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okładka The Greater Trumps, Ebook | Charles Williams

”Great trump cards” – a novel, brilliantly built on the basis of an ancient deck of tarot cards. This novel is filled with secrets, there are various signs, symbols, riddles. Everyone has different opinions about these secrets, no one can come to a common opinion. Witchcraft can still kill, and the supernatural must be defeated by the supernatural.

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okładka Many Dimensions, Ebook | Charles Williams

The main task of Charles Williams was to show that man must obey God. The main thing in „Many Dimensions” is the all-powerful stone that can fulfill any desire. Above of all, „Many Dimensions” is a complex image of good and evil. Williams fascinatingly shows how evil is not in a particular thing, but in what we do with these things.

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okładka War in Heaven, Ebook | Charles Williams

”War in Heaven” is a horrific romance, with many mythical creatures present. Instead of creating a unique secondary fantasy world or switching between two universes, Williams allows the supernatural to invade his modern world. This allows him to explore the influence of another reality on different characters. The object that guides the supernatural to the natural in this novel is the Holy Grail

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okładka The Place of the Lion, Ebook | Charles Williams

Charles Williams is able to create wonderful ghostly episodes – powerful moments of disclosure. In the novel The Place of the Lion, the world of feelings is depicted as an illusion – simply a reflection of the „real world” from which it originates. This makes some absolutely fascinating scenes, as people suddenly face a reality that they cannot understand. The book raises some interesting questions about good and evil.

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okładka All Hallows’ Eve, Ebook | Charles Williams

The novels of Charles Williams are fascinating. The novels are strange behind the plot. For example, All Hallows ’Eve is about a couple in love who are in danger. Strange things happen to lovers.

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okładka The Doom of London, Ebook | Fred M. White

A terrible story that can cause goose bumps after reading. The story of The Doom of London describes the disasters that befell Victorian London. One of the largest cities is shocked by life threatening circumstances. Here there are underground explosions, poisoning, aplague of diphtheria. London is on the verge of death.

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okładka Topper Takes a Trip, Ebook | Thorne Smith

Cosmo Topper is an average American bank executive on holiday in the French Riveria. Feckless, fun-loving and totally uncontrollable ghosts, George and Marion Kerby and friends – the tortuously crooked Colonel Scott and his companion, the disreputable Mrs. Hart – return to bring chaos and merriment into the life of mild-mannered, stuffy, and somewhat plump, Topper. One of Thorne Smith’s best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit...

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okładka Turnabout, Ebook | Thorne Smith

Another magical, mischievous Thorne Smith classic. Though Thorne Smith’s most popular works involve elements of fantasy and science fiction, the clever novel „Turnabout” takes his penchant for incorporating supernatural and magical themes in his work and puts one such plot twist to use as a comedic tool. A classic battle of the sexes, it was published in 1931 and follows a married couple who fall prey to the tricks of an Egyptian idol who grows weary of the seemingly never-...

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okładka Did She Fall?, Ebook | Thorne Smith

This early work by Thorne Smith was originally published in 1930. James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American author who specialized in supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. „Did She Fall? „ (1930) is a straight murder mystery whose dialogue shows occasional traces of Smith’s wisecracking energy. America’s bawdiest, wittiest writer turns his talents to a startling novel of murder, suspense and brilliant detection. Welcome to the Crewe house, where it is on...

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okładka Skin and Bones, Ebook | Thorne Smith

Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself no more than a walking skeleton. Bland’s flesh does not merely become invisib...

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okładka The Glorious Pool, Ebook | Thorne Smith

Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith’s acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Prohibition. 60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse the aging process. From there Rex, his wife and his mistress of twenty years, Spra...

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okładka Biltmore Oswald, Ebook | Thorne Smith

A comic diary about entering life in the Navy. Published in 1918 and written for the Naval Reservist journal „The Broadside” while the author Thorne Smith was in the Navy, it is a series of short vignettes poking fun at the culture of the time in general and the military in particular. It’s the diary of Biltmore Oswald, a hapless naval recruit with no appreciable talents besides befriending animals and getting into trouble, and his day to day adventures during World War I. ...

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okładka Rain in the Doorway, Ebook | Thorne Smith

Who hasn’t waited for a ride in the pouring rain and wondered if there wasn’t something more to life? This is exactly how we find poor Mr. Owen, hopeless and downtrodden, wet and miserable. Suddenly, he is swept in through a doorway to a place full of wild imaginations, where loneliness and unfulfilled dreams are a thing of the past. It is the story an adulteress’s husband who embarks on inebriated adventures with his various partners and a girl who works in a pornographic ...

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okładka Dream’s End, Ebook | Thorne Smith

A New York advertising executive leaves his job in the city to write poetry in a hut by the sea. Once there he finds himself caught in the coils of his attraction to two women – a situation that so unsettles his wits that he falls prey to a heavily symbolic dream obsession. The story centers on a love triangle that develops between Landor, the niece of the man he’s staying with, Scarlet and the wife of the local land baron, Hilda. „Dream’s End” is a radical departure from T...

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okładka Out O’ Luck, Ebook | Thorne Smith

James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. Smith’s literary debut was „Biltmore Oswald” (1918), the comic fictional diary of a hapless naval recruit, drawing heavily on wartime experience with the Navy. Episodes had featured in Broadside. The book sold well enough to...

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okładka The Bishop’s Jaegers, Ebook | Thorne Smith

If you’re in the mood for a wildly hilarious comic romp, give Thorne Smith’s „The Bishop’s Jaegars” a read. Mad, hilarious, degenerate, or simply fun fantasy? Only the reader can decide. Adrift and listless, a wealthy coffee heir Peter Van Dyke is searching for meaning in life. His young secretary Jo decides to shake things up and help him get back on track. Although he is engaged to another, she has far from given up. Laughter ensues as they go from one mishap to another a...

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okładka Children of the Wind, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

M.P. Shiel is a British writer of West Indian descent. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances, published as serials, novels, and as short stories. „Children of the Wind” adventure set in South Central Africa. A lost race novel. An English scientist learns that the „White Queen” of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance. There are tribal warfare including biological warfare, lesbianism, and...

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okładka The Second Deluge, Ebook | Garrett P. Serviss

The protagonist is a rich scientist who predicts the onset of a new flood due to the passage of the Earth through a nebula. Instead of panic, people had laughter, because no one believed in his words. They thought he was crazy. While everyone was laughing, the mad scientist built the ark. The rains did not stop. The world is sinking, but will the main character survive?

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okładka The Moon Metal, Ebook | Garrett P. Serviss

An interesting early science fiction story written by Garrett Putman Serviss. A mad scientist offers to help save the world economy with valuable metal. He claims that he mines this metal himself, but actually brings it from the moon. And yet, will metal be able to save the world economy from ruin?

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okładka The Yellow Danger, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

Not all invasion threats were purported to come from the Germans, the French or from Anarchists: in M.P. Shiel’s Yellow Danger it is an army of Chinese who invade Europe. In „The Yellow Danger” Mr. Shiel described in lurid colors the possibilities of the overwhelming of the white world by the yellow man, a possibility for the imagining of, which he claimed no originality. „The Yellow Danger” has been the bugbear of the Russians ever since the days of Tamerlane. But it must ...

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okładka Prince Zaleski, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

„Prince Zaleski” (1895) represents Shiel’s contribution to the mystery genre, and is his answer to Sherlock Holmes. This is a set of three short detective mysteries– but the stories are clever and even wonderfully creepy at times – which can only be solved by Prince Zaleski the world’s greatest historian! It includes the following mysteries: „The Race of Orven”, „The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks”, „The S.S.”. Prince Zaleski is an eccentric gentleman detective who suffers ...

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okładka The Night Life of the Gods, Ebook | Thorne Smith

In „Night Life of the Gods”, we meet Hunter Hawk, wealthy eccentric scientist in 1920s America, who, after numerous explosions, manages to invent an „atomic ray” that turns living beings into statues, and a second ray that restores them to their original state. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art of transforming statues into people. Together, the two are invincible, especially when th...

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okładka The Sky Pirate, Ebook | Garrett P. Serviss

For some time, sky pirates took public attention, because everyone was shocked by their brave actions. The handsome and sophisticated captain Alfonso Payton was one of the most daring. They decided to steal the billionaire’s daughter, Helen Grayman, and her servant. Their goal is to squeeze money out of the most wealthy person in the USA. Do these pirates again get what they want?

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okładka The Lost Viol, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

Romantic mystery novel first published in New York by Clode in 1905. Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865–1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. Shiel was more than just a writer of sensational tales of magic and mystery. There is an undercurrent of philosophic seriousness running beneath the finely textured prose of all his fiction. Like his contemporaries George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and H. G. Wells (1866-1946), Shiel wrote out of the intellectual fervor of ...

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okładka The Last Miracle, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

This volume contains Matthew Phipps Shiel’s 1906 novel, „The Last Miracle”. It is original, nicely written, and with good character studies that is recommended for fans of supernatural and science fiction, and is a must-have for collectors of Shiel’s work. The Last Miracle (1906) – very loose thematic sequence of apocalyptic tales concerns a plot to discredit Christianity with fake miraculous visions created by gigantic hologram-like devices and the terrible crucifixions wh...

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okładka The Rajah’s Sapphire, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

The M. P. Shiel’s second book and first novel. „The Rajah’s Sapphire” is a story of the final chapter in the history of a famous gem that haunts all who chance to own it. M. P. Shiel wrote twenty-five novels and dozens of short stories, most of them romantic mysteries or fast-paced adventures, several dealing with world conquest. Others are distinctly supernatural or border on science fiction. Most are interspersed with discourses on his philosophy and sociology of the Over...

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okładka The Man-Stealers, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

In „The Man-Stealers” we have the French plot to kidnap the Duke of Wellington to avenge Napoleon’s imprisonment. Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865–1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained „Shiell” though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. „The Purple Cloud” (1901; 1929) remains his most...

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okładka The Lord of the Sea, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

The story is of Richard Hogarth, a man of lofty spirit who on discovering a cache of giant diamonds inside a fallen meteor undertakes a bold project to re-shape the human condition on a global scale. He builds huge steel forts with his wealth, places diamonds at the cross-roads of the earth’s oceans to control all sea-traffic for tribute to benefit the citizens of his mammoth iron islands. „The Lord of the Sea (1901) develops a network of mid-19th-century motifs – incredibl...

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okładka The Evil That Men Do, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

„The Evil That Men Do” is a classic story of horror and unbelievable cruelty by British writer Matthew Phipps Shiel. This novel of mystery about Hartwell from birth, does he inherit his fathers traits? Do great men have great sons and how much does one’s own life’s experiences cause variance to this question? To the ordinary reader there will seem very little in point of morality to choose between Robert Hartwell and the villainous millionaire whom a strange facial resembla...

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okładka The Purple Cloud, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

„The Purple Cloud”, „The Lord of the Sea” (both 1901), and „The Last Miracle” (1906) is a trilogy of science fiction; and at least the first two are considered early masterpieces in the genre. „The Purple Cloud” is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best „last man” novels ever written. A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. Adam adventures to the North Pole; on returning he...

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okładka A Columbus of Space, Ebook | Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett Putman Serviss is popular as a science fiction author. His story „A Columbus of Space” about the flight into space. The heroes were in the middle of the cosmos, they were surprised when they saw the Earth. The very Earth where a few days ago they were going in some direction. Yes, they knew where they were. But how did they get there and what will they do next?

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okładka Edison’s Conquest of Mars, Ebook | Garrett P. Serviss

Every person is interested to know whether there is life on Mars. Garrett Putman Servissis one of the first writers who touched on this topic. This story contains everything unimaginable: the invasion of people on Mars, ingenious inventions, the first space battle, alien abduction. This should be read to each.

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okładka Shapes in the Fire, Ebook | M.P. Shiel

M.P. Shiel, who wrote science fiction, mystery, and other genre fiction from the 1890s through 1930s, first established himself as a member of a Decadent movement in England. He was influenced by the Decadent movement lastingly than most of his contemporaries, in part because the tenets of Decadence resonated with his own personal history and racial views. As the movement faded, Shiel built on the underlying logic of Decadence to create adventure novels involving race-based...

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okładka The Stray Lamb, Ebook | Thorne Smith

In „The Stray Lamb”, author Thorne Smith draws inspiration from his most famous works, the beloved Topper series. It follows mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, ordinary, faithful, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb. He is given a new perspective on life through the eyes of many different animals as he assumes the shape of many including a stallion, goldfish, dog, lion and many others. Mr. Lamb gains wisdom, fresh insight, and a new much needed exuberance for life as he...

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okładka Topper, Ebook | Thorne Smith

Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of „Topper” brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover they’ve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the ...

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okładka Wszyscy jesteśmy cyborgami, Ebook | Michał R. Wiśniewski

Wchodząc w XXI wiek Polska – jak i cały świat – stała się areną cyfrowej rewolucji. Komputery z fantastycznych wizji przeobraziły się w przedmioty codziennego użytku. Bezgłośny światłowód wyparł skrzeczące modemy, a pokolenie MTV, zbiorowy umysł zjednoczony przed telewizorem, ustąpiło przed pokoleniem Neo, cyborgami połączonymi z komputerami – i sobą nawzajem. Miłość, polityka, kultura, media – globalna sieć odmieniła wszystko. Internet stał się „miejscem”, w którym żyjemy,...

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okładka Dziewczyna o chabrowych oczach, Ebook | Catherine Cachée

Paix to wiekowe miasteczko, starannie ukryte w głębi lasu rozpościerającego się na północ od Strasbourga, zamieszkane przez tajemnicze istoty, które pragną żyć poza ludzką cywilizacją. Panujący tu odwieczny spokój zostaje pewnego dnia zakłócony przez brutalną napaść. Ci, którzy ocaleli z masakry, trafiają do ludzkiego świata, znanego im dotychczas jedynie z opowieści. Mimo strachu i uprzedzeń starają się go poznać i zrozumieć. Ale czy to możliwe, by między tymi dwoma ta...

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okładka Squadron of the Damned, Ebook | David Wright O’Brien

Looking for a satisfying, meticulously exciting adventure with which to while away an afternoon? Look no further than „Squadron of the Damned”, a short story from one of the most early writers in the genre of fantasy and science fiction, David Wright O’Brien. O’Brien’s work was space opera or other routine adventure, but many of his stories betray a strain of humor, not unlike Henry Kuttner’s at that time. Some of the stories were co-written with his close friend William P....

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okładka Blitzkrieg in the Past, Ebook | David Wright O’Brien

After a „short, dumpy bald-headed guy in civvies” installs an invention – a time transfer device – in a tank that proceeds into the Georgia wilderness on maneuvers, a lightning bolt send the tank and its three operators backward in time. Shortly afterward they notice a single three-toes dinosaur footprint and disturbingly they hear the bloodthirsty scream of a very strange „bird”. „Blitzkrieg in the Past” is a science fiction from American fantasy and science fiction writer...

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okładka Collected Short Stories, Ebook | A. Merritt

„The Collected Short Stories” is a collection of Abraham Merritt’s shorter works, and contains eight stories and two „fragments.” Included are: „The People of the Pit”, „Through the Dragon Glass”, „The Drone”, „The Last Poet and the Robots” and others. These short stories span the entire career of the man who has been called America’s foremost adventure fantasist of the 1920s and ’30s. The collection kicks off with one of its strongest tales, „The Fox Woman,” a tale of reve...

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okładka Burn, Witch, Burn!, Ebook | A. Merritt

Originally published in 1932, „Burn, Witch, Burn! „ is a classic fantasy/horror and mystery novel by A. Merritt. In it, we meet Dr. Lowell, an eminent neurologist who becomes curious when a series of mysterious deaths comes to his attention. Men and women in the NYC area have been dying of no apparent cause, but with horrible grimaces on their faces and with very rapid onsets of rigor mortis. The trail of bizarre deaths leads to one Madame Mandilip and her doll shop, and be...

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okładka Creep, Shadow!, Ebook | A. Merritt

„Creep, Shadow! „ is the second novel in the Dr. Lowell series, preceded by „Burn, Witch, Burn! „. It’s short and it moves along very quickly but there’s plenty of tension and some genuinely creepy moments. Doctor Alan Carnac returns to the commonplace world of New York from the jungles of Africa, only to meet there a menace more mysterious and appalling than the savage magic of the witch doctors – his best friend has inexplicably committed suicide and Carnac begins a frant...

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okładka Seven Footprints to Satan, Ebook | A. Merritt

A jungle explorer back home in New York gets kidnapped by a part-Chinese man claiming to be Satan. „Satan” has set up a complicated game of chance, which is played by some of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world. Some have come to suspect that the game might be rigged. „Seven Footprint to Satan” is A. Merritt’s most famous mystery novel and Merritt’s Satan remains one of the most memorable super-villains in pulp literature, and the complexity which the author e...

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okładka The Moon Pool, Ebook | A. Merritt

One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, „The Moon Pool” embodies all the romanticism and poetic nostalgia characteristic of A. Merritt’s writings. The plot concerns an advanced race which has developed within the Earth’s core. Eventually their most intelligent members create an offspring. This created entity encompasses both great good and great evil, but it slowly turns away from its creators and towards evil. The entity is called either the Dweller or the Shining...

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okładka The Face in the Abyss, Ebook | A. Merritt

A simply amazingly creative novel by one of the best of the pulp-era authors, originally published 1931. While searching for lost Inca treasure in South America, American mining engineer, Nicholas Graydon stumbles across a lost civilization. A culture both more barbarous than our own and more civilized; more advanced and yet in some ways primitive. Is it a strange and highly advanced technology, or magic, that is responsible for the wonders of this land? Naturally our engin...

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okładka The Dwellers in the Mirage, Ebook | A. Merritt

This science fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt concerns American Leif Langdon who accidentally discovers a hidden valley in Alaska that unexpectedly supports abundant life, including two tribes of people: a pygmy race; and warriors who descend from Mongols. The warriors worship an evil Kraken, whom they summon to offer human sacrifice. The inhabitants believe Langdon to be the reincarnation of their long dead hero, Dwayanu... There are lost civilizations, malignant gods, anc...

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okładka The Ship of Ishtar, Ebook | A. Merritt

The goddess of love and beauty was adrift on an enchanted ocean in a magic world. The myriad forces of satanic evil plagued the vessel of the red-haired, passionate goddess. Only one man, John Kenton, the American adventurer, WWI vet and archaeologist, could save Ishtar’s priestess from the black magic which divides her world from ours. Written in 1924, „The Ship of Ishtar” is a universally hailed classic of the fantasy novel by A. Merritt and is, on surface at least, an ob...

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okładka The Metal Monster, Ebook | A. Merritt

Abraham Merritt tells a tale of awe and wonder as well as horror and dread to the speculative fiction and fantasy. „The Metal Monster” features the return of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin who first appeared in „The Moon Pool”. In the wilds of the Trans-Himalayan region, a quartet of adventurers led by Dr. Goodwin stumbles upon a tribe of human primitives forgotten since the age of Alexander the Great, and an awesome being of living metal commanded by the exiled Norhala. As Norhala’...

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okładka The Prince of Peril, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

The second of the three Grandon of Venus novels. When the man who was Harry Thorne on Earth offered to swap bodies with a native of Venus, it was because he was bored with comfort and security, and craved excitement. And that was what he got – more than he would have bargained for – when he found that he had taken over the assassin-haunted role of a prince of a beleaguered throne in a land of ferocious beasts and inhuman foemen. With the help of the fellow interplanetary tr...

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okładka The Swordsman of Mars, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

The Age of Miracles produces an amazing suicide and a triumphant return from death. A million dollar prize is offered – and won – for the most perfect automation. „The Revenge of the Robot and Other Tales” is a collection of thrilling sci-fi stories from mechanistic progress, written by Otis Adelbert Kline, who was an adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era. Kline is perhaps best known for his novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote „Planet of Per...

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okładka The Port of Peril, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

When Vernia, empress of Reabon, mightiest land of all Venus, was kidnapped by the strange marauders of the sea and was taken to their hidden port, it presented the Earthman, Robert Grandon, with his greatest challenge. Grandon goes on a quest to save her, a quest that will put him on challenges, and against enemies beyond everything he had came across before. And out of this comes a tale of action in which event follows event at unparalleled speed, and always against a back...

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okładka The Thing That Walked in the Rain, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline’s swashbuckling sci-fi adventures would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel’s follow-up thrill ride. „The Thing That Walked in the Rain” provides another interplanetary adventure. Considered by many to be the only true equal of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline was a master of the sword and planet genre. From his position on the original editorial staff of Weird Tales and as the liter...

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okładka The Revenge of the Robot and Other Tales, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

Rebels on the red planet! An Earthman Harry Thorn exchanges personalities with an ancient Martian and pursues a vicious criminal (another Earthman who had been sent earlier) who seeks to destroy Martian civilization. There’s also a race of yellow aliens apart from the hot-looking humanoids, and these guys have a death-ray which becomes important to the conflict. Follow Thorne’s amazing adventures on this distant world as he attempts to fulfill his obligations. „The Swordsma...

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okładka The Planet of Peril, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

Otis Adelbert Kline is best known for his purported novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1929, long before planetary romance became a conventional genre, he wrote „Planet of Peril”, a novel set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of Burroughs’ Martian novels. He followed this with two sequels. This novel is a science-fiction adventure on a world of semi-barbaric nations, ferocious beasts, gigantic reptiles, and maidens in distress. In it, Rober...

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okładka Maza of the Moon, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

A missile is fired from earth to hit the surface of the moon. It is successful and the missilemen are heroes, until... THE MOON FIRES BACK! Terrible lunar missiles blast New York, London, and Paris. And an ultimatum is delivered from the unsuspected civilization of our satellite: „You have attacked us! You will pay the penalty! „. The Otis Adelbert Kline’s second book who was an adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era. He is best known for his interplanetary ...

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okładka The Metal Monster, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

Originally published in 1931, „The Metal Monster” is a classic science-fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946), best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mar. When the most powerful artillery, deadly bacteria and explosives known, and the most destructive methods available fail to be effective against some enemy’s unknown weapon of war, it is time, very frequently, to turn to some simple means of combat and attack. Paradoxically, though, i...

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okładka Spawn of the Comet, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

Silently, without warning they came, those fishermen of deep space who spread their net for man – living flying saucers the Earth must destroy – yet who multiplied by dying! „Spawn of the Comet” is a short alien invasion story by Otis Adelbert Kline. Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946) born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. He is best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly b...

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okładka Jan of the Jungle, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

Led to believe that his natural mother is a chimpanzee Chicma, a young boy knows only the savage ways of the great apes. Kept in a cage, he is systematically trained to become a savage killer by the fiendish Dr. Bracken. But the young boy, Jan, is clever enough to escape from the lab and make it out into the surrounding swamp with his chimp mentor at his side and emerge near the Lost Empire of Mu. The swamplands offer Jan has his first taste of freedom. He grows up fast, an...

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okładka Jan in India, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

As we continue to follow adventures of „Jan of the Jungle” written by Otis Adelbert Kline, we find him engaged to his fiancée Ramona and reunited with his parents. Together with some friends, they start a cruise on the Indian Ocean. However, the happy days don’t last long for Jan as he gets thrown in the shark infested waters and Ramona gets abducted. Follow the exploits of „Jan of the Jungle” as he strives to save his future wife from a hideous death at the fangs of the Bl...

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okładka The Outlaws of Mars, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

„The Outlaws of Mars” introduces you to Captain Jerry Morgan and his travel to Mars in the early 20th century. When Jerry, expert swordsman, left the American Army, his scientist uncle, Dr. Richard Morgan, had no difficulty in persuading the adventurous young man to take a trip to Raliad, largest city on Mars in a space ship, directed by mental telepathy. For Jerry’s first moment there involved him in a costly mistake which was to throw him into conflict not only with the f...

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okładka Stranger From Smallness, Ebook | Otis Adelbert Kline

Meet the another sci-fi story from the master of adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era Otis Adelbert Kline, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics. Smaller than a microbe, the Stranger was but how he grew! Ralph Blake’s surprise kidnapping flung him into fierce adventure in the torrid Sahara. Then a strange creature from Mercury stepped in and even Ralph’s death couldn’t prev...

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okładka Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales, Ebook | Malcolm Jameson

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Czym są ebooki?

Ebooki to książki, których treść została zapisana w formie elektronicznej. Są nazywane również e-książkami, publikacjami elektronicznymi czy książkami elektronicznymi. Ebooki można odczytywać na komputerach i laptopach, ale są one przeznaczone głównie do czytania na urządzeniach przenośnych takich jak smartfony, tablety i przede wszystkim czytniki książek elektronicznych. Ebooki posiadające swoje pierwowzory w formie papierowej są jej odwzorowaniem. Posiadają wszystkie elementy obecne w „tradycyjnej” wersji, takie jak okładkę, ilustracje, spis treści, przypisy itp.

Niepodważalną zaletą ebooków jest to, że w odróżnieniu od drukowanej książki można w nich zmieniać rodzaj oraz wielkość czcionki, formatować tekst, a w zależności od posiadanego czytnika istnieje też możliwość wyszukiwania pojedynczych słów w tekście, dodawania zakładek i robienia notatek.

Formaty ebooków

Ebooki są dostępne w wielu formatach. Najpopularniejsze z nich, będące standardem dla publikacji elektronicznych, to EPUB, MOBI i PDF.

Epub

To nowoczesny format będący standardem publikacji ebooków. Format EPUB umożliwia zmienianie wielkości fontu, co pomaga dopasować jego rozmiar do ekranu. Ebooki w tym formacie najlepiej odczytywać na urządzeniach posiadających ekran eINK (elektroniczny papier), chociaż można je odczytać także na smartfonie czy tablecie. Format EPUB jest możliwy do odczytania na komputerze, jednak do tego celu konieczne jest zainstalowanie właściwego oprogramowania.

Mobi

Jest formatem ebooków wykorzystywanym przez czytniki firmy Amazon – Kindle (oraz na innych urządzeniach i programach dostępnych na rynku). Publikacje MOBI są zapisane w formacie Mobipocket, można więc pobrać je na dowolny sprzęt elektroniczny posiadający oprogramowanie umożliwiające odczytanie plików MOBI. Format ten jest oparty na języku HTML, dlatego jego wyświetlanie jest możliwe na urządzeniach mobilnych.

PDF

To format zapewniający taki sam wygląd strony jak w wersji papierowej – w tym formacie podział na strony jest sztywny. PDF służy do długoterminowego archiwizowania elektronicznych danych i może być odczytywany na większości komputerów, laptopów, smartfonów, czytników czy tabletów.

Co znajdziesz w kategorii: Fantastyka i Horror

Czym jest fantastyka?

Fantastyka jest bardzo obszernym gatunkiem filmowym, komiksowym, dotyczącym gier, a nade wszystko literatury. Jego cechą charakterystyczną jest tworzenie przez autorkę lub autora świata, który dalece lub w całości odbiega od znanej nam rzeczywistości. To tutaj pojawiają się elementy nadnaturalne, w tym nowe gatunki stworzeń, magia czy nieznane nam zjawiska oraz tereny. Książki fantastyczne często zawierają także nieistniejącą w naszym świecie technologię. Jedną z najważniejszych cech, jakimi wyróżnia się literatura fantastyczna jest bardzo duża swoboda w zakresie tworzenia świata przedstawionego i wypełniających go postaci. Autorka lub autor tworzą go od samych podstaw, nierzadko łącznie z historią dotyczącą jego powstania, rządzących nim praw (w tym nawet praw fizyki), stosunku sił, a także wielowiekowej czasem przeszłości. Fantastyka rozwijała się jako gatunek literacki szczególnie w okresie romantyzmu. Nie sposób pominąć tutaj takiej postaci jak Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, autor między innymi opowiadania “Dziadek do orzechów”, a także jeden z prekursorów podtypu fantastyki, fantastyki grozy (tak zwanego weird fiction). Jego dzieła miały ogromny wpływ na twórczość innego niezwykle znanego autora dzieł weird fiction, którym był Edgar Allan Poe. Wiele jego książek fantastycznych, takich jak “Zagłada domu Usherów”, “Czarny kot”, “Opowieść Artura Gordona Pyma” czy zbiór “Opowiadania prawie wszystkie” czeka na Was na Woblink jako ebooki w formatach epub, mobi lub pdf. Do weird fiction zalicza się także opowiadania Thomasa Ligottiego, zebrane między innymi w tomie “Teatro Grottesco”. 

Jakie książki należą do kategorii fantastyka? Najlepsze książki fantastyczne.

Wśród książek z kategorii fantastyka znajdziecie wiele świetnych pozycji rozgrywających się w alternatywnej rzeczywistości. Niektóre z nich należą do podgatunku fantastyki - fantasy, rozległego obszaru literatury, który sam ma wiele własnych pomniejszych typów. Wyróżniamy tu między innymi tzw. high fantasy (np. “Władca Pierścieni” J. R. R. Tolkiena), low fantasy (np. “Trylogia husycka” Andrzeja Sapkowskiego), urban fantasy czy dark fantasy. W tym dziale znajdziecie także między innymi takie najlepsze powieści fantasy jak “Ucznia skrytobójcy” Robina Hobba, “Mgły Avalonu” Marion Zimmer, “Amerykańskich bogów” Neila Gaimana czy cykl “Opowieści z Malazańskiej Księgi Poległych” Stevena Ericksona. Ciekawe książki fantasy znajdziecie na Woblink jako książki papierowe, ebooki lub audiobooki.

Fantastyka to jednak nie tylko fantasy - to również science fiction. Czym jest fantastyka naukowa? To gatunek filmów, gier komputerowych, a także literatury osnutej wokół nieistniejących jeszcze lub zupełnie wyimaginowanych osiągnięć nauki i techniki, które znacząco wpływają na życie społeczeństw i poszczególnych jednostek. Science fiction jest swoiście futurystyczne - wyróżnia je także przywiązanie do zasad prawdopodobieństwa oraz brak elementów nadprzyrodzonych, które wypełniają świat fantasy. Podobnie jak fantasy, fantastyka naukowa ma wiele własnych podtypów literackich. Wśród nich wyróżnić można między innymi takie rodzaje jak dystopia (np. “Równi bogom” Isaaca Asimova), cyberpunk (np. “Blade Runner. Czy androidy marzą o elektrycznych owcach?” Philipa K. Dicka), biopunk (np. “Wyspa doktora Moreau” H. G. Wellsa), postapokalipsa (np. “Metro 2033” Dmitrija Glukhovsky'ego), historia alternatywna (np. “Lód” Jacka Dukaja) czy space opera (np. “Diuna” Franka Herberta). Z pewnością trzeba także wspomnieć o polskim mistrzu fantastyki naukowej, Stanisławie Lemie, którego “Solaris”, “Dzienniki gwiazdowe”, “Cyberiada” czy “Bajki robotów” weszły już do klasyki gatunku. Cenioną książką jest także “Ślepowidzenie” Petera Wattsa,  nominowane do nagród Hugo, Campbella, Sunburst, Locusa i Aurory.

Wiele spośród najlepszych książek fantastycznych należy do cenionych serii powieści. Należy tu niewątpliwie wspomnieć o cyklu “Pieśń lodu i ognia” George’a R. R. Martina, sadze “Pan Lodowego Ogrodu” Jarosława Grzędowicza, trylogii “Wspomnienie o przeszłości Ziemi” Cixin Liu, “Wojnie makowej” Rebecci F. Kuang, “Ziemiomorzu” Ursuli K. Le Guin, “Świecie Dysku” Terry’ego Pratchetta, “Zwiadowcach” Johna Flanagana, “Sadze Endera” Orsona Scotta Carda, czy “Achai” Andrzeja Ziemiańskiego. Wśród samodzielnych powieści polecamy wejść w świat pełen zjawisk nadprzyrodzonych i niespodziewanych wydarzeń, jakie mają miejsce w “Babel” Rebecci F. Kuang, “Planecie małp” Pierre Boulle, “Odysei kosmicznej 2001” Arthura C. Clarke’a, czy “Szczelinie” Jozefa Kariki. Po najlepsze książki fantastyczne dla młodzieży chętnie sięgają także dorośli czytelnicy - należą do nich  “Igrzyska śmierci” Suzanne Collins, “Trylogia Grishy” Leigh Bardugo czy dzieła J. K Rowling, w tym “Fantastyczne zwierzęta”. Najlepsze książki fantasy, science fiction oraz sagi ulubionych bohaterów, których karty wypełniają magiczne przygody czekają na Was niecierpliwie na Woblink!

Jakie książki należą do kategorii horrory? Najlepsze książki horrory.

Do fantastyki literackiej zaliczane są także książki z gatunku horroru - trzymające w napięciu źródła silnych przeżyć i emocji. Niedające się wytłumaczyć na kanwie istniejących praw rządzących rzeczywistością zjawiska nadprzyrodzone są w dziełach literatury grozy wprowadzane, by wywołać strach i przerażenie. Najlepsze horrory opowiadają o nie tylko o duchach i potworach, ale niewyjaśnionych zjawiskach, brutalnych konsekwencjach wcześniejszych błędów bohaterów lub nieukojonej zemście. Do klasyki literatury grozy zaliczamy między innymi dzieła H. P. Lovecrafta  - szczególnie cenione są jego opowiadania tworzące mitologię o Cthulhu, które zapoczątkowało dzieło “Zew Cthulhu”. Na Woblink jako ebooki znajdziecie także “W górach szaleństwa”, “Kolor nie z tej planety” czy “W poszukiwaniu nieznanego Kadath”. Klasyczne pozycje to także “Frankenstein” Mary Shelley, “Drakula” Brama Stokera, “Upiór w operze” Gastona Leroux, czy “Doktor Jekyll i pan Hyde” Roberta Louisa Stevensona. Wielcy reprezentanci literatury grozy to również z pewnością Stephen King, Graham Masterton, czy Polacy - Stefan Darda i Stefan Grabiński. Powieści Stephena Kinga, określanego niekiedy “królem horroru”, weszły już do klasyki literatury. Tytuły takie jak “To”, “Lśnienie”, “Miasteczko Salem” czy “Carrie” jest w stanie bez zastanowienia wymienić każdy fan literatury grozy. Z kolei pierwsza powieść grozy Mastertona, “Manitou”, niemal natychmiast stała się bestsellerem i zapoczątkowała całą serię kontynuacji. Brytyjczyk jest autorem ponad sześćdziesięciu horrorów, w tym “Zwierciadła piekieł”. Stefan Darda jest twórcą poczytnej serii “Dom na wyrębach”, której pierwsza część - a równocześnie jego debiut literacki - była nominowana do Nagrody im. Janusza Zajdla. Darda znany jest także z cyklu “Czarny Wygon” czy samodzielnej powieści “Zabij mnie, tato”. Stefana Grabińskiego świetnie zna każdy polski fan literatury grozy - ten polski pisarz z okresu międzywojennego nazywany jest czasem “polskim Poe” lub “polskim Lovecraftem”. Cenione jest zwłaszcza jego “Muzeum dusz czyśćcowych”, zbiór opowiadań, a także “Demon ruchu” czy “Namiętność”.

Najciekawsze książki fantasy i horrory, a także science fiction czekają na Was na Woblink! Najlepsze książki grozy, trzymające w napięciu historie, magiczne przygody rozgrywające się w świecie fantasy - wszystkie znajdziecie tutaj jako książki papierowe, audiobooki bądź ebooki.