"These are my scariest stories ever," says R.L. Stine, "because I wrote them at the Nightmare Hour." You know when that is...it's when the lights fade, the real world spins into shadow--and the cold, moonlit world of evil dreams takes over your mind. 
What horror awaits a boy who has to spend Halloween in the hospital? How do you outwit a ghost who wants your skin? Why is Nightmare Inn the most terrifying place to visit? 
R.L. Stine, the #1 bestselling children's authors of all time, spins a web of horror and more. For the first time ever, he shares the secret behind each story, revealing where the idea for each tale came from. 
Here are ten stories that will bring a shiver at any hour and take you to the scariest place of all--inside the mind of R.L. Stine.

Nightmare Hour

Children's Books

R.L.STINE

Literature & Fiction

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Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War

Tapestry of war: A private view of Canadians in the Great War

History

Gwyn, Sandra

Military

Witchcraft has always intrigued the imagination, sparking visions of Macbeths hags, complete with heathland and bubbling cauldrons. But throughout European history, particularly from the 14th- to the 17th-century, ordinary people were tried and put to death for witchcraft, often in a brutal and grotesque manner. So who were the witches? What were their practises? Who believed in them? What was their place in society? Why were they so feared? How were they accused, tried and executed? Robin Briggs attempts to answer these questions, broadening his scope as he looks beyond the persecutions themselves, to concentrate upon the society they illuminate. Between 1560 and 1660, more people were tried for witchcraft than at any other time in history. The detailed records of many of the trials have allowed the author to build up a description of life among the European peasantry some 400 years ago: the minutiae of social life, daily activities, neighbourhood and kinship ties, the pervasive force of superstition and family relationships.

Witches & neighbours: The social and cultural context of European witchcraft

Briggs, Robin

Europe

G.M.Trevelyan, as well as being a best-selling historian, was Regius Professor of History and Master of Trinity College Cambridge, Chancellor of the University of Newcastle, he was awarded the Order of Merit and was offered, but refused, the Presidency of the British Academy. This book provides a study of the man and an account of his generation. David Cannadine is the author of "The Pleasures of the Past".

G.M. Trevelyan: A life in history

CANNADINE, David

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, A very good, clean and sound copy in charcoal cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a very good dust jacket. Previous owner's label at base of ffep. Knight's cross: a life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. xiii, 601 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports ; 25 cm.. . Includes bibliographical references and index.. .

Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Fraser, David

Biographies & Memoirs

Light in the company of women

Keith Maillard

Stone Angels

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mike Jefferies

Fantasy

Coelestis

Park, Paul

In Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth and the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by his father in the years before he completed The Lord of the Rings. The text of the Annals of Aman, the "Blessed Land" in the far West, is given in full. And in writings never before published, we can see the nature of the problems that J.R.R. Tolkien explored in his later years as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the heart of the mythology. At this time Tokien sought to redefine the old legends, and wrote of the nature and destiny of Elves, the idea of Elvish rebirth, the origins of the Orcs, and the Fall of Men. His meditation of mortality and immortality as represented in the lives of Men and Elves led to another major writing at this time, the "Debate of Finrod and Andreth," which is reproduced here in full. "Above all," Christopher Tolkien writes in his foreward, "the power and significance of Melkor-Morgoth...was enlarged to become the ground and source of the corruption of Arda." This book indeed is all about Morgoth. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power (Tolkien wrote) was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: "The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring."

Morgoth's ring: the later Silmarillion, part one, the legends of Aman. Edited by Christopher Tolkien

Tolkien, J. R. R. [, edited by Christopher Tolkien]

History & Criticism

Although his position is weakening, Prime Minister Francis Urquhart is determined to beat Margaret Thatcher's record at Number Ten, a target only months away. An autumn challenge to his leadership seems inevitable. Is time running out for Francis Urquhart?

The final cut

Dobbs, Michael

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