Gateway Horror 18+: 524 Dark Movies for Adults (2023)

Gateway Horror 18+: 524 Dark Movies for Adults (2023)
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2023-05-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 177887259X

This book features a comprehensive guide to 524 films that are sure to delight adults who have an interest in the horror genre. Arranged in chronological order, each film review provides a synopsis of the storyline, along with a list of genres and moods attributed to it. Additionally, readers will find a detailed three-paragraph review of each film, complete with ratings for five key areas: stars, story, creativity, acting, and quality. To help keep track of what they have watched, readers can make use of a convenient checkbox included with each review. Furthermore, this book is fully illustrated, with each movie article featuring accompanying images to provide readers with a visual depiction of the film's content. Whether you are looking to introduce yourself or someone else to the horror genre or are simply seeking a guide to basic frights, this book is the perfect resource for exploring the world of horror cinema.

Gateway Horror 18+ (2023)

Gateway Horror 18+ (2023)
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781778872259

This book features a comprehensive guide to 524 films that are sure to delight adults who have an interest in the horror genre. Arranged in chronological order, each film review provides a synopsis of the storyline, along with a list of genres and moods attributed to it. Additionally, readers will find a detailed three-paragraph review of each film, complete with ratings for five key areas: stars, story, creativity, acting, and quality. To help keep track of what they have watched, readers can make use of a convenient checkbox included with each review. Furthermore, this book is fully illustrated, with each movie article featuring accompanying images to provide readers with a visual depiction of the film's content. Whether you are looking to introduce yourself or someone else to the horror genre or are simply seeking a guide to basic frights, this book is the perfect resource for exploring the world of horror cinema.

The Monstrous-Feminine

The Monstrous-Feminine
Author: Barbara Creed
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136750754

In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, T

The Quincunx

The Quincunx
Author: Charles Palliser
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 802
Release: 1990-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345371135

An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary—a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century—London itself. “So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears . . . One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.”—The New York Times “A virtuoso achievement . . . It is an epic, a tour de force, a staggeringly complex and tantalizingly layered tale that will keep readers engrossed in days. . . . The Quincunx will not disappoint you. It is, quite simply, superb.”—Chicago Sun-Times “A bold and vivid tale that invites the reader to get lost in the intoxicating rhythms of another world. And the invitation is irresistible.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A remarkable book . . . In mood, color, atmosphere and characters, this is Charles Dickens reincarnated . . . It is an immersing experience.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “To read the first pages is to be trapped for seven-hundred odd more: you cannot stop turning them.”—The New Yorker “Few books, at most a dozen or two in a lifetime, affect us this way. . . . For sheer intricacy and ingenuity, for skill and clarity of storytelling, it is the kind of book readers wait for, a book to get lost in.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Between Two Thorns

Between Two Thorns
Author: Emma Newman
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2016-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682303144

“JK Rowling meets Georgette Heyer” in this series debut, a scintillating fusion of urban fantasy and court intrigue from the Hugo Award-winning author (The Guardian). Between Mundanus, the world of humans, and Exilium, the world of the Fae, lies the Nether, a mirror-world where the social structure of 19th-century England is preserved by Fae-touched families who remain loyal to their ageless masters. Born into this world is Catherine Rhoeas-Papaver, who escapes it all to live a normal life in Mundanus, free from her parents and the strictures of Fae-touched society. But now she’s being dragged back to face an arranged marriage, along with all the high society trappings it entails. Crossing paths with Cathy is Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds treaty with a dislocated soul who polices the boundaries between the worlds, keeping innocents safe from the Fae. After a spree of kidnappings and the murder of his fellow Arbiters, Max is forced to enlist Cathy’s help in unravelling a high-profile disappearance within the Nether. Getting involved in the machinations of the Fae, however, may prove fatal to all involved. “Between Two Thorns shows the darkness beneath the glamour of the social Season. Learning to be a young lady has never seemed so dangerous.”—Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Lady Astronaut series “Emma Newman has built a modern fantasy world with such élan and authority her ideas of why and how the seemingly irrational world of Fairy works should be stolen by every other writer in the field . . . This book of wonders is first rate.”—Bill Willingham, Eisner Award-winning author of Fables

Conquistador

Conquistador
Author: S. M. Stirling
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2003-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101043938

“In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?”—Publishers Weekly Oakland, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, has made a fabulous discovery: A portal to an alternate America where Europeans have never set foot—and the only other humans in sight are a band of very curious Indians. Able to return at will to the modern world, Rolfe summons the only people with whom he is willing to share his discovery: his war buddies. And tells them to bring their families... Los Angeles, twenty-first century. Fish and Game warden Tom Christiansen is involved in the bust of a smuggling operation. What he turns up is something he never anticipated: a photo of authentic Aztec priests decked out in Grateful Dead T-shirts, and a live condor from a gene pool that doesn’t correspond to any known in captivity or the wild. It is a find that will lead him to a woman named Adrienne Rolfe—and a secret that’s been hidden for sixty years…

The Ruined Clouds

The Ruined Clouds
Author: Jason Keeley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781640780132

In the Dead Suns Adventure Path, the players take on the roles of members of the Starfinder Society, a loose association of scholars and adventurers who travel the galaxy uncovering the secrets of the past. When a fragment of an ancient alien superweapon surfaces in the depths of hyperspace, its discovery sets off a race to find the extraterrestrial doomsday device. Hopping from planet to planet in both the civilized Pact Worlds and beyond, the heroes must contend with both the undead Corpse Fleet and the nihilistic Cult of the Devourer, each of which seeks to acquire the alien artifact for its own purposes. Can the heroes find and destroy the superweapon before their enemies seize control of it, or will the Pact Worlds' sun go dark and cold, a harbinger of dead suns across the galaxy?

Secret Seven Mystery

Secret Seven Mystery
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Secret Seven Mystery" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Lady of the Lake

The Lady of the Lake
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780316273831

Soon to be a major Netflix original series! Trapped in a world ruled by the Elves, separated from Geralt and her destiny, Ciri will need all her training as a fighter and sorceress to return to her own time in the fifth book of the NYT bestselling series. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world. But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. And the world is still at war. Andrzej Sapkowski, winner of the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, started an international phenomenon with his Witcher series: Witcher novelsBlood of ElvesThe Time of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Tower of SwallowsLady of the LakeSeason of Storms Witcher collectionsThe Last WishSword of Destiny The Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only) Translated from original Polish by David French

Uplink-downlink

Uplink-downlink
Author: Douglas J. Mudgway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2001
Genre: Deep Space Network
ISBN:

A description of what the Deep Space Network (DSN) is about, and how it works an aspect of NASA's planetary program. The origin and birth of the DSN, its subsequent development and expansion over four decades, and a description of the way in which the DSN was used to fulfill the purpose for which it was created. Technical references on the advanced telecommunications technology of the DSN. Describes the inner workings of the DSN and how they related to the more publicly visible events of the planetary space program.