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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, FBI Agent Pendergast
reluctantly teams up with a new partner to investigate a rash of
Miami Beach murders . . . only to uncover a deadly conspiracy that
spans decades. After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New
York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept
an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously
rogue agent must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new
colleague, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to investigate a
rash of killings in Miami Beach, where a bloodthirsty psychopath is
cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them with cryptic
handwritten letters at local gravestones. The graves are
unconnected save in one bizarre way: all belong to women who
committed suicide. But the seeming lack of connection between the
old suicides and the new murders is soon the least of Pendergast's
worries. Because as he digs deeper, he realizes the brutal new
crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death
that reaches back decades.
Life's a bitch, then you die . . . if you're lucky.
James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took
revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and saved the world along the
way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job
tracking down monsters for money. It's a depressing gig, but it
pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always
get worse.
Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography
and drafts Stark as his bodyguard among the human and inhuman
sharks of L.A.'s underground elite. That's before the murders
start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn't quite
what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming
back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change the
world forever.
All things considered, Hell's not looking so bad.
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Blade of the Immortal Deluxe Volume 2
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Hiroaki Samura; Illustrated by Hiroaki Samura; Translated by Dana Lewis; Illustrated by Toren Smith; Adapted by Tomoko Saito
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American Women's Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to
redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the
various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most
claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers
were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially
compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The
regionalist Gothic develops along the line of difference and not
unity-thus emphasizing regional peculiarities or a sense of
superiority in terms of regional history, natural landscapes,
immigrant customs, folk tales, or idiosyncratic ways. The essays
study the uncanny or the haunting quality of "the commonplace," as
Hawthorne would have it in his introduction to The House of the
Seven Gables, in regionalist Gothic fiction by a wide range of
women writers between ca. 1850 and 1930. This collection seeks to
examine how/if the regionalist perspective is small, limited, and
stultifying and leads to Gothic moments, or whether the
intersection between local and national leads to a clash that is
jarring and Gothic in nature.
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Written in 1928, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu defined the
ancient gods as dark creatures who came from the stars and ruled
the world before mankind. When these ancient ones awaken, humanity
is plagued by a nightmare of terrors etched upon an epic backdrop.
The author's concept deeply redefined the horror story with this
thrilling, dense mystery that spawned a virtual genre. The artist
Gary Gianni and designer Marcelo Anciano both felt that Lovecraft's
short story presented an opportunity to visually expand the Cthulhu
Mythos and push the boundaries of illustrated books. Intense and
fast-paced, the tale enabled them to explore graphic storytelling
and illustrate the text in a unique way. It was a personal project
for Gianni, who drew upon his decades of experience in illustrating
numerous books and graphic novels. The Call of Cthulhu, as
illustrated by Gary Gianni, is a fusion of cinematic design, the
graphic novel and illustrated books. Over a hundred finished pencil
drawings with color pieces enhance and bring to life the work of
two visionaries-Lovecraft and Gianni-in an extraordinary feat of
storytelling and art.
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Gantz Omnibus Volume 10
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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the
Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than
reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a
gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create
new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle.
Nevertheless, Walpole's house produced nightmares and his book The
Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with
supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging
the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel's themes of
violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements,
dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new
genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst
opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female
writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe,
whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes
of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis's The Monk created a new
gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The
social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the
Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic
self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human
experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life,
hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability,
perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The
intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles
and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult
and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in
social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on
the Gothic-combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current
research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers
alike.
Between horror and fantasy lies a world in which the inexplicable
remains unsolved and the rational mind is assailed by impossible
questions. Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, where safe answers
are beyond reach and accounts of unanswerable dilemma find their
home. Delving deep into the sub-genre, fiction expert Mike Ashley
has gathered an unsettling mixture of twisted tales, encounters
with logic-defying creatures and nightmarish fables certain to
perplex, beguile and of course, entertain.
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Carol Birch; Narrated by Jennifer Ness
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'A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke
the deepest emotion' GUARDIAN Did you hear? Big landslip over by
Ercol. Last night. The road into Gully's closed off. They found a
body. Got police tape. All that stuff. They only do that for
murder, don't they? Murder! A body has been uncovered in a mudslide
just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of
murder, but Dan - sometime mechanic, constant drunk - is finding it
hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Watching him from the
dark is Lorna, a lost soul living in the woods, haunted by ghosts
and a vision from her childhood: a cold boy standing alone in
Gallinger's field. Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological
insight, this brilliant, timely novel about loneliness, buried
secrets and the havoc they play on the mind, cements Carol Birch as
one of our most important literary writers.
A pregnant woman is pursued by a supernatural creature. On the
internet, videos of a bandaged hero surface. 15-year-old Tim Muley
makes a terrible discovery in his neighbor's garden. Three
seemingly unrelated events, all of which seem to point to an
imminent zombie apocalypse! But this time the story's not about the
end of mankind; it's about a new beginning... This is volume 2 of
the series.
A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature,
art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures.
This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through
stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual
representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history
of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired
individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present.
Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian
narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red
hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as Anne of
Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking, contemporary and Neo-Victorian
representations of redheads from the Black Widow to The Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic
significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in
mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.
Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into
when he and his wife Barbara move into the Chelsea Hotel with their
dog Banfield. The room he's staying in might be the very room where
his old friend Sid stabbed Nancy.Dee Dee spends most of his time
trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can
magically communicate. Meanwhile, he can't stand his neighbours and
though he shies away from violence, he wishes everyone were six
feet under. Dee Dee gets involved with the transvestite lover of
one of his gay fellow addicts. When Barbara finds out, things get
out of hand. All the while Dee Dee is tormented by the living and
dead demons that plague the hotel, along with the ghosts of his old
dead punk rock friends Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunders, and Stiv
Bators. And that's when the Devil himself decides to join the
party...
This volume is a study of human entanglements with Nature as seen
through the mode of haunting. As an interruption of the present by
the past, haunting can express contemporary anxieties concerning
our involvement in the transformation of natural environments and
their ecosystems, and our complicity in their collapse. It can also
express a much-needed sense of continuity and relationality. The
complexity of the question-who and what gets to be called human
with respect to the nonhuman-is reflected in these collected
chapters, which, in their analysis of cinematic and literary
representations of sentient Nature within the traditional gothic
trope of haunting, bring together history, race, postcolonialism,
and feminism with ecocriticism and media studies. Given the growing
demand for narratives expressing our troubled relationship with
Nature, it is imperative to analyze this contested ground. "Chapter
6" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (1799) is a novel by
American author Charles Brockden Brown. Combining the suspenseful
style of Gothic fiction with such thematic interests as
consciousness, morality, and truth, Brown's novel shows the
profound influence of European literature on his aesthetic while
grounding the narrative in a distinctly American setting. Following
the murder of his friend Waldegrave, the young Edgar Huntly devotes
himself to uncovering the mystery of his death. While walking at
night near the scene of the crime, Huntly sees a servant from a
nearby farm named Clithero digging in the ground beneath a willow.
Initially horrified at the man's strange behavior and disheveled
appearance, Huntly soon becomes suspicious and decides to question
Clithero. After realizing that the man is a sleepwalker, he
confronts Clithero, who denies murdering Waldegrave but admits his
guilt in murdering a man in his native Ireland. Disappointed but
eager as ever to find his friend's killer, Edgar continues his
search. When he wakes up in a dark cave, completely disoriented and
on the brink of starvation, Edgar must fend off the merciless local
wildlife and escape captivity by the Lenni Lenape tribe in order to
survive. Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a
Sleepwalker is a harrowing work of mystery, horror, revenge, and
survival which not only serves as a fine example of Gothic fiction,
but as a detailed psychological portrait of settler colonial life.
This early masterpiece of American literature, among Brown's other
works, would inspire the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein, and countless other authors whose works
employ elements of mystery, suspense, and horror. Brown's novel is
perfect for readers looking for a terrifying tale with
philosophical and psychological depth, as well as for those
interested in the early days of American fiction. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs
of a Sleepwalker is a classic of American literature reimagined for
modern readers.
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the
roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice
for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near
St. Ives, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed
the crime. Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and
Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich
folklore and traditions of the region in a journey through mines,
local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the
railway and tourism. With stories by Gothic luminaries such as Bram
Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe, this new collection also features
chilling yarns of the haunted peninsula from a host of
underappreciated writers from the past two centuries.
Do figures of fear really bring bad luck? Or are they simply
stories? Only you can figure out how fearful you are ... From the
beginning of history, men and women have been haunted by figures of
fear - and now, in his latest short story collection, award-winning
horror writer Graham Masterton reveals the figures that haunt his
own imagination and keep him awake at night. Figures of Fear
presents eight stories, introducing eight new evils, guaranteed to
unsettle and disturb. Meet the little girl whose mother is keeping
something important from her, with fearful results . . . Tremble at
the artist who can see the future and prevent it, at a price . . .
Beware of the dark, and the evil that lurks within it . . .
Tremble, and hide, at the sound of the jingle-bells . . .
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After finding a kindred spirit in the Godmother, Miko's made just a
tiny bit of progress in figuring out what the heck is going on with
her eyesight. But a bunch of mysteries still remain-like who those
freaky shrine maidens are and who that shady dude in the top hat
is...As if that weren't enough, Hana's come down with a sickness
that (may) have been caused by ghost possession!
Dublin-born Bram Stoker lived in London, meeting other notable
authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Apart from the
ground-breaking Dracula Stoker wrote supernatural horror short
stories, many of which, including 'The Judge's House' and
'Dracula's Guest', are featured here with extracts from his longer
works.
Sixteen stories inspired by the 20th century's great master of
horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and his acknowledged masterpiece, 'At the
Mountains of Madness', in which an expedition to the desolation of
Antarctica discovers evidence of an ancient ruin built by horrific
creatures at first thought long-dead, until death strikes the
group. All but two of the stories are original to this edition, and
those reprints are long-lost works by science fiction masters
Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Silverberg.
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