Download or read book Too Macabre for Montreal written by Mark Leslie and published by Stark Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is too macabre for Montreal? Are you sure you really want to know? When working on the book MACABRE MONTREAL, the authors ended up with a few chapters that ended up being cut from the original manuscript because they were felt to be a little too dark, a little too disturbing, perhaps too close to home, and too controversial, to include in the book. The vision for the book was a fun and eerie romp through some of the macabre and unexplained events in the history of the second most populous city in Canada. So these stories that ended up on the "cutting room floor" and never made it into that book were tales that included: A murderous exhibitionist using multiple fake social media profiles The most notorious female serial killer and rapist in Canadian history A bizarre tale of historic decapitation Recorded acts of rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism The heinous acts of a misogynistic mass murderer And more... They were, in other words, stories deemed too macabre for the original book. Reader, be warned. These are not lighter ghostly tales. They are stories pulled from the darkest parts of the human psyche, and are only for those who are able to handle darker, more disturbing content.
Download or read book Macabre Montreal written by Mark Leslie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montreal is steeped in history and culture. But there are dark tales, eerie stories, and ghostly spectres that come alive once the sun goes down.
Download or read book The Relaxed Author written by Joanna Penn and published by The Creative Penn. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to be a more relaxed author? There are plenty of books and tips on writing faster, learning more marketing tactics and strategies, trying to maximize your ranking, hitting the top of the charts, juicing the algorithms, and hacking different ad platforms. While these are all important things — which the authors themselves regularly write and talk about — it's also important to recognize that your author journey is a marathon, and not a sprint. Joanna Penn and Mark Leslie Lefebvre have been in the business long enough to see authors burning out and leaving the writing life because they turned what they love into a hamster wheel of ever more production and marketing tasks they hate. It doesn't have to be this way. This book is a collection of tips on how to be a more relaxed author — and return to the love that brought you to writing in the first place. You will discover: - Why the 'relaxed' author? - You are not alone. Why authors are not relaxed. Part 1: Relaxed Writing - Write what you love - Write at your own pace - Write in a series (if you want to) - Schedule time to fill the creative well and for rest and relaxation - Improve your writing process — but only if it fits with your lifestyle Part 2: Relaxed Publishing - Make empowered publishing choices - Understand persistence, patience, and partnership - Value your work. You create intellectual property assets. - Publish at your own pace - Publish wide (or don’t) - Sell direct to your audience - Don't let piracy and plagiarism derail you - Deal with cancel culture, bad reviews, and haters - Find a community who support your publishing choices Part 3: Relaxed Marketing - Focus on the basics first - Simplify your author brand and website - Simplify and automate your email - Find one form of marketing you enjoy and can sustain for the long term - Put book 1 in a series free or permafree - Choose social media that suits you — or don't use it at all - Advertise in campaigns - Outsource when you can - Embrace who you are. Double down on being human. - Think global, digital, long-term marketing Part 4: Relaxed Business - Do you really want to run an author business? - Create multiple streams of income - Eliminate tasks. Say 'no' more. - Organize and improve your processes - Use tools - Find voices you trust and tune out the rest - Learn about money - Look after your physical and mental health - Keep a long-term mindset If you want to be a more relaxed author, sample or buy today.
Download or read book Rude Awakenings from Sleeping Rough written by Peter C. Mitchell and published by Stark Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story that the charities don't want you to read. This is the fate that can befall any of us that you don't want to acknowledge. For years you have passed them on the streets, as much a part of your routine as your morning shower, your half-hearted scan of the world's news — fake or otherwise — and the barista who artistically crafts the £4 cappuccino with soya milk, three drops of vanilla, and a flutter of chocolate sprinkles that has to be made just right or it throws your day off in ways that nobody else understands. You see them as often as you see your own family. The disenfranchised. The rough sleepers. The homeless. Camped out and befouling the sidewalks and alleyways of your daily commute, their worldly possessions, such as they are, spread around them —as dirty and worn out as the sleepers themselves, but as valuable to them as your £100 brogues are to you. Occasionally you get the urge to throw some loose change at them as a gesture of magnanimous humanity, but when push comes to shove you would rather tip the honest, hard-working barista who ensures your day gets off to a proper start. Better to support the successful rather than throw good money after bad trying to keep the great unwashed afloat. You have conditioned yourself to look through them – allowing your eyes to pass over them without actually seeing them. A defeated acceptance of lives gone wrong; uncomfortable reminders of what can happen when the best laid plans of mice and men go horribly awry. "Thank god I'm not like them," you think, sipping your £4 cup of liquid gold. "I could never let that happen to me." Until suddenly – inexplicably – it does. And you discover the life you have built was nothing more than a house of cards that crashed down around you with frightening ease. A spate of bad luck, a poor decision or two, and the ubiquitous 'circumstances beyond your control' conspire to create a perfect storm of events that leaves you cast away on the streets feeling dazed, disjointed, and damned. This is Peter C. Mitchell's story. But it could be your story. Not to mention the thousands of others, past and present, that have found themselves broken behind closed charity doors. Theirs are the stories that need to be heard. To be read.
Download or read book Lover s Moon written by Mark Leslie and published by Stark Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's an alpha wolf and a beta boyfriend. She's dated every monster in New York City. It's time for their Meat-Cute. Michael Andrews, a Canadian living in New York, is learning to live with the side effects of lycanthropy. Other than waking up naked and bloody in Central Park once a month, he's managing just fine. If only he could finish the book he's supposed to be writing. If only he could find someone he trusted enough to tell the truth to. Gail Sommers may not have her love life in order, but at least she's smart about things that really matter. She runs the coolest occult shop in the city, and is a pre-eminent scholar of the occult. She's made a vow of celibacy so that she can spend this year focusing on her work and her self-care. She's even been hired to help out a very famous and very sexy horror author. As a new era in the Canadian Werewolf saga begins, Lover's Moon flashes back to the romantic and comedic story of how Michael and Gail met and fell in love back in the summer of 2011. Told through both Michael and Gail's unique perspectives, it also explores Gail's past, introduces new characters, and reveals some of the deeper secrets of both of their lives A special Canadian Werewolf tale co-authored by Mark Leslie and contemporary romance author Julie Strauss. If you enjoy romantic comedy and paranormal urban fantasy featuring a less than alpha shifter, then this collaboration between a thriller/horror author and a romance author is for you. "Maximum angst included. The beginning picks up from a previous book and is devastating. The flashback to Michael and Gail’s meeting and initial relationship is witty, and sexy and emotional and intriguing. This well written story draws you in and brings this time alive." - Goodreads Review
Download or read book Fears and Frights A Canadian Werewolf 2 Book Bundle written by Mark Leslie and published by Stark Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE'S NO ESCAPING THE EVIL THAT RISES WITHIN OUR OWN HEARTS. On a work trip to Los Angeles, Michael Andrews stumbles upon the rising underground movement of the Proud Fighters for America, a white-supremacist group hell-bent not only on vanquishing any outside their pre-defined definitions of the one pure race, but also on leveraging long-buried paranormal experiments conducted by Nazi Germany to create an army of super soldiers. But this group isn't confined to the west coast. Their numbers have also spread to New York, Michael's home stomping grounds. Michael has to determine if a mysterious woman he is falling in love with who has ties to the PFA and a unique paranormal ability of her own can be trusted, and if the two of them, along with another supernatural creature and an occult scholar, are enough to take down the growing legion of evil. FEARS AND FRIGHTS combines the complete texts of the two-book story arc that unrolls in the novels FEAR AND LONGING IN LOS ANGELES and FRIGHT NIGHTS, BIG CITY into a single digital bundle. ------------- FEAR AND LONGING IN LOS ANGELES WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE. If New York is the city that never sleeps, then L.A. is the city where you have to sleep with one eye open. Michael Andrews learns quickly that it's not just the cut-throat world of Hollywood you need to fear. There's something deeper, darker, and far more disturbing lurking just beneath the shadows of the city, waiting for any moment of vulnerability to grab you by the throat. An extended trip to Los Angeles to be on set for the movie adaptation of his latest novel leads Michael into a twisted and macabre underworld where he becomes entangled with an intriguing, sexy, and mysterious woman. At times she seems just what he needs in order to finally get over the unrequited love of his ex-girlfriend; but at other times, she appears to be the gateway to a Pandora's box of B-movie nightmares. Can he trust her? Can he trust himself with her? Michael's supernatural wolf-enhanced powers and special abilities might not be enough to survive this particular harsh and gritty jungle and the unique and deadly predators that crawl out of the shadows. ----- FRIGHT NIGHTS, BIG CITY STOP SPREADING THE NEWS! THERE'S NO LEAVING TODAY! Not when the Big Apple comes under attack from an infectious worm threatening to rot it, and the entire nation, to the core. Michael Andrews thought he'd found the perfect woman in Lex. A companion whose own powers neutralize his werewolf curse and bringing the balance he's always wanted. But his plans on settling down and giving up the vigilante lifestyle are fleeting. The hatred, the fear, and the monstrous attacks on innocent civilians are growing and spreading as supernatural monsters roam the city streets at night. The neo-Nazi Proud Fighters for America, aware of the special abilities that Lex possesses, track her down and plan on leveraging her powers for their own nefarious purposes. With Michael's powers nullified in Lex's presence, the couple is forced to divide in their attempt to conquer, and Michael turns to his ex-girlfriend and her knowledge of the occult world in order to understand how to fight this rising evil. But will two supernatural forces of good operating separately and one paranormal scholar be enough to vanquish the growing legion of evil?
Download or read book Halloween Treats written by Mark Leslie and published by Stark Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for chilling and atmospheric tales to get into the Halloween spirit? Join author Mark Leslie as he takes you on a moonlit walk in the brisk fall air and bends your ear with eerie tales involving the dead returning, a vengeful ghost, a wilderness bogeyman, and the bizarre side-effects of an over-active and fearful imagination. - Memento Mori: A Curious Nightmare - Prospero's Ghost - The Shadow Men - From Out of the Night If Halloween is your favorite month of the year, then this collection is definitely for you.
Download or read book Come When I Call You written by Shayna Krishnasamy and published by Deep Dark Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a slow rolling, yet wholly captivating ghost story..." Goodreads reviewer "... so good you can't stop reading it." the overstuffed bookshelf "This book drew me in from the first page and was impossible to put down. It was chilling and poetic and unforgettable." NetGalley reviewer For fans of The Little Stranger and The Haunting of Hill House comes a riveting and elegantly chilling tale of secrets, lies, and things that creep in the night. Anna Maron has always been the clever cousin, the older one. The follower of rules. Now sixteen, she attends the prestigious Claymore Manor boarding school, a place where girls find and lose themselves, and boys like Ben offer endless distraction. Where life seems almost normal, and Anna can ignore those things she longs to forget—like the things that she sees ... and wishes she didn't. Anna has almost convinced herself that she’s not all that different, until her cousin Lucia shows up, bruised and battered, and desperate for help. Lucia, with her chilling charm and mystery. Lucia, who shares the same strange gift as Anna, but embraces it even as her hold on reality crumbles away. Now a snowstorm is moving in, and icy weather brings a reckoning of past and present ... and the living and dead. In this deliciously unnerving contemporary gothic novel, Shayna Krishnasamy draws readers into a tale that uniquely explores the ties that bind, the lies we tell ourselves, and how some secrets only come alive in the dark.
Download or read book Real Hauntings 5 Book Bundle written by Mark Leslie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a ghostly thrill with Mark Leslie’s five books on strange supernatural happenings. Macabre Montreal Montreal is steeped in history and culture. But there are dark tales, eerie stories, and ghostly spectres that come alive once the sun goes down. Creepy Capital True stories of ghostly encounters and creepy locales lurk throughout the Ottawa region. Come along with Canada’s paranormal raconteur extraordinaire, Mark Leslie, and discover the first-person accounts of ghostly happenings at landmarks throughout the historic city and surrounding towns. Haunted Hamilton From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart — from the shadows of yesteryear arise the unexplained, the bizarre, and the chilling. Spooky Sudbury From haunted mine shafts to inexplicable lights in the northern sky, there are strange things afoot in the peaceful northern municipality of Sudbury; eerie phenomenon that will amaze, give you pause, make you wonder, and have you looking twice at what might first appear to be innocent shadows. Tomes of Terror It’s been said that books have a life of their own, but there’s more than literature lurking in the cobwebbed recesses of dusty bookstores and libraries across Canada. Read about some of the most celebrated and eerie bookish haunts, and try to brush off that feeling of someone watching from just over your shoulder...
Download or read book Conversations with Canadian Novelists written by Donald Cameron and published by Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. This book was released on 1973 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics written by G. Weisz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be filling rare positions in the humanities and social sciences with ethicists. Hardly a day passes without some media scrutiny of one or another ethical dilemma resulting from our new-found ability to transform the natural conditions of life. Although bioethics is a self-consciously interdisciplinary field, it has not attracted the collaboration of many social scientists. In fact, social scientists who specialize in the study of medicine have in many cases watched its development with a certain ambivalence. No one disputes the significance and often the painfulness of the issues and choices being addressed. But there is something about the way these issues are usually handled which seems somehow inappropri ate if not wrong-headed to one trained in a discipline like sociology or history. In their analyses of complex situations, ethicists often appear grandly oblivious to the social and cultural context in which these occur, and indeed to empirical referents of any sort. Nor do they seem very conscious of the cultural specificity of many of the values and procedures they utilize when making ethical judg ments. The unease felt by many in the social sciences was given articulate expression in a paper by Renee Fox and Judith Swazey which appeared in 1984.
Download or read book Nobody s Hero written by Mark Leslie and published by Stark Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some are born to save the world. Most of us just dream about it. What makes a hero? Is a hero someone who puts on a mask and costume and rushes to the rescue? Is a hero someone who lands a crippled airplane? Is a hero someone who finds a cure to a wasting disease? Is a hero someone who uses their supernatural powers to help others? Is a hero someone who loves another person so much they put their needs ahead of their own? Is a hero someone who stops in the hustle and bustle of life just to listen to those who no longer have a voice? Heroes comes in all shapes, sizes, and personas. And that it what this short story collection is about. Seven stories that explore heroes and heroic activities. Some Are Born to Save the World Collateral Damage The Zombie Whisperer This Time Around A Murder of Scarecrows Memento Mori From Out of the Night If you like stories reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits or Black Mirror, then you'll love this themed collection of short tales from Mark Leslie.
Download or read book Lalibert written by Nicole Cloutier and published by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This book was released on 1990 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Butler written by Peter Raby and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Roma written by Professor Eve Rosenhaft and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book, designed as a resource for scholars, educators, activists and non-specialist readers, presents the results of new research on the role of Romani groups in European culture and society since the nineteenth century. Its specific focus is on the ways in which Romani actors, in their interactions with non-Romanies, have contributed to shaping Europe’s public spaces. Twelve chapters recount the experiences and accomplishments of individuals and families, from across Europe (England, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Finland) and Canada. All based on new research, and maintaining a focus on the real lives and activities of Romani people rather than on the perspective of the majority societies, these studies exemplify the creative presence of Romani people in the fields of politics, economics and culture. We see them as writers, artists and performers, political activists and resistance fighters, traders and entrepreneurs, circus and cinema managers and purveyors of popular science. Sensitive to the ambivalent position from which Roma act, the cases are linked and contextualized by a general introduction and by section introductions written by leading scholars of Romani studies with expertise in history, ethnography, musicology, literary and discourse studies and visual culture. The volume is richly illustrated, including many images that have never been published before, and includes an extensive bibliography / guide to further reading. Contributors to the volume: Begoña Barrera, Beatriz Carrillo de los Reyes, Malte Gasche, Paweł Lechowski, Anna G. Piotrowska, Laurence Prempain, Juan Pro, Eve Rosenhaft, Carolina García Sanz, María Sierra, and Tamara West.
Download or read book We re All Mad Here written by Shayna Krishnasamy and published by Deep Dark Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next beautifully unsettling novel in Shayna Krishnasamy's haunting The Violent and Dead series... It's been three years since the horrifying events at Claymore Manor school, and Anna Maron has moved on with her life. She attends university in Toronto and spends most of her time alone, avoiding the shadows. She’s resolved to let sleeping ghosts lie. Only some ghosts won’t sleep. Now her troubled cousin Lucia—newly released from a psych ward—has gone missing, and Anna is the only one who can find her. But to do so, Anna must let herself be drawn into the darkness of Lucia’s life, and face the damage the “gift” they share has done—a journey that lies somewhere between horror and madness. In this beautifully chilling second book of her contemporary gothic series, author Shayna Krishnasamy draws us back into the haunting world of two young women bound by blood and driven to the very edges of this world... and the one beyond. Praise for Come When I Call You “A disturbing story of obsession and jealousy”—For the Love of Books “...so good you can't stop reading it”—The Overstuffed Bookshelf “Krishnasamy’s writing will draw you in as the characters come vividly to life, making it nearly impossible to put this book down”—DarkestwingsReads
