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A Self-Made Monster

Author : Steve Vivian
Publisher : Bitingduck Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1886420580
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book A Self-Made Monster written by Steve Vivian and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead too have hopes... And among the hopeful dead is Alex Resartus: obtuse professor, obscure novelist, schizophrenic...and vampire. As an obtuse professor, he bewilders and frustrates his bored students; as an obscure novelist with a once-promising reputation, he desires to recover his creative powers, but his shattered mind stands in the way. As a schizophrenic, Alex's mind is broken, and in this most unusual novel, A Self-Made Monster, Alex plans to reorganize his broken mind with whole blood. For Alex's special quirkOCoboth his blessing and his curseOCois that he takes on the traits of his victims in most surprising ways. Alex sees the brilliant and socially backward student, Edward Head, as his savior: Edward's disciplined and powerful mind is just the tonic Alex needs to rejuvenate his creative powers. But Alex is not the only one with hopes. The living among him have their own hopes. EdwardOCOs hopes are carnal. He desires both Holly Dish, an amalgam of sweaty undergraduate daydreams, and Claire Sweet, a returning adult coed who is both cool and mysterious. Holly and Claire too have their own hopes, as does the short and cynical Jimmy Stubbs, who hates to study and loves to drink beer and scheme. The hopes of each character intersect and eventually violently knotOCoproducing a twisting climax that leaves some characters dead and others about to savor an astounding financial windfall. By turns violent and funny, A Self-Made Monster is one of the most unusual vampire novels ever published. It strips away the tired clich(r)s and purple prose of the vampire story and replaces them with dead-on characterizations, a galloping plot, and a new conception of the vampire itself. Boson Books also offers Flunky and Prelude to Hemlock by Steve Vivian. For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com."

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

Author : Lynn Fulton
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0525579621
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein written by Lynn Fulton and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2018 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books On the bicentennial of Frankenstein, join Mary Shelley on the night she created the most frightening monster the world has ever seen. On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired. As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. After much talk of science and the secrets of life, Mary had gone to bed exhausted and frustrated that nothing she could think of was scary enough. But as she drifted off to sleep, she dreamed of a man that was not a man. He was a monster. This fascinating story gives readers insight into the tale behind one of the world's most celebrated novels and the creation of an indelible figure that is recognizable to readers of all ages. "Eye-catching artwork and engaging storytelling give this biography of a fascinating woman even more appeal."--Booklist

Mary's Monster

Author : Lita Judge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1626725004
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Mary's Monster written by Lita Judge and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.

Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes

Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786407552
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who directed, produced, and starred in the scary and fantastic movies of the genre heyday over thirty years ago created memorable experiences as well as memorable movies. This McFarland Classic brings together over fifty interviews with the directors, producers, actors, and make-up artists of science fiction and horror films of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. From B movies to classics, Samuel Z. Arkoff to Acquanetta, these veteran vampire baits, swamp monsters, and flying saucers attackees share their memories. This classic volume represents the union of two previous volumes: Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers ("more fun than the lovably cheap movies that inspired it"--Booklist/RBB); and Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes ("candid...a must" --ARBA). Together at last, this combined collection of interviews offers a candid and delightful perspective on the movies that still make audiences squeal with fear, and occasionally, howl with laughter.

A Self-Made Monster

Author : Steve Vivian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886429581
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book A Self-Made Monster written by Steve Vivian and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead too have hopes ...?? And among the hopeful dead is Alex Resartus: obtuse professor, obscure novelist, schizophrenic ... and vampire.??As an obtuse professor, he bewilders and frustrates his bored students; as an obscure novelist with a once-promising reputation, he desires to recover his creative powers, but his shattered mind stands in the way. As a schizophrenic, Alex's mind is "broken", and in this most unusual novel, A Self-Made Monster, Alex plans to reorganize his broken mind with whole blood. For Alex's special quirkboth his blessing and his curseis that he takes on the traits.

Escape Velocity

Author : Mark Dery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196500
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Escape Velocity written by Mark Dery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Without a doubt the best guide I have read to the new computer culture . . . witty and provocative . . . sane and thoughtful” (J. G. Ballard). “A lively compendium of dispatches from the far reaches of today’s computer savvy avant-garde”, Escape Velocity explores the dawn of the Information Age, and the high-tech subcultures that celebrated, critiqued, and gave birth to our wired world and a counterculture digital underground (The New York Times Book Review). Poised between technological rapture and social rupture, Escape Velocity poses the fundamental question of our time: Is technology liberating or enslaving us in the twenty-first century? Mark Dery takes us on an electrifying tour of the high-tech underground. Investigating the shadowy byways of cyberculture, we meet would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyberhippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, techno-primitives who sport “biomechanical” tattoos of computer circuitry, and cyberpunk roboticists whose dystopian contraptions duel to the death before howling crowds. “Re-prov[ing] Dery an astute and trustworthy patrolman of the cultural and social borderland between science fiction and non-fiction”, Escape Velocity stands alone as the first truly critical inquiry into cyberculture (Wired). Shifting the focus of our conversation about technology from the corridors of power to disparate voices on the cultural fringes, Dery wires it into the power politics and social issues of the moment. It is essential reading for everyone interested in computer culture and the shape of things to come.

A Self-made Woman; Or, Mary Idyl's Trials and Triumphs

Author : Emma May Buckingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Self-made Woman; Or, Mary Idyl's Trials and Triumphs written by Emma May Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mortal Consequences

Author : Clayton Emery
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 078696393X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Consequences written by Clayton Emery and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final installment in the Netheril Trilogy, Sunbright Steelshanks returns home to find much has changed since his departure The Netherese Empire is at risk of collapse as a forgotten foe, armed with a hell-spawned source of destructive magic, returns to seek her revenge and claim a lost love. Against this backdrop of war and chaos, Sunbright—weary of his banishment—returns to his home and the accusations from which he escaped. However, much has changed since Sunbright’s departure, and his people are suffering greatly. Equipped with skills learned on his adventures, Sunbright must discover whether he can forgive his early enemies and rise to a role of leadership for the good of his homeland—all while evading the wrath of the gods.

Hey, That's MY Monster!

Author : Amanda Noll
Publisher : Flashlight Press
ISBN 13 : 1947277081
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Hey, That's MY Monster! written by Amanda Noll and published by Flashlight Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced eBook features read-along narration. Winner: CLC Seal of Approval 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards, Silver, Preschool/Early Reader Fantasy Finalist: 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards 2017 PNBA Long-List When Ethan looks under the bed for his monster, he finds this note instead: "So long, kid. Gotta go. Someone needs me more than you do. –Gabe" How will Ethan ever get to sleep without his monster's familiar, comforting snorts? And who could need Gabe more than Ethan does? Gabe must have gone to Ethan's little sister's room! She has been climbing out of bed every night to play, and obviously needs a monster to help her get to sleep – but not HIS monster! Ethan tries to help his sister find her own monster, but none are the perfect blend of cute and creepy. Just when it seems that Ethan will lose his monster forever, an uninvited, tutu-toting little monster full of frightening fun appears. Following in the spooky-silly tradition of I Need My Monster, here's another irresistible monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers.

Searching for Sasquatch

Author : B. Regal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118291
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Sasquatch written by B. Regal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monster hunting in the late 20th century, but the more important relationship between the professional scientists and amateur naturalists who hunt them—and their place in the history of science.

Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Author : Miranda Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199543283
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris written by Miranda Gill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th-century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this interdisciplinary study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.

Cabinet Des Fees 2

Author : Helen Pilinovsky
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809572656
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Cabinet Des Fees 2 written by Helen Pilinovsky and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second double-sized issue of Cabinet des Fees brings you more new explorations of the fairy tale in fiction and fact. Here you'll cross paths with ghosts and giants, imps and unicorns, discover new twists on sleeping beauties and ugly stepsisters, and explore how such geniuses as Angela Carter brought their own unique visions to bear in retelling these dark and timeless delights. Into the woods we go ...."

Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature

Author : Riccardo Moratto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000553426
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature written by Riccardo Moratto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on ecocritical aspects throughout Chinese literature, particularly modern and contemporary Chinese literature, the contributors to this book examine the environmental and ecological dimensions of notions such as qing (情) and jing (境). Chinese modern and contemporary environmental writing offers a unique aesthetic perspective toward the natural world. Such a perspective is mainly ecological and allows human subjects to take a benign and nonutilitarian attitude toward nature. The contributors to this book demonstrate how Chinese literary ecology tends toward an ecological-systemic holism from which all human behaviors should be closely examined. They do so by examining a range of writers and genres, including Liu Cixin’s science fiction, Wu Ming-yi’s environmental fiction, and Zhang Chengzhi’s historical narratives. This book provides valuable insights for scholars and students looking to understand how Chinese literature conceptualizes the relationship between humanity and nature, as well as our role and position within the natural realm.

Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition)

Author : Jeff Chang
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250198550
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition) written by Jeff Chang and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Book Award winner, now completely adapted for a young adult audience! From award-winning author Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop is the story of hip-hop, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever. Hip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America, giving new voice to the younger generation. It defines a generation's worldview. Exploring hip hop's beginnings up to the present day, Jeff Chang and Dave "Davey D" Cook provide a provocative look into the new world that the hip hop generation has created. Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip hop's forebears, founders, mavericks, and present day icons, this book chronicles the epic events, ideas and the music that marked the hip hop generation's rise.

Gretel and the Dark

Author : Eliza Granville
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594633959
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Gretel and the Dark written by Eliza Granville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating and atmospheric historical novel about a young girl in Nazi Germany, a psychoanalyst in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the powerful mystery that links them together. Gretel and the Dark explores good and evil, hope and despair, showing how the primal thrills and horrors of the stories we learn as children can illuminate the darkest moments in history, in two rich, intertwining narratives that come together to form one exhilarating, page-turning read. In 1899 Vienna, celebrated psychoanalyst Josef Breuer is about to encounter his strangest case yet: a mysterious, beautiful woman who claims to have no name, no feelings—to be, in fact, a machine. Intrigued, he tries to fathom the roots of her disturbance. Years later, in Nazi-controlled Germany, Krysta plays alone while her papa works in the menacingly strange infirmary next door. Young, innocent, and fiercely stubborn, she retreats into a world of fairy tales, unable to see the danger closing in around her. When everything changes and the real world becomes as frightening as any of her stories, Krysta finds that her imagination holds powers beyond what she could ever have guessed. Rich, compelling, and propulsively building to a dizzying final twist, Gretel and the Dark is a testament to the lifesaving power of the imagination and a mesmerizingly original story of redemption.

The Great American Makeover

Author : D. Heller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312376170
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Makeover written by D. Heller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great American Makeover is a collection of essays that explore the American makeover mythos that has been recently repackaged in the form of popular makeover television programs such as Extreme Makeover, The Swan, Supernanny, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Unseaming

Author : Mike Allen
Publisher : Mythic Delirium Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unseaming written by Mike Allen and published by Mythic Delirium Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW WITH NEW BONUS CONTENT! 2014 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best collection 2014 This Is Horror Award finalist for best collection 2015 Chesley Award finalist for best cover Mike Allen has put together a first class collection of horror and dark fantasy. Unseaming burns bright as hell among its peers. --Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All Allen's stories deliver solid shivering terror tinged with melancholy sorrow over the fragility of humankind. --Publishers Weekly, starred review The stories ... range from the sly to the splatteringly horrific, with every nuance of dread and menace in between. --Library Journal, starred review Everyone in the world awakens covered in blood-and no one knows where the blood came from. A childhood doll arrives to tear its owner's reality limb from limb. A portal to the spirit realm stretches wide on the Appalachian Trail, and something more than human crawls through on eight legs. Words of comfort change to terrifying sounds as a force from outside time speaks through them. The buttons in the bin will unseam your flesh to bare your nastiest secrets. Opening with "The Button Bin," a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and culminating with its sequel, "The Quiltmaker," which Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Laird Barron has hailed as Mike Allen's masterpiece, this debut collection gathers fourteen horror tales that, in the words of Barron's introduction, "rival anything committed to paper by the likes of contemporary masters such as Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, or Caitlín Kiernan. This is raw, visceral, and sometimes bloody stuff. Primal stuff." More praise for Unseaming: Throughout Unseaming, reality is usually in bad shape right from the start-and from there things proceed to go downhill. Such is the general background and trajectory of life in Mike Allen's fictional world. More could be said, of course, but there's one thing that I feel especially urged to say: these stories are fun. Not "good" fun, and certainly not "good clean" fun. They are too unnerving for those modifiers, too serious, like laughter in the dark-unnerving, serious laughter that leads you through Mr. Allen's funhouse. The reality in there is also in bad shape, deliberately so, just for the seriously unnerving fun of it. The prose is poetic, except it's nonsense poetry, the poetry of deteriorating realities, intermingling realities, realities without Reality. And all the while that unnerving, serious laughter keeps getting louder and louder. Are we having fun yet? --Thomas Ligotti, author of Teatro Grottesco and The Spectral Link Allen can write as lyrically and as viscerally as the best of them ... an exceptional debut collection. --Locus Mike Allen's Unseaming confirms his status as a poet who writes in dread and awe rather than ink. His most recurrent themes are those of wrenching loss and transformative retribution, with a liberal helping of the literal fear of God(s); sowing out a hundred different apocalypses, personal and otherwise, these stories reap an unforgettable crop of nightmares, sketching a chimeric universe in which shape-changing is less a rumour or an option than a sad, simple inevitability. Not to be missed. --Gemma Files, author of We Will All Go Down Together Mike Allen blends a poet's attention to language with a crime reporter's instinct for the darker precincts of human behavior...These stories glow with demonic energy, and what they illuminate are the faces of our secret selves, screaming back at us from the mirror's depths. --John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies Offbeat, gruesome conceits and expert delivery. --Asimov's Science Fiction One of the most original practitioners of the body horror subgenre since Clive Barker's Books of Blood. --Rue Morgue