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A parallel dimension exists below the surface of reality. Its doors swing open every time we sleep, allowing us passage into the land of DREAMS, a plane rich with exotic fantasy and limitless bliss. Within this wonder world, however, lurk dark corridors and terrible creatures—some unfortunate...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 3 - A2/B1 Intermediate (1) Word count: 4,188 This is Old Jack’s second book of ghost stories. Old Jack takes us to the old Roman city of Chester. Who is the soldier walking along the old city walls? And why is his uniform covered in blood? Who...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 2 - A1/A2 Starter (2) Word count: 4,964 Jed Winters works in a restaurant. He works hard every day, but his salary is low. He dreams of a different life. One day, when he is walking to work, he finds a lottery ticket for the £500,000 lottery...

The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in a range of literary productions. From stanzas on food and wine in the Classics of Poetry to the articulation of refined dining in The Dream of...

From ancient times, China’s remote and exotic South—a shifting and expanding region beyond the Yangtze River—has been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in medieval China, the South was a barbaric frontier region of alienation and disease. But it was also...

Piracy and smuggling are as great a problem today as they were several hundreds of years ago. The studies in Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers, for the first time, carefully describe and critically analyze piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas region from the sixteenth century to the present....

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 1 - A1/A2 Starter (1) Word count: 4,614 Ken is a businessman. He is 34 years old. He lives and works in Tokyo. He has many friends and is popular. He wants to get married, but there is one problem. He cannot find a girlfriend. Saho...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 1 - A1/A2 Starter (1) Word count: 5,798 Ellen Smith moves from Sydney to Perth to start a new job and a new life. On Valentine’s Day, she gets a surprise. The postman brings a card and some flowers. She reads the card: —Dear...

The May–June issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by Erica L. Satifka, Steven J. Dines, Abi Hynes, Malcolm Devlin, and Leo Vladimirsky. The cover art is by Vince Haig, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner,...

The July–August issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Ryan Row, Rachael Cupp, Darby Harn, James Warner, Tim Major, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and Paul Crenshaw. The cover art is by Vince Haig, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard...

The September–October contains new cutting edge science fiction and fantasy by Gregor Hartmann, Shauna O'Meara, Joanna Berry, Aliya Whiteley, and Samantha Murray. The cover art is by Vince Haig, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Ben Baldwin, and Vincent Sammy. Features: Ansible...

The November–December issue contains new cutting edge science fiction and fantasy (this time with a specific theme) by Tim Lees, Fiona Moore, Natalia Theodoridou, Eliza Ruslander, Sheldon J. Pacotti, and Louise Hughes. The cover art is by Vince Haig, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard...

The May-June issue contains new cutting edge horror fiction by Simon Avery, Erinn L. Kemper, Joanna Parypinski, Daniel Bennett, Jack Westlake, and Daniel Carpenter. The cover art is by Joachim Luetke, and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Vincent Sammy, Martin Hanford, and Vince Haig....

The 50th issue (January–February 2016) contains new novelettes and short stories by Ray Cluley, Georgina Bruce, V.H. Leslie, Tyler Keevil, Tim Casson, and Gary Budden. The cover art is by Vince Haig (for 'White Rabbit' by Georgina Bruce), and interior illustrations are by Vince Haig again, Martin...