Download or read book Unearthly Asylum written by P.J. Bracegirdle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Wells is fascinated by the strange noises coming from the old Spooking Asylum. She knows all about the famous legends that surround the place, and is certain that she is hearing the guns of long-dead soldiers. But what if something more contemporary—and truly ghastly—is going on? When Joy’s pet frog, Fizz, gets away, Joy travels through the town’s old sewers looking for him, only to emerge above ground—inside the locked gates of the asylum. There, she uncovers a trail of greed and madness guaranteed to thrill her horror-loving heart!

Download or read book Sinister Scenes written by P.J. Bracegirdle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the star of a horror movie filming in the town of Spooking disappears, twelve-year-old Joy Wells steps into the role--and into real-life horror--when her co-star gives a terrifying and unscripted performance.

Download or read book 2014 Children s Writer s Illustrator s Market written by Chuck Sambuchino and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted guide to the world of children's publishing! If you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, the 2014 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is the trusted resource you need. Now in its 26th edition, CWIM is the definitive publishing guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. Inside you'll find more than 650 listings for children's book markets (publishers, agents, magazines, and more)--including a point of contact, how to properly submit your work, and what categories each market accepts. You'll also find: • Interviews with some of today's hottest authors and illustrators, including author R.L. Stine (the Goosebumps series), author Marie Lu (Legend), author Beth Revis (Across the Universe), and illustrator Debbie Ridpath (I'm Bored, written by Michael Ian Black). • The ever-popular "First Books" article, where debut writers and illustrators explain what they did right and how you can follow in their footsteps to success. • In-depth articles on picture books, query letters, novel voice, author platform, the status of indie-publishing, literary agents, and more. Includes "New Agent Spotlights"--profiles on literary reps actively seeking new writers of children's books right now. "I buy a copy of Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market every single year. It's the definitive, must-have resource for children's publishing." --Jesse Klausmeier, author of the picture book Open This Little Book "Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is a great resource for artists and writers who are ready to share their talent with the world." --Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries

Download or read book Hauntings of the Western Lunatic Asylum written by Steve E. Asher and published by Permuted Press+ORM. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre accounts of the lingering spirits who were once subjected to primitive and barbaric medical practices in Kentucky’s iconic mental hospital. The Western Lunatic Asylum has held the interest of people worldwide for decades. Anyone who passes beneath the grand silver dome can feel something menacing from within. For over one hundred and twenty years, this hellish building has stirred with secrets. The mad, the violent, and the disenfranchised of Western Kentucky have languished here inside its dark medical wards, the victims of garish experiments and arcane medical practices. In Hauntings of the Western Lunatic Asylum, author Steve E. Asher brings you chilling real-life encounters of haunting paranormal activity from those who have worked inside the aged madhouse. Discarded orphans, the feeble minded and the criminally insane living together and now locked inside a man-made purgatory. They remain hopeless and filled with inhuman rage. Steve E. Asher brings you gripping stories that only a small handful of people even knew existed. Do you dare look further? Do you dare to enter the Western Lunatic Asylum?

Download or read book Not With a Bang But a Whimper written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life. In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless youth-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows how terrorism and the growing numbers of Muslim minorities have changed our public life. Also here are Mr. Dalrymple's trenchant observations on artists and ideologues, and on the questionable treatment of criminals and the mentally disturbed, his area of medical interest.

Download or read book Asylum written by Marcus Low and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry James is detained in a quarantine facility in the blistering heat of the Great Karoo. Here he exists in two worlds: the unforgiving reality of his incarceration and the lyrical landscapes of his dreams. He has cut all ties with his previous life, his health is failing, and he has given up all hope. All he has to cling to are the meanderings of his restless mind, the daily round of pills and the journals he reluctantly keeps as testimony to a life once lived. And then there’s an opportunity to escape. LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN'S NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'The most credible dystopian novel I have ever read' Sunday Times 'A searing vision of an all-too-possible world... a profound and wholly original voice' Henrietta Rose-Innes 'A forceful and engaging tale that brilliantly blends the real and imagined world and is full of sparkling inventions. This page-turner is bound to be the talk of book circles' Niq Mhlongo 'Thought-provoking, alluring and sensitively written... a new thrilling talent' Cape Times Shortlisted for the 9Mobile Prize for Literature

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics 1750 1950s written by Mary de Young and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including "awakening" patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.

Download or read book WHISPERS IN THE ASYLUM written by SatapolCEO and published by satapol Channarong. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHISPERS IN THE ASYLUM Step into the haunting world of "Whispers in the Asylum" by SatapolCEO, a gripping tale that will plunge you into the depths of fear and fascination. Set against the backdrop of a long-forgotten asylum, this enthralling eBook takes readers on a journey through the echoing halls of a sinister past, where each corner turned reveals a new layer of dread and mystery. Follow the harrowing experiences of Jack and Anna, two intrepid explorers who stumble upon the dark secrets of the abandoned asylum. With hearts pounding and nerves stretched to their limits, they navigate the labyrinthine corridors, uncovering hidden horrors that cling to the shadows. From eerie whispers to ghostly apparitions, each page is a gateway to the supernatural, inviting you to unravel the chilling mysteries that lie within. Crafted with exquisite tension and atmospheric suspense, "Whispers in the Asylum" is a masterclass in psychological horror. SatapolCEO skillfully weaves a narrative that is both captivating and unsettling, ensuring that readers are held captive by the story’s grip from the very first chapter to the last. The asylum, with its decaying walls and sinister history, becomes a character in its own right, haunting the protagonists—and you, the reader—long after the tale concludes. Embark on a journey where courage is tested, and the line between the living and the dead blurs. "Whispers in the Asylum" promises a thrilling adventure through the heart of darkness, challenging you to confront your fears and discover what truly lurks in the shadows of the mind. Don’t miss this unforgettable foray into the paranormal, where every whisper could be your last. Dive into this eBook today and let SatapolCEO guide you through the nightmare that awaits in the asylum.

Download or read book My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum written by Herman Charles Merivale and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an enlightening memoir by Herman Merivale, where he narrated his time in one of England's countryside asylums in the 1860s. He was suffering from depression and was taken into care for treatment. Throughout the work, Merivale attacked over-treatment and suggested that being in the asylum during that period could drive someone into insanity even if they were completely normal.

Download or read book The Asylum Journal of Mental Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book London and its Asylums 1888 1914 written by Robert Ellis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of madness for the first time. With its focus on London in the period leading up to the First World War, it offers a new way to look at institutions and to consider their connections to wider issues that were facing the capital and the nation. The chapters that follow place London at the heart of international networks and debates relating to finance, welfare, architecture, scientific and medical initiatives, and the developing responses to immigrant populations. Overall, it shines a light on the relationships between mental health policies and other ideological priorities.

Download or read book Deaf Row written by Ron Franscell and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired detective investigates a cold case of child murder in Colorado in this “darkly engrossing” mystery thriller (New York Times–bestselling author Anne Hillerman). Former detective Woodrow Bell left his big-city homicide beat for a quiet life in a small Colorado mountain town. Having failed in so many ways—as a father, husband, friend, and cop—all he wants out of retirement is to fade away. But when he stumbles across a long-forgotten child murder, he can’t just let it go. Suspecting that the killer may still be near, Woodrow is drawn into the macabre cold case. With local cops taking no interest, Bell must rely on the end-of-the-road codgers he meets for coffee every morning—a club of old guys with unique skills who call themselves Deaf Row. Soon, this motley crew finds itself on a collision course with a serial butcher.

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Download or read book Everything is Possible to Will written by Ellen E. Ellis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1882 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A semi-autobiographical novel by an early feminist New Zealand author, Ellen E. Ellis. The character Wrax is a debased version of the author's husband Oliver, and Zee a weaker version of Ellen. Ellis uses this novel as a vehicle for her views about education, marriage, birth control, prohibition, religion, and female and Maori rights. All these issues are linked to her central concern, the emancipation of women, the novel pre-empting all the central early feminist arguments. Ellis' broad contention is that women need to be emancipated in order to do their 'God-given work' which is to 'bless mankind' and 'fulfil the divine plan of the universe'. She is specific as to the three areas in which emancipation is required, protesting against the spiritual and intellectual oppression of women, the legal oppression of women, and the physical oppression of women.

Download or read book Cannibal Error written by David Kerekes and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of magnetic tape inside a plastic shell – domesticated cinema as families across Britain began to consume films in an entirely new way. Demand was high and the result was a video gold rush, with video rental outlets appearing on every high street almost overnight. Without moderation their shelves filled with all manner of films depicting unbridled sex and violence. A backlash was inevitable. Video was soon perceived as a threat to society, a view neatly summed up in the term ‘video nasties’. CANNIBAL ERROR chronicles the phenomenal rise of video culture through a tumultuous decade, its impact and its aftermath. Based on extensive research and interviews, the authors provide a first-hand account of Britain in the 1980s, when video became a scapegoat for a variety of social ills. It examines the confusion spawned by the Video Recordings Act 1984, the subsequent witch hunt that culminated in police raids and arrests, and offers insightful commentary on many contentious and ‘banned’ films that were cited by the media as influential factors in several murder cases. It also investigates the cottage industry in illicit films that developed as a direct result of the ‘video nasty’ clampdown. CANNIBAL ERROR, a revised and reworked edition of SEE NO EVIL (2000), is an exhaustive and startling overview of Britain’s ‘video nasty’ panic, the ramifications of which are still felt today.

Download or read book You Ain t Nothin But a Werewolf written by Tim J. Kelly and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: