The Spectral Strangler

Author : Brant House
Publisher : www.PulpFictionBook.Store
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Spectral Strangler by Brant House Pdf

The Spectral Strangler (1934) – Silent, horrible as the crushing coils of a serpent were those unseen fingers that blotted out men’s lives. A criminal of satanic proportions had risen —the “Black Master,” whose victims fell with livid, hideous faces and protruding tongues that seemed a ghastly mockery of the fate they had suffered. Along this terrible murder trail Secret Agent “X” gambled with the Dice of Death. Secret Agent “X” is a master of disguise and his true identity is never revealed. He adopts several different identities in each story. What we do know about “X” is that he served in the War (World War I) in intelligence and was wounded from which he got an X shaped scar. He is a dedicated crime-fighter working undercover for the U.S. government, although this is unknown to local police who consider him an outlaw. His true role is known only to newspaper reporter Betty Dale and his mysterious Washington controller, K-9. Chapter I – Murder in the Night Chapter II – A Daring Disguise Chapter III – Murder Club Chapter IV – A Cipher Solved Chapter V – Greenford’s Double Chapter VI – The House of Mystery Chapter VII – The Tigress! Chapter VIII – Leaden Threat Chapter IX – The Black Master’s Threat Chapter X – A Brilliant Gathering Chapter XI – The Dead Are Silent Chapter XII – The Ninth Victim Chapter XIII – Guns of Death Chapter XIV – To the Death Chapter XV – Taken for a Ride Chapter XVI – The Black Master’s Orders Chapter XVII – Flowers of Death Chapter XVIII – The Man Hunt Begins Chapter XIX – The Spies’ Nest Chapter XX – The Spy’s Bargain Chapter XXI – The Chamber of Death Chapter XXII – The Man Behind the Mask

Author : Brant House
Publisher : www.PulpFictionBook.Store
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Octopus of Crime by Brant House Pdf

Tentacles of terror reached over the country, spreading like a hideous blight through the cities of America. The underworld, welded together under the secret symbol of a monster of crime, was organized as never before. And Secret Agent “X,” master man-hunter went up against a genius of crime who stooped even to the ghastly horrors of medieval torture. Octopus Of Crime (1934) – A monstrous octopus of evil gained slow power over the underworld. His identity as mysterious as that of Secret Agent “X” himself, this apostle of wickedness led the horror hordes of the nation into a bloody carnival of crime Chapter I – Guns in the Night Chapter II – The Law’s Net Chapter III – Plunging Peril Chapter IV – Wings of Destruction Chapter V – The Mark of Horror Chapter VI – Night Visitor Chapter VII – Black Horrors Chapter VIII – Crimson Fangs Chapter IX – A Fresh Clue Chapter X – The New Commissioner Chapter XI – Trapped by Science Chapter XII – Death in the Night Chapter XIII – The Sky Attack Chapter XIV – The Crash! Chapter XV – The Way of the Octopus Chapter XVI – Passwords to Hell Chapter XVII – Death to the Agent Chapter XVIII – Thundering Doom Chapter XIX – Criminal Cunning Chapter XX – The Mysterious Message Chapter XXI – Tentacles of the Octopus Chapter XXII – The Octopus Speaks Again Chapter XXIII – Sky Monster Chapter XXIV – Who is the Octopus?

Author : Brant House
Publisher : www.PulpFictionBook.Store
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Golden Ghoul by Brant House Pdf

From the Records of Secret Agent “X” comes The Golden Ghoul (1935) written by G.T. Fleming-Roberts writing as Brant House. The Golden Ghoul – Secret Agent “X’s” far-flung, crime-crushing organization brought him whisperings of a fiend who meted out a death worse than death— a monster who called himself the Ghoul. For this Ghoul made men living prisoners in an amber-colored shroud of their own dead flesh. And even Secret Agent “X,” the man of a thousand disguises, a thousand surprises, was checkmated when he pried into the Ghoul’s palace of pain. Chapter I – Fangs of Death Chapter II – Corpse of the Living Chapter III – The Trap Is Baited Chapter IV – Voice of the Ghoul Chapter V – Suicide Pact Chapter VI – Killers from the Clouds Chapter VII – House of Black Smoke Chapter VIII – The Graveless Dead Chapter IX – Danger Below Chapter X – Throne of the Ghoul Chapter XI – The Master Stroke Chapter XII – Betrayed Chapter XIII – Death-Mask of Ah-Fang

Author : Hugh Cornwell,Jim Drury
Publisher : Bobcat Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857124449

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The Stranglers: Song by Song by Hugh Cornwell,Jim Drury Pdf

The Stranglers have outlasted and outsold virtually every other band of their era, recording ten hit albums and releasing 21 Top 40 singles. Their list of hits, including Golden Brown, were written against a background of spectacular success, dismal failure, drug dependency, financial ruin, infighting and misfortune. As a response to David Buckley's one-sided biography of the band ("No Mercy" Hodder & Stoughton, 1997) and the band’s reticence to reveal the true meaning behind their songs, Hugh Cornwell, founding member and songwriter, sets the record straight, displaces the myths and for the first time explains the real stories behind The Stranglers, his departure and the origins of their songs.

Author : Phil Clarke,Tom Briggs,Kate Briggs
Publisher : Canary Press eBooks
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781907795916

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Extreme Evil by Phil Clarke,Tom Briggs,Kate Briggs Pdf

Imagine coming face to face with the kind of extreme crime that can only be conceived by a truly evil mind. Acts so powerful that they can scar a whole nation for generations. The perpetrators manage to achieve a level of notoriety only usually afforded to Hollywood icons. In their own twisted imaginations they sit in an Evil Hall of Fame among others of their kind: Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Andrei Chikatilo all jostling for the top spot. Extreme Evil throws light on the most vicious crimes ever committed, and the turbulent lives of the men and women behind them. Contents: Cannibals including Albert Fish, Armin Meiwes, Dennis Nilsen, Eladio Baule, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy Serial Killers including Andrei Chikatilo, H.H.Holmes, Javed Iqbal, John Wayne Gacy Lady Killers including Bell Gunness, Beverley Allit, Ilse Koch, Rosemary West Cult Killers including Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara Tyrants including Adolf Hitler, Attila the Hun, Caligula, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin Children of Evil including Bryan and David Freeman, Edmund Kemper, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780345465665

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The Serial Killer Files by Harold Schechter Pdf

THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS! Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon. Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderers—from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, “trophies” to trading cards. Discover: WHO THEY ARE: Those featured include Ed Gein, the homicidal mama’s boy who inspired fiction’s most famous Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins better known as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling clan with an insatiable appetite for human flesh HOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and devour . . . and other methods of massacre too many and monstrous to mention here. WHY THEY DO IT: For pleasure and for profit. For celebrity and for “companionship.” For the devil and for dinner. For the thrill of it, for the hell of it, and because “such men are monsters, who live . . . beyond the frontiers of madness.” PLUS: in-depth case studies, classic killers’ nicknames, definitions of every kind of deviance and derangement, and much, much more. For more than one hundred profiles of lethal loners and killer couples, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats— this is an indispensable, spine-tingling, eye-popping investigation into the dark hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the most frightening . . . and fascinating.

Author : Jonathan J. Price,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429656354

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Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama by Jonathan J. Price,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Spanning texts from Hittite archives to Homer to Greek tragedy and comedy to Vergil to Celsus, the studies here were all written by friends and colleagues of Margalit Finkelberg who are experts in their particular fields, and who have all been influenced by her work. The papers offer close readings of individual lines and discussion of widespread cultural phenomena. Readers will encounter Hittite precedents to the Homeric poems, characters in ancient epic analysed by modern cognitive theory, the use of Homer in Christian polemic, tragic themes of love and murder, a history of the Sphinx, and more. Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of fascinating essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient authors, and will be of interest to anyone working on Greek literature.

Author : Mike Shanahan
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781603587150

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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers by Mike Shanahan Pdf

They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers ... rainforest royalty ... more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our pre-human ancestors, influenced diverse cultures and played key roles in the dawn of civilization. They feature in every major religion, starring alongside Adam and Eve, Krishna and Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad. This is no coincidence – fig trees are special. They evolved when giant dinosaurs still roamed and have been shaping our world ever since. These trees intrigued Aristotle and amazed Alexander the Great. They were instrumental in Kenya’s struggle for independence and helped restore life after Krakatoa’s catastrophic eruption. Egypt’s Pharaohs hoped to meet fig trees in the afterlife and Queen Elizabeth II was asleep in one when she ascended the throne. And all because 80 million years ago these trees cut a curious deal with some tiny wasps. Thanks to this deal, figs sustain more species of birds and mammals than any other trees, making them vital to rainforests. In a time of falling trees and rising temperatures, their story offers hope. Ultimately, it’s a story about humanity’s relationship with nature. The story of the fig trees stretches back tens of millions of years, but it is as relevant to our future as it is to our past.

Author : Michael J. Burke
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666910858

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The Ethics of Horror by Michael J. Burke Pdf

The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First Century Horror Film examines the theme of spectral haunting in contemporary American horror cinema through the lens of ethical responsibility. Arguing that moral obligation can manifest as terror to the complacent self, the text extracts this dimension of ethics in twenty-first century horror films. Drawing on the ethical theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, which posit the asymmetrical obligation of the self to the other, Michael Burke highlights how recent horror films portray spectral antagonists as ethical others that hound protagonists and summon them to an accountability that they can neither evade nor ever completely fulfill. Burke observes the resulting destabilization of notions of ethical responsibility and justice in a variety of contemporary horror subgenres, including technohorror, haunted house and zombie films.

Author : Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142496

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Iowa Agriculture: A History of Farming, Family and Food by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby Pdf

The Tall Corn State's agricultural history influences countless aspects of modern life. To truly understand Iowa, you have to understand the culture of agriculture--the stories of the people of the land. In many ways, these are untold stories, especially as more generations of families are further removed from living or working on Iowa farms. Visitors from around the globe travel to Iowa annually for major events like the Farm Progress Show, the World Pork Expo and the World Food Prize. Agriculture has shaped Iowa's landscape from the location of towns and the evolution of the world-famous Iowa State Fair to Iowa's beloved culinary traditions like breaded pork tenderloins, sweet corn and more. Join fifth-generation Iowa farmer Darcy Dougherty Maulsby as she details the fascinating history of agriculture in Iowa.

Author : Madison Jones
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UOM:39015032130737

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Season of the Strangler by Madison Jones Pdf

Author : Michael L. Cook,Stephen T. Miller
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106020063647

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Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Fiction by Michael L. Cook,Stephen T. Miller Pdf

Author : Alan Jacobson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497641938

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Spectrum by Alan Jacobson Pdf

FBI profiler Karen Vail is haunted by a serial killer from her rookie days in a “pulse-pounding” thriller by a USA Today bestselling author (Providence Journal). New York City: home to world-renowned museums, theater, restaurants, iconic sports franchises. Central Park. Wall Street. And an infamous serial killer who’s terrorized the Big Apple for decades. The year is 1995 and the NYPD has just graduated a promising new patrol officer named Karen Vail. The rookie’s first day on the job is anything but easy when she finds herself at the crime scene of a young woman murdered in an unusual manner. Vail is unsure of what she’s looking at or what it means—but it’s a case that will weigh on her mind for nearly twenty years. As the years pass, Vail’s career takes unexpected twists and turns—as does the case that’s come to be known as Hades. Now a skilled FBI profiler, will Vail be in a better position to catch the killer? Or will Hades prove to be Karen Vail’s hell on earth? The character who has captivated readers worldwide—and who won the praise of literary giants Michael Connelly, James Patterson, and Nelson DeMille—returns in a story that captures the experiences that shaped the revered profiler and made her the top cop she is today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Dispute resolution (Law)
ISBN : OSU:32437123613222

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Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Curtis Jobling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141345024

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Wereworld: Storm of Sharks (Book 5) by Curtis Jobling Pdf

Wereworld: Storm of Sharks is the fifth book in the horror-fantasy series by Curtis Jobling, perfect for fans of Darren Shan, Tolkien's The Hobbit and Christopher Paolini's Eragon. Rumours have spread like wildfire across the warring lands of Lyssia - young Werewolf, Drew Ferran, has returned to the Seven Realms. Seeking out an army that may help him defeat the terrible Catlords of Bast, he turns to the sea where a host of fresh terrors await. With scoundrels and pirates cresting each and every wave, Drew's quest pulls him toward the very heart of his enemy, deep into the eye of the maelstrom . . . ** Book 5 in the horror-fantasy series by Curtis Jobling - www.wereworldbooks.co.uk ** Perfect for fans of Darren Shan, Tolkien's The Hobbit and Christopher Paolini's Eragon. The designer of Bob the Builder, creator of Frankenstein's Cat and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, and the author/illustrator of numerous children's books, Curtis Jobling lives with his family in Cheshire, England. Early work on Aardman's Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks led to him picking up his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning Bob. The animated series of Frankenstein's Cat, based upon Curtis's book of the same name, picked up the Pulcinella award for Best Children's Show at the 2008 International Cartoons On The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new preschool show, Raa Raa, can be seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings and prints sell in galleries the world over. Although perhaps best known for his work in TV and picture books, Curtis's other love has always been horror and fantasy for an older audience. Wereworld is his first series for older readers. www.wereworldbook.com www.curtisjobling.com