Author: Lee Murray
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 261
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11 short stories from the imagination of New Zealand's multiple award-winning author and editor Lee Murray! Contains 4 original stories including a new adventure in the much-lauded and awarded Taine McKenna series! Contents:Foreword by USA Today bestselling author David WoodGrotesqueHawaikiSelfie The New Breed Cave Fever Dead End Town Edward's Journal Maui's HookHeart MusicLifebloodInto the Clouded Sky - A Taine McKenna AdventureAlso includes a glossary of Maori terms, as well as an afterword by the author.~The book has already received outstanding praise and reviews, including the following:- "With Grotesque: Monster Stories, Lee Murray proves she is a first-rate talent! These stories are fascinating, unexpected, and scary as hell!" -- Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rage and V-Wars. "Action, thrills, monsters, awesome!" -- USA Today bestselling author, David Wood. "Keep calm and buckle up! From traveling to the dark side of exotic locales to visiting those familiar places you only thought you knew, author Lee Murray flexes her talent and range in this debut collection." -- Rena Mason, award winning author of The Evolutionist and East End Girls. "Murray's tales run the gamut of the horror spectrum, from horrifying to terrifying to heartbreaking. There is a story for everyone in this wonderful collection." -- Tom Deady, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Haven. "It has been said creating is a path of immortality; Murray's engaging tales bring us into the dream time of imagination, mixing her unique dark stories and the Māori culture to create a collection existing outside of time, taking us with it." -- Linda D. Addison, award-winning author and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. "Murray's formidable imagination is laid bare here, presenting a dizzying array of monsters from around the world - leaping effortlessly from ancient reanimated soldiers in the Loire Valley, to Māori demons, to horrors even closer to home: the monsters within our own families." -- Aaron Sterns, Wolf Creek 2, Wolf Creek: Origin
Author: Lee Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645204308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Winner of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for best collection 2020! 11 short stories, each from the imagination of New Zealand's award-winning author and editor Lee Murray!
Author: Lee Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781005373917
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In a collection inspired by the mythologies of Europe, China, and her beloved Aotearoa-New Zealand, four-time Bram Stoker Award®-winner Lee Murray twists and subverts ancient themes, stitching new creatures from blood and bone, hiding them in soft forest mists and dark subterranean prisons.In this volume, construction workers uncover a hidden tunnel, soldiers wander, lost after a skirmish, and a dead girl yearns for company.Featuring eleven uncanny tales of automatons, zombies, golems, and dragons, and including the Taine McKenna adventure "Into the Clouded Sky", Murray's Grotesque: Monster Stories breathes new life into the monster genre.
Author: Rich Douek
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN: 1649360150
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Plunge headfirst into the icy waters of dread in this graphic novel of deep sea adventure with a horrific twist! In the aftermath of the Great War, the North Atlantic is ripe for plunder by independent salvage crews. When a former naval officer hires the SS Vagabond, he leads the ship to a sunken U-boat, and a fortune in gold. Tensions mount as the crew prepares to double cross each other, but the darkness of the ocean floor holds deeper terrors than any of them have bargained for! From the creative team behind the Bram Stoker Award-nominated horror graphic novel Road of Bones comes an all-new tale of bone-chilling terror!
Author: Natsuo Kirino
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448103878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.
Author: Judy Sierra
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 076361727X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Make room in your suitcase for this monstrously entertaining guide to fantastic creatures around the world — and how to elude them. I did not make any of this up. Do you know why you should have baby teeth handy when visiting the Midwest? Or why you should bring a cucumber with you when swimming in Japan? How good are you at solving Russian riddles? From Boston to Bejing, from Moscow to Mali, any place you visit has its own terrifying tales of very real creatures. Complete with handy "gruesomeness ratings," this guide offers all the important facts on some sixty-three folkloric monsters and how (if possible!) to survive an encounter with them. Meticulously researched by Judy Sierra and illustrated in grotesque detail by Henrik Drescher, here is the ultimate resource for any world traveler, armchair or otherwise, hoping to make it home alive.
Author: Kelly Link
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101215429
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The crossover literary sensation...now in paperback! Through the lens of Kelly Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award- winning "The Faery Handbag," in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of "The Surfer," whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, these ten stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Kelly Link's fans range from Michael Chabon to Peter Buck of R.E.M. to Holly Black of Spiderwick Chronicles fame. Now teens can have their world rocked too!
Author: Sofia Samatar
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
ISBN: 9781941628102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
Author: Julia Round
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496824474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Winner of the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on Comics Today fans still remember and love the British girls’ comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic, preserving both the inception and development of this important publication as well as its stories. Misty ran for 101 issues as a stand-alone publication between 1978 and 1980 and then four more years as part of Tammy. It was a hugely successful anthology comic containing one-shot and serialized stories of supernatural horror and fantasy aimed at girls and young women and featuring work by writers and artists who dominated British comics such as Pat Mills, Malcolm Shaw, and John Armstrong, as well as celebrated European artists. To this day, Misty remains notable for its daring and sophisticated stories, strong female characters, innovative page layouts, and big visuals. In the first book on this topic, Round closely analyzes Misty’s content, including its creation and production, its cultural and historical context, key influences, and the comic itself. Largely based on Round’s own archival research, the study also draws on interviews with many of the key creators involved in this comic, including Pat Mills, Wilf Prigmore, and its art editorial team Jack Cunningham and Ted Andrews, who have never previously spoken about their work. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished photos, scripts, and letters, this book uses Misty as a lens to explore the use of Gothic themes and symbols in girls’ comics and other media. It surveys existing work on childhood and Gothic and offers a working definition of Gothic for Girls, a subgenre which challenges and instructs readers in a number of ways.
Author: Nikolas Kiejʼe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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"In Japanese Grotesqueries, Nikolas Kiej'e has drawn together the paintings and sketches of a number of the artists of this period. Together, they are a gallery of horror and humor. In these pages, we meet Oiwa, the wife who is murdered but comes back as a ghost to haunt her husband; a Nukekubi, whose long neck takes its head to any corner of the house while its body stays in one place; the Kappa, or water spirits, whose heads are crowned with water; giant spiders; fearsome dragons' and assorted other weird and wonderful creatures. An introductory essay by ethnologist Terence Barrow, 'Ghosts, Ghost-Gods, & Demons of Japan, ' examines the tradition which created these ghosts and ghouls, and tells some of hte stories behind the pictures."--Cover
