Presents a collection of eleven critical essays on the writings of Ernest Hemingway from a variety of noted poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights of the Western world and contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom and chronology.
Provides an almanac and encyclopedia of Christopher Paolini's world of Alaga?sia, the magical land of the Inheritance cycle, discussing mysterious people, objects, and places.
A collection of fifty-four short fiction stories written by the late Shirley Jackson, many of which have never been published before, offering a full range of styles, from lighthearted romantic pieces, to the macabre, to the truly frightening.