A cryptic warning inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Eventually, people came in search of the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars, which they found clutched in the hand of the mummy. Few heeded the ancient warning, until all who came in contact with the Jewel began to die.
This version has the ORIGINAL 1903 ending--not the revised 1912 ending. At the time, many publishers thought the original ending was too gruesome, so they asked for a rewrite. For many years the original ending was unavailable to readers.
NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader.
EXCERPT: It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something else...
]]>O'Donnell wrote several popular novels but specialized in what were claimed as "true" stories of ghosts and hauntings.
He eventually became known as an authority on the supernatural and he was called upon as a ghost hunter. He also lectured and broadcast (radio and television) on the paranormal in Britain and the United States.
His view on the subject: "I have investigated, sometimes alone, and sometimes with other people and the press, many cases of reputed hauntings. I believe in ghosts but am not a spiritualist."
This book covers 17 cases that he investigated in Scotland in 1912. Best if read alone, at night and with the wind howling outside.
NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader.
]]>NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been specially formatted to work well on your Amazon e-book reader.
AN EXCERPT: He saluted and we crossed swords and began. But from the first I had no doubt what the result would be. The slippery stones and fading light gave him, it is true, some chance, some advantage, more than he deserved; but I had no sooner felt his blade than I knew that he was no swordsman. Possibly he had taken half-a-dozen lessons in rapier art, and practised what he learned with an Englishman as heavy and awkward as himself. But that was all. He made a few wild clumsy rushes, parrying widely.
]]>The baby grows up among the wolves and becomes a creature of the forest. Now known as Shasta, he learns to communicate with the animals, including the wise old brown bear, Gomposh. Shasta's adventures include fighting off attacks by vicious grizzly bears, hunters and even a wild moose.
Shasta eventually reunites with his human tribe and must find a way to lead them to victory as a tribal war breaks out. A great, well-written tale of adventure and suspense!
NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted to work on your Amazon e-book reader.
EXCERPT: The cave in which her cubs were waiting was far away, for she had traveled many miles, but her instinct told her how to find it easily again, and she made a straight line for it, loping along towards...
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