The Darker Mask

Author : Gary Phillips,Christopher Chambers
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429984007

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The Darker Mask by Gary Phillips,Christopher Chambers Pdf

Expanding on the concept behind Byron Preiss's Weird Heroes from the 1970s, George R. R. Martin's Wild Card series, and Michael Chabon's McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, The Darker Mask is a collection of original prose stories recalling the derring-do of the beings we call Superheroes and the worlds they fight to save. But unique to The Darker Mask stories is that these plots and characters color a literary universe outside of what has been predominantly white, idiosyncratic, and male in previous homages to pulp. This is the stuff of urban legends, new mythos, and extraordinary folks who might live in a soon-to-be-gentrified ghetto, the dreary rust-belt of the city, or in another dimension. The Darker Mask offers an eclectic mix of popular fiction writers exploring worlds gritty, visceral, and fantastic. Including stories by: Walter Mosley, L. A. Banks, Naomi Hirahara, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes, Mike Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ann Nocenti, Jerry Rodriguez, Reed Farrell Coleman, Doselle Young, Mat Johnson, Peter Spiegelman, Alexandra Sokoloff, Christopher Chambers, Gary Phillips, Victor LaValle, and Wayne Wilson. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gary Phillips
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0765358069

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Darker Mask by Gary Phillips Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Estrella
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359363087

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The Dark Mask by Jeffrey Estrella Pdf

A lonely young woman who finds her entire forefather family murdered in an unsolved homicide case soon discovers secret advanced hyper sense powers within herself and an advanced jet pack device invented by her father to don a dark cape, cloak, cowl, and mask to become a hero destined to not only unravel the mystery behind the death of her family but also to search the truth of an ancient order and the true love of her own heart by finding allies and making enemies to forge new truths with the ancient alien transportation device known as the time stone to overcome any obstacle and destined ones form a force fighting evil in space and time.

Author : Mary Sharratt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544289741

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The Dark Lady's Mask by Mary Sharratt Pdf

From the author of Ecstasy, a novel of Renaissance England’s first female poet, and her collaboration—and love affair—with William Shakespeare. Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and to gain freedoms only men enjoy—and then a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. The two outsiders strike up a literary bargain: they leave plague-ridden London for Italy, where they begin secretly writing comedies together and where Will falls in love with the beautiful country—and with Aemilia, his Dark Lady. Their Italian idyll, though, cannot last. Will gains fame and fortune for their plays back in London and years later publishes the sonnets mocking his former muse. Not one to stand by in humiliation, Aemilia takes up her own pen in her defense, and in defense of all women. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by the St. Paul Pioneer Press “An absorbing bildungsroman that grapples with strikingly contemporary issues of gender and religious identification”—New York Times Book Review “An exquisite portrait of a Renaissance woman pursuing her artistic destiny in England and Italy, who may—or may not—be Shakespeare’s Dark Lady.”—Margaret George, best-selling author of The Splendor Before the Dark “The idea of a smart, beautiful, artistic woman telling Shakespeare, ‘We shall write comedies, you and I’ is as heady as the elderflower wine Aemilia’s household staff brews.”—Washington Post “Atmospheric, well-researched, carefully plotted…and, like Shakespeare’s plays, chock-full of equal parts mirth and pith to please all.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Author : Frank Miller
Publisher : DC
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401235857

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller! Hailed as a comics masterpiece, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS is Frank Miller's (300 and SIN CITY) reinvention of the legend of Batman. It remains an undisputed classic, one of the most influential stories ever told in comics, and is a book cited by the filmmakers as an inspiration for the most recent Batman movies. It is ten years after an aging Batman has retired and Gotham City has sunk deeper into decadence and lawlessness. Now, as his city needs him most, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of glory. Joined by Carrie Kelly, a teenage female Robin, Batman takes to the streets to end the threat of the mutant gangs that have overrun the city. And after facing off against his two greatest enemies, the Joker and Two-Face, for the final time, Batman finds himself in mortal combat with his former ally, Superman, in a battle that only one of them will survive. This collection is hailed as a comics masterpiece and was responsible for the launch of the Christopher Nolan Batman movies. This volume collects BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #1-4.

Author : Henry Gilroy,J. Arcudi,Ronnie Del Carmen,Alan Grant,Steven T. Seagle
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781630089443

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Dark Horse Comics DC Comics Mask by Henry Gilroy,J. Arcudi,Ronnie Del Carmen,Alan Grant,Steven T. Seagle Pdf

Between 1991 and 2007 Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics collaborated on an unprecedented level, pitting their top franchises against one another in no-holds-barred throwdowns! In this collection of DC Comics crossovers, Dark Horse brings never republished material featuring a host of heroes back to fans in a single volume. This volume features The Mask, The Grifter, and The Joker in crossover action!

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307808257

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Otto Penzler Pdf

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this. Featuring • Deadly Diamonds • Dancing Rats • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk Including • Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published • Lester Dent's Luck in print for the first time

Author : Frank Miller,Lynn Varley,Bob Kane
Publisher : Titan Books (UK)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Batman (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1840236213

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The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller,Lynn Varley,Bob Kane Pdf

Some years after the events of The Dark Knight Returns, America has become an even worse place to live. But a hero has come to change everything, bringing an army of other forgotten heroes to bear in the war against crime and corruption. Batman's time has come again.

Author : Christopher Cantwell
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506714806

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The Mask: I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask by Christopher Cantwell Pdf

The bestselling comic series that inspired the blockbuster film returns with gruesome hilarity from the showrunner of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire and Hellboy's Patric Reynolds. Years ago, a weird mask of unknown origin and limitless power was buried in the cement of an apartment building's basement floor. Edge City and its residents have all but forgotten the mysterious green-faced killer known only as "Big Head." But now, decades later, the bizarre Tex Avery-style killings are happening all over again and are on a collision course with a bizarre political campaign where a homicidal maniac wants to "Make America Green Again"! Collects The Mask: I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask #1-#4.

Author : John Arcudi
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506712567

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The Mask Omnibus Volume 1 (Second Edition) by John Arcudi Pdf

The bestselling comic trilogy that inspired the blockbuster film The Mask is collected in this omnibus edition of gruesome hilarity! A weird mask of unknown origin and power is discovered and imbues its wearer with limitless cartoon character invulnerability that takes the nerdy Stanley Ipkiss, the police, the mafia, and the monstrous mob muscleman Walter on a colliding violent path of homicidal mayhem, lunacy, and destruction! Collects The Mask, The Mask Returns, and The Mask Strikes Back!

Author : John Arcudi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Horror comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1852866039

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The Mask by John Arcudi Pdf

Author : Michael Eury
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781630084745

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Adventures of The Mask Omnibus by Michael Eury Pdf

Life in Edge City has always been tough for Stanley Ipkiss. He's as good-natured and decent as they come, but nice don't pay the bulldog or make points with the ladies. Stanley knows he's destined for greater things, but how to get there? Enter the Mask, an ancient artifact that imbues its wearer with the power to do just about anything one desires — especially if one desires zoot suits, pies, mallets, cartoon bug-eyes, and a penchant for Latin song stylings! Stanley Ipkiss now has the world on a string, but there are many in that world of vastly lesser niceness than Stanley who desire the Mask's power for themselves. With great power comes big trouble... and even bigger laughs!

Author : Rick Geary
Publisher : Dark Horse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1569710546

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Mask: The Night Before Christmask by Rick Geary Pdf

On the night before Christmas, Ned discovers an unusual mask in Uncle Stanley's closet which, when he tries it on, leads him into an incredible adventure.

Author : John Arcudi,Doug Mahnke,Mi-Kyung Yun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-16
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : 156971021X

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The Mask Returns by John Arcudi,Doug Mahnke,Mi-Kyung Yun Pdf

When she buried her dead boyfriend Stanley, Kathy thought the weird mask had been buried with him. But when gangsters begin dropping like flies, victims of everything from comic-book bombs to crossbow shafts, she knows that something has gone terribly wrong! There's only one big-headed bozo that can dish out that kind of mayhem. And only Kathy can stop the carnage. Full-color throughout. Graphic novel format.

Author : Fuminori Nakamura
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616953706

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Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura Pdf

The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012's critically acclaimed The Thief─another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity─and the powerful human instinct to resist evil. When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. "I created you to be a cancer on the world," his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to cause misery in a world that cannot be controlled or saved. From this point on, Fumihiro will be specially educated to learn to create as much destruction and unhappiness in the world around him as a single person can. Between his education in hedonism and his family's resources, Fumihiro's life is one without repercussions. Every door is open to him, for he need obey no laws and may live out any fantasy he might have, no matter how many people are hurt in the process. But as his education progresses, Fumihiro begins to question his father's mandate, and starts to resist.