The Amityville Nuisance


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The Bishop & Holiday Paranormal Agency just can't catch a break lately. Modern wizard Dr. Henry Holiday is thrown in Hell Jail for summoning his dead cousin, forcing afterlife attorney Edna Bishop to take a tough prosecution job for no pay. Just when life couldn't get more difficult for Henry, his ten-years-estranged ex-fiancee - a chic and sexy medusa named Lulu - comes crashing back into his life. With her arrival comes the most grueling case Henry has ever undertaken. Will Henry and Lulu get back together? Can Henry survive a Born Again Christian pot luck dinner at the Amityville House? Is the house really haunted this time or what? Why has Edna's power of attorney suddenly dried up right before her important trial? Just where did that weird spider come from anyway? Will any of these questions be answered by the end of this book, or is it just a bunch of rhetorical marketing nonsense?




American Nightmares


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When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. “The House of Usher” and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.




Einstein's Greatest Blunder?


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This brief and witty book, by the award-winning science writer Donald Goldsmith, takes on key questions about the origin and evolution of the cosmos. By clearly laying out what we currently know about the universe as a whole, Goldsmith lets us see firsthand whether modern cosmology is in a state of crisis.




The Tourist's Guide to Hell


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In 1933 Max Ernst created a surreal collage art gallery called "A Week of Kindness", using French gothic novel art as a base, and adding clippings from other images to twist the scenes into surreal nightmares. In 2016, Mike MacDee got the idiotic idea to take the project a step further and add humorous captions to each panel. This is the result, an art "comedy" project that nobody asked for.




World Without Secrets


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The future of computing-the future of business Rapid technological innovation is moving us towards a world of ubiquitous computing-a world in which we are surrounded by smart machines that are always on, always aware, and always monitoring us. These developments will create a world virtually without secrets in which information is widely available and analyzable worldwide. This environment will certainly affect business, government, and the individual alike, dramatically affecting the way organizations and individuals interact. This book explores the implications of the coming world and suggests and explores policy options that can protect individuals and organizations from exploitation and safeguard the implicit contract between employees, businesses, and society itself. World Without Secrets casts an unflinching eye on a future we may not necessarily desire, but will experience.




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The Amityville Curse


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(Basis for the 2023 movie) THE ROOTS OF EVIL. The house in Amityville does not lie empty. Its eternal resident is evil, an age-old horror that waits anxiously with an unspeakable hunger.... Now, three young couples are looking over the property, the house. With ignorant confidence, they move in, but cannot get out.... The evil springs from centuries of sacred earth to twist their thoughts, abuse their deepest fears, and introduce them to the terrifying powers of blood.... Forever indebted to death is THE AMITYVILLE CURSE