Midsummer Monsters

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Midsummer Monsters by Theophilus Monroe Pdf

The solstice sun strikes the circle of stone... ... and the veil between worlds is changed. New monsters now walk the earth. But where did they come from? It's a new threat for a new season. But for the first time we're totally stumped. And half of my team is addicted to hunting one of them. What the heck is that about? Will I figure it out in time to stop these beasts before they destroy the city? Midsummer Monsters is the fourth book in the new Druid Detective Agency urban fantasy series. Elijah and Emilie already went through one adventure. Now, ten years after The Druid Legacy, they are facing a new challenge, one that will test their limits. The real threat isn't the otherworldly magic, the magic that once birthed life itself in Eden/Annwn. There was a reason why humanity was cast from the garden groves. When the magic of that place comes home, it won't take long to find out why. The real threat was here all along, hidden in human hearts, now made manifest by the power of creation itself. Harry Potter meets Harry Dresden in Druid Detective Agency.

Author : William C. Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400854813

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The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy by William C. Carroll Pdf

This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bloody Hearts by Theophilus Monroe Pdf

Just when I thought I'd found someone to love... ... a damn Cupid shows up and shoots me in the ass! Not just me, either. The nasty bugger can't stop firing his damned arrows. If you thought love triangles were complex... try a love dodecahedron. I mean, when a bunch of deadly vampires all think they're in love... ...and jealousy takes over... Heads are going to fly. How'd these Cupids end up here to begin with? I'm beginning to think something else is responsible... something familiar... Because they're not sowing love. They're breeding chaos. Bloody Hearts is the seventh book in The Fury of a Vampire Witch. You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse novels or the Underworld franchise to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Fury of a Vampire Witch (Books 1-5) by Theophilus Monroe Pdf

A Seductive and Suspenseful Vampire Saga... After 130+ years as a vampire, Mercy returns to her hometown of Exeter where she joins Prince Ladinas and his team of underground vampires to stop a host of ancient vampires who've returned from vampire hell. Book 1: Bloody Queen: Hell hath no fury like a witch-turned-vampire scorned... My long-dead vampire brother has returned from hell. He's challenged my right to the vampire throne. He brought a hellhound with him. Every time hellbeast kills, the bastard gets stronger. He's unstoppable. Stronger and faster than any vampire I've ever encountered. Have I finally met my match? On top of that, my ex-vampire lover is on a tear. I need to rally every vampire I can find. I've teamed up with Prince Ladinas and the Vampire Underground. These vampires aren't much for the democratic processes of the Vampire Council. They need a bloody queen—and I'm just the bitch for the job. ALSO INCLUDED: Bloody Underground (#2): At least they had trials in Salem... Bloody Retribution (#3): It's time to settle an ancient score... Bloody Bastards (#4): Faerie gangs are at war... Bloody Brilliance (#5): I'm done being the good girl... You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of Anne Rice, Bella Forrest, or Stephenie Meyer to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.

Author : Theophilus Monroe
Publisher : Theophilus Monroe
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bloody Merry by Theophilus Monroe Pdf

A little bite for the holidays... No better time of the year to mend a few fences. If I'm going to win him back, it'll take a grand gesture. Something to prove I'm still the old Mercy he used to love... The gift is priceless. It's one-of-a-kind. He'll love it. At least I thought he would... How was I supposed to know the damn thing contained a freaking djinn?! Time to put the genie back in the bottle. But he won't go easy. Not until he's granted three wishes. The problem? Each wish comes gift-wrapped with something nasty... something deadly... Time to vamp-up and show that djinn that he's messing with the wrong bitch. Bloody Merry is the sixth book in The Fury of a Vampire Witch. You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse novels or the Underworld franchise to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.

Author : Anne Simon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781448116942

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Monsters, Mutants & Missing Links by Anne Simon Pdf

Anne Simon is a world-renowned biologist and expert on plant viruses. She has also been scientific advisor to the X-Files since the series began. In this fascinating book she explores the extraordinary realities that lie behind the strange discoveries made in each episode by agents Mulder and Scully, weird and threatening life forms, mutations and alien creatures. Despite the achievements of modern science and technology, she points out, it is estimated that less than 1 per cent of our fellow living creatures have yet been identified. Unknown plants, animals and microbes still inhabit our planet, and new and astonishing discoveries are made every year - like the giant interconnected fungus Amilaria Ostoyae, which spans an area of 2. 5 miles and is thus the largest organism on earth, found recently in the state of Washington. Dr Simon goes on to discuss such hot scientific topics as cloning, genetic engineering, hybrid organisms and genetics, cancer and ageing, cyrogenics, killer viruses and much else - and throughout she refers constantly to the X-Files episodes relevant to her subject, and gives the inside story of how the story-line was developed.

Author : Ryan J. Stark
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666784695

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A Guidebook to Monsters by Ryan J. Stark Pdf

Ryan J. Stark surveys the classic monsters in great literature and film, television, the Bible, and, perhaps unexpectedly, the world in which we live. Monsterdom is real, Stark observes, but often hidden beneath the concealment spell of modern secular thought. This guidebook aims to break that spell, and, if so, to confirm once more a world that brims with high strangeness, or what Christian philosophers have always called “reality.” The book appeals to those who study the paranormal dimensions of religion and horror, broadly imagined. The clergy will also find it helpful, as will players of monster-riddled video games.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003252636

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A Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190945145

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music by Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke Pdf

"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--

Author : RJ Smith
Publisher : Storyteller Entertainment, LLC
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780996695312

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Monsters in the Woods by RJ Smith Pdf

THERE IS a war brewing and humanity is fighting for survival against the scourge of an alien reptilian race. But only the pure blood of a teenager can save the people of Mother Earth. In touch with a distant galaxy, he must enlist the help of newly discovered friends in order to fight the creatures in another dimension. Gaining special gifts in a distant and dangerous realm, the boys are readied for the ultimate fight to save the universe. Discovering magic, and learning how to use their newly acquired superpowers, the boys must unite with a band of giant Cyclops and small red-skinned aliens during one of the worst blizzards to ever hit the northeast. This novel tells of the fiends who stalk the darkness, creatures who snatch the flesh from the living. Monsters in the Woods is an unrelenting and ferocious tale of a monstrous race invading our planet and the all-out war that follows. Monsters is a heart-stopping rollercoaster ride of suspense, an adventure for those with enormous imaginations! After all, I want you uncomfortable, biting the tips of your fingernails down to the bloody nubs, grinding your teeth in a fit of vicious nerves, afraid to look under the bed. That’s bliss for me, watching as you shift your eyes from side to side, a nervous glance, a terrified expression planted on your face. That’s where I need you, horrified at the thud outside the window, a rustling in the back of your dark bedroom’s closet… a noise in the next room. I should explain, this EPIC tale has roots in reality. It sprouts from honest to God reports of green and scaly creatures documented throughout humanity’s history. This telling speaks of what if? And oh my! Not long ago, I happened across a Hopi legend that warned of reptilian creatures who were said to have lived hundreds of feet below what is now downtown Hollywood. Many claim it’s the stuff of science fiction. Yet could it really be true? When I first heard of the lizard people and their alleged existence during my annual pilgrimage to the International UFO Congress’ Annual Symposium held at the We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center in Fountain Hills, Arizona, I had to wonder…could there really be something to this tale? Keep in mind, scientists believe there are one-hundred-billion stars in our galaxy and ten-trillion galaxies in the observable universe. That means there are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (a-thousand-quintillions or one sextillion) stars out there! It is believed that 7.6% of those are Class-G stars like our own sun. That’s important because it is estimated that almost all Class-G stars support at least one planet in which life must exist. The Universe is believed to be teeming with life! If that is such, couldn’t there be other life forms like E.T. out there somewhere? And, If so, why is it so fundamentally insane to suppose they’ve been coming to Earth since the beginning of mankind to manipulate our DNA, hunt or live among us?

Author : Wolfgang Palaver
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609173654

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René Girard's Mimetic Theory by Wolfgang Palaver Pdf

A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of René Girard’s life and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential and spiritual insights into one’s own mimetic entanglements. Furthermore it examines the broader implications of Girard’s theories, from the mimetic aspect of sovereignty and wars to the relationship between the scapegoat mechanism and the question of capital punishment. Mimetic theory is placed within the context of current cultural and political debates like the relationship between religion and modernity, terrorism, the death penalty, and gender issues. Drawing textual examples from European literature (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kleist, Stendhal, Storm, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Proust) and philosophy (Plato, Camus, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vattimo), Palaver uses mimetic theory to explore the themes they present. A highly accessible book, this text is complemented by bibliographical references to Girard’s widespread work and secondary literature on mimetic theory and its applications, comprising a valuable bibliographical archive that provides the reader with an overview of the development and discussion of mimetic theory until the present day.

Author : Garry Kilworth
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114340

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A Midsummer's Nightmare by Garry Kilworth Pdf

Sherwood Forest, home of Oberon, Titania, Puck, Cobweb, Peaseblossom and the rest of the mob, has been whittled away by urban development. It's time to move on, the fairies decide. Sid, their captive, a kindly if gruff young car mechanic, teaches Titania to drive, and on Midsummer's Eve the party sets off in a battered and smelly old bus. They're bound for the New Forest, where they hope to be able to regenerate their magic. The fairies' journey is full of excitement. At a village fair, they show the morris dancers how to cut previously undreamt-of capers. Titania falls in love with a human baby and steals her from her pram, starting a nationwide search for the missing infant. The fairies then link up with a group of New Age travellers on their way to Stonehenge, who befriend them almost without question. Finally, a fight to the death between Titania and the terrifying and sadistic Morgan-le-Fey must take place before everyone can settle down into some form of harmony and peace.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191004162

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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes Pdf

In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous related topics such as the fairy tale and film, television, art, opera, ballet, the oral tradition, music, advertising, cartoons, fantasy literature, feminism, and stamps. First published in 2000, 130 new entries have been added to account for recent developments in the field, including J. K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, and new articles on topics such as cognitive criticism and fairy tales, digital fairy tales, fairy tale blogs and websites, and pornography and fairy tales. The remaining entries have been revised and updated in consultation with expert contributors. This second edition contains beautifully designed feature articles highlighting countries with a strong fairy tale tradition, covering: Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, North America and Canada, Portugal, Scandinavian countries, Slavic and Baltic countries, and Spain. It also includes an informative and engaging introduction by the editor, which sets the subject in its historical and literary context. A detailed and updated bibliography provides information about background literature and further reading material. In addition, the A to Z entries are accompanied by over 60 beautiful and carefully selected black and white illustrations. Already renowned in its field, the second edition of this unique work is an essential companion for anyone interested in fairy tales in literature, film, and art; and for anyone who values the tradition of storytelling.

Author : Frederick K. Van Patten
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595260836

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Midsummer's Tale by Frederick K. Van Patten Pdf

Lake Yew Summer Arts Festival is in for a bumpy ride when L.A. director Jackson Stockade descends on tiny Hester College in rural North Carolina to direct the summer Shakespeare play. Stockade threatens a theatrical revolution when he proposes a hard rock version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. However, the resident Shakespearean scholar, Professor Howard March, has his heart set on a traditional production. Stockade and March find themselves cast as rivals.

Author : Joseph A. Citro
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lake Monsters by Joseph A. Citro Pdf

Downsized from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Harrison Allen longs for a fresh start. Alone, with no prospects or plans, he relocates to a borrowed house on Friars Island in Lake Champlain to relax, contemplate, and begin redefining his life. Then he hears about the monsters… Creatures—perhaps similar to those of Loch Ness—are said to inhabit the murky waters and fogbound marshes of his new island home. His interest piqued, Harrison becomes preoccupied with finding them. But his innocent questions provoke a surprising response: the islanders won't discuss monsters. After Harrison meets the lovely local schoolteacher, Nancy Wells, events inexplicably turn menacing. He suspects he is being watched; he is warned away from an abandoned monastery; and somehow he wins the wrath of a murderous local bully. Then people begin to disappear…and die. Harrison's harmless monster hunt discloses something dark and disturbing beating in the heart of this tiny Vermont town. Malevolent forces, powerful and primitive, propel the unwary couple into a maelstrom of escalating terror. Suddenly they find themselves targeted by an unstoppable evil never before contemplated and impossible to comprehend. Harrison's "new beginning" is like nothing he'd ever planned. And Lake Monsters ends with a surprise that's shocking, unexpected, and unforgettable.