Author : Blake Bell
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1560979216
Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is an art book tracing Ditko's life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, his strict adherence to his own (and Randian) principles, with lush displays of obscure and popular art from the thousands of pages of comics he's drawn over the last 55 years.
Author : Dalene Matthee
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143526863
Karoliena Kapp is a child of the forest, born into a community of woodcutters. She is given the advantage of a good education, but it serves only to heighten her growing realisation that, because of the harsh injustices of poverty, there is little hope for the woodcutters.The day after her marriage to Johannes, himself of woodcutter stock, she realises that she has made the wrong choice. She may have escaped from the poverty of the forest, but she has exchanged her freedom for a cage. Alone and afraid, she leaves her husband and takes the road back to the forest.
Author : Amanda Sun
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1460382242
After almost a year in Japan, Katie Greene has finally unearthed the terrible secret behind her boyfriend Tomohiro's deadly ability to bring drawings to life—not only is he descended from Kami, the ancient Japanese gods, but he is the heir to a tragedy that occurred long ago, a tragedy that is about to repeat. =Even as the blood of a vengeful god rages inside Tomo, Katie is determined to put his dark powers to sleep. In order to do so, she and Tomo must journey to find the three Imperial Treasures of Japan. Gifts from the goddess Amaterasu herself, these treasures could unlock all of the secrets about Tomo's volatile ancestry and quell the ink's lust for destruction. But in order to complete their quest, Tomo and Katie must confront out-of-control Kami and former friend Jun, who has begun his own quest of revenge against those he believes have wronged him. To save the world, and themselves, Katie and Tomo will be up against one of the darkest Kami creations they've ever encountered—and they may not make it out alive.
Author : Paul M.M. Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408862239
'An extraordinary debut ... River of Ink is what historical fiction should be: immersive, illuminating and captivating' The Times 'Vivid and compelling' Mail on Sunday 'A powerful and timely fable about freedom, resistance and the secret might of the weak' Financial Times _____________ From his humble village beginnings, Asanka has risen to the prestigious position of court poet in the great island kingdom of Lanka, delighting in a life of ease. But when the ruthless Kalinga Magha violently usurps the throne, Asanka's world is changed beyond imagination. To his horror, the king tasks him with the translation of an epic poem designed to civilise his subjects and snuff out the fires of rebellion... Asanka has always believed that poetry makes nothing happen, but as lines on the page become cries in the street he learns that true power lies not at the point of a sword, but in the tip of a pen.
Author : Cassie Gustafson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1534473696
Told in alternating viewpoints, new couple Erica and Thomas face the devastating aftermath of a drunken party.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 13364 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 802689815X
The biggest collection of supernatural, macabre, eerie, and gothic tales is here! Grab your copy and get ready for the chills down your spine: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental… H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House… Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm… Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island A Case of Eavesdropping Ancient Sorceries… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet… Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas… M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night… Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables… Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror… William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement… Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Jerome K. Jerome: Told After Supper…
Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1780999070
As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally elevated from pulp status to the classical literary canon with the release of a Library of America volume dedicated to his work. The impact of Lovecraft on philosophy has been building for more than a decade. Initially championed by shadowy guru Nick Land at Warwick during the 1990s, he was later discovered to be an object of private fascination for all four original members of the twenty-first century Speculative Realist movement. In this book, Graham Harman extracts the basic philosophical concepts underlying the work of Lovecraft, yielding a weird realism capable of freeing continental philosophy from its current soul-crushing impasse. Abandoning pious references by Heidegger to Hölderlin and the Greeks, Harman develops a new philosophical mythology centered in such Lovecraftian figures as Cthulhu, Wilbur Whately, and the rat-like monstrosity Brown Jenkin. The Miskatonic River replaces the Rhine and the Ister, while Hölderlin's Caucasus gives way to Lovecraft's Antarctic mountains of madness.
Author : Laurence C. Hatch
Publisher : Laurence Hatch Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
Sci-fi diary of a security agent in a near-earth space colony. The agent, his girlfriend, and earth-alien hybrid cat explore newly discovered humanoid cultures and science. Dozens of future technologies and non-earth concepts in art, agriculture, law enforcement, amusement, food, music, pets, and daily work are integrated with rich, fascinating detail. You'll meet the shy Meti species who communicate with colored eye pulses and the earth-like Posau whose residents are friendly and eager to learn of earth culture. www.laurencehatchpress.com published with Google Play Books
Author : K L Jones
Publisher : Kirsten Jones
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Isle is overcrowded. In an era of peace overseen by the powerful Mage Sphinx and Cassius De Winter, gifted Seer and Divinus of the Ri, the tribes on the Isle have flourished, and the result is vibrant chaos. It is harder than ever to maintain control and keep the Isle a secret. The younger generation has grown restless. The time has come to seek a new haven. England, 1703. A religious fanatic is seeking his defining cause. A chance meeting with a son of the Isle opens his eyes to the nightmare creatures he thought only existed in Revelations. It is a sign. He has been sent a mission from God.
Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811225291
A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Bartleby & Co. The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolano, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is "the most important living Spanish writer."
