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Phantom Lover a and Other Dark Tales by V. Lee Pdf
Be prepared to enter a unique and unsettling world in this new collection of dark fantasies from the unparalleled imagination of Vernon Lee. These are tales of lonely souls possessed by recurring tragedies of the past, holy sanctuaries disrupted by unruly pagan forces and aspiring youths enthralled and consumed by the undying art of their ancestors.
Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand by Jim Algie Pdf
Dark magic and dark pasts haunt the characters in these short stories set in mysterious, exotic Thailand. Ghosts and spirits and the real-life terror of despair besiege the pages of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand, horror stories by award-winning writer and longtime Thailand resident Jim Algie. In these tales you'll meet: A photojournalist who is literally haunted by the images of everyone he ever failed or exploited while getting a story. A drug trafficker-turned-writer who confronts vulnerability in his hard-as-nails partner in crime. An executioner who explores the nature of violence in a painful search for loving kindness. For these characters, the naturally lush, deeply spiritual, and excitingly urban Thailand that is there home is also a place full of demons, a place where desperation is another word for normal. Each story follows their attempts to push through and make sense of the many different shades of darkness. The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand warps the boundaries between the conceivable and the bizarre, and proves that the surreal can seem very real indeed. A resident of Thailand since 1992, travel writer (and one-time punk rocker, cable TV host, college DJ, and music journalist) Jim Algie taps into Thailand's ethos from a very unique perspective. He offers readers the best elements from the worlds of both supernatural and horror fiction.
For years, fans have been clamoring for an all-in-one collection of #1 bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon's novellas. At their enthusiastic behest, we have delivered this brand-new short story collection, Dark Bites, including stories previously exclusive to Sherrilyn's website, as well as an all-new, never-before seen Dark-Hunter story! Sherrilyn Kenyon takes readers from the Dark-Hunters to the demigods, from Dream-Hunters to demons, and everything in between. Dangerous and exciting, each story is one thrill ride after the next, proving time and again how Sherrilyn has captivated millions of readers worldwide Now, readers are invited to go deep into Kenyon's rich and imaginative world and experience the heart-racing moments that never stop coming! CONTENTS House of the Rising Sun Phantom Lover Winter Born A Dark-Hunter Christmas Until Death We Do Part A Hard Day's Night Searcher Shadow of the Moon Fear the Darkness Where Angels Fear to Tread Love Bytes Santa Wears Spurs Redemption: A Bonus Scene from The Guardian
Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid-nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von Helmholtz and John Tyndall described music as a set of physical vibrations that tickled the ear, excited the nerves, and precipitated muscular convulsions. In turn, writers—from canonical figures such as George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, to New Women novelists like Sarah Grand and Bertha Thomas, to anonymous authors of underground pornography—depicted bodily sensations and experiences in unusually explicit ways. These writers used scenes of music listening and performance to intervene in urgent conversations about gender and sexuality and explore issues of agency, pleasure, violence, desire, and kinship. Sounding Bodies shows how both classical music and Victorian literature, while often considered bastions of conservatism and repression, represented powerful sites for feminist and queer politics.
Previously published in the anthologies Midnight Pleasures and Dark Bites, Phantom Lover is now available as a standalone e-novella! Haunted by recurring nightmares of terrifying beasts, Erin McDaniels is afraid to sleep-until a hero arrives in her dreams to save her...and makes erotic, incredible love to her. But can she find him again when she is awake?
Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than four hundred years ago. The painting of Mary is more than just a beautiful object for Alison—it holds the key to her past life, the unlocking of the mystery surrounding Mary’s disappearance and how Alison can get back to her own time. To when she and Mary were childhood enemies yet shared a pact that now, finally, must be fulfilled, no matter the cost. Bestselling author of House of Shadows Nicola Cornick offers a provocative alternate history of rivals, secrets and danger, set in a time when a woman’s destiny was determined by the politics of men and luck of birth. A spellbinding tale for fans of Kate Morton, Philippa Gregory and Barbara Erskine.
Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon that you sat upon the hearthstool at Florence, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst? You thought it a fantastic tale, you lover of fantastic things, and urged me to write it out at once, although I protested that, in such matters, to write is to exorcise, to dispel the charm; and that printers' ink chases away the ghosts that may pleasantly haunt us, as efficaciously as gallons of holy water. But if, as I suspect, you will now put down any charm that story may have possessed to the way in which we had been working ourselves up, that firelight evening, with all manner of fantastic stuff-if, as I fear, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst will strike you as stale and unprofitable-the sight of this little book will serve at least to remind you, in the middle of your Russian summer, that there is such a season as winter, such a place as Florence, and such a person as your friend, VERNON LEE
NEVER LET THE PASSION END. Ghosts are faithful lovers...forever. Vampires may steal your heart, but they demand apiece of your soul and hold it with their amorous grasp for centuries.Are you willing to succumb and invite the darker sideof romance into your heart with a phantom lover who is drawn only to you? Become spellbound by tales of otherworldlydevotion, longing, and sublime attraction.Whether Paris during the French Revolution, Roaring Twenties Coney Island, the world of 17th century London theater, orpresent day New York, CELESTE PLOWDEN offers you a selection of these supernatural lovers in her stories, andcreates new legends for time worthy genres of literature.Maud wandered into a sumptuous antique shop and was offered a drop of port by its charming proprietor, and sippedwhile he poured out a dark red substance for himself and bade her make a wish on one of the antique objects. Ricklistened to dazzling tales of Madame La Guillotine from a costumed lady in lace and frills he met at a Halloween party at aNew York art gallery. Pegg, an actress during the reign of Charles II, could not rid herself of a lover she was tormented by,even after he was hung at Tyburn Tree.The stories in this collection reveal a darker side of romance, not only because the characters who offer love are ghosts orvampires, but because we who are drawn to these creatures are steeped in shadowy imaginings based on deep longingfor an amorous connection with another soul. The real danger is not the vampire's bite or the ghost's demanding grip onus, but in losing that vital piece of our soul that we are so willing to part with in order to meld with this otherworldly spirit.To succumb is to let go of reason, no matter the agony of losing some essential part of our self to an unstable entity. Meetmen and women who fall in love with such creatures, and learn why they did.
Gradually the embers grew paler; the figures in the tapestry more shadowy; the columned and curtained bed loomed out vaguer; the room seemed to fill with greyness; and my eyes wandered to the mullioned bow-window, beyond whose panes, between whose heavy stonework, stretched a greyish-brown expanse of sore and sodden park grass, dotted with big oaks; while far off, behind a jagged fringe of dark Scotch firs, the wet sky was suffused with the blood-red of the sunset... "Miss Violet Paget, whose nom-de-plume is Vernon Lee, has a strange genius, or, perhaps, one would rather say a genius for the strange and the horrible that sometimes falls little short of being grotesque. She has the divination that sees the possible hidden undercurrents of the tragedy of life. It may not improbably be the verdict of the future that Vernon Lee at the present time is not receiving anything like the recognition due her marvelous power." -The Literary News "Probably the best shilling story since 'Dr. Jekyll.' It is short; it is startling....One is fascinated, and offended, and finally appalled." -St. James Gazette "Vernon Lee has the enviable faculty of investing each and all her works with the charm of brilliant originality. Thus this 'fantastic story' has a grace and a weird pathos that distinguish it from other tales." -Morning Post "Everything Vernon Lee writes bears the stamp of genius." -Manchester Examiner "Her work has always disclosed a morbid tendency, and this story follows in the line of its predecessors. It is extremely well told, skillfully planned to produce and deep and definite impression by suggestion rather than by direct statement, and it is very interesting. As a psychological study it is full of acuteness and power." -The Book Buyer "Few persons besides the gifted an original author of 'Euphorion' and 'Baldwin' would have thought out this ingenious, weird, uncomfortable, psychological story. It is of about the compass of a magazine article, though made into a book by itself. It is a painter's narrative of what befell him in a fine old English country house while he was at work on the portrait of its mistress, Mrs. Oke. There had been a Mrs. Oke of Okehurst, centuries before, and her portrait was now hanging on the walls. That Mrs. Oke had had a lover, Christopher Lovelock, and Lovelock, so tradition ran, had been murdered by his mistress and her husband. The present Mrs. Oke is pleased to personate the former Mrs. Oke by means of dress and all other means in her powre, and in time teases her adoring husband into the hallucination that she is pursued by a phantom Lovelock lover as her namesake was in reality of old. Fired by this hallucination into a frenzy of jealous hatred, he levels his pistol at the supposed phantom and shoots his wife dead. The verdict was 'momentary madness.' This is Vernon Lee's story of it." -The Literary World "Whatever Vernon Lee attempts to do, she does with great order; she writes admirably....In 'A Phantom Love,' which is a hint, not a story, a dream not a reality, a mere piece of brilliant 'impressionist' work - her peculiar powers appear to excellent advantage....Rich in suggestion and color, she defines a little drama of love and jealousy, which belongs partly to this generation and in part is the revival of an old tragedy played out two centuries ago....The fantasy becomes credible in the rich, hazy, unhealthy atmosphere the author surrounds her actors with, as they move languidly and picturesquely through the dim, rich, storied rooms. The little book is the artistic product of very fine powers." -The American
Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.
“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...
Phantom Sense & Other Stories by Richard A. Lovett,Mark Niemann-Ross Pdf
A collection of science fiction stories from the pages of Analog magazine by the award-winning team of Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross, including the 2011 Analytical Laboratory (reader's choice) Award winning novella "Phantom Sense" and the 2006 Analytical Laboratory Award winning novelette "NetPuppets." Lovett and Niemann-Ross have written some of the most thought-provoking and entertaining stories I've read in years-Nebula award winner Jerry Oltion Come explore the dark space between science and humanity - with a bonus look at the science that just might make it come true. In these pages, you will meet: Sgt. Kip McCorbin, who must choose between the military's special-ops sixth-sense and the love of his family. Courtney Brandt who lies frozen on a glacier, but warm to the touch, as her killer is already claiming another victim. Valerie Akwasi, who stumbles into the deadly side of a vineyard. Michael Graves, who could be your best friend or your worst enemy -- but who doesn't care because to him you're just an experiment. Phantom Sense . . . is a lesson in how to write a short. . . From the start it grabs you and never lets go. In every way this story reminded me how good Science Fiction shorts can be.-Tangent Online Lovett is probably Analog's best regular writer.-- Locus, July 2011 Lovett and Niemann-Ross are 'two halves' of one of the best science fiction "writers" Analog magazine has ever discovered.-Three-time Hugo nominee David R. Palmer
Three stories, based on characters from the original Phantom of the Opera novel. Three stories, revisiting that universe. A phantom who lives in hiding. An angel heard in dreams. There are Phantoms of the Mind, that send a lonely rape victim spiraling off into madness. Theres The Portal, a place where darkness meets light. There is Little Lotte, the child who hears an angel sing. Unlike any stage or screen version, the focus is angel, not phantom. Ever present, he unites the threads of these tales.
For Love of the Phantom by Davyne DeSye,Gaston Leroux Pdf
In this sequel to Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, the young lovers, Christine and Raoul, leave the Phantom in his lair under the Opera House. After faking his own death to escape the authorities, the Phantom sets out to find Christine again, eventually following her to London. With a detective after the Phantom and Christine endangered when Jack the Ripper begins his killing spree not far from Christine's home, the Phantom must put his life at risk for his love.Will Christine -- desperate for song (which her husband, Raoul, has forbidden in his jealousy) -- finally open her heart to the Phantom as he desires?
