Download or read book Prairie Gothic An Anthology written by Stacey Kondla and published by Prairie Soul Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's scarier when you can't hide.That's the idea behind Prairie Gothic, the new anthology of psychological and supernatural horror from Prairie Soul Press. Gothic tales, set in decaying, abandoned settings and characters with dark secrets mingle on the high Canadian Prairies.Something wicked this way comes ...Featuring the talents of: PJ VernonSarah L. JohnsonMike ThornChris Patrick CarolanChris MarrsCalvin D. JimStacey KondlaMarty ChanTaija MorganKonn LaveryJim JacksonRobert BoseRhonda ParrishElizabeth Whitto

Download or read book Gothic Tales of Haunted Love written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology revitalises the stale gothic romance genre with stories span-ning across centuries and the world. A Sioux woman returns from the grave seeking true love. A young boy and his ghostly boyfriend dodge American soldiers and landmines in 1970s Vi-etnam. A young mother in slavery faces demons on the eve of liberation in 1800s Jamaica. A Brazilian writer-in-exile discovers his sanctuary's dark secrets - and the burning touch of a ghostly lord.

Download or read book Beyond the Macrocosm written by Konn Lavery and published by Konn Lavery. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A choose your path shorts collection. Gather the clues, save the universe. The Nameless One and their ghoulish companion are locked in an endless time loop as the Macrocosm collapses. Unfortunately, they don’t remember what, how, or why this occurred. You, the reader, must navigate through the collection of 22 short stories to gather clues and discover how to break the loop. Experience award-winning author Konn Lavery’s expanding Macrocosm, sharing the same universe as his previous works. Enter the fantasy-rich past with reptilians and paladins; fast-forward to the future with DNA-shifting robbers; witness the modern world of gritty horrors. Only you, the Nameless One, have the power to save the universe before everything collapses and the Macrocosm is erased forever. Praise for the Macrocosm Volume I "Captivating characters and a cleverly designed, fantastical plot. A highly recommended set of shorts." – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards "Into the Macrocosm is a short-story collection of some of the best dark fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction stories I've ever read . . . Konn Lavery is a brilliant writer and I give him credit for weaving complete stories in the short story format. If you're a fan of Poe, The Twilight Zone, or Lovecraft, you need to read Into the Macrocosm. Highly recommend!" – N.N. Light’s Book Heaven

Download or read book Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures written by S. M. Beiko and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In future-Edo Japan, two lovers cross paths after fifty years apart. A drone-stream influencer is stalked by a spectre her online audience can't see. Trans vampires' lives intertwine in cyber-goth Paris. A non-binary chaplain serving a haunted space station becomes enamoured with the ship's AI. And the treachery and passion of a gestalt alien mind reaches critical mass for the explorer who discovered it. With stories spanning time, galaxies, and spirits, Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures features 17 original stories, casting the indelible themes of gothic romance forward in time, to imagined futures and tomorrow's afterlives. This collection follows the successful anthology, Gothic Tales of Haunted Love, named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018, featuring all-original comics curated by award-winning author and editor S.M. Beiko.

Download or read book Swashbuckling Cats written by Rhonda Parrish and published by Tyche Books. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think cats and water don't mix, think again. Plunge into worlds of piratical cats: some selfish, some mischievous, all fond of hitting the catnip stash. From ships on the deep blue sea, to ships flying through the depths of space, and even visiting from beyond the veil, these cats are determined and on a mission. Featuring thirteen "tails" of adventure-loving cats, puns, and fun by: Megan Fennell; S.G. Wong; Rebecca Brae; Grace Bridges; Lizz Donnelly; Blake Liddell; Frances Pauli; JB Riley; Joseph Halden; Leslie Van Zwol; Krista D. Ball; Chadwick Ginther; Rose Strickman; and Beth Cato.

Download or read book American Gothic Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series. As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Ralph Adams Cram, Stephen Crane, Emma Dawson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen Glasgow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, W.C. Morrow, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Clark Ashton Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Madeline Yale Wynne.

Download or read book The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose written by George Melnyk and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first multi-genre historical anthology of Alberta writing since 1979, this long-overdue anthology explores what writers--past and present--can tell us about what it means to be Albertan--and Canadian.

Download or read book Bones written by Kim Fielding and published by Dreamspinner Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss this exclusive bundle of the Bones series by Kim Fielding!

Download or read book The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing written by Hilda Raz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid collection, bringing together a wide selection of contemporary poets, essayists, and fiction writers, that demonstrates the continuing vitality of Jewish American writing. The collection embraces tradition and innovation and is as diverse as it is consistently stimulating, sure to become required reading for enthusiasts of contemporary American literature.

Download or read book Field Requiem written by Sheri Benning and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023 Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023 Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022 Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022 Field Requiem bears witness to the violence inherent in the shift to industrialised farming in prairie Canada. Sheri Benning's poems chart the ways in which a way of life collapses, the world of the family farm, even as the speaker suffers, too. The first poem in the collection, 'Winter Sleep', is a fever dream: the borders between past and present, between the unconscious and the real, break down. The poem reckons with the devastating social and environmental impacts of the agribusiness industry. The long elegy, 'Let Them Rest', takes its cue from the Dies Irae and the Latin liturgy of the Requiem mass to mourn Saskatchewan's many ruined farmsteads and razed communities. Throughout, the poems trace the still luminous contours of love – for family, for the land – in rendering the horrors of loss. The incantatory voice rises from dream into dark vision. The book also includes lyric poems that give voice to the affective consequences of loss brought on by climate change and factory farming and renew a sense of locality in the teeth of corporate farming practices. Benning has worked with her sister Heather Benning, who constructs large-scale, site specific installations which explore and extend these themes.

Download or read book Shy written by Naomi K. Lewis and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Canadian literature on the topic of shyness.

Download or read book The Worlds of Carol Shields written by David Staines and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields’ extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics.

Download or read book Waiting written by Rona Altrows and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption. This collection of thirty-two personal essays is as much about hope as it is about waiting. Featuring literary voices from the renowned to the emerging, this anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction will resonate with anyone who has ever had to wait. Contributors: Samantha Albert, Rona Altrows, Sharon Butala, Jane Cawthorne, Weyman Chan, Rebecca Danos, Patti Edgar, John Graham-Pole, Leslie Greentree, Edythe Anstey Hanen, Vivian Hansen, Jane Harris, Richard Harrison, Elizabeth Haynes, Lee Kvern, Anne Lévesque, Margaret Macpherson, Alice Major, Wendy McGrath, Stuart Ian McKay, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Susan Olding, Roberta Rees, Julie Sedivy, Kathy Seifert, Cora Siré, Steven Ross Smith, Anne Sorbie, Glen Sorestad, Kelly S. Thompson, Robin van Eck, Aritha van Herk

Download or read book Sweet Gothic written by Colette Tennant and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Sweet Gothic weave together themes of adoption, motherhood, yearning, family, and teaching in an intricate pattern that might leave one quivering, as one reviewer attests. As the title Sweet Gothic infers, the book is filled with binaries: light and dark, life and death, lost and found, known and unknown, music and silence. The poem “In Between” suggests we all live somewhere in the middle. This poetry collection negotiates that middle ground. Like her necklace-making ancestor celebrated in the last poem of the book, Tennant strings together these images and narratives in a way that celebrates the power of art and helps us find our place in the midst of the contradictions around us.

Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volumes A B Beginnings to Reconstruction written by Derrick R. Spires and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 2556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This product contains both The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume A: Beginnings to 1820 and The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction as a single purchase. Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. Highlights of Volumes A & B: Beginnings to Reconstruction • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, The Coquette, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno • In-depth, Contexts sections on such topics as “Slavery and Resistance,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny,” and “Gender and Sexuality” • Broader and more extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José Maria Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others

Download or read book Saskatchewan Writers written by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more than 175 biographies in this volume together tell the story of writing in Saskatchewan. As David Carpenter notes in his Introduction to the volume: "The writers whose lives are told in these pages are part of an extraordinary cultural community that has touched and been touched by the people and landscape of this province."

Download or read book Pride of Place written by David Taylor and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Roy Bedichek's influential Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, no book has attempted to explore the uniqueness of Texas nature, or reflected the changes in the human landscape that have accelerated since Bedichek's time. Pride of Place updates Bedichek's discussion by acknowledging the increased urbanization and the loss of wildspace in today's state. It joins other recent collections of regional nature writing while demonstrating what makes Texas uniquely diverse. These fourteen essays are held together by the story of Texas pride, the sense that from West Texas to the Coastal Plains, we and the landscape are important and worthy of pride, if not downright bravado. This book addresses all the major regions of Texas. Beginning with Roy Bedichek's essay "Still Water," it includes Carol Cullar and Barbara "Barney" Nelson on the Rio Grande region of West Texas, John Graves's evocative "Kindred Spirits" on Central Texas, Joe Nick Patoski's celebration of Hill Country springs, Pete Gunter on the Piney Woods, David Taylor on North Texas, Gary Clark and Gerald Thurmond on the Coastal Plains, Ray Gonzales and Marian Haddad on El Paso, Stephen Harrigan and Wyman Meinzer on West Texas, and Naomi Shihab Nye on urban San Antonio. This anthology will appeal not only to those interested in regional history, natural history, and the environmental issues Texans face, but also to all who say gladly, "I'm from Texas."