Charles Sealsfield, a runaway Moravian monk, reinvented himself as an American author and the self-proclaimed founder of a new novel form. Now long forgotten, his fiction, travel books and correspondence reassess his contribution to the American and German canons.  Meer

Charles Derry's study of the suspense thriller genre explains why human beings enjoy being scared in a vicarious sense. He shows how suspense is intimately connected with the psychological concept of the thrill.  Meer

Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War.  Meer

These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters.  Meer

These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters.  Meer

These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters.  Meer

Originally published in 1910, this is a volume of philosophy by an author who found his main calling in the creation of novels, Charles Francis Keary (1848–1917).  Meer

In a remarkable fifty-year career, international film publicist, executive and production associate Charles ""Jerry"" Juroe met, knew, or worked with almost ""Anyone Who Was Anyone"".  Meer

Charles Sanford Terry (1864–1936) was a distinguished historian and music scholar who wrote important works on Scottish history and J. S. Bach. In this book, which was first published in 1922, Terry joins together a variety of eighteenth-century sources to construct a narrative of the Jacobite Rising of 1745.  Meer

Charles Sanford Terry (1864–1936) was a distinguished historian and music scholar who wrote important works on Scottish history and J. S. Bach. In this book, which was first published in 1922, Terry joins together a variety of eighteenth-century sources to construct a narrative of the Jacobite movement during the attempted invasion of 1708 and the Risings of 1715 and 1719.  Meer

Originally published in 1921, this book by distinguished historian Charles Sanford Terry is a streamlined history of Scotland from the Stone Age onwards.  Meer

A pacy international suspense thriller with a historical twist, from the New York Times bestselling author.  Meer