Tears Fall on Dark Memories

Tears Fall on Dark Memories
Author: Ryan Nicholas Belcher
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2003-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1410752542

Tears Fall on Dark Memories is a psychological thriller about a crazed serial killer with a motive that is more ambitious and sinister than Bundy, Manson, and Dahmer combined. This suspenseful thriller will keep you engaged with every page. Each chapter brings you closer and closer to finding out the killer's motive, only to add depth and complexity to an ever growing, ever bewildering story line. Fiction in its purest sense will transport the reader into another world; this book is no exception. The people of Tolmor City are being annihilated one by one. Detective Jonathan Burton stands alone as the sole person who can stop the fiendish murderer. Seeing from the detective's and killer's point of view is what makes this book like no other in terms of complexity and originality. This book unfolds into a blooming staircase of structure from a spiraling chaotic nothingness. Pieces of strategically placed clues create a map of this novel's underlying meaning. Tears Fall on Dark Memories transports us into a realm of bewildering chaos. It describes the killings, investigations, and victims, i.e. from all perspectives. It stimulates the crevices of our predatory impulses, making us aware of our own primitive selves. Tears Fall on Dark Memories is infused with philosophical underpinnings that give it a feel of movies such as, Seven, The Silence of the Lambs, and Kiss the Girls. The book is illustrated profusely by the author, which adds depth and visual understanding to this complex, yet highly entertaining story.

The Memory Collectors

The Memory Collectors
Author: Kim Neville
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982157593

Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives. Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and—if at all possible—destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls. When the two women meet, Harriet knows that Ev is the only person who can help her make something truly spectacular of her collection. A museum of memory that not only feels warm and inviting but can heal the emotional wounds many people unknowingly carry around. They only know of one other person like them, and they fear the dark effects these objects had on him. Together, they help each other to develop and control their gift, so that what happened to him never happens again. But unbeknownst to them, the same darkness is wrapping itself around another, dragging them down a path that already destroyed Ev’s family once, and threatens to annihilate what little she has left. The Memory Collectors casts the everyday in a new light, speaking volumes to the hold that our past has over us—contained, at times, in seemingly innocuous objects—and uncovering a truth that both women have tried hard to bury with their pasts: not all magpies collect shiny things—sometimes they gather darkness.

Tales from the Haunted South

Tales from the Haunted South
Author: Tiya Miles
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469626349

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.

Memories

Memories
Author: Teffi
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 159017951X

WINNER OF THE 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE AND THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BEST BOOK IN TRANSLATION IN 2017 Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced. In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was foreseeable when she arrived in German-occupied Kiev to discover a hotbed of artistic energy and experimentation. When Kiev fell several months later to Ukrainian nationalists, Teffi fled south to Odessa, then on to the port of Novorossiysk, from which she embarked at last for Constantinople. Danger and death threaten throughout Memories, even as the book displays the brilliant style, keen eye, comic gift, and deep feeling that have made Teffi one of the most beloved of twentieth-century Russian writers.

The Art of Making Memories

The Art of Making Memories
Author: Meik Wiking
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0062943391

What’s the actual secret to happiness? Great memories! Meik Wiking—happiness researcher and New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge and The Little Book of Lykke—shows us how to create memories that make life sweet in this charming book. Do you remember your first kiss? The day you graduated? Your favorite vacation? Or the best meal you ever had? Memories are the cornerstones of our identity, shaping who we are, how we act, and how we feel. In his work as a happiness researcher, Meik Wiking has learned that people are happier if they hold a positive, nostalgic view of the past. But how do we make and keep the memories that bring us lasting joy? The Art of Making Memories examines how mental images are made, stored, and recalled in our brains, as well as the “art of letting go”—why we tend to forget certain moments to make room for deeper, more meaningful ones. Meik uses data, interviews, global surveys, and real-life experiments to explain the nuances of nostalgia and the different ways we form memories around our experiences and recall them—revealing the power that a “first time” has on our recollections, and why a piece of music, a smell, or a taste can unexpectedly conjure a moment from the past. Ultimately, Meik shows how we each can create warm memories that will stay with us for years. Combining his signature charm with Scandinavian forthrightness, filled with infographics, illustrations, and photographs, and featuring “Happy Memory Tips,” The Art of Making Memories is an inspiration meditation and practical handbook filled with ideas to help us make the memories that will bring us joy throughout our lives.

My Scrapbook Memories of Dark Shadows

My Scrapbook Memories of Dark Shadows
Author: Kathryn Leigh Scott
Publisher: Pomegrante Press (CA)
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780938817048

The author shares behind-the-scenes anecdotes about her experiences acting in the television series about vampires, and includes photos from the show

Dark Memories Submerged

Dark Memories Submerged
Author: I T Lucas
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-08-28
Genre:
ISBN:

Geraldine's memories are spotty at best, and many of them are pure fiction. While her family attempts to solve the puzzle with far too many pieces missing, she's forced to confront a past life that she can't remember, a present that's more fantastic than her wildest made-up stories, and a future that might be better than her most heartfelt fantasies. But as more clues are uncovered, the picture starting to emerge is beyond anything she or her family could have ever imagined.

The Witcher Volume 5: Fading Memories

The Witcher Volume 5: Fading Memories
Author: Bartosz Sztybor
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 150671658X

Based on the hit games by CD Projekt Red! The Witcher is now a Netflix Original Series! As Geralt explores new career possibilities, he receives a request from the mayoress of Towitz--a small town where children are being kidnapped by Foglets. Upon accepting the work, Geralt's thrust into the mysterious past of a mourning mother and her now abducted son. Caught between the townsfolks' recollections of the kidnapping and a slew of disturbing visions, Geralt must face the approaching danger with his own intuition. Created in close collaboration with the studio behind the games! Collects issues #1-#4 of the Dark Horse Comics series The Witcher: Fading Memories.

The House of Memories

The House of Memories
Author: Benjamin Hulme-Cross
Publisher: Darby Creek ™
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1467789933

Mr. Blood leaves Mary and Edgar alone in a strange, dark house. The old woman who lives there knows all about them. But what does she want from them?

Dark Memories Emerge

Dark Memories Emerge
Author: I T Lucas
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2021-10-03
Genre:
ISBN:

The more clues emerge about Geraldine's past, the more questions arise. Did she have a twin sister who drowned? Who is the mysterious benefactor in her hazy recollections? Did he have anything to do with her becoming immortal? Thankfully, she doesn't have to find the answers alone. Cassandra and Onegus are there for her, and so is Shai, the immortal who sets her body on fire. As they work together to solve the mystery, the four of them stumble upon a millennia-old secret that could tip the balance of power between the clan and its enemies.