Books with author Hughes Matthew

In another sparkling and slightly askew adventure in the mode of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Jack Vance, Fools Errant's Filidor Vesh sashays once more through the penultimate age, finding that...LOVE IS A MANY SPLINTERED THINGThe dandified Archon's apprentice is literally bowled over by beautiful Emmlyn Podarke -- she knocks him flat and steals his credentials, daring him to pursue her to a remote and mostly forgotten corner of Old Earth. Now Filidor must cope with philosophical pirates, prophet-seeking aliens, light-fingered mummers, and a tiny, bothersome voice in his left ear. Meanwhile, the Archon may or may not have been kidnaped, and somebody's digging up a mysterious ancient artifact buried on the Podarke family farm.

In creating Ethereal Visions Tarot Matt Hughes has drawn inspiration from the Art Nouveau movement, adopting its distinctive style and meticulous approach to craftsmanship. The artist has also created two additional cards to supplement the traditional Major Arcana. Every detailed image in the 80-card deck is hand drawn and colored. Each card is illuminated with gold foil stamping, to elegant effect. Includes a 48-page booklet. Matt Hughes is a self-taught artist who focuses on the aesthetic approaches referred to today as "The Golden Age of Illustration." His style combines inspiration from the Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist movements, to produce an artistic expression uniquely his own.

In another sparkling and slightly askew adventure in the mode of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Jack Vance, Fools Errant's Filidor Vesh sashays once more through the penultimate age, finding that... LOVE IS A MANY SPLINTERED THING The dandified Archon's apprentice is literally bowled over by beautiful Emmlyn Podarke -- she knocks him flat and steals his credentials, daring him to pursue her to a remote and mostly forgotten corner of Old Earth. Now Filidor must cope with philosophical pirates, prophet-seeking aliens, light-fingered mummers, and a tiny, bothersome voice in his left ear. Meanwhile, the Archon may or may not have been kidnaped, and somebody's digging up a mysterious ancient artifact buried on the Podarke family farm.

The second volume of Horror Matinee brings you two new horror short stories.In the first, while vacationing in the mountains, a writer is trapped by a snow storm and haunted by a mysterious creature.The Fisherman's Wife is the tale of a man who survived the world being over ran by zombies, and the horrible nightmare he keeps chained up in his bedroom.

When his father is sent overseas with his National Guard unit, fourth grader Billy Beechum misses him so much he mopes in his room for days. Famous children's author Samuel Jenkins moves into the house next door, and the elderly, wheelchair-bound writer talks Billy and his friends into joining him in an adventure to capture the hooticat, a mysterious creature with a secret, that appears only one nightevery hundred years. Will Billy and his friends capture the hooticat and learn its centuries-old secret, or will it elude them and keep the secret to itself for another hundred years?