![]() ![]() Contributors include Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Simon Pegg, Michael Marshall Smith, Brian Aldiss, Christopher Fowler, Kim Newman, Thomas Tessier, Tim Lebbon, Mark Chadbourn and Ramsey Campbell. Come with us as we delve into some of the most fertile, imaginative minds working in the genre today, as we examine what frightens those who in turn frighten us. The choices are eclectic, enlightening, occasionally startling. In Cinema Macabre the editor, Mark Morris, asked fifty genre practitioners to elect their favourite horror movie and to wax lyrical about it. What is it that compels us to seek the kinds of experiences we wouldn't dream of wishing for in real life? Is it the visceral thrill, the physical kick to our system that we crave? Or are the reasons more deep-rooted? Are horror movies like waking dreams, sluicing out the clutter of our unconscious minds, purging our anxieties and fears by confronting us with them in a safe environment? Travel back along the memory-paths of any current practitioner of strange fiction, of any professional creator of bizarre imagery - be they artist, writer, movie-maker, perhaps a combination of two, or even all three - and you will find, embedded in those paths, glinting like gold, seminal moments from countless horror movies, nightmare images that shaped that particular individual's mind, influenced his or her life in positive, creative ways. ![]() Schow Limited signed edition SEALED Centipede Press 2015 225.00 + 5.75 shipping SILVER SCREAM Robert McCammon Joe R. Ever since the first flickering images started appearing on that magical silver screen, people have enjoyed being scared. Silver Scream - Mass Market Paperback By David J Schow - GOOD 8.52 Free shipping 'The Shaft' by David J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Three of Le Guins titles have been finalists for The American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are a National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, and The Margaret A. She is the author of the bestselling and award winning CATWINGS series. A mini-edition sequel to Catwings follows four winged tabby cats as they return to the city of their birth to find. ![]() About the Author Ursula Le Guin writes both poetry and prose, and in various modes including childrens books, YA books, fantasy, science fiction and fiction. Once he is rescued and adopted by the catwings, Alexander decides to repay Janes favor by helping her to overcome her mysterious fear of speaking. When a spoiled kitten named Wonderful Alexander gets caught in a tree, its up to Jane to save him. ![]() This is one of the most imaginative childrens stories Ive ever read. ![]() Book Synopsis When a spoiled kitten named Wonderful Alexander gets caught in a tree, its up to Jane to save him. Ursula Le Guin always writes well, in whatever genre she writes in. Once he is rescued and adopted by the catwings. About the Book Now available individually in new digest sized paperback editions, the first four books in Le Guins magical series chronicle four young cats with wings who leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live. When a spoiled kitten named Wonderful Alexander gets caught in a tree, its up to Jane to save him. ![]() ![]() Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. ![]() ![]() Born with an unnatural ability, Jamie can see things no one else can. Later: the son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work in a fairground and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.Ī rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a 25-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving The Colorado Kid, a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine. It will also feature three exclusive art cards showing a variant cover of each book: the original Glen Orbik cover for The Colorado Kid, the Robert McGinnis limited-edition hardcover cover for Joyland and the Greg Manchess limited-edition hardcover cover for Later. This includes The Colorado Kid (2005), Joyland (2013), and his newest novel, Later (2021). The Complete Hard Case Crime Stephen King Collection, collecting Stephen King's three homages to the classic crime pulp paperbacks, published by Hard Case Crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() A comparative examination of the medieval feast and xraxčanakans reveals that Širakaci’ changed the principle of the Greek symposium (which he was obviously well acquainted with) with the details of the Armenian feast, giving to his problems feast name and appearance in order to spread mathematical knowledge in Armenia. They must have presented a serious challenge even if the respondent tried to solve them in a fully sober state. ![]() It should be noted that the essence of the xraxčanakans is only arithmetical there are no mysterious-allegorical or formal-logical problems, and two of the xraxčanakans (second, fifth) are no less complex than Širakaci’s Mathematical Problems. It is noteworthy that the purely arithmetic part of the three xraxčanakans is composed on the theme of a feast and wine, which makes it possible to compose a certain idea about the atmosphere of the feast. Unlike other arithmetic problems by Širakac‘i, the xraxčanakans are accompanied by special instruction-advices: when, where and how to use them, what behavior to display. The Xraxčanakankʻ of Anania Širakac‘i is a small collection of arithmetic problems (for now, we can confidently talk about six xraxčanakans) which are united by the theme of the feast. ![]() ![]() ![]() They get up, go to work and hide their sighs (in their beer or gin and tonics, mostly!) I only just finished reading this book and already I am missing Ben and Rachel. Her female leads don't sit back and sigh with unhappiness. What I enjoy most about McFarlane's books is the very realistic way she portrays characters who are on the threshold of a new relationship: that nervous uncertainty and self-doubt. ![]() No wispy waifs here! Her heroines also hang with the mature crowd - thirty-somethings who've had a relationship fail or two. ![]() Her male leads are usually mighty fine, good looking, decent "fella's" and her women are always vivacious, intelligent, pretty and have generous curves. I love the intelligent banter and quirky characters that are common to all of her novels. This author writes with a clear and confident voice and has a colossal sense of humour. I'm trying to recall which of Mhairi McFarlane's books I read first, but I can honestly say it was love at first sight. What a deliciously tangled tale of missed opportunities and miscommunication!! I didn't want this one to end - and lucky me, there is a novella ( After Hello) that carries on after that spectacular ending! What a fabulous debut novel for Mhairi McFarlane! ![]() ![]() ![]() This earns him an honorable mention in the school yearbook. When he is unable to turn out a story or poem for a school writing contest, he writes a memory of when he and his father hauled grapes to a factory. Leigh decides to write for the Young Writers club. His parents will never remarry, he can never fully depend on his father, and he must find adult ways to deal with "bad things," such as not finding the person who still steals his lunch. He must deal with problems that many other children also have to cope with, such as feeling lonely because he is new in town and completing school assignments. Through writing this diary, Leigh learns to accept the parts of his life he cannot change. ![]() Leigh is reconciled to the writer, and his new diary is at first written to a Mr. Henshaw encourages him to keep a diary of his thoughts and feelings. He struggles with his parents' divorce, being the new kid in school, his relationship with a neglectful father, and a school lunch thief. Henshaw, Leigh's concerns and conflicts are revealed. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the opportunity arose for her to work at a research station-and get a full semester credit toward her second master’s degree-she couldn’t pack her bags fast enough. ![]() She loved teaching biology to high school students, but she also needed a break from them. Sounded like a perfect plan.Īll Annali Frantz wanted to do for the summer was get away from teenagers, her parents, and Washington D.C. He’d take lead of the team this time, they’d find whoever was lost in the National Park, then he’d stay for a week or two, fishing and camping. He knew that area of Lake Superior extremely well. After years of working back-to-back missions all over the world, he longed to take some much-needed time off. Heath Kubiak jumped at the chance when a Holt Agency job came up in the Apostle Islands. She was the job and off limits, but his heart wanted so much more. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s hard to know where to begin, except as always with the word and the alphabet. I don’t.Ĭonnection is still what I’m after, here in this new media, which befuddles and amuses me with its messiness, chaos, lack of discernment, and noise. ![]() One of the characters has the phrase tattooed on his penis. The phrase also makes an appearance in my first real short story called “A.” just written this summer. This served me well in my other classes, and now as a book reviewer. It was from Cowie’s passionate and illuminating lectures that I learned to read and think. Some students changed classes when they discovered we would only be studying half-a-dozen texts and Kurt Vonnegut was not one of them. This quotation has followed me ever since studying A Passage to India in Victor Cowie’s 20 th Century literature class at the University of Manitoba in the 70s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wreath is Landfall’s tiny moon, home to a horned species of humanoids like Marko. Landfall is the largest planet in the galaxy, home to a winged species of humanoids like Alana. ![]() And while the rest of this first book follows the adventures of that baby’s parents, Alana and Marko, the overarching story revolves around the life of Hazel as she slowly grows into an adult. ![]() It’s not the picture perfect birth you might expect from a children’s fairy tale-at least, no fairy tale I’ve ever read depicts the bloody, sweaty, profanity-laced side of birth-and it marks the beginning of the story, not the end. The hype was so great that I figured the actual story couldn’t live up to my expectations. It’s recommended almost every time I see someone ask which graphic novel they should read next. It’s one of the first titles that come up in nearly every conversation about graphic novels. I’d been putting off reading Saga for a long time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Against the odds, this love blossoms into something meaningful and, despite some reckless behaviour, seems to remain relatively well hidden until a devastating tragedy threatens to reveal all. This story is about an unexpected and forbidden love between young Catholic school teacher Cushla and older Protestant barrister Michael, playing out against the backdrop of the Troubles during the 1970s on the outskirts of Belfast a love that ignites suddenly and flares up quite quickly. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy is, at its heart, a story about an ill-fated love affair but its beauty and strength is that it becomes so much more than that, painting a rich and vibrant portrait of a whole community beyond our two lovers. ![]() |