If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are probably dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends may have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends have been chopped down and turned into stylish-yet-affordable end tables. Each page of this la...

In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the...

In our Fairy Cabinet (...) we have aimed at pleasing children, not 'grown-ups', at whom the old French writers directed their romances, but have hunted for fairy tales in all quarters, not in Europe alone. In this volume we open, thanks to Dr. Ignaz...

In "Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts" there is a series of stories generally entitled The Ghost hunter, which have the same central character. In addition to these four stories, there are four other stories of the occult, eight stories about crooks or spi...

A counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6...

From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters.Mahaffey, a long-time advoca...