Download or read book The Gingerbread Curse written by April Marcom and published by 5 Prince Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All her life, Falon's grandfather told her the age-old tale of 'The Gingerbread Man'. Even as a teenager, she'd fallen asleep to his favorite bedtime story, a special tradition she knew she'd never outgrow. However, when he makes a dying wish, asking her to visit a secret underground world of magic to rescue the best friend he left behind fifty years ago, the tale begins to come to life. Setting out with her self-obsessed cousin and a cure for the magicked man with skin like gingerbread, she finds herself tangled within an adventure nothing like the story her grandfather always told. Once having found the long lost man of her grandfather’s youth, her only hope of ever returning home, or even surviving his world, lies in the talons of a deadly hybrid she scarcely trusts. Together they must face the animals taken from the children's tale and magicked into monsters, a man who can move mountains who is bent on killing them all, and a labyrinth rumored to have never allowed a survivor.
Download or read book A Witch s Handbook of Kisses and Curses written by Molly Harper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted paranormal romance featuring a witch who finds love on a magical quest—set in Half Moon Hollow, the “terrific vamp camp” (Publishers Weekly) first introduced in the Nice Girls series. Nola Leary would have been content to stay in Kilcairy, Ireland, healing villagers at her family’s clinic with a mix of magic and modern medicine. But a series of ill-timed omens and a deathbed promise to her grandmother have sent her on a quest to Half-Moon Hollow, Kentucky, to secure her family’s magical potency for the next generation. Her supernatural task? To unearth four artifacts hidden by her grandfather before a rival magical family beats her to it. Complication One: The artifacts are lost somewhere in vampire Jane Jameson’s occult bookshop. Complication Two: Her new neighbor Jed Trudeau keeps turning up half-naked at the strangest times, a distraction Nola doesn’t need. And teaming up with a real-life Adonis is as dangerous as it sounds, especially since Jed’s got the face of an angel and the abs of a washboard. Can Nola complete her mission before falling completely under his spell?
Download or read book Once Upon A Curse written by E. D. Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma, who is both a princess and a powerful witch, must travel back in time to end a family curse or risk losing her true love, Prince Eadric, forever.
Download or read book The Blood Maker and the Witch s Curse written by Jaromy Henry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But for Kaden Cartwright, what happens in Vegas has a way of winding him up in a Salem Witch Trial. Discovering he possesses a ""sick-sense"" that enables him to alter and control bodily functions, Kaden uses these talents to become a successful doctor. After being pulled over by the Las Vegas police, he immediately senses that something is also different about the beautiful blonde officer ticketing him. Unlike in times past, in his effort to get out of the citation, he realizes his powers are not working on her. And it's all downhill from there. This chance encounter catapults him into a dangerous chasm of the occult. He faces everything from vampires and werewolves to organized crime. Discover why Las Vegas is really called Sin City in this action-packed adventure and how it all goes back to the Witch's Curse!
Download or read book The Complete Book of Spells Curses and Magical Recipes written by Leonard R. N. Ashley and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about casting spells, mixing up elixirs, andmaking...
Download or read book Mastering Fear written by Rikke Schubart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. In horror we engage not only with the negative emotions of fear and disgust, but with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age. Since the turn of the millennium, we have seen a new generation of female protagonists in horror. There are feisty teens in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), troubled mothers in The Babadook (2014), and struggling women in the New French extremity with Martyrs (2008) and Inside (2007). At the fuzzy edges of the genre are dramas like Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Black Swan (2010), and middle-age women are now protagonists with Carol in The Walking Dead (2010–) and Jessica Lange's characters in American Horror Story (2011–). Horror is not just for men, but also for women, and not just for the young, but for audiences of all ages.
Download or read book Bloody Women written by Victoria McCollum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror is the first book-length exploration of female creators at the cutting edge of contemporary horror, turning out some of its most inspired and twisted offerings.
Download or read book Sky s the Limit written by Janie Millman and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up... Sky is devastated when she finds that her husband is in love with someone else – her oldest friend Nick. Suddenly she has lost the two most important men in her life and her entire past feels like a lie. How can she ever trust again? Seeking escape, she goes alone on a dream trip to Marrakech where she meets Gail, a woman on a mission to meet the father of her child, a man she loved but thought did not want her. Marrakech brings unexpected joys – and insights – to both Sky and Gail. For Sky, these lead her to France, to a beautiful chateau and a family whose relationships seem as complicated as her own. Life can be messy, but the two women will discover exactly how high the power of friendship can lift them when they need it most. A feel-good, heart-felt tale of love, friendship and forgiveness. ‘Delightful and funny and full of the magic of Marrakech and South West France. A slice of sunshine.’ Julie Cohen, author of Together
Download or read book A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy written by Jeff Bishop and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Speculative John Green vibes live in these pages!” —BuzzFeed You’ve Reached Sam meets John Hughes in a funny and heartfelt debut about a boy’s delirious summertime quest with his ex-girlfriend. The summer after senior year should have been a time for Cam to party and hang out with his friends. It should also have been a time for him to win back the love of his life, Allison Tandy, who'd dumped him so brutally the year before. But it quickly becomes clear that this summer is going to be worse than a failure for Cam. It's going to be a tragedy. Ally is left comatose after a terrible car crash, then Cam tears his ACL in a basketball accident. The operation leaves him in agony, confined to his couch and ruminating over the fact that his ex may not survive. But when (after taking his medication) Cam starts seeing Ally, he starts to think: 1. He may be headed for a complete mental breakdown and 2. This summer might just be interesting afterall. Brimming with honesty and humor, A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy interrogates how much control we really have over matters of love—and life.
Download or read book Monstrous Bodies written by June Pulliam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent works of young adult fantastic fiction such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga have been criticized for glamorizing feminine subordination. But YA horror fiction with female protagonists who have paranormal abilities suggests a resistance to restrictive gender roles. The "monstrous Other" is a double with a difference, a metaphor of the Western adolescent girl pressured to embody an untenable doll-like feminine ideal. This book examines what each of three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction--the haunted girl, the female werewolf and the witch--has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires.
Download or read book College of Witchcraft Books 1 3 written by Alicia Rades and published by Crystallite Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 1625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Alicia Rades presents a spellbinding three-book box set where love is cursed at a paranormal academy and witches investigate dark mysteries to save their coven. Nadine is the only witch of her kind. With unique powerful abilities, she’s a prime contender to sit on the witch’s council—yet she’s anything but welcome. A haunting family curse threatens to force her out of her magical college, and revealing her greatest secret may lead to the destruction of her people. Lucas is the Reaper’s Apprentice, the only warlock of his generation destined to ferry the souls of the dead. Accepting his dark gift is as brutal as investigating the coven’s mysteries—from finding missing children to exposing the culprit behind a dangerous brew. He’s prepared to fight the darkness alone, until he receives a warning beyond the grave from Nadine’s mother. Magic is disappearing from the town, and fear is causing the coven to turn against their own. Nadine and Lucas agree to come together to restore the coven’s magic, but the priestesses that rule their coven have other plans… *** College of Witchcraft: Books 1-3 includes the first three books in a new adult urban fantasy series. Witches, warlocks, and reapers solve mysteries in this college-aged paranormal romance featuring a diverse cast and disabled main characters. Over 1300+ pages of wicked drama and supernatural schemes! The Coven's Secret is a Gold Medal Winner in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Contest. "Nadine and Lucas serve as the linchpins of The Coven's Secret, and Rades does an admirable job rounding them out with interesting, heartfelt—and, most importantly—relatable backstories." -The BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly "The story has a lot of action and plenty of twists - the ending will leave you wanting to read the next book straight away." -Anne-Marie Reynolds, Readers' Favorite ★★★★★ "The Coven’s Secret is a magical story that pulled me in from the first word and had me enthralled right up until the end." -Nancy Allen, The Avid Reader ★★★★★ "This was dark, mysterious, drama and angst filled, a touch romantic, tons magical and I can't wait for the next book so I can jump back into this world that I was not ready to leave! " -KRLGA, Smada's Book Smack ★★★★★ This title is one omnibus in a set of Hidden Legends collections. The Hidden Legends Universe features college-aged protagonists attending magical academies, dual points-of-view, disabled and diverse main characters, and steamy, empowering romances. Omnibus sets connected to this series include Academy of Magical Creatures, University of Sorcery, and Prison for Supernatural Offenders. Recommended reading age 18+ Search terms: paranormal romance, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, box set, magical books, academy books, new adult fantasy, witchcraft
Download or read book The Reaper s Shadow written by Alicia Rades and published by Crystallite Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even witches can’t outrun their curses. Nadine My magic’s been awakened, but being a witch is a death-wish. I’m the only Curse Breaker alive, and if the coven found out, they’d turn on me. I must hide who I truly am to ensure my freedom. There’s a witch in town intent on driving me out of my home. Chloe has stepped up her mean-girl tactics, but I refuse to leave Octavia Falls. I must find a way to break the curse over our families before her powers are awakened. As if one curse wasn’t enough. I’m on the verge of becoming the Reaper’s Shadow, the cursed mate of a Reaper’s Apprentice. Being with Lucas should be easy. I just have to outrun my darkness long enough to break the curse... Lucas Two children have gone missing from the coven, and no magic can find them. I want to help, but I don't know how. The only way to get my hands on information is to pursue my own investigation. Meanwhile, I fear that I’ve damned Nadine to a cursed life. If only I could keep my hands off her long enough to save her from death. *** Witches, warlocks, and reapers return in the thrilling second installment of the College of Witchcraft series! Read tarot, summon ghosts, and fight supernatural forces in this paranormal academy romance series. This series takes place in the Hidden Legends Universe, along with the University of Sorcery series, the College of Witchcraft series, and the Prison for Supernatural Offenders series. The Hidden Legends universe features college-aged protagonists attending magical academies, dual points-of-view, disabled and diverse main characters, and steamy, empowering romances. Each series stands on its own and can be read in any order. This is a full-length novel over 400 pages. Recommended reading age 18+ Face the reaper's curse and order today!
Download or read book Villain School Good Curses Evil written by Stephanie S. Sanders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Rune Drexler is struggling in his classes at Master Dreadthorn's School for Wayward Villains and will be exiled unless he and his friends, Countess Jezebel Dracula and Big Bad Wolf Junior, can succeed at a nearly impossible Plot.
Download or read book The Cursed Village written by Harripersad Samaroo and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usati is a four year old growing up in Sunnyvale, a small, poor and remote sugar cane farming village in Trinidad in the 1940’s. He describes the world he sees, and captures the language and culture of the mainly illiterate peasant workers who live around him. There is widespread belief in black magic, and nearby is the infamous silk-cotton tree which houses the evil spirits who are responsible for all the ills of the village. Usati looks after his two younger siblings. Even as a four year old he has to be a human shield for the neighbour on several occasions in the face of domestic violence. Life is hard and brutal with constant fear of violence and beatings. Following his mother’s death the children are brought up by their grandparents, but there are further constant upheavals within the family. Violence remains within all parts of this society, as is crime and suffering. Usati observes how his family suffers through their illiteracy and the society within which they live. Usati battles for a good education. He vows to bring literacy to the village and to fight against the cruelty that surrounds him. Usati and B started as teenage lovers, but can their love survive and endure a lifetime from the wicked curse and traumas of the intervening years?
Download or read book Buffy to Batgirl written by Julie M. Still and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction and fantasy are often thought of as stereotypically male genres, yet both have a long and celebrated history of female creators, characters, and fans. In particular, the science fiction and fantasy heroine is a recognized figure made popular in media such as Alien, The Terminator, and Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. Though imperfect, she is strong and definitely does not need to be saved by a man. This figure has had an undeniable influence on The Hunger Games, Divergent, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and many other, more recent female-led book and movie franchises. Despite their popularity, these fictional women have received inconsistent scholarly interest. This collection of new essays is intended to help fill a gap in the serious discussion of women and gender in science fiction and fantasy. The contributors are scholars, teachers, practicing writers, and other professionals in fields related to the genre. Critically examining the depiction of women and gender in science fiction and fantasy on both page and screen, they focus on characters who are as varied as they are interesting, and who range from vampire slayers to time travelers, witches, and spacefarers.
Download or read book AaBack s Grimm A Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale 4 The Battle In The Hedge Labyrinth s Dead Garden The True Beauty Raisin Sweet Tooth And The Jinx query written by Kristie Lynn Higgins and published by Kristie Lynn Higgins. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Type: novella and the word count is about 41,600 words The fairy tales you know with a wicked twist. Enter a deadly world that could use a little hope and love. Jane finds she is in a battle with the characters from Little Red Riding hood as she tries to protect the Beast from himself. AaBack's Grimm Dark Fantasy Action Adventure Fairy Tale Series: #1 Tale Of Two Worlds: The Wizard, The Battle Mage, And The Werewolf "FREE" #2 Friends Reunited: The Janus Beast, The Rose Beauty, And The Cursed Duckling "FREE" #3 Dragon Scorned: The Towering Mountain Citadel, The Sword Of Cross-Worlds, And The Maximus-curse #4 The Battle In The Hedge Labyrinth’s Dead Garden: The True Beauty, Raisin Sweet-Tooth, And The Jinx-query
Download or read book Horror Films of 2000 2009 written by John Kenneth Muir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested presidential election of 2000, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These social and political changes, as well as the influences of Japanese horror and New French extremism, had a profound effect on American horror filmmaking during the 2000s. This filmography covers more than 300 horror films released in America from 2000 through 2009, including such popular forms as found footage, torture porn, and remakes. Each entry covers a single film and includes credits, a synopsis, and a lengthy critical commentary. The appendices include common horror conventions, a performer hall of fame, and memorable ad lines.
