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R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many more, these terrifying tales are filled with extraordinarily imaginative creations. From werewolves and vampires to unknown demons and ghosts that stalk their victims through the night, the supernatural beings will disturb and enthral readers as they struggle to distinguish between the real villains of the world and the hallucinations of the fragile psyche.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Mother of Monsters by Guy de Maupassant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ghostly Rental by Henry James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Judge's House by Bram Stoker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Child that Went with the Fairies by Sheridan Le Fanu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Tale of an Empty House by E. F. 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All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, \u003ci\u003eFlight or Fright\u003c\/i\u003e is, as King says, \"ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook a flight for this terrifying new anthology that will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Stephen King\u003cbr\u003eCargo by E. 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Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book, following in the footsteps of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and Gustave Flaubert. Immensely popular upon publication, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e inspired countless imitators, but remains one-of-a-kind. Reading Bierce’s definitions today, it’s not hard to imagine the controversy they must have caused, matched only by the laughs they must have roused, when published at the onset of the twentieth century. Written during a period of undaunted industrial growth, of immense wealth and promise in a nation recently torn apart by civil war, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e preserves a tantalizing touch of irreverence and doubt which must remain funny to those who know humor when they sense it. “AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful providence for the fattening of the poor.” “CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.” Crafted for the cynic, quoted by the misanthrope, Bierce’s definitions prove profoundly entertaining and frequently accurate—sort of—over a century after they were published. This edition of Ambrose Bierce’s \u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince our inception in 2020, \u003cb\u003eMint Editions\u003c\/b\u003e has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. 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The patriotic art of lying for one's country  In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp, and then for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. Bierce was launched on a journalistic career that would see him liked and loathed in equal measure – and earn him the title of ‘the wickedest man in San Francisco’.     In his column, Bierce, a contemporary of Mark Twain, brought his biting black humour to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words, writing deliberate mistranslations of the vocabulary of the establishment, the Church and the politics of his day, and shining a sardonic light on hypocrisy and deception.     These columns formed the beginnings of a dictionary, first published in 1906 as The Cynic’s Word Book. Over 100 years later, Bierce’s redefinitions still give us pause for thought – REPORTER, n. 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The lexicon was first written over a period of thirty years as a collection of articles for magazines and newspapers. It has gained a name all across the world by being frequently repeated and imitated. It was listed among the top 100 works of American literature in the 1970s.The English Language, his dictionary, was released on April 15th, 1755. 42,733 terms were defined in Johnson's Dictionary, almost all seriously. The alphabetical list of definitions that we have here was put together from several notes, copies, and variations.The first definition attributed to Ambrose Bierce was released in 1867. His satirical dictionary \"The Demon's Dictionary\" was only published once, but it inspired imitators. Harry Ellington Brook wrote one of the most significant ones for The Illustrated San Francisco Wasp. In The Wasp, Paul Bierce's satirical definitions took the place of \"Wasp's Improved Webster\" and were replaced with his own. 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