Ancient Sorceries Deluxe Edition

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782278511

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Ancient Sorceries, Deluxe Edition by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

A beautifully produced new edition of Blackwood’s weirdest supernatural stories, including “The Willows,” highlighted by H.P. Lovecraft as "the single finest weird tale in literature” Lauded as one of our greatest storytellers, and inspiring generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Tolkien to Stephen King, Algernon Blackwood left a legacy as one of Britain's greatest conjurors of weird and supernatural stories. Blackwood’s inimitable style puts readers right in the middle of the story, with visceral and nature-inspired fear that lies just beyond the real, often in the form of a nameless dread. This beautifully produced edition, with a stunning cover and thoughtful design and layout to ensure the most enjoyable reading experience, features four of his most unnervingly curious tales: Ancient Sorceries--a traveller stops in a remote French hill town and soon finds himself unable to leave; there is something strangely feline about the inhabitants, he notices, and they all seem to be watching him very closely… The Listener--a lodging house guest feels himself observed by a malevolent presence. Soon it transpires his room’s previous occupant is watching him from beyond the grave, and is envious of the very flesh on his bones. The Sea Fit--an old retired ship’s captain’s ravings build to a terrifying climax, as he offers himself up as a sacrifice to the cruel gods of the sea. The Willows--two friends on a canoeing trip spend a terrifying night on a lonely willow-covered island, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water.

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1327950211

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Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : OCLC:23998585

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Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359937745

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The Algernon Blackwood Collection by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

The Algernon Blackwood Collection includes four of the best Blackwood novellas: The Empty House, The Damned, The Willows and The Wendigo.

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405972987

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Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Author : Gordon David Lyle Bates
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031427251

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The Uncanny Rise of Medical Hypnotism, 1888–1914 by Gordon David Lyle Bates Pdf

This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect. It follows the careers of the ‘New Hypnotists’: Charles Lloyd Tuckey, John Milne Bramwell, George Kingsbury and Robert Felkin. This loosely knit group all trained with the Suggestion School of Nancy and published books on hypnotism. They had to confront the many public and medical prejudices against the trance state which had persisted after the scandalous disgrace of John Elliotson and medical mesmerism, fifty years before. Hypnotism was a highly contested technology and in the 1890s the debates about safety and utility were fought in the national newspapers as well as the medical journals. The new hypnotists took on the might of the medical institutions personified by Ernest Hart, Editor of the British Medical Journal. However their timing was propitious, as the rise of faith-healing forced the medical profession to confront the non-physical therapeutic aspects of the doctor-patient relationship. The hypnotic discourse was shaped by these developments, but also by the fascination of the general public, novelists, occultists, psychic investigators, educationalists and spiritualists in the myriad possibilities of the trance state. Despite growing interest in the prehistory of British psychology and talking therapies, and the recent challenges to the primacy of Freudian histories, there are few accounts of the development of British ‘eclectic therapy’. This book uses the New Hypnotists as a lens to examine Victorian medicine and society, exploring their role in establishing the term ‘psychotherapy,’ and legitimising medical hypnotism, a precursor of psychological therapies.

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft Pdf

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: The CALL of CTHULHU The Thing on the Doorstep Pickman's Model Herbert west-reanimator Dagon The Dreams in the Witch House The Dunwich Horror The Cats of Ulthar A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror. "I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King. Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

Author : S. T. Joshi,Guillermo del Toro
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101662755

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American Supernatural Tales by S. T. Joshi,Guillermo del Toro Pdf

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and—of course—Stephen King. This volumes also includes "The Yellow Sign," the most horrific story from The King in Yellow, the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hit TV series True Detective. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782275633

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The Paris Mysteries, Deluxe Edition by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

A beautiful gift edition of three macabre mysteries featuring the first and greatest of detectives, Auguste Dupin An apartment on the rue Morgue turned into a charnel house; the corpse of a shopgirl dragged from the Seine; a high-stakes game of political blackmail - three mysteries that have enthralled the whole of Paris, and baffled the city's police. The brilliant Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates - can he find the solution where so many others before him have failed? These three stories from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe are some of the most influential ever written, widely praised and credited with inventing the detective genre. This edition contains: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' and 'The Purloined Letter'.

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Illuminated Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948886006

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The Willows and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

A collection of the stories of Blackwood, precursor of Lovecraft and early master of weird fiction and uncanny horror has been lavishly illustrated by the celebrated graphic artist Pope..

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547804482

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Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Blackwood's best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". Contents: The Willows The Insanity of Jones Ancient Sorceries The Man Who Found Out The Wendigo The Glamour of the Snow The Man Whom the Trees Loved Sand

Author : Andrew Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955252505

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Arcane Ascension: Deluxe Edition by Andrew Rowe Pdf

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781222378733

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A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Though recognized primarily as a writer of 'weird' horror fiction for adults, Algernon Blackwood also wrote a number of delightful tales for children and young adults. A Prisoner in Fairyland is an engaging and imaginative romp through a mystical dimension that served as the basis for the popular children's play The Starlight Express. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

Author : Algernon Blackwood,S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486299426

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The Complete John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood,S. T. Joshi Pdf

Six tales of horror from a master craftsman: "A Psychical Invasion," "Ancient Sorceries," "Secret Worship," "The Nemesis of Fire," "The Camp of God," and "A Victim of Higher Space."

Author : Chris McDonnell
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683358725

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Steven Universe: End of an Era by Chris McDonnell Pdf

Chris McDonnell’s Steven Universe: End of an Era is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling behind-the-scenes companion book Steven Universe: Art & Origins. Foreword by Hugo Award–winning author N. K. Jemisin Showcasing new concept art, storyboards, background paintings, and exclusive interviews, End of an Era will update the history of the Emmy Award–winning series to cover season four through to the critically acclaimed finale, “Change Your Mind,” and beyond. Fans will find a special focus on creator and showrunner Rebecca Sugar’s elaborate process for creating the lore for the series, as she and the crew reveal how they discovered and developed the complete story arc for each character, as well as how they were able to design a show that so refreshingly captures and celebrates the experience of childhood. Steven Universe: End of an Era is a heartfelt send-off to one of the most progressive, imaginative, and beloved animated series of our time. “This book extends the life of this treasured animated series.” —Variety