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  • The Slype

    by Russell Thorndike, Mark Valentine ...
    "[W]orthy of being compared to Dickens's creations . . . First-class entertainment." - William F. Deeck,The Mystery Fancier"An exciting story told in a pleasant narrative style with considerable skill, and a whole portfolio of Dickensian characters, drawn against a rich background make The Slype an almost perfect piece of light fiction." - The Outlook"No one will care to hurry when he can spend ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Master of the Macabre

    by Russell Thorndike, Mark Valentine ...
    Tayler Kent flees London in a blinding snowstorm, hoping to escape the ghosts that haunt his home. Instead, he finds things may have gone from bad to worse when he crashes his car, breaks his ankle, and is forced to take refuge at a medieval monastery now inhabited by the eccentric Charles Hogarth, known as "The Master of the Macabre." As Kent's ankle heals, Hogarth entertains him with fine food, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Best British Short Stories 2016

    by David Gaffney, Janice Galloway, Jessie Greengrass, Thomas McMullan, Kate Hendry, Ian Parkinson, Graham Mort, Alex Preston, Tony Peake, John Saul, Leone Ross, Robert Sheppard, Colette Sensier, Claire-Louise Bennett, Mark Valentine, Greg Thorpe, Crista Ermiya, Neil Campbell, Trevor Fevin, Stuart Evers, Nicholas Royle, D. J. Taylor ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hypercorrection as a Factor in Linguistic Change

    by Mark Valentin ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: Hypercorrection is a term of high significance in sociolinguistics. This article aims to clarify what exactly is meant by this widely discussed phenomenon. In this context, it is not ... Read more

    $15.43 USD

  • Mammoth Books presents Lethal Legends

    Four short stories by Michael Kelly, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Mark Valentine and Terry Dowling

    by Mark Valentine, Michael Kelly, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Terry Dowling ...
    Series Book 229 - Mammoth Books
    THE WOODS - Michael KellyMichael Kelly reveals "The Woods' was written for an anthology seeking regional horror and ghost stories. I'd just read Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephant's'. Now, in no way am I comparing myself to Hemingway but I wanted to write a similarly brief tale, with only two main characters, and where the horror was off-stage. As well, the setting had to be distinctly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Comparison of Green Line I 1995 and Green Line I 2001 Considering the Structure of Tasks

    by Mark Valentin ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Schoolbook Analysis, language: English, abstract: Schoolbook analysis as a field of research opens a wide range of perspectives worth taking a closer look at. Even though, noticing the current discourse leads to an astounding conclusion: ... Read more

    $14.75 USD

  • The Survivor

    by Dennis Parry, Mark Valentine ...
    "Mr. Parry brings it off brilliantly. It starts like a comedy, ends like a tragedy and runs like a nightmare from beginning to end." - New York Times"One of the few first-rate horror tales since The Hound of the Baskervilles was a pup." - Newsweek"Unconventional, witty, and well told, this strange and modern ghost story will appeal to those who like their literature on the different side." - ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Mystery of the Yellow Room

    by Gaston Leroux, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    Introduced by Mark Valentine.The greatest French detective in his most fiendish case. Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux.Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Jonathan Swift and His Infidel Translator Desfontaines

    Some Basic Considerations on the Paris Translation of Gulliver’s Travels

    by Mark Valentin ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Jonathan Swift and the Continental Book Market, language: English, abstract: The reception process of a literary work – especially a very popular one – can be seen as a scientific subject absolutely worth focusing on in an academic course. This ... Read more

    $15.24 USD

  • Mammoth Books presents Messing With Your Head

    Five Stories by Joel Lane, Kirstyn McDermott, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mark Valentine, Brian Hodge

    by Joel Lane, Kirstyn McDermott, Brian Hodge, Mark Valentine, Steve Rasnic Tem ...
    Series Book 278 - Mammoth Books
    Black Country - Joel Lane"'Black Country' is one of a sequence of weird crime stories set in the West Midlands that I've been working on for years," says Joel Lane. "A collection of them is forthcoming with the title Where Furnaces Burn. 'Black Country' is also a sequel to my earlier story 'The Lost District', which describes another narrator's experience of Clayheath."I'd like to thank The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Phoenix Program

    America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

    by Douglas Valentine ...
    Series Book 5 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "This shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War" ( Publishers Weekly).In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America's Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best British Short Stories 2023

    by Nicholas Royle, Alinah Azadeh, David Bevan, AK Blakemore, Gabriel Flynn, Jim Gibson, Lydia Gill, Miles Greenwood, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Philip Jennings, Sharon Kivland, Alison Moore, Georgina Parfitt, Gareth E Rees, Leone Ross, John Saul, D. J. Taylor, Briony Thompson, Matthew Turner, Mark Valentine, David Wheldon ...
    Series Book 0 - Best British Short Stories
    Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2023 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2022 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.This ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus