The Adventures Of Mr Maximillian Bacchus His Traveling Circus

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus & His Traveling Circus by Clive Barker Pdf

Maximillian Bacchus is the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he considers the greatest show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile named Malachi, a trapeze girl named Ophelia, a strong mane they call Hero, which is short for Hieronymus a clown named Domingo de Ybarrondo, who paints in a wagon pulled by a giant "Ibis bird," the troupe wanders from adventure to adventure with mythic aplomb. From the first story, in which Indigo Murphy, the best bird handler in the world leaves the show to join in matrimony with the Duke Lorenzo de Medici, to the fabled court of Kubla Khan, the magic never stops. You will meet a young apple thief named Angelo with magic eyes, and an orang-outang named Bathsheba, and a host of other amazing characters with names and personas cut like a patchwork quilt from the mythologies and dreams of the world. Though written forty years ago, these pages are littered with the same magical side steps that have always been woven into Clive Barker's fiction. Worlds not quit our own, and yet so real they ring with truth and leave you wishing you could step from your mundane life into that other place - into those caves of ice - if only long enough to catch Maximillian's show. Includes the original illustrations by Richard A. Kirk from the limited edition.

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0983221146

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The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus by Clive Barker Pdf

Author : Phil and Sarah Stokes
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 901 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781647005078

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Clive Barker's Dark Worlds by Phil and Sarah Stokes Pdf

A deep dive into the creative world and personal archive of the master of horror Clive Barker, from Hellraiser and Candyman to today "I've seen the future of horror . . . and his name is Clive Barker." In the mid-1980s, Stephen King inducted a young English novelist into the world of great genre writers, and since then, this genius creator has only continued to expand his field of activity. Created by his two most loyal collaborators, Phil and Sarah Stokes, Clive Barker’s Dark Worlds is the first book to shed light on the massive scope of Barker’s creative work. With the help of Barker himself, this book contains exclusive insight from those who have worked with him creatively and professionally, alongside analyses of his works and comments over four decades from industry contemporaries and friends such as Ramsey Campbell, Quentin Tarantino, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Peter Straub, Armistead Maupin, J.G. Ballard, Wes Craven, and many more. The book spans Barker’s world, highlighting classics such as the character Pinhead, an icon in the pantheon of horror cinema; the Hellraiser series of ten films and a forthcoming HBO miniseries; and the cult films Nightbreed and Candyman, the latter of which was rebooted as a Jordan Peele production in 2021. In literature, Barker has written the horror anthology series Books of Blood, which was recently adapted by Hulu, as well as numerous fantasy sagas. Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show have become instant genre classics, and Abarat is a beloved bestselling series for young adults. In the world of comics, Barker has partnered with major publishers such as Marvel and BOOM! Studios. This tireless creator has also dipped his toes into the worlds of toys, video games, and art, and his incredible collection of paintings, drawings, and photographs have been exhibited in galleries over the world.

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569758038

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The Dead That Walk by Stephen Jones Pdf

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Author : Christopher Riches,Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780192518507

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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works by Christopher Riches,Michael Cox Pdf

Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626364400

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Zombies! by Stephen Jones Pdf

From master editor of horror anthologies Stephen Jones comes this collection of twenty-six stories to make your skin crawl. Within this terrifying tome, you’ll discover classic tales of the macabre, memorable yarns culled from the pages of pulp magazines, original stories by some of the greatest minds in horror, and two novellas not published anywhere else. Living corpses intervene in a production of Twelfth Night. An undead suitor pursues his beloved. Desperate mortals fight to survive a night of the undead. It’s all inside. And it’s coming for you. Zombie tales by: Clive Barker Robert Bloch Ramsey Campbell H. P. Lovecraft Joe R. Lansdale J. Sheridan Le Fanu Edgar Allan Poe And many more Fans of The Walking Dead and World War Z, brace yourselves. These phenomenal stories from horror masters will get inside your head and leave you wanting more.

Author : Douglas E. Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 000715092X

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Clive Barker by Douglas E. Winter Pdf

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472106698

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The Mammoth Book of Zombies by Stephen Jones Pdf

The zombie - a soulless corpse raised from the grave to do its master's bidding - may have had its factual basis in the voodoo ceremonies of the West Indies, but it is in fiction, movies, video games and comics that the walking dead have flourished. What makes a zombie? This Twentieth Anniversary Edition of one of the first and most influential zombie anthologies answers that question with 26 tales of rot and resurrection from classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James and J. Sheridan Le Fanu, along with modern masters of the macabre Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Hugh B. Cave, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Tuttle, Karl Edward Wagner and many more. From Caribbean rituals to ancient magic, mesmerism to modern science, these terrifying tales depict a wide range of nefarious methods and questionable reasons for bringing the dead back to life again.

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN : 1405265965

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The Circus Collection by Enid Blyton Pdf

A fantastic bumper volume of classic stories from a much-loved author. The Circus stories are one of Blyton's best loved works, featuring the adventures of Mr. Galliano's famous travelling circus. Meet the elephants, monkeys and clowns and step into the ring of the most famous circus of them all

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:51977128

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Hurrah for the Circus! by Enid Blyton Pdf

Author : Liz Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191504507X

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Henry and His Travelling Circus by Liz Burgess Pdf

Henry is a mouse who lives in a theatre with his friends. When a visitor from the outside world arrives at the theatre with an ice-cream delivery they come up with a plan to fulfil their dreams of running a circus and an adventure begins.

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007358298

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Sacrament by Clive Barker Pdf

A famous photographer lying in a coma holds the key to the salvation of the world. But first he must travel back into the traumatic events of his childhood.

Author : Mark Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0995644861

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The Traveling Circus by Mark Watson Pdf

Terrifying, funny, thrilling! This new, beautifully illustrated children's Halloween book is available in paperback and kindle versions. The Kindle version includes links to exclusive interactive content. Perfect for early and elementary readers.

Author : Anna Blennow,Stefano Fogelberg Rota
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110615630

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Rome and The Guidebook Tradition by Anna Blennow,Stefano Fogelberg Rota Pdf

To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos and Topography, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The elements and rhetorical strategies of guidebooks over time have shown to be surprisingly uniform, with three important points of development: a turn towards a more user-friendly structure from the seventeenth century and onward; the so-called ’Baedeker effect’ in the mid-nineteenth century; and the introduction of a personalized guiding voice in the first half of the twentieth century. Thus, the ‘guidebook tradition’ is an unusually consistent literary oeuvre, which also forms a warranty for the authority of every new guidebook. In this respect, the guidebook tradition is intimately associated with the city of Rome, with which it shares a constantly renovating yet eternally fixed nature.

Author : Karl Toepfer
Publisher : Vosuri Media
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781733249737

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Pantomime by Karl Toepfer Pdf

This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.