Author : Robert M. Price
Publisher : Chaosium Inc.
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1568822049
Horror and Wonder at the Ends of the Earth Writers are drawn to the unreachable places of the Earth - to the greatest mountains and depths of the sea, the most barren deserts, and to the white frozen deserts surrounding the north and south poles. In our minds' eyes, the beauty and mystery of the ice descends from Poe to the present and into the future, an infinite realm of wonder.
Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0786499516
From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "life through time" narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold "evolution" of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century.
Author : Asenath Mason
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2016-01-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1365057143
The magic of the Necronomicon is based on dreams, visions and transmissions from planes and dimensions beyond the world as we know it, channeled and earthed by sensitive individuals. This book thoroughly explores this magical tradition, discussing the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos from the perspective of a practitioner, providing applicable methods of work, both for beginners and advanced magicians. It presents basic magical concepts and techniques of their practical use within the context of the Necronomicon Gnosis: pacts and ceremonies, astral journeys, dream magic, scrying and travelling through gateways to interstellar dimensions, evocations, invocations, sex magic, self-initiation, shape-shifting, necromancy, the art of sacrifice, and many others.
Author : Robert M. Price
Publisher : Chaosium Inc.
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 156882193X
This book is part of an expanding collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction and related topics that focus on single entities, concepts, or authors significant to readers and fans of H.P. Lovecraft.
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780337140
As usual, acclaimed horror anthologist Stephen Jones has chosen the finest short stories and novellas of supernatural and psychological fiction. With the most comprehensive review of the year, useful contact lists, and a fascinating necrology as a bonus, this is one book that every horror fan must have.
Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0786426721
"This literary survey examines how paleoliterature originated, developed and matured from its inception to the present day. It follows trends on the crafting of classic dinosaurs, investigating the figurative and metaphoric meaning of fictional dinosaursand related prehistoria. An appendix provides brief summaries of deserving dinosaur texts, organized alphabetically by author. "--Provided by publisher.
Author : Roger Johnson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780920512
Tales of phantoms, demons and alien gods, including all the stories from the out-of-print collection A Ghostly Crew: Tales from the Endeavour, winner of the Dracula Societys Children of the Night Award for 2001
Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476687218
During the 2010s, science fiction's immortal adversaries King Kong and Godzilla, representing our conflicts per Carl Sagan's "dream dragons" analogy, made comebacks in American cinema. The blockbuster Kaiju resurged onto the screen, depicting these protectors of an Earth plagued by mankind's hubris and folly. With Earth's future hanging in the balance, their climactic 2021 staging settled a score between the two giant monsters, resolving Toho's classic 1963 film King Kong vs. Godzilla. As formidable creatures emerging from Time's Tomb on Mother Earth, metaphorical Kong and Godzilla are considered here in light of new millennial environmentalism's stark reality. This book, nostalgic in tone, explores the meaning of Kong and Godzilla as planetary saviors--titanic protectors of a theoretical "living Earth" Gaia--defending the globe from a prehistoric plague of adversaries.
Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0786458151
Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th century, early fossilists gained understanding of prehistoric creatures such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This historical study examines how these genuine beasts morphed in the public imagination into mythical, powerful engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their place in popular culture, film, and literature as symbols of "lost worlds" where time stands still.
Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107379768
This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.
