Author: Richard Matheson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780727860996
Category : Haunted houses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Horror.
Hell House
Author: Richard Matheson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780727860996
Category : Haunted houses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Horror.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780727860996
Category : Haunted houses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Horror.
The Cultural Gutter
Author: Carol Borden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557958393
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Science fiction, fantasy, comics, romance, genre movies, games all drain into the Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful articles about disreputable art-media and genres that are a little embarrassing. Irredeemable. Worthy of Note, but rolling like errant pennies back into the gutter. The Cultural Gutter is dangerous because we have a philosophy. We try to balance enthusiasm with clear-eyed, honest engagement with the material and with our readers. This book expands on our mission with 10 articles each from science fiction/fantasy editor James Schellenberg, comics editor and publisher Carol Borden, romance editor Chris Szego, screen editor Ian Driscoll and founding editor and former games editor Jim Munroe.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557958393
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Science fiction, fantasy, comics, romance, genre movies, games all drain into the Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful articles about disreputable art-media and genres that are a little embarrassing. Irredeemable. Worthy of Note, but rolling like errant pennies back into the gutter. The Cultural Gutter is dangerous because we have a philosophy. We try to balance enthusiasm with clear-eyed, honest engagement with the material and with our readers. This book expands on our mission with 10 articles each from science fiction/fantasy editor James Schellenberg, comics editor and publisher Carol Borden, romance editor Chris Szego, screen editor Ian Driscoll and founding editor and former games editor Jim Munroe.
The Legend of Hell House
Author: Richard Matheson
Publisher: Harvest Moon Books
ISBN: 9781929750795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Award winning novelist, film and television writer Richard Matheson adapted the script from his novel. This tale of the occult follows four researchers who agree to spend one week in a house known to be inhabited by dangerous and evil spirits. Typical of Matheson's unique style, The Legend of Hell House is not the usual ghost story and is yet another reason why Ray Bradbury described him as one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
Publisher: Harvest Moon Books
ISBN: 9781929750795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Award winning novelist, film and television writer Richard Matheson adapted the script from his novel. This tale of the occult follows four researchers who agree to spend one week in a house known to be inhabited by dangerous and evil spirits. Typical of Matheson's unique style, The Legend of Hell House is not the usual ghost story and is yet another reason why Ray Bradbury described him as one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
"That Fiend in Hell"
Author: Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.
Hell's Half Acre
Author: Richard F. Selcer
Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875650883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.
Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875650883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.
The Penguin Book of Hell
Author: Scott G. Bruce
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131621
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America A Penguin Classic From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131621
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America A Penguin Classic From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Mercy of Hell Hollow
Author: Marnie Reynolds-Bourque
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734414578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Within a rural New England town, a child perishes, later igniting an urban legend. But the urban legend is false, and the vandals only hurt the surviving family. In late 1875 a young Mercy Reynolds marries a prosperous man much older than her, and later begins filling a journal with her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also record incredible loss as well. As she journals, she also affirms friendship and love were the same many years ago as they are in today's world.Written by Mercy's own great, great, granddaughter this novel shows how one woman found the courage to live on after the unthinkable happens and reveals the truth behind the Witch of Hell Hollow.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734414578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Within a rural New England town, a child perishes, later igniting an urban legend. But the urban legend is false, and the vandals only hurt the surviving family. In late 1875 a young Mercy Reynolds marries a prosperous man much older than her, and later begins filling a journal with her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also record incredible loss as well. As she journals, she also affirms friendship and love were the same many years ago as they are in today's world.Written by Mercy's own great, great, granddaughter this novel shows how one woman found the courage to live on after the unthinkable happens and reveals the truth behind the Witch of Hell Hollow.
Four Stars Of Hell
Author: Laurence Critchell
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The wartime exploits of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment are told here in the most vivid and appropriate way; by one of the men who experienced their battles firsthand – Captain Laurence Critchell. The author fought with the men of the Screaming Eagles from the tough training at camp Toccoa, Georgia to their hellish night drop on D-Day and all the way to the capture of Hitler’s mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden. During 1944-1945 the author and his comrades soldiers would be involved in some of the heaviest and bloodiest fighting in Europe, during the Operation Market Garden at Njimegen and the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne. A gripping read of the Second World War as told by a decorated combat veteran. “It is fitting that the story of the 501st Parachute Regiment of the famed 101st Airborne Division should be told by a parachute captain.”—The New York Times “A personalized record, told in terms of the men of all ranks, of how they trained and fought and died... the story has an authentic ring.”—U.S. Quarterly “The greatest airborne operation of this or any other war.” —Lewis H. Brereton, Former Lt. General, First Allied Airborne Army, World War II
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The wartime exploits of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment are told here in the most vivid and appropriate way; by one of the men who experienced their battles firsthand – Captain Laurence Critchell. The author fought with the men of the Screaming Eagles from the tough training at camp Toccoa, Georgia to their hellish night drop on D-Day and all the way to the capture of Hitler’s mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden. During 1944-1945 the author and his comrades soldiers would be involved in some of the heaviest and bloodiest fighting in Europe, during the Operation Market Garden at Njimegen and the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne. A gripping read of the Second World War as told by a decorated combat veteran. “It is fitting that the story of the 501st Parachute Regiment of the famed 101st Airborne Division should be told by a parachute captain.”—The New York Times “A personalized record, told in terms of the men of all ranks, of how they trained and fought and died... the story has an authentic ring.”—U.S. Quarterly “The greatest airborne operation of this or any other war.” —Lewis H. Brereton, Former Lt. General, First Allied Airborne Army, World War II
Algoma Ghost
Author: Russell Slater
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692555613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Legend: In 1835, near Laphamville (modern Rockford), Michigan, several children went missing. After trusted village elder Elias Friske confessed to their murder, he was hanged by vengeful parents. His ghost is rumored to still inhabit the site of the lynching - an area known locally as "Hell's Bridge." As Halloween draws near, a group of teenage thrill-seekers gather near a rusted iron foot bridge. When they disappear into thin air, paranormal investigator Birgil Doxey puts himself on the case. As he probes the mystery, he learns the shocking truth about the town's dark past.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692555613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Legend: In 1835, near Laphamville (modern Rockford), Michigan, several children went missing. After trusted village elder Elias Friske confessed to their murder, he was hanged by vengeful parents. His ghost is rumored to still inhabit the site of the lynching - an area known locally as "Hell's Bridge." As Halloween draws near, a group of teenage thrill-seekers gather near a rusted iron foot bridge. When they disappear into thin air, paranormal investigator Birgil Doxey puts himself on the case. As he probes the mystery, he learns the shocking truth about the town's dark past.
Ring of Hell
Author: Matthew Randazzo, V
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Ring of Hell" is the true story of Chris Benoit's journey through the destructive, dysfunctional, and bizarre pro wrestling industry, and the catastrophic physical and mental breakdown that led to his grisly end.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Ring of Hell" is the true story of Chris Benoit's journey through the destructive, dysfunctional, and bizarre pro wrestling industry, and the catastrophic physical and mental breakdown that led to his grisly end.