The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

Trois jeunes et riches Allemands ont disparu sans laisser de trace. Paris est en émoi après l'evénement de la pêche miraculeuse. La jeune Angèle soupconne son René, père de leur enfant, d'être tombé amoureux d'une autre femme. Une vampire rôderait-elle sur les bords de la Seine? (résumé par Nadine)

Three young German noblemen have vanished. Paris is upside down after the fishing up of a treasure from the Seine. Young Angèle is suspicious that René, the father of her child, is having an affair with another woman. Is there a she-vampire erring on the riversides?

A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says the shot came from. The apartment is locked and apparently empty. Was there a murder here? And if so, where is the victim?

Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the English vocabulary is continually evolving, the system of punctuation has remained constant for the most part. This means that grammar books from 1895 are still applicable today. Therefore, if the following sentence looks correct to you, perhaps listening to Paul Allardyce’s “Stops, or How to Punctuate” would be a good idea.

Arrivés à une époque où le crime fait de nouveau salle comble, sortons cette œuvre extraordinaire, cet affreux roman de nos tiroirs.

Plein de confiance, Monsieur Féval proclame qu' « on ira pas plus loin dans la voie du crime à bon marché. »
Et c'est bien vrai : une moyenne de soixante-treize assassinats par chapitre, c'est inouï !
Sans parler des vols, viols, substitutions d'enfants, faux en écriture privée ou authentique, détournements de mineures, effractions, escalades, abus de confiance, bris de serrures, fraudes, escroqueries, captations, vente à faux poids et attentats à la pudeur dont cette histoire regorge.

Amateurs d'humour grinça...

Paul Verne war der Bruder von Jules Verne. Er verfaßte für die Buchreihe seines Bruders zwei Reiseberichte, die zusammen mit Jules Verne-Romanen in Sammelbänden erschienen sind. Der vorliegende Bericht schildert die Mont Blanc-Besteigung von Paul Verne im Jahr 1871.

Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (1770-1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Catholic priest who is acclaimed as "The Apostle of the Alleghenies." He is the son of Prince Dimitri Alexeievich, a Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, and the German Countess Adelheid Amalie von Schmettau. Demetrius was raised Russian Orthodox, but at age seventeen he converted to Catholicism, the faith of his mother, following her miraculous recovery from a serious illness. Although the ambassador had planned a military career for his son and had sent him to America for an education, he was shocked to learn that his son had renounced his inheritance and had entered a seminary instead. Demetrius was ordain...

Rezept für eine leicht bekömmliche (Urlaubs-) Lektüre: Man nehme einen Arzt mit originellem Kur-Konzept, einen hiervon begeisterten amerikanischen Millionär und eine ganze Reihe Kurgäste, die ihr Leben an der Rezeption abzulegen bereit sind um "Ferien vom Ich" zu machen. Diese Mischung wird garniert mit einem Schuss Familientragödie, diversen Verwechslungen, Romanzen und unvorhergesehenen Zwischenfällen- und schliesslich mit einer ordentlichen Portion Humor serviert. (Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett)

A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and rights, justice, commerce, finance, and punishments. The online text of the book has over 400 illustrations.

Warning: Sections 27 and 28, Punishments, may be disturbing to those of a sensitive disposition.

In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, "Systeme de la Nature", which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of M. de Mirabaud. That text-book of "Atheistical Philosophy" caused a great sensation, and two years later, 1772, the Baron published this excellent abridgment of it, freed from arbitrary ideas; and by its clearness of expression, facility, and precision of style, rendered it most suitable for the average student. This text is based on an undated English translation of "Le Bon Sens" published c. 1900. The name of the translator was not stated.