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"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. [1] The story takes place early in the 24th century, when the technology for teleportation , referred to as "Jaunting", is commonplace, allowing for instantaneous transportation across ...
The Once and Future King is a collection of fantasy novels by T. H. White about the legend of King Arthur. It is loosely based upon the 1485 work Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory . It was first published in 1958 as a collection of shorter novels that were published from 1938 to 1940, with some new or amended material.
The light-novel series Fate/Apocrypha (2012) - a parallel world spinoff based on a cancelled MMO concept - features Mordred as a Saber-class for one of the two factions, who, like King Arthur/Saber, is gender-swapped, detailed in the story as being a homunculus half-clone of King Arthur that was created from mixing the King's genes with those ...
Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest ...
The Master: An Adventure Story (1957) The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959) America at Last (1965) The Book of Merlyn (1977) A Joy Proposed (1980) The Maharajah and Other Stories (selections from Earth Stopped (1934) and Gone to Ground (1935), ed. Kurth Sprague) (1981) Letters to a Friend: The Correspondence Between T. H. White and L. J. Potts ...
The author tells T&C all about his new Arthurian epic—including what inspired him to dive into sixth century Britain and his decision to focus on a Camelot succession crisis.
"The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" (1903) "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (1905) "The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" (1907) "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" (1910) Kairo-kō (1905) by Natsume Sōseki; The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (1905) by Clemence Housman [23]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...