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| Author | : A. D. Thorne |
| Publisher | : DAWN ELIZABETH HAWKINS |
| Total Pages | : 78 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
It happened so quickly that Lieutenant Elvira Gomez of the Guardia Civil Special Operations Unit, thought she'd seen a ghost. The local constabulary shared that opinion. In the mist-covered mountains of Galicia, ghosts and apparitions are more common than criminals. There was nothing supernatural about this. Elvira and her team entered a shadow world of spies, double agents, and assassins in search of the truth. If you like mysteries that shine a light into a world where justice never sees a courtroom, and battles are fought in the dark. You will enjoy this. How can Elvira find that truth she seeks before she becomes a ghost herself? Read the story for yourself!
| Author | : Cassandra Peterson |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2021-09-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0306874369 |
The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price. Due to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings, and worked alongside Phil Hartman and Paul "Pee-wee" Reubens, honing her comedic skills. Nearing age 30, a struggling actress considered past her prime, she auditioned at local LA channel KHJ as hostess for the late night vintage horror movies. Cassandra improvised, made the role her own, and got the job on the spot. Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. Cassandra doesn't shy away from revealing exactly who she is and how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds. Always original and sometimes outrageous, her story is loaded with twists, travails, revelry, and downright shocking experiences. It is the candid, often funny, and sometimes heart-breaking tale of a Midwest farm girl's long strange trip to become the world's sexiest, sassiest Halloween icon. Instant New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller A New York Times Best Books to Give This Season selection
| Author | : Ann C. Hall |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2023-08-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 135037170X |
Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures. Arranged chronologically, this collection examines how ghosts represent political change in Athenian culture in three plays by Aeschylus; their function in traditional Japanese drama; the staging of the supernatural in the dramatic liturgy of the early Middle Ages; ghosts within the dramatic works of Middleton, George Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, and the technologies employed in the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the supernatural on stage. Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and 21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, and the spectral imprint of Shakespeare's ghosts in the Irish drama of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The volume closes by examining three contemporary American indigenous plays by Anishinaabe author, Alanis King.
| Author | : Mary Ann Smart |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2004-03-10 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780520939875 |
When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "the most enthusiastic mimomaniac" ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements. Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche may have seen and heard more than he realized. In Mimomania she takes his accusation as an invitation to listen to Wagner's music—and that of several of his near-contemporaries—for the way it serves to intensify the visible and the enacted. As Smart demonstrates, this productive fusion of music and movement often arises when music forsakes the autonomy so prized by the Romantics to function mimetically, underlining the sighs of a Bellini heroine, for instance, or the authoritarian footsteps of a Verdi baritone. Mimomania tracks such effects through readings of operas by Auber, Bellini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, and Wagner. Listening for gestural music, we find resemblance in unexpected places: between the overwrought scenes of supplication in French melodrama of the 1820s and a cluster of late Verdi arias that end with the soprano falling to her knees, or between the mute heroine of Auber’s La Muette de Portici and the solemn, almost theological pantomimic tableaux Wagner builds around characters such as Sieglinde or Kundry. Mimomania shows how attention to gesture suggests a new approach to the representation of gender in this repertoire, replacing aural analogies for voyeurism and objectification with a more specifically musical sense of how music can surround, propel, and animate the body on stage.
| Author | : Elvira Woodruff |
| Publisher | : Turtleback |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2001-09-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780606220767 |
Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved sea mystery.
| Author | : Matthew Lewis |
| Publisher | : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2018-08-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Lewis, Matthew Gregory is a famous British novelist and playwright. The Monk: A Romance is his most famous so called “gothic novel” that he wrote only in ten days. Ambrosio, once an exemplary Spanish monk, is passionate about his student: there is a beautiful woman Matilda under the monk robe. After his passion is satisfied he shifts his attention to an innocent Antonia. With Matilda’s help he rapes and kills the young woman. Later it is discovered that Antonia was hid sister and Matilda is Satan’s messenger whose aim was to seduce the devout hermit and lead him to the sin. In the end, he falls under inquisition, but…
| Author | : Мэтью Грегори Льюис |
| Publisher | : Litres |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2024-09-26 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 5046799596 |
"Монах" – это готический роман английского писателя Мэтью Грегори Льюиса, впервые опубликованный в 1796 году. Этот роман, известный своей мрачностью и откровенностью, стал одним из самых скандальных и влиятельных произведений готической литературы.Сюжет романа рассказывает о падении Амвросио, благочестивого монаха из Мадрида, чья добродетель постепенно разрушается под влиянием искушений. Поддавшись им, он совершает серию ужасных преступлений, включая соблазнение, инцест и убийство. В основе его падения лежат гордыня, лицемерие и злоупотребление властью.Роман исследует глубины человеческой души, показывая, как аморальность и зло могут разрушить даже самых на первый взгляд благочестивых людей. Льюис использует элементы сверхъестественного, включая дьявольские силы, призраков и проклятия, чтобы усилить атмосферу ужаса и безысходности. Центральной темой произведения является конфликт между разумом и страстями, религией и искушением."Монах" вызвал много споров из-за своей жестокости, сексуального подтекста и критики религиозного лицемерия. Несмотря на это, роман оказал значительное влияние на развитие готической литературы и вдохновил последующие поколения авторов. "Монах" остается одним из самых ярких примеров литературы, исследующей тёмные стороны человеческой природы и трагические последствия морального падения.Текст романа представлен на английском языке без перевода и адаптации.
| Author | : Matthew Gregory Lewis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1840 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Charles Dickens |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 9597 |
| Release | : 2023-12-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The Greatest Gothic Classics anthology is a masterfully curated collection that spans the depth and breadth of the gothic genre, showcasing a formidable array of literary styles from the eerie to the sublime. This compendium offers readers an unparalleled journey through the shadows of gothic literature, where the macabre meets the profoundly human. The diversity of the works included highlights not only the historical significance of the genre but also its enduring appeal. Among the spectral landscapes and haunting narratives, standouts delve into themes of duality, decay, and the supernatural, reflecting the complex interplay between societal anxieties and individual fears that gothic literature navigates so adeptly. The contributing authors, ranging from Charles Dickens to Mary Shelley, and including luminaries like Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Brontë, bring a rich tapestry of cultural and historical contexts to the collection. These authors were pivotal in shaping the gothic tradition, their collective works embodying the shifts and transformations of the genre across different periods. The anthology not only pays homage to the canon but also underscores the genres evolution, tracing its roots from Romanticism to its permeation in Victorian culture, further enriched by the diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds of its contributors. The Greatest Gothic Classics is an essential volume for anyone with a penchant for the eerie, the uncanny, and the beautifully macabre. This anthology offers a unique lens through which to explore the myriad forms gothic literature can take, from the grotesque to the ethereal, making it a compelling addition to any literary collection. Readers are invited to immerse themselves in the rich dialogue between these works, discovering the latent connections and contrasts that make the gothic genre a perennial source of fascination and scholarly interest.
| Author | : Charles Dickens |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 9597 |
| Release | : 2023-12-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Spanning the dark labyrinths of the human psyche and the shadowed corners of ancient castles, '60 Gothic Classics' is a definitive collection that explores the depths of Gothic literature through a tapestry of haunting narratives and complex characters. This anthology boasts an impressive range of styles and voices, showcasing the evolution of the genre from its nascent stages in the 18th century to its maturity in the late 19th century. The diversity of the tales, from the psychological to the supernatural, the romantic to the horrific, provides a comprehensive insight into the Gothic tradition. This collection is a monument to the genre, featuring works by masters such as Mary Shelley, whose creation 'Frankenstein' has become a cornerstone of Gothic fiction, and Edgar Allan Poe, renowned for his exquisite synthesis of horror and mystery. The backgrounds of the contributing authors are as diverse as the stories they tell. From the societal critiques of Dickens and Eliot to the psychological depths explored by James and Poe, each author's work reflects the cultural and literary shifts of their time. The Gothic genre, with its fascination with the macabre, the supernatural, and the fringes of society, serves as a canvas for these authors to explore themes of identity, morality, and human experience. This anthology aligns with significant historical and cultural movements, providing readers with a rich context for understanding the evolution of literary styles and thematic preoccupations. '60 Gothic Classics' is not merely an anthology; it is an invitation to traverse the shadowed pathways of the human condition as depicted in Gothic literature. Readers interested in the complexities of emotion, the nuances of the human psyche, and the chiaroscuro of morality and immorality will find this collection invaluable. It offers a unique opportunity to engage with the foundational texts of Gothic literature and to appreciate the interplay of different voices and perspectives that have shaped the genre. Delving into this collection promises not just entertainment but a profound educational journey through the captivating landscape of Gothic fiction.
