Damnable Tales

Author : Richard Wells
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800180611

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Damnable Tales by Richard Wells Pdf

This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror – a now widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973). But as this collection shows, writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore long before. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches’ curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers...

Author : Jim Pipe
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781597162074

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Zombies by Jim Pipe Pdf

Explores zombie stories from around the world.

Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 185501503X

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The Anthology of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 0706420535

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Chamber of Horrors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alice W. Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000978773

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Cautionary Tales by Alice W. Brown Pdf

Scarcely a week goes by without a headline about the unsustainability of higher education as we know it, under threat from new models, for-profits, or online education. Most threatened are small liberal arts colleges – with commentators predicting the demise of colleges with fewer than 1,000, or even 1,500 students. Are these trends inevitable, or can they be overcome?Through a unique case study approach to examining and analyzing colleges that have struggled, Alice Brown reveals the steps that can lead to a sustainable operation and, when closure is inevitable, the steps to do so with orderliness and dignity. Rather than expounding on trends, or management theory and prescriptions, Brown focuses on narrative examples of survival and closure, recounted by real people in actual colleges, and reports the lessons they learned. Here are examples of strategies involving mergers, partnerships, or “going it alone”, and their outcomes, that illustrate principles that can serve as guides for fragile colleges struggling to address their social and economic challenges.Added to Brown’s six carefully researched and extended case studies, her own insights and analyses of decisions made and actions taken, this book offers guidance by seasoned scholars and administrators on issues as varied as leadership, the roles of the president, governing boards, faculty and staff, in articulating and implementing mission and strategies for survival, and on the changing landscape of higher education. The references to the literature on college survival strategies constitute an education in themselves.While this book is of immediate practical value for trustees and leaders of small colleges as they look toward and plan for the future and for anyone aspiring to an administrative positions in higher education, the examples constitute a microcosm of the interplay between the external constituencies, governance structures and internal forces that sustain or undermine institutional health, and which are hard to observe clearly in larger, more decentralized environments.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486203072

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Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Wilkie Collins Pdf

Twelve supernatural tales are accompanied by a discussion of Collins' life and literary achievements

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781510749870

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The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror by Stephen Jones Pdf

Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James​, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver​, Michael Marshall Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, and more! The darkness that endures beneath the earth . . . the disquiet that lingers in the woodland surrounding a forgotten path . . . those ancient traditions and practices that still cling to standing stone circles, earthworks, and abandoned buildings; elaborate rituals that invoke elder gods or nature deities; the restless spirits and legendary creatures that remain connected to a place or object, or exist in deep wells and lonely pools of water, waiting to ensnare the unwary traveler . . . These concepts have been the archetypes of horror fiction for decades, but in recent years they have been given a name: Folk Horror. This type of storytelling has existed for more than a century. Authors Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and M. R. James all published fiction that had it roots in the notion of the supernatural being linked to objects or places “left behind.” All four writers are represented in this volume with powerful, and hopefully unfamiliar, examples of their work, along with newer exponents of the craft such as Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, and many others. Illustrated with the atmospheric photography of Michael Marshall Smith, the stories in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror tap into an aspect of folkloric tradition that has long been dormant, but never quite forgotten, while the depiction of these forces as being in some way “natural” in no way detracts from the sense of nameless dread and escalating horror that they inspire . . .

Author : Peter Høeg
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466850798

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Tales of the Night by Peter Høeg Pdf

These eight stories are linked by a date and a motif. All of them have to do with love. Love and its conditions on the night of March 19, 1929. In his second book and his only collection of stories, Peter Høeg proves himself to be a true storyteller in the tradition of Karen Blixen and Joseph Conrad. These beautifully constructed tales deal with love, the classic arts and sciences, and the confrontation of Western and non-Western cultures. Moving from a railroad car in the Congo to a sailboat in Lisbon's harbor to an upper-class apartment in Copenhagen, they include the tales of a young, disillusioned mathematician who comes face-to-face with his culture's distorition of Africa; an esteemed judge who runs off with the young man he has just sentenced to prison for his homosexual tendencies; and a town--sealed off from the plague--that is infiltrated by a troupe of traveling actors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tales of the Future by Anonim Pdf

A very short collection of the letters and notes of remote-viewing time-traveler Heinrich Hedd-Cayce.

Author : Sarah F. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317154891

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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads by Sarah F. Williams Pdf

Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on the early modern controversy over women and the English witch craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.

Author : Mary Danby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : UOM:39015073820824

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65 Great Tales of the Supernatural by Mary Danby Pdf

Author : David T. Neal,Christine M. Scott
Publisher : Fiends in the Furrows
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944286349

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The Fiends in the Furrows by David T. Neal,Christine M. Scott Pdf

"The Fiends in the Furrows takes the bustling in the hedgerows and turns them into your darkest nightmares...this is an anthology that will stir up those primal fears that are ingrained in all of us." -Jim Mcleod, GingerNutsofHorror.com, JIM MCLEOD'S TOP HORROR BOOKS OF 2018Included on the Preliminary Ballot for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards.Includes the stories "The Jaws of Ouroboros" by Steve Toase and "Back Along the Old Track" by Sam Hicks, both included in THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME 11, Edited by Ellen Datlow.The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that hew both to the earthy traditions and blaze new trails in Folk Horror.FEATURING:Coy Hall "Sire of the Hatchet"Sam Hicks "Back Along the Old Track"Lindsay King-Miller "The Fruit"Steve Toase "The Jaws of Ouroboros"Eric J. Guignard "The First Order of Whaleyville's Divine Basilisk Handlers"Romey Petite "Pumpkin, Dear"Stephanie Ellis "The Way of the Mother"Zachary Von Houser "Leave the Night"S.T. Gibson "Revival"Fans of Folk Horror, as well as those unfamiliar with it, will find horrors galore in these stories. Themes of rural isolation and insularity, paranoia, mindless and monstrous ritual, as well as arcane ceremonies clashing against modern preoccupations run through these stories. Nosetouch Press is proud to bring The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror to horror enthusiasts everywhere."...All the stories are well written, with huge gobbets of terror and weirdness running through their veins. With nine to choose from, you can sample taste from a literary buffet of varied writers' voices and styles, as each one elegantly creates its own fictional world with its own boundaries into which you, the reader, can step inside, visit and unlike some of the characters trapped within, you are allowed to leave. This is quite a privilege." -Alyson Rhodes, authorOne of the Top 15 Anthologies of 2018-Emily, BookHappy08

Author : Frank Lee Du Mond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:39000005914952

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Tall Tales of the Catskills by Frank Lee Du Mond Pdf

Juvenile fiction.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : 0283984228

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The Second Book of Unknown Tales of Horror by Peter Haining Pdf

Author : Nicholas Leamy,Jacob Jones-Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 173339382X

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Scary Stuff by Nicholas Leamy,Jacob Jones-Goldstein Pdf

You hold in your hands a tribute to the classic style of horror published in comics from the 60's and 70's. Stories of mayhem and the macabre. "Scary Stuff" is at heart a love letter to the kind of scary stories we grew up on. Twist endings, weird monsters, morality plays in microcosm. The kind of stories that keep you up at night and make you wonder just what that noise you heard in the basement really was. Are you ready to be scared?