Imagine walking home from school one day and seeing a brain on the side of the road, a brain that, it turns out, is looking for a new home. Or instead of paying attention to the teacher, you shoot a paper airplane across the room and accidentally rip a hole in the fabric of the universe. And what would you do if you discovered that your class reading group was actually recruiting kids with telekinetic powers? Tales from Beyond the Brain is a collection of thirteen spooky stories that are as outrageous as they are terrifying. It's a throwback to the weird tales of yesteryear, in the vein of Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone, but with contemporary characters and settings. Getting an education has never been more dangerous.
"From Beyond" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934. The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person's pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality. Sharing the experience with Tillinghast, the narrator becomes cognizant of a translucent, alien environment that overlaps our own recognized reality. From this perspective, he witnesses hordes of strange and horrific creatures that defy description. Tillinghast reveals that he has used his machine to transport his house servants into the overlapping plane of reality. He also reveals that the effect works both ways, and allows the alien creature denizens of the alternate dimension to perceive humans. Tillinghast's servants were attacked and killed by one such alien entity, and Tillinghast informs the narrator that it is right behind him. Terrified beyond measure, the narrator picks up a gun and shoots it at the machine, destroying it. Tillinghast dies immediately thereafter as a result of apoplexy. The police investigate the scene and it is placed on record that Tillinghast murdered the servants in spite of their remains never being found. Famous works of the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Horror at Red Hook, The Shadow Out of Time, The Shadows over Innsmouth, The Alchemist, Reanimator, Ex Oblivione, Azathoth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Cats of Ulthar, The Dunwich Horror, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Festival, The Silver Key, The Other Gods, The Outsider, The Temple, The Picture in the House, The Shunned House, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, Dagon, What the Moon Brings.
Things are not as they seem. The world around us is filled with lurking creatures from other places, and other dimensions, locked away by the laws that govern the universe. When mankind tampers with these laws, the barriers protecting them from the horrors beyond are destroyed. These tales explore these unseen horrors, long hidden from the eyes of humanity.
A marooned sailor A street urchin hiding from justice An assassin hiding from his guild A boastful halfling trying to live up to his promises Are you looking for inspiration as you create a new character to tackle their first adventure? Are you a NEW OR EXPERIENCED DM looking to add complexity to your story narrative and depth to your NPCs? If so, look no further. This is the PERFECT COMPENDIUMfor you! Simplify the character creation process with these backstories based on and inspired by the 5th edition of a classic RPG. These 39 backstories (written from the perspective of each race, each class, and each background found within the fifth edition PHB) can be PICKED UP by a player quickly assembling a new character about to embark into the unknown, by a DM adding some plot twists to the story, or just fleshing out that NPC that the party just stumbled onto. Of course, they can also be inspiration for your own new campaigns and storylines. Each backstory includes a portrait, name, race, class, background, and the story explaining why they are out adventuring. Many of the characters have BACKSTORIES intertwining with other characters within this supplement for added tension and INTRIGUE making gameplay more immersive if you wish to use multiple backstories in the same campaign. Although written with the 5E system in mind, these backstories can be easily adapted to many other RPG systems.
"Harmonies of Eternity: Tales Beyond Time" invites readers to transcend the confines of time and space through interconnected fantasy and science fiction stories. From guardians of a mystical hourglass embarking on gripping time-traveling adventures to alliances formed in the shadows and the transformative power of music, these tales offer a symphony of emotions and adventures. Through unity, compassion, and the enduring power of storytelling, "Harmonies of Eternity" weaves a tapestry of magic, adventure, and self-discovery that leaves an indelible mark on the reader's heart, even after the final page is turned.
This is a collection of seven epics, lyrics of seven respective musical albums, which I also composed. During that period of my life I passed through various experiences, which profoundly influenced my life and eventually my compositions, whether musical or lyrical. Maybe they could be a true reflection! A teenager of the seventies, I was a fan of classical and rock music with a special interest in progressive and heavy rock, which quite influenced my musical style and stirring ideas driving my potential writing gear. The various readings of science fiction, eastern ethnical beliefs and philosophies, some significant motion pictures, and the surrounding world of changes; incarnating tyranny, deceit, war, inhumanity, injustice...all contributed and had tangible impact on forming my ideology. The Martyr, the old-young man, who loved his human brotherhood and nature, whose enigma was to salvage them, who desparately searched for love but was absurdly treated, and winded up a martyr of his own principles! Could a simple person make a drastic decision to stop the wrong? Free the abused, whatever it took him? The Raver was sort of decisive evolution to countervail the dark world presented in the Demons' Kingdom. Land of a Thousand Dreams, blindness! What a mysterious world? Is it better or worse? A bless or a curse? An evolution, a paradigm shift from delirium to step on the threshold towards the route to promise land. Travelling in space and time, traversing life and death to reach reality, a contemplation of the mind was The Journey! When you have acquired knowledge, then you should share it and help others, lead them to enlightenment! Fly Free Gentle Dove is the aim. Have I really grasped the knowledge and gone beyond it to reach unity with the universe? The recapitulation is in the Voyages on the Oceans of Mystery.
Fairy tales are just the beginning. The Masked Man is on the loose in the Land of Stories, and it's up to Alex and Conner Bailey to stop him...except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and no one will believe they're in danger. With only the help of the ragtag group of Goldilocks, Jack, Red Riding Hood, and Mother Goose and her gander, Lester, the Bailey twins discover the Masked Man's secret scheme: He possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man, or will they be one step behind until it's too late? Fairy tales and classic stories collide in the fourth adventure in the bestselling Land of Stories series as the twins travel beyond the kingdoms!
Falling in love is the greatest feeling that you will feel. This makes you feel lively and happy. At the same time, it can make you feel isolated from anywhere else in the world because everything around you is time and nothing else except this particular person. In fact, thinking about this person may be the only idea that fills your mind by giving you a feeling of excitement. When this happens, you will feel scared and ready to face everything. We all grow up fantasizing about love and things it means. Well, some of us are able to discover true love while rest look for various ways of expression of their grief. Some choose poetry. Some choose to express pain with pen and some choose other ways .There are times when we have strong romantic feelings towards someone in the first sight.This book tells us about those unsaid feelings which is always buried in those people’s heart who can’t express those feelings to their loved ones.Feel their pain, grief, regrets and all those gifts of love as it all starts with person only with this beautiful anthology.
