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Author : David Farrant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953948109
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Highgate Vampire written by David Farrant and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Farrant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Highgate Vampire written by David Farrant and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609451503
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Kehua! written by Fay Weldon and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As a study of fiction, femininity and family it is bursting with intelligence and fire”—from the award-winning author of Death of a She Devil (The Telegraph). Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption, and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the very edges of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua—a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet—a long-legged, skinny young woman of the new world order—has announced to Beverley, her aged grandmother, that she intends to leave home and husband for the glamorous actor, Jackson Wright, he of the vampire films. Beverley may be well on her way to her ninth decade, but she’s not beyond using this intelligence to stir up a little trouble. How the kehua became attached to a three-year-old white girl is the origin of your writer’s tale. Suffice to say that murder is at the root of it all, that Beverley and her female bloodline carry a weighty spiritual burden and that this is the story of how they learn to live with their ghosts, or maybe how their ghosts learn to live with them. “A haunting book . . . The novel is a spirited triumph: adroit, affecting and bung-full of genuine humour and ideas.” —The Guardian “Weldon crafts this traffic between spirit worlds with characteristic wit, and without sacrificing the intricacies of a family’s struggle to accept its past.” —Financial Times “Wonderfully wicked, highly readable.” —Independent
Author : Ralph Sarchie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312977379
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Beware the Night written by Ralph Sarchie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-10-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year NYPD veteran Ralph Sarchie investigates cases of demonic possession and assists in the exorcisms. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood by anyone except Sarchie and his partner. Photos.
Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578593506
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)
Download or read book The Vampire Book written by J Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.
Author : Merlin Coverley
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1842439499
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Occult London written by Merlin Coverley and published by Oldcastle Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, more than any other city, has a secret history concealed from view. Behind the official façade promoted by the heritage industry lies a city of esoteric traditions, obscure institutions, and forgotten locations. Occult London rediscovers this history, unearthing the hidden city that lies beneath our own. From the Elizabethan magic of Dr Dee and Simon Forman to the occult designs of Wren and Hawksmoor; from the Victorian London of Spring-Heeled Jack to the fin de siecle heyday of Madame Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley. This book describes these practitioners of the occult and their unorthodox beliefs, alongside the myths and legends through which the city has always been perceived. The role of the occult within London's literary history is also outlined, while a gazetteer maps the sites of London's most resonant occult locations. Today we are experiencing a renewal of interest in the occult tradition, and Merlin Coverley examines the roots of this revival, exploring the rise of New Age philosophies and the emergence of psychogeography in shaping a new vision of the city
Author : Peter Underwood
Publisher : Peter Underwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vampire's Bedside Companion written by Peter Underwood and published by Peter Underwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire’s Bedside Companion is a riveting compendium of new facts and fiction on the ‘undying’ theme of vampirism. Here is a new theory on the genesis of Dracula (surely literature’s most compelling and macabre figure?); thoughts on allusions to vampirism in Wuthering Heights; first-hand experience of Vampires in Hampstead, London; publication for the first time of the story of a fifteenth-century Vampire Protection medallion that Montague Summers presented to the author; an account by a professor of English at Dalhousie University of a visit to ‘Castle Dracula’ in Transylvania - The Vampire’s Bedside Companion contains these and a wealth of other hitherto unpublished material on a subject that is of enduring interest: The Vampire Legend. To many people, vampires are creatures only of legend and fantasy with no reality outside the pages of books. Others, who have studied the folklore of many countries and the continuing reports of vampirism, maintain that there is extensive evidence not only that vampires once existed but that, in fact, they still do exist. In this fascinating book the author, himself an acknowledged expert on the Occult, presents true accounts of vampire infestation in England, America, Ireland, Hungary, China and France. Records of vampires and vampirism are, he claims, as old as the world and as recent as yesterday. Four new, existing and authentic vampire fictional stories by Peter Allan, Crispin Derby, Richard Howard and James Turner complete this compelling companion for dark nights, solitude and howling winds! Illustrated with my striking photographs, The Vampire’s Bedside Companion also contains original and evocative drawings by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor. It is a must for all students of the occult and every reader of the macabre.
Author : David J. Skal
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429998458
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Gothic written by David J. Skal and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.
Author : Paul Adams
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095745X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Written in Blood written by Paul Adams and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires, chilling supernatural creatures of the night - do they really exist? The British Isles has a remarkable association with the realms of the undead, from the nineteenth-century world of Croglin Grange, Varney the Vampire and Stoker's Dracula, through to Hammer Films and the modern phenomenon of the Highgate Vampire.In this new and thought-provoking book, illustrated with many never before seen photographs and drawing on extensive original research, is a detailed and fascinating exploration of the history of British vampirism in both fact and fiction; a modern guide where every page is truly written in blood . . .
Author : Matthew Beresford
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897421
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book From Demons to Dracula written by Matthew Beresford and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. The cultural history of the vampire is a rich and varied tale that is now ably documented in From Demons to Dracula, a compelling study of the vampire myth that reveals why this creature of the undead fascinates us so. Beresford’s chronicle roams from the mountains of Eastern Europe to the foggy streets of Victorian England to Hollywood, as he investigates the portrayal of the vampire in history, literature, and art. Opening with the original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and his status as a national hero in Romania, he endeavors to winnow out truths from the complex legend and folklore. From Demons to Dracula tracks the evolution of the vampire as an icon and supernatural creature, drawing on classical Greek and Roman myths, witch trials and medieval plagues, Gothic literature, and even contemporary works such as Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. Beresford also looks at the widespread impact of screen vampires from television shows, classic movies starring Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, and more recent films such as Underworld and Blade. Whether as a demon of the underworld or a light-fearing hunter of humans, the vampire has endured through the centuries, the book reveals, as powerfully symbolic figure for human concerns with life, death, and the afterlife. A wide-ranging and engrossing chronicle, From Demons to Dracula casts this blood-thirsty nightstalker as a remarkably complex and telling totem of our nightmares, real and imagined.
Author : Della Farrant
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095874X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Haunted Highgate written by Della Farrant and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by paranormal investigator Della Farrant, this new book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from around Highgate. From haunted public houses and private homes taken over by malevolent poltergeists to a top-hatted fiend who hisses at passers-by and the ‘vampire’ sightings of the 1970s at Highgate’s world-famous cemetery, this collection of ghostly goings-on is sure to appeal to everyone interested in North London’s supernatural residents.Richly illustrated, Haunted Highgate is the ideal guide for anyone who wishes to delve deeper into the area’s mysterious history.
Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060530944
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
Author : Charles Prepolec
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1894817958
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Gaslight Arcanum written by Charles Prepolec and published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the comforting glow of Baker Street gas-lamps to the gloom of the ocean's depths, Sherlock Holmes lays bare the secrets of men, monsters and evil in twelve new tales of the bizarre, the uncanny and the arcane.
Author : Fred Vargas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009955223X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book An Uncertain Place written by Fred Vargas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. With him are a young sergeant, Estalère, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard.
Author : Mary Gabriel
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031619137X
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Love and Capital written by Mary Gabriel and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms-one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she waited for him to finish his masterpiece, Capital. An epic narrative that stretches over decades to recount Karl and Jenny's story against the backdrop of Europe's Nineteenth Century, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a surprising and magisterial account of romance and revolution-and of one of the great love stories of all time.
Author : H E Sawyer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1915316189
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (153 download)
Download or read book I Am The Dark Tourist written by H E Sawyer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark tourism is the practice of visiting sites associated with death and disaster. Participation is increasing, yet the machinations behind dark tourism remain shrouded in mystery, and intentionally so. This book, a companion to I Am The Dark Tourist Travels to the Darkest Sites on Earth, explores the seductive premise of 'transformation' that dark tourism offers: that visiting memorials to past tragedy will ultimately lead us to become better versions of ourselves. Championed by enthusiastic governments — notably in the UK — 'must have' memorialisation provides an opportunity to engage the public with contrived grief from the past to be replaced by establishment neglect in the future. From the waters of Loch Ness to the chaos of Mexico's Dia de Muertos, H.E. Sawyer considers the questions feared by state-sponsored dark tourism, and poses one of his own: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book Zanoni written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
