Blood Ritual

Blood Ritual
Author: Sarah Rayne
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448300665

Welcome to the chilling, hair-raising world of Sarah Rayne, the master of British contemporary gothic horror with this standalone modern horror novel – perfect for fans of eerie and skin-crawling reads with supernatural elements! “Rayne spins eerie yarns within yarns like a latter-day Isak Dinesen or Wilkie Collins” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Equal parts Daphne du Maurier, Josephine Tey and Ruth Rendell . . . Rayne possesses superb story-telling skills” US MYSTERY GUILD “Highly enjoyable mainstream horror fare from a genre veteran” BOOKLIST “Rayne writes with panache and imagination” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Rayne is a fine writer, a sure-handed plotter and skillful character builder” BOOKLIST “Colorful characters and a mastery of slow-burning suspense” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Rayne perfects the craft of deftly chosen details, simmering suspense and chilling surprises” KIRKUS REVIEWS _______________________ A young woman is drawn back to her roots – and her terrifying heritage as a descendant of the notorious Blood Countess, Elizabeth Báthory – in this spellbinding vampire novel, as vicious as the Dracula myth. The descendants of Elizabeth Báthory, a bloodthirsty Hungarian countess who terrorized the Carpathian countryside in the 16th century and murdered hundreds of women, are determined that her line shall not die. Only Catherine, a paternal descendant, has tried to escape the horrible legacy that she has grown up fearing and detesting. Eventually, Catherine enters a convent, hoping to find the peace she has long desired. But when she meets journalist Michael Devlin, she is drawn back to the ancient castle in the Carpathian Mountains. For Michael, who is haunted by the last thing he saw before losing his sight, is determined to discover the truth about the line of the infamous Elizabeth Báthory – the lady that history named the Blood Countess. Fans of BRAM STOKER’s Dracula, ANNE RICE’s Interview with the Vampire and SHERIDAN LE FANU’s Carmilla will want to dive into the dark and creepy world of Sarah Rayne’s Blood Ritual. READERS ARE HOOKED ON BLOOD RITUAL: “A superior example of the vampire genre . . . A pleasure from start to finish” Time Out “King and Koontz have nothing on this writer – She is AWESOME!” L.C. Russell, 5* Amazon review “Sarah Rayne is a great storyteller” P. Wilber, 5* Amazon review MORE STUNNING SARAH RAYNE HORROR STANDALONES: 1. The Devil's Piper 2. The Burning Altar 3. Thorn 4. Changeling 5. Wildwood

Blood Colony

Blood Colony
Author: Tananarive Due
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416579257

*From the author of The Reformatory—A New York Times Notable Book of 2023* Acclaimed for her novels ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, award-winning author Tananarive Due imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals—a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years—facing one of the most challenging issues of our time: a devastating pandemic. In this sequel to her Essence bestsellers, The Living Blood and My Soul to Keep, fan-favorite Tananarive Due introduces readers to a new drug: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, Glow gets its power from the blood of immortals, and it’s up to the Blood Colony, a small but powerful group of immortals, to keep the supplies coming so that AIDS and other diseases will be wiped out. Meet Fana Wolde, seventeen years old, the only immortal born with the Living Blood. She can read minds and her injuries heal immediately. When her best friend, a mortal, is imprisoned by Fana’s family, Fana helps her escape and together they run away from Fana’s protected home in Washington State to join the Underground Railroad of Glow peddlers. But Fana has more than her parents to worry about: Glow peddlers are being murdered by a violent, hundred-year-old sect with ties to the Vatican. Now, when Fana is most vulnerable, she is being hunted to fulfill an ancient blood prophecy that could lead to countless deaths. While her people search for Fana and race to unravel the unknown sect’s mysterious origins, Fana must learn to confront the deadly forces—or she and everyone she loves will die.

The Living Blood

The Living Blood
Author: Tananarive Due
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439121923

*From the author of The Reformatory—A New York Times Notable Book of 2023* The bestselling author of Joplin's Ghost delivers a riveting novel of supernatural suspense—a gripping tale that showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities. “Due has become a modern-day Octavia Butler, a talented storyteller who stands tall among her horror cohorts Anne Rice and Stephen King.” —The Boston Globe Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has somehow survived the worst that any mother or wife could ever endure: the deaths of her husband and first daughter. But now, four years later, not only is the nightmare continuing— it may have only just begun. Jessica has discovered the terrifying truth behind the legacy that her husband left to their second daughter, Fana...a legacy preordained a thousand years before her time and drenched in the powerful lifeblood that now courses through her veins. As young Fana begins to display unearthly abilities that are quickly spiraling out of control, she becomes the target of those who will stop at nothing to exploit her power—and the unwitting touchstone in an ancient supernatural battle whose outcome may decide the fate of all humanity.

Lamb of the Free

Lamb of the Free
Author: Andrew Remington Rillera
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2024-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666703044

Lamb of the Free analyzes the different sacrificial imagery applied to Jesus in the NT in light of the facts that (a) there is no such thing as substitutionary death sacrifice in the Torah—neither death nor suffering nor punishment of the animal has any place in the sacrificial system—and (b) there are both atoning and non-atoning sacrifices. Surprisingly, the earliest and most common sacrifices associated with Jesus’s death are the non-atoning ones. Nevertheless, when considering the whole NT, Jesus is said to accomplish all the benefits of the entire Levitical system, from both atoning and non-atoning sacrifices and purification. Moreover, all sacrificial interpretations of Jesus’s death in the NT operate within the paradigm of participation, which is antithetical to notions of substitution. The sacrificial imagery in the NT is aimed at grounding the exhortation for the audience to be conformed to the cruciform image of Jesus by sharing in his death. The consistent message throughout the entire NT is not that Jesus died instead of us, rather, Jesus dies ahead of us so that we can unite with him and be conformed to the image of his death.

Daemon Blood

Daemon Blood
Author: Mary Maddox
Publisher: Cantraip Press, Ltd.
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942737262

Our war will not unfold in your imaginary heaven. We will fight on Earth with human beings as pawns and weapons. Lu Darlington is a seer, bound to the daemon Talion through ritual and blood. It’s not a role she enjoys, but she has little choice: daemons take what they want and destroy whoever stands in their way. So Lu’s surprised when Talion doesn’t punish her for her newfound ability to keep him from possessing her whenever he likes. In fact he’s pleased. The stronger she is, he explains, the more powerful he becomes. And he needs that power, because a war is brewing in the daemon world, a war that will be fought by—and through—humans. Lu’s friend Lisa Duncan can’t see daemons but she’s seen what they can do and so has stayed far away from Lu for years. But after a bizarre attack on Lisa leaves a man dead and she learns it’s only the first skirmish in the daemon war, Lisa realizes the safest place to be is with Lu. Then Talion sends Lu away to teach her skills to another seer and Lisa must stay behind to look after Lu’s son Solly, conceived through a daemon ceremony with Talion. At four years old Solly’s seer abilities are already so strong Lisa is sometimes more afraid of Solly than for him. As Talion’s enemies grow bolder, Lisa and Lu face attacks from every direction. There seems little hope any of them will survive—until Talion and his allies devise a plan. The only problem is how much it will cost.

Understanding Paul and His Letters

Understanding Paul and His Letters
Author: Branick, Vincent P.
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587685841

Understanding Paul and His Letters is a seminal text in that it traces the development of the main lines of Paul?s theology and faith through each of his letters.

Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones
Author: B.L. Morgan
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 280
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612329365

Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes

Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes
Author: A. Dana Weber
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0299323501

"Nineteenth-century writer Karl May wrote novels about a fictionalized American Wild West that count among the most popular books of German literature to this day. His stories left an imprint on German culture, resulting in a variety of Wild West festivals featuring Native Americans and frontier settlers. These Karl May festivals are hosted widely throughout German-speaking countries today. This book, based on years of fieldwork observing and studying the festivals, plays, events, and groups that comprise this subculture, addresses a larger, timely issue: cultural transfer and appropriations. Are Germans dressing up in American Indian costumes paying tribute or offending the cultures they are representing? Avoiding simplistic answers, A. Dana Weber considers the complexity of cultural enactments as they relate both to the distinctly German phenomenon as well as to larger questions of cultural representations in American and European live performance traditions."