Download or read book Renfield A Tale of Madness written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale set in the Dracula universe! Renfield is the haunting and sophisticated story of the bug eating inmate from Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel. It centers on a man who is slowly being consumed by madness because of the visions and voices that intrude upon his dreams and nightmares. While the events from the Dracula novel swirl around him, Renfield faces his pre-ordained task of preparing for his mysterious "master" arrival and struggles to understand what his "messiah" is asking of him. Upon discovering that Dracula is offering him eternal life, Renfield realizes that for beings such as Dracula to live, others must die. This includes Mina Harker who Renfield reveres and this conflict throws Renfield into an internal struggle of the darkness of immortality against his own humanity. And as such Renfield struggles to grasp the overwhelming need to serve the darkness. Staying true to the original Stoker story in chronological order and events, this story focuses primarily on Dracula's prior arrival in England. See why Independent Propaganda called Renfield, "a truly classic tale in graphic format.", Dimestore Reviews gives it a 10 out of 10 "a rare treat; a truly classic piece" and Comics Buyers' Guide calls it a "A Gothic Jewel." Collects Renfield comic book issues 1-5. A Caliber Comics release.
Download or read book RENFIELD written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renfield is haunting and sophisticated mini-series of the bug eating inmate from Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel. It centers on a man who is slowly being consumed by madness because of the visions and voices that intrude upon his dreams and nightmares. While the events from the Dracula novel swirl around him, Renfield faces his pre-ordained task of preparing for his mysterious "master" and struggles to understand what his "messiah" is asking of him. Upon discovering that Dracula is offering him eternal life, Renfield realizes that for beings such as Dracula to live, others must die. This includes Mina Harker who Renfield reveres and this conflict throws Renfield into an internal struggle of the darkness of immortality against his own humanity. And as such Renfield struggles to grasp the overwhelming need to serve the darkness. Staying true to the original Stoker story in chronological order and events, this mini-series focuses primarily on events prior to Dracula's actual arrival in England with a story that runs parallel to Stoker's classic with all the major players of that book present. See why Independent Propaganda called Renfield, ..".a truly classic tale in graphic format" and 5 stars (out of 5 possible) "A must have for any serious sequential graphic narrative (comics) fan." and Comic Buyer's Guide called "a gothic jewel." 10 out of 10. ..".a rare treat; a truly classic piece..." - Dimestore Reviews "Renfield calls Dracula his master, but I must say that Gary Reed proves that he is the master of storytelling and Renfield proves it!" - Paul Dale Roberts, Jazma Online "Most intelligent graphic novel I've ever read." - Combo Magazine "One of the best..." - Tomorrow's News "Highly Recommended" - Comics America
Download or read book Renfield written by Gary Reed and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renfield is brought into the asylum and the horrors from the remote area of Transylvania begin to manifest themselves in England.
Download or read book Renfield written by Barbara Hambly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh take on Bram Stoker's Dracula focuses on the obsessive devotion of Renfield to his vampire master, embarking on a personal mission to hunt down Van Helsing and his companions that sets the stage for the ultimate confrontation between the living and the undead and takes him from Dracula's castle into the horrific darkness of his own mind. Reprint.
Download or read book Caliber Rounds 3 written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third issue of the free Caliber Rounds "magazine" is a special issue that spotlights four of our comic book writers and the thought process in developing their respective series. Continuing the spotlighting of Caliber's creators and titles, this issue also features the continuation of Caliber's history, a look at some numbers of Caliber, Tony Meillo's Gapo the Clown new strip, and a special bonus of the Zombie Dawn comic that serves as a prequel to the cult classic movie.
Download or read book Renfield 4 written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale set in the Dracula Universe! Renfield is a haunting and sophisticated mini-series of the bug eating inmate from Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel. It centers on a man who is slowly being consumed by madness because of the visions and voices that intrude upon his dreams and nightmares. While the events from the Dracula novel swirl around him, Renfield faces his pre-ordained task of preparing for his mysterious "master" arrival and struggles to understand what his "messiah" is asking of him. Staying true to the original Stoker story in chronological order and events, this mini-series focuses primarily on Dracula's prior arrival in England. THIS ISSUE: Renfield finally meets his anointed "Master" as the asylum is plunged into despair with the death of Lucy. Renfield now understands what is Master is and the price he will have to pay for immortality. "Too often in comics, horror means gore and mayhem. Just because there are vampires and zombies roaming around does not mean that you have a horror comic. Horror should have real suspense. It should make you feel uncomfortable as you read it. Most of all, it should scare you long after you put it down. Renfield: A Tale of Madness...does all of these things." - Sean McGurr A Caliber Comics release.
Download or read book Book of the Tarot An Introduction to the Tarot Cards written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the famous Tarot cards. In this overview of the mystical cards, a brief history of the cards is accompanied by an original full page illustration by 22 different comic book artists for the Major Arcana. Also included is a summary of the Minor Arcana and an introduction to card spreading. A great primer and introduction for anyone interested in the Tarot cards with unique interpretations of the enchanted cards such as Death, the Moon, Judgement, the Chariot, the Devil, and all of the others. A Caliber Comics release.
Download or read book Night Pieces written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 11 short stories from award-winning writer Gary Reed. Pulled from various sources over his career writing for Caliber Comics, Transfuzion, Image, and IDW Publishing - these are standalone short tales. He is joined by some of today's popular comic artists to bring his tales of horror, suspense, often times with a literary bent, to life for the reader. "First and foremost, he is a storyteller...Gary loves to set stories against a historical background or with a character from literature and put his own unique and clever spin on them." - Newsarama. "Reed is one of the most underrated comic writers around. He has the ability to stay several steps ahead of the reader and never fails to deliver several shocks and surprises." - The Comics Review.
Download or read book RenField written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Most Dreadful Visitation written by Valerie Pedlar and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The 'Most Dreadful Visitation.' This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Pedlar presents in-depth studies of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Wilkie Collins's Basil, and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings--and fears--of mental degeneracy.An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.
Download or read book Creatures of Charm and Hunger written by Molly Tanzer and published by John Joseph Adams. This book was released on 2020 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third standalone novel set in Molly Tanzer's magic-infused universe takes readers to World War II-era England where two young women are studying witchcraft. Though once inseparable, competition, secrets, and wildly dangerous magic set them at odds and draw them to terrifying ends.
Download or read book Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1982-04-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.
Download or read book Caliber Rounds 2 written by Aleister Gilgrim and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second issue of the FREE "magazine" of Caliber Rounds profiling Caliber's creators and titles. In this issue, we take a look at Caliber's war comics plus interviews with Wayne Vansant and Don Lomax. Also, a profile on the Sin Eternal series, which is a modern updating of Dante's Inferno. Tony Miello starts off his regular Gapo the Clown all new feature and for our bonus this issue, we have a very early tale of Deadworld in Gideon's: Guns for Sale.
Download or read book The Book of Renfield written by Tim Lucas and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucas mimics Stoker's style so well that it's hard to distinguish his own writing from passages interpolated from Dracula. A fully humanized character study.” – Publishers Weekly Perhaps the most infamous supporting character in all of Gothic Horror is R.M. Renfield, the unstable patient under observation at Dr. Seward’s Carfax Asylum in Bram Stoker’s Dracula—a pathetic wretch who prophesies the imminent arrival of “the Master” while covertly feeding on spiders and flies. Yet Stoker’s 1887 classic tells us almost nothing about him. Why—and how—was such an unsavory figure chosen to be the Un-dead Count’s groveling envoy? In this remarkable harbinger of the “mash-up” novel, author Tim Lucas—with the help of Stoker himself—takes us on an illuminating, magical, sometimes strangely erotic investigation into Renfield’s origin, fitted seamlessly within the language and the flurry of correspondence and other documentation found in Dracula. THE BOOK OF RENFIELD reinvigorates Stoker’s seminal horror masterpiece with numerous, uncanny stories within stories—alternately ghastly, marvelous, and hauntingly tender, framing DRACULA’s robust blood-and-thunder with a flair for meta and modernity. This Newly Revised Edition is extensively reworded and restructured, incorporating many paragraphs of content deleted from the original 2005 text. Also included is a contextualizing new Foreword by horror expert Stephen R. Bissette and a substantial Afterword by the author.
Download or read book Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published by Intervisual/Piggy Toes. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draculastarts out with several entries in Jonathan Harker’s journal, which comprise the first four chapters. These entries set the structure for the rest of the novel, which is also told mainly through journal entries and letters. This first section introduces Harker, who is a recently promoted English solicitor (a type of attorney). Harker travels eastward across Europe from London to Transylvania, where he is going to meet Count Dracula and explain to the count the particulars of his London real estate purchase. As he travels across the country to the castle, he notices the reaction of various area residents who are frightened by Dracula’s name. At Harker’s last checkpoint, a coach from Dracula’s castle arrives for him. Harker notes the strength of the driver.
Download or read book Renfield 5 written by Gary Reed and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale set in the Dracula Universe! Renfield is a haunting and sophisticated mini-series of the bug eating inmate from Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel. It centers on a man who is slowly being consumed by madness because of the visions and voices that intrude upon his dreams and nightmares. While the events from the Dracula novel swirl around him, Renfield faces his pre-ordained task of preparing for his mysterious "master" arrival and struggles to understand what his "messiah" is asking of him. Staying true to the original Stoker story in chronological order and events, this mini-series focuses primarily on Dracula's prior arrival in England. THIS ISSUE: The concluding issue to the saga that is Renfield. The Master decides to take Mina Harker as his next victim but Renfield has determined that it is true evil being offered to him, not deliverance. It's a race against time and Mina's life is in the balance as Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, and the others desperately try to stop the Count of Darkness. "Renfield is more than another tale meant to scare like some bad B movie, but rather a horror story that transpires in the mind both for the character and the reader." - Lance Eaton, BookLoons A Caliber Comics release.
Download or read book Hollywood Gothic written by David J. Skal and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.
