Horrorscape

Author : Nenia Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : High school girls
ISBN : 1483909395

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Horrorscape by Nenia Campbell Pdf

Val receives a calling card from a very dangerous boy who wants to play with her. It's a game without rules, logic, or consequence, and he'll stop at nothing to claim her as his-even if it means destroying them both.Three years ago, Valerian Kimble got herself entangled with a burgeoning sociopath intent on adding her to his own columns of wins and losses. She managed to escape him, but at a terrible cost...This time it's personal.Now a high school senior, Val is a pale shadow of the girl she once was and still recovering from the terrible trauma she suffered at his hands. She is understandably reluctant when her friends receive mysterious invitations to a theme party being held in one of the old manor homes on the edge of town.Right away, something about the party seems off. The other guests are secretive, and strangely hostile. Cell phones don't work. Doors lock and unlock, seemingly at will. And the festivities start to take a turn for the sinister as the evening progresses. Because their host loves games. Loves them so much that he's decided to make a little wager. The deadline is sunrise. The stakes? Their lives.Let the games begin.

Author : Nenia Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481140736

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Fearscape by Nenia Campbell Pdf

He followed her because he wanted to own her. She trusted him because she wanted excitement. There's a saying that curiosity can kill ... but Valerian Kimble is beginning to learn that satisfaction might just be worse.Fourteen-year-old Valerian lives in an age where antiheroes and bad boys are portrayed as the romantic ideal, and good guys are passe and boring. So when Gavin Mecozzi, the school's brilliant but twisted loner, begins to show an interest in her after a chance meeting in a pet store, Val is intrigued. He's charming and poetic and makes her feel things that she thought were only possible in books--Fear.Because somebody is stalking Val. Somebody who wants to hurt her. Own her. Possess her. Maybe even kill her.As her meetings with Gavin unravel into a more complex and frightening relationship, Val can't help but wonder if the new boy in her life is her depraved and obsessive stalker.And whether he's capable of murder.Time is running out.

Author : John Gregory Betancourt
Publisher : iBooks
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743498216

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Horrorscape by John Gregory Betancourt Pdf

The stories here cover a wide territory, from monsters to psychological suspense to traditional ghost stories to variations on fairy tales.

Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879724056

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Landscape of Fear by Tony Magistrale Pdf

One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic process is not only corrupt but actively pursuing our destruction, that our technologies have progressed to the point at which the individual has now become expendable, and that our fundamental social institutions-school, marriage, workplace, and the church-have, beneath their veneers of respectability, evolved into perverse manifestations of narcissism, greed, and violence." Tracing King's moralist vision to the likes of Twain, Hawthorne, and Melville, Landscape of Fear establishes the place of this popular writer within the grand tradition of American literature. Like his literary forbears, King gives us characters that have the capacity to make ethical choices in an imperfect, often evil world. Yet he inscribes that conflict within unmistakably modern settings. From the industrial nightmare of "Graveyard Shift" to the breakdown of the domestic sphere in The Shining, from the techno-horrors of The Stand to the religious fanaticism and adolescent cruelty depicted in Carrie, Magistrale charts the contours of King's fictional landscape in its first decade.

Author : Bari Wood
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380723050

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The Basement by Bari Wood Pdf

A Connecticut housewife is haunted by a seventeenth century witch.

Author : Michelle Meagher
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780241988121

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Competition is Killing Us by Michelle Meagher Pdf

We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of the world, need to reclaim it. In Competition is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new framework to control capitalism from the inside in order to make it work for the many and not just the few. Meagher has spent years campaigning against these multi-billion and trillion dollar mammoths that dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else; leading to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment. In this revolutionary book, she introduces her wholly-achievable alternative; a fair and comprehensive competition law that limits unfair mergers, enforces accountability and redistributes power through stakeholder governance.

Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015022230208

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Stephen King by Tony Magistrale Pdf

Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length

Author : Catherine Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947817205

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Danger Days by Catherine Pierce Pdf

The poems in Catherine Pierce's new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st century, Pierce weaves superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glaciers and contaminant masks, urging us to look closely at both the horror and beauty of our world. As Pierce writes in "Planet," "I'm trying to see this place even as I'm walking through it."

Author : Scott Smith
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307266040

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The Ruins by Scott Smith Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today

Author : Tim Powers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062101280

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Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers Pdf

From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.

Author : Roy Scranton
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781616959371

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We're Doomed. Now What? by Roy Scranton Pdf

An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We’re Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time. Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? We’re Doomed. Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation. Whether writing about sailing through the melting Arctic, preparing for Houston’s next big storm, watching Star Wars, or going back to the streets of Baghdad he once patrolled as a soldier, Roy Scranton handles his subjects with the same electric, philosophical, demotic touch that he brought to his groundbreaking New York Times essay, “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene.”

Author : Stephen King,Tim Underwood
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446390577

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Bare Bones by Stephen King,Tim Underwood Pdf

In a series of interviews, the acknowledged master of horror fiction reveals the creative source behind his stories, discussing his life, his career, and his philosophy on writing, and what he believes makes horror stories so popular

Author : Monocle
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nation-building
ISBN : 3899556488

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How to Make a Nation by Monocle Pdf

How to Make a Nation: A Monocle Guide reveals all you need to make a happy, vibrant and successful nation. From designing a better parliament, choosing a flag and creating social capital to taking care of your young and old, using culture to gain soft power and devising a national brand, this is a book for anyone who fancies a stint as PM, wants to be a more engaged citizen or just believes they deserve good government. This is a book about the small and big things that can make our nations work better for everyone who calls them home. Our 340-page guide features original photography and illustrations printed on a selection of great papers and bound with a linen cover. It is also available in a deluxe limited edition. Published by Gestalten.--

Author : Anna Kavan
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780720615302

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I Am Lazarus by Anna Kavan Pdf

Short stories addressing the surreal realities of mental illness, from an incredible cult writer often compared to Kafka and Woolf The tortured life of Anna Kavan brought her some reward in terms of great pieces of art. Her drug addiction bore fruit in the Julia and the Bazooka collection of stories; while this companion volume recalls her experience of the asylum—powerful, haunting works which can be harrowing but are full of sympathy too.

Author : Douglas E. Winter
Publisher : Millefleurs
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : 0893700231

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Stephen King by Douglas E. Winter Pdf