Download or read book Something Weird Something Strange written by Geoff Woodbridge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A circus adventure, string theory, cannibalism, ghostly apparitions, mermaids, zombies, Lovecraftian horrors, absinthe and serial killers, psychopaths, witchcraft and evolutionary interventionism, abuse, Hitler, snow and wolves. What more can you ask for? This short collection of the strange, weird and fantastical will take you on a journey of the bizarre. Thought provoking, captivating and at times, heart heartwarming, Something Weird, Something Strange is a collection like no other.

Download or read book Something Strange and Deadly written by Susan Dennard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Eleanor Fitt’s brother is missing. And when she discovers that the Dead are rising in Philadelphia and wreaking havoc throughout the city, she knows that her brother is involved. So Eleanor enlists the help of the Spirit-Hunters. This motley crew, hired to protect the city from supernatural forces, is after the necromancer who has been reanimating corpses. Their skills can save her brother. But as Eleanor spends time with the Spirit-Hunters, and their handsome inventor, Daniel, the situation becomes dire. Now not only is her reputation at risk, but her very life may hang in the balance. In Something Strange and Deadly, the first book in a trilogy, Susan Dennard weaves together vividly imagined scenes of action, adventure, and gorgeous Victorian fashion to create an entertaining steampunk tapestry of humor, horror, and romance. Readers who love Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices series will be intrigued from the start.

Download or read book Why People Believe Weird Things written by Michael Shermer and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science. Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.

Download or read book The Weird and the Eerie written by Mark Fisher and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted cultural critic unearths the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century culture through a wide range of literature, film, and music references—from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown. In several essays, Mark Fisher argues that a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of transitory concepts such as the Weird and the Eerie. Featuring discussion of the works of: H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christopher Nolan.

Download or read book A Darkness Strange and Lovely written by Susan Dennard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard delivers a mix of supernatural forces and intense romance in this spellbinding sequel to Something Strange and Deadly—now with a gorgeous new cover! Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices series. With her brother dead and her mother insane, Eleanor Fitt is alone. Even the Spirit-Hunters—Joseph, Jie, and the handsome Daniel—have fled to Paris. So when Eleanor hears the vicious barking of hounds and sees haunting yellow eyes, she fears that the Dead, and the necromancer Marcus, are after her. To escape, Eleanor boards a steamer bound for France. There she meets Oliver, a young man who claims to have known her brother. But Oliver harbors a dangerous secret involving necromancy and black magic that entices Eleanor beyond words. If she can resist him, she'll be fine. But when she arrives in Paris, she finds that the Dead have taken over, and there's a whole new evil lurking. And she is forced to make a deadly decision that will go against everything the Spirit-Hunters stand for. In Paris, there's a price for this darkness strange and lovely, and it may have Eleanor paying with her life.

Download or read book Strange and Ever After written by Susan Dennard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a “roaring-and addictive-gothic world” (Publishers Weekly) in the explosive conclusion of the Something Strange and Deadly trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard—now with a gorgeous new cover. It has been a tumultuous time for Eleanor Fitt since life as she knew it in Philadelphia came abruptly to an end. Although the Spirit-Hunters—Joseph, Jie, and Daniel—have helped her survive, Eleanor has lost just about everything. And now, Jie is missing—taken by the evil necromancer Marcus. Eleanor is determined not only to get her back but to finally end this nightmare. To do so, she must navigate the hot desert streets of nineteenth-century Egypt amid the rising Dead, her unresolved feelings for Daniel, and her volatile relationships with Joseph and Oliver, her demon. And it won't be easy. Because Allison, her friend from Philadelphia, has tagged along, becoming strangely entangled in Eleanor's mission. It will take all of Eleanor's powers of black magic, and all of Daniel's and Joseph's trust, to succeed. But there will be a price.

Download or read book Furiously Happy written by Jenny Lawson and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened... In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In her new book, Furiously Happy, she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "You can't experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy." It's a philosophy that has - quite literally - saved her life. Jenny's first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness. Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it's about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. And who doesn't need a bit more of that?

Download or read book Something Rich and Strange written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have lived among us for centuries-distant, separate, just out of sight. They fill our myths, our legends, and the stories we tell our children in the dark of night. They come from the air, from water, from earth, and from fire. What are these creatures that enjoin out imagination? Faeries. Megan is an artist who draws seascapes. Jonah owns a shop devoted to treasures from the deep. Their lives, so strongly touched by the ocean, become forever intertwined when enchanting people of the sea lure them further into the underwater world-and away from each other.

Download or read book The Book of Strange New Things written by Michel Faber and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber’s second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.

Download or read book Bleeding Skull written by Annie Choi and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the most obscure, bizarre, and brain-busting movies ever made, this film guide features 250 in-depth reviews that have escaped the radar of people with taste and the tolerance of critics ― Goregasm! I Was a Teenage Serial Killer! Satan Claus!Die Hard Dracula! Curated by the enthusiastic minds behind BleedingSkull.com, this book gets deep into gutter-level, no-budget horror, from shot-on-VHS revelations (Eyes of the Werewolf) to forgotten outsider art hallucinations (Alien Beasts). Jam-packed with rare photographs, advertisements, and VHS sleeves (most of which have never been seen before), Bleeding Skull is an edifying, laugh-out-loud guide to the dusty inventory of the greatest video store that never existed.

Download or read book Whoppers written by Christine Seifert and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of full of liars. Not just little-white-telling liars, but big-honkin', whopper-telling liars—people who can convince us that even the most improbable, outrageous, nonsensical stories are true. And the worst part is that we'll believe it. Whoppers tells the story of history's greatest liars and the lies they told, providing a mix of narrative profiles of super-famous liars, lies, and/or hoaxes, as well as more obscure episodes. Famous liars include people you might have learned about in school, like P. T. Barnum, who basically made a living lying to people for money; liars you might never have heard of before, like Victor Lustig, who managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower twice in the 1920s; and hoaxes like the Loch Ness Monster Photo Hoax. The book will also include illustrations, sidebars, and infographics.

Download or read book The Weird written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Strange Things to Do and Make written by McPhee Gribble Publishers and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1976 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on fish prints, gardening, wart cures, hiccup cures, optical illusions, barometers, hatching chicken eggs, psychokinesis, mind reading, water divining, pyramid power, codes, fruit in bottles, and sundials.

Download or read book AMAZING ROMANTIC ADVENTURES BOOK FOUR written by DUANE THE GREAT WRITER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMAZING ROMANTIC ADVENTURES is what everyone wants. In our Hearts and Being we want a Real Life and Real Life Experiences, not just study time with books in rooms that we can only look outside and dream of a Real Life. Being educated on the earth has its place along with making a living here, but this 'Place in Life' is so temporary, and Duane The Great Writer is sharing a way to have everything a person wants, if they will only take the time to develop their insight, intuition and most of all their TruPerception of The TruReality Life IS. It takes a Real Heart! In what is termed the PsycRealms, there is creation, but The Whole of Life IS Already Complete. Once a person has Real Experience with The TruReality Life IS, they will See Beyond the limitations of their mind and See this world for what it really is. There is no hype with The TruReality Life IS, there is only a Real Life that is ALL Complete! REAL AND AMAZING ROMANTIC ADVENTURES is only for The Real RiskTaker! www.DuaneTheGreatWriter.Info

Download or read book YOU ARE IN THE SIMULATOR THE PASSING DREAM written by DUANE THE GREAT WRITER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is all so very convincing as to where we are according to the body we have and the mind we carry with us. This is what we have come to know from what we have been educated with. Thus has become the created and constructed 'Simulator' each person has decided to live in. The reality of what each of us is experiencing here is a Passing Dream, as all of us do dream what we want our life to be. What has been constructed on the earth and in the minds and imagination of so many is the agreeable fact that the life we are living while on this planet is all there is. Duane The Great Writer, has created 'The AdventurIS Series' as a gift to all the unaware and Dumbed Down Humans on this planet. Each and every person that is here really does have the right to know they are so much more than flesh and bones and a mind attached with authorities who rule them and gods in the sky who rule over them with all their rules and regulations. www.DuaneTheGreatWriter.Info

Download or read book REBAZAR TARZS THE SECRETS OF TIME written by DUANEIS LIGHT and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebazar Tarzs says, "Humans have created their own Human History, and from this one-dimensional human view it would seem that what they have created and agreed to has now become their ultimate, especially with the Intellectualized and Scientific-Tech Systems that have taken over most of the world. Cyber Space is the new reality people are into as they cling to their Mind-Controlling Microwave TechToys. It has all been a huge plan that very few have seen coming and now it is here. The world is in the embrace of a total military control by those who control the earth and its dangerous technology. What is taking place is constantly affecting The Natural Environment." Here is an 'Adventure Like No Other' to where Rebazar Tarzs takes Duane on a journey into The Secrets of Time. Most people will see this NUBook as fantasy, but there is so much more to it for those who Become MoreAware of The TruReality LifeIS. www.DuaneISLight.Info

Download or read book ADVENTURES OF THE NUMAN 2015 NUBOOK 4 written by DUANE THE GREAT WRITER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Now 2015, and Eva Shar is with me. Since our meeting, we have created a Wonderful Presentation for Everyone. We are Seen together on The RealSide with Rebazar Tarzs & The Real UNUversal Guides, and WE stand as WorldWide Educators with Rebazar, Paul, Fubbi, Gopal, ShamIS, Yauble and all The RealGuides with THE ALLIS. I cannot say that this world is ready for The TruReality LifeIS, THE ALLIS, but as this world becomes more desperate to WakeUp to 'What IS Real Now,' people will begin to See Beyond the fallacies of The Deceptors. This RealAdventure is not for everyone, as most people will stay with their LA LA Land Life on earth and be Emotionally Attached to the old Kontrolled ideas of boring tradition and 'pretty words' from politicians, religious deceptors and ancient outdated masters and gurus. LifeIS Always Bigger than our personal selves. Until you understand this, you will be TapLined and Trapped in this Designed Creation Matrix of The Deceptors. www.DuaneTheGreatWriter.info