Ghost Eater

Author : Clay McLeod Chapman
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683692188

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Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman Pdf

“A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown. Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab—again—she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin’s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping “séance.” But the drug has unfathomable side effects—and once you take it, you can never go back.

Author : Frederick Highland
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429975421

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Ghost Eater by Frederick Highland Pdf

A riveting thriller, Ghost Eater marks the introduction of an intense new voice in seafaring adventure. Moored in a wintry Asian harbor at the turn of the twentieth century, Captain Ulysses Vanders experiences a revelation. A ferryman brings a mysterious gift--a wine at once rare and familiar that brings the sailor back to a moment in Sumatra thirty years before. "I closed my eyes, remembering where I had last tasted this liquor, remembering back across the years, remembering how steady the hand had been that held out the cup to me, and how desperate the circumstances. With a stab, her face rose before me--beautiful, tantalizing, terrible to behold." This haunting memory leads the sailor back to his first command and a desperate river journey to rescue missionaries along a remote jungle river. Captain of an aging steamboat, Vanders soon finds himself burdened with a set of unexpected, mysterious passengers, each traveling to the mission outpost known as "Light of the World" for reasons of his or her own. The island world Vanders discovers is a ghostly place, darkly lit with the flames of social upheaval, a world of superstition and strife, as age-old ways of life are swept away in the murderous rampage of a tribe gone mad. At the edge of civilization, the young American captain learns not only the challenge of command but the courage to confront his own illusions, beautiful and terrible to behold.

Author : Diane Awerbuck
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415205686

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The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories by Diane Awerbuck Pdf

Thirty-one new writers make their debut in The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories, a collection compiled by Diane Awerbuck and edited by Louis Greenberg. Funny and sad and highly original, the stories in The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories are invested with the passion, truth and quirkiness of the newest New South Africa and gives readers a chance to gauge the newest authors writing in South Africa at the moment.

Author : Ania Ahlborn
Publisher : 47north
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : 1477817603

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The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn Pdf

Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven-year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction and grief. Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself, he returns to the hills of his childhood, to Holbrook House, where he hopes to find peace among the memories of his youth. But solace doesn't come easy and Aaron's arrival stirs a hornet's nest, both among his former friends in the town and in the supernatural force in the house, which has trained its wicked gaze on Aaron's fragile, damaged psyche.

Author : Yuu Tanaka
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781645052456

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Reincarnated as a Sword (Light Novel) Vol. 2 by Yuu Tanaka Pdf

'" People remain skeptical of Fran''s abilities despite her achievements with Teacher, and so, accused of playing favorites, the Guild Master assigns the duo a difficult mission to prove their worth. Fran and Teacher don''t much care what anyone thinks of them, but once they venture into the snare-filled Spider's Lair, even they realize they may have bitten off more than they can chew... "'

Author : Steven Symes
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735760323

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Gracie the Ghost Eater by Steven Symes Pdf

Gracie has an unusual appetite for ghosts, a secret she has kept from everyone she know. After her parents move to a new house located directly across the street from an old cemetery, her late-night eating habits spin so out of control the ghosts have finally had enough. The infamously corrupt Ghost Council takes her by force to the underworld where she faces severe punishment for her crimes against the dead. The only chance Gracie has to return to the land of the living is to complete three seemingly impossible tasks which have been chosen by the ghosts. Gracie must rely on her cunning and the help of a few unexpected friends to return home safely, learning along the way that she truly is stronger than she believes.

Author : Anthony Bourdain,Joel Rose
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506706900

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Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts by Anthony Bourdain,Joel Rose Pdf

Hungry Ghosts is cooked up by the best selling author and veteran chef, Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential, Emmy-Award winning TV star of Parts Unknown) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster) back again from their New York Times #1 best seller, Get Jiro!. Featuring real recipes cooked up by Bourdain himself, this horror anthology is sure to please--and scare! On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge. Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake, all tainted with the common thread of food. Including stellar artists Sebastian Cabrol, Vanesa Del Rey, Francesco Francavilla, Irene Koh, Leo Manco, Alberto Ponticelli, Paul Pope, and Mateus Santolouco as well as amazing color by Jose Villarrubia, a drop-dead cover by Paul Pope.

Author : Clay McLeod Chapman
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683692188

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Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman Pdf

“A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown. Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab—again—she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin’s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping “séance.” But the drug has unfathomable side effects—and once you take it, you can never go back.

Author : Rowan Jacobsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781632860354

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Apples of Uncommon Character by Rowan Jacobsen Pdf

In his classic A Geography of Oysters, Rowan Jacobsen forever changed the way America talks about its best bivalve. Now he does the same for our favorite fruit, showing us that there is indeed life beyond Red Delicious-and even Honeycrisp. While supermarkets limit their offerings to a few waxy options, apple trees with lives spanning human generations are producing characterful varieties-and now they are in the midst of a rediscovery. From heirlooms to new designer breeds, a delicious diversity of apples is out there for the eating. Apples have strong personalities, ranging from crabby to wholesome. The Black Oxford apple is actually purple, and looks like a plum. The Knobbed Russet looks like the love child of a toad and a potato. (But don't be fooled by its looks.) The D'Arcy Spice leaves a hint of allspice on the tongue. Cut Hidden Rose open and its inner secret is revealed. With more than 150 art-quality color photographs, Apples of Uncommon Character shows us the fruit in all its glory. Jacobsen collected specimens both common and rare from all over North America, selecting 120 to feature, including the best varieties for eating, baking, and hard-cider making. Each is accompanied by a photograph, history, lore, and a list of characteristics. The book also includes 20 recipes, savory and sweet, resources for buying and growing, and a guide to the best apple festivals. It's a must-have for every foodie.

Author : Michelle Paver
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1444006630

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Outcast by Michelle Paver Pdf

Torak is alone and on the run. Rejected by the clans and hunted by all who cross his path, he hides out in the haunted reedbeds of Lake Axehead - where he falls prey to an even greater menace.

Author : Haiyan Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804793544

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The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination by Haiyan Lee Pdf

In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There has been a pervasive sense of moral crisis in contemporary China, and the new market economy doesn't seem to offer any solutions. This book investigates how the Chinese have coped with the condition of modernity in which strangers are routinely thrust together. Haiyan Lee dismisses the easy answers claiming that this "moral crisis" is merely smoke and mirrors conjured up by paternalistic, overwrought leaders and scholars, or that it can be simply chalked up to the topsy-turvy of a market economy on steroids. Rather, Lee argues that the perception of crisis is itself symptomatic of a deeper problem that has roots in both the Confucian tradition of kinship and the modern state management of stranger sociality. This ambitious work is the first to investigate the figure of the stranger—foreigner, peasant migrant, bourgeois intellectual, class enemy, unattached woman, animal—across literature, film, television, and museum culture. Lee's aim is to show that hope lies with a robust civil society in which literature and the arts play a key role in sharpening the moral faculties and apprenticing readers in the art of living with strangers. In so doing, she makes a historical, comparative, and theoretically informed contribution to the on-going conversation on China's "(un)civil society."

Author : Li Donghao
Publisher : Sellene Chardou
Page : 8531 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304428530

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There is no way to fight the emperor by Li Donghao Pdf

Since he began to practice at the age of seven, Xie Aoyu has been hit again and again. His practice is the hardest, and his family uses the most medicinal materials for him, but others have cultivated quarrelling in one year. What about him

Author : Grace Draven
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451489807

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Raven Unveiled by Grace Draven Pdf

A woman with the gift to speak to the dead—and the assassin pursuing her—may be the only chance a crumbling empire has of holding back true evil, in this electrifying fantasy romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance. Siora has been on the run for longer than she cares to remember, from her past and her gift. Born with the ability to see and speak to ghosts, she has heard their desperate pleas as an otherworldly predator stalks the dead amid the fertile killing fields of the collapsing Krael Empire. The creature’s power and reach are growing with every soul it consumes, but Siora is preoccupied with her own troubles: namely an assassin who has sworn an oath of vengeance against her. Gharek of Cabast was once the right-hand man of the reviled empress but is now a wanted fugitive. Although his reasons for hunting Siora are viscerally personal, what Gharek can’t anticipate is that when he finally does find her, she will hold the key to saving his world, or what’s left of it. To make good on old debts and protect the vulnerable dead from a malevolent force, Gharek and Siora will both need to make an ally out of an enemy—and trust that will be enough to save each other.

Author : Charity Tahmaseb
Publisher : Collins Mark Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Must Love Ghosts by Charity Tahmaseb Pdf

Author : Avron Boretz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860714

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Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters by Avron Boretz Pdf

Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martial arts. The long and durable history of martial arts iconography and ritual in Chinese religion suggests something far deeper than mere historical coincidence. Avron Boretz argues that martial arts gestures and movements are so deeply embedded in the ritual repertoire in part because they iconify masculine qualities of violence, aggressivity, and physical prowess, the implicit core of Chinese patriliny and patriarchy. At the same time, for actors and audience alike, martial arts gestures evoke the mythos of the jianghu, a shadowy, often violent realm of vagabonds, outlaws, and masters of martial and magic arts. Through the direct bodily practice of martial arts movement and creative rendering of jianghu narratives, martial ritual practitioners are able to identify and represent themselves, however briefly and incompletely, as men of prowess, a reward otherwise denied those confined to the lower limits of this deeply patriarchal society. Based on fieldwork in China and Taiwan spanning nearly two decades, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters offers a thorough and original account of violent ritual and ritual violence in Chinese religion and society. Close-up, sensitive portrayals and the voices of ritual actors themselves—mostly working-class men, many of them members of sworn brotherhoods and gangs—convincingly link martial ritual practice to the lives and desires of men on the margins of Chinese society. This work is a significant contribution to the study of Chinese ritual and religion, the history and sociology of Chinese underworld, the history and anthropology of the martial arts, and the anthropology of masculinity.