The Trees Grew Because I Bled There Collected Stories

Author : Eric LaRocca
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803363042

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The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca Pdf

"The stories collected here are by turns confident, brutal, and breathtaking... must-read horror" The New York Times A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram Stoker Awards® finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig. Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying resolution… Originally published under the title The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales, this is a much-praised collection of deeply unsettling, painfully dark tales.

Author : Eric LaRocca
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803361505

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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca Pdf

"Amongst the Top 50 Horror Books of All Time" - Cosmopolitan Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novella. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son’s death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm… And a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his back yard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game. Three devastating, beautifully written horror stories from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge voices. What have you done today to deserve your eyes?

Author : Darrell Spencer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820337463

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CAUTION Men in Trees by Darrell Spencer Pdf

The nine stories of CAUTION Men in Trees capture the pressure, need, and frequent helplessness of people confronted with intractable reality. As suggested by the collection's epigraph from Superman—"Did you say kryptonite?"—the characters in these stories have reached a point where they realize that parts of their lives are coming undone, and that their own thoughts and actions—or, frequently, the failure to act soon enough—are the cause. Though settings and situations vary, the same sense of overwhelming urgency recurs throughout the collection. The stories reflect a world distressed by conflict and settings fraught with the occurrences of personal violence. Against the background of the O. J. Simpson trial, a man refuses to assist in a friend's suicide and realizes that he has been avoiding many unpleasant truths about himself and his life. A son faced with his father's debilitating stroke sees that he must ultimately confront the mortality and feelings of grief that he has been concealing. In the title story, the film Bugsy and talk about the disappointing reality of pop-culture heroes set the scene for a husband's frightening confrontation with his own limitations. The shock of stark revelation combines with tightly wound chains of suggestive events to create a collection of gripping, edgy stories about characters who, however battered, survive.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190608

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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. 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 : Gary B. Griggs
Publisher : Monterey Bay Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1732709319

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Our Ocean Backyard: Collected Essays 2 by Gary B. Griggs Pdf

Our Ocean Backyard: Collected Essays 2 brings together 106 previously published articles from Gary Griggs's popular column for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Written for anyone with an interest in the oceans, the essays draw upon our rich history of ocean exploration and discovery, shedding light on what we can expect in the years and decades to come.

Author : Elif Shafak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635578607

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The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak Pdf

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.

Author : William Gay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743242929

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I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay Pdf

Reviewers loved Gay's two novels and hailed him as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Literature" ("Esquire.") The 13 new stories are driven by the grizzled, everyday folks that Gay is famous for bringing to life.

Author : Simi K. Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951375076

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Under the Shade of the Banyan Tree by Simi K. Rao Pdf

Poems are fragments of life. In this contemporary poetry collection for women by Simi K. Rao, there are blissful moments; cries for help; declarations of defiance and philosophical observations. These inspirational poems are fragments of life elucidating the different phases of the human condition and will have an impact on women of all ages.

Author : Brandon Ford,Cori Vidae,Brian Rosenberger ,Olive Whittier ,Tanker Ray ,Kristopher Triana ,S.C. Hayden ,Eric LaRocca ,Shequila Rayne ,Andrew Darlington ,Paul Allih
Publisher : Red Room Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Stiff Things: The Splatterporn Anthology by Brandon Ford,Cori Vidae,Brian Rosenberger ,Olive Whittier ,Tanker Ray ,Kristopher Triana ,S.C. Hayden ,Eric LaRocca ,Shequila Rayne ,Andrew Darlington ,Paul Allih Pdf

When Red Room Press put out the call for submissions for STIFF THINGS we said we were ready to ratchet up the visceral intensity with hardcore stories that penetrate new depths of horror. But we weren't as ready as we thought we were for the extreme stuff that came flooding in on waves of blood and other bodily fluids we won't mention here. Not that we're complaining. In other words, we got what we wished for...and more. The stories themselves dictated a new title. And so here is the TOC for this upcoming release with a more apt title: Stiff Things: The Splatterporn Anthology MODERN CELEBRITY by Brandon Ford SUCKERS by Cori Vidae and Brian Rosenberger ONE EAR, ALWAYS TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD by Olive Whittier GODFUCKED by Tanker Ray THE SOLUTION by Kristopher Triana HUNTER'S MOON by S.C. Hayden IF MY FACE WERE TRANSPARENT, YOU'D SEE THE DEVIL by Eric LaRocca CHARLOTTE THE HARLOT by Shequila Rayne THE PENIS OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE by Andrew Darlington THE EXTRA MILE by Paul Allih

Author : Christopher Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Horror stories
ISBN : 0671872699

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The Lost Mind by Christopher Pike Pdf

She didn't know what she had done. She awoke in the woods beside a dead body with a knife in her hand and blood on her clothes. Had she killed the young woman beside her? She couldn't remember remember anything--not even her own name. It was as if someone had stolen her mind--stolen her soul.

Author : Carolyn Rush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1426945205

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The Grandfather Tree by Carolyn Rush Pdf

Waking up on a scorching deserted beach, fourteen-year-old Mimi Reagan fears she didn't survive the lightning storm that sent her tearing through her family's cornfields in Iowa. Lying in the bleach-white sand, she discovers that wherever she is, she isn't there alone. Ethan, Jess, and Jake, the only other inhabitants of this island, are also imprisoned. Strangers to each other, Mimi and Ethan realize they can hear each other's thoughts. They know everything about one another. Jess and Jake experience the same phenomenon. And while Ethan and Mimi feel an immediate intimacy at their mystical knowledge, this vulnerability has driven Jess and Jake to mutual disgust. The island holds a power too great for these four captives to fully comprehend. Ripping, inverted cyclones torture the waterline. Bloodthirsty sea-beasts stalk the shores. Even the sun and moon disobey the common laws of nature. As the four teens struggle to find a way home, they realize this island has a distinct plan for each of them. They each must face their worst fear. The island creates the perfect adversary composed of all their insecurities, armed with the knowledge of their weaknesses, and poised for a death strike. The choice becomes clear: overcome or perish.

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375420528

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Pdf

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : IND:30000079561555

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The Olive Tree by Mark O'Connor Pdf

The central theme of this collection of poetry is the uniqueness and diversity of Australia's environment. Sections are divided regionally, covering the reef, Europe, the Blue Mountains, forest country, the Australian Alps, the Centre and Kakadu and the Top End. Author has published 12 books of poetry and was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship to write poetry covering the 2000 Olympic Games.

Author : Shane Koyczan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 1554516390

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To this Day by Shane Koyczan Pdf

Shane Koyczan's well-known anti-bullying poem, illustrated by thirty artists from around the world.