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Monster Portraits

Author : Sofia Samatar

Publisher : Rose Metal Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,8 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781941628102

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"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.



Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance

Author : Touba Ghadessi

Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 43,70 MB

Release : 2018-03-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1580442765

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At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The study traces how these monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. The works examined here point to the intricate cultural, religious, ethical, and scientific perceptions of monstrous individuals who were fixtures in contemporary courts.



Monster Mama

Author : Liz Rosenberg

Publisher : Puffin Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,16 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Bullies

ISBN : 9780698114296

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Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.



Book of Monsters

Author : David Fairchild

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 42,22 MB

Release : 2019-11-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"Book of Monsters: Portraits and Biographies of a Few of the Inhabitants of Woodland and Meadow" by David Fairchild and Marian Fairchild David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. With his wife, Marian, he wrote this collection of biographical sketches of animals, bugs, and plants that live in the woods. The pictures in this book are portraits of creatures which are as much the real inhabitants of the world as we are, and have all the rights of ownership that we have, but, because their own struggle for existence so often crosses ours, many of them are our enemies. Indeed, man's own real struggle for the supremacy of the world is his struggle to control these tiny monsters.



Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos

Author : Kerry Gammill

Publisher : Vanguard Productions

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 27,24 MB

Release : 2006-07

Category : Art

ISBN : 9781887591720

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Highlighting the artist who changed movie monster art, this in-depth exploration of Gogos's work includes a long interview with the artist and more than 180 illustrations from his long career as an artist and illustrator. Original.



The Winged Histories

Author : Sofia Samatar

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 27,71 MB

Release : 2016-02-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1618731157

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Four women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history. Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Winged Histories is the saga of an empire — and a family: their friendships, their enduring love, their arcane and deadly secrets. Samatar asks who makes history, who endures it, and how the turbulence of historical change sweeps over every aspect of a life and over everyone, no matter whether or not they choose to seek it out. Sofia Samatar is the author of the Crawford, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy award-winning novel A Stranger in Olondria. She also received the John W. Campbell Award. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and many other publications. She is working on a collection of stories. Her website is sofiasamatar.com.



My Favorite Thing is Monsters

Author : Emil Ferris

Publisher : Fantagraphics Books

Page : 418 pages

File Size : 30,89 MB

Release : 2017-02-15

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1606999591

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Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.



A Stranger in Olondria

Author : Sofia Samatar

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 330 pages

File Size : 37,85 MB

Release : 2013-04-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1931520771

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Time Magazine: 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time · World Fantasy, British Fantasy, & Crawford Award winner Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl. In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of becoming free by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that seductive necromancy, reading. A Stranger in Olondria is a skillful and immersive debut fantasy novel that pulls the reader in deeper and deeper with twists and turns reminiscent of George R. R. Martin and Joe Hill.



Weaveworld

Author : Clive Barker

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 672 pages

File Size : 33,69 MB

Release : 2021-03-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1982158093

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The Seerkind, a people who possess the power to make magic, have weaved themselves into a rug for safekeeping. Now, with the last human caretaker dead, a variety of humans vie for ownership of the rug.



Monster

Author : Aileen Wuornos & Christopher Berry-Dee

Publisher : Kings Road Publishing

Page : 105 pages

File Size : 14,65 MB

Release : 2016-06-30

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1843586940

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Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida, on the 9th of October, 2002 at the age of 46. She was the 10th woman to be sentenced to death in the USA since the death penalty resumed in 1976. Convicted for the murder of six men, in a two month period, Aileen claimed she acted in self defence however the investigation into these claims was poor and she later retracted her statement announcing to the Supreme Court, "I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again." All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - the killings of Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film "Monster", this is her story in her own words.