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Plagues, Apocalypses and Bug-Eyed Monsters

Author : Heather Urbanski
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078642916X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Plagues, Apocalypses and Bug-Eyed Monsters written by Heather Urbanski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative fiction--both science fiction and fantasy--reflects, among other things, the fears of the culture that created it, contributing (perhaps unconsciously) to our efforts to prevent our fears from coming true. While the names and media change over time, the themes of speculative fiction have a long history. Nineteenth century works such as Frankenstein and The Invisible Man contain many of the same messages as the more modern tales of Terminator, Jurassic Park and even Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, although almost a century separates their creation. This critical study discusses the ways in which speculative fiction reflects societal fears and analyzes how such cautionary tales contribute to society's efforts to avoid the realization of these fears. Beginning with a discussion of the nature of speculative fiction, it takes a look at the characteristics of the cautionary tale. The core of the book, however, is the concept of the "Nightmares Model," which examines and categorizes the repetition of specific themes within the genre. The dangers of science and technology, the perils of power, and the threat of the unknown are discussed as recurrent themes within a variety of works in prose, film and television. Works analyzed range from Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Blair Witch Project. Sources include the author's own observations as a member of the genre's fandom, a variety of published commentaries and the perspectives of contemporary professionals gained through personal interviews and panel discussions.

The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock

Author : Bryan Burns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389205326
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock written by Bryan Burns and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1985 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to offer a literary analysis of Peacock's novels, including the two ironic medieval romances Maid Marian and The Misfortunes of Elphin. Other works included are Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle, The Romances and Gryll Grange.

Libya - the Dream Or Nightmare

Author : Paul E. Cooper
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465360492
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Libya - the Dream Or Nightmare written by Paul E. Cooper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nightmare Garden

Author : Caitlin Kittredge
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385738323
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Nightmare Garden written by Caitlin Kittredge and published by Ember. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn't going to succomb to madness because of a latent strain--she will lose her faculties because she is allergic to iron. Aoife isn't human. She is a changeling--half human and half from the land of Thorn. And time is running out for her. When Aoife destroyed the Lovecraft engine, she released the monsters from the Thorn Lands into the Iron Lands and now she must find a way to seal the gates and reverse the destruction she's ravaged on the world that's about to poison her.

Nightmares!

Author : Jason Segel
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0385384033
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Nightmares! written by Jason Segel and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coraline meets Monsters, Inc. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor [Jason] Segel and co-author [Kirsten] Miller."—Publishers Weekly The hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares! is a Texas Bluebonnet nominee and the first book in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town. Sleeping has never been so scary. And now waking up is even worse! Charlie Laird has several problems. 1. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch. 2. He had to move into her purple mansion, which is NOT a place you want to find yourself after dark. 3.He can’t remember the last time sleeping wasn’t a nightmarish prospect. Like even a nap. What Charlie doesn’t know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. Nightmares can ruin a good night’s sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world—that’s a line that should never be crossed. And when your worst nightmares start to come true . . . well, that’s something only Charlie can face. And he’s going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. For good. Praise for Nightmares! Book one is a New York Times bestseller and Texas Bluebonnet nominee! "Charlie Laird, who learns fear will eat you alive if you feed it, makes an impression, and...readers will want to accompany him again."—The New York Times Book Review "A touching comical saga...about facing things that go bump in the night."—US Weekly "“[Nightmares!] succeeds at scaring and amusing in equal measure…[It's] sweet, charming, and imaginative."—Kirkus Reviews "Segel...and Miller build an entertaining, cartoony world full of scary (but not too scary) monsters, silly jokes, plucky kid heroes...with a promise of adventures to come."—Booklist "An engaging and creative story...woven with a generous amount [of] humor."—VOYA "There's humor and a fairly high ick-factor."—School Library Journal "Cleverly crafted...This novel presents just the right mix of 'scary and humorous.'"—ILA Literacy Daily

The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nightmare's Edge

Author : Bryan Davis
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310715563
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare's Edge written by Bryan Davis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Shepherd, in the company of his restored mother and two mysterious beings called supplicants, searches for his father in the land of dreams. With the collapse of the entire cosmos at hand, only God can help him.

Nightmare Keep

Author : Phil Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781727025347
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Keep written by Phil Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've managed to survive my first week in Euphoria Online. But I couldn't have done it without my new friends. Lotharia. Falkon. The Green Liver goblins.But now Lotharia's gone missing. Swallowed by that nightmare keep. Lost to the darkness. Everyone's telling me that going after her is madness. That I don't have a chance in hell. But I'm not the kind of guy to turn my back on my friends. Damn the odds. I'm going to find her.

The Nightmare of God

Author : Daniel Berrigan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606084704
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Nightmare of God written by Daniel Berrigan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the 1970s and early 1980s at the height of Daniel Berrigan's work to stop the Vietnam war and nuclear weapons, The Nightmare of God offers a stunning commentary on the book of Revelation as a textbook of nonviolent resistance to empire. It begins in jail, where Berrigan sits after a 1976 protest at the Pentagon. As he takes us through the book of Revelation, Berrigan suggests that apocalyptic language and imagery are used to name Death (and its empires and wars) as anti-Christ, and challenges us to do the same today, to name every empire and war as anti-Christ, anti-humanity, anti-creation. Written with poetic insight and prophetic passion, Berrigan urges us to resist the culture of war as the early Christian heroes and martyrs did, so that we can end the suffering, heal humanity and join our place to worship the God of peace. Tom Lewis-Borbely's photo etchings complement the literary images. Daniel Berrigan describes Tom's art as healing the ancient killing split between ethics and imagination.

The Book of Nightmares

Author : Galway Kinnell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395120989
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Nightmares written by Galway Kinnell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.

Nightmare Factories

Author : Troy Rondinone
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432676
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Factories written by Troy Rondinone and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the insane asylum came to exert such a powerful hold on the American imagination. Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the "asylum" of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots. In Nightmare Factories, Troy Rondinone offers the first history of mental hospitals in American popular culture. Beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," Rondinone surveys how American novelists, poets, memoirists, reporters, and filmmakers have portrayed the asylum and how those representations reflect larger social trends in the United States. Asylums, he argues, darkly reflect cultural anxieties and the shortcomings of democracy, as well as the ongoing mistreatment of people suffering from mental illness. Nightmare Factories traces the story of the asylum as the masses have witnessed it. Rondinone shows how works ranging from Moby-Dick and Dracula to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Halloween, and American Horror Story have all conversed with the asylum. Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.

The Nightmare Dictionary

Author : Adams Media
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440560188
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Nightmare Dictionary written by Adams Media and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decode your darkest dreams! Whether you're spitting out teeth, plummeting from a ten-story building, or standing in a public place completely naked, nightmares always leave you in a cold sweat, wondering what just happened and what it all means. The Nightmare Dictionary helps you unlock the mystery behind your bad dreams. This book features fascinating interpretations for more than 300 of the most common nightmare images, as well as information about the different types of dreams. From spiders and illness to broken bones and hurricanes, you'll not only figure out what these haunting dream symbols mean, but also why they keep you up at night. With The Nightmare Dictionary, you'll discover all the eerie warnings, premonitions, and fears that are constantly brewing in your dreams.

Nightmare-Z

Author : S.A. Lowry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469177722
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare-Z written by S.A. Lowry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the fire of the second Gulf War and the pending conclusion to the American mission in Iraq, two brothers find themselves caught in a world over ran by the dead. Abandoned by the government and left to die, one brother must escape Iraq with his squad by all means necessary in order to make it back to his family located in Fort Hood Texas. The other brother, whom was introduced to Z day in transit back to Texas on R&R leave from Iraq, must escape Atlanta International Airport with an unexpected group of strangers in order to keep his promise to his brother and save his extended family at all costs. With flesh eating cannibals at every corner, the brother's mission is clear. Make it back to Fort Hood Texas and protect what is theirs.

Science Progress in the Twentieth Century

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Progress in the Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nightmare Remains

Author : Ege Selin Islekel
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810147505
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Remains written by Ege Selin Islekel and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of mourning is fundamental to contemporary politics. This technology of necrosovereignty shapes not only individuals’ and populations’ lives but also their epistemic and political afterlives. Local practices of mourning, however, contain resistant capacities, opening alternative ways of knowing, remembering, and assembling. “Nightmare knowledges,” Islekel posits, are resistant modes of knowing tied up with grief that challenge the contemporary politics of death and those politics’ archival boundaries. Seen in mothers’ movements across the globe, from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo of Argentina to the Saturday Mothers of Turkey, nightmare knowledges produce counterarchives that mobilize traditionally ignored epistemic categories. Nightmare Remains forges a new dialogue between post-Foucauldian political theory and decolonial thought and brings a fresh critical perspective to the theoretical discourse of enforced disappearances.

The Nightmare People

Author : Lawrence Watt-Evans
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479424331
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Nightmare People written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night Ed Smith thought he was having a waking nightmare when he saw a monstrous face at his window, but in the morning his neighbors were missing. The people who later turned up were not quite right, and gradually Smith realized they not only weren't his neighbors, but weren't even human ... they were the creatures he had seen! In "The Nightmare People," Lawrence Watt-Evans has created a terrifying new monster in the classic tradition of Frankenstein and Dracula! Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lawrence Watt-Evans has been a full-time writer and editor for more than twenty years. The author of more than thirty novels, over one hundred short stories, and more than one hundred and fifty published articles, Watt-Evans writes primarily in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. His short fiction has won the Hugo Award as well as twice winning the Asimov's Readers Award. His fiction has been published in England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Poland, France, Hungary, and Russia. He served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1994 to 1996 and after leaving that office was the recipient of HWA's first service award ever. He is also a member of Novelists Inc., and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Married with two children, he and his wife Julie live in Maryland.

Nightmare

Author : Dina Khapaeva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222758
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare written by Dina Khapaeva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the novels of Maturin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Mann, Lovecraft and Pelevin through the prism of their interest in investigating the nature of the nightmare reveals the unstudied features of the nightmare as a mental state and traces the mosaic of coincidences leading from literary experiments to today’s culture of nightmare consumption.