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Wax (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author : Ethel Lina White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941147597
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Wax (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Ethel Lina White and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A really notable achievement in the macabre." - "Time and Tide" "White has mastered the difficult art of writing a mystery-horror tale." - "New York Times" "Gave me the best thrill I have had for some time . . . moments of authentic gooseflesh." - Compton Mackenzie On the outskirts of the small English town of Riverpool stands a waxwork museum, where several people have died under mysterious circumstances. Sonia Thompson, a young journalist, is determined to get to the bottom of the strange happenings at the waxworks. So she resolves to spend a night there alone. Surrounded by gruesome wax figures of madmen and murderers in the evil chamber where someone has already met his death, Sonia suddenly feels terror grip her. For slowly, ever so slowly, the horrible wax figures seem to be coming to life . . . One of the most popular crime novelists of the 1930s and '40s, Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) is best known as the author of the books that inspired the films "The Spiral Staircase" and "The Lady Vanishes." This new edition of "Wax" (1935), a brilliant mixture of horror and mystery, is the first in decades and reproduces the original jacket art.

Night and the City

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Night and the City written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Entries

Author : Robert Aickman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571311784
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Dark Entries written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of GentlemenAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Dark Entries was first published in 1964 and contains six curious and macabre stories of love, death and the supernatural, including the classic story 'Ringing the Changes'. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult. Though his chief occupation in life was first as a conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his talents to writing what he called 'strange stories.' Dark Entries (1964) was his first full collection, the debut in a body of work that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories.'

Harvest Home

Author : Thomas Tryon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933618937
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Harvest Home written by Thomas Tryon and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of the classic overlooked horror novel with the original cover art by Paul Bacon and new interior art.

The Secret Masters

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Masters written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Delicate Dependency

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941147245
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Delicate Dependency written by Michael Talbot and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often cited as one of the best and most influential vampire novels ever written, this is a novel of suspenseful originality.

Burnt Offerings

Author : Robert Marasco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933618845
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Burnt Offerings written by Robert Marasco and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a classic horror novel, Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco with a new introduction and artwork.

Perchance to Dream

Author : Charles Beaumont
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069819456X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Perchance to Dream written by Charles Beaumont and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot arriving, read the stories that inspired some of the show's greatest episodes, including "The Howling Man"! The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer, with a foreword by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone—for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories, including seven that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and varied they burst through the walls of whatever box might contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and more: all were equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the Devil himself. With dizzying feats of master storytelling and joyously eccentric humor, Beaumont transformed his nightmares and reveries into impeccably crafted stories that leave themselves indelibly stamped upon the walls of the mind. In Beaumont’s hands, nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible, even likely. "[Beaumont’s] imagination, as Perchance to Dream amply shows, was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes." -NPR For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A Wild Winter Swan

Author : Gregory Maguire
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062980807
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book A Wild Winter Swan written by Gregory Maguire and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative’s financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman’s heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

The Female Thermometer

Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508098X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Female Thermometer written by Terry Castle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.

Impossible James

Author : DANGER. SLATER
Publisher : Fungasm Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621052968
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Impossible James written by DANGER. SLATER and published by Fungasm Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father was dying. There was no hope. Then he took a screwdriver to the brain. Got pregnant. And found the cure for death. Impossible? That's my dad. IMPOSSIBLE JAMES "Danger Slater is fearless and should be ashamed of himself. Thank God he's not." -- JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box "If Richard Brautigan and William S. Burroughs had a baby it would be Danger Slater" -- THE HORROR REVIEW "Bizarro horror at its best." -- SPLATTERPUNK ZINE

The Witches

Author : Peter Curtis
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099553848
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Witches written by Peter Curtis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walwyk seemed a dream village to the new schoolteacher, Miss Mayfield. But dreams can change into nightmares... When one of her students accuses his friend Ethel's grandmother of abusing her, Miss Mayfield cannot let it go. But Ethel won't say anything, despite the evidence of Miss Mayfield's own eyes. But as she attempts to get to the truth of the matter, she stumbles on something far more sinister. Walwyk seems to be in the grip of a centuries-old evil, and anybody who questions events in the village does not last long. Death stalks more than one victim, and Miss Mayfield begins to realise that if she's not careful, she will be the next to die...

Narrative Mourning

Author : Kathleen M. Oliver
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684481910
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Mourning written by Kathleen M. Oliver and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Mourning argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body in eighteenth-century Britain found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person) within certain British novels. These relics/relicts exist as material signs of loss and as compensation for loss; they exist as surrogates for the absent (living, dead, or dying) and as reliquaries for their "psychic" essences.

Gothic Hauntings

Author : Christine Berthin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230275125
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Hauntings written by Christine Berthin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of language.

The Liberty Man

Author : Gillian Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939140807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Liberty Man written by Gillian Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two people from very different walks of life meet and fall in love but their affair is intrinsically doomed.

The Ha-Ha

Author : Jannifer Dawson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015925038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Ha-Ha written by Jannifer Dawson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Doom that Came to Mellonville

Author : Madison McSweeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087983677
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Doom that Came to Mellonville written by Madison McSweeney and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magician Isaac Plank owned a collection of oddities from around the world. Only he could control their sinister powers. But Isaac is dead now, and his father - respectable accountant Lawrence Plank - has put his estate up for auction. After a local hoarder buys his spellbook, she brings Isaac back from beyond the grave and inadvertently unleashes an army of cursed knickknacks. Now, Lawrence and Isaac must do battle against reanimated taxidermy, flesh-eating shrunken heads, an angry mob, and a vengeful mummy who yearns to rule again.