Author : Michael D. Graves
Publisher : Meadowlark
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781734247732
Pete Stone, Private Investigator, is hired by a university professor to investigate a murder. Stone harbors doubts about the professor and his motives; the professor is keeping secrets of his own. Another murder leaves puzzling clues. Is the professor a serial killer, a mere pawn in a cruel game, or the next victim?
Author : Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0547351798
A boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the beginning. Celebrated author Vivian Vande Velde is at her spine-tingling best in this collection of thirteen scary stories, all of which take place on Halloween night. With tales that range from the disturbing to the downright gruesome, this is one collection that teens will want to read with the lights on . . . and the doors locked.
Author : Michael Penning
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2020-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781777181215
A century after the witch trials, Salem is still not without its witches... Alice Jacobs doesn't believe in ghosts... until her daughter is taken by one. When her husband disappears while investigating a series of strange and terrible incidents in the bustling seaport of Salem, Alice is forced to bring her young daughter, Abigail, along from Boston while she takes up the search. But she soon learns of a terrible prophecy that has the entire town bracing for nightfall: one hundred years after being hanged for witchcraft, the vengeful spirit of Rebecca Hale will rise from hell on All Hallows' Eve to claim the souls of Salem's children. Alice dismisses the old legend as foolish superstition... until Abigail is snatched from her bed by a sinister woman made of smoke and mist. Desperate to find her daughter before the sun rises and she is lost forever, Alice races against time on a spine-chilling adventure that takes her from forgotten dungeons and gloomy cemeteries to the haunted forests of Gallows Hill. Along with Jonas Hobbes-a roguish sailor searching for his own missing child-she battles deadly supernatural forces and uncovers a dark secret that may be the key to saving Abigail's soul... if only she can survive the most terrifying night of her life.
Author : Charles Williams
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN :
Author : Luccia Gray
Publisher : Lucia Garcia Magaldi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2014-05-02
Category :
ISBN : 9788461710096
Experience the mystery and magic of a Victorian Gothic Romance, set in Eyre Hall, and rediscover the charm of Jane Eyre in this stunning sequel. Twenty-two years after her marriage to Edward Rochester, Jane is coping with the imminent death of her bedridden husband, while Richard Mason, Rochester's first wife's brother, has returned from Jamaica, revealing unspeakable secrets once again, and drawing Jane into a complex conspiracy. Everything Jane holds dear is threatened. Who was the man she thought she loved? What is she prepared to do to safeguard her family and preserve her own stability?
Author : Michael Graves
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2015-11-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780692567791
Pete Stone hadn't always been a private eye. He'd lost his dairy business at the toss of a coin when the depression hit. His children grew up, as children do, and his wife left him for a chinchilla farmer. He had learned to like his solitude. When Mrs. Lucille Hamilton walked through his door searching for her missing husband, Pete was the only one who believed her husband's death hadn't been a suicide. "With a clean, detailed, vigorous style, Graves introduces us to Detective Pete Stone, his worldly and lovable gumshoe. Set in 1930's Wichita, Midwesterners will take particular joy in Graves's depiction of the city and the jazz age in this compelling mystery." --Kevin Rabas, Lisa's Flying Electric Piano
Author : Gereon Goldmann
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681495554
We had to do it. We had to reprint this book. Rarely has a book had such an impact on so many of us here at Ignatius Press. It is one of the most powerful and moving books we have come across. If you can only buy one book this season, this must be the one. Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came to pass will astound you. Father Goldmann tells of his own incredible experiences of the trials of war, his many escapes from almost certain death, and the diabolical persecution that he and his fellow Catholic soldiers encountered on account of their faith. What emerges is an extraordinary witness to the workings of Divine Providence and the undying power of love, prayer, faith, and sacrifice. Illustrated
Author : William Chapman Sharpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190682264
What's in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from Rembrandt to Welles and Warhol, from Lord of the Rings to the latest video game, shadows act as central players in the drama of Western culture. Yet because they work silently, artistic shadows often slip unnoticed past audiences and critics. Conceived as an accessible introduction to this elusive phenomenon, Grasping Shadows is the first book that offers a general theory of how all shadows function in texts and visual media. Arguing that shadow images take shape within a common cultural field where visual and verbal meanings overlap, William Sharpe ranges widely among classic and modern works, revealing the key motifs that link apparently disparate works such as those by Fra Angelico and James Joyce, Clementina Hawarden and Kara Walker, Charles Dickens and Kumi Yamashita. Showing how real-world shadows have shaped the meanings of shadow imagery, Grasping Shadows guides the reader through the techniques used by writers and artists to represent shadows from the Renaissance onward. The last chapter traces how shadows impact the art of the modern city, from Renoir and Zola to film noir and projection systems that capture the shadows of passers-by on streets around the globe. Extending his analysis to contemporary street art, popular songs, billboards, and shadow-theatre, Sharpe demonstrates a practical way to grasp the "dark side" that looms all around us.
Author : Manuel Arenas
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781956702026
For those who hunger for small bites of horror sweetened with black humor, this collection of Grim Tales and Gothic Fancies offers a satisfying repast: morbidly playful riffs on the faerie tales of the Brothers Grimm; darkly exquisite Gothic fables in both prose and verse; and hell-raising evocations of beings both demonic and diabolic. A rich feast of horrors leavened with wit, Book of Shadows offers a delicious glimpse into the decadent heart and mordant mind of Manuel Arenas. In "The Sanguinary Saga of Morbidezza Vespertilio, Vampiress," Arenas inverts "Sleeping Beauty" with more than a touch of Gothicism in the style of Hammer horror. With "Rosaire, Master of Wolves," he shows us the dark genesis and bloody destiny of a born werewolf. A lighter touch is used in "Gothilocks," a playfully sardonic update on "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The dread demon of Christmas makes an appearance in "Greetings from Krampus," and in "Nativity in Black: An Anti-Christmas Story," we are presented with a dark celebration featuring all creatures great and infernal in a pageant-quite literally-from Hell. This volume is sumptuously illustrated by Dan Sauer, whose surreal images heighten the effect of the dark fantasies contained herein.
Author : Westley Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 130457718X
Detective Jeb Parsons' daughter Logan disappeared on Halloween Night, an apparent victim of the serial killer known only as Scarecrow. A year later, Scarecrow has returned to terrorize the small town of Raven's Hollow once again, and to leave Parsons a new string of clues and bloody bodies. It's now a race against the clock, and Parsons knows his time is running out. He MUST capture Scarecrow and find out what happened to Logan, before it's too late. But some mysteries may be better left unsolved...
