Author: Randall Boyll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671526962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The highly successful HBO series Tales from the Crypt--the brainchild of Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump), Joel Silver (Die Hard), and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon)--makes the transition to the big screen with a movie project sure to propel the Crypt Keeper to superstar status.
Tales from the Crypt
Author: Randall Boyll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671526962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The highly successful HBO series Tales from the Crypt--the brainchild of Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump), Joel Silver (Die Hard), and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon)--makes the transition to the big screen with a movie project sure to propel the Crypt Keeper to superstar status.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671526962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The highly successful HBO series Tales from the Crypt--the brainchild of Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump), Joel Silver (Die Hard), and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon)--makes the transition to the big screen with a movie project sure to propel the Crypt Keeper to superstar status.
Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan
Author: Noriko T. Reider
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607324903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they were perceived to be living entities. They reflect not only the worldview of medieval Japan but also themes that inform twenty-first-century Japanese pop and vernacular culture, including literature, manga, film, and anime. With each translation, Reider includes an introductory essay exploring the historical and cultural importance of the characters and oni manifestations within this period. Offering new insights into and interpretations of not only the stories therein but also the entire genre of Japanese ghost stories, Seven Demon Stories is a valuable companion to Reider’s 2010 volume Japanese Demon Lore. It will be of significant value to folklore scholars as well as students of Japanese culture.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607324903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they were perceived to be living entities. They reflect not only the worldview of medieval Japan but also themes that inform twenty-first-century Japanese pop and vernacular culture, including literature, manga, film, and anime. With each translation, Reider includes an introductory essay exploring the historical and cultural importance of the characters and oni manifestations within this period. Offering new insights into and interpretations of not only the stories therein but also the entire genre of Japanese ghost stories, Seven Demon Stories is a valuable companion to Reider’s 2010 volume Japanese Demon Lore. It will be of significant value to folklore scholars as well as students of Japanese culture.
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales
Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231152450
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Haruo Shirane and Burton Watson, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese folktales. These dramatic and often amusing stories offer a major view of the foundations of Japanese culture.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231152450
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Haruo Shirane and Burton Watson, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese folktales. These dramatic and often amusing stories offer a major view of the foundations of Japanese culture.
Demon and Other Tales
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Chinese Demon Tales
Author: Ping-Chiu Yen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000582884
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book, first published in 1990, is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature. Interest in vernacular stories is increasing in the study of Chinese literature, as their importance is being recognised as a key part of the oral traditional narrative. From the analysis of the five Chinese tales in light of literary, historical, philological sources and folkloristic methodologies we may see to what extent tales of an intrinsically religious nature can offer meanings in the oral tradition.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000582884
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book, first published in 1990, is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature. Interest in vernacular stories is increasing in the study of Chinese literature, as their importance is being recognised as a key part of the oral traditional narrative. From the analysis of the five Chinese tales in light of literary, historical, philological sources and folkloristic methodologies we may see to what extent tales of an intrinsically religious nature can offer meanings in the oral tradition.
Prince of Ice
Author: Emma Holly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101205571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Emma Holly loves to take a walk on the wild side," (Best Reviews) and here she ventures into a sensuous and dangerous world where a human courtesan becomes the flesh abd blood property of a demon prince. Soulmates, lovers - and victims of an unnatural desire that could drive them both insane.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101205571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Emma Holly loves to take a walk on the wild side," (Best Reviews) and here she ventures into a sensuous and dangerous world where a human courtesan becomes the flesh abd blood property of a demon prince. Soulmates, lovers - and victims of an unnatural desire that could drive them both insane.
Demon in the Woods
Author: Charles Edwin Price
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9780932807823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The monster fish sighted in Watauga and Boone Lakes, the so-called Wampas Cat, and a witchy horse that found a little lost girl wandering on Embreeville Mountain—these are but a few of the stories retold in this book of East Tennessee tales. Other stories include the Cherokee legends of creation and fire, a witch who drove people mad, a personal account of a miraculous cure, lost civilizations in the middle of Cherokee National Forest, and a host of death and burial superstitions.
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9780932807823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The monster fish sighted in Watauga and Boone Lakes, the so-called Wampas Cat, and a witchy horse that found a little lost girl wandering on Embreeville Mountain—these are but a few of the stories retold in this book of East Tennessee tales. Other stories include the Cherokee legends of creation and fire, a witch who drove people mad, a personal account of a miraculous cure, lost civilizations in the middle of Cherokee National Forest, and a host of death and burial superstitions.
Batman
Author: Dennis O'Neil
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446393645
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Raz Al Ghul has always been one of Batman's most challenging adversaries. Dubbed "The Demon", he is the product of many years of mystical study which has led to numerous occult rejuvenations on his part and the amassing of a huge secret empire. More than a master criminal, he is a demigod with one purpose: to save the earth from mankind's destruction.
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446393645
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Raz Al Ghul has always been one of Batman's most challenging adversaries. Dubbed "The Demon", he is the product of many years of mystical study which has led to numerous occult rejuvenations on his part and the amassing of a huge secret empire. More than a master criminal, he is a demigod with one purpose: to save the earth from mankind's destruction.
A Demon's Tale
Author: M.P. Bryant III
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453512942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"A Demons Tale" "Little Mikey thought thing's at home were bad,that is until he stumbles into Germany's 'Black forest,'within an attempt to run away from home...and encounters a 1,500 year- old demon (consealed within an eerie cave)in posession of a book, so evil, that God spits upon it's very existance.... Just when the young boy assumes death inevitable...he's told a story by the demon that ultimately changes everything...." "As the terrifying tale unfolds,the child discovers how this unique demon (who was once a child himself)rose to become what he now is... yet,the very real question remains,is Mikey willing to exchange his already condemned soul for a far greater evil,than he has ever known...?"
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453512942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"A Demons Tale" "Little Mikey thought thing's at home were bad,that is until he stumbles into Germany's 'Black forest,'within an attempt to run away from home...and encounters a 1,500 year- old demon (consealed within an eerie cave)in posession of a book, so evil, that God spits upon it's very existance.... Just when the young boy assumes death inevitable...he's told a story by the demon that ultimately changes everything...." "As the terrifying tale unfolds,the child discovers how this unique demon (who was once a child himself)rose to become what he now is... yet,the very real question remains,is Mikey willing to exchange his already condemned soul for a far greater evil,than he has ever known...?"
Chinese Demon Tales
Author: Ping-Chiu Yen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367773571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book, first published in 1990, is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature in light of literary, historical, philological sources and folkloristic methodologies in order to see to what extent tales of an intrinsically religious nature can offer meanings in the oral tradition.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367773571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book, first published in 1990, is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature in light of literary, historical, philological sources and folkloristic methodologies in order to see to what extent tales of an intrinsically religious nature can offer meanings in the oral tradition.