Download or read book These Our Monsters written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Marvellous and menacing.' Daily Mail 'The shadow from which I thought I had unshackled myself has returned. Whether this Horror is real or merely the handiwork of my imagination I cannot say. Nor can I say which of these possibilities disturbs me more.' from 'The Dark Thread' by Graeme Macrae Burne From the legends of King Arthur embedded in the rocky splendour of Tintagel to the folklore and mysticism of Stonehenge, English Heritage sites are often closely linked to native English myths. Following on from the bestselling ghost story anthology Eight Ghosts, this is a new collection of stories inspired by the legends and tales that swirl through the history of eight ancient historical sites. Including an essay by James Kidd on the importance of myth to our landscape and our fiction, and an English Heritage survey of sites and associated legends, These Our Monsters is an evocative collection that brings new voices and fresh creative alchemy to our storytelling heritage. 'Nobody believes you when you talk about the whispering. Oh, Monny, you are funny, they say, you've such an imagination. There's a lot they don't believe.' from 'The Hand Under the Stone' by Sarah Hall 'This varied collection scratches the soil of the country to dig up some of the fairy tales and fantasies that have helped form the English identity.' Financial Times The atmospheric locations: Edward Carey - Bury St Edmunds Abbey Sarah Hall - Castlerigg and other stone circles Paul Kingsnorth - Stonehenge Alison MacLeod - Down House Graeme Macrae Burnet - Whitby Abbey Sarah Moss - Berwick Castle Fiona Mozley - Carlisle Castle Adam Thorpe - Tintagel Castle With original black-and-white illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

Download or read book Monsters and Other Stories written by Gustavo Duarte and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newcomer Gustavo Duarte spins wordless tales brimming with humor, charm, and delightfully twisted horror! In Monsters!, oversized beasts wreak havoc on cities in the tradition of Godzilla and King Kong. In Có!, an alien abduction disarms a gentle farmer, and in Birds, two business partners run from fate only to find themselves hopelessly unable to change the future. * In the tradition of Pixar! * Giant beasts bent on destroying the world!

Download or read book Destroy All Monsters and Other Stories written by Greg Hrbek and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains ten short fiction stories in which Greg Hrbek explores what it means to be human and inhuman.

Download or read book Monsters and Other Stories written by Richard T. Chizmar and published by Subterranean. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mothers Other Monsters written by Maureen F. McHugh and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gorgeously crafted stories." —Nancy Pearl (Book Lust) on Morning Edition, "Books for a Rainy Day" "My favorite thing about her is the wry, uncanny tenderness of her stories. She has the astonishing ability to put her finger on the sweet spot right between comedy and tragedy, that pinpoint that makes you catch your breath. You're not sure whether to laugh out loud or cry, and you end up doing both at once." —Dan Chaon "When I first read China Mountain Zhang many years ago, Maureen McHugh instantly became, as she has remained, one of my favorite writers. This collection is a welcome reminder of her power—they are resonant, wise, generous, sharp, transporting, and deeply, deeply moving. McHugh is enormously gifted; each of these stories is a gift." —Karen Joy Fowler "Wonderfully unpredictable stories, from the very funny to the very grim, by one of our best and bravest imaginative writers." —Ursula K. Le Guin "Enchanting, funny and fierce by turns —a wonderful collection!" —Mary Doria Russell * Story Prize finalist. * A Book Sense Notable Book. In her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, award-winning novelist Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations. — A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother. — A teenager is interviewed about her peer group's attitudes toward sex and baby boomers. — A missing stepson sets a marriage on edge. — Anthropologists visiting an isolated outpost mission are threatened by nomadic raiders. McHugh's characters—her Alzheimers-afflicted parents or her smart and rebellious teenagers—are always recognizable: stubborn, human, and heartbreakingly real. This new trade paperback edition has added material for book clubs and reading groups, including an interview with the author, book club questions and suggestions, and a reprint of Maureen's fabulous essay, "The Evil Stepmother." Maureen F. McHugh has spent most of her life in Ohio, but has lived in New York City and, for a year, in Shijiazhuang, China. She is the author of four novels. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang, won the Tiptree Award, and Nekropolis, was a Book Sense 76 pick and New York Times Editor's Choice.

Download or read book The Heart and Other Monsters written by Rose Andersen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Impossible to put down. It haunts me still.” -Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. In November 2013, Rose Andersen's younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home in a small town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. To imagine her way into Sarah's life, Rose revisits their volatile childhood, marked by their stepfather's omnipresent rage and their father's pathological lying. As the dysfunction comes into focus, so does a broader picture of the opioid crisis and the drug rehabilitation industry in small towns across America. And when Rose learns from the coroner that Sarah's cause of death was a methamphetamine overdose, the story takes a wildly unexpected turn. As Andersen sifts through her sister's last days, we come to recognize the contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic shattering which can turn to anger, the pursuit of an ever-elusive verdict, and the intensely personal rites of imagination and art needed to actually move on. Reminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of a Body, Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder, and Lacy M. Johnson's The Other Side, Andersen's debut is a potent, profoundly original journey into and out of loss.

Download or read book The Monster Fly written by Charles A. Piddock and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Even Monsters written by A. J. Smith and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new picture book-perfect for the little monster in your life! Everybody knows monsters can be...well, MONSTERS. But did you know sometimes even monsters get scared? They can be sad, they can be kind, they can miss their mommies. Sometimes, they're just plain silly. And even monsters need to brush their teeth! A funny and family-friendly picture book by innovative author/illustrator A. J. Smith, who combines traditional storytelling with exciting interactive digital components.

Download or read book Monsters and Other Scary Stuff written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love monsters? I mean do you really love monsters? Monsters of all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds? If you do, then this is the anthology for you. Monsters and Other Shit is the comic book monster anthology to end all monster anthologies. It's 224 pages of glorious monsters; funny monsters, scary monsters, sci-fi monsters, fantastical monsters, and everything in between. This isn't an ode to horror monsters, or sci-fi monsters, or any kind of monster specifically. It's a beautiful tribute to all kinds of monsters from Sesame Street to Aliens, and much more. You'll get stories from 30 different creative teams who all love monsters as much as you love monsters. Creators who've worked in comic books for decades, and have loved monsters for even longer. Creators include: Russell Nohelty (Katrina Hates Dead Shit) Erik Lervold (The Red Calaveras) Katrina Kunstmann (Warhead, Zed) Juan Carlos Ramos (Transformers) Michael Tanner and Greg Smith (Junior Braves of the Apocalypse) Scott Bachmann (SuperMom) Nate Lovett (Hack/Slash) Dennis Greenhill (Dark Tarot) Lee Kohse (Star Wars) Joe Ranoia (Shy) Cassidy Lee Phillips (Champion Killers) Nicolas Touris (Godlikes) Saint Yak (Go West) John Hollard (Ayla: Speaker of the Dead) Christie Shinn (Sepulcre) Arthur Bellfield (War's Chosen) Bradley Sheridan (Why do I Rock) Christian Douglass (Unpopular Tales) Ivan Sarnago (Lunita) David Lucarelli and Henry Ponciano (Children's Vampire Hunting Brigade) Mary Bellamy (My Little Pony) Nicholas Doan (Monster Elementary) Daniele Serra (Hellraiser) CW Cooke (Stillwater) Kurt Belcher (Broken Frontiers) Phillip Johnson (Ghost Rider) Jack Holder (Dealing with the Apocalypse) Walter Ostlie (Shiver Bureau) Bobby Timony (The Simpsons) Josh Wagner (Fiction Clemens) Freedom Lee Drudge (Mice Templar) and many more If you love monsters, then we have monsters. The best monsters in all the land, in fact. This is the monster anthology we've always wanted, and now it can be in your hands to cherish for years to come.

Download or read book Women and Other Monsters written by Jess Zimmerman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds—who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough—aren’t just outside the norm. They’re unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we’ve been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths. Through fresh analysis of 11 female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match. Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we’re told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity. But monsters also get to do what other female characters—damsels, love interests, and even most heroines—do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance gets us—harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators—women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.

Download or read book Under the Bed Monsters written by Gary Ward and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Here There Are Monsters written by Amelinda Bérubé and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of sisterhood turned toxic, imaginary monsters brought to life, and secrets that won't stay buried. Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. And moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over as someone different. In their isolated new neighborhood, Skye manages to fit in, but Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their house and building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones. Then Deirdre disappears. And when something awful comes scratching at Skye's window in the middle of the night, claiming Skye's the only one who can save Deirdre, Skye knows she will stop at nothing to bring her sister home.

Download or read book Ollie s Monsters and Other Stories written by Sandra J. Philipson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ollie, the feisty cavalier spaniel joins with his Springer family: Max, Tak, and Trini to battle imaginary monsters, overcome worries, save trapped siblings and provide helpful advice on planning your next escape from school. This is the seventh book in the series that is full of laughter and encourages the reader to look at the world a bit differently.

Download or read book The Comfort of Monsters written by Willa C. Richards and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Every sentence is a delight in this taut and thrilling debut by Willa Richards.’ Elizabeth Wetmore, author of Valentine ‘Richards has flipped the usual narrative, centring not on the crime itself but on the loss that ripples from it.’ New York Times Book Review A remarkable debut novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sisters – one who disappears and the other who is left to pick up the pieces. In the summer of 1991, teen Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. It was the summer the Journal Sentinel dubbed ‘the deadliest . . . in the history of Milwaukee.’ Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s heinous crimes dominated the headlines and the disappearance of one girl was easily overlooked. 2019, nearly thirty years later, Dee's sister, Peg, is still haunted by her disappearance. Desperate to find out what happened to her, the family hire a psychic and Peg is plunged back into the past. But Peg’s hazy recollections are far from easy to interpret and digging deep into her memory raises terrifying questions. How much trust can we place in our own recollections? How often are our memories altered by the very act of speaking them aloud? And what does it mean to bear witness in a world where even our own stories about what happened are inherently suspect? A heartbreaking page-turner, Willa C. Richards’ debut novel is the story of a broken family looking for answers in the face of the unknown.

Download or read book Stories of Monsters written by Russell Punter and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......

Download or read book The Monster In the Closet and Other Stories written by K. Kris Loomis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up is tough. So is growing old. And everything in between? Well, it's all tough. Between the pages of this short fiction collection, you will find internet daters, shy bus drivers, talking corpses, playground bullies, and monsters in the closet. Spies, old friends, unhappy teens, grieving sisters, overworked businessmen, and novice chess players bare their struggles and triumphs in local parks, cafes, funeral homes, bus stops, even their bedrooms. These poignant, often humorous, contemporary short stories remind us how important human connections are in this crazy, yet beautiful world. Fifteen stories in all! Read what others are saying about these contemporary short stories: "These short stories are great when you need a five to ten-minute break from your own life. The plots suck you in quickly and the characters are immediately recognizable and relatable. You read wanting to finish the story in one sitting and the perfect length means you can." ~ Meggan "A short read (and it's difficult to get all of the elements of a good story into a few words), a challenging read -- I thought about these stories, especially Say Something (Would I have said something?) -- long after I finished reading. A delightful read -- especially The Orange Scarf. The imagery in this middle story, the imagination, the language -- the writing style -- show talent. Thank you, K. Kris Loomis, for a good read!" ~ Christine "I have to admit that because I'm a fan of longer works myself - 3-volume nineteenth-century novels, doorstop-size biographies and scholarly editions - the trend toward shorter and shorter short stories has somewhat dismayed me, both as a writer and a reader. As a writer, I can't seem to stay succinct, and as a reader, I often feel like a short story isn't really developed enough to draw me into the world and make me care about it. Kris Loomis's stories have entirely changed my mind." ~ Misty "One park, one bench, and 6 characters make for three very unassuming interludes that provide a satisfying glimpse into the lives of uniquely ordinary people. The characters are brought to life with a verbal-visual acuity that leaves the impression of having eavesdropped on the events from an adjacent bench, as opposed to having read them. The stories are brief, but not their impact." ~ John Just because you are busy doesn't mean that you don't deserve good fiction in your life! Click the Buy Now button at the top of the page and find out how easy it is to incorporate more fiction in your life! Kris is also the author of the humorous travel memoir, Thirty Days In Quito: Two Gringos and a Three-Legged Cat Move to Ecuador, as well as the nonfiction books How to Sneak More Yoga Into Your Life: A Doable Yoga Plan for Busy People, How to Sneak More Meditation Into Your Life: A Doable Meditation Plan for Busy People, After Namaste: Off-the-Mat Musings of a Modern Yogini! Get a FREE short story at www.kkrisloomis.com! You can find Kris on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @kkrisloomis.

Download or read book The Monstrous Book of Monsters written by Libby Hamilton and published by Templar. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with foul facts and disgusting drawings, this book will tell you everything you need to know about avoiding the monstrous menace ... almost!