Download or read book Tales of Madness and Depravity written by Michael McGouirk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete "Tales of Madness and Depravity" collection. Includes From the Pen of walter Jolly, Followers of the Stone, The Crippled House, The Disappearance of Arthur Beaumont, Of Shadows and Dreams, A Caller in the Night, and many, many more!

Download or read book Depravity Tales of Sex Violence Death and Madness written by CougarVille and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales depicted within this volume highlight the darkness that sits within us all. The stories center around the temptation of violent or sensual impulse, the distended limits of the human psyche and the mortality that we all face on a daily basis.

Download or read book Inside the Cult written by Marc Breault and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a person who lived this story--forced marriages, rapes, beatings, torturous rules of behavior--could tell it. Marc Breault is such a person. Once Koresh's right-hand man, Breault broke free of that hold to escape and survive. Now he and a reporter who risked his life to interview Koresh inside the compound join to take you on an unforgettable journey into the mind of the man who bears responsibility for the deaths of his followers.

Download or read book From the Pen of Walter Jolly and Other Tales of Horror written by Michael McGouirk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: paperback and e-book. a collection of short horror stories by Michael McGouirk. includes gunnar hilligross, followers of the stone, of shadows and dreams, and from the pen of walter jolly

Download or read book Tales Of Depravity written by Baldassare Cossa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-18 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are about to read a collection of the most inhuman, perverted, obscene and disgusting tales ever written - and those tales are written by the most perverted man in the world - Baldassare Cossa. Hated by all of society, shunned and despised by everyone on every social networking site. Feared, loathed, outcast - only a man so abhorrent could write stories so depraved. These short stories make for an extreme philosophy - based on the choices people are forced to make in extreme circumstances. What's worse - is Cossa shows that sometimes the most awful and extreme situations, that result in extreme and evil behaviuor - are the most banal, boring, routine, monotonous - the most moral lifestyles, that can lead to the most horrific consequences. Sometimes the characters are victims of horror, sometimes victims of boredom, sometimes witnesses of horror or boredom or both - and sometimes the characters are simply psychopathic monsters with too much power and nothing to stop them doing what they do.

Download or read book The Captor written by Cassandra V. Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentally, emotionally and physically abused as a child, Teresa Lewis is further victimized by an abusive husband and after her divorce an equally abusive boyfriend. Eventually Teresa moves far away and begins to build a new life for herself in a place far from the terrors of her childhood. She manages to escape the horrors of her old life with the help of her best friend Annie. Believing that she has left everyone and everything that caused her pain back in her hometown of Oak Island, California she continues to battle the demons of her past.When Teresa takes her dog for a walk one day, they vanish into thin air leaving Annie and the police department racing against time to find them. When a girl who could almost pass for Teresa's twin also disappears, it seems that a connection between the two could be the answer.Unbeknownst to anyone, the answer to the disappearances and who is behind them is even more horrifying than anyone thought. Before long, it becomes clear that there is a very thin line between madness and depravity and Teresa is hopelessly caught in between the two

Download or read book Depraved written by Harold Schechter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is must reading for crime buffs. DEPRAVED demonstrates that sadistic psychopaths are not a modern day phenomena... gruesome, awesome, compelling reporting.' ANNE RULE. Here is the macabre story of H.H. Holmes, architect of the infamous 'Castle of Horror', whose labyrinth of trapdoors, stairways to nowhere, bedchambers fitted with peepholes and asphyxiating gas pipes, greased body chutes, and a cellar equipped with acid vats, a crematorium, and dissecting table, became an unspeakable domain of torture and murder. With stark, ghastly detail, DEPRAVED takes you into the mind of this evil genius - who alternatively posed as doctor, druggist, and inventor to snare his prey in 19th Century Chicago - and reveals a mesmerizing tale of true detection before the age of technological wizardry.

Download or read book Tales of Sin and Madness written by Brett McBean and published by Legume Man Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurealis and Ditmar award nominated horror author Brett McBean (The Last Motel, The Familiar Stranger, The Mother) continues his exploration of the dark side of the human character by bringing you twenty-one tales of sin and madness. From zombies roaming the Australian outback, to psychopaths roaming New York City, McBean plunges the depths of human depravity, and delves into a sick and sordid world of serial killers, Manson-like cults, even road kill and cheap souls. So pull up a seat in front of the campfire, grab a marshmallow or two, and come and take a journey into the heart of darkness with one of Australia's leading voices in dark fiction.

Download or read book The Wilderness of Ruin written by Roseanne Montillo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city—a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872—in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City. In the early 1870s, local children begin disappearing from the working-class neighborhoods of Boston. Several return home bloody and bruised after being tortured, while others never come back. With the city on edge, authorities believe the abductions are the handiwork of a psychopath, until they discover that their killer—fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy—is barely older than his victims. The criminal investigation that follows sparks a debate among the world’s most revered medical minds, and will have a decades-long impact on the judicial system and medical consciousness. The Wilderness of Ruin is a riveting tale of gruesome murder and depravity. At its heart is a great American city divided by class—a chasm that widens in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1872. Roseanne Montillo brings Gilded Age Boston to glorious life—from the genteel cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill to the squalid, overcrowded tenements of Southie. Here, too, is the writer Herman Melville. Enthralled by the child killer’s case, he enlists physician Oliver Wendell Holmes to help him understand how it might relate to his own mental instability. With verve and historical detail, Roseanne Montillo explores this case that reverberated through all of Boston society in order to help us understand our modern hunger for the prurient and sensational. The Wilderness of Ruin features more than a dozen black-and-white photographs.

Download or read book Just Man Enough written by El Dundore David and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Nativity story writ large and from a historically silent perspective: Joseph's. Now, if not for the first time in the best way, he is presented as man in all respects in a singularly unique position. Never quite secure in his role he bears up under the enormous load that love has commanded him to bear and he grows under the burden. The cost of his peculiar walk with God? Home, family, near-death experience, alienation, isolation, poverty and (as he sees them) kidnapping wise men from the east. The story is written from a life whose own experiential and autobiographical substance vividly colors every page. This is the Nativity made relevant as never before and likely never again.

Download or read book Mutoko Madness written by Angus Shaw and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you behave in a poker game with a genocidal murderer? General Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia had a revolver lying beside his overflowing ashtray on the baize card table. Dictators bully and cheat, not only at cards. Field Marshal General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, fleeing his overthrow, abandoned his mansion on Kololo Hill. Amin’s mansion showed us his madness, his vanity, his love of the cartoon characters Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Popeye and Olive Oil, and his hypochondria – the bathroom contained more medicine than a chemist’s shop. On their trips to African summitry, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, worldly yet fanatical, were an enigma. Yasser Arafat and King Hassan of Morocco were diminutive men, but charming in meetings face-to-face. Arafat was full of bonhomie as he tapped the pistol on his belt. Angus Shaw, an award-winning international journalist, was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this brutally honest memoir, he tells of friendship, joy and pain, of lies, of moral decay, and of sex, drink and drugs, as he journeys through seven blood-steeped African wars, culminating in that pinnacle of madness and depravity, the genocide in Rwanda. His story is peopled by cruel dictators and warlords, fighters whose dreams of freedom went unconsummated, great statesmen like the icon of peace Nelson Mandela, the jet-setting Pope John Paul II making pilgrimages to Africa, and idols of movies and music who visited his beleaguered Paradise of Fools. Published by Boundary Books

Download or read book The Turn of the Screw Illustrated written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turn of the Screw is an 1898Horrornovella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.

Download or read book Swift s Satire on Learning in A Tale of a Tub written by Miriam Kosh Starkman and published by New York : Octagon Books, 1968 [c1950]. This book was released on 1968 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaucer s Afterlife written by Kathleen Forni and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural recycling involves a variety of functions but Chaucer's primary association is with the idea of pilgrimage and the prevailing tenor is populist satire. The target is not only cultural elitism but also the dominant discourse of professional Chaucerians. Academics in turn may have doubts about the value of popular Chaucer; popular culture theory, however, would maintain that such skepticism has less to do with critical discrimination than the assertion of social distinction. Nonetheless, the fact that Chaucer has a popular afterlife, and remains an ideological product over which competing groups lay claim, attests to his current cultural vitality.

Download or read book Infectious Madness written by Harriet A. Washington and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves. Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious Madness, Washington presents the new germ theory, which posits not only that many instances of Alzheimer's, OCD, and schizophrenia are caused by viruses, prions, and bacteria, but also that with antibiotics, vaccinations, and other strategies, these cases can be easily prevented or treated. Packed with cutting-edge research and tantalizing mysteries, Infectious Madness is rich in science, characters, and practical advice on how to protect yourself and your children from exposure to infectious threats that could sabotage your mental and physical health.

Download or read book In the Time of Madness written by Richard Lloyd Parry and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2005.

Download or read book The Darker Passions eBook Biblioboard written by Nancy Kilpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two weary travelers arrive at the Usher house––a gloomy manse where these innocents find themselves faced with the dark secrets of desire. The Master and Mistress of the house indulge in every conceivable form of decadence, intent on initiating their guests into the many pleasures to be found in utter submission. But something is not quite right in the house of Usher, and the foundation of its dynasty begins to crack. Nancy Kilpatrick writing as Amarantha Knight explores the deliciously dark underbelly of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of madness and depravity.