Author: Caleb Steele
Publisher: Astral Wellspring Press
ISBN: 0648378616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Adopted by a temple community at the age of five, Korin Volcalt has come to accept the life of religious sacrifice. Although educated about the worlds around him, Korin has nonetheless been conditioned to avoid contact with the mage population and their magic. But one chilling night, Korin faces the Temple’s ultimate test, quickly learning the true nature of his religious leaders. After nearing death multiple times escaping from his trial, Korin discovers a shocking truth: He’s a mage. Korin immediately leaves behind his old life and begins his studies at Teloston University, gradually learning how to wield magic. Gladly embracing his new situation, he soon makes friends before successfully engaging in incredible extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, he progressively overcomes the several afflicting thoughts of his non-mage past. During his journey of self-discovery, however, Korin learns that he will need to navigate and contend with the numerous – and at times, unbelievable – cultural and political problems the mages also face. In stages over the first semester, he uncovers lost knowledge, ancient cults, and the tip of a dark, complex conspiracy… In the first of an epic series, the story is set in the Caelverse – a ‘universe’ filled with geometrically-positioned solar systems, gravitationally-warped worlds, mystifying astral planes, and an astonishingly-diverse civilization, with regions featuring primitive forest trolls, to transhumanists in computerized arcologies.
The Cult of the Black Moon
Author: Caleb Steele
Publisher: Astral Wellspring Press
ISBN: 0648378616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Adopted by a temple community at the age of five, Korin Volcalt has come to accept the life of religious sacrifice. Although educated about the worlds around him, Korin has nonetheless been conditioned to avoid contact with the mage population and their magic. But one chilling night, Korin faces the Temple’s ultimate test, quickly learning the true nature of his religious leaders. After nearing death multiple times escaping from his trial, Korin discovers a shocking truth: He’s a mage. Korin immediately leaves behind his old life and begins his studies at Teloston University, gradually learning how to wield magic. Gladly embracing his new situation, he soon makes friends before successfully engaging in incredible extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, he progressively overcomes the several afflicting thoughts of his non-mage past. During his journey of self-discovery, however, Korin learns that he will need to navigate and contend with the numerous – and at times, unbelievable – cultural and political problems the mages also face. In stages over the first semester, he uncovers lost knowledge, ancient cults, and the tip of a dark, complex conspiracy… In the first of an epic series, the story is set in the Caelverse – a ‘universe’ filled with geometrically-positioned solar systems, gravitationally-warped worlds, mystifying astral planes, and an astonishingly-diverse civilization, with regions featuring primitive forest trolls, to transhumanists in computerized arcologies.
Publisher: Astral Wellspring Press
ISBN: 0648378616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Adopted by a temple community at the age of five, Korin Volcalt has come to accept the life of religious sacrifice. Although educated about the worlds around him, Korin has nonetheless been conditioned to avoid contact with the mage population and their magic. But one chilling night, Korin faces the Temple’s ultimate test, quickly learning the true nature of his religious leaders. After nearing death multiple times escaping from his trial, Korin discovers a shocking truth: He’s a mage. Korin immediately leaves behind his old life and begins his studies at Teloston University, gradually learning how to wield magic. Gladly embracing his new situation, he soon makes friends before successfully engaging in incredible extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, he progressively overcomes the several afflicting thoughts of his non-mage past. During his journey of self-discovery, however, Korin learns that he will need to navigate and contend with the numerous – and at times, unbelievable – cultural and political problems the mages also face. In stages over the first semester, he uncovers lost knowledge, ancient cults, and the tip of a dark, complex conspiracy… In the first of an epic series, the story is set in the Caelverse – a ‘universe’ filled with geometrically-positioned solar systems, gravitationally-warped worlds, mystifying astral planes, and an astonishingly-diverse civilization, with regions featuring primitive forest trolls, to transhumanists in computerized arcologies.
Cat on a Black Moon
Author: Lorraine Martin Bennett
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1685621937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Television anchorwoman Garner Olsen becomes the target of brilliant and deranged ex-flower child Darla Dare when Garner’s husband, a federal prosecutor, prepares to take Darla’s lover to trial for drug trafficking. When Garner’s life is upended by stalking, kidnapping and murder, she vows to track down the woman responsible. She succeeds, but with shattering results.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1685621937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Television anchorwoman Garner Olsen becomes the target of brilliant and deranged ex-flower child Darla Dare when Garner’s husband, a federal prosecutor, prepares to take Darla’s lover to trial for drug trafficking. When Garner’s life is upended by stalking, kidnapping and murder, she vows to track down the woman responsible. She succeeds, but with shattering results.
Rituals of the Dark Moon
Author: Gail Wood
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738705828
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Rituals of the Dark Moon Everyone is familiar with the image of Witches performing rituals under a Full Moon. Mysterious but not frightening, the Dark Moon (the night before the New Moon) is lesser known but equally powerful. This guidebook reveals the hidden wisdom of the Dark Moon Path. It presents the thirteen Dark Moons of the year by the zodiac sign in which they fall, along with rituals designed to help you experience and learn from their energies. You'll explore the Dark Moon lessons of: • The Unseen in Aquarius • Risk in Leo • Time in Pisces •Silence in Virgo • Identity in Aries • Descent in Libra • The Body in Taurus • Intuition in Scorpio • Knowledge in Gemini • Creativity in Sagittarius • Emotion in Cancer •Power in Capricorn • The Dark in Arachne (a spirit sign) Deepen your understanding of the Moon as the Goddess as you experience the intuitive and deep healing powers of the Dark.
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738705828
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Rituals of the Dark Moon Everyone is familiar with the image of Witches performing rituals under a Full Moon. Mysterious but not frightening, the Dark Moon (the night before the New Moon) is lesser known but equally powerful. This guidebook reveals the hidden wisdom of the Dark Moon Path. It presents the thirteen Dark Moons of the year by the zodiac sign in which they fall, along with rituals designed to help you experience and learn from their energies. You'll explore the Dark Moon lessons of: • The Unseen in Aquarius • Risk in Leo • Time in Pisces •Silence in Virgo • Identity in Aries • Descent in Libra • The Body in Taurus • Intuition in Scorpio • Knowledge in Gemini • Creativity in Sagittarius • Emotion in Cancer •Power in Capricorn • The Dark in Arachne (a spirit sign) Deepen your understanding of the Moon as the Goddess as you experience the intuitive and deep healing powers of the Dark.
Black Moon
Author: Seabury Quinn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1597809861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
The concluding volume in a series collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn’s short stories were featured in well over half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the French supernatural detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (Grand Dieu!)—captivated readers for nearly three decades. Available for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin collects all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The fifth volume, Black Moon, includes all the stories from “Suicide Chapel” (1938) to “The Ring of Bastet” (1951), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg and a foreword by Stephen Jones.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1597809861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
The concluding volume in a series collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn’s short stories were featured in well over half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the French supernatural detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (Grand Dieu!)—captivated readers for nearly three decades. Available for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin collects all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The fifth volume, Black Moon, includes all the stories from “Suicide Chapel” (1938) to “The Ring of Bastet” (1951), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg and a foreword by Stephen Jones.
A Twilight Reel
Author: Michael Amos Cody
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942016663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Each of the twelve stories in A twilight Reel chronicles a transformation-loss, self-discovery, renewal-among the inhabitants of the fictional town of Runion, NC. A preacher held at knifepoint in a stranger's cabin, another who absconds with his church's funds and the wife of a parishioner; an elderly woman who slowly goes mad as she freezes to death; a renowned fiddler who returns home to die of AIDS; a gravedigger more comfortable with the dead than the living ... Sinful or righteous, imbued with hope or beyond redemption, each of these memorable characters struggles to endure, survive, or triumph over unplanned encounters with the people, forgotten or remembered, admired or scorned, who beset their lives. These narrative threads are masterfully woven into the tapestry that is A Twilight Reel-a book full of surprises, dark fears, and unexpected humor, that echoes and distills the travails of any people, in any place.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942016663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Each of the twelve stories in A twilight Reel chronicles a transformation-loss, self-discovery, renewal-among the inhabitants of the fictional town of Runion, NC. A preacher held at knifepoint in a stranger's cabin, another who absconds with his church's funds and the wife of a parishioner; an elderly woman who slowly goes mad as she freezes to death; a renowned fiddler who returns home to die of AIDS; a gravedigger more comfortable with the dead than the living ... Sinful or righteous, imbued with hope or beyond redemption, each of these memorable characters struggles to endure, survive, or triumph over unplanned encounters with the people, forgotten or remembered, admired or scorned, who beset their lives. These narrative threads are masterfully woven into the tapestry that is A Twilight Reel-a book full of surprises, dark fears, and unexpected humor, that echoes and distills the travails of any people, in any place.
Black Moon Lilith Rising
Author: Adama Sesay
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401970672
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An exploration of the Black Moon Lilith placement in astrology—a widely searched yet underserved topic—that reclaims the misunderstood archetype of Lilith and shows you how to use her energy for empowerment and transformation. Black Moon Lilith Rising is unlike any other astrology book out there on multiple fronts: it is a comprehensive exploration of the placement of Lilith in astrology, it’s a deep exploration into the misunderstood myth and archetype of Lilith, and it incorporates shadow work and spiritual alchemy. The book begins with an ode to Lilith, anecdotal stories surrounding the author’s experience with the energy, the history, and mythology behind the Lilith archetype. Lilith has been demonized, known as the first rebellious, disobedient woman, but in fact she is a powerful, sovereign being. By untwisting the truth about her energy, the world can heal the suppressed feminine, balance the power dynamic, and ascend. The contents of the book contain: How Black Moon Lilith can be integrated practically for empowerment and life transformation. An in-depth astrological analysis covering Black Moon Lilith through the 12 zodiac signs and houses. Planetary and angular aspects are then layered on explaining how Lilith can affect the other energies in the birth chart in an impactful way. A guide to shadow work with Lilith and a Spiritual Alchemy practice for 13 days, as 13 is the number of the divine feminine.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401970672
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An exploration of the Black Moon Lilith placement in astrology—a widely searched yet underserved topic—that reclaims the misunderstood archetype of Lilith and shows you how to use her energy for empowerment and transformation. Black Moon Lilith Rising is unlike any other astrology book out there on multiple fronts: it is a comprehensive exploration of the placement of Lilith in astrology, it’s a deep exploration into the misunderstood myth and archetype of Lilith, and it incorporates shadow work and spiritual alchemy. The book begins with an ode to Lilith, anecdotal stories surrounding the author’s experience with the energy, the history, and mythology behind the Lilith archetype. Lilith has been demonized, known as the first rebellious, disobedient woman, but in fact she is a powerful, sovereign being. By untwisting the truth about her energy, the world can heal the suppressed feminine, balance the power dynamic, and ascend. The contents of the book contain: How Black Moon Lilith can be integrated practically for empowerment and life transformation. An in-depth astrological analysis covering Black Moon Lilith through the 12 zodiac signs and houses. Planetary and angular aspects are then layered on explaining how Lilith can affect the other energies in the birth chart in an impactful way. A guide to shadow work with Lilith and a Spiritual Alchemy practice for 13 days, as 13 is the number of the divine feminine.
Curse of the Black Moon
Author: Manuel Ortega Abis
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9356458421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
CURSE OF THE BLACK MOON: Book 1 takes the readers to a place where the world of espionage meets the world of magic. In the realm of the underworld in the Philippines, sorcerers and crime lords have joined their powers, with the Black Moon being the most nefarious of these dark forces. It will be up to a handful of heroes to save the country from them.
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9356458421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
CURSE OF THE BLACK MOON: Book 1 takes the readers to a place where the world of espionage meets the world of magic. In the realm of the underworld in the Philippines, sorcerers and crime lords have joined their powers, with the Black Moon being the most nefarious of these dark forces. It will be up to a handful of heroes to save the country from them.
Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna
Author: Alessandra Belloni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591433436
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
An experiential guide to the ancient healing rituals of the Black Madonna • Reveals the practices and rites of the still-living cult of the Black Madonna in the remote villages of Southern Italy, including the healing rites of the tarantella dance • Details shamanic chants, rhythms, and songs and how to use them for self-healing, transformation, and recovery from abuse, trauma, depression, and addiction • Explores the many sacred sites of the Madonnas and connects them to other Great Goddesses, such as Isis, Aphrodite, Cybeles, and the Orisha Yemanja and Ochun • Includes access to 12 audio tracks The mysteries of the Black Madonna can be traced to pre-Christian times, to the ancient devotion to Isis, the Earth Goddess, and the African Mother, to the era when God was not only female but also black. Sacred sites of the Black Madonna are still revered in Italy, and, as Alessandra Belloni reveals, the shamanic healing traditions of the Black Madonna are still alive today and just as powerful as they were millennia ago. Sharing her more than 35 years of research and fieldwork at sacred sites around the world, Belloni takes you on a mystical pilgrimage of empowerment, initiation, and transformation with the Black Madonna. She explains how her love for Italian folk music led her to learn the ancient tammorriata musical tradition of the Earth Goddess Cybele and the Moon Goddess Diana and discover the still-living cult of the Black Madonna in the remote villages of Southern Italy. She vividly describes the sensual shamanic drumming and ecstatic trance dance rituals she experienced there, including the rites of the tammorriata, the transgender rite of Femminielli, and the erotic “spider dance” of the tarantella, which has been used for centuries in the Mediterranean for healing. Sharing chants, rhythms, and sacred songs, she details how she uses these therapeutic musical and trance practices to heal women and men from abuse, trauma, depression, and addiction and shows how these practices can be used for self-healing and transformation, including her personal story of using the tarantella to overcome cervical cancer. Revealing the profound transformative power of the Black Madonna, Belloni shows how She is the womb of the earth, the dark side of the moon, and the Universal Mother to all. Truly alive for all to call upon, She embraces and gives everyone access to Her divine strength and unconditional love.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591433436
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
An experiential guide to the ancient healing rituals of the Black Madonna • Reveals the practices and rites of the still-living cult of the Black Madonna in the remote villages of Southern Italy, including the healing rites of the tarantella dance • Details shamanic chants, rhythms, and songs and how to use them for self-healing, transformation, and recovery from abuse, trauma, depression, and addiction • Explores the many sacred sites of the Madonnas and connects them to other Great Goddesses, such as Isis, Aphrodite, Cybeles, and the Orisha Yemanja and Ochun • Includes access to 12 audio tracks The mysteries of the Black Madonna can be traced to pre-Christian times, to the ancient devotion to Isis, the Earth Goddess, and the African Mother, to the era when God was not only female but also black. Sacred sites of the Black Madonna are still revered in Italy, and, as Alessandra Belloni reveals, the shamanic healing traditions of the Black Madonna are still alive today and just as powerful as they were millennia ago. Sharing her more than 35 years of research and fieldwork at sacred sites around the world, Belloni takes you on a mystical pilgrimage of empowerment, initiation, and transformation with the Black Madonna. She explains how her love for Italian folk music led her to learn the ancient tammorriata musical tradition of the Earth Goddess Cybele and the Moon Goddess Diana and discover the still-living cult of the Black Madonna in the remote villages of Southern Italy. She vividly describes the sensual shamanic drumming and ecstatic trance dance rituals she experienced there, including the rites of the tammorriata, the transgender rite of Femminielli, and the erotic “spider dance” of the tarantella, which has been used for centuries in the Mediterranean for healing. Sharing chants, rhythms, and sacred songs, she details how she uses these therapeutic musical and trance practices to heal women and men from abuse, trauma, depression, and addiction and shows how these practices can be used for self-healing and transformation, including her personal story of using the tarantella to overcome cervical cancer. Revealing the profound transformative power of the Black Madonna, Belloni shows how She is the womb of the earth, the dark side of the moon, and the Universal Mother to all. Truly alive for all to call upon, She embraces and gives everyone access to Her divine strength and unconditional love.
The Black Bouquet
Author: Richard Lee Byers
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 0786956933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
He thought it was a game... He thought no one would get hurt... He thought he could trust a tanarukk bandit... He thought he was hired for his skill and cunning... He thought it was just another victim, just another mark... He thought he could do his job without turning the entire city against him... he was wrong. A series that brings to life the people who survive on the fringes and in the shadows of the Forgotten Realms® world - The Rogues.
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 0786956933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
He thought it was a game... He thought no one would get hurt... He thought he could trust a tanarukk bandit... He thought he was hired for his skill and cunning... He thought it was just another victim, just another mark... He thought he could do his job without turning the entire city against him... he was wrong. A series that brings to life the people who survive on the fringes and in the shadows of the Forgotten Realms® world - The Rogues.
Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them
Author: Ron Backer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476620210
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known--even to avid horror fans--are the many other memorable films based on literary works. Beginning in the silent era and continuing to the present, numerous horror films found their inspiration in novels, novellas, short stories and poems, though many of these written works are long forgotten. This book examines 43 works of literature--from the famous to the obscure--that provided the basis for 62 horror films. Both the written works and the films are analyzed critically, with an emphasis on the symbiosis between the two. Background on the authors and their writings is provided.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476620210
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known--even to avid horror fans--are the many other memorable films based on literary works. Beginning in the silent era and continuing to the present, numerous horror films found their inspiration in novels, novellas, short stories and poems, though many of these written works are long forgotten. This book examines 43 works of literature--from the famous to the obscure--that provided the basis for 62 horror films. Both the written works and the films are analyzed critically, with an emphasis on the symbiosis between the two. Background on the authors and their writings is provided.