Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A Spooky Dozen Online Books For Free

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To read these online books, you don't need a Kindle or a Nook, and all of them are free. On some, you may have to make the text larger by holding down CTRL on your keyboard while clicking the Plus + Key. Others have multiple views and can even be downloaded as a text file. Enjoy! 

True Irish Ghost Stories
~ by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan [1914]

Byways of Ghost-Land
~ by Elliott O'Donnell

 The Short Stories of H.G. Wells
~ including the eerie tales "The Magic Shop," "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid," and "The Empire of the Ants."

The Watcher and other Weird Stories
~ by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The Haunted Hour
~ An Anthology of Poems compiled by Margaret Widdemer

The Book of Were-Wolves
~ classic folklore collection by Sabine Baring-Gould

The Stoneground Ghost Tales
~ Recollections of a Parish Vicar, by E. G. Swain

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 
~ by Robert Louis Stevenson

 Historic Ghosts and Ghost-Hunters
~ by H. Addington Bruce

Short Stories and Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne 
~ including "The Minister's Black Veil," "Rapaccini's Daughter," and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

Modern Library: The Best Ghost Stories
~ edited by Joseph Lewis French, contrib. by Arthur B. Reeve , Daniel Defoe , M. R. James , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Leopold Kompert , E. F. Benson , Algernon Blackwood , Rudyard Kipling , Brander Matthews , Ambrose Bierce , Vincent O'Sullivan and Ellis Parker Butler

The Best Psychic Stories
~ Edited by Joseph Lewis French, including Jack London, Algernon Blackwood, Katherine Bickford, Edgar Allen poe, Elsa Barker, Ambrose Bierce, H. Carrington, A. J. Davis, Helena Blavatsky, and W.F. Prince.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

A New Fantasy Series: Castle Crabapple

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My good friend Colette Bezio, who is a librarian, writer, humorist, and illustrator extraordinaire, has just published Book One in her Castle Crabapple series.  Congratulations and I wish her great success!

Amazon Link: The Witches of Castle Crabapple (Volume 1)

Sample Chapters, Color Pages, and More Here


Also please Like the Facebook Page and follow her on Blogger

From CreateSpace
Who will be the next Princess of Crabapple Valley? Miggin is sweet but clueless. Druzilla is brave, brilliant, arrogant and nasty. Will they really Influence each other, as the queen hopes, or will they tear each other and the kingdom apart? The potential princesses slug it out with magic and mud as the servants rampage, monsters run amok, and the very castle trembles.

The Witches of Castle Crabapple is a light, comic fantasy and the first in a new series, suitable for middle grades and up. Fans of Patricia C. Wrede's 'Calling on Dragons' series, Eva Ibbotson's children's books, and the Harry Potter series should enjoy a visit to Crabapple Valley, where the witches wreak havoc, magic is only a rhyme away, and the swineherds are all certain to marry princesses.

About the author:
Colette Bezio lives in Wisconsin where she works at the Muehl Public Library in Seymour. She has worked as a freelance comic strip writer for King Features Syndicate, and her writings and illustrations have appeared in many publications.