Moonlit Strange

Moonlit Strange
Author: Kat Simons
Publisher: T&D Publishing
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She’s a witch in a demon hunter’s world… Angela Jordan is a witch with a very particular set of skills. One of those skills has her embroiled in the demon hunter world. Not her calling. But the hunt still lures her in. Confronting the kinds of nightmares most humans never have to face, Angie accepts the work though she wouldn’t go so far as to say she enjoys it. Still, demon hunting keeps her close to the man she loves. And saving innocent lives is worth the danger. But ensuring demons aren’t loosed on the human realm comes at a cost. One that might be too high for Angie to pay.

Stranger in the Moonlight

Stranger in the Moonlight
Author: Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471135543

In the second novel in her bestselling Edilean trilogy, Jude Deveraux returns to the idyllic Virginia town where three best girlfriends joyfully reunite as they each seek out their heartfelt dreams and desires. Kim Aldredge is delighted that her dear college "sister" Jecca has found lasting love with Kim's cousin Tristan. But despite her flourishing jewelry-making career, Kim's own happiness seems as distant as the childhood summer when she played the hours away with young Travis Merritt, who came to Edilean with his mother under mysterious circumstances. At the end of that innocent season, he promised Kim he would return one day . . . and then vanished without even a goodbye. Years later, a worn photo is Kim's only proof of the perfect joy they shared. But when she least expects it, Travis, now a savvy Manhattan attorney, will crash into her life once more. Will Kim see the boy she knew under the man he's become?

Tales of Moonlight and Rain

Tales of Moonlight and Rain
Author: Akinari Ueda
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008-12-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231511248

First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu. The title Ugetsu monogatari (literally "rain-moon tales") alludes to the belief that mysterious beings appear on cloudy, rainy nights and in mornings with a lingering moon. In "Shiramine," the vengeful ghost of the former emperor Sutoku reassumes the role of king; in "The Chrysanthemum Vow," a faithful revenant fulfills a promise; "The Kibitsu Cauldron" tells a tale of spirit possession; and in "The Carp of My Dreams," a man straddles the boundaries between human and animal and between the waking world and the world of dreams. The remaining stories feature demons, fiends, goblins, strange dreams, and other manifestations beyond all logic and common sense. The eerie beauty of this masterpiece owes to Akinari's masterful combination of words and phrases from Japanese classics with creatures from Chinese and Japanese fiction and lore. Along with The Tale of Genji and The Tales of the Heike, Tales of Moonlight and Rain has become a timeless work of great significance. This new translation, by a noted translator and scholar, skillfully maintains the allure and complexity of Akinari's original prose.

Moonlit Tales of the Macabre: volume four

Moonlit Tales of the Macabre: volume four
Author: Various authors
Publisher: TSK Group LLC
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2024-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Never talk to strangers," says Mikhail Bulgakov in the opening chapter of "The Master and Margarita". "Never talk to strange women," we say in the latest installment of Moonlit Tales of the Macabre, "especially if what they offer appears to be entirely outside of the realm of reality or sanity." Enjoy this new collection of strange and terrifying tales by Russian and Ukrainian authors, as they take you into the world of dark sorcery and mind-bending magic. This collection includes the following works: - Viy by Nikolai Gogol - The Gray Automobile by Alexander Grin - The Sylph by Vladimir Odoyevsky - The Mistress of the Copper Mountain by Pavel Bazhov - The Malachite Box by Pavel Bazhov - Ghosts by Ivan Turgenev

Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken
Author: Edward Butscher
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0820336203

The first of a planned two-volume biography, Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale follows Aiken's early life from his birth in 1889 to 1925 when he stood on the threshold of both nervous breakdown and poetic success. It was then that Aiken began to face his paradoxically idyllic and tragic Savannah childhood and to confront the events of February 27, 1901. On that day, the eleven-year-old Aiken heard gunshots punctuate a nightlong argument between his mother and father. Running into the next room, he discovered his mother murdered and his father dead by suicide. Sounding the deep reverberations of those events in Aiken's mind, Edward Butscher follows the poet's life and work as he sought to regain, in some permanent form, the idyll he had lost as a child. Butscher tells of Aiken's determined efforts to gain recognition for his verse in the fevered cultural circuits of the early twentieth century—from his friendship, begun at Harvard, with T. S. Eliot, through frustrating excursions into the literary society of England and repeated trips on the poetic “trade route” from his home in Boston to Chicago and New York, to often sharp encounters with such powerful cultural barons as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Harriet Monroe. Hoping to build his reputation on a series of detached poetic “symphonies,” to keep depression from boiling over into madness and suicide, Aiken skirted the border of his deepest memories and fears—a border he would cross in the works that lay ahead.

We Smoked Our Sister and other Stories from a Childhood

We Smoked Our Sister and other Stories from a Childhood
Author: Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2011-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146342230X

We Smoked Our Sister: Stories from a childhood carries the reader back to the wonderful days of the 1960’s; a time of excitement in the growth of America. The life of a rural family in Chunchula, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile County is portrayed between these pages. Though it was a time of financial hardships, the family was held together by a loving mother and father, who worked hard and raised their children to be disciplined/focused, productive, motivated, and successful as werll as creating a love for learning and the importance of family and heritage taught through stories passed down from family ancestry, as well as stories created by the Seymour children who lived these stories. Family life was like a work of art. Also, this book looks at a part of family life and the methods used to discipline children in the south. A picture of a rich life comes through to the reader, which could describe the simple everyday lives of any family in the south. The south has such rich undiscovered family history. The reader will not be able to put it down; it totally involves you in the life of the Seymour family and the siblings with their wonderfully hilarious antics. The reader will be able to picture a time in America when life was totally different. We long for those days again, where there was peace, harmony and caring among the citizens. So take a journey though the sixties and relive the days that are so precious to many southern families. This book contains stories that are timeless in beauty and wonderfully intriguing.

Softly By Moonlight

Softly By Moonlight
Author: Bron Fane
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473204011

Brinton couldn't believe the inscription when he read it in the cold white moonlight. He was looking at his own grave. He tried to read the date but the light wasn't strong enough to be certain. He returned to the graveyard by daylight... but the grave had gone. He left the town in horror, but the grave followed him. He was drawn to burial grounds like iron to a magnet. It was always the same. By Moonlight he saw the grave, but never the date. By day he saw nothing. One night he saw the month. Then they day; at last he saw the year. He knew he was due to die in one week. What could he do? Can a man forestall his fate? Can a mortal outwit the dark designs of destiny? Was it all in his mind? Perhaps Roger Brinton was mad? The asylum is warmer than the grave. The day before he was due to die he saw the grave again... The earth was newly turned... it was waiting for him!

Moonlight on the Water

Moonlight on the Water
Author: Samuel G. Gray
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450207847

David Terrebonne is a successful attorney in Houston, Texas whose life is on the way up. He spends his time working for one of the most prestigious law firms in the city representing very elite clients. He also donates his time helping the less fortunate who cannot otherwise afford a good attorney. At the same time, David lives with a terrifying secret only his uncle knows about. As the anniversary of a traumatic event from his child hood approaches, strange things in his life start occurring. Then the arrival of an eager FBI agent from his hometown of Miami shows up arresting David for the murder of his parents 20 years before. This unleashes a series of events that brings all the secrets David and his uncle have spent years trying to keep buried to the surface. David has to return to Miami to face all of his demons, the horrific memories of the relentless torture inflicted by his parents as he was growing up, and the results of his actions one fateful night. This is all results with David on trial for one of the biggest unsolved cases in FBI history where all the questions everyone has had for two decades become answered.

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
Author: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1534448659

“In a world where we are so often dividing ourselves into us and them, this book feels like a kind of magic, celebrating all beliefs, ethnicities, and unknowns.” —The New York Times Book Review Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie Halse Anderson in this astonishing, genre-bending novel about a Mexican American teen who discovers profound connections between immigration, folklore, and alien life. It’s been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran. Three years since Sia Martinez’s mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on, but it’s hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her mom’s deportation as “an unfortunate incident.” Sia knows that her mom must be dead, but every new moon Sia drives into the desert and lights San Anthony and la Guadalupe candles to guide her mom home. Then one night, under a million stars, Sia’s life and the world as we know it cracks wide open. Because a blue-lit spacecraft crashes in front of Sia’s car…and it’s carrying her mom, who’s very much alive. As Sia races to save her mom from armed-quite-possibly-alien soldiers, she uncovers secrets as profound as they are dangerous in this stunning and inventive exploration of first love, family, immigration, and our vast, limitless universe.

The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls

The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2023-10-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

In "The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls" by Laura Lee Hope, the reader is transported to a world of adventure and intrigue. The book follows a group of girls as they spend their summer vacation at a remote lodge and encounter mysterious happenings. Hope's writing style is engaging and captivating, with vivid descriptions that bring the outdoor setting to life. The dialogue between the characters feels authentic, adding depth to the story. This book is a prime example of early 20th-century girls' adventure literature, showcasing themes of friendship, independence, and exploration. Fans of classic children's literature will find much to enjoy in this thrilling tale of outdoor escapades. Laura Lee Hope, a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, was a collective of authors responsible for the popular "Outdoor Girls" series. Hope's background in crafting engaging and dynamic stories for young readers is evident in her attention to detail and ability to create relatable characters. The author's passion for empowering young girls through her writing is reflected in the strong, independent female protagonists featured in her books. I recommend "The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls" to readers who appreciate a blend of adventure, mystery, and strong female characters. This book is a classic example of early 20th-century girls' literature and is sure to delight fans of the genre.