Download or read book Dublin s Strangest Tales written by Michael Barry and published by Portico. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Dublin. Though this isn’t the usual side of the city the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Dublin, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the city’s bizarre history – past, present and future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to one of Ireland’s most beautiful, and popular, cities. Located on the beautiful eastern seaboard, Dublin is a city with more strangeness than you can shake a pint of Guinness at. Home to one million people, the name, strangely, comes from the Irish ‘Dubh Linn’, which means 'Black Pool', but that name was already taken. Dublin’s Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to some of the city’s best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned.
Download or read book Strange Irish Tales for Children written by Edmund Lenihan and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four exciting stories about the adventures of the Fianna.
Download or read book To Hell or Monto written by Maurice Curtis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when the two most notorious red-light districts not only in Ireland but in all of Europe could be found on the streets of Dublin. Though the name of Monto has endured long in folk memory, the area known as Hell was equally notorious, feared and renowned in its day. In this new work by Maurice Curtis explores the histories of these dark remnants of Dublin’s past, complete with their gambling, dueling and vice, their rowdy taverns and houses of ill repute.
Download or read book Ireland in Fiction written by Stephen James Meredith Brown and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dracula s Guest and Other Weird Tales written by Bram Stoker and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable evil, demonstrate the full range of his horror writing. From the petrifying open tomb in 'Dracula's Guest' to the mental breakdown depicted in 'The Judge's House' and 'Crooken Sands', these terrifying tales of the uncanny explore the boundaries between life and death, known and unknown, animal and human, dream and reality.
Download or read book Weird Tales 354 Special Edgar Allan Poe Issue written by Joe Schreiber and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales #359 is a special celebration of all things Poe, with a special features dedicated to Poe's influence on modern writers, fiction and poetry inspired by Poe, plus an interview with Joe Schreiber, the usual features, and much general weirdness. Another great issue!
Download or read book List of Works Relating to Ireland written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncanny Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White People and Other Weird Stories written by Arthur Machen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from the award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo Del Toro Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented and on edge. From the first page, Machen turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin, who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed'" setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Irish Ghost Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, lyrical collection of famous stories and the less well-known. A collection of characteristically playful yet philosophical Irish ghost stories from authors such as Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost), Sheridan Le Fanu (The Child That Went With The Fairies, Stories Of Lough Guir), Charles Maturin (extracts from Melmoth the Wanderer), Lord Dunsany ('The Sword of Welleran') and Fitz-James O'Brien ('The Diamond Lens', 'What Was It?'). FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Download or read book Rough Beasts written by Jack Fennell and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters and other supernatural malefactors disrupt the human world in distinct ways: werewolves and cunning beasts challenge the philosophical distinction between human and animal; demons offer deceptive pacts to prey upon our delusions of mastery over the world; capricious fairies claim dominion over the landscape and exact disproportionate revenge for our intrusions. When a monster appears, human history must halt until it departs. Irish history, meanwhile, has been punctured by dramatic ruptures, such as the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849. Monstrous imagery flourishes in these ruptures, so it is hardly surprising that Irish literature boasts a great many rough beasts and ravenous corpses. In this book, various monsters from Irish literature are considered in different historical contexts, to illustrate the role of horror and monstrosity in Ireland's history and culture. In both English- and Irish-language texts, from the Act of Union to the death of the Celtic Tiger, hordes of night-creatures arise in times of crisis, embodying chaos and absurdity. Building upon the critical framework established in Irish Science Fiction (2014), this study looks at the specific ways in which ghosts, malevolent magicians, shape-shifters, cryptids and the corporeal undead oppose human agency by 'breaking history'.
Download or read book Green Tea written by J. Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction. While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction. Tales such as Carmilla and Green Tea prompted M. R. James to remark, 'he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer'. This landmark critical edition includes the original versions of the stories later collected in the superb In a Glass Darkly, along with equally chilling tales spanning the length of Le Fanu's career, from 'Schalken the Painter', a pioneering story of the walking dead, to 'Laura Silver Bell', a haunting exploration of the dark side of fairy lore. Aaron Worth's introduction discusses the paranoid, claustrophobic world of Le Fanu's fiction, placing the stories both the context of the author's long career and in the pantheon of writers of the uncanny"--
Download or read book T P s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Running s Strangest Tales written by Iain Spragg and published by Portico. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful stories from the world of running, from the earliest marathon to today’s high-tech, apped-up approach. Within these pages you’ll find the bizarre story of the Norwegian footballer forced to miss a crucial World Cup qualifier after colliding with a moose on his morning jog, the American ultra-marathoner who had all his toenails removed to improve his running, and why some runners at the 2015 Tokyo marathon were wearing GPS-enabled, edible bananas, complete with LEDs and incoming Twitter updates. Packed with tales that are so odd you’ll hardly believe them, this book makes the perfect gift for all running enthusiasts, from the seasoned marathoner to the park jogger, and those who only ever run a bath. Word count: 45,000
Download or read book The Built Up Ship Model written by Charles G. Davis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in its field, THE BUILT-UP SHIP MODEL is an expert guide aimed at model builders with experience, patience, and a passion for building "the real thing". Photographs illustrate day-to-day work in progress. Over 100 drawings demonstrate correct implementation of the more complex instructions. In his introduction, the author chronicles the exciting career of the LEXINGTON and the role it played in America's fight for freedom.
Download or read book Passageway written by Sans. PRESS Team and published by Sans. PRESS. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRAISE FOR PASSAGEWAY "Passageway is a consuming collection of short stories on humanity, connection and time. This anthology showcases an immersive variety of observations about the enduring nature of what it is to live and love, whether about the potential for the future to connect us in the present, or for history to anchor us to the past. It is a wholly unique demonstration of some of the very best of new and upcoming writers from Ireland and beyond." – Courtney Smyth, author of The Undetectables The paths of perception are thrown open, and new realities loom beyond – all that is left to do is to cross the passageway. New adventures, friends and foes, and whole worlds out there; all of that is being promised to those who cross the threshold. Without any guarantees, or without knowing what's out there, we want to follow the journeys of those who dare to go beyond. In the fifth Sans. PRESS anthology, 15 writers explore what it means to face transformation – what new life they will encounter, and what they will have to leave behind. With stories by Claire Beaver, Devon Borkowski, N. G. Bowie-Johnson, Emily Iseult Duggan, Olivier Faivre, Shane Griffin, Tom Jordan, Henrike Lehmeier, Anna Martin, Kurt Newton, Maria O’Brien, Raffaella Sero, Layla Sakamoto Sharifi, Poppy Sheridan and Deborah Zafer.
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
