Wildside Press

Author: Marvin H. AlbertPublisher: Wildside PressPublication Date: Jun 16, 2022Number of Pages: 161 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1479425370ISBN-13: 9781479425372

This collection of 17 railroad-themed stories includes such tales as "The Iron Horse and the Trolley," "The Great Wreck of the Pere Marquette," "On the Limited," "The Milwaukee Run," and many more...

The Last Spike and Other Railroad Stories by Cy Warman is a collection of tales celebrating the era of railroad expansion in North America. Through these stories, Warman, known as the "Poet of the...

A collection of previously published short stories.Author: Stephen Mark RaineyPublisher: Wildside PressPublication Date: Aug 02, 2024Number of Pages: 204 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough...

Lawrence Watt-Evans may be best known for his fantasy and science fiction novels, particularly the Ethshar series, but he has published a significant body of short fiction, too, including the Hugo...

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and...

White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style...

James Holding (1907-1997) was a prolific short story author in the mystery field. (He also wrote children's books -- including the Ellery Queen Jr. series -- but short stories were his true domain.)...

It was hard for Hannah, with her friends Virginia Lawrence, a Christian Scientist, and Nellie Halloran, a Catholic, to accept the fact that Santa Claus would not be coming down her chimney. No gift...

Ted Wilford, as editor of his high school paper and school correspondent for the local weekly, is eager for a scoop on the story of who took $13,000 from the school safe after the money had been...

Written in 1913, The Lodger was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, and a remarkable film it is. But the story Hitchcock tells -- of young love and mistaken identity (and is that a...

Drexel Calhoud had quit a good job as a top hand with Paul Bowman to sign up as foreman of the Lone Pine Ranch. But when he found the Lone Pine was owned by a woman, he was ready to give up the whole...

Her name was Vera Mae, and she had been around these dusty tank towns too long--working the two-bit rodeos and cozying up to suckers, like this fat tourist in the bar. Oh God, she thought, I can con...

Trilling described THE LONGEST JOURNEY as "perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate" of E.M. Forster's works. Certainly it's the most autobiographical -- but its form...

Trilling described THE LONGEST JOURNEY as "perhaps the most brilliant, the most dramatic, and the most passionate" of E.M. Forster's works. Certainly it's the most autobiographical -- but its form...

The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago -- in our time, more or less -- Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. The Americans...

THE LOST VALLEYI came upon the place quite unexpectedly. Centuries of wind and wave had carved a little nook out of the foot of the cliff and fashioned it so cunningly that I did not see it until I...

Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his voyage aboard the fishing boat, Viking. When the Viking fails to return and is feared lost, a...

Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his voyage aboard the fishing boat, Viking. When the Viking fails to return and is feared lost, a...

While he lived, Carley Dane, a novelist whose one great success had led him to alcoholism, took delight in doling out misery in varied forms to all around him. In death, at the hands of party or...

Dumas constructs the plot around the notion that the Man in the Iron Mask is the twin brother of Louis XIV, Philippe, who had been concealed and imprisoned from birth by his father, Louis XIII and...

The title novella in this sparkling collection is one of Twain's most deadly satires, about civic vice disguised as virtue and its devasting consequences. Any volume of Twain's shorter pieces makes...

Once it had been king city of a mighty empire and the center of the ancient faith; Gateway to the Gods, the old epics name it. Now it was dead, empty, deserted, only a dim ghost of its vanished...

Sven Elvestad (1884-1934) was a Norwegian journalist and author. As a reporter he often staged his own sensations, famously spending a day in a circus lion's cage. He is best known for his detective...

The hooded Faceless Riders had spread a trail of terror and death along the Rio Grande. Striking where they were least expected, the outlaw band had thrown the whole territory into panic. And the...

The masked woman called herself Madame Madcap, and she gathered a gang of cutthroats determined to loot high society of all its riches... starting with the notorious womanizer Hamilton Brone. She...

Set during the American Revolution, this historical novel follows the story of Captain John Ireton, an honorable soldier caught in a web of loyalty, love, and treachery. As he returns to claim his...

Set during the American Revolution, this historical novel follows the story of Captain John Ireton, an honorable soldier caught in a web of loyalty, love, and treachery. As he returns to claim his...

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist, best known for his works Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island. The Master of Two brothers, one...