Download or read book Night Beast written by Ruth Joffre and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut collection of doomed love stories and twisted fairytales “perfect for fans of Kelly Link and of Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties” (Booklist). In Night Beasts, author Ruth Joffre explores the lives of women—particularly queer women and mothers—and reveals the monsters lurking in our daily lives: the madness, isolation, betrayals, and regrets that arise as we seek human connection. Joffre takes readers to places where the sun never sets, where cornfields rustle ominously, and sleepwalkers prowl the night. In “Weekend,” the lead actors of an avant-garde television show begin to confuse their characters’ identities with their own; in “Go West, and Grow Up,” a young girl living in a car with her mother is forced to shed her innocence too soon; and in “Safekeeping,” a woman trapped inside a futuristic safehouse gradually unravels as she waits for her lover, who may never return. “A cri de coeur for sympathy and understanding,” Night Beast is a mind-bending, genre-hopping debut, a provocative and uncommonly raw examination of relationships and sexuality, trauma and redemption, the meaning of family, and coming-of-age—and growing old—as an outsider (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Beasts Made of Night written by Tochi Onyebuchi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...The beginning of a great saga..." —NPR.org "This compelling Nigerian-influenced fantasy has a wonderfully unique premise and lush, brilliant worldbuilding that will consume you until the last page."—Buzzfeed "...Unforgettable in its darkness, inequality, and magic." —VOYA, Starred Review "...A paean to an emerging black legend."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Black Panther meets Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch in Beasts Made of Night, the first book in an epic fantasy duology. In the walled city of Kos, corrupt mages can magically call forth sin from a sinner in the form of sin-beasts—lethal creatures spawned from feelings of guilt. Taj is the most talented of the aki, young sin-eaters indentured by the mages to slay the sin-beasts. But Taj’s livelihood comes at a terrible cost. When he kills a sin-beast, a tattoo of the beast appears on his skin while the guilt of committing the sin appears on his mind. Most aki are driven mad by the process, but Taj is cocky and desperate to provide for his family. When Taj is called to eat a sin of a member of the royal family, he’s suddenly thrust into the center of a dark conspiracy to destroy Kos. Now Taj must fight to save the princess that he loves—and his own life. Debut author Tochi Onyebuchi delivers an unforgettable series opener that powerfully explores the true meaning of justice and guilt. Packed with dark magic and thrilling action, Beasts Made of Night is a gritty Nigerian-influenced fantasy perfect for fans of Paolo Bacigalupi and Nnedi Okorafor. iBooks Most Anticipated YA Books of the Fall io9’s All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Keep On Your Radar This Fall BuzzFeed’s 22 YA Novels You’ll Want To Read From Cover To Cover This Fall A 2017 BookExpo Buzz Book A Junior Library Guild Selection
Download or read book Regional Horror Films 1958 1990 written by Brian Albright and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the 20th century, landmark works of the horror film genre were as much the product of enterprising regional filmmakers as of the major studios. From backwoods Utah to the Louisiana bayous to the outer boroughs of New York, independent, regional films like Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Evil Dead stood at the vanguard of horror cinema. This overview of regionally produced horror and science fiction films includes interviews with 13 directors and producers who operated far from mainstream Hollywood, along with a state-by-state listing of regionally produced genre films made between 1958 and 1990. Highlighting some of the most influential horror films of the past 50 years, this work celebrates not only regional filmmaking, but also a cultural regionalism that is in danger of vanishing.
Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Wendy Pini and published by First Classics. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the action, fantasy and romance of the Emmy Award-winning CBS Television series is captured for the first time in an all-new, full-color graphic novel. In a world that is forever trying to keep them apart, two very special people fight to keep their love alive.
Download or read book Night Beast written by Robert Hood and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in this series about teenagers from the Shadow Realm. At first the wind that sweeps along the coast seems normal enough, if unusually violent. But Cassandra and Nathan soon realise it carries a disease that infects the shadows of living things, turning them into monstrous parasites.
Download or read book The Beast House written by Richard Laymon and published by 47North. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange Occurrence Squad consisting of a police officer, a psychic, and an expert on everything "weird" investigates a Bigfoot creature reportedly sighted at a summer camp.
Download or read book Princess Is Prickly written by Er Tang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: she reborn open eyes, is being dragged through , become everyone despise the trash woman. contract ancient god beast, training level against the sky, has a mysterious space, bright blind people's eyes. white lotus flower, green tea bitch, mother bitch, all the way through the spine. sorry, I'm the princess. he is a charming rain or shine uncertain Lord, people think he is ruthless, but why he is so difficult in her eyes, lingering. / p p "what are you doing staring at miss Ben?" "the king was thinking, when can I put you under?" She smiled and put a needle in his waist and abdomen: "Lord, you think too much. If you do, I will." / p
Download or read book Friday Night in Beast House written by Richard Laymon and published by 47North. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth and final novel in Laymon's Beast House series. Mark and Alison don't believe the gruesome legends of Beast House. But they'll learn the truth when they sneak in late one night. Includes a bonus novella, "The Wilds."
Download or read book Titan written by Tasha Black and published by 13th Story Press. This book was released on with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He agreed to be her wingman, but she’s flying away with his heart. Ugly duckling Summer has to become a swan fast if she wants to save her uncle from being imprisoned for life. But no trainee has ever been at the Arkadia Brides Agency for this long without being assigned a match. Warm-hearted and sincere Summer just can’t master the subtle graces of Upper Arkadian society. When a missing-bride situation hands her the chance to skip the line and get married immediately Summer can’t believe it. But the groom leaves her at the altar, with no one to comfort her except his unbelievably hot attorney. Titan has sworn off love until he reaches his career goals. But he’d have to be made of stone not to notice how sweet and sexy his friend’s discarded mail order bride is. Determined to resist her charms, he promises to help her beat the clock and find another husband before her time is up and her chance at winning a bride bonus is lost. The two head off on a whirlwind of Upper Arkadian social events. But the harder Titan tries to find a match for the radiant little Terran who has turned his world upside down, the more he becomes convinced that no one is good enough for her. Well, almost no one… As their secrets start coming out, the unlikely couple finds themselves up against more than just cultural differences. Can they learn to trust each other in spite of all odds? Or will Summer find herself out in the cold? If you like strong women, hunky aliens, wild adventures, steamy sensual scenes, and happily-ever-afters, then you’ll love the world of Arkadia: Arkadian Alien Mail Order Brides: -Orion -Atlas -Titan
Download or read book Batman written by Jack C. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young Bruce Wayne finds the living brain of his father stored in a unique chemical compound, he attempts to restore Thomas Wayne to life. But the experiment goes awry and when the fearsome Bat-man is unleashed, only Bruce can set things right - by destroying the creature that was his father.
Download or read book The Children s Book written by Horace Elisha Scudder and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Mempire Born in Blood written by James Hendershot and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planters from long ago planted people on planets throughout the universes. This story explodes on the planet Lamenta as it develops. Things go wrong, as a string of evil queens push the power of women too far, stripping everything from the useless males they keep only for procreation, and harvesting their needed prey. This evil had to be stopped. Out of this evil empire did come one of their future royal whites to organize and build armies from the savages that the Hersonian Empire were harvesting. The planet then became a sponge holding rivers of blood. After the ashes started to settle, the evil queen emerges out of the unknown to destroy the queen of love and great purity. This sends the king on a giant exploration adventure covering the planet. On this trip, he finds a new love and gives Mempire a new queen. Evil refuses to give up on Lamenta as the future queen of evil; Lilith, almost makes all life on Lamenta extinct. Space dog gives King James the ability to fight this evil and with time, life begins to reproduce again. Yet during his travels, Lilith captures his seed to create his child to have as a tool to cripple Mempire. The spirits of the heavens intervene as they allow Mempires dead queen to reach her hand out and save this child, hiding her spirit in a new child. Mempire continues to provide its citizens an environment to build their new families. Yet, dangers continue as their queen from the grave warns as Mempire continues to battle evil. King James and his royal whites lay a solid foundation for an empire that would grow into one of the greatest in the Milky Way as many of the stars in your sky belong to this great power of good.
Download or read book Aeroman written by Elijah Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a more technologically advanced time than our own the story of Aeroman is about an ordinary boy named Markus Ward. After a failed suicide attempt the self-destructive teen acquires powerful abilities in order to protect the planet from a looming external threat. However, with a blatant disregard for natural law Aerolad and later Aeroman finds himself on a dark and bloody path. Follow the titular protagonist in this Science/Fantasy epic as he becomes one of the world's most infamous protectors with the help of his creator, Mistress Construct. His partner in crime Black Specter and the others who follow him fight in a deeply rooted struggle between bad versus evil. Making uneasy alliances and questionable judgment calls, Aeroman and his companions' battle forces that seek to plunge their world and reality itself into a realm of pure darkness and chaos.
Download or read book Death s Rival written by Faith Hunter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker you don’t want to cross—especially if you’re one of the undead… For a vampire killer like Jane, having Leo Pellisier as a boss took some getting used to. But now, someone is out to take his place as Master Vampire of the city of New Orleans, and is not afraid to go through Jane to do it. After an attack that’s tantamount to a war declaration, Leo knows his rival is both powerful and vicious, but Leo’s not about to run scared. After all, he has Jane. But then, a plague strikes, one that takes down vampires and makes their masters easy prey. Now, to uncover the identity of the vamp who wants Leo’s territory, and to find the cause of the vamp-plague, Jane will have to go to extremes…and maybe even to war.
Download or read book The Star Beast written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lummox has been the pet of the Stuart family for generations. With eight legs, a thick hide and huge (and growing) size, Lummox is nobody's idea of man's best friend. Nevertheless, John Stuart XI, descendant of the starman who originally brought Lummox back to Earth from a distant planet, loves him. John isn't about to let the authorities take his pet away and, with his best friend Betty, determines to save Lummox even if it takes leaving the life he's known forever. However, what John and Betty don't realize is that the survival of the Earth itself may depend on the true nature of The Star Beast. An all-time great science fiction coming-of-age classic from seven-time Hugo winner and Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book Beast in View written by Margaret Millar and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the greatest psychological mysteries ever written and winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, Beast in View remains as freshly sinister today as the day it was first published. Thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe is scared and all alone. The heiress of a small fortune, she is resented by her mother and, to a lesser degree, her brother. The only person who seemingly cares for her is the family’s attorney, Paul Blackshear. A shut-in, Helen maintains her residence in an upscale hotel downtown. But passive-aggressive resentment isn’t the only thing hounding Helen Clarvoe. A string of bizarre and sometimes threatening prank phone calls has upended her spinster’s routine. Increasingly threatened, she turns to a reluctant Mr. Blackshear to get to the bottom of these strange calls. Blackshear is doubtful of their seriousness but he quickly realizes that he is in the midst of something far more sinister than he thought possible. As he unravels the mystery of the calls the identity behind them slowly emerges, predatory and treacherous.
Download or read book Infamous written by Lex Croucher and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Most Anticipated Romance of 2023 by Goodreads and Bookpage "Lex Croucher is one of my favorite rom-com authors, and they should be yours, too." ––Casey McQuiston, #1 bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue "Croucher infuses this energetic Regency era friends-to-lovers sapphic romance with zany wit, joie de vivre, and a distinctive literary bent." ––Publishers Weekly Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith (“Eddie”) Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together―from climbing trees and sneaking bottles of wine, to extensive kissing practice. But Rose has started talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. Why can’t they continue as they always have? Then Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson––a rival of Lord Byron, if he does say so himself––and he welcomes her into his world of eccentric artists and boundary-breaking visionaries. When Eddie receives an invitation to Nash's crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside, promising inspiration (and time to finish her novel, a long-held dream), she eagerly agrees. But the pure hedonism and debauchery that ensues isn’t exactly what she had in mind, and Eddie soon finds herself torn between her complicated feelings for Rose and her equally complicated dynamic with Nash, whose increasingly bad behavior doesn’t match up to her vision for her literary hero. Will Eddie be forced to choose between her friendship with Rose and her literary dreams––or will she be able to write her own happily ever after?
