Author: Steven Van Patten
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420871609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Christian Brookwater, a former Georgia plantation slave, becomes a vampire during the 1860s. His life takes a complicated turn when he is forced to travel to modern-day Senegal to rescue a child from a vengeful werewolf prince. It is here that he uncovers a plot that would throw the entire vampire nation into civil war.
Brookwater's Curse
Author: Steven Van Patten
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420871609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Christian Brookwater, a former Georgia plantation slave, becomes a vampire during the 1860s. His life takes a complicated turn when he is forced to travel to modern-day Senegal to rescue a child from a vengeful werewolf prince. It is here that he uncovers a plot that would throw the entire vampire nation into civil war.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420871609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Christian Brookwater, a former Georgia plantation slave, becomes a vampire during the 1860s. His life takes a complicated turn when he is forced to travel to modern-day Senegal to rescue a child from a vengeful werewolf prince. It is here that he uncovers a plot that would throw the entire vampire nation into civil war.
Brookwater's Curse
Author: Steven Van Patten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990791713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In the vampire nation, the civil war that Christian Brookwater sought to prevent has become a harsh reality. On one side stands the High Counselors. Once considered benevolent rulers they have been revealed to be nothing more than self-serving power mongers. Lord Ebichara Tanata leads the opposing army, with many of Japan's deadliest vampire samurais willing to march into certain death beside him.As Christian fights the High Counselors and helps Lord Tanata, he uncovers horrible secrets and eventually becomes an even bigger target than his samurai mentor.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990791713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In the vampire nation, the civil war that Christian Brookwater sought to prevent has become a harsh reality. On one side stands the High Counselors. Once considered benevolent rulers they have been revealed to be nothing more than self-serving power mongers. Lord Ebichara Tanata leads the opposing army, with many of Japan's deadliest vampire samurais willing to march into certain death beside him.As Christian fights the High Counselors and helps Lord Tanata, he uncovers horrible secrets and eventually becomes an even bigger target than his samurai mentor.
Vampires Are Us
Author: Adler, Margot
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1578635608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
“Vampires. Why do we care? In these pages you will find what is very simply, the most literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating answer to that question ever written.” ?Whitley Strieber In a culture that does not do death particularly well, we are obsessed with mortality. Margot Adler writes, “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.” As Adler, a longtime NPR correspondent and question asker, sat vigil at her dying husband’s bedside, she found herself newly drawn to vampire novels and their explorations of mortality. Over the next four years—by now she has read more than 270 vampire novels, from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic—she began to see just how each era creates the vampires it needs. Dracula, an Eastern European monster, was the perfect vehicle for 19th-century England’s fear of outsiders and of disease seeping in through its large ports. In 1960s America, Dark Shadows gave us the morally conflicted vampire struggling against his own predatory nature, who still enthralls us today. Think Spike and Angel, Stefan and Damon, Bill and Eric, the Cullens. Vampires Are Us explores the issues of power, politics, morality, identity, and even the fate of the planet that show up in vampire novels today. Perhaps, Adler suggests, our blood is oil, perhaps our prey is the planet. Perhaps vampires are us.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1578635608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
“Vampires. Why do we care? In these pages you will find what is very simply, the most literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating answer to that question ever written.” ?Whitley Strieber In a culture that does not do death particularly well, we are obsessed with mortality. Margot Adler writes, “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.” As Adler, a longtime NPR correspondent and question asker, sat vigil at her dying husband’s bedside, she found herself newly drawn to vampire novels and their explorations of mortality. Over the next four years—by now she has read more than 270 vampire novels, from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic—she began to see just how each era creates the vampires it needs. Dracula, an Eastern European monster, was the perfect vehicle for 19th-century England’s fear of outsiders and of disease seeping in through its large ports. In 1960s America, Dark Shadows gave us the morally conflicted vampire struggling against his own predatory nature, who still enthralls us today. Think Spike and Angel, Stefan and Damon, Bill and Eric, the Cullens. Vampires Are Us explores the issues of power, politics, morality, identity, and even the fate of the planet that show up in vampire novels today. Perhaps, Adler suggests, our blood is oil, perhaps our prey is the planet. Perhaps vampires are us.
Hell at the Way Station
Author: Marc L. Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999658840
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999658840
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Under Twin Suns
Author: James Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614983316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this anthology of weird fiction, twenty-two authors share their harrowing visions of worlds shaped by the Yellow Sign, in stories and poems inspired by Robert W. Chambers's foundational works of weird horror. From the personal to the historic, from the macabre to the fantastic, the stories and poems gathered here illuminate new, unexpected realities shaped by the King in Yellow, under the sway of the Yellow Sign, or in the grip of madnesses inspired by their power. Authors included: Marc Abbott - Linda D. Addison - Meghan Arcuri - Greg Chapman - JG Faherty - Trevor Firetog - Patrick Freivald - Carol Gyzander - Todd Keisling - John Langan - Curtis Lawson - Adrian Ludens - Lisa Morton - Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. - Sarah Read - Kathleen Scheiner - Ann K. Schwader - Darrell Schweitzer - J. Daniel Stone - Steven Van Patten - Tim Waggoner - Kaaron Warren Robert W. Chambers's classic work of weird fiction, The King in Yellow (1895), contained two stories that have exercised wide influence in the genre. "The Repairer of Reputations" introduced the world to The King in Yellow, a play in two acts, banned for its reputed power to drive mad anyone who reads its complete text. Another story, "The Yellow Sign," used the experiences of an artist and his model to elaborate on the mythos of the Yellow King, the Yellow Sign, and their danger to all who encounter them. In those tales Chambers crafted fascinating glimpses of a cosmos populated by conspiracies, government-sanctioned suicide chambers, haunted artists, premonitions of death, unreliable narrators-and dark, enigmatic occurrences tainted by the alien world of Carcosa, where the King rules in his tattered yellow mantle. In Carcosa, black stars rise and Cassilda and Camilla speak and sing. In Carcosa, eyes peer from within pallid masks to gaze across Lake Hali at the setting of twin suns.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614983316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this anthology of weird fiction, twenty-two authors share their harrowing visions of worlds shaped by the Yellow Sign, in stories and poems inspired by Robert W. Chambers's foundational works of weird horror. From the personal to the historic, from the macabre to the fantastic, the stories and poems gathered here illuminate new, unexpected realities shaped by the King in Yellow, under the sway of the Yellow Sign, or in the grip of madnesses inspired by their power. Authors included: Marc Abbott - Linda D. Addison - Meghan Arcuri - Greg Chapman - JG Faherty - Trevor Firetog - Patrick Freivald - Carol Gyzander - Todd Keisling - John Langan - Curtis Lawson - Adrian Ludens - Lisa Morton - Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. - Sarah Read - Kathleen Scheiner - Ann K. Schwader - Darrell Schweitzer - J. Daniel Stone - Steven Van Patten - Tim Waggoner - Kaaron Warren Robert W. Chambers's classic work of weird fiction, The King in Yellow (1895), contained two stories that have exercised wide influence in the genre. "The Repairer of Reputations" introduced the world to The King in Yellow, a play in two acts, banned for its reputed power to drive mad anyone who reads its complete text. Another story, "The Yellow Sign," used the experiences of an artist and his model to elaborate on the mythos of the Yellow King, the Yellow Sign, and their danger to all who encounter them. In those tales Chambers crafted fascinating glimpses of a cosmos populated by conspiracies, government-sanctioned suicide chambers, haunted artists, premonitions of death, unreliable narrators-and dark, enigmatic occurrences tainted by the alien world of Carcosa, where the King rules in his tattered yellow mantle. In Carcosa, black stars rise and Cassilda and Camilla speak and sing. In Carcosa, eyes peer from within pallid masks to gaze across Lake Hali at the setting of twin suns.
Folle-farine by Ouida
Author: Ouida
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Cedric, the Forester
Author: Bernard Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sir Dickon Mountjoy, a twelfth-century Norman nobleman, befriends a Saxon yeoman, Cedric. Cedric saves Sir Dickon's life and is made his squire and the two men have a series of adventures.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sir Dickon Mountjoy, a twelfth-century Norman nobleman, befriends a Saxon yeoman, Cedric. Cedric saves Sir Dickon's life and is made his squire and the two men have a series of adventures.
The Breeder's Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
The Duroc Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Duroc Jersey swine
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Duroc Jersey swine
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Duroc Bulletin and Live Stock Farmer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Duroc Jersey swine
Languages : en
Pages : 1778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Duroc Jersey swine
Languages : en
Pages : 1778
Book Description