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Corpse Cold: New American Folklore

Joseph Sullivan,John Brhel

Author : Joseph Sullivan,John Brhel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781387355549

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Corpse Cold: New American Folklore by Joseph Sullivan,John Brhel Pdf

They take place on desolate highways, in a dark and lonely wood, in ordinary neighborhoods just like your own. Tales of everyday people caught up in indomitable situations. Dread-inducing moments with an air of plausibility-while you hope to god they aren't actually true. Urban legends, modern folklore, or creepypasta. Whatever you call them, they represent shards of our deepest anxieties as individuals, as a society. CORPSE COLD: NEW AMERICAN FOLKLORE evokes the spirit of the campfire tales you heard as a kid. This 20-story anthology offers refreshing, mature reinterpretations of time-tested stories, and wholly original legends that explore the twisted labyrinth of modern myth. Each tale is brought to life and made all the more unsettling by the striking, grisly illustrations of artist Chad Wehrle.

American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales [3 volumes]

Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb

Author : Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610695688

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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales [3 volumes] by Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb Pdf

A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.

The Outrun

Amy Liptrot

Author : Amy Liptrot
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782115496

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The Outrun by Amy Liptrot Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZE At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.

What Waits in the Dark

Joe Sullivan

Author : Joe Sullivan
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1791381294

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What Waits in the Dark by Joe Sullivan Pdf

Who truly knows what lurks in dark corners or in the darkest of hearts? WHAT WAITS IN THE DARK contains eighteen illustrated tales which explore the horrors found at the periphery of shadow and light. ...A Soviet doctor attempts to play God during the Battle of Stalingrad. ...Friends come into contact with a Japanese urban legend in Syracuse, New York! ...A woman hears her husband sweetly singing to their daughter over the baby monitor, but soon realizes he's not home. ...A raucous fraternity takes a haunted hayride through the woods that they won't soon forget. These and 18 other creepypasta style spook tales can be found within WHAT WAITS IN THE DARK.

Skin Folk

Nalo Hopkinson

Author : Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504001199

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Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson Pdf

The SFWA Grand Master’s award-winning collection “combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling” (Library Journal). In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like “Precious,” in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In “A Habit of Waste,” a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she’s shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In “The Glass Bottle Trick,” the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband’s superstitions—to horrifying consequences. Hopkinson’s unique pacing and vibrant dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed. Praise for Nalo Hopkinson and the World Fantasy Award–winning Skin Folk “Hopkinson’s prose is vivid and immediate.” —The Washington Post Book World “An important new writer.” —The Dallas Morning News “Her descriptions of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances ring true, the result of her strong evocation of place and her ear for dialect.” —Publishers Weekly “A marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinson’s talents, skills and insights into the human conditions of life, especially of the fantastic realities of the Caribbean . . . Everything is possible in her imagination.” —Science Fiction Chronicle

La Llorona

Joe Hayes

Author : Joe Hayes
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780938317869

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La Llorona by Joe Hayes Pdf

A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

In the Eye of the Wild

Nastassja Martin

Author : Nastassja Martin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781681375861

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In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin Pdf

After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin’s professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker’s classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.

The Corpse Wore Tartan

Kaitlyn Dunnett

Author : Kaitlyn Dunnett
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758274083

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The Corpse Wore Tartan by Kaitlyn Dunnett Pdf

Angry Scots and a blizzard lead to murder in a small town in Maine in this cozy mystery by the author of A Wee Christmas Homicide. Can there be such a thing as too many men in kilts? Normally Liss MacCrimmon, proprietor of Moosetookalook, Maine's one and only Scottish Emporium, would say no. But that's before one of them turns out to be murderous . . . The bagpipes are blaring at Moosetookalook's finest hotel, reopened just in time to host an annual celebration of Scotland's most beloved poet, Robert Burns. But when the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society arrives on the scene, they bring more than a hunger for haggis and a passion for plaid. The quarrelsome group harbors their share of long held grudges, and the animosity only grows as the whiskey flows. Then a fierce blizzard hits, trapping everyone—angry Scotsmen, hapless hotel staff, and Liss herself—indoors. It isn't long before a body is discovered face down in a storage room, covered in tartan—and blood. Now Liss will have to work fast to solve this crime before another body goes as cold as the snowstorm keeping her cooped up with a killer. Praise for the Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries “This cozy mystery has it all—a picturesque location, a bit of romance, some suspense, and a cast of appealingly quirky characters.” —Booklist “A blithe and bonny mystery from Kaitlyn Dunnett! Cozy mystery readers should pour a cuppa and settle down to savor the flavor of the Highlands, the wee dram of Scottish folklore and the small town skullduggery that season this clever debut.” —Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries

A Conjuring for All Seasons

Donyae Coles,K P Kulski,Stephanie M Wytovich

Author : Donyae Coles,K P Kulski,Stephanie M Wytovich
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798750648764

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A Conjuring for All Seasons by Donyae Coles,K P Kulski,Stephanie M Wytovich Pdf

A Conjuring for All Seasons contains five dark novelettes from five practicing witches. Four seasonally themed tales based around important Wiccan celebrations join a Hoodoo story concerning the dead around All Hallows'. Magic Loves the Hungry by Hailey Piper A presence haunts Melody Langston. It grows bolder each night, as if preying on her anxiety-ridden complications with coven initiation, friends who are her ex-lovers, and the touch of overattentive authority. Starved for belonging, she needs to prove herself, cleanse herself, prove she isn't weak. But a terrifying enigma has its heart set on her, and magic loves the hungry. Drawing Down the Sun by Stephanie M. Wytovich Protection is vital. Faye Erikson has been dead for centuries, but her grip on the Clement family remains as strong now as it did the day she spat out her curse. Fearful of her wrath, the family heads out to the woods around Midsummer each year to stand watch over her grave. Anne Clement, the first girl to be born into their bloodline in over 200 years, has some reservations about Faye and her ties to her family. Her curiosity leads her to dig deeper into her ancestral history, and what she uncovers might be scarier than the witch she's been taught to fear. Milk Kin by K.P. Kulski She knows because she remembers the night her mother disappeared. It doesn't matter she had been a newborn, that Grandmother Bada and auntie say it is impossible to remember so early. Ruby did and she could replay the memory like a video- of how the long-fingered woman took her mother away. How the same woman returns every autumn decorated with teeth and oak leaves, with a long silver needle that pierces Ruby's heel. The House of the Heart by Donyae Coles "The House of the Heart is about family and the ways that we carry that and how it carries us. It's a story about boundaries and reparations. It's also about knowing when it's time to just grab a candle and let the ancestors handle it. Though it is never mentioned by name in the story, the practice is hoodoo and I wanted to write something where even though the outcomes were sensational, it was still a living practice that was part of their lives, as natural as breathing." - Donyae Coles Longest Night by Gaby Triana Two modern-day witches, recently out of the broom closet, throw a Yuletide party to welcome the winter solstice with friends, unprepared for the uninvited guests who arrive. When Christmas-themed pranks appearing after the party unexpectedly ends turn deadly, Indigo must figure out where they're coming from, who's causing them, and whether or not she's witch enough to end them during the longest night of her life.

Tales from Valleyview Cemetery

John Brhel,Joe Sullivan

Author : John Brhel,Joe Sullivan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537024922

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Tales from Valleyview Cemetery by John Brhel,Joe Sullivan Pdf

Welcome to Valleyview, where bodies lie buried but an ancient curse never sleeps. A father hears strange voices on his daughter's baby monitor. A trio of gravediggers faces a swarm of supernatural creatures. A group of teenagers puts a mausoleum legend to the test. A husband and wife take a stroll through a corn maze that they'll never forget. Tales From Valleyview Cemetery contains seventeen interconnected tales of terror -- legends of a town and cemetery entrenched in occult practice, macabre history, and a demon elemental waiting for his people's return. A collection of short horror stories written in the vein of the "Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark" books.

Campfire Macabre

Eric Larocca,Tim Waggoner,Chad Lutzke

Author : Eric Larocca,Tim Waggoner,Chad Lutzke
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798354625604

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Campfire Macabre by Eric Larocca,Tim Waggoner,Chad Lutzke Pdf

40+ more short horror stories under five different themes: Trick-or-Treating, Body Horror, Malevolent Alien Visitors, Fields and Forests, When We Were Getting High. Also featuring stories from Eric J. Guignard, Eddie Generous, Ai Jiang, J.A.W. McCarthy, Michael Harris Cohen, Mark Allen Gunnells, Tyler Jones, John Lynch, Corey Farrenkopf, Laura Keating, P.L. Watts, Bob Ford, JG Faherty, Marisca Pichette, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Eric Raglin, Joe Koch, S.H. Cooper, K.S. Walker, Patrick Barb, LP Hernandez, Scott Cole, Anthony J. Rapino, Jeff Provine, Angela Sylvaine, Jessica Ann York, Ali Seay, John Boden, Christi Nogle, Jonathan Duckworth, Joshua Marsella, Die Booth, and Brennan LaFaro.

Other Voices, Other Tombs

Kealan Patrick Burke,Gemma Files

Author : Kealan Patrick Burke,Gemma Files
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1081547189

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Other Voices, Other Tombs by Kealan Patrick Burke,Gemma Files Pdf

OTHER VOICES, OTHER TOMBS is an anthology packed with unsettling stories from the finest independent authors in the horror genre. This collection runs the gamut of styles, including everything from literary horror to creepypasta. Ania Ahlborn, Kealan Patrick Burke, Michael Wehunt, Mercedes Yardley, and Gemma Files are widely considered some of the best authors working in dark fiction right now. Also included are stories from NoSleep Podcast legends: Gemma Amor, JD McGregor, and Michael Whitehouse. OTHER VOICES, OTHER TOMBS is a must-read for the Summer and Fall of 2019!

Of Corpse

Peter Narvaez

Author : Peter Narvaez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015056918751

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Of Corpse by Peter Narvaez Pdf

Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some "traditions" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however, the essays here peruse a remarkable paradox---the convergence of death and humor.

Now Beacon, Now Sea

Christopher Sorrentino

Author : Christopher Sorrentino
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781646221561

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Now Beacon, Now Sea by Christopher Sorrentino Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A wrenching debut memoir of familial grief by a National Book Award finalist—and a defining account of what it means to love and lose a difficult parent, for readers of Joan Didion and Dani Shapiro. When Christopher Sorrentino's mother died in 2017, it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria's life took her to the heart of New York's vibrant mid-century downtown artistic scene, to the sedate campus of Stanford, and finally back to Brooklyn—a journey witnessed by a son who watched, helpless, as she grew more and more isolated, distancing herself from everyone and everything she'd ever loved. In examining the mystery of his mother's life, from her dysfunctional marriage to his heedless father, the writer Gilbert Sorrentino, to her ultimate withdrawal from the world, Christopher excavates his own memories and family folklore in an effort to discover her dreams, understand her disappointments, and peel back the ways in which she seemed forever trapped between two identities: the Puerto Rican girl identified on her birth certificate as Black, and the white woman she had seemingly decided to become. Meanwhile Christopher experiences his own transformation, emerging from under his father's shadow and his mother's thumb to establish his identity as a writer and individual—one who would soon make his own missteps and mistakes. Unfolding against the captivating backdrop of a vanished New York, a city of cheap bohemian enclaves and a thriving avant-garde—a dangerous, decaying, but liberated and potentially liberating place—Now Beacon, Now Sea is a matchless portrait of the beautiful, painful messiness of life, and the transformative power of even conflicted grief. "Acute, intimate and exceedingly fair, Sorrentino’s memoir is a post-mortem that examines not the causes of his parents’ deaths but the endurance and effects of their confounding marriage . . . This is the story of a son who is trying to dissect and understand the love that remains—and sometimes emerges—after death. We may have a greater cultural appetite for eulogies, but an autopsy, in looking directly at the cold corpse of a family in all its gruesomeness and mystery, can be just as profound, and in the hands of a writer as restrained and humane as Sorrentino, just as beautiful." —Eleanor Henderson, The New York Times Book Review

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

Alvin Schwartz

Author : Alvin Schwartz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064440905

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In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz Pdf

Creak... Crash... BOO! Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones! Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark room.

Corpse Cold New American Folklore

Corpse Cold: New American Folklore by Joseph Sullivan,John Brhel Pdf

American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales [3 volumes] by Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb Pdf

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot Pdf

What Waits in the Dark by Joe Sullivan Pdf

Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson Pdf

La Llorona by Joe Hayes Pdf

In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin Pdf

The Corpse Wore Tartan by Kaitlyn Dunnett Pdf

A Conjuring for All Seasons by Donyae Coles,K P Kulski,Stephanie M Wytovich Pdf

Tales from Valleyview Cemetery by John Brhel,Joe Sullivan Pdf

Campfire Macabre by Eric Larocca,Tim Waggoner,Chad Lutzke Pdf

Other Voices, Other Tombs by Kealan Patrick Burke,Gemma Files Pdf

Of Corpse by Peter Narvaez Pdf

Now Beacon, Now Sea by Christopher Sorrentino Pdf

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz Pdf

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