Download or read book Seasons of Purgatory written by Shahriar Mandanipour and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST The first English-language story collection from “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers” (Guardian), “a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran” (Wall Street Journal) In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

Download or read book Tales from the Purgatory written by Stan Schumer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Down and Out in Purgatory written by Tim Powers and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty pulse-pounding, mind-bending tales of science fiction, twisted metaphysics, and supernatural wonder from the two-time World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Award winning author of The Anubis Gatesand On Stranger Tides. A complete palette of story-telling colors from Powers, including acclaimed tale “The Bible Repairman,” where a psychic handyman who supernaturally eliminates troublesome passages of the Bible for paying clients finds the remains of his own broken soul on the line when tasked with rescuing the kidnapped ghost of a rich man’s daughter. Time travel takes a savage twist in “Salvage and Demolition,” where the chance discovery of a long-lost manuscript throws a down-and-out book collector back in time to 1950s San Francisco where he must prevent an ancient Sumeric inscription from dooming millions in the future. Humor and horror mix in “Sufficient unto the Day,” when a raucous Thanksgiving feast takes a dark turn as the invited ghosts of relatives past accidentally draw soul-stealing demons into the family television set. And obsession and vengeance survive on the other side of death in “Down and Out in Purgatory,” where the soul of a man lusting for revenge attempts to eternally eliminate the killer who murdered the love of his life. Wide-ranging, wonder-inducing, mind-bending—these and other tales make up the complete shorter works of a modern-day master of science fiction and fantasy. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Tim Powers: "Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale. . . . [He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all."—Orson Scott Card ". . . immensely clever stuff.... Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting . . . All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger.”—Washington Post Book World “Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction “On Stranger Tides . . . immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."—David Langford "On Stranger Tides . . . was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were -plagiarized- derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game. . . . [the book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting . . .”—legendary game designer Ron Gilbert “Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural.” Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Powers’ work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny . . . and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels. . . . Powers' descriptions . . . are breathtaking, sublimely precise . . . his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt.”—SF Site

Download or read book Purgatory written by Anna-Nina G. Kovalenko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems and short stories - about the beauty of the world, about the vicissitudes of life, situations, relationships, in the form of prose or rhyme reflecting the aesthetic and sometimes ironic vision of the author. The book designed to help the reader learn some truths of life and in general to raise his (her) spirits

Download or read book Purgatory Tales written by Andrzej Juliusz Sarwa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fascinating realm of Purgatory in the thought-provoking book. This captivating work delves into the concept of Purgatory and offers insights into the mysterious process of souls seeking redemption. Written by an esteemed author, it examines the beliefs and practices surrounding Purgatory, shedding light on the purification of souls and their connection to the living. Dive into the realm of the afterlife with "Purgatory Tales: True Stories of Souls Manifesting from the Beyond." This compelling book presents a collection of real-life accounts that shed light on the mysterious phenomenon of souls emerging from Purgatory. Prepare to be engrossed in these true tales that unravel the enigmatic nature of Purgatory and its profound impact on the living. Immerse yourself in the stories of souls bridging the gap between the earthly plane and the beyond, as "Purgatory Tales" invites you on a thought-provoking exploration of the unseen dimensions of existence. With its thought-provoking content and meticulous research, "Purgatory Tales" offers a comprehensive exploration of the topic. It appeals to spiritual seekers, theologians, and individuals intrigued by the mysteries of the afterlife. Immerse yourself in this enlightening book that provides a deeper understanding of Purgatory and the manifestation of souls, inviting you to contemplate the ultimate journey of the human spirit. The book delves into the manifestations of souls in Purgatory, exploring their messages, signs, and encounters with the living.

Download or read book Friars Tales written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exempla are illustrative stories used by preachers to seize the attention of their congregations and to drive home a moral lesson. This book presents annotated translations from two collections of exempla, one Franciscan and one Dominican, put together in the British Isles around 1275. The two collections used are amongst the earliest to survive from the British Isles. The 270 exempla translated cover a wide range of topics, both ecclesiastical and secular, and offer vivid insights into medieval life and attitudes in the broadest sense. An introduction discusses the place of preaching in the medieval church, the development of preaching aids and the exemplum genre, the main topics covered by the exempla, the dating of the two collections translated and the use which the compilers made of their material, and how far exempla can be relied upon as historical evidence.

Download or read book Day by Day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory written by Susan Tassone and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If we, by our prayers and sacrifices, freed a soul from purgatory, we would then have another intercessor for us in heaven." - Venerable Solanus Casey Every day we have another opportunity to pray for the holy souls in purgatory - author, speaker, and purgatory expert Susan Tassone gives you a unique tool to do just that. Day by Day for the Holy Souls includes prayers, teachings about purgatory, real-life stories, Susan's own wisdom, meditations, quotes from the saints, and more. You can use this book however you like - as a daily devotional, as a year round novena, to follow the liturgical seasons - or, just pick it up and read as the Spirit leads you. God has given us the duty, power and privilege of praying for the release of the holy souls. Now Susan Tassone has given you a powerful way to accomplish that mission.

Download or read book Tales of Wonder written by Matthew G. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Epic written by H . A. Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Home from Purgatory written by Judith Daniel Leasure and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after Mom passed, I opened her tiny file on Eddies wrongful death case, she recalls. No one can imagine the pain I felt for Mom and for Eddie, and then it hit me that she must have lived in hell from that time forward. It would be early in 1995 that June would take on the journey her mother had begun on that day she walked into the room in 1973. First there were the calls to the nursing home that still was caring for the boy many now believed was Eddie B. but who was being called Eddie Schabbing. Their response was for her to take her story and her concerns elsewhere, take them to APSI, the states protective service agency.

Download or read book Purgatory written by A Lopez, Jr and published by Ace-Hil-Ink. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purgatory is said to be a place where dying souls go to be punished for sins. For the superstitious, the number 13 symbolizes suffering and death. When the two are combined, it leaves us with this question: Is death the end or is it only the beginning? In the spirit of the dark masters of horror, King, Laymon, Little, and Keene, comes a collection of short stories of the bizarre and the macabre. One story begins in the name of research when a world-famous horror author spends the night in one of the most notorious haunted houses in America - Ritter House - only to discover that reality is much more horrific than fiction. In Road Trip, a man must travel across state lines to identify his brother's dead body and drive him home in the back of his car to a mortuary run by a dead man. In Tic Toc, a man has two hours to prevent a catastrophe in the building where his wife works, only he can't recall how or why. His only clue is the nightmare he had hours earlier. Christmas will never be the same for a little boy in Santa Claws, and an old wooden box in a warehouse carries a story all its own in The Crate. Each tale will hold each person accountable for their actions and ultimately lead them to a dark and unforgiving place much worse than the bounds of Purgatory. If reading dark and twisted horror with a touch of the Twilight Zone is your thing, you're invited to take a trip into Purgatory and open the door to these stories and more . . . Get your copy today!

Download or read book Mysterious Tales of Western North Carolina written by Sherman Carmichael and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These dark hills and hollers hold endless secret wonders. UFO sightings join mysterious booming noises and the famous Brown Mountain Lights in lists of unexplained phenomena. Ghosts abound from Biltmore to Grandfather Mountain. Learn about the Phantom Rider of the Confederacy and all the spots where the devil is said to have set foot on Tar Heel soil. Sightings of Bigfoot join the legend of the Wampus Cat in tales told around the fire at night. Master storyteller Sherman Carmichael explores the lore of the mountains.

Download or read book Purgatory written by Ken Bruen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A drug pusher, a rapist, a loan shark, all targeted in what look like vigilante attacks. And the killer is writing to Jack, signing their name: C-33. Jack has had enough. He doesn’t need the money, and doesn’t want to get involved. But when his friend Stewart gets drawn in, it seems he isn’t been given a choice. In the meantime, Jack is being courted by Reardon, a charismatic billionaire intent on buying up much of Galway, and begins a tentative relationship with Reardon’s PR director, Kelly. Caught between heaven and hell, there’s only one path for Jack Taylor to take: Purgatory.

Download or read book Tales of the Troubled Dead written by Catherine Belsey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good senseWhat do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present - from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakespeare's Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bront Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown. Traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to the present dayDescribes the aspects of storytelling designed to involve readersIncludes stories of attested apparitions, as well as fiction by a wide range of both canonical and popular authors

Download or read book The Book of the Epic written by Hélène Adeline Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Welcome to Purgatory 2 Purgatory Tales written by Val Cornish and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucifer is back, along with friends and enemies alike. Following in the footsteps of 'Welcome to Purgatory', which chronicled Lucifer's 'fall' from Heaven and its consequences, ending with the fateful word, "MICHAEL!!," the story is taken up by Lucifer himself as well others, as they try to reconcile themselves with the lives they have created: Gethin, Adam, Michael, Kel, Phoenix, Jazz and Ashe (to name but a few), who all discover they are more than they thought they were...... Life in Purgatory is never simple, and rarely dull. Welcome back to Purgatory.