Mist

The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jónasson's critically-acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever.

“Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA Today Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits. Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind. Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the reader compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable voice. A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudí reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece. Imaginative and beguiling, these and other stories in The City of Mist summon up the mesmerizing magic of their brilliant creator and invite us to come dream along with him.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s terrifying novella about a town engulfed in a dense, mysterious mist as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction—originally published in the acclaimed short story collection Skeleton Crew and made into a TV series, as well as a feature film starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden. In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends...David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups—those for and those against—are aligned. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind. This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know—and the one you can only imagine.

What's lurking in the Mist is the least of their worries... In a world where humanity lives in the sky to escape a deadly mist below, Cass's only goal is survival. That is, until she finds a job on the airship Daedalus as a diver. Now she explores ruined cities, looking for treasure and people's lost heirlooms until a young man hires her to find the impossible: a way to eradicate the Mist. Theodore Winchester is a member of one of the Five Families that rule the skies. Following in his father's footsteps, he searches for the source of the Mist and hopes to stop the purges used to control overpopulation. But what he finds are horrifying secrets and lethal ambition. If he continues his quest, it could mean his own death. The Mist is rising and soon the world will be enveloped in its deadly embrace, turning what's left of humanity into the undead.

Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the novel as a vehicle for exploration of philosophical themes. The plot revolves around the character of Augusto, a wealthy, intellectual and introverted young man and his love affair with Eugenia, which eventually ends in heartbreak. Augusto decides to kill himself, but decides that he needs to consult Unamuno himself, who had written an article on suicide which Augusto had read. When Augusto speaks with Unamuno, the truth is revealed that Augusto is actually a fictional character whom Unamuno has created. Augusto is not real, Unamuno explains, and for that reason cannot kill himself. Augusto asserts that he exists, even though he acknowledges internally that he doesn't, and threatens Unamuno by telling him that he is not the ultimate author. Augusto reminds Unamuno that he might be just one of God's dreams. Augusto dies and the book ends with the author himself debating to himself about bringing back the character of Augusto. He establishes, however, that this would not be feasible. Following on from his translation of Abel Sanchez , John Macklin's edition provides a much needed new English translation, alongside the Spanish text, together with a substantial introduction.

Modernity’s Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpredictable and fast- approaching future. As the rise of periodization made the project of defining the “spirit of the age” increasingly urgent, the changing sense of futurity rendered the historical dimensions of the present deeply elusive. While historicist critics often are interested in what Romantic writers and their readers would have known, Rohrbach draws attention to moments when these writers felt they could not know the historical dimensions of their own age. Illuminating the poetic strategies Keats, Austen, Byron, and Hazlitt used to convey that sense of mystery, Rohrbach describes a poetic grammar of future anteriority—of uncertainty concerning what will have been. Romantic writers, she shows, do not simply reflect the history of their time; their works make imaginable a new way of thinking the historical present when faced with the temporalities of modernity.

Anna Lee Waldo, author of SACAJEWEA said about PICTURE MAKER that she did not want the story to end. Linda Lay Shuler, author of SHE WHO REMEMBERS, said PICTURE MAKER is totally engrossing, and Bravo! Sue Harrison, author of MOTHER EARTH, FATHER SKY said: “Penina Keen Spinka holds the gift of magic in her words. Authentic details of ancient life send the reader on a journey that will delight and her characters are so well-drawn they make a place for themselves in the heart.” Take a journey into legend. Hidden In Mist – Bereaved prairie dweller. He becomes the guardian spirit of Niagara River and its majestic Niagara Falls. He lives in a cave behind it. Tododaho – Onondaga - War chief and sorcerer who intends to change Tribal Law. Jekonsaseh – Mother of Nations – She escapes from a planned marriage and intends to end her life at Niagara Falls. Hidden in Mist saves her and becomes her mentor. She lives to fulfill her destiny. Hiawatha – Onondaga - Father of Laughing Water – cursed for opposing Tododaho. He becomes the man-eating scourge of the wild places. The Peacemaker can heal his mind, but can he live with the memory of what he was? The Peacemaker – Called Deganawida (Thinker) - Huron. Son of a maiden and a spirit. His grandmother tried to drown him at birth. He will bring peace to five warring nations and unite them into the Five Tribes Confederacy (the Iroquois). Ole Red Hair – Greenlander. He survived his country’s doom. With his sister, Dream Weaver, Ole finds sanctuary in the New World with Tribe Ganeo-gaono, later called Mohawk. Fitting in is just the beginning. Ole Red Hair must accept his nature before he can reconcile with the woman he loves.

There is more than one type of storm aiming for Pearl Island! An unusually powerful winter storm is setting its sights on Pearl Island, but is the storm being powered by more than natural weather events? Another type of storm is brewing with the three visitors to the island as well. Morgan has a full house, with the Colbrights staying with her and Cordelia while their home is under repair, and there is no room for her old roommate and the couple traveling with Angela. It is easy to feel the tension between the three newcomers, but Morgan has other things on her mind. Cora is coming, and she is ready for battle. Morgan is finding it hard to concentrate on Cora; Cordelia's place in the Seaver household is threatened and there are strangers jeopardizing the tranquility of the island. Morgan is determined to protect Pearl Island any way she can, and once again her friends are there to give her the support she needs to face all challenges; real and unnatural. Will this be the last battle between her and Cora? And is Morgan strong enough to face what lies ahead?