Fred Williams

"The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most important and accomplished English authors of the twentieth century. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 42 in 1907, Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, captured in his writing the British Empire in all of its glory and contradiction in unparalleled detail and nuance. Contained...

In this classic, Professor Challenger summons Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and E.D. Malone to his sitting room with one unusual request: bring your own oxygen.

A young English lawyer and his beautiful fiance become entwined in a series of horrifying encounters with Count Dracula and other vampires in the mountains of eerie Transylvania.

Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural...

Rudy Ray Moore began his film career in 1974 as the star and producer of Dolemite, financed with profits from his bestselling party records. Dolemite, a famous nightclub entertainer, joins forces with Queen Bee (Lady Reed) and an All-Girl Army of Kung Fu killers to take on mobsters Willy Green and Mr. Big. With it's combination of martial arts action sequences, over-the-top sex scenes and Rudy Ray's special brand of "blue" humor, "Dolemite" became...

Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature, but Donald Rayfield's biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here is a man capable of both great generosity toward needy peasants and harsh callousness toward lovers and...

From the weirdo mind of actor, writer, and producer Emily Hampshire (SCHITT'S CREEK, CHAPELWAITE, 12 MONKEYS), AMELIA AIERWOOD: Basic Witch follows the least-favorite daughter of L.A.'s most famous family of witches, the Aierwoods. Amelia's sisters have all followed in the footsteps of their prominent parents but everything Amelia does is just a little ... off-brand. A late bloomer who has yet to find her calling, Amelia uses her powers for mostly...