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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 19th Century - The Ghost Story

The ten best ghost stories written from 1800-1899

by Oscar Wilde, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, Alexander Pushkin, Rudyard Kipling, Amelia Edwards, E T A Hoffman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Sheridan Le Fanu ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Ian Holm, Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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3 Stories About - Appearance Vs Reality

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Anton Chekhov, Washington Irving, E T A Hoffman ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

1 hour 41 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Gothic Horror

Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, M R James, E T A Hoffman0, E T A Hoffman1, Gertrude Atherton2, Perceval Landon3, Robert W Chambers4, W W Jacobs5, Ambrose Bierce6, Ernst Raupach7 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley8, Eric Meyers9, Mark Rice-Oxley0 ...

Unabridged

16 hours 31 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
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Mafia Murders

100 Kills that Changed the Mob

by M. A. Frasca ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

Revenge killings, gangland shootouts, brutal executions and drownings - there was no escape from the Mob's hitmen. Featuring historical photographs, Mafia Murders details the bloody ends of these infamous gangsters.Since the late 19th century, the Mafia has used intimidation and worse to exert its control over organized crime. Mafia Murders recalls the 100 most important executions by the Mob. In ... Read more

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Revenge killings, gangland shootouts, brutal executions and drownings - there was no escape from the Mob's hitmen. Featuring historical photographs, Mafia Murders details the bloody ends of these infamous gangsters.Since the late 19th century, the Mafia has used intimidation and worse to exert its control over organized crime. Mafia Murders recalls the 100 most important executions by the Mob. In
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Iron Cross Amerika

by Eric Meyer ...

An American journalist returns to Germany, his birthplace, to be a part of the miracle that Hitler is creating. When war breaks out he joins an SS War Correspondents Unit. A futile attempt to stop the SS killing prisoners in France results in a sentence to Mauthausen Concentration Camp. His only escape from the living hell of the camp is to join a police battalion, SS Sonderbattalion Dirlewanger. ... Read more

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An American journalist returns to Germany, his birthplace, to be a part of the miracle that Hitler is creating. When war breaks out he joins an SS War Correspondents Unit. A futile attempt to stop the SS killing prisoners in France results in a sentence to Mauthausen Concentration Camp. His only escape from the living hell of the camp is to join a police battalion, SS Sonderbattalion Dirlewanger.
... Read more
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Atmospheric Horror Stories

Setting the scene in the worst way…

by A M Burrage, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, E F Benson, E T A Hoffman, Ernst Raupach, F Marion Crawford, Jean Lorrain, M R James, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, May Sinclair, R Murray Gilchrist, Rosa Mulholland, Washington Irving ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

13 hours 21 min

Horror stories are designed from the onset to create a story that will suddenly go very wrong and create a sheer horror and hell not only for the characters in the story but by extension ourselves.In this carefully crafted volume, our authors use their talents to create an atmosphere that might start with tingling tension but builds and builds until we can trust nothing but the certainty of the ... Read more

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Horror stories are designed from the onset to create a story that will suddenly go very wrong and create a sheer horror and hell not only for the characters in the story but by extension ourselves.In this carefully crafted volume, our authors use their talents to create an atmosphere that might start with tingling tension but builds and builds until we can trust nothing but the certainty of the
... Read more
Design for Real Life

by Eric A Meyer, Sara Wachter-Boettcher ...

You can't always predict who will use your products, or what emotional state they'll be in when they do. But by identifying stress cases and designing with compassion, you'll create experiences that support more of your users, more of the time.Join Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer as they turn examples from more than a dozen sites and services into a set of principles you can apply right now. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

You can't always predict who will use your products, or what emotional state they'll be in when they do. But by identifying stress cases and designing with compassion, you'll create experiences that support more of your users, more of the time.Join Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer as they turn examples from more than a dozen sites and services into a set of principles you can apply right now.
... Read more
Basic Visual Formatting in CSS

Layout Fundamentals in CSS

by Eric A. Meyer ...

Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you’ll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to the specifics of managing tricky layouts for block-level and inline elements.Short and sweet, this book ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you’ll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to the specifics of managing tricky layouts for block-level and inline elements.Short and sweet, this book
... Read more
Devil’s Battalion II: Hitler’s Treasure

by Eric Meyer ...

More of Max Roth's bloody adventures in the Sonderbattalion Kurz, the cut-throat, brutal SS partisan hunters and looters.This time it is the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler who insists on the theft of a Christian relic, believed to have been touched by Jesus Christ himself. Hitler believes that the relic will aid him in his struggle against the atheist communists of Stalin's Russia. Roth's platoon is ordered ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

More of Max Roth's bloody adventures in the Sonderbattalion Kurz, the cut-throat, brutal SS partisan hunters and looters.This time it is the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler who insists on the theft of a Christian relic, believed to have been touched by Jesus Christ himself. Hitler believes that the relic will aid him in his struggle against the atheist communists of Stalin's Russia. Roth's platoon is ordered
... Read more
Grid Layout in CSS

Interface Layout for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer ...

CSS has had a layout-shaped hole at its center since the beginning. Designers have bent features such as float and clear to help fill that hole, but nothing has quite done the job. Now that’s about to change. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to use CSS grid layout, a generalized system that lets you lay out pieces of your design independent of their document source order and with full ... Read more

$6.99 USD

CSS has had a layout-shaped hole at its center since the beginning. Designers have bent features such as float and clear to help fill that hole, but nothing has quite done the job. Now that’s about to change. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to use CSS grid layout, a generalized system that lets you lay out pieces of your design independent of their document source order and with full
... Read more
Positioning in CSS

Layout Enhancements for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer ...

The Grid Layout spec will soon change your approach to website design, but there will still be plenty of uses for CSS positioning tricks. Whether you want to create sidebars that remain in the viewport (browser window), add sticky section headings to lists or long articles, or overlap one element with another, this concise ebook will expertly guide you through all the main CSS positioning types ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The Grid Layout spec will soon change your approach to website design, but there will still be plenty of uses for CSS positioning tricks. Whether you want to create sidebars that remain in the viewport (browser window), add sticky section headings to lists or long articles, or overlap one element with another, this concise ebook will expertly guide you through all the main CSS positioning types
... Read more
CSS Pocket Reference

Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer ...

When you're working with CSS and need a quick answer, CSS Pocket Reference delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to implement CSS on the fly. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, the 4th edition is revised and updated for CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification. Along with a complete ... Read more

$9.99 USD

When you're working with CSS and need a quick answer, CSS Pocket Reference delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to implement CSS on the fly. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, the 4th edition is revised and updated for CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification. Along with a complete
... Read more

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