Blessed Monsters

2021-04-06
Blessed Monsters
Author: Emily A. Duncan
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250195748
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The unforgettable conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Something Dark and Holy trilogy! The girl, the monster, the prince, the queen. They broke the world. And some things can never be undone. In Emily A. Duncan’s Blessed Monsters, they must unite once more to fight the dark chaos they've unleashed - but is it already too late? "Duncan brings this atmospheric trilogy to a stunning close, with a final volume that delivers on the mood, monstrosities, and character relationships that have made this series a joy." - BuzzFeed This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.

Ruthless Gods

2020-04-07
Ruthless Gods
Author: Emily A. Duncan
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250195713
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The stunning sequel to instant New York Times bestseller, Wicked Saints Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him. Malachiasz is at war with who--and what--he’s become. As their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. Their paths are being orchestrated by someone...or something. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet—those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer. In their dramatic follow-up to Wicked Saints, the first book in their Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. Duncan paints a Gothic, icy world where shadows whisper, and no one is who they seem, with a shocking ending that will leave you breathless. This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.

Safety of War

2004
Safety of War
Author: Rob Benvie
Publisher: Coach House Books
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781552451434
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David spends his days as an underworked copy writer for an ad agency and his nights lost in old war movies, fantasizing about his strange teenage cousin and revisiting his father's suicide. His dreary life is upended when he finds himself at the mysterious Chaos Farm, a lavish wilderness retreat populated by those seeking to right their lives' imbalances through New Age games and rites of necromancy. In a paranormal experiment gone awry, they inadvertently raise a mysterious bloodthirsty creature that may be a) the Devil, b) David's deceased father, c) George C. Scott as General George S. Patton in the movie Patton, or d) all, or any, of the aforementioned. Carnage ensues, leading David through a woozy landscape of churning highways, deserted shopping malls and small towns, lured backward through the chasms of memory and nostalgia by the monster's coaxing squeals and forward toward an uncertain, hallucinatory future. Here, Lolita meets Maldoror meets 50s pulp horror comics. Safety of War is a hellride of exploded symbolism and beery misadventures, murders and tragedies, laughs, puzzles and meditations on valour and sacrifice in a world short on true heroes.

Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society

2020-01-28
Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society
Author: Diego Compagna
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1622738934
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Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.

The Shadow Saint

2020-01-07
The Shadow Saint
Author: Gareth Hanrahan
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316525340
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Thieves, dangerous magic, and a weapon built with the power to destroy a god clash in this second novel of Gareth Hanrahan's acclaimed epic fantasy series, The Black Iron Legacy. "This is genre-defying fantasy at its very best... Insanely inventive and deeply twisted" (Michael R. Fletcher). Enter a city of spires and shadows . . . The Gutter Miracle changed the landscape of Guerdon forever. Six months after it was conjured into being, the labyrinthine New City has become a haven for criminals and refugees. Rumors have spread of a devastating new weapon buried beneath the streets - a weapon with the power to destroy a god. As Guerdon strives to remain neutral, two of the most powerful factions in the godswar send agents into the city to find it. As tensions escalate and armies gather at the borders, how long will Guerdon be able to keep its enemies at bay? "A groundbreaking and extraordinary novel . . . Hanrahan has an astonishing imagination" (Peter McLean). The Shadow Saint continues the gripping tale of dark gods and dangerous magic that began with Hanrahan's acclaimed debut The Gutter Prayer.

Delphi Complete Works of Sheridan Le Fanu (Illustrated)

2013-11-17
Delphi Complete Works of Sheridan Le Fanu (Illustrated)
Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 3491
Release: 2013-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1909496510
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For the first time in publishing history readers can enjoy the complete works of Sheridan Le Fanu, the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, whose groundbreaking works were central to the development of the Gothic genre in the Victorian era. This comprehensive eBook is complemented with numerous illustrations, informative introductions, scarce texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Le Fanu's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 14 novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels like THE FORTUNES OF COLONEL TORLOGH O’BRIEN appearing for the first time in digital publishing history * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Several novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare novellas from CHRONICLES OF GOLDEN FRIARS, available nowhere else * The complete 54 short stories – with many supernatural tales appearing here for the first time * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Includes Le Fanu's poetry and memoir - spend hours exploring the author’s diverse works * Special criticism section, with two detailed essays evaluating Le Fanu’s contribution to literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with 8 rare uncollected short stories, appearing in digital print for the first time Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels THE COCK AND ANCHOR THE FORTUNES OF COLONEL TORLOGH O’BRIEN THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARD WYLDER’S HAND UNCLE SILAS GUY DEVERELL ALL IN THE DARK THE TENANTS OF MALORY A LOST NAME HAUNTED LIVES THE WYVERN MYSTERY CHECKMATE THE ROSE AND THE KEY WILLING TO DIE The Shorter Fiction THE PURCELL PAPERS GHOST STORIES AND TALES OF MYSTERY GHOSTLY TALES CHRONICLES OF GOLDEN FRIARS IN A GLASS DARKLY SPALATRO A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES UNCOLLECTED TALES The Tales LIST OF TALES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF TALES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Poems THE POETRY OF SHERIDAN LE FANU The Criticism A FORGOTTEN CREATOR OF GHOSTS: JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU by Edna Kenton SHERIDAN LE FANU by E. F. Benson The Memoir MEMOIR OF JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

A Lost Name

1868
A Lost Name
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1868
Genre:
ISBN:
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Liturgy and Life Study Bible

2023-07-13
Liturgy and Life Study Bible
Author: John W. Martens
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 2193
Release: 2023-07-13
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0814669034
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How does the Bible form our worship practices? How does liturgy incorporate the Bible? The Liturgy and Life Study Bible explores these questions and provides answers for today’s church. This indispensable guide includes essays from the world’s top liturgical and biblical scholars on a variety of subjects, including Jewish liturgical traditions, Psalms as liturgical prayer, early church worship, social justice, sacraments, the Last Supper, and more. Throughout the biblical text, brief comments flag passages that contain something of liturgical or personal prayer interest. A correlation chart highlights the intersection between biblical passages and the Catholic liturgy, listing every place where a verse of the Bible appears in any liturgical book: the Missal, the orders of sacramental rites, even the Roman Gradual and the Martyrology. This one-of-a-kind tool will serve researchers, catechists, preachers, and anyone studying the Bible for the purposes of prayer and meditation. Uses the New American Bible, Revised Edition. Cover art by Jan Richardson. Includes eight full color map images.