Download or read book Nightmare Stairs written by Robert Swindells and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm falling - falling down steep, narrow stairs - if I hit the bottom asleep, I know I'll never wake. Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare - of falling downstairs. But does she fall? Or is she pushed? Then Kirsty discovers that her grandma died falling downstairs and she begins to wonder: is the dream hinting at a dark secret in her family? She has to know the truth. But tracking a murderer is a dangerous game, and as she delves into the past, Kirsty uncovers a secret more terrible than anything she can imagine. A terrifying read from one of today's master storytellers. WINNER OF THE SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD FOR BEST SHORTER NOVEL 'Cleverly put together - funny as well as gripping' The Sunday Times

Download or read book The Nightmare written by Lars Kepler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lars Kepler returns with a piercing, bestselling sequel to The Hypnotist After spellbinding audiences in The Hypnotist, Detective Inspector Joona Linna is back in The Nightmare, an internationally bestselling Swedish thriller published to critical acclaim in dozens of countries. As the Swedish newspaper Arbetarbladet put it, "The reader is ready to sell his own soul for the opportunity to read this book without interruption, in one sitting." On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, and the forensics team is sure that she drowned. Why, then, is the pleasure boat still afloat, and why are there no traces of water on her clothes or body? The next day, a man turns up dead in his state apartment in Stockholm, hanging from a lamp hook. All signs point to suicide, but the room has a high ceiling, and there's not a single piece of furniture around—nothing to climb on. Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, but the logistics are a mere prelude to a dizzying and dangerous course of events. At its core, the most frightening aspect of The Nightmare isn't its gruesome crimes—it's the dark psychology of its characters, who show us how blind we are to our own motives.

Download or read book American Dream Becomes the Global Nightmare written by Ken Koenen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Koenen is a California attorney with a Masters Degree in Tax Law, who has spent the last five years on cases involving people who either were victims of, or in some cases, followed the crowd who abused the loan programs that were partially to blame of today's economic crisis. Ken's background and practice is in real estate, mortgage and taxation and he has consulted with hundreds of people about the tax and legal ramifications of foreclosures, short sales and possible bankruptcy.He will provide some insight into the future of real estate and how to hopefully learn meaningful lessons from this disaster.

Download or read book Nightmare Stalkers Dream Walkers volume II written by Horrified Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare Stalkers & Dream Walkers attempts to invade the dream world, bringing back the weirdest and most terrifying tidbits-all for the amusement of the reader. The authors in these pages have dared to draw from their dream worlds, beating a path through the wilderness of the human subconscious in order to take us to places better left unexplored. But that's okay. Fiction can't hurt us. Neither can dreams. This much we know. We believe it. And yet, somehow, fear lingers, because we cannot be sure... Can we ever fully trust the hidden part of ourselves that seems to have a life of its own? Can we ever feel one hundred percent comfortable with those elusive shadows that flit in and out of our minds, leaving no trace in our memory? We can't help but wonder about dreams... What are they...? -Lindsey Beth Goddard: Author of Quick Fix: A Taste of Terror

Download or read book A Breaker of Laws written by William Pett Ridge and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wes Craven written by John Kenneth Muir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Wes Craven has consistently and imaginatively scared movie audiences since the early 1970s. His films encompass a variety of styles, elements and themes, from the nihilistic existentialism of The Last House on the Left to the successful A Nightmare on Elm Street (which sent horror in a bold new direction), to the hallucinatory dreamscapes of The Serpent and the Rainbow. And in the nineties, Craven returned with the Scream films, which were simultaneously funny, clever and scary films that overturned the horror cliches of the eighties. The present work provides a history of Craven's film career since 1972, examining all the themes and techniques the filmmaker explored. For each film, a synopsis, cast and credits, historical context, and critical commentary are provided. Also covered in detail are Craven's forays into television, including movies such as Stranger in the House and work on such series as The New Twilight Zone.

Download or read book my dreams A PSCHOANALYST S NIGHTMARE written by appleton schneider and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: my dreams surely defy any school of analysis. Rather than sexual or archetypal revelations, what I dream seems proof that the unconscious is more like a landfill ("dump") of experience. And the dream picks from the piles of the past -- and even, perhaps, future . . . .

Download or read book The Kaleidoscopic Worlds of Poe Black written by Mark Roland Langdale and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you lost yourself in another world? Orphan Poe Black finds himself lost in a forest inside an attic fighting both real and imaginary entities from the spirit world. Here he meets a young girl, named Sorrow, who he shares a connection with. Two is better than one and they forge ahead together, aware of the danger that creeps ever closer toward them. Set in Finland, just after the covid pandemic, this dark and supernatural, fairy tale follows Poe Black as he manoeuvres through three entirely different worlds, the real world, a parallel world and the spirit world. Can Poe and Sorrow defeat the dark and mysterious entity and make their way back to the so called real world or will they be stuck in the other realms for all eternity?

Download or read book The Nightmare Machine written by John Nicholas Datesh and published by John Nicholas Datesh Jr. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In your dreams, Raymond." So, Talbot Research dismissed Raymond Carleton's therapeutic dream system. That made Raymond mad. Then they dismissed Raymond. That made Raymond dangerous. He had not designed his machine to twist the sweetest dream into a heart-splitting, very final nightmare. But it did. And Raymond was crazed enough to use it.

Download or read book A Corpse s Nightmare written by Phillip DePoy and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Storytelling at its finest...beguiling!" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) on The Drifter's Wheel Fever Devilin is killed by an intruder. He doesn't stay dead - thanks to an emergency medical team - but he does slip into a months-long coma. When he comes out of it, there are two things he now knows: that he's been dreaming about the legendary Paris 20's café scene and that his would-be killer was after a blue tin box, containing a photo of what Fever believes to be an angel. As Fever struggles to recover, out there is a would-be killer who must be found while there's still time.

Download or read book Nightmare Alley written by Mark Osteen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.

Download or read book Nightmare in Greasepaint written by L. L. Soares and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some family legacies are best left buried. Will Pallasso has brought his wife and young son, Billy, back to his childhood home to settle his late mother’s affairs…and remove all traces of his haunted past. But now hideous memories are coming back to Will, and Billy has started suffering from night terrors. Returning to this house was a big mistake. Some memories should not be disturbed, and some nightmares will not stay buried forever. Especially nightmares that wear greasepaint spattered with blood.

Download or read book Nightmare s Edge written by Bryan Davis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final installment in the Echoes from the Edge series, the three Earths are headed towards imminent destruction, and only Nathan's father knows the secret to saving billions of people from the celestial collision. But he is trapped in a dream world where nightmares are reality and the collapse of the cosmos is at hand. When Kelly sacrifices herself on Nathan's behalf during a rescue mission gone bad, Nathan is faced with two formidable tasks: save Kelly, and repair the cosmic fabric before the three dimensions collide. With the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, and the murderous stalker Mictar dogging his steps, Nathan must save the three Earths ... or risk everything trying.

Download or read book The Armadillo Prophecy written by Zerocalcare and published by Ablaze Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armadillo Prophecy is Zerocalcare’s debut OGN, and it’s the story of how he coped with learning too late that a dear friend from his childhood had died, all while a giant armadillo represents his imaginary conscience. Dryly funny, witty, and inventive, it’s a classic that has sold over 140,000 copies in Italy alone. Now in its 13th reprint, it is Zerocalcare’s most popular title. Structured as a series of short stories that tie in to form a cohesive narrative, this is the seminal story that made Zerocalcare famous for his ability to write comedy with depth and elements of drama embedded in the plot. While it references Italian society, it’s definitely a universal tale of loss, coping and coming of age.

Download or read book Doctor Who The Nightmare of Black Island written by Mike Tucker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children's nightmares get worse, The Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil... Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

Download or read book Nightmare s Rage written by Steve N. Lee and published by Blue Zoo. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killers aren’t born, they’re made. And she’s out to meet her maker. ★★★★★ “Wow! This book is smokin' hot--like a runaway train.” John Mariotti Seventeen years ago, a savage murder thrust Tess Williams into a life of suffering and brutality. But where such hardship would’ve broken most, Tess turned her rage into an unquenchable hunger for justice. Today, she finally gets a lead on that killer only to learn that he is now a feared crime boss, surrounded by vicious mobsters, hired thugs, and ruthless assassins. If Tess is to reach him, she must go through all of them. Outnumbered and outgunned, Tess knows this will probably be the job that puts her in the ground, but she doesn’t care as long as she nails her target first. But just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, the killer discovers she’s tracking him – the hunter becomes the hunted. Tess has no choice but to break all the rules that have kept her alive for so long. Dodging bullets, battling betrayals, and facing overwhelming odds, she storms into a supercharged showdown with the killer. Today, Tess’s violent story will come to an electrifying end. But whose end will it be? ★★★★★ “This was a roller coaster of a read… I Could Not Put it Down” Hillel Kaminsky ★★★★★ “Wow! An explosive installment… A great read with real insight and wisdom from a strong and very likeable protagonist” Julie Elizabeth Powell ★★★★★ “Talk about a nail-biting ending! Whew, I was exhausted by the time I had raced through this one.” Jan Simmons ★★★★★ “A breath-taking thrill ride. Don't start this one until you have time to read it through to the end because you won't want to put it down.” Mouse ★★★★★ “Steve Lee has created the perfect storm: action - strong characters - and well developed storylines. I try to read slowly because by the last page I do NOT want this book to end.” Sheryl Painter >>> Click Buy Now <<< Absolutely FREE! You get Black File 07 free with this book (see the Table of Contents for details). Standalone? Books 01-06 have self-contained stories, so while they’re more thrilling in order, you can read them out of sequence if you like. Nightmare’s Rage (book 07), Shanghai Fury (book 08), and Black Dawn (book 09) should be read in order, preferably after books 01-06, because small subplots come together in these books. But this isn't vital – each is a thrilling story in its own right. Dark Crime Thrillers This series is gritty, action-packed crime fiction, not Miss Marple, so expect some violence, occasional strong language, and every so often, a scene of a sexual nature. The paperback edition is 200 pages long. ★★★★★ "You won't want to put it down. I didn't." Dave * Do you love the action thriller series of Lee Child, Stieg Larsson, Vince Flynn, John Sandford, David Baldacci, James Patterson…? * Love assassin books, revenge thrillers, vigilante series, action novels, noir fiction, hard boiled mystery? * Then you’ll love Steve N. Lee's kick-ass hero, lightning-paced plots, and Jack Reacher-style action. >>> Click Buy Now <<<

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