Download or read book Cathedral of Vampires written by Mary Ann Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious Marquis de Sade continues on as a vampire, his perverse desires still unquenched after two centuries. His offspring--vampires of his own making--have desires of their own, the strongest of which is revenge. An eternally young woman and her half-vampire companion will stop at nothing to find Sade and put an end to his master vampire's reign. (June) Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Download or read book The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral written by Robert Westall and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower . . . And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him.” When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Muncaster Cathedral, he is unprepared for the horror he will encounter. Something unspeakably evil in the medieval tower is seeking victims among the young neighborhood boys ... and Joe’s son may be next! An unsettling story with a horrifying conclusion, this eerie tale will chill young and old readers alike. Robert Westall (1929-1993) is one of the best modern writers of ghost stories in the tradition of the great M.R. James, and The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, which won the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award, is one of his finest. This volume also includes a second ghostly tale, ‘Brangwyn Gardens’, published here for the first time in the United States, and a new introduction by Orrin Grey.

Download or read book The Cathedral written by J.-K. Huysmans and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Cathedral' is a novel written by J.-K. Huysmans. It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the character of Durtal in Là-bas and En route, which recounted his conversion to Catholicism. The Cathedral continues the story. After his retreat at a Trappist monastery, Durtal moved to the city of Chartres, renowned for its cathedral. Huysmans describes the building in great detail.

Download or read book Cathedral of Horror and Other Stories written by Arthur J. Burks and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1934 and the dying days of Popular Publications' three weird menace pulps, Arthur J. Burks contributed some five dozen tales, most of novelette length. John Pelan has sifted through them and introduces this first volume of Burks' weird works. The eleven stories are only a sample of what we have in store for you. Cathedral of Horror, Terror Tales, July/August 1938 Priestess of Shame, Dime Mystery Magazine July 1935 Room of Shadows, Weird Tales May 1936 Keepers of the Black Tavern, Terror Tales May 1935 Bells of Oceana, Weird Tales December 1927 Black Harvest of Moraine, Weird Tales January 1950 Slaves of the Blood Wolves Terror Tales Dec. 1935 The Death Kiss, Thrilling Mystery, June 1936 A Bride for Death, Terror Tales April 1936 The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee Weird Tales May 1926 Devils in the Dust Thrilling Mystery, December 1935

Download or read book City of the Iron Fish written by Simon Ings and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Ings has written a surreal adventure probing the very fabric of existence, tearing it open to reveal a sometimes horrifying world within. It is a work that will delight any fan of China Mieville. Only a fool would question the strange magics that maintain the cool haven of the City of the Iron Fish in the middle of an inferno of scorching heat and splintered rock, for the well-watered streets of the city hide secrets in their shadows. Thomas Kemp is just such a fool ... And embarks on a journey that will take him to the limits of reality. It may kill him, worse, that may not be enough. Especially as it is his only friend, Blythe, who may discover the secret of the city's isolation.

Download or read book Cathedral of the Wild written by Boyd Varty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a gorgeous, lyrical, hilarious, important book. . . . Read this and you may find yourself instinctively beginning to heal old wounds: in yourself, in others, and just maybe in the cathedral of the wild that is our true home.”—Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than eighty years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve beginning in 1973 by Varty’s father and uncle, visionaries of the restoration movement. But it wasn’t just a sanctuary for the animals; it was also a place for ravaged land to flourish again and for the human spirit to be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after twenty-seven years of imprisonment, he came to the reserve to recover. Cathedral of the Wild is Varty’s memoir of his life in this exquisite and vast refuge. At Londolozi, Varty gained the confidence that emerges from living in Africa. “We came out strong and largely unafraid of life,” he writes, “with the full knowledge of its dangers.” It was there that young Boyd and his equally adventurous sister learned to track animals, raised leopard and lion cubs, followed their larger-than-life uncle on his many adventures filming wildlife, and became one with the land. Varty survived a harrowing black mamba encounter, a debilitating bout with malaria, even a vicious crocodile attack, but his biggest challenge was a personal crisis of purpose. An intense spiritual quest takes him across the globe and back again—to reconnect with nature and “rediscover the track.” Cathedral of the Wild is a story of transformation that inspires a great appreciation for the beauty and order of the natural world. With conviction, hope, and humor, Varty makes a passionate claim for the power of the wild to restore the human spirit. Praise for Cathedral of the Wild “Extremely touching . . . a book about growth and hope.”—The New York Times “It made me cry with its hard-won truths about human and animal nature. . . . Both funny and deeply moving, this book belongs on the shelf of everyone who seeks healing in wilderness.”—BookPage

Download or read book Listen in terror written by Richard Hand and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time. The book offers an historical, critical and theoretical exploration of horror radio and audio performance examining key areas such as writing, narrative, performance practice and reception throughout the history of that most unjustly neglected of popular art forms: radio drama and ‘spoken word’ auditory cultures. The volume draws on extensive archival research as well as insightful interviews with significant writers, producers and actors. The book offers detailed analysis of major radio series such as Appointment with Fear, The Man in Black, The Price of Fear and Fear on Four as well as one-off horror plays, comedy-horror and experimental uses of binaural and digital technology in producing uncanny audio.

Download or read book Romancing the Cathedral written by Elizabeth Emery and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of political, art historical, and literary discourse, this book considers French fascination with the Gothic cathedral.

Download or read book Black Cathedral written by L. H. Maynard and published by Dorchester Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 13, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house.

Download or read book Nazi Terror written by Eric A. Johnson and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 1999 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson's exhaustive new history tackles terror, the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship, focusing on the role of the society in making this tactic work, and delving deeply into the how and why of this horrendous regime. Illustrations.

Download or read book The cathedral s shadow by Marianne Farningham written by Mary Anne Hearne and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Malice written by Robert Tanenbaum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Karp family is back at it in Malice, bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum's most suspenseful book yet in the Butch Karp/Marlene Ciampi series.New York District Attorney Butch Karp, recovering from an assassination attempt that came within a few millimeters of killing him, takes on a shadowy cartel that uses terrorists to further its criminal empire while sliding the United States toward a fascist state that the cartel controls. As Karp struggles to uncover those responsible for planning the terrorist murders of six school- children, he goes to the aid of the younger brother of his college roommate, who has been unfairly suspended from his position as baseball coach at a university in Idaho.Meanwhile, Marlene Ciampi is in Idaho to help her husband with the investigation, and she befriends a Basque sheepherder who is demanding answers to the disappearance of his daughter -- a pretty college coed he suspects is having an affair with the school's president -- which may be related to Karp's case. And if that wasn't enough, the couple's daughter, Lucy, and her eclectic group of accomplices must uncover a traitor's plot and stop an assassination attempt surreptitiously planned to occur in the heart of Manhattan.Malice is filled with twists and story lines torn from today's headlines, and once again delivers Tanenbaum's one-of-a-kind courtroom scenes that, by the exciting climax, have been woven into a single, brilliant tapestry of action and suspense.

Download or read book Making Modern Spain written by Azariah Alfante and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain. Focusing on the social experience, this book probes the tensions between traditionalism and liberalism that influenced public opinion of the clergy, sacred buildings, and religious orders. The writings of Cecilia Böhl de Faber (Fernán Caballero), Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, and José María de Pereda addressed conflicts between modernizing forces and the Catholic Church about the place of religion and its signifiers in Spanish society. Foregrounding expropriation (government confiscation of civil and ecclesiastical property) and exclaustration (the expulsion of religious communities), and drawing on archival research, the history of disentailment, cultural theory, memory studies, and sociology, Alfante demonstrates how Spain’s liberalizing movement profoundly influenced class mobility and faith among the populace.

Download or read book The Cathedral of the World written by F. Forrester Church and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 24, 2009, Forrest Church succumbed to a three-year battle against esophageal cancer. As his final gift, the beloved minister and acclaimed author wrote one last book, leaving behind a clear statement of his universalist theology and liberal faith. The Cathedral of the World draws from the entire span of Church's life's work, recasting public addresses and adapted book chapters, articles, and several previously unpublished pieces into a single argument. Giving new voice to the power of liberal religion, Church invites all seekers to enter the Cathedral of the World, home to many windows but only one Light.

Download or read book Holy Terror written by Richard Marcinko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn calls “the real deal,” Richard Marcinko delivers a Rogue Warrior thriller that finds Demo Dick darkening the aisles of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City—tracking a group of terrorists who want to turn the world’s largest Catholic church into the world’s biggest Roman candle. Nothing and no one is sacred when the Rogue Warrior smokes out a terrorist network with plans to turn the Vatican to ash. In Holy Terror, the former SEAL commander fires his first shots at a NATO conference in Rome, where he caps off his blistering anti-terror speech with a helpful visual aid—eliminating a "waiter" and playing volleyball with a live grenade. As Demo Dick and his team trail terrorist kingpin Saladin, the manhunt pulls them into tracking stolen nukes in Sicily, facing down a predator in the jungles of Thailand, and flying on a prayer aboard a hijacked jet. Marcinko's mission is one final, explosive showdown with the bad guys—and there will be hell to pay.

Download or read book Terrorism written by Randall D. Law and published by Polity. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book leads the reader through the shifting understandings and definitions of terrorism through the ages, providing an understanding of the uses of and responses to terrorism. Extentisvely covers jihadism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland and the Ku Klux Klan, plus many other movements.

Download or read book Traditions and Customs of Cathedrals written by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: