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The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571304516
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories written by Gerald Kersh and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father... 'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary Supplement (1944)

Supplement, 1953

Author : Isabel S. Monro
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Supplement, 1953 written by Isabel S. Monro and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1953-12 with total page 1576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories

Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192781789
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories written by Dennis Pepper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.

Psychoanalysis and Performance

Author : Patrick Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134616252
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Performance written by Patrick Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself, or in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. In this volume some of the most distinguished thinkers in the field make this exciting new connection and offer original perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: · hypnotism and hysteria · ventriloquism and the body · dance and sublimation · the unconscious and the rehearsal process · melancholia and the uncanny · cloning and theatrical mimesis · censorship and activist performance · theatre and social memory. The arguments advanced here are based on the dual principle that psychoanalysis can provide a productive framework for understanding the work of performance, and that performance itself can help to investigate the problematic of identity.

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Author : John Clute
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312198695
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantasy written by John Clute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.

The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350143022
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction written by Philip Tew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others.

Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191541842
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism written by Steven Connor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition? These are the kind of questions which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. He tracks his subject from its first recorded beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through the fulminations of early Christian writers against the unholy (and, they believed, obscenely produced) practices of pagan divination, the aberrations of the voice in mysticism, witchcraft and possession, and the strange obsession with the vagrant figure of the ventriloquist, newly conceived as male rather than female, during the Enlightenment. He retrieves the stories of some of the most popular and versatile ventriloquists and polyphonists of the nineteenth century, and investigates the survival of ventriloquial delusions and desires in spiritualism and the 'vocalic uncanny' of technologies like telephone, radio, film, and internet. Learned but lucid, brimming with anecdote and insight, this is much more than an archaeology of one of the most regularly derided but tenaciously enduring of popular arts. It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice.

Crypt Orchids

Author : David J. Schow
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crypt Orchids written by David J. Schow and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime. Psychos. Trashed relationships. Tainted love. Murder. Sinister plots. Evil connivances. Men in Suits with a Plan. Bizarre flap copy. Not to mention hustlers, losers, cutthroats, gun fetishists, homicidal hitchhikers, demented road-hogs, serial killer impersonators, government torturers, and a Ripper named Jack. Vaudevillians (shudder). Welcome to Crypt Orchids, where you'll also meet a cantankerous celebrity man-fish, a horror movie host who deals in the real thing, an innocent victim of a TV test screening, persnickety aliens with testicle-heads, a werewolf with a prosthetic paw, a Mikey who does, in fact, hate everything, a hit man named Mister Bart, and a temperamental geezer with a lot to say about the environment and skinning people alive. Crypt Orchids, is a collection of short stories by award-winning multi media author David J. Schow, a gathering of foreboding fiction that grabs the cutting edge barehanded, damns the spray of blood, and stays right in your face “until you want to go down on your knees and mumble for mercy,” according to best-selling author John Farris. As Robert Bloch once said … it takes balls to make Crypt Orchids. Enter and be enthralled. The Management assumes no responsibility for parts of you left behind. Contents: “Look Out He's Got a Knife” (Introduction) by Robert Bloch“Action”“Pick Me Up”“Dusting the Flowers”Hollywood Triptych(a) “Gills”(b) “Seeing Things”(c) “(Melodrama)”“Scoop Bites the Dust”“Final Performance” (stage adaptation of “The Final Performance” by Robert Bloch)“Jeff and Linda”“A Punch in the Doughnut”“Refrigerator Heaven”“Penetration”“The Incredible True Facts in the Case”“Look Out He's Got a Knife … Again!” (Afterword)

The Thousand Deaths of Mr Small

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571304591
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Thousand Deaths of Mr Small written by Gerald Kersh and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' The Thousand Deaths Of Mr Small is the best novel that Gerald Kersh has yet written... Charles Small, successful advertising expert and miserable man, turns over in his mind the 'stinking, sour, stagnant, untransmitted mass' which is his life... This book has a rich, warm quality; long and full of detail, it teems with humour, satire, incident, character; in a word, with life.' Yorkshire Post 'It see-saws from side-splitting dialogue to such catalogues of loathing and revulsion as have rarely been seen in print, from outrageous farce to sudden compassion for the Smalls of this world, who find Hell enough in 'the eternal contemplation of themselves as they made themselves.'' New York Herald Tribune 'With brilliant descriptive power and an emetic vocabulary, [Kersh] has produced a tormented and forceful work.' Commonweal

The Song of the Flea

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571304575
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Song of the Flea written by Gerald Kersh and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Song Of The Flea (1948) Gerald Kersh revisited the demi-monde of his famous Night And The City; but this novel concerns a writer, striving doggedly to make his living. 'A remarkable novel... with this book Mr Kersh has taken a big step forward.' Sunday Times '[Kersh] has a remarkable talent... he is one of the comparatively few living novelists in this country who write with energy and originality and whose ideas are not drawn from a residuum of novels that have been written before... [ The Song of the Flea] is the story of John Pym, a young man trying to earn his living as a writer... Mr Kersh draws on his picturesque and convincing knowledge of human vileness in a manner which is both entertaining and instructive.' Times Literary Supplement.

The Implacable Hunter

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571304532
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Implacable Hunter written by Gerald Kersh and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[This] is the story of the beginning and the end of St Paul, that most complicated and worrying of all the saints. The narrator is Diomed, a colonial officer stationed at Tarsus, enlightened, intelligent, a great fraterniser with the patrician natives, [who] sends the strange young Jew to persecute the Nazarenes... [Kersh brings] a highly concentrated area of Roman colonial history to very real life - the ornate wine-cup, the crapulous cold fruit-juice at dawn, dust on a sandal... King Jesus is here, all the time... the fly-itch nuisance to the Empire that wakes its prefects up in nightmare... This is a masterly book, full of live people and a live age, live language, too... We may adjudge Mr Kersh, after reading The Implaccable Hunter, to be now at the height of his powers.' Anthony Burgess, Yorkshire Post, 1961

Short Story Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.

In Bad Coompany and Other Stories

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752401923
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book In Bad Coompany and Other Stories written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood

In Bad Company, and other stories

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book In Bad Company, and other stories written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In Bad Company, and other stories" by Rolf Boldrewood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Dummy

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783807659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Dummy written by Nicholas Royle and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stories he writes about doppelgängers, ghosts, dummies, disconnected body parts, impaired vision, the dead and the prospect of death, not without a macabre sense of humour.

The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories

Author : R. Austin Freeman
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories written by R. Austin Freeman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories" is a crime mystery novel by the famed author of the Thorndyke mystery novels, R. Austin Freeman. Joseph Fittleworth is a painter, with a leaning to the methods of the past rather than to those of the future, a fact that often diminished the chances of his success. Hence it had happened that Fittleworth had accepted with avidity a not very lucrative supernumerary post at the National Gallery where he could, at least, have his being amidst the objects of his worship, which included an exceedingly comely young lady, who came regularly to the gallery to copy pictures, principally of the Flemish school. But this mundane experience will all change one fateful morning when he helps a man carry a painting out of the museum, a mistake he would live to regret...

Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers

Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109121
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers written by Lee Server and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.