It is a sea, though they call it sand. They call it sand because it is still and red and dense with grains. They call it sand because the thin wind whips it, and whirls its dusty skim away to the tight horizons of Mars. But only a sea could so brood with the memory of aeons. Only a sea, lying so silent beneath the high skies, could hint the mystery of life still behind its barren veil....
To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp--get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded--smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these things, but he discovered that Mars did evil things to men that he wasn't even Clayton any more....
The Raven is Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, first published on January 29, 1845 in the New York daily newspaper Evening Mirror. Characterized by musicality, artistic expressiveness and a mystical atmosphere, it tells of the mysterious visit of a talking raven to a heartbroken young man who has lost his beloved. In response to questions full of despair and hope, the raven repeats the word “nevermore”, which aggravates the hero’s mental anguish. The poem contains some references to folklore, mythology and antiquity....
When Ed Loyce heads to work at his TV repair shop, he is startled to find the dead body of a complete stranger hanging from a lamp post outside. But when he calls attention to the morbid display, the strange reactions of his friends and neighbours bring him to a disturbing realization....
Mattup had killed a man, so it was logical he should be punished. It was Danny who came up with the idea of leaving him with the prophecy - Goodbye, Dead Man!...
In this book you will meet the girl Alice and get with her into the amazing, mysterious world of miracles of Lewis Carroll. The story tells how a little girl Alice jumps into a rabbit hole, where she discovers a fairy-tale world inhabited by unusual creatures....
Numerous generations of readers read and re-read Lewis Carroll's tale of a little girl who, through a rabbit hole, enters a fairy-tale world full of charming creatures. And it all began on a July afternoon in Oxford in 1862, when Charles Dodgson, a teacher of mathematics, went on a boat trip with the daughters of his college dean. To entertain the girls, he began to tell them the story of Alice, an inquisitive girl who fell into a wonderful country. The children were fascinated, and the youngest, Alice, asked Charles to write down a fairy tale for her, which he did....
The book includes the legendary novel by HG Wells "War of the Worlds", repeatedly filmed and inspiring entire generations of science fiction writers to create exciting works about the struggle of civilizations and star wars....
https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9781615890088_p0_v1_s550x406.jpg "The Time Machine" is the first science fiction novel by HG Wells, describing a journey into the world of the future, in which there are two types of people: Morlocks, inhabitants of the underworld and service machines, and fragile eloy, completely unsuitable for labor. Unless, having turned into semi-animals....
The plot of the story revolves around the family of degenerate aristocrats Whateley (Eng. Whateley) [~ 1], living in Massachusetts, in a small settlement Dunvich, located in the upper reaches of the Miskatonic River (Eng. Miskatonic). Dunvich has a very bad reputation, due to the fact that in the local mountains from time to time there is a terrible rumble from under the ground, and the nightjars behave very strangely, according to local beliefs, they are guides to the world of the dead. The Whateley family consisted of a sullen old man, rumored to be engaged in black magic and his albino...
