The Raven (Illustrated)

The Raven (Illustrated)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Top Five Books LLC
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1938938097

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven includes: • All 25 illustrations by Gustave Doré for Harper & Brothers’ 1884 edition • An informative Introduction • A detailed Biography of Edgar Allan Poe • The illustrated version and text-only version of the full poem No poem has ever received the kind of immediate and overwhelming response that Poe’s “The Raven” did when it first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. It made Poe an overnight sensation (though his great fame never brought him much wealth) and the poem, a powerfully haunting elegy to lost love, remains one of the most beloved and recognizable verses in the English language. The illustrations that accompany this Top Five Classics edition are reproductions of the renowned French artist Gustave Doré’s steel-plate engravings created for Harper & Brothers’ 1884 release of The Raven. It would be Doré’s last commission as he died shortly after completing the 25 illustrations in January 1883. His illustrations would become famous in their own right, evoking as they do the lyrical and mystical air of Poe’s masterpiece.

Night's Plutonian Shore

Night's Plutonian Shore
Author: Garrett Boatman
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2023-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Researching sustainable energy, Rick’s best friend Wally has discovered a means to tap into the bioplasmic energy field that surrounds all living things. He envisions trains and office towers running off collective psi. But when he invites his friends to test his psychotronic generator, they unleash demons residing in the human old brain, the seat of aggression and primal drives. As the body count rises, it becomes clear, for these creatures of the id to survive, their creators must die. Pursued by police and hunted by their doubles, the choice is simple: kill or be killed. Even if the face of the enemy is your own. *** “The Dark Half meets From Beyond in this tale that will scratch your old-school horror itch the only way Boatman knows how—ferocious, fast-paced, and fun.” — Asher Ellis, author of Curse of the Pigman and The Remedy “Bone-chilling, brimming with tension, raw emotion, and vivid imagery, Boatman’s Night’s Plutonian Shore is a haunting read from beginning to end. A coming-of-age tale like no other, one that I could not put down, and did not want to end.” — Candace Nola, author of Bishop. “Grappling with mortality while shivving your duplicate self—NIGHT’S PLUTONIAN SHORE is complex, riveting, and horror of a sort that brings the hard bite back to any discerning fan of the genre.” — Eric J. Guignard, multiple award-winning author and editor, including That Which Grows Wild and Doorways to the Deadeye “A raw, mind-bending creepshow that reads, every now and then, like Jim Thompson’s gone punk. Night’s Plutonian Shore gets under your skin, makes it crawl—in the best possible way. A weird, wild ride.” — Andy Davidson, author of The Boatman’s Daughter and The Hollow Kind “…brutal and heartbreaking, this is dark horror with sci-fi elements that create a gloomy atmosphere with spine-tingling, evil doppelgängers causing devastation and fear. Edgy and tense!” — Karla’s Literary Korner “Boatman's writing bruises with brutality and humanity. Gritty, breakneck, and terrifyingly dark.” —Lee Murray, four-time Bram Stoker Award winner and author of Grotesque: Monster Stories

Lenore

Lenore
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1885
Genre:
ISBN:

Floaters

Floaters
Author: Garrett Boatman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2021-09-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737721826

London 1890s. Out of the Thames' fetid depths the undead rise to feast upon the living. While floaters seek blood, another army takes advantage of the chaos. Boiling out of their rookeries of crime, marauders swarm through London's affluent neighborhoods looting and burning. While the beleaguered police and the Queen's army battle twin plagues-human and inhuman-London's criminal youth gangs join forces to save their city. Will Tagget, leader of the Lambeth Lads, together with his enemies Bill Drummond of the Drury Lane Gang, bull-necked George Fish of the Elephant and Castle Gang, shillelagh-wielding Dirk Bogart of the New Cut Gang, Quincy Bird of City Road, along with their female counterparts-Lambeth Kate, Queen Jane, New Cut Beth, Razor Lil and Dirty Deidre-set out on an adventure the telling of which might earn a man a lifetime of free drinks. If he lives to tell it. Will these violent youths be able to put aside their rivalries long enough to get the job done?

Stage Fright (Paperbacks from Hell)

Stage Fright (Paperbacks from Hell)
Author: Garrett Boatman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948405652

Out of the darkness of the fetid Hudson River, the undead rose to eat their victims alive.... Horror-movie monsters burst from late-night TV screens -- to turn their viewers into victims. Biker gangs of decomposing corpses rode the highways of America, on the hunt for unsuspecting motorists.... Take a front seat in the baddest nightmare in town. Superstar Izzy Stark has the power to make your dreams -- and nightmares -- come true. He's the master of disaster, the guru of gore, the doctor of doom, the duke of death and destruction -- and you can't escape this command performance. This first-ever reprint of Garrett Boatman's rare '80s paperback horror gem Stage Fright (1988) features a new introduction by Will Errickson and the original cover art.

The Book of Raven

The Book of Raven
Author: Angus Hyland
Publisher: Laurence King
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Animals in art
ISBN: 9781786277015

Corvids play an outsize role in the human imagination. We keep ravens in towers, emblazon rooks on banners, find crows in the constellations and make sure to salute solitary magpies. We also see our own behaviour mirrored in this diverse family of birds, who are tricksters and thieves as well as problem-solvers and gift-givers. This beautifully designed book showcases the visual and literary life of the corvid, from Norse legends to Game of Thrones. It includes beautiful and darkly seductive photographs and paintings as well as texts and poems in which they play a starring role and information about the traits that make them so intriguing to us.

Quantum Shadows

Quantum Shadows
Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250229219

Bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, L. E. Modesitt, Jr's Quantum Shadows blends science fiction, myth, and legend in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world. On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon. That Hegemon may be a god, or a prophet of a god. Smaller religions have their own towns or villages of belief. Corvyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity’s Falls from Grace. With this knowledge comes enormous power. When unknown power burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly have that much power. The stakes are nothing less than another Fall, and if he doesn't stop it, mankind will not rise from the ashes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.