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| Author | : Robert Irwin |
| Publisher | : Dedalus Original Fiction In Paperback |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Authors |
| ISBN | : 9781912868537 |
The Runes Have Been Cast is a black comedy of darkest hue about academic and literary life set in Oxford and St Andrews in the early 60s. A tin of alphabet spaghetti brought about Lancelyn's first encounter with the apparently supernatural. Unfortunately it was not to be his last. Runes, ghosts and spaghetti apart, there is much for Lancelyn to be afraid of: the future, women, Critical Theory, sex romps, The Times' crossword puzzle, succubi and creative writing classes. The pages of The Runes Have Been Cast are haunted by M.R. James, Thomas de Quincey, Mr. Raven, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Iron Foot Jack, J.R.R. Tolkien and an anonymous tramp. I do not think that I can have read a novel which makes so many references to actual works that I have never heard off. With a fairly complex plot, ghosts popping in and out, strange but colourful academics, much mirth and mockery, two young men too full of themselves, a rampaging sex goddess, lots of interesting books and authors, intertextuality galore, the idea of God as a novelist, immersive literature and Tolkien and his bloody elves, this book is a thoroughly enjoyable read. -John Alvey in The Modern Novel
| Author | : Montague Rhodes James |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780195151176 |
This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. James--a first-classwriter of supernatural fiction--represents his best work, including "CountMagnus," "The Rose Garden," "The Uncommon Prayer-book," "Rats," "The Malice ofInanimate Objects," and "A Vignette," as well as the title story.
| Author | : Montague Rhodes James |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781840225518 |
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M.R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses, remote inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures seeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb. This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story. Darryl Jones's introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James's background and his mastery of the genre he made his own. --! From publisher's description.
| Author | : Lisa Peschel |
| Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780875425931 |
This guidebook will help you discover the oracular nature of the runes and how to use them as a magickal tool for insight, protection, and luck.
| Author | : Michelle Sagara |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2013-08-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1460318129 |
THE END OF HER JOURNEY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING… The Barrani would be happy to see her die. So Kaylin Neya is a bit surprised by her safe arrival in the West March. Especially when enemies new and old surround her and those she would call friends are equally dangerous… And then the real trouble starts. Kaylin's assignment is to be a "harmoniste"—one who helps tell the truth behind a Barrani Recitation. But in a land where words are more effective than weapons, Kaylin's duties are deadly. With the wrong phrase she could tear a people further asunder. And with the right ones…well, then she might be able to heal a blight on a race. If only she understood the story….
| Author | : Paul Rhys Mountfort |
| Publisher | : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2003-05-05 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9780892810932 |
Reveals the ancient oracle based on the runic Elder Futhark alphabet of the Norse.
| Author | : P. M. H. Atwater |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Divination |
| ISBN | : 9780380782925 |
This comprehensive guide to the casting and divination of rune stones includes a unique set of ancient Nordic runes which invites readers to explore the profound power of their own feminine inner wisdom and intuition. The book clearly explains how to create and care for one's own set of runes, as well as how to cast, read, and interpret the stones.
| Author | : Diana L. Paxson |
| Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2021-12 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1578637295 |
An accessible, in-depth exploration of the runes as a living spiritual tradition. Diana Paxson has distilled her many years of experience working with the runes into this essential source book. Readers will learn the historical meaning of each individual rune and its use and meaning now, in contemporary culture. But, Paxson reveals, the real power of the runes comes from internalizing them and using their symbols as sources of wisdom and power. At the end of each chapter are rituals and spells for all levels of ability that aim to help internalize the attributions, meanings, symbolism, and use of the runes. Everything regarding runes is covered in this definitive workbook, from the history of runes and how to make your own rune sets, to how to work with them on a psychic, spiritual, and magical level.
| Author | : Robert Irwin |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2017-11-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1628728647 |
An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of Thrones. Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, Wonders Will Never Cease relates the fabulous adventures of one man and his noble family amid the chaos and political intrigue that beset England during the War of the Roses, when two great houses battled for control of the throne. Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales and brother to the future queen, Elizabeth Woodville, seems to die during that battle and be resurrected. While dead, he witnesses the Grail ceremony last seen during the age of King Arthur, before England was cursed by war and Hell so filled with bodies that the dead now walk the land. What he wakes to and witnesses for the rest of his life as he defends his king is a ceaseless stream of wonders: a family rumored to be descended from the fairy Melusine and imbued with her dragon’s blood, a talking head that predicts the future, a miraculous cauldron, a museum of skulls, alchemists and wizards, the Swordsman’s Pentacle, and plenty of battles, sieges, swordplay, jousts, treachery, murder, beheadings, and horrific torture. And all the while, stories—some so porous that their characters enter history and threaten their maker.
| Author | : Joanne Harris |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
| ISBN | : 0552778982 |
Seven oâe(tm)clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again. Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. In a world ruled by the harsh and puritanical Order, she is shunned for the strange birthmark on her left hand. For this is no ordinary birthmark âe" it is a runemark, a sign of the old gods. In fact, Maddy can do things that no-one else can, things that could be called magic. But not until she meets the old traveller One-Eye, an outsider like herself, does she learn what power she really has, and what she will be asked to do with it. In Runemarks, Joanne Harris creates a world not unlike our own - if it had been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans - and colours it with her familiar blend of rich imagery and gritty realism. A disenchanted world, where the gods died long ago. Can Maddy bring them back to life?
