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The Voodoo Encyclopedia

Author : Jeffrey E. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Voodoo Encyclopedia written by Jeffrey E. Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling reference work introduces the religions of Voodoo, a onetime faith of the Mississippi River Valley, and Vodou, a Haitian faith with millions of adherents today. Unlike its fictional depiction in zombie films and popular culture, Voodoo is a full-fledged religion with a pantheon of deities, a priesthood, and communities of believers. Drawing from the expertise of contemporary practitioners, this encyclopedia presents the history, culture, and religion of Haitian Vodou and Mississippi Valley Voodoo. Though based primarily in these two regions, the reference looks at Voodoo across several cultures and delves into related religions, including African Vodu, African Diasporic Religions, and magical practices like hoodoo. Through roughly 150 alphabetical entries, the work describes various aspects of Voodoo in Louisiana and Haiti, covering topics such as important places, traditions, rituals, and items used in ceremonies. Contributions from scholars in the field provide a comprehensive overview of the subject from various perspectives and address the deities and ceremonial acts. The book features an extensive collection of primary sources and a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources.

Voodoo: the History of a Racial Slur

Author : Associate Professor of Africana Studies Danielle N Boaz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019768940X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Voodoo: the History of a Racial Slur written by Associate Professor of Africana Studies Danielle N Boaz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coined in the middle of the nineteenth century, the term "voodoo" has been deployed largely by people in the U.S. to refer to spiritual practices--real or imagined--among people of African descent. "Voodoo" is one way that white people have invoked their anxieties and stereotypes about Black people--to call them uncivilized, superstitious, hypersexual, violent, and cannibalistic. In this book, Danielle Boaz explores public perceptions of "voodoo" as they have varied over time, with an emphasis on the intricate connection between stereotypes of "voodoo" and debates about race and human rights. The term has its roots in the U.S. Civil War in the 1860s, especially following the Union takeover of New Orleans, when it was used to propagate the idea that Black Americans held certain "superstitions" that allegedly proved that they were unprepared for freedom, the right to vote, and the ability to hold public office. Similar stereotypes were later extended to Cuba and Haiti in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1930s, Black religious movements like the Moorish Science Temple and the Nation of Islam were derided as "voodoo cults." More recently, ideas about "voodoo" have shaped U.S. policies toward Haitian immigrants in the 1980s, and international responses to rituals to bind Nigerian women to human traffickers in the twenty-first century. Drawing on newspapers, travelogues, magazines, legal documents, and books, Boaz shows that the term "voodoo" has often been a tool of racism, colonialism, and oppression.

Gothic Realities

Author : L. Andrew Cooper
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457880
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Realities written by L. Andrew Cooper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence--this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics' fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and other works helped construct homosexuality as a pathological, dangerous phenomenon. It then turns to television and film, particularly Buffy the Vampire Slayer and David DeCoteau's direct-to-video movies, to trace Gothicized sexuality's lasting impact. Moving to heretical beliefs, Gothic Realities surveys ghost stories from Dickens's A Christmas Carol to Poltergeist, articulating the relationships between fiction and the "real" supernatural. Finally, it considers connections between Gothic horror and real-world violence, especially the tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech.

Spinegrinder

Author : Clive Davies
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394068
Total Pages : 1368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Spinegrinder written by Clive Davies and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento. In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called “godfather of gore,” carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, “master of suspense.” SPINEGRINDER is one man’s ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won’t care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.

Queer Horror

Author : Sean Abley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651515
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Queer Horror written by Sean Abley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay directors such as F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and James Whale (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein), LGBTQIA characters have rarely been portrayed in full view. For decades, filmmakers have included "coded" content in their films with the homosexual experience translated into censor-friendly subtext for consumption by general audiences. Gradually, LGBTQIA characters and themes have moved from the background to the foreground as the horror genre has grown along with its audience's tastes and attitudes. Likewise, more and more LGBTQIA writers and directors have begun to offer their queer-centric takes on scary movies and today, "queer horror" is a thriving film genre. With more than 900 entries, this critical filmography is a comprehensive, critical, yet playful examination of the history of LGBTQIA content in horror films. Eight journalistic contributors dig into every era of scary movies, including the early silents, pre- and post-Hays Code content, grindhouse sleaze, LGBTQIA indies, and megaplex studio releases. From Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) to Don Mancini's Chucky films and everything in between, this collection explores what can be found at the intersection of "LGBTQIA" and "horror" in the film industry.

Wild Hunt

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Hunt written by Theophilus Monroe and published by Theophilus Monroe. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectral riders are here... ...and the streets of St. Louis echo with the howls of ancient beasts. As a druid and a private investigator of all things supernatural, I've seen some strange things, but this... this takes the cake. The question is, who's leading the hunt? And what exactly are they hunting? The city hangs on the precipice of chaos, and it's up to me to unmask the truth before the Wild Hunt leaves nothing but ashes in its wake. Are you ready to join the chase? Wild Hunt is the sixth book in the new Druid Detective Agency urban fantasy series. Elijah and Emilie already went through one adventure. Now, ten years after The Druid Legacy, they are facing a new challenge, one that will test their limits. The real threat isn't the otherworldly magic, the magic that once birthed life itself in Eden/Annwn. There was a reason why humanity was cast from the garden groves. When the magic of that place comes home, it won't take long to find out why. The real threat was here all along, hidden in human hearts, now made manifest by the power of creation itself. Harry Potter meets Harry Dresden in Druid Detective Agency.

Queer Horror Film and Television

Author : Darren Elliott-Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786721376
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Queer Horror Film and Television written by Darren Elliott-Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has "outed" itself from the shadows from which it once lurked, via the embrace of an outrageously queer horror aesthetic where homosexuality is often unequivocally referenced. In this book, Darren Elliott-Smith departs from the analysis of the monster as a symbol of heterosexual anxiety and fear, and moves to focus instead on queer fears and anxieties within gay male subcultures. Furthermore, he examines the works of significant queer horror film, television producers, and directors to reveal gay men's anxieties about: acceptance and assimilation into Western culture, the perpetuation of self-loathing and gay shame, and further anxieties associations shameful femininity. This book focuses mainly on representations of masculinity, and gay male spectatorship in queer horror films and television post-2000. In titling this sub-genre "queer horror," Elliott-Smith designates horror that is crafted by male directors/producers who self-identify as gay, bi, queer, or transgendered and whose work features homoerotic, or explicitly homosexual, narratives with "out" gay characters. In terms of case studies, this book considers a variety of genres and forms from: video art horror; independently distributed exploitation films (A Far Cry from Home, Rowe Kelly, 2012); queer Gothic soap operas (Dante's Cove, 2005-7); satirical horror comedies (such as The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (Thompson, 2008); low-budget slashers (Hellbent, Etheredge-Outzs, 2007); and contemporary representations of gay zombies in film and television from the pornographic LA Zombie (Bruce LaBruce, 2010)) to the melodramatic In the Flesh (BBC Three 2013-15). Moving from the margins to the mainstream, via the application of psychoanalytic theory, critical and cultural interpretation, interviews with key directors and close readings of classic, cult and modern horror, this book will be invaluable to students and researchers of gender and sexuality in horror film and television.

Bloody Merry

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Merry written by Theophilus Monroe and published by Theophilus Monroe. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little bite for the holidays... No better time of the year to mend a few fences. If I'm going to win him back, it'll take a grand gesture. Something to prove I'm still the old Mercy he used to love... The gift is priceless. It's one-of-a-kind. He'll love it. At least I thought he would... How was I supposed to know the damn thing contained a freaking djinn?! Time to put the genie back in the bottle. But he won't go easy. Not until he's granted three wishes. The problem? Each wish comes gift-wrapped with something nasty... something deadly... Time to vamp-up and show that djinn that he's messing with the wrong bitch. Bloody Merry is the sixth book in The Fury of a Vampire Witch. You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse novels or the Underworld franchise to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.

The Filmmaker's Book of the Dead

Author : Danny Draven
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317439082
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Filmmaker's Book of the Dead written by Danny Draven and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produce, direct, promote and sell your own chilling horror film with real-world advice from award-winning producer/director/writer Danny Draven! The second edition is completely updated with information on new technology, new exclusive interviews with industry pros, new photos and samples from the production of recent horror movies, new behind-the-scenes video, information on modern distribution methods and delivery and more! From the history of horror and the technique of the scare to pre-production and distribution, this complete, full-color guide to filmmaking uncovers all the insider secrets for creating your own spine-tingling horror film from start to finish. The 2nd Edition features all NEW interviews from industry professionals such as: Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers, Bag of Bones, Desperation, The Stand) John Ottman (Composer/Editor of X:Men: Days of Future Past, The Usual Suspects) Mark Ordesky & Jane Fleming (Producers of Lovely Molly, Exists) Kane Hodder (Jason from the Friday the 13th, part 7 to 10, Hatchet) Tibor Takacs (Director of The Gate, Spiders 3D, Megasnake) John Debney (Composer of Predators, Sin City, End of Days) Jojo Draven (Composer of Ghost Month, Reel Evil) Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, Weird Science) Mike Mendez (Director of The Gravedancers, Big Ass Spider!) Neal Marshall Stevens (Screenwriter of Thir13en Ghosts, Hellraiser: Deader) Chris Alexander (Editor in Chief of Fangoria Magazine) Jessica Cameron (Actress/Director of Truth or Dare) Denise Gossett (Founder of Shriekfest Film Festival) A newly updated companion website that features: *Behind the scenes videos for films films such as Puppet Master, Blood Dolls, Trancers, Subspecies, Reel Evil, Ghost Month and more! *A revised collection of horror movie trailers! * Sample scripts, schedules, storyboards, agreements and more! Other featured interviews include: James Wan (Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring) Robert Englund (Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street) Robert Kurtzman (From Dusk Til Dawn) Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dagon) Tom Savini (Night of the Living Dead) Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger) Charles Band (Parasite, Metalstorm, Ghoulies) John D. LeMay (Friday the 13th: The Series) David DeCoteau (Puppet Master 3, Sorority Babes in the Slimball Bowl-O-Rama) Debbie Rochon (Tromeo & Juliet) Reggie Bannister (Phantasm) Sam McCurdy (Director of Photography of Dog Soldiers, The Decent, The Hills Have Eyes 2) Nathan Barr (Composer of Hostel,True Blood, Hemlock Grove) Jim Dooley (Composer of When A Stranger Calls) Chuck Williams (Bubba Ho-Tep) Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, Wizard of Gore) H.P. Lovecraft’s Notes on Writing Weird Fiction And many more...

Shadow Witch

Author : Veronica Shade
Publisher : Evershade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1949112519
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Witch written by Veronica Shade and published by Evershade Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So...Verika’s parents run a Voodoo Academy. When, exactly, were they planning on telling her? Apparently not until she almost kills half her school. When Verika’s shadow magic nearly takes out the cast of her school play, her parents send her to a voodoo academy they run in New Orlean’s mirror world to get her powers under control. It’s there, at Académie de Marie Laveau, that Verika learns the hot man from her dreams isn’t just a figment of her imagination...but the most feared student ever to walk the academy’s halls. So when things start to go missing from her teachers’ classrooms, and it appears someone is aiming to pin it on Mr. Dark and Dreamy himself, Verika knows no one is going to step in to save him. No one but Verika, anyway. Except, Tobias isn’t looking for a hero, and Verika’s not cut out to be a detective. Considering she’s been shadow walking in her sleep and can’t account for her own whereabouts after the lights go out, it seems she’s better suited as a suspect instead. Fans of the Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead and the Harley Merlin series from Bella Forrest will love this new adult, slow-burn paranormal academy romance from Veronica Shade. Scroll up and one-click to see if Verika can find a way to make life at Voodoo Academy work...all while dealing with bullies, would-be boyfriends, and worse...herself. Voodoo Academy is a spin-off series of Academy of the Damned but can still be enjoyed by readers who haven’t read Academy of the Damned.

The Advocate

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Idol Worship

Author : Michael Ferguson
Publisher : STARbooks Press
ISBN 13 : 1891855484
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Idol Worship written by Michael Ferguson and published by STARbooks Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with over 120 beautiful photos, this is the year's best guide to the leading men whose looks have made them the objects of intense fantasy and desire. Included is a text that will flesh out the pin-ups, featuring career highlights, brief bios and queer takes on more than 90 pretty boy actors from the silent era to today, plus a definitive list of more than 750 actors along with a representative film title of where to catch them at their hottest.

Algorithm

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algorithm written by Theophilus Monroe and published by Theophilus Monroe. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanovax was supposed to be our salvation. Death and disease, now obsolete. Until the terrorist attack. Fifteen cities in a single day. Again, they said Nanovax was the answer. The same technology meant to heal us could now be used, through an algorithm, to track us, to predict human behaviors... To thwart future terrorists. I'm Lieutenant Brian Goff. I received the first injection. It healed my wounds in the war. I became the face of Nanovax... Then, the algorithm identified me as a threat... a terrorist... Now, I'm on the run and fighting against the very technology that once saved my life... and if that wasn't frightening enough... The government has my daughter. Algorithm is the first book in Theophilus Monroe's Nanoverse, an action packed dystopian sci fi thriller series. As a former soldier, suffering from PTSD, Brian Goff is not only a threat to the new system, but his very injury has given him control over the nanobots. Like Neo, in The Matrix, Goff is an unlikely hero whose "technomagic" makes him the the last hope for human liberty, freedom, and justice.

Bloody Bastards

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Bastards written by Theophilus Monroe and published by Theophilus Monroe. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faerie gangs are at war. The Seelie and Unseelie forces are tearing each other apart. Humanity is caught in the crossfire. I don't care which side wins. They're all assholes. But if they want to wage a war, they'll have to contend with me. And I'll be damned before I let either side get the upper hand. Bloody Bastards is the fourth book in The Fury of a Vampire Witch. You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before.

The Advocate

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Speaking of Monsters

Author : Caroline Joan S. Picart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137101490
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Monsters written by Caroline Joan S. Picart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.

Bloody Moon

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Moon written by Theophilus Monroe and published by Theophilus Monroe. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the blood moon rises... so do the souls of the dead. A few hauntings. No big deal, right? What's the worst that can happen? They might scare the crap out of you. You might need to change your bedsheets... But ghosts can't really hurt people... Or, can they? Vampires don't have souls. They remain in possession of Baron Samedi... The ghosts have decided to fill the vacancy. My magic is protecting me... for now... But I might be the only real vampire left. How do you exorcise a human spirit from a vampire's body? Is it even possible? Bloody Moon is the eighth book in The Fury of a Vampire Witch. You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse novels or the Underworld franchise to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.