The Witches Of Chiswick

Download The Witches Of Chiswick full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Witches Of Chiswick ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Witches of Chiswick

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575088222
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Witches of Chiswick by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book The Witches of Chiswick written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have all been lied to. A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past. Have you ever wondered how Victorians dreamed up all that fantastic futuristic fiction? Did it ever occur to you that it might just have been based upon fact? That THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was a true account of real events? That Captain Nemo' s Nautilus even now lies rusting at the bottom of the North Sea? That there really was an invisible man? And what about the other stuff? Did you know that Queen Victoria had a sexual relationship with Dr Watson? Or that the elephant man was a product of an E.T./human hybridisation programme? Or that Jack the Ripper was a terminator robot sent from the future? Read on: and learn how a cabal of Victorian Witches from the Chiswick Townswomen's Guild, working with advanced Babbage super-computers, rewrote 19th Century history, and how a 23rd Century boy called Will Starling uncovered the truth about everything.

Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture

Author : Rupa Huq
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780932588
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture by : Rupa Huq

Download or read book Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture written by Rupa Huq and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form.

Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140630
Total Pages : 2061 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction by : Don D'Ammassa

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

The Educated Ape and Other Wonders of the Worlds

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575086440
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Educated Ape and Other Wonders of the Worlds by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book The Educated Ape and Other Wonders of the Worlds written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams, the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women, a dangerous detective and Darwin the educated ape. Lord Brentford has a dream. To create a Grand Exposition that will showcase The Wonders of the Worlds and encourage peace between the inhabited planets of Venus, Jupiter and Earth. Ernest Rutherford has a dream. To construct a time ship, powered by the large hadron collider he has built beneath the streets of London. Cameron Bell is England's greatest detective and he, too, has a dream. To solve the crime of the century before it takes place, without blowing up any more of London's landmarks. Darwin is a monkey butler and he also has a dream. To end Man's inhumanity to Monkey and bring a little joy into the world. Lavinia Dharkstorrm has a dream of her own. Although hers is more of a nightmare. To erase Man and Monkey alike from the face of the Earth and to hasten in the End of Days. Then there is the crime-fighting superlady, all those chickens from the past and the unwelcome arrival of The Antichrist. Things are looking rather grim on planet Earth.

Satanism

Author : Faxneld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199913536
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Satanism by : Faxneld

Download or read book Satanism written by Faxneld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satanism is a phenomenon that has existed as a prominent trope since very beginning of Christianity, when the Church Fathers entertained fantasies about people worshipping the Devil and indulging in macabre rituals. In the early modern period, similarly unfounded ideas led to the infamous witch trials which transpired primarily between 1400 and 1700. In the 1980s and 1990s, what has been labelled a "Satanic Panic" swept the United States and parts of Europe, with again, unfounded rumors about secret Satanist networks committing gruesome murders, kidnappings and ritualistic child abuse. Today, the so called Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories in the United States again draw on these motifs, this time postulating that left-wing Satanists are secretly manipulating politics and doing nefarious deeds in the shadows. This book, however, is only indirectly concerned with the purely fictional Satanism of such paranoid fantasies. It does not deal directly with the literary tradition of Satanism either, where Satanists can appear as antagonists (or, more rarely, protagonists) in the plot of a story, or authors express Satanic sympathies in a poem or two. Rather, our selection of source texts focuses on actual, existing Satanic groups, and thinkers of importance to the emergence of a Satanic milieu that forms part of a broader landscape of alternative religion. Some of the texts do in a sense belong to the above-mentioned categories, e.g., Léo Taxil's spoof on conspiracy theories, or the quite literary pseudo-histories of Satanism - in fact Satanic tracts in disguise of Jules Michelet and Stanislaw Przybyszewski, but we have aimed to concentrate on 1. self-designated Satanic groups and ideologists, 2. groups and ideologists who prominently revere a figure they identify with Satan, even though they may not self-designate as Satanists, and 3. groups and ideologists mostly excluding, however, literary texts and conspiracy theories whose re-interpretations of Satan were crucial to the growth of such ideas--

Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment

Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137313242
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment by : Lizanne Henderson

Download or read book Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment written by Lizanne Henderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.

Burning Women

Author : P. Banerjee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113705204X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Burning Women by : P. Banerjee

Download or read book Burning Women written by P. Banerjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of 'Eastern barbarity'.

Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction

Author : A. Kingston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023060935X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction by : A. Kingston

Download or read book Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction written by A. Kingston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker.

Knees Up Mother Earth

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575088184
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Knees Up Mother Earth by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book Knees Up Mother Earth written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination - but the fate of mankind hangs upon the result. Of course. There's big trouble in little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy the borough's beloved football ground and build executive homes on the site. Shock! Outrage! Horror! The lads of The Flying Swan, Brentford's most celebrated drinking house, take up the challenge. Surely with these stalwarts working for the cause, Brentford's football ground can be saved? Would it were so, but this is Brentford and ancient forces of evil are forever stirring in the borough: Old Testament terrors, Lovecraftian loathsomes and beasties from the bottomless pit. And if the team make it through to the final, it's going to be a match that no one will forget. What with the fate of mankind hanging upon the result. And everything.

The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook)

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575129107
Total Pages : 2668 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook) by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook) written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 2668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains eight fantastic novels: THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE WITCHES OF CHISWICK, KNEES UP MOTHER EARTH, THE BRIGHINOMICON, THE TOYMINATOR, THE DA-DA-DE-DA-DA CODE, NECROPHENIA and RETROMANCER

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575088206
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious comic fantasy from the bestselling cult creator of the Brentford Triangle Trilogy Once upon a time Jack set out to find his fortune in the big city. But the big city is Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town, and it has grown considerably since the good old days and isn't all that jolly any more. And there is a serial killer loose on the streets. The old, rich nursery rhyme characters are being slaughtered one by one and the Toy City police are getting nowhere in their investigations. Meanwhile, Private Eye Bill Winkie has gone missing, leaving behind his sidekick Eddie Bear to take care of things. Eddie may be a battered teddy with an identity crisis, but someone's got to stop the killer. When he teams up with Jack, the two are ready for the challenge. Not to mention the heavy drinking, bad behaviour, car chases, gratuitous sex and violence, toy fetishism and all-round grossness along the way. It's going to be an epic adventure!

The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575087102
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonny Hooker has been picked as a WINNER! and all he has to do to claim his prize is to solve the Da-da-de-da-da Code. Jonny knows that beat; it always turns up in popular music - like 'Waltzing Matilda', or the National Anthem. And it has something to do with the Devil's Chord. And with Robert Johnson (who sold his soul to the Devil), whose blues influenced a generation of musicians. And it definitely has something to do with Elvis, who is still alive and rocking (of course). And with the Secret Parliament of Five, who meet in Gunnersbury Park to dictate world affairs. And when he solves the Da-da-de-da-da Code, Jonny will also discover why all the most famous rock musicians die aged twenty-seven, the truth about raising an ancient god, and the destruction of the world. It's all right there in the music. All Jonny has to do is to crack that code. Before he dies on Monday.

Necrophenia

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575086785
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Necrophenia by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book Necrophenia written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE IN EVERY THREE PEOPLE LIVING IS ACTUALLY DEAD! It is a matter of historical record that during the latter part of World War II, England's top-secret Ministry of Serendipity enlisted the services of arch-magician Aleister Crowley to create a Homunculus. Why? Well that's a long story, spanning almost seven decades as it follows the life and career of Tyler, rock star, private eye - and notable for the fact that he almost saved Mankind. The cast of millions also includes ukulele maestro George Formby, Mick Jagger, Mama Cass, Elvis Presley and Lazlo Woodbine. And Tyler's brother, Andy, who impersonates animals (and who single-handedly brought about the Swinging Sixties). And a lady named Clara from Croydon, who unlocked the meta-phenomena of the Multiverse. And a corner shopkeeper from Brentford, who created a sitting room for God. And a great many living dead. Oh yes, and it also involves a monster in human form whose intention it is to turn the Earth into a Necrosphere, a planet totally devoid of life ...

The Brightonomicon

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575088192
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Brightonomicon by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book The Brightonomicon written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our teenage hero, having been thrown from Brighton Pier by the leader of The Canvey Island Mod Squad, narrowly escapes drowning thanks to the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon (not to mention the reinventer of the Ocarina), Hugo Rune Himself. Our hero has lost his memory, and, in desperation, agrees to join The Lad Himself in the solving of twelve cases based upon The Brightonomicon, the new zodiac signs formed by the alignment of Brighton streets and discovered by Rune: carriageway constellations. And together they must find the Chronovision before it falls into the wrong hands and affords ultimate power to the would-be world dictator. And this being an adventure most exciting, they must find it before the sinister Count Otto Black, would-be World Dictator and all-round bad guy. Or the whole world will all go to pot.

The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575086807
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions by : Robert Rankin

Download or read book The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pickled Martian's tentacles are fraying at the ends and Professor Coffin's Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds. It's 1895; nearly a decade since Mars invaded Earth, chronicled by H.G. Wells in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Wrecked Martian spaceships, back-engineered by Charles Babbage and Nikola Tesla, have carried the Queen's Own Electric Fusiliers to the red planet, and Mars is now part of the ever-expanding British Empire. The less-than-scrupulous sideshow proprietor likes Off-worlders' cash, so he needs a sensational new attraction. Word has reached him of the Japanese Devil Fish Girl; nothing quite like her has ever existed before. But Professor Coffin's quest to possess the ultimate showman's exhibit is about to cause considerable friction amongst the folk of other planets. Sufficient, in fact, to spark off Worlds War Two.

The Witches of St Osyth

Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108857787
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Witches of St Osyth by : Marion Gibson

Download or read book The Witches of St Osyth written by Marion Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early modern England. Yet, for all their importance in the overall study of witchcraft, the so-called witches of St Osyth have largely been overlooked by scholars. Marion Gibson now sets right that neglect. Using fresh archival sources – and investigating not just the village itself, but also its neighbouring Elizabethan hamlets and habitations – the author offers revelatory new insights into the sixteen women and one man accused of sorcery while asking wider, provocative questions about the way history is recollected and interpreted. Combining landscape detective work, a reconstruction of lost spaces and authoritative readings of crucial documents, Gibson skilfully unlocks the poignant personal histories of those denied the chance to speak for themselves.

The Witches' Encyclopedia of Magical Plants

Author : Sandra Kynes
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738775649
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Witches' Encyclopedia of Magical Plants by : Sandra Kynes

Download or read book The Witches' Encyclopedia of Magical Plants written by Sandra Kynes and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Ultimate Acacia-to-Zinnia Guide 550+ Magical Plants for Rituals, Spellcraft, Divination & More An indispensable resource for magical practitioners, this illustrated encyclopedia offers detailed profiles of all the herbs, houseplants, fruits, vegetables, trees, and flowers you could ever need. This comprehensive reference guide is packed with familiar favorites, like apple and lemongrass, alongside lesser-known options, like moonwort and pignut. With hundreds of plants to choose from, you are sure to find the best botanical partners for raising healing energy, communing with your ancestors, increasing psychic abilities, manifesting your dreams, and more. Reflecting herbal traditions from around the world, the meticulously researched profiles include: Botanical, common, and folk names • Description and attributes History and lore • Inspiration for spells and rituals Correspondences • Appropriate cautions With the option to look up entries by name, magical use, zodiac sign, planetary association, or element, this book makes it easy to find the right plant for the job. The Witches' Encyclopedia of Magical Plants will support all your botanical needs along your unique spiritual path, making it an essential addition to your home library.