Books like Perchance to Dream (Candlelight Regency #715) by Joyce Lee

The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer, with a foreword by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone—for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories, including seven that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and varied they burst through the walls of whatever box might contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and more: all were equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the Devil himself. With dizzying feats of master storytelling and joyously eccentric humor, Beaumont transformed his nightmares and reveries into impeccably crafted stories that leave themselves indelibly stamped upon the walls of the mind. In Beaumont’s hands, nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible, even likely. “[Beaumont’s] imagination, as Perchance to Dream amply shows, was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes.” -NPR *from the publisher*

The Ladies' Half That was the name given the locked rooms of Wingarden. Long ago they served as refuge for the Wingate women from the savage tempers and brutal passions of the Wingate irien. Now. though they had been sealed for many years, distant echoes of what once happened there still seemed to reverberate in the dimly-lit air. Everyone told Chloe Win-ate to let the ghosts of the fearful past rest undisturbed. Handsome. sardonic Innis Rolland mocked Chloe's efforts to investigate the evil that haunted the old mansion. Cool. level-headed Cecil Mallory claimed that he wanted to take Chloe away with him to safety. But Chloe was in the grip of something stronger than reason, and as in a dream. she found herself opening the forbidden door and stepping inside....

A TIMELESS PASSION Imagine a world in which the South has emerged victorious from the fiery strife of the Civil War. And there is not one nation, but two--bitterly divided, but inexorably drawn together. Imagine a strong-willed beauty who dares to defy Southern propriety. Susannah Fitzgerald, codename "Butterfly," leads a perilous double life as an agent for the Confederacy's most powerful leader... Imagine the one man who sees through her pretense. Rand Cabot, whose golden glance melts Susannah's heart -- and whose covert loyalty to the North puts their passionate love to the ultimate test...