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Stories of the Strange and Sinister

Author : Frank Baker
Publisher : Valancourt Books
ISBN 13 : 1943910308
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Stories of the Strange and Sinister written by Frank Baker and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadly neglected today, Frank Baker (1908-1983) was an intriguing and highly original author of fantasy and horror fiction, best known for his post-apocalyptic novel of an avian attack, The Birds (1936), which may have been an influence on Hitchcock’s film, and Miss Hargreaves(1940), a classic in which two young men invent a story about an unusual old woman only to discover that they have actually brought her to life. First published in 1983 and long unavailable, Stories of the Strange and Sinister collects ten of Baker’s short stories and displays the versatility of his work. Included are wonderfully macabre tales like ‘The Chocolate Box’, in which a discarded box found on a Cornish moor contains a gruesome surprise, and ‘In the Steam Room’, where a man enjoying a sauna believes he glimpses a horrible event through the steam, as well as more subtle tales of the fantastic like ‘My Lady Sweet, Arise’, in which a woman’s compulsion to sing ends with strange consequences, and ‘Quintin Claribel’, the story of a rude young man who must – quite literally – eat his words. This first-ever republication includes a new introduction by R. B. Russell. Frank Baker’s The Birds is also available from Valancourt.

Sinister histories

Author : Jonathan Dent
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784997986
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Sinister histories written by Jonathan Dent and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary contexts. Drawing on ideas from literary studies, history, politics and philosophy, the book demonstrates the extent to which historical works influenced and shaped Gothic fiction from the 1760s to the early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798), this book offers an alternative account of the Gothic's development and a sustained revaluation of the creative legacies of the French Revolution.

Critical Histories of Accounting

Author : Richard K. Fleischman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415886708
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Critical Histories of Accounting written by Richard K. Fleischman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned Sarbanes-Oxley and the world-wide recession. Certain contemporary issues have long histories, such as the difficulties encountered by women to break the glass ceiling in public accounting, and the suffering of indigenous peoples under the imperialistic yoke. Other episodes in accounting's long history are seemingly more divorced from the present, but in reality they all have contemporary significance. Slavery in the New World, for example, although abolished more than a century ago, is still rampant in parts of the world, albeit less formally. Critical accounting historians feel it a duty to harken to the "suppressed voices" of the past, those groups of people who had no access to an accounting record - women, persons of color, indigenous populations, alienated proletarians, victims of governmental incompetence and graft, and many voiceless others. Critical Histories of Accounting: Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era draws on the foremost work in this developing literature, both that authored by the co-editors of this volume, and that written by others. Editors Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick N. Funnell, and Steve Walker have written extensively about "the dark side of accounting," gauging the complicity of those performing accounting functions in episodes in human history that are at worst evil and at best reprehensible. The editors have also hand-selected a series of historical and contemporary episodes that have been critically investigated by the wider accounting history community, preceded by a thorough introduction.

The Slithering Corpse & Other Sinister Stories

Author : Robert C. Welch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781562883157
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Slithering Corpse & Other Sinister Stories written by Robert C. Welch and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

55 Slightly Sinister Stories

Author : Racha Mourtada
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524862479
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book 55 Slightly Sinister Stories written by Racha Mourtada and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55 stories. 55 words each. No more. No less. Enjoy this collection of flash fiction with a sinister twist. Size does matter in these delightfully tiny tales populated with narcoleptic drivers, bickering backers, suspicious spouses, and other memorable characters. Full of dark humor, intrigue, and absurdity, this collection of slightly sinister (and occasionally sweet) stories delivers a bite-size reading experience to satisfy any literary craving.

Sinister Yogis

Author : David Gordon White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226895157
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Sinister Yogis written by David Gordon White and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga’s practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia’s vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities—which can include raising the dead, possession, and levitation—to acquire power, wealth, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who aren’t downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. At turns rollicking and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in their proper context.

Headpress

Author : David Kerekes
Publisher : Critical Vision
ISBN 13 : 9781900486019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Headpress written by David Kerekes and published by Critical Vision. This book was released on 2000-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading journal devoted to all aspects of popular culture and cult media, "Headpress 25 "turns its attention to the Dream, or Flicker, machine. On this subject, it features interviews with William Burroughs-following a chance meeting at a bus stop by writers Johnny Strike and Gregory Daurer-and Paul Bowles. The cover is a striking oil painting of Burroughs in Tangiers. "Headpress 25 "also includes a detailed look at the neglected life and career of the late Luis de Jesus, a "star" of diminutive stature whose film appearances range from sadistic sidekick in the cult 1976 feature, "Blood Sucking Freaks," to numerous hardcore porn features, of which the most notorious is "The Anal Dwarf,"

Queer Sinister Things: The Hidden History of Iran

Author : Tomas B. Phillips
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055750547X
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Queer Sinister Things: The Hidden History of Iran written by Tomas B. Phillips and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillips delivers a refreshingly honest and deeply compelling narrative of the history of modern Iran. With the feel of a great historical novel, Philips pierces through the ideological biases which have shaped our understanding of the Middle East, Cold War and the Iranian people. On every page we witness the complexity of governing a developing nation torn internally by the demands of "liberal" constitutional republicans, radical Socialists and radical Islamists and externally between the opposing powers of East and West. In Queer Sinister Things, Phillips by-passes the version of events dominant in today's academic and media circles, relying instead on the stories provided by those who documented developments in and about Iran as they happened. This living history, highly recommended for students, educators, journalists, policy makers and lovers of history everywhere, will forever change your understanding of this ancient land and its people.

Sinister Barrier

Author : Eric Frank Russell
Publisher : www.PulpFictionBook.Store
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinister Barrier written by Eric Frank Russell and published by www.PulpFictionBook.Store. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Fort said, “I think we’re property.” And that is the plot of ‘Sinister Barrier.‘ We are cattle, a source of psychic energy for beings that exist as pure energy. They feed off of our emotions and our strongest emotions are lust, hate, and fear. And so they manipulate us to display our strongest emotions for their psychic vampirism. Ghastly crimes are the everyday meal for these beings; wars are banquets for their delectations. One scientist discovers these invisible beings of energy and is able to warn others before he dies. And then, many die. One dogged investigator is pursued cross-country and back as he puts together a meeting of minds to free humanity from these invisible tyrants. Sinister Barrier was published in 1939 in the initial issue of Unknown. It was the cover story.

Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh

Author : Alan J. Wilson
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781851584567
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh written by Alan J. Wilson and published by Mainstream Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a hundred gripping tales of murder and mystery, ghosts and ghouls, body-snatching and witch-burning reveal the darker side of genteel Edinburgh's history. Ghostly Tales & Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh is a highly readable collection, fully illustrated throughout and compiled by the three historians who operate Mercat Tours. Since 1984 over 25,000 visitors have enjoyed their nightly rounds of the closes and wynds of Edinburgh's Old Town. Now you can read of the macabre exploits of Edinburgh's infamous villains--Deacon Brodie, Burke & Hare, Major Weir, Agnes Fynnie and a host of others--which bring this ancient city intriguingly to life.

Sinister Gambits

Author : Richard Peyton
Publisher : Souvenir PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780285630529
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Sinister Gambits written by Richard Peyton and published by Souvenir PressLtd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery stories involving chess from authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, Agatha Christie, Isaac Asimov, Jack London, Richard Garnett and J.G. Ballard.

A History of Evil in Popular Culture

Author : Sharon Packer MD
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A History of Evil in Popular Culture written by Sharon Packer MD and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil isn't simply an abstract theological or philosophical talking point. In our society, the idea of evil feeds entertainment, manifests in all sorts of media, and is a root concept in our collective psyche. This accessible and appealing book examines what evil means to us. Evil has been with us since the Garden of Eden, when Eve unleashed evil by biting the apple. Outside of theology, evil remains a highly relevant concept in contemporary times: evil villains in films and literature make these stories entertaining; our criminal justice system decides the fate of convicted criminals based on the determination of their status as "evil" or "insane." This book examines the many manifestations of "evil" in modern media, making it clear how this idea pervades nearly all aspects of life and helping us to reconsider some of the notions about evil that pop culture perpetuates and promotes. Covering screen media such as film, television, and video games; print media that include novels and poetry; visual media like art and comics; music; and political polemics, the essays in this book address an eclectic range of topics. The diverse authors include Americans who left the United States during the Vietnam War era, conservative Christian political pundits, rock musicians, classical linguists, Disney fans, scholars of American slavery, and experts on Holocaust literature and films. From portrayals of evil in the television shows The Wire and 24 to the violent lyrics of the rap duo Insane Clown Posse to the storylines of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter books, readers will find themselves rethinking what evil is—and how they came to hold their beliefs.

The Sacred and the Sinister

Author : David J. Collins, S. J.
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271084391
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred and the Sinister written by David J. Collins, S. J. and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science. Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.

Sinister

Author : Lisa Jackson
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1420132792
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Sinister written by Lisa Jackson and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three New York Times bestselling authors unite their talents in this riveting novel of family secrets, obsession, and murder. As fear and distrust spread through Prairie Creek, soon all the Dillingers, and those closest to them, are targets—and suspects. A killer has been honing his skill, feeding his fury, and waiting for the moment when the Dillingers come home—to die . . . In Blood Ira Dillinger, the family’s wealthy patriarch, has summoned his children home for his upcoming wedding. Eldest son, Colton, and his siblings don’t approve of their father’s gold-digging bride-to-be. But someone is making his displeasure felt in terrifying ways, setting fires just like in the past. Only this time, there will be no survivors. Will Be Rewarded Twenty years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family’s old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Most people blamed a serial arsonist who’d been seen around town. But strange things are happening in Prairie Creek, Wyoming, again. A Killer’s Patience “This collaborative novel has all the tension and suspense that Jackson fans expect. The web of family ties and secrets creates a strong plot. Readers who enjoy shows like Criminal Minds will find the serial killer satisfyingly scary.”—RT Book Reviews “Sinister reads as if penned by a single author, so kudos to each of thecollaborators.”—Mystery Scene

Sinister Chicago

Author : Kali Joy Cramer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493059602
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Sinister Chicago written by Kali Joy Cramer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by. Sinister Chicago chronicles the unknown, unusual, or otherwise unexplained events that have occurred in Chicago’s short history. Author Kali Joy Cramer uncovers the sinister foundations of Chicago’s urban legends and unravels the facts around its most notorious murder cases. She looks below the superficial stories of Chicago’s most infamous characters and chronicles the tragic accidents that left their mark on the city.

Sinister Histories

Author : Jonathan Dent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526115195
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Sinister Histories written by Jonathan Dent and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.

The bar sinister [and other stories

Author : Richard Harding Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The bar sinister [and other stories written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: