The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective.

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses.

-Old Ghosts Die Hard- Mr. Fairchild has always been an honest man, so no one can understand why he and his family are suddenly driven from their house. Without a word of objection the family settles in a little house beneath the pines. But each Saturday night his seven daughters sneak back into the house and dance in the empty parlor. All is going well until the night their father is accused of murder and arrested along with their mother. Leaving behind the town they grew up in the sisters are separated across the country and each finds her own way of fighting the injustice done to their family. Determined to get their house back in the process the sisters discover an age old mystery someone would kill to protect. "Fairchild's 7 Daughters-The 12 Book One" All works copyright Carpathia. HRH Carpathia. This novel is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons or places is entirely coincidental. PG-Some Material May Not Be Suitable For Children. Please use this as a guide. I like to keep all of my stories mild or include disclaimers and trigger warnings. These may not be found in all chapters. Some characters will commit crimes and do harm against others. Nothing will be graphically depicted in my stories. (beyond a mild pg-13)

When Clara Allenson stumbles on an antique necklace, she does not expect it to save her life-until it does. It plunges her into the depths of an enchanting world where past and future are intertwined. There she meets Tamer, a vagabond with a hidden past. Together, they embark on a dangerous journey in search of ancient artefacts that are the keys to protecting Tamer's world as well as sending Clara back home.

Simon's life was bearable until one day palace doors appear outside his store. So begin the days that turn into weeks of growing insatiable obsessive curiosity. Simon's mind tells him not to open the door but a series of events lead to Simon 'accidentally' turning the knob... ...and entering a world so much more fantastical, so much more magical, so much more perfect than his own. Only this eerily beautiful world has it's own dangers, and a ruler much more powerful and crueler than anyone he could ever imagine.

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Reid has been homeless on the streets of New York for years now, fighting for cash in clubs and sleeping in empty buildings. With his special ability, Reid could have whatever life he wanted, but chooses not to. When Sam meets Reid on the subway, she has a hard time forgetting about him, and not only because he keeps showing up in the least likely of places. Sam doesn't know it at first, but the boy she just met is about to show her a whole other world.