The Horrible Dummy And Other Stories

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571304516

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The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories by Gerald Kersh Pdf

'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father... 'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary Supplement (1944)

Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192781782

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The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories by Dennis Pepper Pdf

Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.

Author : Patrick Campbell,Adrian Kear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134616251

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Psychoanalysis and Performance by Patrick Campbell,Adrian Kear Pdf

The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself, or in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. In this volume some of the most distinguished thinkers in the field make this exciting new connection and offer original perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: · hypnotism and hysteria · ventriloquism and the body · dance and sublimation · the unconscious and the rehearsal process · melancholia and the uncanny · cloning and theatrical mimesis · censorship and activist performance · theatre and social memory. The arguments advanced here are based on the dual principle that psychoanalysis can provide a productive framework for understanding the work of performance, and that performance itself can help to investigate the problematic of identity.

Author : Isabel S. Monro,Dorothy E. Cook
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 1576 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1953-12
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032720

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Supplement, 1953 by Isabel S. Monro,Dorothy E. Cook Pdf

Author : Philip Tew,Glyn White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350143029

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The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Philip Tew,Glyn White Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others.

Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191541841

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Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism by Steven Connor Pdf

Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition? These are the kind of questions which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. He tracks his subject from its first recorded beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through the fulminations of early Christian writers against the unholy (and, they believed, obscenely produced) practices of pagan divination, the aberrations of the voice in mysticism, witchcraft and possession, and the strange obsession with the vagrant figure of the ventriloquist, newly conceived as male rather than female, during the Enlightenment. He retrieves the stories of some of the most popular and versatile ventriloquists and polyphonists of the nineteenth century, and investigates the survival of ventriloquial delusions and desires in spiritualism and the 'vocalic uncanny' of technologies like telephone, radio, film, and internet. Learned but lucid, brimming with anecdote and insight, this is much more than an archaeology of one of the most regularly derided but tenaciously enduring of popular arts. It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice.

Author : David J. Schow
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Crypt Orchids by David J. Schow Pdf

Crime. Psychos. Trashed relationships. Tainted love. Murder. Sinister plots. Evil connivances. Men in Suits with a Plan. Bizarre flap copy. Not to mention hustlers, losers, cutthroats, gun fetishists, homicidal hitchhikers, demented road-hogs, serial killer impersonators, government torturers, and a Ripper named Jack. Vaudevillians (shudder). Welcome to Crypt Orchids, where you'll also meet a cantankerous celebrity man-fish, a horror movie host who deals in the real thing, an innocent victim of a TV test screening, persnickety aliens with testicle-heads, a werewolf with a prosthetic paw, a Mikey who does, in fact, hate everything, a hit man named Mister Bart, and a temperamental geezer with a lot to say about the environment and skinning people alive. Crypt Orchids, is a collection of short stories by award-winning multi media author David J. Schow, a gathering of foreboding fiction that grabs the cutting edge barehanded, damns the spray of blood, and stays right in your face “until you want to go down on your knees and mumble for mercy,” according to best-selling author John Farris. As Robert Bloch once said … it takes balls to make Crypt Orchids. Enter and be enthralled. The Management assumes no responsibility for parts of you left behind. Contents: “Look Out He's Got a Knife” (Introduction) by Robert Bloch“Action”“Pick Me Up”“Dusting the Flowers”Hollywood Triptych(a) “Gills”(b) “Seeing Things”(c) “(Melodrama)”“Scoop Bites the Dust”“Final Performance” (stage adaptation of “The Final Performance” by Robert Bloch)“Jeff and Linda”“A Punch in the Doughnut”“Refrigerator Heaven”“Penetration”“The Incredible True Facts in the Case”“Look Out He's Got a Knife … Again!” (Afterword)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1562 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Short stories
ISBN : PURD:32754000548614

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Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571304578

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The Song of the Flea by Gerald Kersh Pdf

With The Song Of The Flea (1948) Gerald Kersh revisited the demi-monde of his famous Night And The City; but this novel concerns a writer, striving doggedly to make his living. 'A remarkable novel... with this book Mr Kersh has taken a big step forward.' Sunday Times '[Kersh] has a remarkable talent... he is one of the comparatively few living novelists in this country who write with energy and originality and whose ideas are not drawn from a residuum of novels that have been written before... [ The Song of the Flea] is the story of John Pym, a young man trying to earn his living as a writer... Mr Kersh draws on his picturesque and convincing knowledge of human vileness in a manner which is both entertaining and instructive.' Times Literary Supplement.

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571304530

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The Implacable Hunter by Gerald Kersh Pdf

'[This] is the story of the beginning and the end of St Paul, that most complicated and worrying of all the saints. The narrator is Diomed, a colonial officer stationed at Tarsus, enlightened, intelligent, a great fraterniser with the patrician natives, [who] sends the strange young Jew to persecute the Nazarenes... [Kersh brings] a highly concentrated area of Roman colonial history to very real life - the ornate wine-cup, the crapulous cold fruit-juice at dawn, dust on a sandal... King Jesus is here, all the time... the fly-itch nuisance to the Empire that wakes its prefects up in nightmare... This is a masterly book, full of live people and a live age, live language, too... We may adjudge Mr Kersh, after reading The Implaccable Hunter, to be now at the height of his powers.' Anthony Burgess, Yorkshire Post, 1961

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571304592

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The Thousand Deaths of Mr Small by Gerald Kersh Pdf

' The Thousand Deaths Of Mr Small is the best novel that Gerald Kersh has yet written... Charles Small, successful advertising expert and miserable man, turns over in his mind the 'stinking, sour, stagnant, untransmitted mass' which is his life... This book has a rich, warm quality; long and full of detail, it teems with humour, satire, incident, character; in a word, with life.' Yorkshire Post 'It see-saws from side-splitting dialogue to such catalogues of loathing and revulsion as have rarely been seen in print, from outrageous farce to sudden compassion for the Smalls of this world, who find Hell enough in 'the eternal contemplation of themselves as they made themselves.'' New York Herald Tribune 'With brilliant descriptive power and an emetic vocabulary, [Kersh] has produced a tormented and forceful work.' Commonweal

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551999531

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The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson Pdf

The first short story collection by Shirley Jackson, featuring one of her most celebrated works. The only collection of Jackson’s short fiction to be published in her lifetime, it contains 25 stories, of which "The Lottery" is the most famous. When it was published in The New Yorker, it elicited an unprecedented stream of interest, both positive and negative, from its readers. It is a haunting take of the darker side of small town America, and one of Jackson’s crowning achievements. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752401929

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In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood Pdf

Reproduction of the original: In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547222651

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In Bad Company, and other stories by Rolf Boldrewood Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In Bad Company, and other stories" by Rolf Boldrewood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783807652

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The Dummy by Nicholas Royle Pdf

In these stories he writes about doppelgängers, ghosts, dummies, disconnected body parts, impaired vision, the dead and the prospect of death, not without a macabre sense of humour.