bass a fictional life, bringing him alive through six alternating voices--Maude, the whore who was Bass' lover; Mary Matson, the African American who took him in and tended him as he...

Blakeney Heath had a successful real estate business until the real estate market tanked. Now she is showing a foreclosure property for the second time to prospective buyers,hoping this time they will buy.Unfortunately, she finds the decaying body of a murder victim in the basement. A large sum of...

They roll in from unknown places, mysterious and unexplained. They take root, take over, spread to all corners and refuse to be eradicated. No one can say why they came, but there's no arguing that they're up to no good. These plants are out for blood, and getting rid of them will take a certain kind...

Does Gus Carpenter really want to know what’s inside the skeleton box? In Anthony– and Barry Award–winning author Bryan Gruley’s gripping new novel, Gus must decide if the truth is better off dead and buried. Mysterious break-ins are plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake. While...

"Sometimes #crime feels like the Matrix. Or the #patriarchy or #porn. It's everywhere, even in people you trusted, and there's so MUCH of it.” Angelina Choi returns for her second and final week of work experience at John Hobson’s detective agency, ready for anything after their first...

“You've heard of conspiracies within conspiracies? I wish conspiracies WOULD hide inside each other, instead of turning up everywhere I go." Angelina Choi returns for her final day of work experience at the Hobson Agency - is there a job waiting afterwards? Should she walk...