Books with author Mark Richards

This book will steal your soul."This made my brain hurt." -Anonymous Litigant Mystical. Weird. Hilarious. A dumb cast of characters you have to see to believe.The lazy Uncle who fuses with his favorite chair.The computer virus that takes on a life of its own.The surgeon on an acid trip.Bootsy Collins.What do these people have in common? About as much as you have with Kevin Bacon.Witness how the actions of one can affect the lives of many in these Degrees of Separation.Get ready for a downward spiral through hell.Through beauty and nightmares, through comedy and tragedy.A novel? Yes.A short story collection? Yes.Call it what you will, but I can promise you that it is made of 100% readable words.Degrees of Separation was originally penned by a squadron of Black Sabbath fans at a Steely Dan show. The pages that weren’t used for rolling special cigarettes were retrieved from the floor of the concert hall, and then (barely) translated into this book here.Step right up, strap in, and enjoy the ride!

Classic horror in the form of a supernatural thriller: London is haunted by mysterious cases of death, stalkings and burglary. A prominent member of parliament seems to be the focus of the incidents. Behind the events is a hostile and powerful entity called "the Arab," which takes the shape of a man or a sexually seductive woman depending on circumstances and intentions. It is a thing born of neither God nor human, but connected with the Egyptian cult of Isis.The Englishman Richard Marsh (pseudonym for Richard Bernard Heldmann, 1857-1915) was a major best-selling author during the late Victorian era, though now largely forgotten except among scholars and connoisseurs of horror fiction. Especially The Beetle (1897) was reprinted numerous times and translated into languages all over the world, with a popularity that lasted decades into the 20th century, adapted to the screen in a British movie 1919 and several times for the stage, most notably in a big production for Strand Theatre 1928. Today the novel has been reinstated by scholars as a great Victorian classic, similar in themes and mood to Bram Stoker's Dracula which was published the same year, a prime example of fin de siècle literature.Richard Marsh was specialized in horror, suspense and the supernatural, with strong elements of crime and detective fiction; he also wrote clear-cut detective stories, for example with the character Judith Lee, an early female detective. One of his recurring characters is the Hon. Augustus Champnell, an aristocratic detective with an interest in the occult, who is also the main protagonist in this novel.

Three tales so twisted, they'll make you question your own sanity."The best thing I've read since sliced bread!" -Name WithheldGoldilocks and the Mob. Hansel and Gretel and the Cannibal Cookies. Adam and Eve and their madcap romp through the Garden of Eden. These aren't your childhood fairy tales. Pick up your copy today and see why readers are calling it outlandish. Hysterical. On the brink of lunacy.A big ol' word-buffet of the familiar and the surreal. You’ll be asking for seconds.Note: This series does not need to be read in alphabetical order. Mix and match! Trade with friends!

They're the cookies that bite back!...The man got on the forklift and disappeared into another section of the warehouse. He came back with a sad looking pallet of boxes, a few were soaked all the way through, dripping that red fluid onto the floor. A couple of the boxes twitched and jerked. One fell to the floor, hopping and rolling around. He rolled his eyes and dismounted the forklift in a huff. He walked over to the box and kicked it repeatedly until it stopped moving. He picked it up, the box dripping from the corner, and threw it back on the pallet, which caused a few of the other boxes to shake even more violently. He looked at Hansel. "Still fresh," he said...Hansel and Gretel are two long-haul truckers, a brother and sister team, whose work order is simple: Deliver a truckload of cookies cross-country to an old witch in the forest.They stop to pick up their load and notice something isn’t right. Pastries shouldn’t be bleeding and screaming and trying to escape their boxes.Once upon a time, in an orphanage, lived a rather ugly child. Picked on mercilessly by her peers until one by one the orphans went missing. Now an old witch with a cookie addiction, she sits alone in her mansion made of sweets, waiting for her delivery of baked goods with the one special ingredient in them.Will Hansel and Gretel make their delivery on time? Will they make it out alive? Will Hansel finally admit that Gretel is the better driver?Indulge your appetite and feast your eyes on this new twist on an age-old tale.Note: This series does not need to be read in alphabetical order. Mix and match! Trade with friends!

Brian Porter is obese. Not plump, not overweight, not even fat—obese. He’s struggled with his weight and its consequences all his life. School is a nonstop stream of aggressive bullying by both his peers and teachers. To top it off, his embarrassed family barely acknowledges Brian’s presence.When bully Chris Miller challenges Brian to enter the neighborhood’s scariest house, Brian can’t say no. Not only has Chris promised to leave Brian alone all summer if he does, but it also might make a good impression on his new friend Sarah.However, the former best friends quickly discover the reason behind the home’s evil reputation: a pair of hidden vampires. In the ensuing chaos, Chris is captured, while a pair of werewolves save Brian in the nick of time—by turning him into one of them.Now Brian’s in a world he never knew existed, with a new, strong body and a host of unlikely allies. It’s his destiny to revitalize the Holy Warriors, a once great werewolf order sworn to protect the world from vampire domination. But its leaders have become corrupt—and worse, they want Brian dead. He’d prefer to keep on living.

Trip To Mars is a textbook for learning English vocabulary and space science. Eighteen lessons cover a wide variety of topics ranging from effects radiation to rocket engines. Each lesson covers fifteen vocabulary words which are used in two paragraphs of text. The reading sections are followed by discussion questions and exercises. Kids of all ages who love space science and rockets will enjoy planning their imaginary trip to the Red Planet.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Beetle" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Richard Marsh's greatest commercial success, The Beetle, is a story about a mysterious oriental person who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting. The story is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters to create suspense. The novel engages with numerous themes and problems of the Victorian fin de siècle, including the New Woman, unemployment and urban destitution, radical politics, homosexuality, science, and Britain's imperial engagements (in particular those in Egypt and the Sudan). "The Beetle" sold out upon its initial printing, and continued to sell well and to be published for several decades into the 20th century. In the 1920s the novel's story was made into a film, and adapted for the London stage.