Gregory: 2919 books

"We'll breath life into this corpse of a kingdom yet." Since its destruction, the survivors of the Kingdom of Valec have labored to restore their homeland. As the last member of the royal bloodline, Count Daven has been their leader. He has kept them safe and secret from the many...

Human evil at its most hateful meets the best in classic supernatural horror...with a diabolical twist. The year is 1944. The Nazi juggernaut is jackbooting its way across the shattered landscape of war-torn Rumania. Their destination: a place whose very name evokes shudders and fearful signs of the...

"Gregory Schirmer provides a stimulating account of eleven key translations into English by Irish writers, including Frank O'Connor, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson." -Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, History Ireland Many translations into English verse of Brian Merriman's...

a thirteen year old boy witnesses a small plane crash on a remote east tennessee mountain top. after rushing to the scene the sole survivor of the crash asks for a favor with his dying breath. the boy agrees and upon the mans instruction removes two suitcases from the wreckage, one he will be allowed...

On the wild clifftop of the coastal town of Mangowak, Ron McCoy lives an almost marsupial existence with his elderly mother. He hunts and gathers while the town sleeps; he is acutely shy, but in the privacy of his imagination, fostered as it is by his love of music and the oceanscape of his birth,...

Lia and Seth, two teenagers deeply in love and separated when he moves to New York with his family, something that has never been done in the 13 years they have known each other.The pain rips Lia apart. She's not able to sleep, to eat, or to function without Seth at her side.Seth is worried about...

A newly wed couple experience a terrifying vacation as terrorist take over the cruise ship that they have boarded on route to the Caribbean. The parents live their worst nightmare as their eight year old daughter and a youth counselor are forced to jump overboard in the middle of the night in order to save the young girl from the terrorist.

Tapping some of the most ancient and authentic tales of Irish mythology, Lady Gregory presents legends from a time when gods still walked the earth. Retold from the Gaelic, this is one of the most entertaining and comprehensive sources of Irish myth available. The preface is by William Butler Yeats.

In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beyond the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about.

What is it about sitting round a campfire with friends that makes us want to tell scary stories? Is it that being out there in the woods adds an extra frisson of excitement to stories that might not seem half so frightening if they were told in the security of our homes? Or is it just that people...

Finally a biography on those titans of terror from the Golden Age of Horror Films: Lionel Atwill (Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum), Colin Clive (Frankestein) and George Zucco (The Flying Serpent). Author Gregory Mank delves into the lives and careers of three of the actors who helped shape the...

It’s midnight in the newsroom of The Evening Extra, and there’s Marty Davis slumped over his keyboard. Drunk again? No. Look closer. He’s dead. Killed by a fatal combo of booze and anti-depressants. And Marty had plenty to be depressed about: his latest scoop had cost the paper the biggest defamation...

Riot Act is a powerful brand-new verbatim theatre piece created especially for the King’s Head Theatre Queer Season. ‘You know what’s strange, I felt safer on the night of the riots, on the sidewalk in front of Stonewall, than I did in my own hometown.’ ‘I’m a drag queen....

“Dunne’s bravura plotting asserts an exhilarating mastery.” —The New York Times Book Review.   In John Gregory Dunne’s celebrated third novel, Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney Dutch Shea, Jr. struggles to keep from falling apart after an act of terrorist violence...