The String of Pearls
Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1849
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Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1849
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Author : Michael Anglo
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1785853686
The hit Showtime TV series is presented in comics for the first time! Written by the scriptwriters of the hit Penny Dreadful TV show - Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Andrew Hindraker! Featuring Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), Sir Malcom Murray (Timothy Dalton) and Sembene (Danny Sapani) the story recounts the events that led up to the explosive first season of the show. This prequel reveals the terrifying events that led Vanessa to try and find her missing childhood firend, Mina Harker, and exposes the true nature of the vampiric monsters infesting Victorian London. Beautifully realized by Louie De Martinis, and written by the show scriptwriters, this collected edition takes the reader on a heart-stopping journey into the supernatural realm.
Author : Thomas Peckett Prest
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood is a horror story by Thomas Peckett Prest. Structured in different episodes, these are classic tales of blood sucking horrors at midnights, for fans of the genre.
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Orion
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 1975
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780575017795
Author : Editors of Canterbury Classics
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645178943
Eleven classic whodunits starring master sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Father Brown. A superstar lineup of detectives—including Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste Dupin, and Hercule Poirot—headlines this elegant leather-bound edition of classic mystery stories. Short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and G. K. Chesterton’s “The Blue Cross” are ideal for a cozy evening by the fire, while novels like Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Links and Jules Verne’s An Antarctic Mystery will keep you engrossed for days. The eleven works in this volume are preceded by a scholarly introduction that explores the origins of the genre, as well as the development of the modern mystery story and the contributions made by each author. Works Included Short stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe "The Adventure of the Creeping Man," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Blue Cross," G. K. Chesterton "The Coin of Dionysius," Ernest Bramah "The Anthropologist at Large," R. Austin Freeman "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell Novels: The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie Whose Body?, Dorothy Sayers The Thirty-nine Steps, John Buchan An Antarctic Mystery, Jules Verne Room 13, Edgar Wallace
Author : Mary Russo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136037500
The grotesque - the exagggerated, the deformed, the monstrous - has been a well-considered subject for students of comparative literature and art. In a major addition to the literature of art, cultural criticism and feminist studies, Mary Russo re-examines the grotesque in the light of gender, exploring the works of Angela Carter David Cronenberg Bahktin Kristeva Freud Zizek. Mary Russo looks at the portrayal of the grotesque in Western culture and by combining the iconographic and the historical, locates the role of the woman's body in the discourse of the grotesque.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1783293640
Written in 1897, Stoker’s novel introduces the iconic character of the vampire Count Dracula. Through a series of letters and diary entries, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form as we know it today.
Author : Sarah M. Eden
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781432872946
Authors Elizabeth Black and Fletcher Walker go head-to-head as rival writers of Victorian Penny Dreadfuls. As an upper class schoolteacher, Elizabeth must write under the pseudonym "Mr. King" in order to keep her identity a secret, while former street urchin Fletcher is determined to uncover the truth behind this up-and-coming new talent.
Author : Robert J. Kirkpatrick
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Boys
ISBN : 9780712309547
This book tells, for the first time, the full history of the British boys' periodical, from its origins in the second half of the 18th century to its decline after the Second World War. Beginning with educational and religious magazines, it follows the trail through the violent and sensational 'penny blood' which thrived between around 1830 and 1870, to early attempts to entertain as well as educate boys through monthly magazines, and the ground - breaking weekly story papers and 'penny dreadfuls' of Edwin J. Brett, beginning with Boys of England in 1866, and his rivalry with the Emmett brothers and other publishers. It also looks at cheap periodical publishing for boys in America, before exploring the introduction of more 'respectable' periodicals such as the Boy's Own Paper and Chums, and the attempts of a young Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe and founder of the Amalgamated Press, to usurp the 'penny dreadful' by producing the 'ha'penny dreadfuller'. Finally, it charts the progress of the story paper through the first half of the 20th century, before it gave way to comics, imported American magazines, and television. It concludes with a comprehensive checklist, giving publication details of over 600 periodicals.