Damnable Tales

Author : Richard Wells
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800180611

Get Book

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 : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0143418122

Get Book

Beastly tale from here & there by Vikram Seth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 0706420535

Get Book

Chamber of Horrors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486203072

Get Book

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 : Alice W. Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000978773

Get Book

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 : Mary Danby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : UOM:39015073820824

Get Book

65 Great Tales of the Supernatural by Mary Danby Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

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 : David T. Neal,Christine M. Scott
Publisher : Fiends in the Furrows
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944286349

Get Book

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 : John Reed
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1576875407

Get Book

Tales of Woe by John Reed Pdf

True stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just deserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief. No lessons of temperance or moderation. No saving grace. No divine intervention. No salvation. Sin, suffering, redemption. That's the movie, that's the front page news, that's the story of popular culture-of American culture. A ray of hope. A comeuppance. An all-for-the-best. Makes it easier to deal with the world's misery-to know that there's a reason behind it, that it'll always work out in the end, that people get what they deserve. The fact: sometimes people suffer for no reason. No sin, no redemption-just suffering, suffering, suffering. Tales of Woe compiles today's most awful narratives of human wretchedness. This is not Hollywood catharsis (someone overcomes something and the viewer is uplifted), this is the katharsis of Ancient Greece: you watch people suffer horribly, and then feel better about your own life. Tales of Woe tells stories of murder, accident, depravity, cruelty, and senseless unhappiness: and all true. The Tales: strange, unexpected, morbidly enticing. Told straight-with elegance, restraint, and simplicity. The design: a one-of-kind white text on black paper, fluidly readable, and coupled with fifty pages of full-color art.

Author : Sarah F. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317154891

Get Book

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 : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0199561532

Get Book

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick Pdf

Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

Author : Judith Bauer Stamper
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590453432

Get Book

Tales for the Midnight Hour by Judith Bauer Stamper Pdf

Seventeen stories depict a variety of strange and horrifying occurrences.

Author : Frank Lee Du Mond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:39000005914952

Get Book

Tall Tales of the Catskills by Frank Lee Du Mond Pdf

Juvenile fiction.

Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000025469387

Get Book

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 by Richard Dalby Pdf

Fifty-nine British and American stories whose authors include Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and Washington Irving. This is a companion volume to The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (1990).

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : 0283984228

Get Book

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