A member of a group of early twentieth-century scientists and professionals who combine their talents to solve crimes with links to the occult, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle teams up with Harry Houdini, H. P. Lovecraft, and other comrades when their leader dies under suspicious circumstances. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Whoever it was, it snorted and spit into the grass, and Doyle detected the scent of ammonia—a scent he'd encountered recently. He peeked around the trunk and spotted Morris only a few steps away, carrying a Winchester shotgun.
Tells the story of how the West learned to make porcelain, focusing on Bottger, who discovered the arcanum, or secret formula; and Harold and Kandler, artists at the new Meissen Porcelain Manufacture.
Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans.
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Sixth of the Dusk, set in a never-before-seen world, showcases a society on the brink of technological change.
André Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using...
Many people claimed that Baphomet is Satan and evil. Baphomet is featured Biblically, in the Book of Genesis, although not by that name, and is related to the mystery of the serpent.
An all-new 120-page Stormlight Archive novella, "Edgedancer," will be the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first book of short fiction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.
That astonishing summons brought me to the Cornish harbour town of Fowey. There, as directed by further information within the telegram, I joined my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, on a tugboat, which immediately steamed toward the open ...
The text is graced with fifty-five original woodcut illustrations by celebrated artist Liv Rainey-Smith, prepared especially for this title in close collaboration with the author.