Jarvis lets out rooms in the rambling old house he owns in London. When Axel-the enigma who hates London's underground tube, yet spends his free time riding it-moves in, Jarvis' diverse tenants are joined together in a disturbing nightmare.

"Why is it that the mass transit systems of American cities are, by and large, inadequate? It's a common question and one that has generated substantial scholarship. But Jake Berman's The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider it: a visual-and fun-journey through the past, present, and possible future of urban transit. Featuring Berman's own colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit,...

A subway tunnel haunted by ghosts? Ace reporter Geronimo Stilton is on the case! When my sister, Thea, told me a ghost was haunting New Mouse City's subway tunnels, I knew I had to get the scoop! So Thea, Trap, and I set off to investigate. We soon discovered that my rival Sally Ratmousen, the editor of The Daily Rat, was also on the trail of the mysterious ghost. But holey cheese, we were all in for the fright of our lives - because the ghost turned...

A fantasy on an underground world run by robots under the control of an immortal engineer. The world is discovered by a writer when she takes a wrong turn in the San Francisco subway and emerges in the London Underground subway.

There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. But now there's a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something. Enter PC Peter Grant junior member of the Metropolitan Police's Special Assessment unit a.k.a. The Folly a.k.a. the only police officers whose official...

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has...

A beautiful and mysterious doctor's life crosses paths with a young photographer who has become infatuated with her, and a patient that's going blind, on a New York subway

While it may seem that every possible attraction in New York City has been written about, Off the Beaten (Subway) Track is the city's first guide to focus on one hundred unique, off-the-beaten-path destinations. Some are small museums, some are historic places long forgotten, some are stores that sell only odd things, and some are distinguished for their claim to fame as the world's largest/smallest whatever. All of them are notable for the passion...