The Devil S Own Work Valancourt 20th Century Classics

Author : Alan Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1954321775

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The Devil's Own Work (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Alan Judd Pdf

After Edward, a rising young author, pens a savage review of the new novel by the world-famous O.M. Tyrell, he is surprised to receive an invitation to visit the old man at his villa in the south of France. The night of their meeting, Tyrell dies, and soon after, Edward's career mysteriously starts to soar as he earns fame, fortune and critical acclaim. But despite his achievements, Edward seems haunted, even tormented. His friend, the narrator, begins to put together the pieces of the story: an ancient, inscrutable manuscript, a beautiful, ageless woman who attaches herself to any writer who possesses it, and a bargain to achieve success at a terrible price ... Winner of Britain's prestigious Guardian Fiction Prize, Alan Judd's modern classic The Devil's Own Work (1991) is, as Owen King writes in the new introduction to this edition, "a perfect novel about the demonic possession that is literary ambition." This edition also features a new afterword by the author, in which he reveals the inspirations for this haunting tale. "More chills in its little length than in a whole shelf of bestsellers." - Stephen King "At once moral fable, cautionary ghost story and inspired attack on the whole hellbent drift of modern letters, this is a splendid tale, splendidly told, which Ford or Henry James would have been glad to have written." - Robert Nye, Guardian "Wry and insightful . . . toys with the notion of demonic possession but becomes a thoroughly realistic and highly original story of revenge; a chilling cautionary tale." - Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times "A brief return to the world of Faust, Mephistopheles and the Devil pact. Mr. Judd . . . achieves a deep polish." - Robert Grudin, The New York Times Book Review

Author : Philip Loraine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:gb64017039

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Day of the Arrow by Philip Loraine Pdf

Author : John Blackburn,Michael McDowell,Francis King,Richard Marsh,Stephen Gregory,John Trevena,Michael Blumlein,Mary Cholmondeley,Bernard Taylor,Christopher Priest,Florence Marryat,M. G. Lewis,Charles Birkin,Forrest Reid,Hugh Fleetwood,Hugh Walpole,Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Valancourt Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943910526

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The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by John Blackburn,Michael McDowell,Francis King,Richard Marsh,Stephen Gregory,John Trevena,Michael Blumlein,Mary Cholmondeley,Bernard Taylor,Christopher Priest,Florence Marryat,M. G. Lewis,Charles Birkin,Forrest Reid,Hugh Fleetwood,Hugh Walpole,Gerald Kersh Pdf

In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, and sea monsters. Stories of cruelty and vengeance, of a body that refuses to be cremated, a deranged performer with one last shocking show, a frozen corpse that may not be dead. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly funny, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin • John Blackburn • Michael Blumlein • Mary Cholmondeley • Hugh Fleetwood • Stephen Gregory • Gerald Kersh • Francis King • M. G. Lewis • Florence Marryat • Richard Marsh • Michael McDowell • Christopher Priest • Forrest Reid • Bernard Taylor • Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting ... waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn ‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor ‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature​ – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ’ - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin

Author : Robert Aickman
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Horror tales, English
ISBN : UOM:39015019108771

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Painted Devils by Robert Aickman Pdf

TALES OF HORROR FROM ENGLAND.

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220698410

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An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute Pdf

Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941147607

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Antique Dust by Robert Westall Pdf

Antique dealer Geoff Ashden has an uncanny knack for finding cursed objects and haunted places.

Author : Florence Marryat
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783756230327

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The blood of the vampire by Florence Marryat Pdf

When Anthony Pennell received the Baroness's invitation, penned in the delicate foreign handwriting of Harriet Brandt, he accepted it at once. Being out of the season, he had no engagement for that evening, but he would have broken twenty engagements, sooner than miss the chance, so unexpectedly offered him, of meeting in an intimate family circle, the girl who appeared to have led his cousin Ralph's fancy astray. He pictured her to himself as a whitey-brown young woman with thick lips and rolling eyes, and how Ralph, who was so daintily particular where the beau sexe was concerned, could have been attracted by such a specimen, puzzled Anthony altogether. The knowledge that she had money struck him unpleasantly, for he could think of no other motive for Captain Pullen having philandered with her, as he evidently had done. At anyrate, the idea that there was the least chance of allying herself with their family, must be put out of her head, at once and for ever.

Author : Victoria Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674069602

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Gothicka by Victoria Nelson Pdf

The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives. To explain this millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic-the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.

Author : Alexander Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:12847626

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The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck by Alexander Laing Pdf

Author : Mervyn Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1783807687

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The Return of Fursey by Mervyn Wall Pdf

This worthy sequel to The Unfortunate Fursey follows the continued exploits of that reluctant sorcerer Fursey, now a middling grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf.

Author : Joan Samson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948405075

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The Auctioneer (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Joan Samson Pdf

Also includes new afterword by Warren Carberg (pages 224-226).

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048076470

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The Secret Masters by Gerald Kersh Pdf

Author : Michele R. Wells
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 0756693861

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Ghost Stories by Michele R. Wells Pdf

"Tell these spooky ghost stories to your friends, and learn how to make them really scary."--P. [4] of cover.