Download or read book The Bloodwind written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BLOODWIND IS SILENT It grows from hate and fear and jealousy, rising over Oxrun Station in a miasma of terror and anger. Its target: anyone who dares to speak or act against its master. To many in Oxrun Station, it is Pat Shavers who controls the Bloodwind, for it strikes down her enemies. But Pat is terrified of the mysterious destructive force. The earlier deaths have been accidents—hers will be murder.

Download or read book Dialing the Wind written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oxrun Station, the wind carries dark musics and dark magics … and summoning the wind can call you to your doom. The spectral sound of folk music was a sound not everyone could hear. Only those desperate for love heard the haunting notes—and had their lives forever altered.

Download or read book The House That Jack Built written by Jakob Melander and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the crime series featuring Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, and drug addict — and the most dedicated detective in Copenhagen. A young prostitute is found murdered at the common in Copenhagen. The woman’s body has been preserved and her eyes removed with surgical precision. Not long after, another body is discovered treated in the exact same manner. The press quickly names the spectacular case the Sandman Killings. Detective Inspector Lars Winkler is put on the case. With an addiction to classical rock music and the odd line of speed, Lars is struggling to get his life back together, mostly with his sixteen-year-old daughter, Maria, who lives with him in his rundown apartment. His wife has left him for his old friend and former boss. Meanwhile, the atmosphere in the Homicide and Serious Crime Department is tense. Despite support from his new young partner, Sanne Bissen, Lars feels edged out. While tracking Copenhagen’s most sadistic serial killer to date, his past — which has long been kept secret — is slowly catching up to him.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Download or read book Battle God Emperor written by Feng ShiSanLang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invincible Heaven Fighting Saint was betrayed by his celestial wife and brothers. He was reborn in his youth and swore to become the War God Emperor in this world. He would crush all strong enemies and peerless beauties and beat them up! A hot-blooded battle with no end in sight! In the vast and boundless Pangu Continent, large and small sects, ancient sacred lands, ancient aristocratic clans, and ten thousand different dynasties competed against each other; in the many secular dynasties, the imperial power was supreme, ruling over ten thousand miles. Was it to become an ant or an ordinary spirit, or to condense battle qi to become a warrior, to awaken the three types of battle spirits, to experience hundreds of battles to comprehend the four types of battle force, to become a peerless expert, to become a Holy Land of War, to shatter the void, and to compete with the Heavens! This was a world of warriors, cultivating battle qi, transforming the soul of war, condensing battle force, and rising above all worlds!

Download or read book Once Upon a Time in the East written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAVE TIME MACHINE, WILL TRAVEL… The man they call Diego is a gunslinger on the run. And, by accident, he finds the perfect place to hide—the future! But he's about to discover that New York City in the 1990s is no less dangerous than the Old West in the 1880s… Follow the Man they call Diego through time and space in this exciting time-travel series.

Download or read book Thai Massage written by Richard Gold and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical and highly illustrated introduction to the principles and techniques of Thai massage discusses the theories of Thai medicine and its Chinese and Ayurvedic influences. It offers clear and easy-to-follow descriptions for all Thai massage techniques accompanied by full color photographs and drawings, with arrows to indicate direction of movement. Basic explanations describe how massage therapists can use elements of these techniques and apply them immediately in their own practice. The book includes a DVD with 45 minutes of video showing techniques and routines in real time, to demonstrate appropriate pacing. Gives clear and easy-to-follow descriptions for each technique. Techniques can be used alone, in conjunction with other forms of massage, or to facilitate Yoga and other meditation practices. Clinically valuable and practical explanations of how to use elements of the procedures make it easy for therapists to enrich their practice with these techniques -- whether applying all of the methods, or starting with stretches alone. Features an icon throughout the text that calls attention to precautions therapists must be aware of for safe and effective sessions. Includes a 45-minute DVD presenting video of techniques and routines in real time, to demonstrate proper pacing. Photographs, drawings, and illustrations of techniques are now in full color, for greater clarity of concepts. More historical background provides a deeper understanding of this ancient medical art. An accompanying DVD offers a 45-minute video of a Thai massage session in real time - demonstrating procedures with proper pacing. The visual approach along with its step-by-step narration helps viewers understand how the concepts discussed in the book translate to actual practice. The book also includes DVD icons that indicate which techniques are demonstrated on the DVD. Increased coverage of body mechanics helps readers understand the difference between correct and incorrect technique. Legends below the photographs provide specific information on the muscles being pressed or stretched with each technique to help therapists understand how this art of Asian healing corresponds to Western anatomy. A new Muscle Atlas appendix helps to further identify muscles mentioned in these legends. A new chapter, Correlations to Yoga, outlines the correlations between specific Thai massage procedures and yoga postures to help therapists incorporate Yoga into their practices. A new chapter, Suggested Sequences, provides guidelines for 60-, 90-, and 120-minute sessions - taking the guesswork out of planning Thai massage sessions.

Download or read book International Dictionary of the English language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 2132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Horror at Halloween Prologue and Part Five Cody written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OXRUN STATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN DIFFERENT. Nobody can really explain it. You just have to understand that bizarre things happen there. They just do. Weird things. The kind of things you don't even want to dream about in your worst nightmares. Trick-or-treat is crazy enough, with ghosts and goblins and witches and warlocks and all manner of other horrors roaming the streets. But in Oxrun Station, the masks aren't always made of rubber. It's Halloween in Oxrun Station, and Cody Banning and his friends must find a way to stop a mysterious old man from slowly killing the kids in town so that he can live forever . . . The fabric of the cosmos is unravelling and dark and dangerous things are leaking across the borders . . . For five unsuspecting teenagers, their lives will never be the same again as they discover the hidden terrors lurking beneath the surface of their quiet town and experience the most horrifying Halloween of them all . . . This year in Oxrun Station, THE TRICK IS TO STAY ALIVE!

Download or read book Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Zombies written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The zombie - a soulless corpse raised from the grave to do its master's bidding - may have had its factual basis in the voodoo ceremonies of the West Indies, but it is in fiction, movies, video games and comics that the walking dead have flourished. What makes a zombie? This Twentieth Anniversary Edition of one of the first and most influential zombie anthologies answers that question with 26 tales of rot and resurrection from classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James and J. Sheridan Le Fanu, along with modern masters of the macabre Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Hugh B. Cave, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Tuttle, Karl Edward Wagner and many more. From Caribbean rituals to ancient magic, mesmerism to modern science, these terrifying tales depict a wide range of nefarious methods and questionable reasons for bringing the dead back to life again.

Download or read book The Black Carousel written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night—the carnival grounds are empty … Or are they? Laughter and screams float faintly on the wind. Echoes of the day's fairgoers—or cries of the damned, rising form Hell? At the carnival's core is the black carousel, whirling to a special rhythm that is almost a heartbeat. Its creatures seem alive in the flickering lights as they spin hypnotically past. And those who dare to ride are forever … changed.

Download or read book Zombies written by Stephen Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From master editor of horror anthologies Stephen Jones comes this collection of twenty-six stories to make your skin crawl. Within this terrifying tome, you’ll discover classic tales of the macabre, memorable yarns culled from the pages of pulp magazines, original stories by some of the greatest minds in horror, and two novellas not published anywhere else. Living corpses intervene in a production of Twelfth Night. An undead suitor pursues his beloved. Desperate mortals fight to survive a night of the undead. It’s all inside. And it’s coming for you. Zombie tales by: Clive Barker Robert Bloch Ramsey Campbell H. P. Lovecraft Joe R. Lansdale J. Sheridan Le Fanu Edgar Allan Poe And many more Fans of The Walking Dead and World War Z, brace yourselves. These phenomenal stories from horror masters will get inside your head and leave you wanting more.

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of New Terror written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 20 terrifying stories and short novels by the masters of gore, including Graham Masterton, Ramsay Campbell, R. Chetwyn-Hayes and Neil Gaiman. This sequel to the classic Mammoth horror anthology features five new and unpublished stories from some of the biggest and brightest names on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as gems from acknowledged masters. All veins of the genre are represented including suspense, visceral horror and sheer razor-slashing terror. From Brian Lumley's disturbing 'Fruiting Bodies' and Basil Copper's 'The Candle in the Skull' to Christopher Fowler's 'Turbo-Satan' and Kim Newman's 'Amerikanski Bed at the Moscow Morgue', this is a spine-chilling collection guaranteed to make the hair stand up on the back of your neck!

Download or read book Black Oak 5 written by Charles L. Grant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LONG-LOST FRIEND Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor, who has just received a cryptic message from an old friend of his father. Proctor is being asked to look into a series of disappearances and brutal mutilations in the swampy woodlands northwest of Atlanta, Georgia. Some think the culprit is a real-life wolfman, A LONG-HIDDEN SECRET What Proctor doesn’t know is that the terror in the swampy backwoods is linked to something much more personal. It is an evil mystery that has haunted Proctor for months. And when he uncovers the truth, he will be lucky to survive it …

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