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Author : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0201001578
Presents lore and myths from various parts of the world about vampires, zombies, and other supernatural creatures and examines their basis in actual events.
Author : Leo Braudy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300203806
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Shaping Fear -- 2 Between Hope and Fear: Horror and Religion -- 3 Terror, Horror, and the Cult of Nature -- 4 Frankenstein, Robots, and Androids: Horror and the Manufactured Monster -- 5 The Detective's Reason -- 6 Jekyll and Hyde: The Monster from Within -- 7 Dracula and the Haunted Present -- 8 Horror in the Age of Visual Reproduction -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations
Author : Barbara H. Solomon,Eileen Panetta
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101544020
They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity’s nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny beings that frighten and fascinate the imagination. Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts collects classic stories from literary masters inspired by folklore and mythology who dared to explore the darker side of human nature and crafted tales that defied convention, stirred up controversy, and gave life to a storytelling genre that has endured for generations. With stories by Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Anne Sexton, Oscar Wilde, Yvonne Navarro, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Angela Carter, and others…
Author : John E. Douglas,Mark Olshaker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781439107812
New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit. In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness, Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He is straightforward, blunt, often irreverent, and outspoken, but takes pains not to glorify any of these murderers. Some of the unique cases Douglas discusses include: -The Clairemont killer -The schoolgirl murders -Richmond's First Serial Murderer -The brutal and sadistic murder of Suzanne Marie Collins -Polly Klaas' abduction and murder by Richard Allen Davis, -The tragedy that lead to the creation of Megan's Law With Journey into Darkness, Douglas provides more than a glimpse into the minds of serial killers; he demonstrates what a powerful weapon behavioral science has become. Profiling criminals helps not only to capture them, but also helps society understand how these predators work and what can be done to prevent them from striking again. Douglas focuses especially on pedophiles and child abductors, fully explaining what drives them, and how to keep children away from them. As he points out, "The best way to protect your children is to know your enemy." He includes eight rules for safety, a list of steps parents can take to prevent child abduction and exploitation, tips on how to detect sexual exploitation, basic rules of safety for children, and a chart, based on age, which details the safety skills children should have to protect themselves. In his review for Mindhunter in The New York Times Book Review, Dean Koontz said, "Because of his insights and the power of the material, he leaves us shaken, gripped by a quiet grief for the innocent victims and anguished by the human condition." Journey into Darkness continues this perilous trip into the psyche of the serial killer, but also offers a glimmer of hope that profiling may enable law enforcement to see the indicators of a serial killer's mind and intervene before he kills, or kills again.
Author : Alex Foulkes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534498402
Roald Dahl meets The Beast and the Bethany in this second exciting middle grade adventure following young vampire Leo as she strives to prove herself. A vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. It makes no sense. The two factions have despised one another for all eternity. But Leo the vampire and Minna the ghost have battled side-by-side: they’re sisters-in-arms, they’re best friends, and they’ll have to work together to vanquish a new, deadly threat. Summoned to the Ghostly Realm for the murder of the Orphanmaster, Leo must complete three tasks to prove herself worthy of her unlife, each more treacherous than the last. Can Leo convince the Ghostly Realm of her innocence and earn her freedom, or will she be trapped there forever?
Author : Gregory L. Reece
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857730428
Vampires and werewolves; phantoms and phantasms: looming out of the fog leaps the menacing spectre of the lycanthrope, ghoul or blood-crazed zombie. Intrigued by some of the most sinister, yet at the same time most compelling, legends of western civilization, Gregory L Reece dusts down his stake and crucifix, loads his silver bullets and takes off into the wilds in search of answers and fresh adventures. Rummaging around in crumbling tombs and cobwebbed sarcophagi, his latest quest leads him into the haunted realm of the dead and the undead: of those carnivorous, nocturnal hunters that might perhaps better be left undisturbed. Why, he asks, is our culture obsessed by the eerie and the macabre? Why, despite its horrors, does the 'dark side' of the supernatural - its seances and ghost-hunting, demonic possession and the occult - call to us with such dangerous allure? Whether tracking night-stalking werewolves, chanting black magic mantras with Satanists, or interviewing a funereal modern-day Count Dracula, Reece is determined to uncover the truth. A wry exploration of a secret and secretive subculture, "Creatures of the Night" is at the same time a bold and startling journey into a wraithlike world that has so often seemed to lie beyond the limits of rational comprehension - until now.
Author : Mihai Spariosu,Dezso Benedek
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0531087107
Includes sixteen tales from Transylvanian folklore, arranged in three sections: Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves; Haunted Treasures; and Eerie Fairy Tales.
Author : Devendra P. Varma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000015315670
"Tales of seduction... and death. In one of the most terrifying collections every assembled., Voices From the Vaults brings together 20 irresistibly bizarre tales of vampires and vampirism from the dripping pens of such all-time masters of the macabre as F. G. Loring, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Alexis Tolstoy, Peter Underwood, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and many others. Here are classic accounts of the undead--some fact, some fiction--from all over the world, including the histories of such legendary members of vampiredom as the Italian Count, whose castle bell-rope was made of human hair; England's Countess Sarah, who had children served up at her midnight feasts; France's lovely Clarimonde, who made a specialty of seducing young priests; Serbia's sentimental vourdalaks, who devoured only their closest relatives and dearest friends -- and many more stories. Sensuous, shocking, and unforgettable, Voices From the Vaults is not a book for the faint of heart. Within these pages are recorded some of the scariest -- and most seductive -- stories ever told anywhere on earth... or beneath it!" --Back cover.
Author : Barb Hendee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101596784
With her vampire protector Philip Branté and their human companion Wade Sheffield, a former police psychologist, Eleisha Clevon searches the world for isolated vampires—and offers them sanctuary. She wants to provide a home where she can teach them to follow the Four Laws that will protect them and their kind. But not all vampires want to live by anyone’s rules but their own. Christian Lefevre has been posing a psychic, catering to the upper crust of Seattle society by making contact with their dead loved ones—and leaving his clients faint and weak after each encounter. Now Eleisha must confront the most deadly predator she has ever faced—or lose everything she has fought to protect…
Author : Emily Ogden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226532479
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.
Author : Ron Halliday
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781845026899
Ron Halliday's new book covers the entire range of supernatural phenomena that has occurred in Edinburgh. Going beyond a narrow focus on 'ghosts' and 'hauntings', Halliday examines the variety of paranormal happenings that have featured in Edinburgh's past and present. Covering a wide array of topics - from vampires and UFOs, to magical sites and poltergeists - Halliday draws on personal investigation to create a lively and modern exploration of Scotland's capital. Join Halliday on a journey to discover Edinburgh's most fantastic, strange, and out-of-this-world inhabitants, all sharing a common thread that will reveal why Edinburgh really is the perfect capital for the most haunted country in the world.
Author : Janis Hill
Publisher : Hague Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780987265272
Too late to save her sister’s life, Stephanie Anders must now try to save her soul from the vampire who has possessed her, Branwyre, eighteenth vampire Lord of the Aegean. With only the aid of the ghost of a pissed-off Buddhist monk with a potty mouth and the modern day Priestess of Isis, Stephanie must take on demons and other denizens of a world she knows nothing about if she is to succeed in banishing Branwyre. But even more difficult than that, she must learn how to forgive her sister Estella for what she did to her if she is to have even half a chance of saving her soul. Welcome to a world within our own – the Other World.
Author : Leo Ruickbie
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780330709
From Most Haunted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Underworld to Twilight, from Doom to Resident Evil, The Brief Guide to the Supernatural goes in search of the unearthly with unexpected results; combining history, science, psychology and myth he explores the allure of the paranormal - why so many people still believe in ghosts and angels - as well as the many ways people have tried to contact and record the impossible.
Author : Darcie Little Badger
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781646140060
A National Indie Bestseller TIME's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time An NPR Best Book of 2020 A Booklist's Top 10 First Novel for Youth A BookPage Best Book of 2020 A CPL "Best of the Best" Book A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 A Buzzfeed Best YA SFF Book of 2020 A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020 An AICL Best YA Book of 2020 A Kirkus Best YA Book of 2020 A Tor Best Book of 2020 PRAISE "Groundbreaking." —TIME "Deeply enjoyable from start to finish." —NPR "Utterly magical." —SyFyWire "Atmospheric and lyrical...a gorgeous work of art." —BuzzFeed "One of the best YA debuts of 2020. Read it." —Marieke Nijkamp FIVE STARRED REVIEWS ★ "A fresh voice and perspective." —Booklist, starred review ★ "A unique and powerful Native American voice." —BookPage, starred review ★ "A brilliant, engaging debut." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "A fast-paced murder mystery." —Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "A Lipan Apache Sookie Stackhouse for the teen set." —Shelf-Awareness, starred review A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer. Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered. Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started? A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.
Author : Joshua Gee
Publisher : Apple Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 0439922550
"This book invites you to join its quest for the terrifying truth about all things ghoulish and ghastly. But beware! Surprises lurk at the turn of every page..."--Publisher's description.