Pięć lat temu niewinny człowiek został skazany na dożywocie za zamordowanie swojego syna.Właśnie dowiedział się, że jego dziecko żyje.David Burroughs odsiaduje wyrok dożywocia w zakładzie karnym. Przed pięciu laty, pomimo wielu niewiadomych w śledztwie, został skazany za zamordowanie swojego trzyletniego synka, Matthew. David nie pamięta tamtej nocy, wie jedynie, że zasnął, a gdy się obudził, znalazł zmasakrowane ciało dziecka. W pobliżu jego domu policja odkryła narzędzie zb...

Czwarty tom cyklu o Wespazjanie! Szalony cesarz Kaligula zamordowany, pretorianie wprowadzają na tron Klaudiusza. Jednak jego sytuacja jest niepewna. Jego trzej wyzwoleńcy, Narcyz, Pallas i Kallistos, muszą sprokurować dlań natychmiastowe szybkie zwycięstwo. Ma to być odzyskanie orła legionu Siedemnastego, utraconego w lesie Teutoburskim prawie czterdzieści lat wcześniej. Wyprawę do ponurych kniei Germanii na czele jedynie niewielkiego oddziału jazdy prowadzi Wespazjan, kt...

Nasilająca się wojna w Syrii, pojawienie się tzw. Państwa Islamskiego, prowadzona przez nie walka nie tylko w Iraku i Syrii, ale również na innych obszarach, wojna domowa w Jemenie, dekompozycja władzy w Libii zmuszają do zadbania zarówno o bezpieczeństwo na obszarze Bliskiego Wschodu i Północnej Afryki (Middle East and North Africa – MENA), jak i zmniejszenie oddziaływania pojawiających się zagrożeń nie tylko w skali regionalnej, ale też globalnej. Współczesne państwa arabsk...

The Iron Man has fought since time immemorial -- with but one thought in mind -- to get to his foe and crush him. The centuries, the costumes, the weapons are different. The object is the same. The gore and savagery of Howard’s tales of the ring is little removed from those exploits of Conan and Kull and Bran Mak Morn.It is common knowledge that Robert E. Howard was a boxing enthusiast, and his fellow author H. P. Lovecraft tied Howard’s interest in sports directly to his „...

Before Robert E. Howard wrote of „Conan the Cimmerian”, he wrote of the swashbuckler Solomon Kane. „The Adventures of Solomon Kane” takes you through Howard’s horrific and fantastic world of swords and sorcery, the world of ancient secrets and the monsters that live in the jungles of Africa where Kane vanquishes evil. Here are shudder-inducing tales of vengeful ghosts and bloodthirsty demons, of dark sorceries wielded by evil men and women, all opposed by a grim avenger arm...

Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness ...

The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the General’s friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh O’Donnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold. Both the Siege of Jerusalem (1244) and the Battle of La Forbie feature in the plot.

So thay brought the envoys, pallid from months of imprisonment, before the canopied throne of Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey, and the mightiest monarch in an age of mighty monarchs. Under the great purple dome of the royal chamber gleamed the throne before which the world trembled– gold-paneled, pearl-inlaid. An emperor’s wealth in gems was sewn into the silken canopy from which depended a shimmering string of pearls ending a frieze of emeralds which hung like a...

The roar of battle had died away; the shout of victory mingled with the cries of the dying. Like gay-hued leaves after an autumn storm, the fallen littered the plain; the sinking sun shimmered on burnished helmets, gilt-worked mail, silver breastplates, broken swords and the heavy regal folds of silken standards, overthrown in pools of curdling crimson. In silent heaps lay war- horses and their steel-clad riders, flowing manes and blowing plumes stained alike in the red tid...

Kolejne wydanie pozycji z serii Wybrane zagadnienia z zakresu pielęgniarstw specjalistycznych, przedstawia specyfikę działań pielęgniarki wobec pacjentów neurologicznych i neurochirurgicznych. Pielęgniarstwo neurochirurgiczne jest dziedziną wysokospecjalistyczną. W książce omówiono zagadnienia dotyczące postępowania pielęgniarskiego wobec chorego z guzem mózgu i rdzenia kręgowego, wobec pacjenta z zespołem bólowym kręgosłupa, z tętniakiem śródczaszkowym jak równ...

The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: „I tell you, Ormond, that peak to the west is the one we were to look for. Here, I’ve marked a map in the dirt. This mark here represents our camp, and this one is the peak. We’ve marched north far enough.

The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold-worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.

Sydney zamierza udowodnić rodzinie i bliskim, że stać ją na dużo więcej niż bezmyślne korzystanie z rodzinnej fortuny. Niestety, nie znajduje u nich zrozumienia. Wszyscy, łącznie z matką, uważają, że to tylko jej kolejny kaprys. Jedynie Michaił Stanislaski wierzy w chęci i wolę Sydney. Ale jakie znaczenie może mieć zdanie biednego ukraińskiego emigranta, który rzeźbi drewniane figurki, a na życie zarabia pracami stolarskimi?

Frederica Kimball całe dotychczasowe życie czekała… Z niecierpliwością. Czekała, kiedy wreszcie dorośnie. Czekała, aż nadejdzie dzień, gdy Nicholas LeBeck pokocha ją tak mocno, jak ona kochała go od zawsze. Nick był oszołomiony. Słodka mała Freddie, którą zawsze traktował jak młodszą siostrę, nie wiedzieć kiedy stała się kobietą. Czy to możliwe, by żywił do niej nie tylko braterskie uczucia?

One moment the glade lay empty; the next a man poised tensely at the edge of the bushes. No sound warned the red squirrels of his coming, but the birds that flitted about in the sunlight took sudden fright at the apparition and rose in a clamoring swarm. The man scowled and glanced quickly back the way he had come, fearing the bird-flight might have betrayed his presence. Then he started across the glade, placing his feet with caution. Tall and muscular of frame, he moved w...

Kirby O’Donnell is a Howard hero less familiar to most readers. Howard only wrote three stories about O’Donnell’s exploits, of which only two actually saw print during his lifetime -- „The Treasures of Tartary” and „Swords of Shahrazar” -- neither in Weird Tales.

Steve Harrison is a police detective. His cases are not always easy but for sure very, very weird. Robert E. Howard delivers an impressive tour de force of weird fiction awesomeness with „Steve Harrison, Detective of the Occult! „. Three short masterful stories in the Steve Harrison series from one of the greatest fantasy writers of the 20th century, the uncontained, uncontainable, Mr. Robert E. Howard: „Fangs of Gold” „Names in the Black Book” „Graveyard Rats”. Robert Ervi...

Francis Xavier Gordon was a living legend in the Middle and Far East. The boars called him El Borac, „Swift,” the title earned by his awkward abilities with a gun, a knife and a sword. Now, the mighty El Borak must stretch its forces to prevent the Turkish uprising, protect the hermits from murders and stop the dangerous amir without allowing him to seize control over India.

Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November, 1935. Its original title was „The Man-Eaters of Zamboula”. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimme...

Breck Elkins is a hillbilly from Bear Creek, a fictional location in the Humboldt Mountains of Nevada. He is „mighty of stature and small of brain"–a physically huge and imposing figure, and his reputation as a short-tempered and ferocious fighter often precedes him throughout the Southwest. He is usually found in the company of Cap’n Kidd, his equally fierce and cantankerous horse.

Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs. The folk that yelled and scattered had only a fleeting glimpse of a mailed figure on a black stallion, a wide scarlet cloak flowing out on the wind. Far up the street came the shout and clatter of pursuit, but the horseman did not look back. He swept out onto the wharfs and jerked the plunging stallion back on its haunches at the very lip of the pier.

Some such thoughts flitted vaguely through my mind that night as I groped along the narrow trail that wound through the deep pinelands. Such thoughts are likely to keep company with any man who dares invade, in the night, that lonely stretch of densely timbered river-country which the black people call Egypt, for some obscurely racial reason.