The Ebon Mask

Author : Richard Lee Byers
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Ebon Mask by Richard Lee Byers Pdf

Once he lived a life of valor and principle—a life that ended in betrayal and defeat. James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, in life the embittered, martyred Cavalier, walks a different path in the Underworld. Embracing deceit and unbridled ambition as fervently as he once served God and England, Montrose has clawed his way up the Hierarchy to become a cynical lieutenant of the Deathlords of Stygia. Today, he's no one's idea of a hero—and a hero is what the Shadowlands needs. Because something truly evil is stirring. Something cunning and malign that threatens the living and dead alike. And Montrose is the only being with a prayer of stopping it. The Ebon Mask is the first volume in the shadowy, suspenseful Dark Kingdoms trilogy, based on the popular role-playing game Wraith: The Oblivion.

Author : Richard Lee Byers
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Shadow Guide by Richard Lee Byers Pdf

Growing up in Port Sorrow, a lawless city home to smugglers, slavers, and pirates, Sarth Copperhorn expects to spend his days as a fisherman like his family and neighbors. But when the gang that controls the docks “taxes” the fishermen beyond bearing, the latter rise up against them. Their defiance provokes savage retaliation that leaves Sarth’s mother and father dead and the youth running for his life. Sarth takes refuge in a ruined castle and there encounters the ghost of Qelnan Immur, in life both an aristocrat and a sorcerer. And Qelnan makes him an offer. If Sarth will simply grant the phantom a place in his mind, Qelnan will do more than help him survive. He’ll show the fisherman’s son how to exact vengeance. The Shadow Guide is a tale of swordplay and intrigue, of strange magic, bizarre creatures, and revenge. It’s also the first volume in the new sword-and-sorcery series The Rise of the House of Immur. “A twisted tale of revenge that will keep you guessing until the very last page.” — Chris A. Jackson, author of the award-winning Scimitar Seas novels

Author : Richard Lee Byers
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dead Time by Richard Lee Byers Pdf

HE CROSSED THE TIME BARRIER OF THE LIVING … AND ENTERED A DIMENSION RULED BY THE DEAD. Like a movie the vision replayed through Jack Stone’s head… He could see his twenty-two-year-old sister’s sandy curls, her creamy complexion, her happy smile as she entered the motel room. And then it would happen, she’d turn to see the burly, middle-aged guy holding the gleaming silver blade… Jack always tried to warn her—scream, “Cheryl!”—but she couldn’t hear him. Cheryl had been horribly murdered three weeks ago, and no matter how many times the horrific visions played through his brain, Jack could do nothing now to help her. If only he could find a way to turn back time, get to his sister before the serial killer. If only he could save her from her hideous death. Jack Stone is about to get his wish… And he’s about to discover that breaking the time barriers of the living opens a nightmare dimension where demons rule the dead.

Author : Richard Lee Byers
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dark Fortune by Richard Lee Byers Pdf

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS Reverend Carpenter only wanted to help his congregation. But deep inside, he knew he was failing, losing his faith…until the night he stumbled into a tiny curio shop. There he met a strange old man who read his fortune in the Tarot, and who gave him his one true card of power—the power to heal. Now every man, woman and child in Corona City can be “saved” by his touch… Two women, bound by passion, open their veins in a ritual of blood-draining redemption. A dying man twists grotesquely in his wheelchair, then rises and walks. And attacks. A small boy steps willingly into the lair of a deranged grown-up, ready to play unspeakable games. DARK FORTUNE The deck is stacked…against their souls.

Author : Richard Lee Byers
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Things That Crawl by Richard Lee Byers Pdf

Available for the first time in a single collection, twenty-one short stories of the supernatural, the undead, and the macabre by Richard Lee Byers, author of DEAD TIME and DARK FORTUNE. Stories included in this collection: The Things That Crawl The Q Word Blood and Limestone Wisdom Fright Wig St. Paul’s Churchyard, New Year’s Day The Guide Things I Learned About Science From Popular Entertainment Foragers Netflix Ghost Hunters Night Games End of Life Vets The Wizard and the Dragon Black Griefer Madness Mister Shade Office Space The Plague Knight Castle of Maidens Zombies in Paradise

Author : Richard Lee Byers
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Hep Cats of Ulthar and Other Lovecraftian Tales by Richard Lee Byers Pdf

A jazzman faces a phantom from the Dreamlands. A student willing to do anything to avoid Vietnam learns just how high the price for evading the draft can be. The world’s greatest fencer duels a terror from the stars. Hezekiah, scion of the infamous Whateley clan, attempts to crowdfund the rise of Cthulhu. An astronaut can save humanity, but only by committing genocide against an innocent alien race. The Hep Cats of Ulthar and Other Lovecraftian Tales collects thirteen of Richard Lee Byers’s best stories of cosmic horror. They range from the Middle Ages to H. P. Lovecraft’s own 1920’s New England to the future and include three never before published, the title novelette and two more.

Author : Lon E. Varnadore
Publisher : Lon E. Varnadore
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781393173977

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Crimson Planet by Lon E. Varnadore Pdf

Tosh, formally of the House du'Vaul, is on the road to make or break his fortune. Bors of the Northern Mountains is a barbarian needing escape from the authorities. The two are brought together by a mysterious figure and given a quest, to find the Eye of Saturnalia. On the Crimson Planet. This is not a serious story. Not in the sense of hard science facts and what we know. This is more fantastic. Instead of reaching into the future to what could be, I have reached into the past, into the times before people knew Mars was a dry, dead world with no air. Instead, it held giant, four-armed monsters and savages, where Venus was a lush jungle world under a constant barrage of rain, and where the outer planets were so massive their satellites held life foreign to humans in more than one sense. And beyond that, deep in space, the bug-eyed aliens and strange creatures existed that shocked, terrified, and entertained us.

Author : Troy D. Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496851697

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Shaolin Brew by Troy D. Smith Pdf

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze. Further, the book explores how voices of color have launched a shift in the industry, taking nonwhite characters who were originally viewed through a white lens and situating them outside the framework of whiteness. The financial success of Blaxploitation and Kung Fu films in the early 1970s led to major comics publishers creating, for the first time, Black and Asian superhero characters who headlined their own comics. The introduction of Black and Asian main characters, who previously only served as guest stars or sidekicks, launched a new kind of engagement between comics companies and minority characters and readers. However, scripted as they were by white writers, these characters were mired in stereotypes. Author Troy D. Smith focuses on Asian, Black, and Latinx representation in the comic industry and how it has evolved over the years. Smith explores topics that include Orientalism, whitewashing, Black respectability politics, the model minority myth, and political controversies facing fandoms. In particular, Smith examines how fans take the superheroes they grew up with—such as Luke Cage, Black Lightning, and Shang Chi—and turn them into the characters they wished they had as children. Shaolin Brew delves into the efforts of fans of color who urged creators to make these characters more realistic. This refining process increased as more writers and artists of color broke into the industry, bringing their own perspectives to the characters. As many of these characters transitioned from page to screen, a new generation of writers, artists, and readers have cooperated to evolve one-dimensional stereotypes into multifaceted, dynamic heroes.

Author : Richard Lee Byers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839080555

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The Head of Mimir by Richard Lee Byers Pdf

The young Heimdall must undertake a mighty quest to save Odin – and all of Asgard – in the first heroic fantasy novel set in Marvel’s incredible Legends of Asgard It is a dark time for Asgard. The All-Father is trapped in a bewitched Odinsleep, inspiring an all-out assault from the Frost Giants. They evade the gods’ defenses with uncommon ease, as if guided by augury. Heimdall, a quick-witted young warrior still finding his place amongst Asgard’s defenders, believes it no coincidence that Odin lies enchanted and that the Giants are so well-informed. Sneaking into Odin’s inner chambers, he discovers that the severed head of Mimir, a great source of wisdom, is missing. Accompanied by his sister, Lady Sif, Heimdall must quest across the Nine Realms to retrieve it, lest mighty Asgard fall.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068303109

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The Yale Literary Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743227568

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The Last War by Richard Bach Pdf

Relentless investigator ferrets Shamrock and Burrows seek out an object that has the ability to change the future and may enable modern ferrets to contact the ancient and secret home planet from which they came.

Author : Charles Augustus Keeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080915010

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A Light Through the Storm by Charles Augustus Keeler Pdf

Author : Michael Reaves,Steve Perry
Publisher : Random House Worlds
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345477439

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Death Star: Star Wars Legends by Michael Reaves,Steve Perry Pdf

“THAT’S NO MOON.” –Obi-Wan Kenobi The Death Star’s name says it all, with bone-chilling accuracy. It is a virtual world unto itself–equipped with uncanny power for a singularly brutal purpose: to obliterate entire planets in the blink of an eye. Its annihilation of the planet Alderaan, at the merciless command of Grand Moff Tarkin, lives in infamy. And its own ultimate destruction, at the hands of Luke Skywalker, is the stuff of legend. But what is the whole story, and who are the players, behind the creation of this world-killing satellite of doom? The near extermination of the Jedi order cleared the way for Palpatine–power-hungry Senator and Sith Lord–to seize control of the Republic, declare himself Emperor, and usher in a fearsome, totalitarian regime. But even with the dreaded Darth Vader enforcing Palpatine’s sinister will, the threat of rebellion still looms. And the Emperor knows that only abject fear–and the ability to punish dissent with devastating consequences–can ensure his unchallenged control of the galaxy. Enter ambitious and ruthless government official Wilhuff Tarkin, architect of the Emperor’s terrifying dream come true. From inception to completion, construction of the unprecedented Death Star is awash in the intrigues, hidden agendas, unexpected revelations, and daring gambits of those involved on every level. The brightest minds and boldest egos, the most ambitious and corrupt, the desperate and the devious, all have a stake in the Death Star–and its potential to control the fate of the galaxy. Soldiers and slaves, loyalists and Rebels, spies and avengers, the innocent and the evil–all their paths and fates will cross and intertwine as the Death Star moves from its maiden voyage to its final showdown. And a shadowy chapter of Star Wars history is stunningly illuminated in a thrilling, unforgettable adventure.

Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571744579

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Curious Lives by Richard Bach Pdf

A collection of five novels, featuring ferret protagonists, present a series of adventures that double as tales about courage, sacrifice, heroism, creativity, and finding what matters most in life. Original.

Author : Archie Goodwin, Wally Lombego, Larry Hama, Mike W. Barr, David Michelinie, Chris Claremont, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302505127

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Star Wars Legends Epic Collection by Archie Goodwin, Wally Lombego, Larry Hama, Mike W. Barr, David Michelinie, Chris Claremont, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse Pdf

Collects Star Wars (1977) #39-55; Empire Strikes Back Monthly (Uk) #149, #151 And #153-157; And Star Wars Monthly (UK) #159. The Empire Strikes Back! Marvel’s classic Star Wars saga continues with the official adaptation of the second film in the original trilogy — and Darth Vader’s ruthless revenge! In the wake of Luke Skywalker’s deadly duel with the Dark Lord, the rebels’ adventures continue — and a living nightmare stalks the universe! But can R2-D2 and C-3PO beat terrible odds to survive Droid World? With everyone’s favorite smuggler lost, the rebel crew is on a search for Solo — but Han will have to wait when the Crimson Forever poses a more immediate problem! And so will the Empire’s latest, greatest super-weapon! Can our heroes take the Tarkin? Plus: Rarely seen Star Wars tales from the United Kingdom!