Stephen Knight

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, historical, and political commentary Collins offered... Lire la suite

A classic and highly controversial exposé of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with an introduction by Martin Short, author of ‘Inside the Brotherhood’. The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. The subject of Dan Brown’s new novel –... Lire la suite

A fast paced, action packed international thriller and ultimate espionage adventure, involving a daring mission to begin to rid the world of nuclear weapons. From the time of their coincidental arrival in Moscow, until their final confrontation with... Lire la suite

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction--Poe's Dupin stories, Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie's The Murder of... Lire la suite

It started in the Middle East. A flu-like plague that infected thousands and killed roughly ten percent of its victims. Those who died awoke once again, but they were no longer among the living--they came back as soulless carnivorous corpses who... Lire la suite

It Was the End of Days. The world had less than seven hours to prepare. When it hit, the coronal mass ejection from the sun rolled back hundreds of years of technological innovation. Airplanes fell from the skies. Power grids crashed. Even... Lire la suite

THE MISSION CONTINUES... After surviving a massive earthquake and completing a desperate race halfway across the continental United States, Captain Mike Andrews and the crew of the newly-rebuilt Self-Contained Exploration Vehicle Four have a new... Lire la suite

Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht! RETREAT - aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney und Stephen Knight! Nach wochenlangen Kämpfen quer durch ein Amerika, welches von furchtlosen, kreischenden... Lire la suite

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss... Lire la suite

Eine unbekannte, mysteriöse Krankheit verwandelt die Einwohner Bostons in sadistische, blutgierige, irre lachende Killer - die Crazies! Nur ein tapferes Infanterie-Bataillon kämpft gegen die irren infizierten Horden an und versucht, die wenigen... Lire la suite

Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later... Lire la suite

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an... Lire la suite

A fast paced novel about a Los Angeles Times crime reporter who takes on a local criminal kingpin billionaire Martin Nelson. Harry Walsh has been reporting on the murders of young women since the beginning of the year. Things really begin to heat up... Lire la suite

Episode Zwei der spannungsgeladenen Serie RETREAT von drei der beliebtesten Zombie-Fiction-Autoren! Mit dem Lachen kommt der Tod … Die rauchenden Trümmer von Boston hinter sich lassend, führt Oberstleutnant Harry Lee das Erste Bataillon des 55.... Lire la suite

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by... Lire la suite

Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early... Lire la suite

London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his... Lire la suite

Crime fiction--a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century--features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other... Lire la suite

RETREAT - aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney und Stephen Knight! Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht! Als eine neuartige Krankheit die Bürger von Boston in sadistische, lachende Killer... Lire la suite

This book begins by considering ecocritical approaches to literary texts and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which Welsh, French and English authors recount the Peredur/Perceval story. The study then embarks on full-chapter studies of the... Lire la suite