Download or read book Creaky Castles written by Jessica Rudolph and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full moon rises above a castle’s crumbling stone walls. Many believe that unspeakable terrors have occurred inside. Is it true that people have been beheaded there? Is there a bloodsucking vampire in the castle’s dungeon? Get ready to read four spine-chilling stories about creaky castles! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art in the book will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Haunted Amusement Parks written by Rachel Anne Cantor and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old amusement park has been deserted for years. Thick vines surround a roller coaster track. The glass eyes of the horses on a merry-go-round stare off into the dark night. There’s a low creaking sound. Is it the wind pushing the rusted swing ride, or is it something else? Get ready to read four frightening stories about haunted amusement parks. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art in the book will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Ghost Caves written by E. Merwin and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You find a hole at the base of a cliff and enter the mouth of a cave. Your flashlight illuminates several cramped passages. Suddenly, you see something far off in the light beam. Is it a human skull? Get ready to read four horrifying tales about dark ghostly caves. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Chilling Cemeteries written by Joyce Markovics and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s nighttime in a cemetery. There’s a crow in the moonlit sky. Suddenly, something strange appears near a headstone. Then it moves! What creature is lurking in this forgotten place of the dead? Get ready to read four spine-tingling stories about haunted cemeteries! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art in the book will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Creepy Schools written by Kathryn Camisa and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bell has rung. Everyone has left the school building except you. Creeeak! Suddenly, all the locker doors in an empty hallway swing wide open! As your heart pounds, you squeeze your eyes shut. When you slowly open them, you notice that all the lockers are now closed! Had it all been your imagination? Get ready to read four spine-tingling tales about creepy schools. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Poe written by James M. Hutchisson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American original—a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe’s life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves. And yet, upon his death, one obituary penned by a literary enemy in the New York Daily Tribune cascaded into a lasting stain on Poe’s character, leaving a historic misunderstanding. Many remember Poe as a difficult, self-pitying, troubled drunkard often incapable of caring for himself. Poe reclaims the Baltimore and Virginia writer’s reputation and power, retracing Poe’s life and career. Biographer and critic James M. Hutchisson captures the boisterous worlds of literary New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s to understand why Poe wrote the way he did and why his achievement was so important to American literature. The biography presents a critical overview of Poe’s major works and his main themes, techniques, and imaginative preoccupations. This portrait of the writer emphasizes Poe’s southern identity; his existence as a workaday journalist in the burgeoning magazine era; his authority as a literary critic and cultural arbiter; his courtly demeanor and sense of social propriety; his advocacy of women writers; his adaptation of art forms as diverse as the so-called “gutter press” and the haunting rhythms of African American spirituals; his borrowing of imagery from such popular social movements as temperance and freemasonry; and his far-reaching, posthumous influence.
Download or read book Lurid London written by E. Merwin and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down a dark and empty London street, your footsteps echo. But you are not alone. Ghostly figures appear and disappear. They babble in hushed voices. Some let out piercing cries. They want to know what brings you to their city. Get ready to read four frightening tales about London’s spookiest spots. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Ghostly Theaters written by Kathryn Camisa and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You find yourself alone in an empty theater. The curtain has fallen, and it’s eerily quiet. Suddenly, you hear footsteps. You follow the sound toward the stage. Then, the heavy red curtain swings open. Yet the stage is empty. What unearthly being is performing tonight? Get ready to read four spine-tingling stories about ghostly theaters. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Deadly Morgues written by Joyce Markovics and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You enter a cold room covered with white tiles. The lights flicker. You notice a metal stretcher in the corner. On it is a body draped in a white sheet. A thin stream of blood trickles from the stretcher onto the floor. Then, suddenly, the lights go out! Get ready to read four spine-tingling stories about deadly morgues. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Mummy Tombs written by E. Merwin and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brown object sticks out of the sand in the Egyptian desert. Take a closer look and you can see the shriveled skin and brittle fingernails of a corpse’s hand! Beneath your feet is a hidden graveyard filled with thousands of dead bodies. Get ready to read four spine-tingling stories about mummy tombs. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Ghost Houses written by Jessica Rudolph and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rundown house at the end of the street is empty—or is it? Could the ghost of a murder victim really be haunting the home? Suddenly, a pair of blood-red eyes stares out from the top window! Then the eyes vanish. Get ready to read four hair-raising stories about houses that are home to restless spirits! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art in the book will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Deserted Prisons written by Joyce Markovics and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Razor-sharp wire curls around a tall fence. There are rows and rows of empty cells. Bang! A heavy metal door suddenly slams shut. Then a ghostly hand reaches out from one of the cells. Get ready to read four spine-tingling stories about deserted prisons. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art in the book will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Horror Hotels written by Kathryn Camisa and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve just closed your eyes and placed your head on a pillow. An icy breeze grazes your neck. Suddenly, the floor creaks. You hear footsteps beside your bed. Your hands shake as you slowly turn on the lamp. Then you realize you’re the only person in the room! Get ready to read four chilling tales about haunted hotels! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art in the book will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Download or read book Joss Whedon vs the Horror Tradition written by Kristopher Karl Woofter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s “slasher” craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on “cosmic dread” and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.
Download or read book Crafternoon written by Maura Madden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello, Crafternooners! Maura Madden invites you to enjoy a fun-filled afternoon of crafting.... Named after a monthly event that comedian and crafting superstar Maura Madden began hosting in 2002 as a way to get her friends together, meet new people, and have a good time making some cool stuff, Crafternoon is both an entertaining how-to guide and an irreverent social manifesto. Organized by month and theme, Crafternoon explains how to create and host a fun-filled casual gathering (including recipes for snacks and decorating tips) that celebrates the art of crafting. Knot nautical-themed crafts to wear, quilt new additions to your home decor, make the perfect gift for any holiday, or feel free to BYOP (bring your own project). All crafters are always welcome and encouraged to bring guests, and if your knitting or clay-shaping skills are a bit rusty, that's fine, too -- there are instructions aplenty! A must-have for anyone who wants to get their craft on, this quirky guide offers a twelve-month blueprint for a year of connecting with friends old and new, and enjoying a possibly messy, but always fulfilling afternoon.
Download or read book Relentless written by D. B. Reynolds and published by ImaJinn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TREACHERY . . . Something the powerful Vampire Lord Raphael has seen far too much of lately. RAGE . . . An emotion that, left unchecked, can burn like the fires of hell. REVENGE . . . A dish that philosophers claim is best served cold. It's been months since the powerful French vampire Mathilde used Raphael's arrogance against him and nearly succeeded in taking his life. His fury has grown stronger with every day since, fed by new bloody incursions onto North American soil by the Europeans, while vampire politicking has forced him to wait. But no longer. Someone has attacked his home, killing vampires, threatening Cyn. They've taken it one step too far, and Raphael's tired of waiting. His enemies are about to discover that revenge can taste damn good when it's hot, too. D. B. Reynolds is the RT and EPIC Award-Winning author of the Vampires in America series of paranormal romance, and an Emmy-nominated television sound editor. She lives in a flammable canyon near Los Angeles, and when she's not writing her own books, she can usually be found reading someone else's. Visit her blog at www.dbreynolds.com for details on all of her books and more.
Download or read book Paul Blaisdell Monster Maker written by Randy Palmer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, It! Terror from Beyond Space and many others. Working in primarily low-budget films, Blaisdell was forced to rely on greasepaint, guts and, most importantly, an unbounded imagination for his creations. From his inauspicious beginning through The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959), the construction of Blaisdell's monsters and the making of the movies in which they appeared are fully detailed here. Blaisdell's work in the early monster magazines of the 1960s is also covered.
