Download or read book CRYPT Mask of Death written by Andrew Hammond and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A figure wearing a white mask swoops down a deserted hospital corridor towards a quarantined patient. Covered in black sores and writhing in agony the patient can't be saved by modern medicine. But then, the masked figure is not a modern doctor... Bodies are being discovered all over London, all marked with the same black sores - it seems a contagious disease is spreading across the city. But when witnesses all report seeing the same mysterious masked figure it seems there's something more sinister going on. This is a case for CRYPT: a team of elite teenage agents who use their extra sensory perception and arsenal of high-tech gadgets to investigate crimes that the police can't solve.
Download or read book Death Mask written by Alex Archer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face of evil. And the face of greed… The video showed a nearly naked man bloodied and beaten. Even as archaeologist and TV presenter Annja Creed watched, the clock on his suicide vest ticked down, and precious seconds were lost. But this was no stranger. Garin was her friend. Their fates had been bound by the secrets of Joan of Arc's sword. And Annja had less than twenty-four hours to save his life…. The price for Garin's life was the lost mask of Torquemada, rumored to have been cast by the Grand Inquisitor himself, five hundred years ago during the Spanish Inquisition. Abandoned crypts, lost palaces and a cruel and ancient brotherhood: all clues to the mask's complicated and deadly mystery that Annja, and her mentor, Roux—using all of their considerable resources and cunning—must solve before Garin runs out of time. Annja Creed is facing her greatest trial. And not even the holy sword of Joan of Arc can spare her from the final judgment.
Download or read book Secret of the Warlock s Crypt written by Tom Hayes and published by ATBOSH Media Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cryptic drawings, maps, strange symbols. This is what twelve-year-old Mike Hilliard discovers as he investigates the long-dead, ruthless millionaire Titus Morley. As these strange symbols and drawings hover in his dreams, Mike rambles through the listless Cleveland Heights summer with Billy Hayworth, a photography intern at the Western Reserve Historical Society, where Mike’s uncle, Robert “Otto” Hilliard is an historian. After his death in an 1872 refinery explosion, Titus Morley’s treasure trove of rare grimoires and ancient masks disappeared. Could the drawings and maps provide clues? Mike and Billy are determined to find out. But after rambling through a nearby cemetery at midnight, Mike’s confidence is shaken, Billy is not the same, and a soul-stirring horror has been awakened. A fortune in missing books and masks. A long-dead millionaire who wanted out of his body and wanted to command the dead. Bodies missing from morgues and graves. What can these things possibly mean to a boy spending the summer with his uncle?
Download or read book Mask of Death written by Ernst Paul and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Mask of Death written by Paul Ernst and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mask of Death" by Paul Ernst. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Slumber of Death A Gods Chosen Story written by Zachary Jennings and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A circle broken and laid at your feet, accident, perhaps? A part suspects the circle broken intentionally to represent a broken trust. No sooner than the word normal escapes lips, a new threat takes its place. An evil fog covers the world, slowly taking shape and grasping for small amounts of power it can find. New bonds mend and new hostilities break with no end in sight. A broken path appears on the edge of our heroes minds but they will not travel down unfamiliar territory. Broken. The word keeps repeating, broken. A broken shield tarnished by lies and tempered in secret remains in the hands of the future crown. A power long believed lost returns to take what it claimed by right thru the warmth of gold. Words stop writing and the pages grow fewer with each turn.
Download or read book Death Mask of the Jaguar written by Murdoch Hughes and published by Hard Shell Word Factory. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rick Sage Mystery: Harley-riding PI, Rick Sage, follows his heart into darkness once again when he meets up with ten-year-old Pedro, a Mexican-American kid lost on the streets of Tijuana. Pedro hires Rick, with the two dollars and thirty-five cents he has left in his pocket, to find the gang of antiquities thieves who murdered his parents. Shadowed by a jaguar spirit Rick begins to believe is real, his promise to help the boy takes them on a trail leading from Tijuana to the Copper Canyon, then on to Mexico's Mayan ruins at Palenque, and down a jungle border river into Guatemala. Along the way, Rick and Pedro join up with a beautiful but mysterious redheaded nun, and a magical, fleet-footed Tarahumara shaman. Haunted by his own tragic childhood, Rick is determined to fulfill his promise to Pedro to find the murderers and recover the Jade Death Mask of the Jaguar Cult, as they are drawn deeper and deeper into a dark plot lit only by the beacons of a jaguar's eyes.
Download or read book The Death mask and Other Ghosts written by Hd Everett and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Sorcerer s Death Mask written by Dan Jerris and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in Alleric Castle, Al, Owen and Mahoot stumble upon a book called The History of the Sabre. The book tells them about a sorcerer who was buried along with all his treasure in a crypt on Dragon Island, a golden death mask set upon his face. Keen to find more treasure, Captain Gunner is happy to accompany the boys to Dragon Island. Once there, however, they are attacked by a massive, fierce dragon which, despite shots and stabs, does not die. It is deathless. As it roars a mighty roar, the boys notice a dark diamond stuck between its teeth, explaining everything. Seeking shelter in a nearby tunnel, the boys then spot Snotty Nell, who has also come looking for treasure. Luckily, Snotty has been drinking sahlep, and the drink s delicious fragrance makes the dragon run after her, allowing the boys to make their way into the crypt. Once inside the crypt, Gunner and the boys discover an enormous amount of treasure and begin carrying it aboard The Invincible. Al then decides to rescue Snotty from the dragon by stuffing sahlep into a large leg of pork and dangling it in front of the fierce creature. The plan works even better than expected: as the dragon bites into the pork, the black diamond dislodges from its teeth, and the dragon falls over the cliff into the sea, where Greeny Jack hungrily awaits. Fun activities and teachers' guides available to download from the website www.dragonbloodpirates.com
Download or read book The Drowned Muse written by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled "L'Inconnue de la Seine" (the Unknown Woman of the Seine), and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. Legend has it that the "Inconnue" drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The forensic scientist tending to her unidentified corpse at the Paris Morgue was supposedly so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. This unknown girl, also called "The Mona Lisa of Suicide," has since become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s, and continues to reverberate today. Aby Warburg defines art history as "a ghost story for grown-ups." This study is simlarly "a ghost story for grown-ups," narrating the aura of a cultural object that crosses temporal, geographical, and linguistic frontiers. It views the "Inconnue" as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It also investigates how the mask's metamorphoses reflect major shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, approaching the "Iconnue" as an entry point to understand a phenomenon characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century modernity: the translatability of media. Doing so, this study mobilizes discourses surrounding the "Inconnue," casting them as points of negotiation through which we may consider the modern age.
Download or read book Death Mask written by Nora Delzelle and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearing a mask changes everything! Death Mask is a modern re-imagining of the Egyptian myth of the contending of Horus and Set, deities that represented order and chaos. It is a story about a young woman, Alex Kincaid, who gets caught in a deadly feud between these opposing forces by unwittingly placing a bid on an eBay auction for a golden funerary mask. Unbeknownst to Alex, the mask confers protection and ageless power to the owner. Alex has to contend with angry gods, cursed relics, prophetic dreams, and ghostly guides imparting knowledge to discover that ancients still walk among us. If Alex can survive, there is a price for her new-found power... her very soul.
Download or read book Masks of the Spirit written by Peter T. Markman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica. Chapters: (1) the metaphor of the mask in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: the mask as the God, in ritual, and as metaphor; (II) metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order; and (III) the metaphor of the mask after the conquest: syncretism; the Pre-Columbian survivals; the syncretic compromise; and today's masks. Over 100 color and black-&-white photos.
Download or read book Death of a Saint written by Lily Herne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some secrets are so unthinkable you can't even admit them to yourself . . . Lele, Ginger, Ash and Saint - aka the Mall Rats - are hiding out in the Deadlands, a once-prosperous area of Cape Town, now swarming with the living dead. Exiled from the city enclave for crimes against the Resurrectionist State, the Rats face a stark choice: return and risk capture - or leave Cape Town and go in search of other survivors. But what if the rest of South Africa is nothing but a zombie-riddled wasteland? Now Lele has discovered the truth about why the lurching dead leave them alone, she can't bring herself to tell the rest of the gang. And she's not the only Mall Rat harbouring a dangerous secret . . . Can the friends' survive on the road if all they have is each other? Or will their secrets tear them apart?
Download or read book The Death Mask and Other Ghosts written by H. D. Everett and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 short stories with horror and paranormal themes. The stories are: The Death Mask; Parson Clench; The Wind of Dunowe; Nevill Nugent's Legacy; The Crimson Blind; Fingers of a Hand; The Next Heir; Anne's Little Ghost; Over the Wires; A Water Witch; The Lonely Road; A Girl in White; A Perplexing Case; and, Beyond the Pale.
Download or read book Dying Death and Bereavement written by Lewis R. Aiken and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook for Death & Dying courses in psych, soc, soc work, nursing, development, and counseling depts.
Download or read book Decadent Subjects written by Charles Bernheimer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating exploration of fin de siècle decadence “by a well-known authority in the areas of European literature, culture, and psychoanalysis” (Pre-Raphaelite Studies). The influential writer and scholar Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a “stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds.” In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term. This remarkable collection of essays shows the contradictions of the phenomenon, which is both a condition and a state of mind. In seeking to show why people have failed to give a satisfactory account of the term decadence, Bernheimer argues that we often mistakenly take decadence to represent something concrete, that we see as some sort of agent. His salutary response is to return to those authors and artists whose work constitutes the topos of decadence, rereading key late nineteenth-century authors such as Nietzsche, Zola, Hardy, Wilde, Moreau, and Freud to rediscover the very dynamics of the decadent. Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de siècle—including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome—Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence. Honorable Mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association
Download or read book Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Deborah Lutz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.
