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Nicholas Harris, his father, and Rosamund Harris, his mother, looked at him with love and pride. Nicholas, a huge man, was 1603 fifty-nine years old this year, and his wife thirty-seven. They were in their own house in Westminster, and everything was fine with them. Robert, their only child, was three years old. He was wide and well-built, but not tall, his strong legs lay firmly on the ground, his...

This is a horror book, but prone to human psychology. The book begins: between the kitchen and the pantry there was a certain window, which was a favorite for Hamlet. Thirty years ago – these chronicles of 1894 – the basements of houses in provincial English cities, even large houses owned by wealthy people, were dark, cold, odorous caves sizzling with bad gas and smelling of poorly prepared cabbage....

Philip Weyman – bohater westernu Kraj Boga… i kobiety – po spędzeniu osiemnastu miesięcy wśród dzikich i niedostępnych lodów Arktyki, gdzie stracił dwóch towarzyszy, powraca do cywilizacji. Obozując w lesie, spotyka piękną Josephine. Kobieta jest śmiertelnie przerażona. Ukrywa się przed niebezpiecznymi wrogami. Weyman, oczarowany nie tylko jej urodą, ale także siłą i charakterem, na wzór średniowiecznych...