The Last Asylum

Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as ...

Reducere. More than a decade ago, six kids witnessed unspeakable horror. Not all of them lived to tell.Riza is no longer that kid - troubled, angry, and fill...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylums have changed and developed o...

Pearson's time spanning 'Preacher Spindrift' series begins in the Texan town of Mule's Ass, named after the last thing the founder looked at before...

Reducere. A fascinating portrayal of womanhood in Victorian England that is also a nail-biting thriller that will keep readers riveted until the very last pa...

Reducere. DescriptionHer published story is well known. But did she tell the whole truth about her ten days in the madhouse? Down to her last dime and offere...

Powerhouse creative team Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (Batman: The Court of Owls, Dark Nights: Metal) conclude a decade-long partnership with the ...

DescriptionNew York Times best-selling author Scott Snyder reunites with Dark Nights: Metal artist Greg Capullo for their final Batman epic. Twenty...

Reducere. DescriptionAlice's stories of Wonderland did more than raise a few eyebrows--it landed her in an asylum. Now at 15 years of age, she's willing to d...

Reducere. The Unbreakable Child is a riveting journey inside the secretive underbelly of the St. Thomas / Saint Vincent Orphan Asylum in rural Kentucky. It i...

Reducere. Everyone knows dragons have been extinct for over a thousand years. Everyone is wrong. At least one dragon remains, and military scientists from th...

Reducere. Eastwind's most untrustworthy resident is her only lead...Fifth Wind witch Ruby True wants to be left alone with a good book to heal an aching hear...

With Edouard Glissant's The Fourth Century, the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of ...

Reducere. 'Is it Partition time again?' Ma asked when I drove her to the station to put her on a train.Feeling her heart pounding against my chest, I patted ...

Reducere. Book 3 in the Whyborne & Griffin series Previous book: Threshold Mysterious happenings are nothing new to reclusive scholar Percival Endicott Whybo...

Reducere. This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 20...

Reducere. The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity - one of the...

Reducere. Ebenezer Scrooge was dead to begin with. He did not go quietly. So said the workers at the London Institute for the Insane.Twenty-five years have p...

One bad day. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, The Joker is out to prove a deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham City's t...

Reducere. "A bullet train of a novel, at once blazingly contemporary and Agatha-Christie old-fashioned.... I dare you not to be shocked." --Gregg Hurwitz, Ne...

Reducere. The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place, " Robert Walser...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum comes the second book in an all-new creepy fantasy series praised as "darkly deligh...

Reducere. Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you'll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in t...

A vividly intense and personal saga.... It stirred such powerful emotions..." --Marina Romanov, grandniece of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia One Hundre...

The First Lady--Serial Killer The nurse from hell. Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to ...

Reading it made men go completely insane. One man demanded that he be made emperor of America, committed a vicious murder, and died in an asylum fo...