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| Author | : Kat Ross |
| Publisher | : Kat Ross |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2016-10-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0997236256 |
It's August 1888, just three weeks before Jack the Ripper will terrorize Whitechapel, and another murderer is stalking the streets of New York. His handiwork bears the hallmarks of a demonic possession—but amateur sleuth Harrison Fearing Pell is certain her quarry is a man of flesh and blood. And she hopes to make her reputation by solving the bizarre case before the man the press has dubbed Mr. Hyde strikes again. From the squalor of the Five Points to the high-class gambling dens of the Tenderloin and the glittering mansions of Fifth Avenue, Harry follows the trail of a remorseless killer, uncovering a few embarrassing secrets of New York's richest High Society families along the way. Are the murders a case of black magic—or simple blackmail? And will the trail lead closer to home than she ever imagined? Praise for The Daemoniac "While the clever mystery is reason enough to keep pages turning, the novel’s writing remains its greatest asset. Employing a tone that affects the style of Victorian literature and the Conan Doyle stories, but without the stiffness readers might associate with older fiction, the prose is a genuine delight. Furthermore, the characters conjure Holmes and Watson without belaboring the point or adopting a sense of smug superiority. Ross provides two endlessly charming sleuths, and Harry’s womanhood adds new depth to familiar ground. All in all, there’s an impressive amount of detail and care packed into these pages, not only in references to the Holmes canon, but also in inventive storytelling and colorful portraiture of 19th-century New York. An unexpected treat of a detective novel with a strong heroine, making Ross a name to look out for." -Kirkus Reviews "Harry and John are a most appealing pair…Frequent nods to the Sherlock Holmes canon and a blend of charm and darkness turned this first volume of a hopefully long-running series into a few hours of pure pleasure." -Buried Under Books "This mash-up of genres is amazing…Anyone who enjoys mysteries will appreciate this unique setting and intriguing setup. The characters are deep and the background is gripping." -Desert Rose Reviews "A truly gorgeous gothic mystery." -Mama Reads Blog "Greatly entertaining, fun, thrilling, at times chilling and with a light hint of romance. I have no word left to say, only 'perfect'." -Field of Bookish Dreams "Absolutely fascinating and delightful! The Daemoniac kept me guessing with a great cast of characters, wonderful atmosphere, and a mystery that I was eager to have unraveled. Definitely looking forward to the next book!" -It Starts at Midnight "The Daemoniac is a great read. Perfect for fans of the Jackaby series and of the Netflix TV show Penny Dreadful." -Book Briefs "Ross proved that the landscape of historical New York is just as magical as any fantasy setting." –Crazy for YA "An incredibly well written and developed story and one that will grab you from the very first page…This is a must read. That ending!!! Can't wait to see where the author goes with it!!" -Book Lovers Life
| Author | : Katharine Breen |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2021-05-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022677659X |
"Katharine Breen challenges our understanding of how medieval authors received philosophical paradigms from antiquity in their construction and use of personification in their writings. She shows that our modern categories for this literary device (extreme realism versus extreme rhetoric, or novelistic versus allegorical characters) would've been unrecognizable to their medieval practitioners. Through new readings of key authors and works--including Prudentius's "Psychomachia," Langland's "Piers Plowman," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," and Deguileville's "Pilgrimage of Human Life"--she finds that medieval writers accessed a richer, more fluid literary domain than modern critics have allowed. Breen identifies three different types of personification--Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian--inherited from antiquity that both gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters, while bypassing the modern confusion of conflicting relationships between personifications and persons on the path connecting divine power and human frailty. Recalling Gregory the Great's phrase "machinae mentis" (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, much the same way that, within the category of hand-tools, an open-end wrench differs in function from a hex-key wrench or a socket wrench. It will be read by medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as scholars interested in character-making and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages"--
| Author | : H.P. Lovecraft |
| Publisher | : Del Rey |
| Total Pages | : 565 |
| Release | : 2011-10-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 030780769X |
One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes: IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS--Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS--An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland. Plus, for the first time in any Del Rey edition: HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR--Mad experiments yield hideous results in this, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator. COOL AIR--An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock. THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN--The intruders seek a fortune but find only death! AND TWENTY-FOUR MORE BLOOD-CHILLING TALES
| Author | : Jean Houston |
| Publisher | : Quest Books |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2014-05-29 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 0835630633 |
All great stories can change our lives, and practically none is more transformational than Homer’s The Odyssey, which had a power so great that it launched Greek civilization and has influenced the West ever since. In this fresh approach to self-realization, human potentials leader Jean Houston provides empowering experiential exercises at every key stage of Homer’s epic to make The Odyssey our own journey. As we set sail with Odysseus, together we endure loss and suffering, the search for the divine Beloved, and the joy of finally arriving home. "Tapping the power of these archetypes," says Houston, "helps us effect healing in areas that have kept us immobilized and anguished. By raising our own tragic dimension to a mythic level, we awaken to a larger, nobler life."
| Author | : Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs |
| Publisher | : All-Round Publications |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2018-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1999438302 |
This work, in 6 volumes, is a compendium of traditional cosmologies worldwide. The material includes the global mythology of creation and destruction, but also comprises information drawn from other areas of traditional knowledge, ritual, iconography, shamanism, costume, and dance. Relying on original sources, universal points of agreement are identified, often on counter-intuitive ideas. These suggest a single template, a blueprint for a universal mythology of origins with local variations. Volume 5 documents a large number of traditions concerning unusual and often undesirable properties and activities of the sun and moon. To name just a few examples, prominent beliefs were that the moon was originally brighter than the sun and that the earth once succumbed to the heat caused by the sun's former proximity, its greater strength, its failure to move or the appearance of multiple luminaries.
| Author | : Johann Heinrich Kurtz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 1859 |
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| Author | : H.P. Lovecraft |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 75 |
| Release | : 2022-06-03 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
This is an American horror story written in the 1920s that inspired the creation of the 1985 film Re-Animator and its many sequels. The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also one of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperaments.
| Author | : H.P. Lovecraft |
| Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
| Total Pages | : 2662 |
| Release | : 2014-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1456622625 |
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." ~ H.P. Lovecraft This collection includes 160 of H.P. Lovecraft''s works. The collection is grouped by Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborative Works, Poetry and Essays. The groups are organized in chronological order by the date that each work was written. * Professional formatting, giving you full control over fonts, font sizes, and line spacing * Active table of contents accessed by the "go to" or "menu" button * Links to download full-length audiobooks included FREE! Early Writings: The Little Glass Bottle (1897) The Secret Cave (1898) The Mystery Of The Graveyard (1898) The Mysterious Ship (1902) The Beast in the Cave (1905) The Alchemist (1908) Fiction: The Tomb (1917) Dagon (1917) A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917) Sweet Ermengarde (1917) Polaris (1918) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) Memory (1919) Old Bugs (1919) The Transition of Juan Romero (1919) The White Ship (1919) The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919) The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919) The Terrible Old Man (1920) The Tree (1920) The Cats of Ulthar (1920) The Temple (1920) Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920) The Street (1920) Celepha?»s (1920) From Beyond (1920) Nyarlathotep (1920) The Picture in the House (1920) Ex Oblivione (1921) The Nameless City (1921) The Quest of Iranon (1921) The Moon-Bog (1921) The Outsider (1921) The Other Gods (1921) The Music of Erich Zann (1921) Herbert WestÑReanimator (1922) Hypnos (1922) What the Moon Brings (1922) Azathoth (1922) The Hound (1922) The Lurking Fear (1922) The Rats in the Walls (1923) The Unnamable (1923) The Festival (1923) The Shunned House (1924) The Horror at Red Hook (1925) He (1925) In the Vault (1925) The Descendant (1926) Cool Air (1926) The Call of Cthulhu (1926) Pickman''s Model (1926) The Silver Key (1926) The Strange High House in the Mist (1926) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) The Colour Out of Space (1927) The Very Old Folk (1927) The Thing in the Moonlight (1927) A History Of The Necronomicon (1927) Ibid (1928) The Dunwich Horror (1928) The Whisperer in Darkness (1930) At the Mountains of Madness (1931) Discarded Draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Dreams in the Witch House (1932) The Thing on the Doorstep (1933) The Evil Clergyman (1933) The Book (1933) The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935) The Haunter of the Dark (1935) Collaborative Works: The Green Meadow (1918) Poetry and the Gods (1920) The Crawling Chaos (1920) The Horror At Martin''s Beach (1922) Under the Pyramids (1924) Two Black Bottles (1926) The Last Test (1927) The Curse Of Yig (1928) The Electric Executioner (1929) The Mound (1929) Medusa''s Coil (1930) The Trap (1931) The Man Of Stone (1932) The Horror In The Museum (1932) Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932) Winged Death (1933) Out of the Aeons (1933) The Horror In The Burying-Ground (1933) The Hoard Of The Wizard-Beast (1933) The Slaying of the Monster (1933) The Tree On the Hill (1934) The Battle That Ended the Century (1934) Till A'' the Seas... (1935) Collapsing Cosmoses (1935) The Challenge From Beyond (1935) The Disinterment (1935) The Diary Of Alonzo Typer (1935) In the Walls of Eryx (1936) The Night Ocean (1936) Poetry: Poemata Minora, Volume II (1902) On Receiving a Picture of Swans (1915) March (1915) Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea (1915) An American to Mother England (1916) Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee (1916) The Rose of England (1916) The Poe-et''s Nightmare (1916) The Teuton''s Battle-Song Fact and Fancy (1917) Pacifist War SongÑ1917 (1917) A Garden (1917) The Peace Advocate (1917) Ode for July Fourth, 1917 (1917) Nemesis (1917) Astrophobos (1917) Sunset (1917) Laeta; a Lament (1918) Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme (1917-1918) The Conscript (1918) Despair (1919) Revelation (1919) The House (1919) The City (1919) To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1919) The Nightmare Lake (1919) On Reading Lord Dunsany''s Book of Wonder (1920) Christmas (1920) Sir Thomas Tryout (1921) Waste Paper (1922) Providence (1924) The Cats (1925) Festival (1925) Hallowe''en in a Suburb (1925) The Wood (1929) The Outpost (1929) The Ancient Track (1929) The Messenger (1929) Fungi from Yuggoth (1929-1930) Little Sam Perkins (1934) Dead Passion''s Flame (1935) Arcadia (1935) In a Sequester''d Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk''d (1936) To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures (1936) Life''s Mystery (No date) Nathicana (No date) Christmas Greetings (No date) Essays: Metrical Regularity (1915) The Allowable Rhyme (1915) At the Root (1918) The Despised Pastoral (1918) The Literature of Rome (1918) Americanism (1919) Literary Composition (1920) Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess (1921) Supernatural Horror In Literature (1925-1927) Cats And Dogs (1926) Notes On Writing Weird Fiction (1933) Audiobook Links: Links to download 60 free, full-length audiobooks for H.P. Lovecraft''s works can be found at the end of the book.
| Author | : Leigh Grossman |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 7287 |
| Release | : 2011-12-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1434440354 |
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
| Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
| Publisher | : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 3047 |
| Release | : 2020-01-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Tales of Suspense and Horror (illustrated): 50+ Weird and Terrifying Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, E. F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Shelley, Robert W. Chambers, William Hope Hodgson, Nikolai Gogol. If modern books on the paranormal seem dull to you, the horrors predictable, and suspense stories worthy of a casual yawn, then it is time to return to the classic origins of horror and thrill genres. Enter, dear reader, into the pages which birthed those vampires, zombies, werewolves, ghosts, demons and other evils which now inhabit our modern fantasy and mystical works. Be assured that the plots of these classical suspense stories, while crackling with XIX and XX century atmosphere, are no less sophisticated or fantastical than today’s premier writers of the genre. You may even discover the inspiration for stories written by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Dean Kuntz, and others. EDGAR ALLAN POE THE GOLD-BUG THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM THE TELL-TALE HEART THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE THE BLACK CAT THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR HOP-FROG H.P. LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU DAGON THE TOMB THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE THE CATS OF ULTHAR THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN THE OUTSIDER THE TEMPLE THE FESTIVAL THE SILVER KEY THE OTHER GODS THE RATS IN THE WALLS THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO THE DUNWICH HORROR THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH FROM BEYOND THE HORROR AT RED HOOK THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY THE NAMELESS CITY PICKMAN’S MODEL THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE HERBERT WEST-REANIMATOR THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER THE LURKING FEAR THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST COOL AIR UNDER THE PYRAMIDS IN THE VAULT THE HOUND THE SHUNNED HOUSE THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP THE UNNAMABLE THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME THE WILLOWS by Algernon Blackwood THE GREAT GOD PAN by Arthur Machen THE JUDGE'S HOUSE by Bram Stoker CARMILLA by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS by Mary W. Shelley THE KING IN YELLOW by Robert W. Chambers THE GHOST PIRATES by William Hope Hodgson THE VIY By Nikolay Gogol
