Psychological Science

Hypnos is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it. The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. The moment the man opened his "immense, sunken, and widely luminous eyes", the narrator knew that the stranger would become his friend-–"the only friend of one who had never possessed a friend before.

Have you ever wondered what made Crispin so wicked - why his heart is so black? What drives his hunger for total control, and his need to cause such horror and pain to others? Was he born this way, or did something horrific happen to him as a child? What goes on behind those dark, hauntingly beautiful, blue eyes? Step into the mind of a killer. He is charming, cunning, and his velvet voice will enchant you. Is Crispin really as evil as he is portrayed, or is there more hidden beneath the skin? Now you can find out all about Crispin, and what makes him tick.

Si la respuesta a cualquiera de las preguntas anteriores es afirmativa, ha llegado al lugar adecuado. Este libro sobre la guerra psicológica profundiza en las tácticas de manipulación, engaño y propaganda que utilizan las personas en el ámbito público, personal y profesional para controlar a sus víctimas y beneficiarse de ellas.

"Celephaïs", extrait : "En rêve, Kuranes contempla la cité dans la vallée. La côte s'étendant derrière le pic neigeux qui domine la mer, et les galères aux couleurs gaies qui sortent du port pour aller vers les régions lointaines où le ciel et la mer se rejoignent. Ce fut également en rêve qu'il acquit ce nom de Kuranes, car lorsqu'il s'éveilla, il constata qu'on l'appelait autrement.

Mena is a hideous creature; she fragments her victims into Erase, a mysterious world that no one returns from in one piece. Her new target is Arabella, a tortured soul, but one that is defiant. Mena knows what lies beyond the illusion, but Arabella suffers because of it. Arabella has stumbled into their trap, but when they let her in, will she be destroyed or will they? Can they recognize the danger that lurks beneath the surface? Or is the mystery one that cannot be solved?

Tom always felt most at ease off in his man cave. Alone, with just his books and his imaginary friend. Only now his imaginary friend was starting to become real.

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

Who is she? Are the answers as simple as the questions? In the end what can we know is real?

When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this - digging up a human hand in your potato patch - can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out, especially since that ancient hand has peculiar "qualities." This discovery sets off a chain of inexorable events that lead Leonard Johnson to rash action resulting in a terrible kind of justice. A balance must be restored and a lesson learned.