A Dark and Stormy Night

A Dark and Stormy Night
Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781617209079

It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenge the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire literature were birthed. Collected here for the first time are the four works produces as a result of that contest "Fragment Of A Ghost Story" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori, "Fragment of a Novel" By Lord Byron, and of course, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. With a Foreword by Julian T. Reid and Berl A. Boykin.

A Dark and Stormy Night

A Dark and Stormy Night
Author: Jeanne M. Dams
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780100078

The new Dorothy Martin mystery When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie ever written, Dorothy should have known better. Rendered isolated and incommunicado by the storm, Dorothy and Alan nevertheless manage to work out what in the world has been happening at ancient Branston Abbey.

It was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy

It was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy
Author: Charles M. Schulz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN: 9781841612454

The world's most talented beagle has found a new career - as a writer, of course! The literary ace works feverishly on his typewriter day and night, on top of his doghouse. And while Snoopy is busy writing the next great novel, the rest of the Peanuts gang will try to get in on the action.

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Author: Allan Ahlberg
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0141300272

A small boy who has been kidnapped by brigands, passes a dark and stormy night in their cave weaving for them incredible stories of their own exploits. Through the stories he solves his own problem and manages to escape.

It was a Dark & Stormy Night

It was a Dark & Stormy Night
Author: Keith Moseley
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 14
Release: 1991
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780803710214

When Penelope Pig's diamond is stolen during a "dark and stormy night," Inspector Derek Dog must question an assortment of suspects

Paul Clifford

Paul Clifford
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1837
Genre: Brigands and robbers
ISBN:

Kiss Good Night

Kiss Good Night
Author: Amy Hest
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536202134

"An enchanting little story, with homey illustrations that add to its appeal." — School Library Journal(starred review) Features an audio read-along! Outside, the wind blows and the rain comes down. Inside, it is Sam’s bedtime. Mrs. Bear reads him a story, tucks him in, and brings him warm milk. "Are you ready now, Sam?" she asks. "I’m waiting," he says. What else does Sam need before going to sleep? Could Mrs. Bear have forgotten a kiss?

A Dark and Stormy Murder

A Dark and Stormy Murder
Author: Julia Buckley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425282600

An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime in the first Writer's Apprentice mystery. Lena London's literary dreams are coming true—as long as she can avoid any real-life villains... Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla’s new assistant, she can’t believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she’ll get to live rent-free in Camilla’s gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana. But Lena’s fortune soon changes for the worse. First, she lands in the center of small town gossip for befriending the local recluse. Then, she stumbles across one thing that a Camilla Graham novel is never without—a dead body, found on her new boss’s lakefront property. Now Lena must take a page out of one of Camilla’s books to hunt down clues in a real crime that seems to be connected to the novelist’s mysterious estate—before the killer writes them both out of the story for good...