Wildside press okt 2026 (29 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When Davey, a restless thirteen-year-old, defies his guardians to attend a local fair, an afternoon of stolen pleasure spirals into a perilous flight from the law. Penniless and hunted, he and a cunning companion stow away aboard a coastal schooner bound for the Welsh coast, where a limestone cavern known as Hoyle's Mouth conceals more than smuggled contraband.Eerie cries and phantom lights haunt the cave's twisting passages, but the true danger lies in the ruthless band of criminals who use superstition as their shield. Forced to choose between betrayal and a desperate bid for freedom, Davey must navigate treacherous tides, a menagerie of escaped beasts, and the ghosts of his own making to find his way home.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From Russian folklore and literary tradition comes a gathering of twenty-one tales in which the bear appears as ruler, fool, victim, companion, threat, and comic hero. Fables, folk stories, verse, and literary tales move from forests and farmyards to village homes, roads, and wild country, showing how one animal could carry many meanings across Russian storytelling.First published in 1926, this compact anthology ranges from brief moral fables to longer narrative pieces, blending humor, danger, tenderness, superstition, and the strange logic of folklore. The translations preserve the plain force and unusual turns of the original stories, while the illustrations give the volume a distinctive period character. Some pieces draw on traditional material; others come from major Russian writers who reshaped familiar animal lore in their own ways. Together, the stories form a varied portrait of the bear in Russian imagination-sometimes noble, sometimes ridiculous, and rarely predictable. The result is lively, curious, and deeply rooted in tradition.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - David Hughes is about to become a summer bachelor. His wife and children have departed for the cool mountains, leaving him alone in the sweltering city for eight weeks. For the first time in his nine-year marriage, he has both the motive and the opportunity to stray. And across the hall lives Janice Keller, a beautiful young blonde whose husband is stationed three thousand miles away.As the summer heat intensifies, so does David's obsession. He tells himself he is owed this, that his wife's growing coldness has driven him to it. But the line between a casual fling and a genuine emotional entanglement blurs quickly. What begins as a calculated act of rebellion against a stale marriage becomes a dangerous game of passion, guilt, and self-discovery that threatens to consume him entirely.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Young Ensign Jack Sterling arrives at a Texas border aviation camp expecting shipboard duty, only to find himself assigned to the nascent Naval Aviation Corps. With zero flight experience and a healthy fear of heights, he must master radio work aboard temperamental dirigibles while tensions simmer along the Rio Grande.When a charismatic Mexican traveler on the train south proves oddly well-informed about fleet movements, and a fellow officer warns Jack to guard his tongue, the line between courtesy and espionage blurs. Soon the camp's silver airships are casting off into treacherous Gulf winds, carrying Jack into a sky where storms, bandits, and shifting loyalties await.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At sea, a captain's word is law-but a single order can decide the fate of an entire ship. In these eleven stories of merchant vessels, coastal steamers, and sailing ships, command brings hard choices that cannot be passed to anyone else. A cautious mate is offered the promotion he has waited decades to earn, provided he learns to gamble with danger. A small freighter ventures into a violent storm to aid a stranded passenger liner. Elsewhere, a master must answer for an unsafe demand made by a company agent, while another faces a crew whose patience is wearing thin.Set along the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic, and the Pacific coast, the tales follow sailors who know their ships but cannot always control the weather, their owners, or themselves. There are fogbound collisions, treacherous harbor bars, desperate repairs, and acts of courage under pressure. Through them runs a close look at duty, pride, seamanship, and the cost of holding command.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the full moon vanishes above Central Park and a curtain of absolute blackness sends cars crashing, a police lieutenant and a newspaper reporter are the only witnesses willing to believe their eyes. The darkness is no natural eclipse. It is a weapon, demonstrated for a ruthless gangster by a scientist whose experiments have crossed from pure research into criminal opportunity.Soon the city is caught between gunmen, a vanished inventor, and a device that can blot out light itself. As the authorities dismiss the impossible, a handful of unlikely allies race to understand the apparatus before it can be used for a larger, more devastating crime. But the man behind the darkness is always a step ahead, and every shadow may hide an ambush.This collection of classic pulp science fiction also includes tales of cosmic menace, strange inventions, and desperate schemes that push ordinary people to the edge of the unknown -- the complete series of four novelettes featuring Preston and Hines. Includes a new Introduction by John Betancourt. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At Sperry College, the restless residents of Trumbull House have made Suite Twenty a small laboratory for freedom. Their crowded room overflows with textbooks, jazz records, cosmetics, cigarettes, and overlapping confidences, while a hand-lettered motto turns the rules of the dormitory upside down. A guileless freshman is drawn into the circle and begins to see how wit, flirtation, and shared rebellion can protect insiders while leaving other students more exposed.An admired professor's guarded attention complicates the group's assumptions, especially as one brilliant, lonely scholar struggles with pressures that intellectual discipline cannot contain. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with a foreign officer-made possible by a borrowed alias-turns a joke into the possibility of a future neither girl can dismiss. Vacations, weekends, fire drills, and faculty scrutiny force private desires into public view.Behind the bravado lies a sharper question: when pleasure, reputation, and ambition collide, who gets to define the rules-and what does it cost the women who cross them.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A celebrated brain surgeon has spent years teaching himself to live above fear, and the effort is killing him. Exhausted, widowed, and worn down by a reckless daughter, he is on the verge of collapse-until a drowning on a quiet Michigan lake takes his life and hands it, by a cruel accident of timing, to a spoiled young heir who never earned it.Pulled half-drowned from the water and patched up in the famous clinic the surgeon built, the young man learns what his rescue cost. The knowledge settles on him like a debt he can never repay, and he resolves to spend the rest of his life being worth the breath he was given-quietly, anonymously, asking nothing in return.But good deeds have a way of being noticed, and the woman he comes to love has reasons of her own for keeping secrets. Across years and two continents, a careless idler must become something better than he was, or lose everything that made the struggle worthwhile.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Seven hundred miles from Cincinnati, a ruined house broods over the Adirondack snow - the abandoned retreat of a vanished occultist, and the latest stop on a search ordered by one of the most dangerous men alive. His reluctant servant, a seminary dropout turned errand boy, finds only an old letter hidden beneath a bed. But the letter carries a name, and the name leads to a young man who once walked away from the priesthood - and from a gift he never asked for.In the city, a frightened young woman slips past her father's watchers long enough to confess to a nun: her father is dying, and he intends to live forever inside her unborn child. Days later, the nun is found nailed to a warehouse wall, her eyelids cut away, ringed by black candles and stars drawn in blood.As an old evil gathers its strength, those caught in its orbit must decide what they are willing to believe - and what they are willing to become. When the night opens its eyes, no prayer may be enough.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - David Hughes is about to become a summer bachelor. His wife and children have departed for the cool mountains, leaving him alone in the sweltering city for eight weeks. For the first time in his nine-year marriage, he has both the motive and the opportunity to stray. And across the hall lives Janice Keller, a beautiful young blonde whose husband is stationed three thousand miles away.As the summer heat intensifies, so does David's obsession. He tells himself he is owed this, that his wife's growing coldness has driven him to it. But the line between a casual fling and a genuine emotional entanglement blurs quickly. What begins as a calculated act of rebellion against a stale marriage becomes a dangerous game of passion, guilt, and self-discovery that threatens to consume him entirely. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Young Ensign Jack Sterling arrives at a Texas border aviation camp expecting shipboard duty, only to find himself assigned to the nascent Naval Aviation Corps. With zero flight experience and a healthy fear of heights, he must master radio work aboard temperamental dirigibles while tensions simmer along the Rio Grande.When a charismatic Mexican traveler on the train south proves oddly well-informed about fleet movements, and a fellow officer warns Jack to guard his tongue, the line between courtesy and espionage blurs. Soon the camp's silver airships are casting off into treacherous Gulf winds, carrying Jack into a sky where storms, bandits, and shifting loyalties await.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At sea, a captain's word is law-but a single order can decide the fate of an entire ship. In these eleven stories of merchant vessels, coastal steamers, and sailing ships, command brings hard choices that cannot be passed to anyone else. A cautious mate is offered the promotion he has waited decades to earn, provided he learns to gamble with danger. A small freighter ventures into a violent storm to aid a stranded passenger liner. Elsewhere, a master must answer for an unsafe demand made by a company agent, while another faces a crew whose patience is wearing thin.Set along the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic, and the Pacific coast, the tales follow sailors who know their ships but cannot always control the weather, their owners, or themselves. There are fogbound collisions, treacherous harbor bars, desperate repairs, and acts of courage under pressure. Through them runs a close look at duty, pride, seamanship, and the cost of holding command.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On a warm June evening in the village of Didford Magna, four businessmen who share the fishing rights to a prized stretch of the River Didder gather at the Polworthy Arms to compare the day's catches. But beneath the placid surface of chalk streams and mayfly hatches run darker currents: old grudges, secret attachments, and a bitter dispute over a sawmill that has spoiled the best beat on the water. When the season's tensions boil over into violence, the discovery of a body transforms the anglers' paradise into a scene of suspicion.Local inquiries lead nowhere, and soon a Scotland Yard inspector is called in to untangle a web of alibis, lies, and carefully guarded private papers. Every member of the syndicate seems to have something to hide, from the elderly naturalist with a passion for tree-creepers to the young man hopelessly in love with another man's wife. As the inspector works his way through the riverbank and the village, he must decide whether the murderer was one of the anglers or someone closer to home.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At Sperry College, the restless residents of Trumbull House have made Suite Twenty a small laboratory for freedom. Their crowded room overflows with textbooks, jazz records, cosmetics, cigarettes, and overlapping confidences, while a hand-lettered motto turns the rules of the dormitory upside down. A guileless freshman is drawn into the circle and begins to see how wit, flirtation, and shared rebellion can protect insiders while leaving other students more exposed.An admired professor's guarded attention complicates the group's assumptions, especially as one brilliant, lonely scholar struggles with pressures that intellectual discipline cannot contain. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with a foreign officer-made possible by a borrowed alias-turns a joke into the possibility of a future neither girl can dismiss. Vacations, weekends, fire drills, and faculty scrutiny force private desires into public view.Behind the bravado lies a sharper question: when pleasure, reputation, and ambition collide, who gets to define the rules-and what does it cost the women who cross them.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A celebrated brain surgeon has spent years teaching himself to live above fear, and the effort is killing him. Exhausted, widowed, and worn down by a reckless daughter, he is on the verge of collapse-until a drowning on a quiet Michigan lake takes his life and hands it, by a cruel accident of timing, to a spoiled young heir who never earned it.Pulled half-drowned from the water and patched up in the famous clinic the surgeon built, the young man learns what his rescue cost. The knowledge settles on him like a debt he can never repay, and he resolves to spend the rest of his life being worth the breath he was given-quietly, anonymously, asking nothing in return.But good deeds have a way of being noticed, and the woman he comes to love has reasons of her own for keeping secrets. Across years and two continents, a careless idler must become something better than he was, or lose everything that made the struggle worthwhile.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In postwar London, a wealthy and world-weary young bachelor drifts through dinners, nightclubs, and ballrooms-until he falls for a beautiful Russian refugee whose sadness seems to belong to another world. Their fragile happiness is shattered the moment a scarred stranger appears at a dance. That same night, the young woman vanishes, leaving behind a sealed letter, a hurried midnight cab ride, and a plea that the police not be called.Determined to find her, he follows a trail that leads from grand Mayfair houses to shadowy garages and rented rooms, from coded messages to midnight appointments. Every clue draws him deeper into the world of exiled aristocrats, Bolshevik agents, and old terrors carried across Europe. Someone is lying, someone is watching, and a murderous secret is waiting to surface.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the autumn of 1916, a fashionable seaside hotel on the Norfolk coast becomes the stage for a disturbing spectacle. A handsome young man, seemingly a gentleman and a war veteran, behaves erratically at breakfast-shaking, flushed, and driven to stick a knife into the table. A famous detective and a prominent nerve specialist intervene, but the young man dismisses their concern and vanishes hours later.The detective's curiosity is piqued. Why did the young man flee so abruptly What dark secret was he hiding The trail leads to a remote and eerie locale known as the Shrieking Pit, where the past refuses to stay buried. As the detective digs deeper, he uncovers a web of deception, fear, and a crime that someone will go to any lengths to conceal.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the autumn of 1918, a party of London friends settles into an ancient Sussex moat-house built on the site of a Saxon castle and stained by eight centuries of murder, betrayal, and a family curse said to end in horror. The home belongs to the Herediths: a tired baronet, his formidable spinster sister Alethea, and a young war-invalid son who has brought home a pretty, restless bride from Whitehall.One guest is leaving for the front; one is a jewel hunter from the far corners of the earth, come to examine the famous Heredith pearl necklace; one is a newspaper man with enemies in powerful quarters. A woman lies ill upstairs, refusing to be disturbed, while downstairs the household dines on wartime austerity and old wine.When the necklace vanishes from its jewel-case, the house party disperses into a night of country roads, moonlight, and long-held secrets, the moat-house begins to give up its ghosts. What was taken, and what was taken with it, will pull the family's buried history into the open.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Seven hundred miles from Cincinnati, a ruined house broods over the Adirondack snow - the abandoned retreat of a vanished occultist, and the latest stop on a search ordered by one of the most dangerous men alive. His reluctant servant, a seminary dropout turned errand boy, finds only an old letter hidden beneath a bed. But the letter carries a name, and the name leads to a young man who once walked away from the priesthood - and from a gift he never asked for.In the city, a frightened young woman slips past her father's watchers long enough to confess to a nun: her father is dying, and he intends to live forever inside her unborn child. Days later, the nun is found nailed to a warehouse wall, her eyelids cut away, ringed by black candles and stars drawn in blood.As an old evil gathers its strength, those caught in its orbit must decide what they are willing to believe - and what they are willing to become. When the night opens its eyes, no prayer may be enough.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a mild retired rubber-stamp maker visits the Conciergerie with his wife and his worldly friend, he expects a quiet lesson in history. Instead, in the dark passage once called Straw Alley, he hears a rough, commanding voice issue from his own mouth-and cannot explain the phrase it speaks.In the cellars he finds a scrap of paper hidden between stones. Its ink is faded, its date is 1721, and its handwriting is unmistakably his own. Experts confirm the paper's age and the signature-like strokes; soon he is convinced that some earlier self was betrayed, imprisoned, and left a treasure behind.As he hunts for the truth, ordinary Paris turns uncanny: a wax mask, a portrait, a violet cat, and a name that surfaces from the past. His wife worries, his spiritualist friend theorizes, and someone else seems to be following the same trail. To claim the fortune-or the identity-he must discover what happened on a long-ago first of April.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - After a long rail journey west, a Toronto businessman expects a quiet summer at his old college friend's Alberta ranch. Instead, he arrives amid troubling absences, a hostile band of settlers known as the Dreamers, and the memory of two friends who met their ends in the same remote hills.A wolf's terrible cry sends his horse over a precipice, while shadowy figures move across the mountainside and strange voices carry over a moonlit lake. Reunited with members of his fractured circle, he begins to trace the connections among a mysterious religious community, guarded ranch households, and the dangers gathering in the Cypress Hills. Every apparent kindness conceals a question, and every warning draws him deeper into a landscape where isolation can turn fear into certainty.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A white traveler rides into the old bazaar quarter of a Central Asian city, asking after a man no one will name. Hours later a caravan with no cargo and no destination takes him away, and the dust closes over the whole affair. The story follows him into drawing rooms and hill stations, where a globe-trotter repeats it as a curiosity and a quiet stranger listens far too closely.South, past the gateway of the mountains, a young American woman arrives in the City of the Sun with her ailing aunt, expecting polo, gardens, and a promised dance. Instead she keeps meeting a scarred hillman who vanishes whenever he is seen, and a courteous acquaintance who seems to know more about the missing man than he will admit.Between the ordered world of the British cantonments and the lawless passes beyond, an old pursuit is still running its course - and someone has decided that she is now part of it.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Seven hundred miles from Cincinnati, a ruined house broods over the Adirondack snow - the abandoned retreat of a vanished occultist, and the latest stop on a search ordered by one of the most dangerous men alive. His reluctant servant, a seminary dropout turned errand boy, finds only an old letter hidden beneath a bed. But the letter carries a name, and the name leads to a young man who once walked away from the priesthood - and from a gift he never asked for.In the city, a frightened young woman slips past her father's watchers long enough to confess to a nun: her father is dying, and he intends to live forever inside her unborn child. Days later, the nun is found nailed to a warehouse wall, her eyelids cut away, ringed by black candles and stars drawn in blood.As an old evil gathers its strength, those caught in its orbit must decide what they are willing to believe - and what they are willing to become. When the night opens its eyes, no prayer may be enough.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On the last night of her girlhood, a beautiful young woman stands over an heirloom wedding dress and vows that her marriage will be nothing like her mother's. She has spent two years typing other people's letters, and she is finished with drudgery. The quiet, well-to-do lawyer who adores her is her ticket out-out of the shabby house, the seven o'clock alarm, the endless mending basket.What she wants is leisure, admiration, and beautiful things, and she intends to have all three. But a new husband comes with a mother-in-law, a mortgage, and firm opinions about economy, and the honeymoon glow fades faster than the bills arrive. Then a handsome actor from her past returns to town, and the rules she has always played by begin to feel dangerously negotiable. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a mild retired rubber-stamp maker visits the Conciergerie with his wife and his worldly friend, he expects a quiet lesson in history. Instead, in the dark passage once called Straw Alley, he hears a rough, commanding voice issue from his own mouth-and cannot explain the phrase it speaks.In the cellars he finds a scrap of paper hidden between stones. Its ink is faded, its date is 1721, and its handwriting is unmistakably his own. Experts confirm the paper's age and the signature-like strokes; soon he is convinced that some earlier self was betrayed, imprisoned, and left a treasure behind.As he hunts for the truth, ordinary Paris turns uncanny: a wax mask, a portrait, a violet cat, and a name that surfaces from the past. His wife worries, his spiritualist friend theorizes, and someone else seems to be following the same trail. To claim the fortune-or the identity-he must discover what happened on a long-ago first of April.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the full moon vanishes above Central Park and a curtain of absolute blackness sends cars crashing, a police lieutenant and a newspaper reporter are the only witnesses willing to believe their eyes. The darkness is no natural eclipse. It is a weapon, demonstrated for a ruthless gangster by a scientist whose experiments have crossed from pure research into criminal opportunity.Soon the city is caught between gunmen, a vanished inventor, and a device that can blot out light itself. As the authorities dismiss the impossible, a handful of unlikely allies race to understand the apparatus before it can be used for a larger, more devastating crime. But the man behind the darkness is always a step ahead, and every shadow may hide an ambush.This collection of classic pulp science fiction also includes tales of cosmic menace, strange inventions, and desperate schemes that push ordinary people to the edge of the unknown.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - After a long rail journey west, a Toronto businessman expects a quiet summer at his old college friend's Alberta ranch. Instead, he arrives amid troubling absences, a hostile band of settlers known as the Dreamers, and the memory of two friends who met their ends in the same remote hills.A wolf's terrible cry sends his horse over a precipice, while shadowy figures move across the mountainside and strange voices carry over a moonlit lake. Reunited with members of his fractured circle, he begins to trace the connections among a mysterious religious community, guarded ranch households, and the dangers gathering in the Cypress Hills. Every apparent kindness conceals a question, and every warning draws him deeper into a landscape where isolation can turn fear into certainty.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A white traveler rides into the old bazaar quarter of a Central Asian city, asking after a man no one will name. Hours later a caravan with no cargo and no destination takes him away, and the dust closes over the whole affair. The story follows him into drawing rooms and hill stations, where a globe-trotter repeats it as a curiosity and a quiet stranger listens far too closely.South, past the gateway of the mountains, a young American woman arrives in the City of the Sun with her ailing aunt, expecting polo, gardens, and a promised dance. Instead she keeps meeting a scarred hillman who vanishes whenever he is seen, and a courteous acquaintance who seems to know more about the missing man than he will admit.Between the ordered world of the British cantonments and the lawless passes beyond, an old pursuit is still running its course - and someone has decided that she is now part of it.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On the last night of her girlhood, a beautiful young woman stands over an heirloom wedding dress and vows that her marriage will be nothing like her mother's. She has spent two years typing other people's letters, and she is finished with drudgery. The quiet, well-to-do lawyer who adores her is her ticket out-out of the shabby house, the seven o'clock alarm, the endless mending basket.What she wants is leisure, admiration, and beautiful things, and she intends to have all three. But a new husband comes with a mother-in-law, a mortgage, and firm opinions about economy, and the honeymoon glow fades faster than the bills arrive. Then a handsome actor from her past returns to town, and the rules she has always played by begin to feel dangerously negotiable. …