Download or read book The Devil s Love Story Psychological Thriller written by Somnath Bhattacharjee and published by Somnath Bhattacharjee. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story takes an unexpected turn when Christian gets an accident with his bike and Christian gets died to save Julia’s life but, Chris died in the Devil’s arrival time. The Devil the lord of darkness is cursed by the God. The Devil has the power to take control of any lives and act in someone’s life as he wants. The Devil takes control of Christian’s life and made Christian sell his soul to the Devil by giving him extreme pain and at the end Christian had to agree with the Devil to sell his soul because of the Devil’s torture. Chris finds himself in hospital bed after that, with Julia is sitting beside him and caressing his hairs. Chris founds out later that he went to coma for 48 hours after his accident and Chris forgets about all but remember about the torture what the Devil given to him for make him sell his soul. The Devil was watching Chris’s lips with his red eyes and the Devil witnessed Julia’s loves to Chris and how both holy souls enjoy in each other’s presence. The Devil wonders because the Devil was cursed to be hated and be feared by everyone and the Devil wonders and remembers about his past life, where he had the same kind of love but he lost because of his cruelty and cursed by the God. Seeing Chris’s love for Julia and Julia’s love for Chris, slowly the Devil starts to have feelings for Julia too, the Devil wanted to feel loved too even for it if it takes him to murder anyone. The Devil wanted to go near Julia and more close, as only Chris could and one day the Devil succeed after falling in love with Julia. The Devil seen scars in Julia’s lower body. The Devil in the disguise of Chris asks to Julia, how and why the scars are on her body? At first Julia hesitates but at last Julia speaks up and shares about her painful story of ‘Ecclesia Fista’ the Christian School where young students taught for be monks and nuns of Churches. The Devil’s eyes sparkles with the name of the 7 sins of Christianity, “Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth” Julia wonders by hearing that words from Chris and Julia looks towards Chris but suddenly she sees that Chris is not Chris anymore, a Devil with scary face is sitting beside her and Julia heard that the Devil snorted and as the Devil realizes that Julia is aware of his presence. The Devil gets out of the room with his scary face and his devilish behaviour. Julia tries to follow the Devil but, she failed. The Devil transforms into a crow with bloods are falling from the eyes as bloody tears from the crow’s eyes. The Devil went towards ‘Ecclesia Fista’ and seen his prey for the each Full Moon and New Moon nights. The Devils targets his prey and punishments for the sinners of the 7 sins. For ‘Lust’ Father Ambrose gets burned alive during his fake Exorcism to exploit his student. For ‘Greed’ Reverend Caius Shadowthorn gets crushed by the pillars of the building what he made with low quality materials for put the money on his own pocket and his tragic death throws questions towards the principle, was he a corrupt too? For ‘Sloth’ Edward Joshua Peterson the principle of the ‘Ecclesia Fista’ gets a tragic death by the tools he used to make erotic stone sculptures. He got punished by the Devil for neglecting his important works for his ‘Sloth’ and addictions. He died with a big needle on his forehead as a sign of his punishment of his own procrastination. For ‘Pride’ Nun Veronica Divine gets killed with beating of Devilish ruler and lightning because she had so much pride about her knowledge and he hated and humiliated the people who used to challenge her views for gather diverse knowledge. For ‘Gluttony’ Reverend Thomas Milton gets killed for eating coins with his food and stabbed a fork on his tongue by himself for the Devil’s punishment to him because rich businessman Thomas Milton over eaten food and used to humiliate the poor unfortunate people, who used to ask for money to him. For ‘Envy’ Detective Lucas Smith gets killed with snake’s venom and burning alive as the Devil’s punishment because Detective Lucas Smith tried to get Julia for the night and Lucas was jealous of Chris, who had a person like Julia in his life. After killing the 6 sinners, the Devil looks for kill his seventh prey but as the Devil tries to find the seventh sinner this time Julia gets to know that the Devil is behind the sudden murders in ‘Ecclesia Fista’. The Vatican City gets involved as Julia’s childhood friend Tanya asks help of Father Andrew. The two things Father Andrew suggests is to do an Exorcism with Chris’s body to talk with the Devil or, use the red holy knife, what the God used 2000 years ago for kill the two rulers of the hell. Now this was not only a war between Devil and Chris but, a war between the Devil and the whole Vatican City with Julia and Chris and the Devil is not here for accept a lose. Will the Devil haunt for his seventh prey? Where there’s the Devil is preaching, ‘In this era, the God may not come to save you but, the Devil comes to kill you!’ Step into the world of darkness and lightness and hope with the waves of beautiful lies. Forget the pasts of yours and let the darkness lead you into the light where ignite touches your soul. Get lost in the book where the brightness and the darkness collide and make the ultimate auroras in dark night skies. You have read books where the main character is the hero but, in this case, the main character is a Villain to be told the story from the evil’s side.

Download or read book The Devil Aspect written by Craig Russell and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steeped in the folklore of Eastern Europe, and set in the shadow of Nazi darkness erupting just beyond the Czech border, this bone-chilling, richly imagined novel is propulsively entertaining, and impossible to put down. "A wildly entertaining story...Russell has created a truly frightening story." —The New York Times Book Review Czechoslovakia, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a newly trained psychiatrist who studied under Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle surrounded by forests, on a site that is well known for concealing dark secrets going back many centuries. The asylum houses six inmates--the country's most treacherous killers--known to the terrified public as the Devil's Six. Viktor intends to use a new medical technique to prove that these patients share a common archetype of evil, a phenomenon he calls The Devil Aspect. Yet as he begins to learn the stunning secrets of these patients, he must face the unnerving possibility that these six may share a darker truth. Meanwhile, in Prague, fear grips the city as a phantom serial killer emerges in the dark alleys. Police investigator Lukas Smolak, desperate to locate the culprit (a copycat of Jack the Ripper), turns to Viktor and the doctors at Hrad Orlu for their expertise with the psychotic criminal mind. And Viktor finds himself wrapped up in a case more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Download or read book Devil s Lake written by Angela Merlo and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Halse is a prisoner to fear. She's tried medication and therapy, but nothing ever seems to help. That is, until she looks into the eyes of Philip Dussault.It started with Alison's attempt to drown herself in Devil's Lake and ended with a hasty farewell as storm clouds brewed. Philip had claimed to be a childhood friend, but she has no memory of him. All she knows is that an inner tug kept pulling her close until he dared her to look him in the eye. And then--Zap! Her anxiety was gone.As weeks draw on from their only encounter, Alison finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed with him. Maybe if she drove out to the lake again, she'd find him, or perhaps he'd find her. That's what the new voice in her head keeps saying. But perhaps she only narrowly escaped. Perhaps returning to Devil's Lake is the last thing she should do. Perhaps a man who can compel anxiety away can influence the mind in other ways.

Download or read book The Devil s Love written by Julia London and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman's desire... With dreams of a great romantic love, Abigail Carrington sails to England to marry the man she has loved since childhood, Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield. She believes her betrothed is a generous and noble man who has been longing for her. But the handsome man waiting for her at the altar is a dark, brooding stranger who rushes her into marriage, then abandons her at his country estate. Only the passion of Michael's kiss gives her hope that theirs can be more than a marriage of convenience. A man's need... With scandal shadowing his past, Michael, the Devil of Darfield, had no need for a wife. Remembering only the little hellion who made life miserable for him aboard her father's ship, he resents the agreement he made to marry her so he could save his ancestral home. Though determined to ignore her, he cannot stop thinking about his lovely violet-eyed bride. Her beauty tempts him. Her charm bedevils him. He tries to drive her away until he almost loses her. Then he vows to regain her love—before it is too late....

Download or read book The Devil s in the Details written by J. D. McGregor and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The things that truly haunt us dwell within the deepest confines of our subconscious.The Devil's In The Details features twenty-five tales of psychological terror that attack all levels of the human psyche.The complexities of the man's darker side, satanic murders, paranormal phenomena, natural wonders, sinister technological advancement-- Theses stories will burrow under your skin and fill you with a sense of dread you that you can't escape.

Download or read book The Devil s Hand written by Jack Carr and published by Atria/Emily Bestler Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!” —Chris Pratt, star of The Terminal List, coming to Amazon Prime “They’re great, man. They lock you in. They’re gripping.” —Joe Rogan, on the Terminal List series The fourth thriller in the “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Terminal List series follows former Navy SEAL James Reece as he is entrusted with a top-secret CIA mission of retribution twenty years in the making. It’s been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient—learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary…but he’s also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the United States and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth. Meanwhile, a young PhD student has gained access to a bioweapon thought to be confined to a classified military laboratory known only to a select number of officials. A second-generation agent, he has been assigned a mission that will bring his adopted homeland to its knees. With Jack Carr’s signature “absolutely intense” (Chuck Norris) writing and “gripping authenticity” (The Real Book Spy), The Devil’s Hand is a riveting and timely thriller that will leave you gasping for breath.

Download or read book The Devil s Love Story written by Somnath Bhattacharjee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story takes an unexpected turn when Christian gets an accident with his bike and Christian gets died to save Julia's life but, Chris died in the Devil's arrival time. The Devil the lord of darkness is cursed by the God. The Devil has the power to take control of any lives and act in someone's life as he wants. The Devil takes control of Christian's life and made Christian sell his soul to the Devil by giving him extreme pain and at the end Christian had to agree with the Devil to sell his soul because of the Devil's torture. Seeing Chris's love for Julia and Julia's love for Chris, slowly the Devil starts to have feelings for Julia too, the Devil wanted to feel loved too even for it if it takes him to murder anyone. The Devil wanted to go near Julia and more close, as only Chris could and one day the Devil succeed after falling in love with Julia. The Devil seen scars in Julia's lower body. The Devil in the disguise of Chris asks to Julia, how and why the scars are on her body? At first Julia hesitates but at last Julia speaks up and shares about her painful story of 'Ecclesia Fista' the Christian School where young students taught for be monks and nuns of Churches. The Devil's eyes sparkles with the name of the 7 sins of Christianity, "Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth" Julia wonders by hearing that words from Chris and Julia looks towards Chris but suddenly she sees that Chris is not Chris anymore, a Devil with scary face is sitting beside her and Julia heard that the Devil snorted and as the Devil realizes that Julia is aware of his presence. The Devil gets out of the room with his scary face and his devilish behaviour. Julia tries to follow the Devil but, she failed. The Devil transforms into a crow with bloods are falling from the eyes as bloody tears from the crow's eyes. The Devil went towards 'Ecclesia Fista' and seen his prey for the each Full Moon and New Moon nights. The Devils targets his prey and punishments for the sinners of the 7 sins. For 'Lust' Father Ambrose gets burned alive during his fake Exorcism to exploit his student. For 'Greed' Reverend Caius Shadowthorn gets crushed by the pillars of the building what he made with low quality materials for put the money on his own pocket and his tragic death throws questions towards the principle, was he a corrupt too? For 'Sloth' Edward Joshua Peterson the principle of the 'Ecclesia Fista' gets a tragic death by the tools he used to make erotic stone sculptures. He got punished by the Devil for neglecting his important works for his 'Sloth' and addictions. He died with a big needle on his forehead as a sign of his punishment of his own procrastination. After killing the 6 sinners, the Devil looks for kill his seventh prey but as the Devil tries to find the seventh sinner this time Julia gets to know that the Devil is behind the sudden murders in 'Ecclesia Fista'. The Vatican City gets involved as Julia's childhood friend Tanya asks help of Father Andrew. The two things Father Andrew suggests is to do an Exorcism with Chris's body to talk with the Devil or, use the red holy knife, what the God used 2000 years ago for kill the two rulers of the hell. Now this was not only a war between Devil and Chris but, a war between the Devil and the whole Vatican City with Julia and Chris and the Devil is not here for accept a lose. Will the Devil haunt for his seventh prey? Where there's the Devil is preaching, 'In this era, the God may not come to save you but, the Devil comes to kill you!' Forget the pasts of yours and let the darkness lead you into the light where ignite touches your soul. Get lost in the book where the brightness and the darkness collide and make the ultimate auroras in dark night skies. You have read books where the main character is the hero but, in this case, the main character is a Villain to be told the sto

Download or read book The Devil She Knows written by Bill Loehfelm and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Devil She Knows, Bill Loehfelm has written a pitch-black thriller in a fresh, compulsively readable voice, with pages that turn themselves. This is the real deal: a breakout novel by a writer whom Publishers Weekly has praised for his "superb prose and psychological insights." Life isn't panning out for Maureen Coughlin. At twenty-nine, the tough-skinned Staten Island native's only excitement comes from . . . well, not much. A fresh pack of American Spirits, maybe, or a discreet dash of coke before work. If something doesn't change soon, she'll end up a "lifer" at the Narrows, the faux-swank bar where she works one long night after another. But just like the island, the Narrows has its seamy side. After work one night, Maureen walks in on a tryst between her co-worker Dennis and Frank Sebastian, a silver-haired politico. When Sebastian demands her silence, Maureen is more than happy to forget what she's seen—until Dennis turns up dead on the train tracks the next morning. The murder sends Maureen careening out of her stultifying routine and into fast-deepening trouble. Soon she's on the run through the seedy underbelly of the borough, desperate to stop Sebastian before Dennis's fate becomes her own.

Download or read book Devil s Lair written by Sarah Barrie and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of The Dark Lake and The Dry, comes this taut psychological suspense set in a dramatic Tasmanian landscape from bestselling author Sarah Barrie. A lonely widow, a sinister act, a remote mansion with a dark past... After the violent death of her husband, Callie Jones retreats to a cottage in the grounds of an old mansion in Tasmania. The relative remoteness of the place and the wild beauty of the Tasmanian landscape are a balm to her shattered nerves and the locals seem friendly, particularly horseman Connor Atherton and his siblings at the nearby property, Calico Lodge. But all is not well: the old mansion has a sinister past, one associated with witchcraft and murder. As Callie is threatened by odd events in the night and strange dreams overtake her sleep, she begins to doubt her own sanity. What's really going on beneath the surface of this apparently peaceful town? Are her friends and neighbours really who they seem? As events escalate, Callie starts to realise that the mansion may hold the key to unlocking the mystery, but the truth might have as much power to destroy as it does to save. 'Utterly addictive suspense and riveting storytelling set in a darkly gothic Tasmania.' - bestselling author of The Dark Lake, Sarah Bailey

Download or read book The Devil s Closet written by Stacy Dittrich and published by Blue Jay Media Group. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective CeeCee Gallagher is no stranger to high-pressure cases. But this one could easily cost her career...and her life. A macabre serial killer is on the loose, leaving the bodies of his young victims made up to resemble dolls. With only a Bible passage sent by the killer to guide her, CeeCee will have to sacrifice everything to find him and end his reign of terror before another child is murdered.

Download or read book Are You Sleeping written by Kathleen Barber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Serial meets Ruth Ware's In A Dark, Dark Wood in this ... psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a long-closed murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter"--

Download or read book White Bodies written by Jane Robins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chilling psychological suspense novel—think Strangers on a Train for the modern age—explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless façade, not everything is as it seems. Callie, Tilda’s unassuming twin, has watched her sister visibly shrink under Felix’s domineering love. She has looked on silently as Tilda stopped working, nearly stopped eating, and turned into a neat freak, with mugs wrapped in Saran Wrap and suspicious syringes hidden in the bathroom trash. She knows about Felix’s uncontrollable rages, and has seen the bruises on the white skin of her sister’s arms. Worried about the psychological hold that Felix seems to have over Tilda, Callie joins an Internet support group for victims of abuse and their friends. However, things spiral out of control and she starts to doubt her own judgment when one of her new acquaintances is killed by an abusive man. And then suddenly Felix dies—or was he murdered? A page-turning work of suspense that announces a stunning new voice in fiction, White Bodies will change the way you think about obsession, love, and the violence we inflict on one another—and ourselves.

Download or read book Symphony for the Devil written by Marcus James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been eight months since the events of Blackmoore, and now Trevor Blackmoore, Braxton Volaverunt, Cheri Hannifin, and Braxton's best friend J.T. Oliver are embarking on a new chapter of their lives in the great northwest metropolis of Seattle. Trevor and Cheri are beginning their freshman year at the University of Washington, and Braxton and J.T.'s band are heading into the studio to complete their first album with Arcadia Records. Kathryn Blackmoore, Trevor's mother, and the seductive stone fox of the family and president of Blackmoore World Corp. is finding uneasy freedom as a woman in her late forties finally free of the curse of the Blackmoores and rediscovering what it means to be a woman finally without obligation to anyone but herself. Now fully aware of their shared lineage and the growing threat of the Dark God of the Wood-whose name has been lost to time-and the faithful human and supernatural disciples who are poised to attack, the two young men find that their love-which is bound in blood and prophecy-is the only thing they have to rely on to keep them safe. As Trevor and Braxton exit Bellingham, leaving the ruins of the Volaverunt home in their wake, two other Blackmoores fill their place. Francesca Blackmoore, the beautiful and exotic cousin from Italy, who stayed behind after the chaos and terror of Christmas Eve, and Mary-Margaret Blackmoore from Ireland, an accomplished and world renowned solo violinist who has come to Bellingham to teach Music Theory at Fairhaven University and who reluctantly takes up residence with her cousin and Trevor's great aunt Mabel Blackmoore-also known as Queen Mab-who resides in her great Victorian mansion with the youthful and mysterious violin playing spirit Michael Donovan. A tapestry of deceit, family loyalties, tragic love, and lives lost too soon begins to unfold as two newcomers enter Trevor and Mary-Margaret's lives. When the tight-knit clan of witches is struck with a terrible and inexplicable tragedy, Mary-Margaret is pulled deeper and deeper into the hypnotic world of the sullen but loyal ghost Michael Donovan-revealing the key to the very plot that may destroy them all. Spanning more than a hundred years, Symphony for the Devil goes from present to past and back again, revealing new truths and pulling back the earth to expose the great roots of the Blackmoores and their world, and we learn that it's not just one tree, but a great forest-a forest that has only just begun to reveal all that's hidden within its shadows.

Download or read book The Devil s Wire written by Deborah Rogers and published by Lawson Publishing (Nz). This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer's new neighbor, Lenise Jameson, is a liar. Lenise claims to have witnessed a disturbing incident involving Jennifer's husband, Hank, but as far as Jennifer is concerned, the forty-something single mother is a vindictive backstabber out to make trouble. But Jennifer soon discovers this is no sick joke. Hank has a dark side she knew nothing about. As Jennifer's life spirals out of control she has no one to turn to, apart from Lenise, who appears only too willing to help. But who is Lenise? What does she want from Jennifer? And just how far is she willing to go to get it? A tale about secrets and obsession, and what can happen when you forget to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. This new psychological thriller from award-winning writer Deborah Rogers will keep you turning pages until the very end.

Download or read book The Devil Wears Scrubs written by Freida McFadden and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell.Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can't imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there's the devil herself: Jane's senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact.

Download or read book The Devil You Know written by Elaine Ewertz and published by Esquared Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quiet coastal town of Spring Lake, Florida, Cecilia has made it her life's mission to save lives but there's just one little problem: she has done something very, very bad. Fueled by shame, denial and more than a dash of guilt, Cecilia desperately tries to put on a brave face as she forges ahead, believing her secret is safe. That is, until she bumps into a handsome-albeit, odd-man at the coffee shop. Aiden Black looks like something out of a dream but for Cecilia, he is more of a nightmare. He knows things he shouldn't know but he is prepared to take it to the grave, as long as Cecilia agrees to his conditions. What Cecilia doesn't know is the real reason Aiden has suddenly appeared in her life. Will she accept his deal or pay the consequences of her actions? The problem is, it's just not that simple. Meeting Aiden has opened up a Pandora's box of trouble, the least of which are secrets of her past even Cecilia doesn't know.

Download or read book Romance with Death written by Michael J. Marfleet and published by Apex Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented as a work of fiction, but based on known critical events that have taken place in two distinct eras – Egypt in the fourteenth century BC, and the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – this novel recounts new interpretations of the lives, characters and contrasting environments and beliefs of the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun and the adventurous and consummately stubborn archaeologist, Howard Carter. The two tales are told in parallel and, although beginning thousands of years apart, the stories gradually converge into one. Through the Egyptians’ relentless quest for life after death, and the world of archaeology’s quest to uncover and understand the mysteries of times past, these two worlds become strangely and irrevocably intertwined. Supernatural forces, both good and evil, appear to be at work and theories of ‘the curse of the mummy’ are brought into stark reality. Although the dialogues in the book are essentially fictional and some of the situations and characters are imagined, the accounting of events is as accurate as possible, much of it based on facts gleaned from over fifty works, mostly written by recognized scholars, several of whom are Carter’s contemporaries. The interpretation of events offers credible solutions to questions that have whetted curious appetites for years, and the explicit descriptions and vividly animated characters draw the reader into a wonderfully tactile environment, guaranteed to spark the imagination.