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Book Synopsis The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.3 by : Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Download or read book The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.3 written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku and published by Creek ＆ River Co., Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in ancient Japan, Natsuhiko Kyogoku's chilling series interweaves tales of karma and retribution with supernatural tricksters and spirits. In The Flying Heads, when local authorities refuse to act, the Mendicant steps in to help the residents of a small Izu town being terrorized by a serial rapist. An outlaw, a crime boss, a wandering ronin, and a corrupt official are caught in a web of retribution resonating with echoes of an ancient legend, but not everything is as it seems.
Book Synopsis The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.2 by : Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Download or read book The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.2 written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku and published by Creek ＆ River Co., Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in ancient Japan, Natsuhiko Kyogoku's chilling series interweaves tales of karma and retribution with supernatural tricksters and spirits. In The Fox Priest, a trapper with a dark secret and ties to Edo's criminal underworld finds himself sucked ever deeper into a world halfway between dreams and reality, where foxes assume human guise and truth and folklore converge. The Mendicant returns with his trio of assistants to punish those beyond the reach of the law by luring them into a trap of their own making.
Download or read book Monsters written by D. Kershaw and published by BlackHarePress. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendigos, vampires, things that go bump in the night or hide under the bed, witches, demons, upirs, kelpies, toad people, zombies, sirens and hundreds of other tiny terrifying tales. What miracles can one hundred debut to bestselling authors do with 100 words? More than three hundred 100-word drabbles from around the world.
Download or read book Incubastard written by Charity B and published by Broken Spine Press. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mishka Angels, demons... the afterlife. I'd always thought they were bull****. Until all my misguided beliefs were proven wrong by an infuriating, flippant a**hole with horns who has no concept of boundaries. Summoning him was never the plan, especially since I'm not willing to do what it takes to send him back. If I've learned anything from Loch, it's that preconceived ideas are usually false, and the truth is much messier than fables. The theory of good and evil is flawed. Nothing is that simple. Loch The only side of human nature I've ever encountered is vile and perverse, depraved and cruel. However, Mishka's none of those things. She's an insufferable, snarky creature who makes me question everything I know about myself. The longer I'm with her in this world, the less desperate I am to return to mine, which is absurd. I am son of Asmodeus. A prince spawned from lust to torment the damned. The mortal realm is not where I belong. Incubastard deals with Christian lore that does not align with the Bible. It is completely fictional. If this will make you uncomfortable, please do not read this book. Content Warning: This book may have content that is disturbing for some readers. Mature audiences only.
Book Synopsis The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.4 by : Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Download or read book The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.4 written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku and published by Creek ＆ River Co., Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in ancient Japan, Natsuhiko Kyogoku's chilling series interweaves tales of karma and retribution with supernatural tricksters and spirits. In Shibaemon the Raccoon-Dog, the leader of a famed traveling puppet troupe on the island of Awaji is asked by his feudal lord to take a mysterious guest into his house, little suspecting where it will lead. Art imitates life in this horrific tale involving a shape-shifting raccoon-dog, a serial murderer, and a young samurai with ties to Japan’s ruling clan.
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Book Synopsis The Zen of Living and Dying by : Philip Kapleau
Download or read book The Zen of Living and Dying written by Philip Kapleau and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-04-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To live life fully and die serenely—surely we all share these goals, so inextricably entwined. Yet a spiritual dimension is too often lacking in the attitudes, circumstances, and rites of death in modern society. Kapleau explores the subject of death and dying on a deeply personal level, interweaving the writings of Western religions with insights from his own Zen practice, and offers practical advice for the dying and their families.
Book Synopsis The Onion Book of Known Knowledge by : The Onion
Download or read book The Onion Book of Known Knowledge written by The Onion and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.
Book Synopsis Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki by : Robert Weinberg
Download or read book Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki written by Robert Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has been introduced into English only haphazardly until now. The first volume of a 3-volume anthology covering over two centuries of kaiki literature, including both short stories and manga, from Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari of 1776 to Kyogoku Natsuhiko's modern interpretations of popular tales. Selected and with commentary by Higashi Masao, a recognized researcher and author in the field, the series systemizes and introduces the scope of the field and helps establish it as a genre of its own. This first volume presents a variety of work focusing on pre-modern Japan, and includes one manga.
Book Synopsis A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India by : A. K. Ramanujan
Download or read book A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India written by A. K. Ramanujan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style, and his profound love and understanding of the subject enrich the tales that he collected, translated, and interpreted. With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could—servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales. With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
Book Synopsis The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters by : Stephen Eskildsen
Download or read book The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters written by Stephen Eskildsen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Eskildsen's book offers an in-depth study of the beliefs and practices of the Quanzhen (Complete Realization) School of Taoism, the predominant school of monastic Taoism in China. The Quanzhen School was founded in the latter half of the twelfth century by the eccentric holy man Wan Zhe (1113–1170), whose work was continued by his famous disciples commonly known as the Seven Realized Ones. This study draws upon surviving texts to examine the Quanzhen masters' approaches to mental discipline, intense asceticism, cultivation of health and longevity, mystical experience, supernormal powers, death and dying, charity and evangelism, and ritual. From these primary sources, Eskildsen provides a clear understanding of the nature of Quanzhen Taoism and reveals its core emphasis to be the cultivation of clarity and purity of mind that occurs not only through seated meditation, but also throughout the daily activities of life.
Book Synopsis The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.6 by : Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Download or read book The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.6 written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku and published by Creek ＆ River Co., Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in ancient Japan, Natsuhiko Kyogoku's chilling series interweaves tales of karma and retribution with supernatural tricksters and spirits. In The Willow Woman, a prosperous innkeeper falls victim to the curse of an ancient willow tree that seems intent on preventing him from producing an heir. Ogin the Puppeteer becomes concerned when she reconnects with a long-lost childhood friend and hears the young woman is engaged to the innkeeper, whose four previous wives all died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Book Synopsis The Summing Up by : W. Somerset Maugham
Download or read book The Summing Up written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maugham. 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.
Book Synopsis How to Kill a Dragon by : Calvert Watkins
Download or read book How to Kill a Dragon written by Calvert Watkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition. Watkins begins this study with an introduction to the field of comparative Indo-European poetics; he explores the Saussurian notions of synchrony and diachrony, and locates the various Indo-European traditions and ideologies of the spoken word. Further, his overview presents case studies on the forms of verbal art, with selected texts drawn from Indic, Iranian, Greek, Latin, Hittite, Armenian, Celtic, and Germanic languages. In the remainder of the book, Watkins examines in detail the structure of the dragon/serpent-slaying myths, which recur in various guises throughout the Indo-European poetic tradition. He finds the "signature" formula for the myth--the divine hero who slays the serpent or overcomes adversaries--occurs in the same linguistic form in a wide range of sources and over millennia, including Old and Middle Iranian holy books, Greek epic, Celtic and Germanic sagas, down to Armenian oral folk epic of the last century. Watkins argues that this formula is the vehicle for the central theme of a proto-text, and a central part of the symbolic culture of speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language: the relation of humans to their universe, the values and expectations of their society. Therefore, he further argues, poetry was a social necessity for Indo- European society, where the poet could confer on patrons what they and their culture valued above all else: "imperishable fame."
Book Synopsis Beards and Texts by : Sebastian Coxon
Download or read book Beards and Texts written by Sebastian Coxon and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in didactic poetry concerned with wisdom, teaching and learning, and in comedic texts that were designed to make their audiences laugh, not least by submitting various figure-types to the indignity of having their beards manhandled. Four main chapters each offer a reading of a work or poetic tradition of particular significance (Pfaffe Konrad’s Rolandslied; Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm; ‘Sangspruchdichtung’; Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Ring), before examining cognate material of various kinds, including sources or later versions of the same story, manuscript variants and miniatures and further relevant beard-motifs from the same period. The book concludes by reviewing the portrayal of Jesus in vernacular German literature, which represents a special test-case in the literary history of beards. As the first study of its kind in medieval German studies, this investigation submits beard-motifs to sustained and detailed analysis in order to shed light both on medieval poetic techniques and the normative construction of masculinity in a wide range of literary genres.
Book Synopsis The House with a Clock in Its Walls by : John Bellairs
Download or read book The House with a Clock in Its Walls written by John Bellairs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting gothic tale by master mysery writer John Bellairs--soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black! "The House With a Clock in Its Walls will cast its spell for a long time."--The New York Times Book Review When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watchng magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls--a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!
Book Synopsis Bargainin' for Salvation by : Steven Heine
Download or read book Bargainin' for Salvation written by Steven Heine and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout his various stages, Dylan's work reveals an affinity with the Zen worldview, where enlightenment can be attained through self-contemplation and intuition rather than through faith and devotion. Much has been made of Dylan's Christian periods, but never before has a book engaged Dylan's deep and rich oeuvre through a Buddhist lens."--Back cover.
