New Releases by Graeme Davis

Una recopilación de relatos terrorífica. Contiene los siguientes relatos: LA HORA DE LA CAZADORA, de Dave Gross La misteriosa desaparición de la querida hermana de la diletante Jenny Barnes desencadena una búsqueda frenética que deja al descubierto los monstruos que acechan en las sombras más oscuras de Arkham. LA ELEGÍA DE LA RAZÓN , de Graeme Davis Investigar la extraña muerte de una orquesta al completo expone al agente federal Roland Banks a horrores sobrenaturales cuya existencia nunca se hubiera imaginado.

Die Alten Götter kommen, um unsere Welt zu verschlingen, und nur die mutigen Ermittler von Arkham Horror stellen sich ihnen in dieser schaurigen Novellensammlung entgegen. Die Suche nach ihrer Schwester führt Jenny Barnes in die dunkelsten Ecken von Arkham. Bundesagent Roland Banks wird in einem bizarren Fall mit den übernatürlichen Schrecken Arkhams konfrontiert. Bei einem sonderbaren Experiment erregt Astronom Professor Norman Withers die Aufmerksamkeit einer seltsamen Kreatur. Und Seemann Silas Marsh muss sich in Innsmouth seinen schlimmsten Albträumen stellen, nachdem ein altes Buch ihm das Ende der Welt prophezeit hat.

The Ancient Ones are coming to consume our world, and only the bold investigators of Arkham Horror stand in their way, in this chilling collection of eldritch novellas. Hour of the Huntress by Dave Gross – the mysterious disappearance of dilettante Jenny Barnes’ beloved sister triggers a frantic search through Arkham’s darkest shadows. The Dirge of Reason by Graeme Davis – for federal agent Roland Banks, investigating a bizarre incident exposes him to the supernatural horrors of Arkham. Ire of the Void by Richard Lee Byers – the astronomer and professor Norman Withers finds himself the subject of a strange creature’s gaze when he agrees to assist in a fellow scientist’s weird experiment. The Deep Gate by Chris A Jackson – sailor Silas Marsh must return to Innsmouth and confront his harrowing nightmares when he stumbles on a tome foretelling the end of the world.

Mais Mortais que os Homens é uma compilação de raros contos de terror surpreendente, que reúne não só as mais emblemáticas autoras mulheres que se debruçaram sobre este gênero literário, como também aquelas pouco ou nada conhecidas na modernidade. De Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) e Louisa May Alcott (Mulherzinhas) ou Harriet Beecher Stowe (A Cabana do Pai Thomas) até aquelas que merecem ser redescobertas, como: Alice Rea, Charlotte Riddell ou Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Os textos apresentados aqui são ainda pouco ou nada comentados, como as histórias de terror de Edith Wharton (A Época da Inocência). O livro nos mostra, inclusive, um texto da fundadora da Sociedade Teosófica, Helena Blavatsky, (As Cavernas dos Ecos), no qual ela tece um enredo fantasmagórico surpreendente, entre outras excelentes produções. Nesta obra, você descobrirá mulheres que escreveram contos de terror tão bem elaborados quanto os de seus contemporâneos masculinos, mas que foram obscurecidas pela história por sua condição feminina. Além dos textos, o livro traz também informações sobre a vida e a carreira literária de cada uma.

Que el árbol no tapa el bosque, nos recuerda el legendario dicho. En el tema que nos reúne, la extraordinaria antología de cuentos de terror Mujeres letales, el árbol en cuestión es Frankenstein, la novela de Mary Shelley; el bosque otros relatos de Shelley y de algunas de sus contemporáneas más ilustres y de otras casi desconocidas. Frankenstein parecía ser la excepción, y sin embargo era un índice de lo que otras mujeres estaban escribiendo. Aunque la ficción gótica y de terror es un género literario identificado casi exclusivamente con los hombres, desde prácticamente su nacimiento las escritoras lo hicieron suyo: ensancharon las fronteras del miedo y la premura, se internaron en sueños perturbadores y en fatales profecías; en la profunda noche de la fantasía. Graeme Davis realizó una cuidadosa excavación literaria para sacar a luz cuentos exquisitos y olvidados. Hay autoras célebres, como Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott o Edith Wharton, y hay otras que merecen serlo y sin duda lo serán. Los veintiséis relatos que componen este volumen, publicados entre 1830 y 1906, son una muestra evidente de una práctica fecunda, a la que se ha prestado poca atención. Mujeres letales es un tesoro que merece descubierto y un acto de justicia literaria.

Enemy in Shadows is the first volume of the revised and updated Director''s Cut of the Enemy Within, one of the most highly regarded roleplaying campaigns ever written. Gather your heroes as you take them from humble beginnings as penniless novice adventures to the halls of the great and powerful, where nothing is as it seems, and every decision can change the fate of the Empire.

"The concept for this book materialised as a result of some brilliant research by University of Buckingham MA Archaeology students in 2014-15. Each examined a feature of the Stonehenge landscape from a different space and time perspective and produced work which contained a key focus on a neglected aspect of the multiple history of the area. Their dissertations have been edited into chapters and the broad scope of the collection covers people using, building and reshaping this landscape from the end of the Ice Age to the end of the Romano-British period. In doing so new detail about the richness and variety of ways generations of ordinary people understood the place is revealed. The discovery of the internationally important Mesolithic site at Blick Mead by the University of Buckingham team, with specialist support from Durham and Reading Universities, the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project and the Natural History Museum, provides a rich data set for students interested in the Mesolithic in general and the establishment of the Stonehenge landscape in particular."--Provided by publisher.

A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies weren’t alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell, whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle, Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life, while Helene Blavatsky, best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society, conjures up a solid and satisfying ghost story in The Cave of the Echoes. Edith Wharton’s great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize, yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre—which was often subtler, more psychological, and more disturbing.

"Rough Nights & Hard Days offers jive interlinked scenarios for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay written by series veteran, Graeme Davis. These can be played as stand-alone adventures, or combined into an epic five-part campaign, where the Characters become embroiled in a bitter dispute between two of the Empire''s quarreling noble houses. Rough Nights & Hard Days also introduces an entirely new playable species, and presents a variety of pub games to amuse and confuse your customers. Rough Nights & Hard Days is the perfect addition to any game of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay as it can be used to start a new campaign, to support the design of exciting locations, or to enhance an ongoing story with exciting new adventures and rules."--Amazon.com.

Tax progressivity is not a precise science. Judgements around the level of tax progressivity need to balance the objective of fairness against other objectives - such as efficiency, simplicity and sustainability - that underpin the design of tax systems. Further, people''s perceptions of fairness depend on a range of factors, including their position in society and the information available to assess their position relative to others. Our analysis of average personal income tax rates, and the distribution of personal income tax incidence, over recent decades suggests that Australia''s personal income tax system became more progressive over the 22 years between 1994-95 and 2015-16. Choices by successive Australian governments have altered marginal personal income tax rates and extended tax thresholds in ways that have reduced the income tax incidence on lower income earners, and increased the income tax incidence on higher income earners. This has also seen an increase in income tax concentration, whereby a narrower proportion of high income earners pay a larger share of total Australian personal income taxes. In publishing these findings, we seek to inform the trade-offs arising from the progressive personal income tax regime and its role within the broader Australian tax system. However, care needs to be taken in evaluating these findings. Our analysis does not seek to evaluate the fairness (real or perceived) of Australia''s personal income tax.

"From the fury of the Norsemen, oh Lord, deliver us!" So prayed the Irish monks. To the victims of a Viking raid, the Norsemen were bearded giants with bloody axes. But the Viking was much more - a skilled navigator, a brave explorer, a hard-working trader. A dreamer whose songs and stories live even today. And a Viking was a free man - a man to whom honor and reputation were more important than life itself. Vikings is a complete guide to the Norse world, including maps, historical background, and details on society and religion. You can game any sort of Viking campaign, from fully realistic to magical and cinematic. Create a historical campaign, with sea battles, duels and bloody raids - or become a legendary berserker for mythic adventures with Thor and Odin!

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the Colonial era’s stifling religion and its dark and threatening woods.Today the best-known tale of Colonial horror is Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” although Irving’s story is probably best-known today from various movie versions it has inspired. Colonial horror tales of other prominent American authors—Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper among them—are overshadowed by their bestsellers and are difficult to find in modern libraries. Many other pioneers of American horror fiction are presented afresh in this breathtaking volume for today’s reading public. By highlighting these writers for contemporary readers, the book helps bring their names—and their work—back from the dead.Featuring stories by: Cotton Mather, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many more.

This engrossing book reveals the huge variety of werewolf types, including viral, shamanic, and sorcerous, highlighting their strengths and weakness, and explaining the best methods to capture or kill each variety. It also tells the full history of werewolves and the shocking role that they have played in some of history''s most significant events, especially their involvement in numerous wars. Finally, it covers the groups and societies devoted to hunting the creatures, whether for safety, study, or sport. With vivid illustrations and captivating text, it will keep any young person reading long into the night.

In the dying days of World War II, Nazi Germany spent increasingly large amounts of its dwindling manufacturing capability on the construction of a small fleet of flying saucers capable of travel beyond the atmosphere. While these saucers were too few in number to affect the eventual outcome of the war, they did allow for a small, but fanatical Nazi group to escape Germany, first to Antarctica, and then on to the moon! For the first time, the history of the Nazi space program has been revealed - with a focus on the design, construction, and layout of the moonbase. Using detailed maps, the entire moonbase is reconstructed, noting the locations of various important features, such as weapon emplacements, the Vril generator, the air recyclers and water extractors. The book also covers the various attempt by the allies to overcome this last Nazi stronghold through both subterfuge and outright battle.

Even before Theseus descended into the labyrinth to face the Minotaur, he was already a famous hero and a veteran of many battles. The son of a man, a woman, and the god Poseidon, he''d journey far across Ancient Greece, fighting numerous monsters including the Periphetes ''the clubber'', the Crymmyon Sow, and the insane demigod, Procrustes ''the stretcher''. He also survived several assassination attempts, including one by Medea, the famous witch-wife of Jason. Despite these adventures, it was on Crete that Theseus faced his greatest challenge. Taking the place of a sacrificial tribute to the king of Crete, Theseus used his wits and charm to convince the princess Ariadne and the famous inventor Daedalus to help him defeat the dreaded Minotaur, a hideous combination of man and bull that lived in a labrythine dungeon. In this book, Graeme Davis draws upon the classic sources to retell the great myths and legends of Theseus, the founder-king of Athens, and backs this narrative with a factual examination of the myth, its variations, and its development over time. Replete with both classical and modern illustrations, this book is a concise exploration of one of the most enduring myths of Ancient Greece.

Born in the dark days of the great crusades, the warrior monks of the Knights Templar vowed to defend pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. Yet strangely, there are few historical records of the Templars ever fulfilling this task. Instead, their history is one of bloodshed and conquest, wealth and power, dark secrets and conspiracies. Today, the story of the Knights Templar is intimately linked with the story of the Holy Grail. But what exactly is this ancient artifact, and how has it been used to manipulate history for the last one thousand years? This book, based on the notes of the recently deceased historian, Dr. Emile Fouchet, attempts to unlock the secrets of the Knights Templar. It begins with an examination of their historical origins, their growth in the early middle-ages, and their supposed destruction under the charges of heresy. From there, it uses the clues left by the Templars themselves to reconstruct their secret journeys as they moved the Holy Grail from Europe to the New World and back. It also charts the secret, three-way war that is still being fought between the Templars, the Freemasons, and the Catholic Church. Finally, the book reveals the greatest of all Templar conspiracies, the attempt to found a new world order under the auspices of the European Union.

"Describes weapons and gear used in the Revolutionary War"--Provided by publisher.

Just because the American Revolution is in curriculum standards doesn''t mean the study of it has to be boring. From the French and Indian War and the ensuing taxes to the creation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Revolutionary War era was a rowdy, transformational time. Packed with infographics, each book is an engaging read about this key period in American history.