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Author : Clark Ashton Smith
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612107591
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Dark Eidolon written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Zothique, the wizard Namirrha is out to take revenge on King Zotulla…
Author : Joel Puga
Publisher : Joel Puga
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Dark Fantasies and Other Stories written by Joel Puga and published by Joel Puga. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together five different fantasy tales. The Last – Terrorized by the thought of death, a man lets himself be contaminated by vampirism to prolong his life indefinitely. However, when Hell and Heaven’s legions face each other in the ultimate battle, he becomes the last human being on Earth. Will he let himself be dragged peacefully into one of the afterlife kingdoms? Sasabonsam – During the War of Guinea, a group of Guinean guerrilla fighters bring down a Portuguese airplane. When investigating the wreck, they discover not only that the pilot survived, but also that he isn't human. Intellectual, one of the guerrilla fighters, is forced to face the monster, as well as the tribalism that infects the minds of his comrades. The Castle – Thomas gets a last minute invitation from his cousin Michael to Christmas dinner. But Michael's motives are darker than Thomas could have ever imagined. Susan – After a short and awful life, Susan faces death. Recalling her days on earth, she tries to deduce to which of the postmortem kingdoms she will be sent. However, her final destination reveals itself as surprising in more than one way. A Literary Quest – In his search for rare books, Cirio finds the elusive bookstore of Mormont, the location of which changes constantly, but is said to contain some volumes almost impossible to find. However, even after everything he went through to get there, will Cirio's quest be completed?
Author : Kerri Sharp
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753525879
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)
Download or read book The Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies written by Kerri Sharp and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies reveals the most private thoughts of hundreds of women. Here are sexual fantasies which on first sight appear shocking or bizarre - such as the bank clerk who wants to be a vampire and the nanny with a passion for Darth Vader. Kerri Sharp investigates the recurrent themes in female fantasies and the cultural influences that have determined them: from fairy stories to cult TV; from fetish fashion to historical novels.
Author : Shouhua Qi
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN 13 : 9781592650682
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories written by Shouhua Qi and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part autobiographical, the stories offer a depiction of the myriad world of jaded entrepreneurs, overzealous cops, karaoke fanatics, dog lovers, liberated coeds, and frustrated urbanites who move in and out of China's colorful neon-lit cities and dusty rural villages; transitioning from one world to the other. Red Guard Fantasies can be viewed as a corollary to the work of noted classical Chinese writers such as Pu Songling (1640-1715) and Wu Jingzi (1701-1754), who challenged ideas of Chinese society and culture through the use of allegory, satire, and the blending of realistic and fantastic elements, often leading the reader through a dream-like, fantasy state where the real and the surreal become one.
Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1786181517
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Redemption's Blade written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479806072
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Dark Fantastic written by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”
Author : Mark Smylie
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1616148926
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Barrow written by Mark Smylie and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action, horror, politics, and sensuality combine in this DEBUT EPIC FANTASY novel for fans of George R. R. Martin and Michael J. Sullivan, set in the world of the Eisner Award-nominated Artesia comic books. To find the Sword, unearth the Barrow. To unearth the Barrow, follow the Map. When a small crew of scoundrels, would-be heroes, deviants, and ruffians discover a map that they believe will lead them to a fabled sword buried in the barrow of a long-dead wizard, they think they've struck it rich. But their hopes are dashed when the map turns out to be cursed and then is destroyed in a magical ritual. The loss of the map leaves them dreaming of what might have been, until they rediscover the map in a most unusual and unexpected place. Stjepan Black-Heart, suspected murderer and renegade royal cartographer; Erim, a young woman masquerading as a man; Gilgwyr, brothel owner extraordinaire; Leigh, an exiled magus under an ignominious cloud; Godewyn Red-Hand, mercenary and troublemaker; Arduin Orwain, scion of a noble family brought low by scandal; and Arduin's sister Annwyn, the beautiful cause of that scandal: together they form a cross section of the Middle Kingdoms of the Known World, united by accident and dark design, on a quest that will either get them all in the history books...or get them all killed. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Kelly Barnhill
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616207973
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories written by Kelly Barnhill and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. “Dreadful Young Ladies” demonstrates the strength and power—known and unknown—of the imagination. In “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake,” a witch is haunted by the deadly repercussions of a spell. “The Insect and the Astronomer” upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing. The World Fantasy Award–winning novella “The Unlicensed Magician” introduces the secret magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead—with thematic echoes of Barnhill’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. With bold, reality-bending invention underscored by richly illuminated universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope, the stories in Dreadful Young Ladies show why its author has been hailed as “a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). This collection cements Barnhill’s place as one of the wittiest, most vital and compelling voices in contemporary literature.
Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 150670140X
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire written by Neil Gaiman and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author's pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write fiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to the death, and his sinister butler. Shane Oakley beautifully illustrates New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's satirical tale.
Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101662751
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book American Supernatural Tales written by S. T. Joshi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and—of course—Stephen King. This volumes also includes "The Yellow Sign," the most horrific story from The King in Yellow, the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hit TV series True Detective. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1787552535
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Lovecraft Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated new collections. H.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E. Howard, to Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also collaborated on the several short stories, some of which are also included here, in this special deluxe edition. This title, alongside H.G. Wells Short Stories, is a companion volume to our hugely successful Gothic Fantasy series of classic and modern writers.
Author : Ken Kalfus
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318224
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies written by Ken Kalfus and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed short story and novella collection by “a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life”—and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times). Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he attempts to hawk plutonium in Moscow’s black market. In “Budyonnovsk,” a young man hopes that the takeover of his town by Chechen rebels will somehow save his marriage. Set in the 1920s, “Birobidzhan” is the bittersweet story of a Jewish couple journeying to the Soviet Far East, where they intend to establish the modern world’s first Jewish state. The novella, “Peredelkino,” which closes the book, traces the fortunes of a 1960s literary apparatchik whose romantic intrigues inadvertently become political. In these and other stories, Kalfus captures the famously enigmatic Russian psyche. A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
Author : Isabel Yap
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1618731831
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Never Have I Ever written by Isabel Yap and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore a world where the supernatural is an accepted element of everyday life and the horror is mined from the realities of existing." — New York Public Library Best Books of the Year World Fantasy Award finalist British Fantasy Award finalist Ladies of Horror Fiction Award winner Crawford Award shortlist “Am I dead?” Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask. Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the friendship and fear building in “A Canticle for Lost Girls” to the joy in “A Spell for Foolish Hearts” to the terrifying tension of the urban legend “Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.”
Author : Nancy Friday
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795335393
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book My Secret Garden written by Nancy Friday and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “groundbreaking” work on women’s sexual fantasies (Publishers Weekly). First published in 1973, My Secret Garden ignited a firestorm of reactions across the nation—from outrage to enthusiastic support. Collected from detailed personal interviews with hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds, this book presents a bracingly honest account of women’s inner sexual fantasy lives. In its time, this book shattered taboos and opened up a conversation about the landscape of feminine desire in a way that was unprecedented. Today, My Secret Garden remains one of the most iconic works of feminist literature of our time—and is still relevant to millions of women throughout the world. “The author whose books about gender politics helped redefine American women’s sexuality.” —The New York Times
Author : Jaid Black
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 9781416578703
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Forbidden Fantasies written by Jaid Black and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in trade paperback, Pocket Books’ first original Ellora’s Cave anthology—featuring eight taboo tales from the mistresses of Romantica™. Passions run wild and the sexiest fantasies come true in these eight sizzling stories from Ellora’s Cave top selling authors, now available in paperback for the first time! Authors include: Jaid Black, "Bossie & Clyde"; Jory Strong, "First Sharing"; Ann Jacobs, "Eternal Triangle"; Sahara Kelly, "Lady Elizabeth’s Choice"; Jaci Burton, "Legend’s Passion"; Sherri L. King, "Selfless"; Lorie O’Clare, "Wicked"; Cheyenne McCray, "Wild Ride"
Author : Joel Puga
Publisher : Joel Puga
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Assorted Fantasies written by Joel Puga and published by Joel Puga. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Puga
Publisher : Joel Puga
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last written by Joel Puga and published by Joel Puga. This book was released on with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorized by the thought of death, a man lets himself be contaminated by vampirism to prolong his life indefinitely. However, when Hell and Heaven’s legions face each other in the ultimate battle, he remains the last human being on Earth. Will he let himself be dragged peacefully into one of the afterlife kingdoms? This is one of the short stories included in the anthology "Dark Fantasies and Other Stories " by the same author .
