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Murder Most Strange
Murder Most Strange is a collection of twelve homicide cases from the files of detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. Included are cases of the macabre, the strange, and the homicidal deranged, from cops gone mad to sisters turning on each other. From bodies found in strange places, to cracking open an impossible locked-room puzzle. Each one features the camaraderie and chutzpah of two unique homicide detectives. And when Hahn and Morales are asked to solve a case, nothing is ever as it seems to be.
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2
Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs in the wild hills of Fiji; lovers get more than they bargained for in a decadent discotheque; a college professor holds a classroom mesmerized as he vivisects Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"... What fri...
The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning
Thinking and reasoning, long the academic province of philosophy, have over the past century emerged as core topics of empirical investigation and theoretical analysis in the modern fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. Formerly seen as too complicated and amorphous to be included in early textbooks on the science of cognition, the study of thinking and reasoning has since taken off, brancing off in a distinct direction from the field from which it originated. The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook covering all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the foremost experts f...
Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of Hope
Return for a Fourth Time to Ken Scholes's Imagination Forest! An unemployed clown takes a road trip to Roswell and finds an unexpected friend. An aging, alcoholic starship captain/reality HV star at the end of his career comes up wanting in his fearless moral inventory and falls into a better dream. An asteroid belt mining prospector in the Frontier System goes seeking a wife and lands himself in an android caper. Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of Hope celebrates 25 years of Scholes’s eclectic short fiction, logged from deep in his Imagination Forest and oozing with his humanity. Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds features stories as recent as last year and stretches all the way back to the beginning of his career in 2000, marking a quarter century in print as an author. Settle in to find a better dream of your own and maybe a little hope to slip into your pocket against a rainy day.
Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941
Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate. Working tirelessly with local authorities, Baker saved Rice’s fortune from more than one hundred claimants; he championed the wishes of his deceased client and founded Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art—today’s internationally acclaimed Rice University. For fifty years Captain Baker nurtured Rice’s dream. He partnered with leading lawyers to create Houston’s...
Nightshadows
Nineteen of the 23 stories in this volume were written following the release of Nolan's "Dark Universe," and represent his best work in the genre of shock fiction.
