Eastern Myths

The gods of ancient Canaan once ruled the imagination of an entire region. They governed rain and drought, love and war, life and death. Their stories shaped the religious world out of which biblical faith later emerged—yet most modern readers know almost nothing about them. This book brings that forgotten pantheon back into view with clarity, intelligence, and narrative drive. An Introduction to Canaanite Deities takes you inside the sacred world of the ancient Levant and shows how ordinary people understood the forces that shaped their lives. Rather than presenting dry lists of gods and...

One tank commander. One notorious institution. One legend built in war—and rebuilt in memory. Michael Wittmann became Nazi Germany’s most famous Tiger commander. His attack at Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944 entered military folklore; his death during Operation Totalize less than two months later remains one of the Normandy campaign’s most argued-over battlefield mysteries. But how much of the familiar story is documented? How much came from wartime propaganda, post-war memoir and repetition? In this revised and expanded biography, Gary Mitchell follows Wittmann from rural Bavaria into...

Master mythologist Joseph Campbell had a genius for finding the unifying symbols and metaphors in apparently distinct cultures and traditions. In Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal, Campbell explores, with his characteristic clarity and humor, the principle that underlies all the great religions of India and East Asia, from Jainism and Hinduism to Buddhism and Taoism: the transcendent World Soul.

Unlock the secrets of one of the world’s most enigmatic cities with “Mysteries of Jerusalem: 33 Hidden Stories from a Sacred City.” In this mesmerizing collection, author David G. Petault unveils the lesser-known, intriguing tales that make Jerusalem a place of perpetual wonder and fascination. Journey through the ages and discover the profound and often surprising narratives that have shaped Jerusalem’s rich history. From the touching story of two brothers whose acts of kindness became the foundation of the city, to the mysterious handprint in an ancient moat, each chapter brings ...

Was there a woman before Eve? The question does not arise from a single text or a single moment in time. It moves across centuries, reappears in different forms, and is often attributed to writings that never posed it in this way. Between what is written and what later came to be told, a space opens—and it is within that space that legend takes hold. This book traces the emergence and development of this idea through the very texts and traditions that shaped it. It begins in the ancient world, where names associated with night, wilderness, and desolation belonged to the religious and ...

TEMPTRESS. MONSTER. WARRIOR. Aicha is the story of Morocco's warrior goddess, her strange magic, fierce rebellion, and devastating romance. Soraya Bouazzaoui weaves an epic tale of female rage and hidden myths, perfect for fans of The City of Brass and The Stardust Thief. The Portuguese empire...

"[Narrator] Nikki Massoud's strong performance complements this audiobook...Massoud draws out Malka's and Nimrah's opposing energies with clear, emotionally engaged characterizations, imbuing their journey with depth." — Kirkus “A dark and endlessly enchanting fairy tale ... I adored every...

Shadows of Zvikov Castle: A Journey into the Heart of Czech Mystery. Perched on a cliffside overlooking the confluence of the Vltava and Otava rivers, Zvikov Castle is a fortress steeped in history and shrouded in mystery. Known as "The King of Castles," this medieval stronghold is home to chilling legends of ghostly knights, the cursed Hlíza Tower, and spectral banquets held by the Phantom Court. In Shadows of Zvikov Castle, uncover the haunting tales that have made this castle one of the most enigmatic and haunted places in the world. From secret underground tunnels to time-warping ...

What if the origin of the vampire myth wasn’t born from fiction—but from fear? Long before Gothic castles and silver-screen immortals, there were whispers in the Carpathian Mountains—of Strigoi, the restless dead who walked among the living. They Rise at Midnight unearths the true story behind one of humanity’s most haunting legends, tracing its roots through Romanian folklore, death rituals, and the eternal struggle to understand what lies beyond the grave. From ancient Dacian temples and pagan gods to Christian conversions and village superstitions, this book delves deep into the ...

The most famous environmental parable of the last fifty years does not survive the evidence. You know the story. Polynesians reach the most remote inhabited island on earth. They carve enormous stone heads and, competing to build bigger ones, cut down every tree to move them. The forest goes, and with it the soil, the seabirds, and the canoes that might have carried them away. Society falls into warfare and cannibalism. Europeans arrive to find survivors living in the wreckage of what they destroyed. It is the perfect cautionary tale — a closed island, a finite resource, a people who ...

Forget naughty or nice—this is a battle of good vs. evil. Discover the origins of St. Nick and follow along as the Guardians start their quest to rid the world of nightmares in the first Guardians chapter book from Academy Award winner William Joyce that inspired the beloved film, The Rise of...

The civilizations that grew up in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys many thousands of years ago have left important legacies: agriculture, mathematics, astronomy, the wheel, and writing. This present volume of Mesopotamian myths is divided into three sections.

"A sweeping, breathless romance" and "deliciously twisty" ~Jennifer deBie of Rosie's Book Review Team General Bakr, a half-human djinn warrior, has always felt like an outsider in the magical land of Qaf. Torn from his first love by war, he yearns to feel her touch—to hear her voice and kiss her lips. But the only reason he survived the searing scar across his torso was because a lilith demon made him her pet, and she doesn't like to share. Back at home in the magical kingdom of Shihala, Sheikha Sezan, a djinn princess, is just starting her war. Determined to be more than a marriage token...

There’s a reason the assassin always wins in the end. Why her family always dies. He’s smarter than she is. A mongoose to her cobra. And it doesn’t matter how hard she fights, how desperately she bites. In the end, he’ll eat her up. "Zarina’s journey through ancient Egypt will have your eyes begging for more! 5/5 highly recommended!" Haunted by the curse that has doomed her family for millennia, the last descendant of Ra, Zarina Nefertari, has spent her life on the run in the tombs of steampunk Aegyptus with only her faithful bodyguard by her side. But the desert is only so big, ...

When her sense of safety is shattered, a young girl realizes she must become something untamable—even otherworldly—to find freedom, in this visceral coming-of-age horror debut. A man’s body is found viciously murdered behind a neighborhood corner store, sending shockwaves through the...

They told you vampires were fiction. They weren’t. For centuries, entire villages dug up their dead. Not out of superstition. Out of necessity. The bodies weren’t decomposing. They were bloated. Pink. Bleeding. And the living were dying—one by one. This is not a book of legends. It’s a forensic dossier. Inside, you’ll find the suppressed reports, the burned records, the rituals too dangerous to speak aloud. You’ll walk through the graveyards of Eastern Europe, where the soil was salted and the corpses were staked. You’ll sit in the courtrooms where the dead were tried and ...

At a tavern one night, astrophysicist Gabriel Diaz meets beautiful and mysterious Kamilah. Captivated by her beauty as well as her views on good and evil, he spends the next several days with her. Soon he notices a strangeness in her, especially the way she seems to take pleasure in toying with his conscience. Kamilah invites him to her family cabin in the mountains of Rize, Turkey. In spite of his heavy workload and the disturbing nightmares about his sister’s baby that is due to be born soon, Gabriel accepts. But not even the stunning beauty of the Black Sea can disguise the horror of ...

Science gave her the rules of survival. He is the exception. Dr Hannah Cartwright built her academic career on a simple, unbreakable rule: monsters are nothing more than behavioural contagion and state-sponsored propaganda. After a humiliating professional scandal involving forged folklore, the brilliant psychologist relies strictly on empirical data, measuring the world to keep it safe. But leading a boutique tour of wealthy donors through an isolated Carpathian castle is about to shatter her rigid grip on reality. When a catastrophic blizzard severs all ties to the outside world, ...

An empire vanished. Its gods, monsters, and sacred stories survived on broken clay tablets. For centuries, the Hittites ruled much of ancient Anatolia, challenged Egypt, built mighty cities, and worshipped a vast pantheon known as the “thousand gods of Hatti.” Yet their mythology remains far less familiar than the legends of Greece, Egypt, or Mesopotamia. Hittite Mythology for Beginners opens the gates to this forgotten world and presents its dramatic stories in a clear, engaging style—without requiring any previous knowledge of ancient history or religion. Discover a mythological ...

After the catastrophic events of Eclipse of Destiny, Elena Petrova is desperate for silence, but the dead refuse to let her rest. The eclipse may have passed, yet its shadow still bleeds across Transylvania—widening cracks between the living and the forgotten. When a series of spectral disturbances ripple through Brașov, Elena discovers that the fall of the Strigoi priesthood has awakened something older and far more patient. A surviving priestess, bound to a fractured prophecy, believes Elena carries the bloodline needed to resurrect a long-buried empire. And she intends to claim it—...