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Hastur was not a creation of H.P. Lovecraft but an adaptation of concepts created by Ambrose Bierce and Robert W. Chambers. Nevertheless, Hastur, AKA The King in Yellow, has since gone on to become one of the most iconic Great Old Ones. Whether the mysterious Lord of Leng in the Dreamlands or Cthulhu’s alleged half-brother, he is a figure who haunts the dreams of those mortals who touch upon even the barest knowledge of his existence.

TALES OF NYARLATHOTEP is the fourth book of the Books of Cthulhu series by Crossroad Press (Tales of the Al-Azif, Tales of Yog-Sothoth, The Book of Yig). It is an anthology featuring pulpy tales of horror starring Outer God and his myriad plots as well as games. Nyarlathotep is functionally omnipotent and treats humanity like ants underneath a magnifying glass. He is impossible to kill but perhaps capable of being thwarted. Or maybe that's just what he wants you to think.

A body behind the bar. A family torn apart. A pub where the spirits are as dark as the family's secrets. Everyone in Westport knows the Lynch family. They own its most successful pub, the shoe shop next door, the solicitor's office upstairs and the farm out at Knockfin. So when Michael Lynch...

A burnt-out car on the Mayo coast. A young woman's body inside. Someone wanted her erased. Detective Inspector Martin O'Shea is dragged from his bed before dawn and out to Bertra Beach, where a Toyota Avensis still smolders in the morning heat. The victim is unrecognizable—except for her red...

Set in the beautiful surroundings of the west coast of Ireland, MURDER AT THE PONY SHOW is a cosy police procedural the whole family can enjoy. The discovery of a man’s body puts a damper on the annual Connemara Pony Show. DI Maureen Lyons investigates a difficult case of foul play. The show...

A woman is found dead in a ditch. As the list of suspects grows, a town’s dirty secrets are revealed. It’s a cold winter evening and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an...

Join Estan Harvey as she leads her friends back to the suffocating, dying world they call home. Armed with the truth of the Eclipse, they mean to overthrow Unity and bring down the regime. Little do they know that a terror chases that could spell the end of the human race. With the Buyer’s return, Estan and her people find themselves asking the hardest question of all: Do they reveal the truth of the Eclipse, and in turn bring down Unity, the only power strong enough on Earth to stand up to the Buyer’s threat? Or, is it sometimes better the devil you know?

In a world of dwindling natural resources and looming mega corporations. Orson Blake, a miner, a single payroll number amongst billions wins the relocation lottery. A one way ticket to the simulated off world paradise that is the Jupiter Eclipse. The lottery holds a dark secret and our miner soon finds himself not fighting for his spot on the Eclipse, but fighting for his very life...

The team behind the best-selling books that serve as prequels to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan talk about the fourth installment in their Starcatchers series, with middle graders ages 9 and up. Actor Jim Dale, best known from the Harry Potter audiobooks, will perform an excerpt. The event includes a discussion with the audience.

Tensions arise between detectives when a kidnapping is upgraded to a murder investigation. When an incompetent local crook makes a botched attempt at a kidnap, it should be a wrap for the Galway police. Unfortunately, Maureen Lyons’ first case in charge as Detective Inspector threatens to be a...

Are detectives right to think that the brutal murder of a pensioner is more than just a burglary gone wrong? A health-worker visiting clients in a remote area on the West Coast of Ireland has a nasty surprise when she finds a reclusive old man dead in his armchair in his tumbledown cottage. When...

The wild west of Ireland. A lonely farmhouse. A father and son slaughtered in the dead of night. Farmer Pat Nevin and his university-student son, Conor, drive through the quiet rural landscape of County Mayo, heading back to their farmhouse in Mucklagh. It's 3.30 a.m. As they step out of their...

Many Catholics spend time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. David Pearson reports, in a detailed interview, the remarkable and inspiring stories of Catholics whose lives were transformed through their experience of Christ in Eucharistic adoration.

Too late to find a missing man, are Irish detectives in time to catch his killer? It is only a passing comment in the post office in a remote part of Western Ireland that alerts police to the disappearance of Davin Faherty. But foul play is established when his unceremoniously wrapped corpse...

Irish detectives struggle to make sense of the evidence in this mystery that keeps you guessing. A relaxing sailing trip on his day off becomes anything but for DSI Mick Hays when a body is found at sea. The coastguard pluck the corpse from the ocean with ease, but establishing the dead man’s...

Explore the heritage foods that give the United States its culinary identity, in this visual encyclopedia for curious eaters and gardeners. The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of our nation's food heritage preserving treasures passed down for generations—some rare, some endangered, all...

A promising young banker is killed in a Dublin alleyway. Two very different detectives try to find the murderer. A DEADLY DIVIDEND is the first book in a new series of murder mysteries by best-selling author David Pearson, whose other Irish crime fiction has topped the charts. A night out turns...

Murder on the beach, kidnap on the moor. DI Maureen Lyons investigates. It is with a certain trepidation that the local garda approach a car stuck out on Ballyconneely Beach gradually becoming swamped by the rising tide. And the police’s worst fears are confirmed when they find it contains the...

In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.

A local businessman’s plane crashes into bogland killing all three occupants… Galway’s detectives investigate. It’s not long before experts establish that the small aircraft’s engine had been tampered with. From dealing with a tragic accident, senior DI Maureen Lyons is suddenly...