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Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries --and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization--is a milestone of macabre literature.

The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor–the dark Kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring. Thus continues the magnificent, bestselling tale of adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its soul-stirring climax in The Return of the King.

Clau-Clau-Claudius the stammerer was known as a buffoon and a pitiful fool.He made it his business to watch from the sidelines and record the antics, funny, violent and lustful, of the imperial household as its members vied with each other for power. Then he found himself Emperor.From the great days of Augustus and the cruelties of Tiberius to the deified insanity of Caligula, he records a story breathtaking in its murderousness, greed and folly. Throughout the swings of fortune, his own disastrous love affair with the depraved Messalina and surprisingly successful reign, his voice sometimes puzzled, sometimes rueful, always sane, speaks to us across the centuries in two great, classic historical novels.

Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity of Caligula.I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, are among the most celebrated, as well the most gripping historical novels ever written.Cover illustration: Brian Pike

Earth, the late 22nd century. Following the atomic war of 2150, Britain has been devastated by nuclear holocaust survivors rebuilt their lives, but many were warped by the mutating effects of Strontium 90 fallout. Unable to live or work amongst the 'norms', mutants were forced to grow up in ghettos and take the only job open to them - bounty hunting. These Search/Destroy Agents hunt the criminals too dangerous for the Galactic Crime Commission. One such Strontium Dog is Johnny Alpha, whose eyes emit piercing Alpha rays and enable him to see through solid objects - and into men's minds.Now in the first volume collecting together all the Strontium Dog adventures from the beginning you can join Johnny, his norm Viking partner Wulf Sternhammer and alien medic The Gronk as they fight their way through a universe of violence and prejudice!Collects:- Max Quirxx (Starlord #1-#2)- Papa Por-ka (Starlord #3-#5)- No Cure for Kansyr (Starlord #6-#7)- Planet of the Dead (Starlord #8-#10)- Two-Faced Terror (Starlord #12-#15)- Demon Maker (Starlord #17-#19)- The Brain (Starlord #21-#22)- The Galaxy Killers (Progs #86-#94)- Journey into Hell (Progs #104-#118)- Death's Head (Progs #178-#181)- The Schicklgruber Grab (Progs #182-#188)- Mutie's Luck (Prog 189)- The Doc Quince Case (Progs #190-#193)- The Bad Boys Bust (Progs #194-#197)

From the phenomenal British classic sci-fi comic series, 2000 AD, comes a world of mists and magic from writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law) and artist Glenn Fabry (Preacher covers) This classic tale of sword and sorcery, the epic saga that introduced 2000 AD readers and the comics world at large to a hero who makes Conan look like a boy scout, is finally available again, this time in a deluxe collectors' hardback edition. Exiled from his tribe, Slaine is forced to roam the land of Tir-Nan-Og with his dwarf, Ukko. Ahead of him lie terrifying ordeals that will require all of Slaine's famed warrior strength if he is to return victorious and claim his rightful place as King!Collects:- The Tomb of Terror (Progs #447-#461)- Spoils of Annwn (Progs #493-#499)- Slaine the King (Progs #500-#519)- The Killing Field (Prog #582)- Slaine the Mini-Series (Progs #589-#591)

Mega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories. Volume 14 in this exciting, bestselling series collects together more classic Dredd from the pages of 2000 AD, including the mega-epic Necropolis.

Collects:- Midnight Surfer (Progs #424-#429)- Nosferatu (Progs #430-#433)- West Side Rumble (Prog #434)- Back on the Streets (Prog #435)- Get Smart (Prog #436)- Something Abnormal About Norman (Prog #437)- The Man Who Knew Too Much (Progs #438-#439)- The Magnificent Obsession (Progs #440_#441)- Mega-Man (Prog #442)- Death of a Politician (Prog #443)- Love Story (Prog #444)- The Lemming Syndrome (Prog #445)- The Squadron That Time Forgot (Prog #446)- The Ugly Mug Ball (Prog #447)- A Day at the Block Wars (Prog #448)- The Lurker (Prog #449)- Merry Tale of the Christmas Angel (Prog #450)- The Warlord (Progs #451-#455)- Beggars' Banquet (Prog #456)- A Chief Judge Resigns (Prog #457)- The Secret Diary of Adrian Cockroach (Prog #458)- Last Voyage of the Flying Dutchman (Prog #459)- Letter From a Democrat (Prog #460)- The Falucci Tape (Progs #461-#463)- Gribligs (Progs #464-#465)- The Big Sleep (Progs #466-#467)- It Pays to be Mental (Prog #468)- Rumours Can Kill (Prog #469)- Zombies (Prog #470)- The Exploding Man (Prog #471)- Riders on the Storm (Progs #472-#473)

I don't know if The Day The Law Died is conventionally held to be in the A-list of Judge Dredd mega-epics? But for my money it's basically perfect, finding as it does that elusive alchemical formula between dramatic tension, ultraviolence, and untrammeled silliness that will power a golden age of Dredd for years from this point.Which means that any shortfall in this volume comes from its (loose) sequel, Helter Skelter. And while this Ennis-penned story is no disaster of Judgement Day proportions, its conceit of "a team-up of all the protagonist's greatest foes" was bloody silly in The Pandorica Opens and it's bloody silly here. But in the wrong way: Judge Cal was so joyously bonkers in the original, that this spiteful, pull-the-wings-off-flies sadist is cheap in comparison. And obviously none of Dredd's other "greatest foes" finds their finest hour as part of a gauntlet for Joe to run, in which he obviously disposes of them in a few panels/with a cheap quip each. Also, what did Judge Giant ever do to Garth Ennis to get branded as a pan-dimensional loser here?It's interesting to see Ennis writing Dredd here as a dichotomy between the unlikeable, inflexible stone killer and the moral hero with total commitment to protecting every single citizen at absolutely any cost. However in spite of the hagiographical sections, I do think the Dredd of this era comes across as quite unpleasant, engaging in way too much unnecessary brutality towards the perps; give me the uncomplicated idealism and the singing-and-dancing-Klegg musical interludes of the late 70s any day.

Providence, Rhode Island, 1928. A dangerous inmate disappears from a private hospital for the insane, his method of escape baffling the authorities. Only the patient's final visitor, family physician Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett—himself a pece of the puzzle—holds the key to unlocking The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. A macabre mixture of historical investigation, grave-robbing and bone-chilling revelation, this adaptation artfully lays bare one of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying creations.

In Mega-City One the streets are awash with danger, whether it be rampaging giant alligators or crazed perps with murder in mind. Keeping order in this crimeridden metropolis are the Judges, stern guardians of the peace with the power of judge, jury and executioner at their disposal. The most fearsome is Judge Dredd and these are his greatest cases. This bumper volume of Thrill Power includes such classic tales as 'Dredd Angel', 'The Wally Squad' and 'City of the Damned'.Collects:- Many Unhappy Returns (Prog #376) - Dredd Angel (Progs #377-#383)- Gator (Progs #384-#386)- Question of Judgement (Prog #387)- Error of Judgement (Prog #388)- A Case for Treatment (Prog #389)- The Wally Squad (Progs #390-#392)- City of the Damned (Progs #393-#406)- The Hunters Club (Progs #407-#411)- Monsteroso (Prog #412)- Spugbug (Prog #413)- Juve's Eyes (Progs #414-#415)- Sunday Night Fever (Progs #416-#418)- Hagatha Smeld (Prog #419)- Aftermath Ron Reagan (Prog #420)- Thirteenth Assessment (Prog #421)- Casey's Day Out (Prog #422)- 99 Red (Prog #423)

The Cursed Earth is an amazing invention in the formative years of the Judge Dredd strip, before the hardness of the eponymous character was laid down. It is full of strangeness and promise, something brought on in spades in the first/second mega epic in series canon. Without the character being pinned down, Dredd feels like a generic stoic hero character in this storyline. More exasperating is the excessive tweeness of certain moments that ruin any sense of suspense. For me, what makes the Cursed Earth storyline so interesting is the concept itself and what comes immediately after - “The Day The Law Died”.

Another bumper crop of cases for Dredd in this action-packed volume, collecting together some of the very best in 2000 AD thrills! Stories include the full-blooded horror of Cry of The Werewolf, illustrated by comic legend Steve Dillon (Preacher) and the return of the fatties in Requiem For A Heavyweight, illustrated by Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra.- Collects: - Cry of the Werewolf (Progs 322-328)- The Weather Man (Progs 329-330)- Requiem for a Heavyweight (Progs 331-334)- The Graveyard Shift (Progs 335-341)- The Suspect (Prog 342)- Rumble in the Jungle (Progs 343-345)- Bob &amp; Carol &amp; Ted &amp; Ringo (Progs 346-349)- Pieromania (Prog 350)- The Highwaymen (Prog 353)- Are You Tired of Being Mugged? (Prog 354)- Bob's Law (Prog 355)- Citizen Snork (Progs 356-358)- The Haunting of Sector House 9 (Progs 359-363)- High Society (Prog 364)- The House on Runner's Walk (Prog 365)- Portrait of a Politician (Progs 366-368)- The Switch 1 episode (Prog 369)- Superbowl (Progs 370-371)- Bingo (Prog 372)- The Making of a Judge (Prog 373)- The Wreckers (Progs 374-375)

The war between the Norts and the Southers chemically poisoned the entire atmosphere of Nu-Earth, so the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen: blue-skinned soldiers who could breathe the toxic air, equipped with bio-chips to record their personalities in their final moments, for eventual re-corporation. But a Souther traitor sold the G.I.s. out, and all but one were slaughtered. Now this survivor stalks Nu-Earth on a mission of revenge, aided by his dead friends now "living" in his gun, helmet and backpack. He is the last G.I.--the Rogue Trooper! Suggested For Mature Readers.

Featuring classic stories from Mega-City, this collection gives readers the chance to rediscover the adventures of Judge Dredd.- Collects:- Meka-City 2 (Progs 271-272)- The League of Fatties (Progs 273-274)- Fungus (Progs 275-277)- The Game Show Show (Progs 278-279)- Gunge (Prog 280)- Destiny's Angels (Progs 281 to 288)- Rabid (Prog 289)- Blobs (Prog 290)- The Executioner (Progs 291-294)- Jimps (Prog 295)- The Night of the Rad-Beast (Progs 296-297)- The Last Invader (Progs 298-299)- Shanty Town (Progs 300-303)- Prezzel Logic (Prog 304)- Trapper Hag (Progs 305-307)- The Prankster (Prog 308)- Starborn Thing (Progs 309-314)- King of the Road (Prog 315)- The Stupid Gun (Progs 316 to 318)- Condo (Progs 319-321)

Third in the excellent series reprinting every Dredd story, this covers progs 116 to 154, published between 1979 and 1980 (both in 2000AD and the annual). Focussing this time more on self-contained stories (there are two small series, one being “Father Earth”, the other the first appearance of “Judge Death” - which is excellent), the bulk of the stories are written by Wagner (often as John Howard), with Pat Mills also contributing and the artwork is superb, especially that of Brian Bolland (naturally), Ron Smith (who drew a lot more of my childhood/teenage reading than I’d remembered), Ian Gibson, Mike McMahon, Barry Mitchell (who I’m sure drew “Twisty” for Bullet) and the excellent John Cooper amongst others. Wagner, in some stories, also manages to predict events that would happen a few years beyond his writing (and get worse thirty years later - the gap I re-read these at), with reality TV shows such as “Sob Story”, so I hope he wasn’t as prescient elsewhere. The bulk of the stories work (I’m not so keen on Walter), some of them are brutal, some amusing, most are clever and occasionally you get flashes of anger from the writer, especially in one where a mad scientist is going to unleash the common cold. Great fun, with top notch writing and artwork, superbly reproduced and iconic to the core, I’d highly recommend this.

Far future lawman Judge Dredd has been a mainstay of the British comics scene for almost thirty years and now you can follow his earliest cases in this vast collection of graphic novels.This second volume features the very first Dredd epic The Cursed Earth, written by comic legends Pat Mills (Sláine) and John Wagner (A History of Violence) and featuring the art of Mike McMahon (ABC Warriors) and Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke).

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

1955 crime comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendrick

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It is written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England, and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson. Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow feature in supporting roles. The film closely follows the novel by use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments.

In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.

1987 British comedy film directed by Bruce Robinson

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

Set in 1929, and based upon Arthur Ransome's immortal children's novel, "Swallows and Amazons" is the story of a group of children who man two sailing dinghies,'Swallow' and 'Amazon', and plan mock 'sea-battles'.

After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.

1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.

An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

The Darkside (or Darkside) were an indie rock band formed in 1989 by former members of Spacemen 3. After releasing two studio albums they split up in 1993.The band formed in Rugby in 1989 and was led by Pete Bain (aka Bassman), who had left Spacemen 3 just before their 1989 album Playing With Fire. Bain was then joined in the new outfit by his former bandmate, drummer Sterling Roswell (aka Rosco). Vocals were initially handled by Nick Haydn but his departure forced Bain to assume them. The group were signed to Beggars Banquet Records offshoot Situation Two throughout their existence.Contrary to much of what is written about the band, Haydn has always claimed he was a founder member, once played with Spacemen 3 himself and wrote most of the band's early material (although credited to 'The Darkside' on record labels), and also played guitar as well as being the lead vocalist. Hayden left the band shortly before he was due to go on stage at a gig in Oxford. Hayden then formed the Oxford band Flite 118 whose set list included much of the early The Darkside songs such as "Highrise Love", "Ocean of Fire" and "Can't Think Straight".

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen appears as Ali G, a rapper-wannabe from Staines. Ali G has his own TV show, where he interviews people on serious subjects. They're not aware that Ali G is just a character and they're being set up as part 

As Alfred the Great defends his kingdom from Norse invaders, Uhtred - born a Saxon but raised by Vikings - seeks to claim his ancestral birthright.

Mr Benn is the ordinary, bowler-hatted office worker who lives in the ordinary suburban street of Festive Road. However, when he tries on a costume in a mysterious costume shop, he steps out of the changing room into a different time

The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager David Brent as they continue their daily lives.

The New Zealand version of the classic British childen's programme.

The shows were broadcast live in front of an audience largely of children, originally at the King's Theatre on Hammersmith Road until 1963, then at the BBC Television Theatre (now the Shepherds Bush Empire). The format of the program

Cult classic children's animated series about a group of human and animal characters that gather at the roundabout / carousel in the park. Although the original series is French there are multiple dubbed versions from other countries

Based on the characters created by Kenneth Grahame, this award winning animated series follows the adventures of Mole (Richard Pearson) as he leaves home to discover the world. Mole finds friendship with Rat (Peter Sallis), Badger (S

British stop-motion animated TV series, 1984 to 1987, sequel to the 1983 film

Swallows and Amazons Forever! is a 1984 BBC children's television series based on two children's novels from the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome: Coot Club (1934), and The Big Six (1940). Despite the title, the Swallows and the Amazons children from Ransome's other books do not appear.

Host Tony Hart demonstrates various art projects along with cartoon sequences.

Byker Grove follows the lives and relationships of a group of young people who are members of a youth club.

The ultra right-wing Alan B'Stard, the most selfish, greedy, dishonest, sadistic and sociopathic Conservative MP of them all, plots to achieve his meglomaniacal ambitions.

British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s

Harold and Ethel Meaker live in South Ealing and run 'Rentaghost' where they rent ghosts out to the public. Over the years many ghosts came and went but the main Rentaghost crew consisted of Timothy Claypole - a jester at the court o

The Enchanted Castle is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit first published in 1907.The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathy, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden, they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess.The "princess" tells them that the castle is full of magic, and they almost believe her. She shows them the treasures of the castle, including a magic ring she says is a ring of invisibility, but when it actually turns her invisible she panics and admits that she is the housekeeper's niece, Mabel, and was just play-acting.

Four young children hope for anything to happen and, when they become owners of the Phoenix, their adventure begins.

Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the Strand Magazine under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts, with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication.Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with ability to grant wishes. The Psammead persuades the children to take one wish each day to be shared among them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sunset. This, apparently, used to be the rule in the Stone Age, when all that children wished for was food, the bones of which then became fossils. The five children's first wish is to be "as beautiful as the day". The wish ends at sunset and its effects simply vanish, leading the Psammead to observe that some wishes are too fanciful to be changed to stone.

Ivor the Engine is a British children's animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It is a children's television series relating the adventures of a small green locomotive who lived in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and worked for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited. His friends included Jones the Steam, Evans the Song and Dai Station, among many other characters.Having produced the live Alexander the Mouse, and the filmed The Adventures of Ho for his employers Associated Rediffusion/ITV in partnership with Firmin, Oliver Postgate and his partner set up Smallfilms in a disused cow shed at Firmin's home in Blean near Canterbury, Kent.

Children's puppet programme featuring music and stories.

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