The Devil in Brisbane

The Devil in Brisbane PDF Author: Zoran Zivkovic
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809550865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Book Description
The Devil in Brisbane is an anthology alive with all of the spontaneity, cunning, wild imagination, and artifice of it's namesake. Zoran Zivković has conjured thirty tales of sardonic splendor from Australian writers both new and more established. In this case, the Devil is most definitely in the details.- Jeffrey Ford, author of The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

The Devil in Brisbane

The Devil in Brisbane PDF Author: Zoran Zivkovic
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809550865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Book Description
The Devil in Brisbane is an anthology alive with all of the spontaneity, cunning, wild imagination, and artifice of it's namesake. Zoran Zivković has conjured thirty tales of sardonic splendor from Australian writers both new and more established. In this case, the Devil is most definitely in the details.- Jeffrey Ford, author of The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

Brisbane

Brisbane PDF Author: Dr William James (Bill) Metcalf
Publisher: Brisbane History Group & Boolarong Press
ISBN: 1922643440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Brisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares tells the stories of little-known, and rather peculiar aspects of Brisbane’s colourful history. Eleven Brisbane authors from the 19th and 20th centuries wrote about how wonderful, ‘utopian’, Brisbane could be — or how dreadful, ‘dystopian’, it could also be. Some writers imagined a future utopian Brisbane where inequality has been eliminated, where everyone is prosperous, living in the most beautiful city with wide, tree-lined boulevards, wonderful opera-houses and museums, bubbling fountains and grand squares. They saw Brisbane becoming the centre of the civilised world, a model for humanity. Other writers depicted Brisbane as having been annihilated, violently wiped off the face of the earth except for a few stone ruins overgrown with lantana. These dystopian images saw Brisbane residents enslaved in a racial nightmare, beset with poverty and violence, their lives being precarious at best. What led to these utopian and dystopian visions? Who were the visionaries? What do they tell us about a little-known part of Brisbane’s quirky history? These are images of a wonderful or dreadful Brisbane that never eventuated — but could have. This well-illustrated book reveals all in a witty, but sometimes disturbing way.

The Devil's Eye

The Devil's Eye PDF Author: Jack McDevitt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440653127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his assistant Chase Kolpath travel to the most remote of human worlds and uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval-a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden.

The Devil in the Bay

The Devil in the Bay PDF Author: J a Loggie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987212276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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This devilish tale opens on a tiny speck of land in Queensland's beautiful Moreton Bay and ends in a fire-gutted church in South Brisbane. Scottish settlers in the 1800s named the tiny island Clootie, their Scottish name for Satan. A portal to Hell exists in a cave on Clootie. Blind Father Michael Brody lives with his dog Finn in Lime Bay on the foreshore of Moreton Bay. The priest was blinded six years ago by a demonic light when he attempted to wall off the Hell-gate to protect twelve year old Riley Kennedy from Asmodeus a powerful demon lord of Light who lusts for Riley's rare gift to converse with shadow beings. Riley is now eighteen years old and returns to Clootie on the Australia Day long weekend to exact vengeance for the murders of his mother and father by kelpie water-demons six years ago but the brick wall built by Father Brody to protect Riley is crumbling. Father Brody's demon fighting allies are; Finn his loyal cattle dog. Miriam, the spirit of a white witch, Merlin her cat and the Shadow Itzal who came from the Shadow world to guard Riley and his gift. Ranged against Father Brody is Asmodeus a powerful demon-lord with a demonic army and a dark magic cult. In struggles between Good and Evil the Good does not always emerge a victor as a group of visitors from Brisbane discover. Ben Stirling a business tycoon had no belief in the occult when he rented Hob House on Clootie for the holiday weekend. In his party are his business partner Jock McKee, Ben's widowed daughter Louise, his stepson Mitchell and Mitchell's glamourous unfaithful wife Tiffany and her latest 'friend' Simon Damone. As the body count rises Ben finally accepts reality of the occult on Clootie Island and he closes the Hell-gate in the cave with explosives. Asmodeus has a penchant for attractive red-haired human females and lovely flame-haired Louise Stirling is kidnapped by his human thrall to be a gift for his demon master, a wicked act that results in bloody sacrifice and a battle between Good and Evil to close another portal to Hell and this time the Hell-gate is in the ruins of a derelict church in Brisbane. Ben Stirling wonders how many more portals into Hell exist on Earth.

The Devil's Caress

The Devil's Caress PDF Author: June Wright
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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The fourth in Dark Passage’s reissue series of crime mysteries by June Wright, The Devil’s Caress, originally published in 1952, is an tense psychological thriller set on the wild southern coast of the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne. Overworked young medico Marsh Mowbray has been invited to the country home of her revered mentor, Dr. Kate Waring, but it's far from the restful weekend she was hoping for. As storms rage outside, the house on the cliff’s edge seethes with hatred and tension, and two suspicious deaths soon follow. "Doubt is the devil’s caress", one of the characters tells Marsh, as her resolute efforts to get to the bottom of the deaths force her to question everyone's motives, even those of Dr. Kate. This is a classic country house mystery with shades of Agatha Christie, but with the jagged emotional edge of Daphne du Maurier.

The Devil's Steps

The Devil's Steps PDF Author: Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher: ETT Imprint
ISBN: 1922384542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the search for a wily killer… The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favourite fictional detective of the past twenty years. - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times

Speak of the Devil

Speak of the Devil PDF Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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"On my last public appearance, I was hanged by the neck until dead!" The year is 1815; a young woman asks for help and then vanishes. Written in 1941 and broadcast in eight parts on BBC-radio, "Speak of the Devil" is at atmospheric impossible crime that turns out to be all-too possible.

Silent on the Moor

Silent on the Moor PDF Author: Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1488058369
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Come back to the intriguing world of Lady Julia Grey in the beloved historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn. Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady Julia arrives in Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote and maddeningly attractive as ever. Cloistered together, they share the moldering house with the proud but impoverished remnants of an ancient family—the sort that keeps their bloodline pure and their secrets close. Lady Allenby and her daughters, dependent upon Brisbane and devastated by their fall in society, seem adrift on the moor winds, powerless to change their fortunes. But poison does not discriminate between classes…. A mystery unfolds from the rotten heart of Grimsgrave, one Lady Julia may have to solve alone, as Brisbane appears inextricably tangled in its heinous twists and turns. But blood will out, and before spring touches the craggy northern landscape, Lady Julia will have uncovered a Gypsy witch, a dark rider and a long-buried legacy of malevolence and evil. Previously published. Don’t miss the complete Lady Julia Grey mystery series by Deanna Raybourn! Book # 1: Silent in the Grave Book # 2: Silent in the Sanctuary Book # 3: Silent on the Moor Book # 3.5: Midsummer Night (novella) Book # 4: Dark Road to Darjeeling Book # 5: The Dark Enquiry Book # 5.5: Silent Night (novella) Book # 5.6: Twelfth Night (novella) Book # 5.7: Bonfire Night (novella)

The Devil

The Devil PDF Author: Amelia Wilson
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764155406
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
Readers enter the realm of the Prince of Darkness, but their journey will be safe if they keep within these pages. This compendium of demonic information includes true tales of devil worship and witch hunts, as well as quotations about demons from famous literary works. Illustrations.

A Mysterious Season

A Mysterious Season PDF Author: Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0369701631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Get swept up in a Victorian world of intrigue in these Lady Julia Grey mystery novellas, only from New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn. Silent Night After a year of marriage—and numerous adventures—Lady Julia and Brisbane hope for a quiet, intimate Christmas together—until they find themselves at her father’s ancestral estate, Belmont Abbey, with her eccentric family and a menagerie of animals. Nevertheless, Julia looks forward to a lively family gathering—but amongst the celebrations, a mystery stirs… Midsummer Night Midsummer in Victorian England—an auspicious time for a wedding. Brisbane has taken charge of the music. Julia has, perhaps mistakenly, allowed her sisters to choose the dress. And Belmont Abbey is overflowing with guests awaiting the blessed day. Add in a dangerous past nemesis who has come to wish them not-so-well, and their day to remember just might take a fatal turn… Twelfth Night To mark the passing of another decade, the March family have assembled at Belmont Abbey to perform the Twelfth Night Revels. But before Lady Julia and Brisbane can take to the stage, an abandoned infant is found nestled in the helm of St. George. When the pair take up the challenge to investigate, they’ll be faced with an impossible choice—one that will alter the course of their lives…forever. Bonfire NightDuring the autumn of 1890, a solicitor arrives with a strange bequest: Nicholas, it seems, has inherited a country house—but only if he and his family are in residence from All Hallows’ Eve through Bonfire Night. Neither Lady Julia nor Nicholas is likely to be put off by local legends of ghosts and witches, until a new lady’s maid disappears, igniting a caper that will have explosive results… Previously published