Download or read book The James Bond Bedside Companion written by Raymond Benson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New revised digital edition of the classic 007 reference book from the 1980s, complete with a new Foreword by the author. THE JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION is an encyclopedic celebration of 007, who is still the world’s most popular secret agent. The only book to cover all aspects of the James Bond phenomenon in a single volume, it includes: a) An intimate portrait of Ian Fleming as remembered by his friends and colleagues; b) a character study of James Bond—his background and early life, his clothing and other personal habits, his preferences in food and drink, his attitudes toward women and marriage; c) The by-products of Bondmania and the merchandising of 007; d) Detailed analyses of every James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, as well as those written by other authors through the 1980s; e) A critical look at the 007 film series—the producers, screenplays, directors, actors, soundtracks, and special effects; f) over 100 photographs; g) An Introduction written by Ernest Cuneo, perhaps Fleming’s closest American friend; h) And enough facts, figures, and miscellaneous Bondian trivia to satisfy even the most ardent fan. THE JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION covers the Bond films through The Living Daylights (1987) and the novels through John Gardner's Scorpius. BIO: Raymond Benson is the highly acclaimed author of twenty-five books, six original James Bond 007 novels, three film novelizations, three short stories, and two anthologies on Bond. He is a sought-after lecturer on film genres and history. Writing as David Michaels, Benson is a New York Times best-selling author, an Edgar Alan Poe Award nominee, and a Readers' Choice Award winner.

Download or read book The Vampire s Bedside Companion written by Peter Underwood and published by Peter Underwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire’s Bedside Companion is a riveting compendium of new facts and fiction on the ‘undying’ theme of vampirism. Here is a new theory on the genesis of Dracula (surely literature’s most compelling and macabre figure?); thoughts on allusions to vampirism in Wuthering Heights; first-hand experience of Vampires in Hampstead, London; publication for the first time of the story of a fifteenth-century Vampire Protection medallion that Montague Summers presented to the author; an account by a professor of English at Dalhousie University of a visit to ‘Castle Dracula’ in Transylvania - The Vampire’s Bedside Companion contains these and a wealth of other hitherto unpublished material on a subject that is of enduring interest: The Vampire Legend. To many people, vampires are creatures only of legend and fantasy with no reality outside the pages of books. Others, who have studied the folklore of many countries and the continuing reports of vampirism, maintain that there is extensive evidence not only that vampires once existed but that, in fact, they still do exist. In this fascinating book the author, himself an acknowledged expert on the Occult, presents true accounts of vampire infestation in England, America, Ireland, Hungary, China and France. Records of vampires and vampirism are, he claims, as old as the world and as recent as yesterday. Four new, existing and authentic vampire fictional stories by Peter Allan, Crispin Derby, Richard Howard and James Turner complete this compelling companion for dark nights, solitude and howling winds! Illustrated with my striking photographs, The Vampire’s Bedside Companion also contains original and evocative drawings by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor. It is a must for all students of the occult and every reader of the macabre.

Download or read book A Bastard s Bedside Companion written by Caleb March and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the perfect gift for the bastard in your life - a collection of great one liners, including useful white lies for all occasions and useful dumping lines, such as: Your parents couldn't pay me any more.

Download or read book The Gentleman s Bedside Companion written by Tom Cutler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightful Things to Read About Before the Snoring Starts Have you ever found that once you are between the sheets, Madame Bovary is too heavy, magazines are too slippery, and Crime and Punishment is too long? The Gentleman's Bedside Companion is the answer-a bracing collection of information, humor, and curiosities that will help every man make his mark on the world with panache. Spanning the arts, sciences, sports, and the opposite sex, topics include: Bananas as proof of God's existence Great bits from the Bible Famous painters and how they died The Monkees, a potted history All about submarines Useful foreign pickup lines An international swearing dictionary Let the horizontal reading begin. Watch a Video

Download or read book Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Ghosthunters written by Ingrid Pitt and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blends actual places, events, and characters with cinematic portrayals of fictional and factual monsters.

Download or read book The Republic of Thieves written by Scott Lynch and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book of the suspense-filled, enduringly popular Gentleman Bastard Sequence about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin has called “fresh, original, and engrossing . . . gorgeously realized.” “Fast paced, fun, and impossible to put down . . . Locke and company remain among the most engaging protagonists in fantasy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE With the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. Locke is slowly succumbing to a lethal poison that no alchemist can cure. With the end nearing, Locke’s only hope is to accept a mysterious Bondsmage’s offer: act as a political pawn in the Magi elections, and in exchange be healed. But the lifesaving sorcery promises to rival even the most excruciating death, and Locke refuses. Until the Bondsmage invokes the name of Sabetha, the love of Locke’s life, his equal in skill and wit . . . and now his greatest rival. From his first glimpse of Sabetha as a fellow orphan and thief-in-training, Locke was smitten. But after a tumultuous courtship, she broke away. Now they will reunite in another clash of wills. Faced with his only equal in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha—or woo her. It is a decision on which both of their lives may depend. Don’t miss any of Scott Lynch’s epic fantasy Gentleman Bastard Sequence: THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA • RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES • THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES

Download or read book How NOT to Write a Sitcom written by Marc Blake and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The craft of sitcom is possibly the hardest of all screenwriting genres, demanding a complex set of skills. How NOT to Write a Sitcom is a troubleshooting guide aimed at both the novice and the practising sitcom writer. It illustrates and explains the many pitfalls in concept, characterisation, plotting and dramatic/comedic writing,which pepper the hundreds of scripts submitted every year. Each point is illustrated with an example of the error and each section contains practical suggestions and exercises for the writer to apply to their own writing. The book makes no assumption of the reader other than an interest in the form. It contains interviews with current producers as well as interviews with successful practioners of the craft. Marc Blake is a script consultant, writer and teacher of writing for sitcom. In this book he acts as a `script mechanic' for writers - stripping a sitcom down to its component parts, isolating the faults and fixing them. What script editors and producers are looking for are scripts that work. Naturally they want a genius in embryo, but above all they first want to see something that is roadworthy.

Download or read book The Bedside Bathtub Armchair Companion to Frankenstein written by Carol J. Adams and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bolt-necked monster opens his eyes, lifts himself from his laboratory table, then lurches and stumbles toward his creator. Do we know this image because we are movie-watchers? When we imagine Frankenstein's monster, do we draw upon Mary Shelley's description? Or Boris Karloff's iconic look from the 1931 film by James Whale? Whether as cliche or icon, the monster clearly not only escaped from Victor Frankenstein's laboratory, but also from the pages of Shelley's book to roam unimpeded through our cultural psyche. New in the acclaimed Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair series, this guide provides the interested and curious, the serious and the ghoulish, with a new and unimaginable understanding of the Frankenstein legend. Written by an acclaimed social critic, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein takes us from Mary Shelley's creation to the latest film adaptations and comic-book re-creations. The book includes 200 images, many seldom seen, along with maps, puzzles, and brain-teashers--whether your brain was misplaced in a scientist's lab or not!

Download or read book The Shakespeare Companion written by Gareth Lloyd Evans and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a wonderful compendium of Shakespeare fact and analysis that any Shakespeare enthusiast will treasure.

Download or read book THE INNER ROOM written by Ed Chappell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You took him by the neck and strangled him. It is hard to imagine the self-serving ugliness in the mind of someone who could do that!' When artist David Helmway suffers a heart attack, his employee Tom Pritchard robs him of over £500 - then kills him. The police, initially, are satisfied that death was by natural causes - until a diligent mortician thinks otherwise. When questioned, Pritchard frames the only other employee, 21 year old Alan Brading. The investigating detective sergeant believes that Alan is the culprit. At his trial for murder at The Old Bailey, the jury return a guilty verdict. The sentence delivered is death by hanging. That was the way of it in 1957. One man believes in Alan's innocence, but what can a doss-house inmate do where an experienced defence barrister has failed? And so a race against the clock begins, with the clock ticking down to a hanging. 'A heartwarming story of dedicated friendship overcoming impossible odds.'

Download or read book The Bastard Is Dead written by D'Arcy Kavanagh and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Burke is an ex-pro cyclist from Montréal, Canada who has settled down to a quiet, unproductive existence on the French Riviera. He’s managing to pay the bills, but spends most of his time just killing time. Then the Tour de France comes to town and Burke finds himself caught up in one death and then a second. As he tries to sort out what has happened, Burke knows life will never be the same for him‒and those around him.

Download or read book Companions in Chains written by Alan Greer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companions in Chains is a brief story about two convicts transported from England to Australia in days when English jails were overflowing with men and women convicted for stealing nothing more than a loaf of bread. Two of these pathetic souls, Jack Reilly and Patrick Miles, were fortunately able to form a firm friendship. This enabled the two of them, with the help of a friend already in Australia, to eventually make a good life for themselves. Life in Australia was not easy in those times even for an individual emigrant who chose to live in an unknown land. Life was exceedingly hard for both of them and the convicts who had served their time. However, many did, and many convicts chose to remain. Those people helped to build the beautiful Australia we know today.

Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story written by David Malcolm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain

Download or read book Slocum 258 Slocum s Partner written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: If you cross Slocum’s pal, you’d better not cross Slocum’s path. After so many years riding solo, John Slocum was glad to be traveling with Harley Duggan. He knew he’d found a man he could trust the moment Harley saved his hide during a barroom brawl. For weeks they’ve been whooping it up from town to town…until they hit Whizbang. This small civic-minded town is keeping a close eye on the two strangers while the marshal’s away. First, they jump to conclusions—mistaking Slocum and Harley for horse thieves. Then they jump the gun—and decide to throw a little necktie party. When an innocent man ends up swinging, the vigilantes realize they have to bury their mistake. Which means they have to kill Slocum. Unless Slocum kills them first...

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Download or read book Cursed written by Anaïs Cros and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to break free from a centuries-old curse? In an alternative Paris, 1927. After discovering the existence of werewolves and their dark ties to the monarchy, the lively Rebecca Delauney joins the prestigious King's Guard, charged with handling the kingdom's strange affairs. Encouraged by her companion, she is delighted with the prospects that are opening up for her, but her first major investigation will not prove to be an easy one! For the depths of St. Francis Church conceal a dangerous prisoner. This werewolf, named the Cursed One by his own people, has been under the control of a mysterious pendant for centuries, which the young parish priest inherits against his will. Father Andrew will not have much help from Rebecca in understanding who the Cursed One is and how he should behave towards him. And all the while, other forces are working in the darkness to seize the power that the renegade represents. Who is this strange werewolf? Has he been punished for his crimes or is he the victim of a terrible curse? Rebecca and Andrew will have to make their decision before a far more terrible monster is released... A breathtaking alternate history tale, where werewolves take centre stage and where adventure, friendship, and redemption are intertwined!

Download or read book The Arthurian Companion written by Phyllis Ann Karr and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: