The Siamese Twins

prose; fiction
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It Was Always You

Ben and Selene's relationship is complicated. Related by marriage, family by choice and luck. They were more than friends, but less than lovers. Selene was everything pure and good in the world. She was love and light. She was his best friend, his only friend. She was the one woman he couldn’t have. So he kept his distance from her, but now he needed her. When Ben showed up in her life again, Selene was hit with feelings she wasn't supposed to have. She wanted to memorize the angles of his face, travel the length of his body with her hands, get drunk with lust on his taste again. She wanted to do so many things with him that weren’t allowed. Now she's working for him and living with him. Can they keep their feelings hidden from each other? Or is their love too strong to resist?**
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The Complete Fiction

A collection of all H. P. Lovecraft's fiction in chronological order. The Little Glass Bottle • (1897) • shortstory The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure • (1898) • shortstory The Mystery of the Grave-Yard • (1898) • shortstory The Mysterious Ship (short version) • (1902) • shortfiction The Mysterious Ship (long version) • (1902) • shortfiction The Beast in the Cave • (1905) • shortstory The Alchemist • (1908) • shortstory The Tomb • (1917) • shortstory Dagon • (1917) • shortstory A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson • (1917) • shortfiction Sweet Ermengarde • (1917) • shortstory Polaris • (1918) • shortstory The Green Meadow • (1919) • shortstory with Winifred V. Jackson Beyond the Wall of Sleep • (1919) • shortstory Memory • (1919) • poem Old Bugs • (1919) • shortstory The Transition of Juan Romero • (1919) • shortstory The White Ship • (1919) • shortstory The Doom That Came to Sarnath • (1919) • shortstory The Statement of Randolph Carter • [Randolph Carter] • (1919) • shortstory The Terrible Old Man • (1920) • shortstory The Tree • (1920) • shortstory The Cats of Ulthar • (1920) • shortstory The Temple • (1920) • shortstory Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family • (1990) • shortstory The Street • (1920) • shortstory Poetry and the Gods • (1920) • shortstory with anna Helen Crofts Celephaïs • (1922) • shortstory From Beyond • (1920) • shortstory Nyarlathotep • (1920) • shortfiction The Picture in the House • (1920) • shortstory The Crawling Chaos • (1920) • shortstory with Winifred V. Jackson Ex Oblivione • (1921) • poem The Nameless City • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1921) • shortstory The Quest of Iranon • (1921) • shortstory The Moon-Bog • (1921) • shortstory The Outsider • (1921) • shortstory The Other Gods • (1921) • shortstory The Music of Erich Zann • (1921) • shortstory Herbert West—Reanimator • [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] • (1921) • novelette Hypnos • (1922) • shortstory What the Moon Brings • (1922) • poem Azathoth • (1922) • shortstory The Horror at Martin's Beach • (1922) • shortstory with Sonia H. Greene The Hound • (1922) • shortstory The Lurking Fear • (1922) • shortstory The Rats in the Walls • (1923) • novelette The Unnamable • [Randolph Carter] • (1923) • shortstory Ashes • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Ghost-Eater • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Loved Dead • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Festival • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1923) • shortstory Deaf, Dumb and Blind • (1924) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. Under the Pyramids • (1924) • novelette with Harry Houdini The Shunned House • (1924) • novelette The Horror at Red Hook • (1925) • novelette He • (1925) • shortstory In the Vault • (1925) • shortstory The Descendant • (1926) • shortstory Cool Air • (1926) • shortstory The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1926) • novelette Two Black Bottles • (1926) • shortstory with Wilfred Blanch Talman Pickman's Model • (1926) • shortstory The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1926) • shortstory The Strange High House in the Mist • (1926) • shortstory The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath • [Randolph Carter] • (1926) • novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novel The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novelette The Very Old Folk • (1927) • shortstory The Thing in the Moonlight • (1927) • shortstory The Last Test • (1927) • novella with Adolphe de Castro History of the Necronomicon • (1938) • shortfiction The Curse of Yig • (1928) • shortstory with Zealia Bishop Ibid • (1928) • shortstory The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1928) • novelette The Electric Executioner • (1929) • novelette with Adolphe de Castro The Mound • (1929) • novelette with Zealia Bishop Medusa's Coil • (1930) • novelette with Zealia Bishop The Whisperer in Darkness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1930) • novella At the Mountains of Madness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novel Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" • (1931) • shortstory The Shadow Over Innsmouth • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novelette The Trap • (1931) • novelette with Henry S.Whitehead The Dreams in the Witch House • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1932) • novelette (variant of The Dreams in the Witch-House) The Man of Stone • (1932) • shortstory with Hazel Heald The Horror in the Museum • (1932) • novelette with Hazel Heald Through the Gates of the Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1932) • novelette with E. Hoffmann Price Winged Death • (1933) • novelette with Hazel Heald Out of the Aeons • (1933) • novelette with Hazel Heald The Thing on the Doorstep • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1933) • novelette The Evil Clergyman • (1933) • shortstory The Horror in the Burying-Ground • (1933) • shortstory with Hazel Heald The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast • (1933) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Slaying of the Monster • (1933) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Book • (1933) • shortfiction The Tree on the Hill • (1934) • shortstory with Duane W. Rimel The Battle that Ended the Century • (1934) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Shadow Out of Time • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1934) • novella “Till A’ the Seas” • (1935) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow Collapsing Cosmoses • (1935) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Challenge from Beyond • (1935) • shortstory with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long The Disinterment • (1935) • shortstory with Duane W. Rimel The Diary of Alonzo Typer • (1935) • novelette with William Lumley The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette In the Walls of Eryx • (1936) • novelette with Kenneth Sterling The Night Ocean • (1936) • novelette with R. H. Barlow
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The Princess Casamassima

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. But when the Princess Casamassima - beautiful, clever and bored - takes him up and introduces him to her own world of wealth and refinement, Hyacinth is torn. He is horrified by the destruction that would be wreaked by revolution, but still believes he must honour his vow, and finds himself gripped in an agonizing and, ultimately, fatal dilemma. A compelling blend of psychological observation, wit and compassion, The Princess Casamassima (1886) is one of Henry James's most deeply personal novels.
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Curious Warnings - The Great Ghost Stories Of M.R. James

Montague Rhodes James—M. R. James—was an English academic and provost of King’s College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends… one hundred and fifty years after his birth he is now revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This collection contains all thirty-five of M.R. James’s highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics: "Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad" and "Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook".
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Conventions of War

The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now hunger for domination. But the far-flung human descendants of Terra have finally tasted liberty, and their warrior heroes will not submit. Separated by light-years, Lord Gareth Martinez and the mysterious guerrilla fighter Caroline Sula each pursue a different road to victory in tomorrow's ultimate battle -- for the new order will be far more terrible than the old ... unless one last, desperate stratagem can hold a shattered galaxy together.
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Soul at the White Heat

A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates."Why do we write?"With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand the source of the writer's inspiration—do subjects haunt those that might bring them back to life until the writer submits? Or does something "happen" to us, a sudden ignition of a burning flame? Can the appearance of a muse-like Other bring about a writer's best work?In Soul at the White Heat, Oates deploys her keenest critical faculties, conjuring contemporary and past voices whose work she deftly and creatively dissects for clues to these elusive questions. Virginia Woolf, John Updike, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, J....
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A Soft Kiss in Winter

Running away from home to marry the man she thought was the love of her life should have been the happy ending Victoria Stanford expected it to be, but things rarely work out as one plans. When her husband suddenly dies and leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere, alone and scared, she thinks she's saved when she sees three men headed her way. Relief turns to fear when she realizes they weren't the type of men a single woman should trust. When they chase up the side of a mountain and overtake her, she does the only thing she can. She screams and hopes they kill her quickly.Gideon Hart has spent the last six years roaming the mountain after tragedy changed his life forever. Since then, he's never encountered another living soul other than his brother—until now. The scream he hears echoing through the trees brings back memories he's been trying to forget. When he finds a woman being attacked, he does what he has to in order to ensure her safety. Getting her to town should be...
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The Sword & Sorcery Anthology

Terrifying barbarians, cunning mages, and daring heroes run rampant through these exceptional examples of the exciting sword and sorcery genre. In “Tower of the Elephant,” Conan takes up jewel thievery but proves to be far better with his sword. “The Flame Bringers” finds antihero Elric infiltrating a band of bloodthirsty mercenaries and outwitting a powerful sorcerer. “Become a Warrior” is the unexpected tale of a child who loses all she holds dear, only to gain unforeseen power and unlikely revenge. Further entries come from early legends such as Jack Vance and Catherine Louise Moore, the next wave of talents including Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock, and modern trendsetters like George R.R. Martin, Karl Edward Wagner, and David Drake. This essential, fast-paced anthology is a chronological gathering of influential, inventive, and entertaining fantasy—sure to appeal to action-oriented fans.Review"Over the past quarter century, Hartwell has built a well-deserved reputation in SF, fantasy and horror as an editor extraordinaire. In addition to discovering many of the leading luminaries in the genre, he has produced a pool of anthologies that attempt to stand as definitive volumes." —Publishers WeeklyAbout the AuthorDavid G. Hartwell is a senior editor at Tor/Forge Books and the publisher of the New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of Age of Wonders, the editor of the anthologies The Dark Descent and The World Treasury of Science Fiction, and the coeditor of two anthologies of the best Canadian science fiction, Northern Stars and Northern Suns. He lives in Pleasantville, New York. Jacob Weisman is the founder, editor, and publisher at Tachyon Publications. His writing has appeared in the Cooper Point Journal, the Nation, Realms of Fantasy, the Seattle Weekly, and in the college textbook, Sport in Contemporary Society. He is the series editor for anthologies including The Secret History of Fantasy, The Urban Fantasy Anthology, and Crucified Dreams: Tales of Urban Horror. He lives in San Francisco.
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