Download or read book The Horror of Love written by Lisa Hilton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic love story of two extraordinary individuals--Nancy Mitford and free French commander Gaston Palewski--living in extraordinary times. “Oh, the horror of love!” Nancy Mitford once exclaimed to her sister Diana Mosley. Elegant and intelligent, Nancy was a reknowned wit and a popular author. Yet this bright, waspish woman gave her heart to a well-known philanderer who went on to marry another woman. Was Nancy that unremarkable thing—a deluded lover—or was she a remarkable woman engaged in a sophisticated love affair? Gaston Palewski was a Free French commander and one of the most influential politicians in post-war Europe. She supported him throughout his tumultuous career and he inspired some of her best work, including The Pursuit of Love. Lisa Hilton’s provocative and emotionally challenging book reveals how, with discipline, gentleness, and a great deal of elegance, Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski achieved an affair of the heart.

Download or read book The Horror of It All written by Adam Rockoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as Adam Rockoff, “a passionate fan of the horror genre in all its forms,” (The New York Times) recalls a life spent watching blockbuster slasher films, cult classics, and everything in between. Horror films have simultaneously captivated and terrified audiences for generations, racking up millions of dollars at the box office and infusing our nightmares with chainsaws, goblins, and blood-spattered machetes. Today’s hottest television shows feature classic horror elements, from marauding zombies and sexy vampires to myriad incarnations of the devil himself. Yet the horror genre and its controversial offshoots continue to occupy a nebulous space in our critical dialogue. The Horror of It All is a memoir from the front lines of the horror industry that dissects (and occasionally defends) the massively popular phenomenon of scary movies. Author Adam Rockoff delivers “the sharpest pop culture criticism you’ll find in any medium today,” (Rue Morgue) as he traces the highs and lows of the genre through the lens of his own obsessive fandom, which began in the horror aisles of his childhood video store and continued with a steady diet of cable trash. From the convergence of horror and heavy metal, to Siskel and Ebert’s crusade against the slasher flick, to the legacy of the Scream franchise, and the behind-the-scenes work of horror directors and make-up artists, Rockoff mines the rich history of the genre, braiding critical analysis with his own firsthand experiences as a horror writer and producer. Filled with mordant wit and sharp insight, The Horror of It All “is an amiable and often amusing guide” (Kirkus Reviews) that explains why horror films not only endure, but continue to prosper. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Download or read book Songs of Love and Horror Collected Lyrics of Will Oldham written by Will Oldham and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of lyrics from three decades of songwriting. As a performer, songwriter, and actor, Will Oldham has carved a singular path through the worlds of indie folk and cinema. Now the critically acclaimed, enigmatic artist presents his life’s work: the lyrics to more than two hundred songs spanning the 1980s to the present, each with annotations that impart new meaning to his music. Oldham’s aphoristic meditations—on death, patience, and turning carelessness into a virtue—are, like his lyrics, profound, earthy, and often funny. They reveal flashes of Oldham’s philosophy, the sources and circumstances that inspired his lyrics, and the literary ambition of his songwriting. Separated from their aural form, Oldham’s lyrics become a new kind of poetry—candid, awkward, and wise—with influences as diverse as Rabindranath Tagore and The Mekons. A book that will delight his longtime fans and inspire young songwriters, Songs of Love and Horror reveals an artist who has captured extraordinary poetry in music despite being "a stranger among my own language."

Download or read book Plain Bad Heroines written by Emily M. Danforth and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire . . . [and] what makes all this so much fun is Danforth’s deliciously ghoulish voice . . . exquisite." —Ron Charles, THE WASHINGTON POST "A multi-faceted novel, equal parts gothic, sharply funny, sapphic romance, historical, and, of course, spooky.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Named a Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly • Washington Post • USA Today • Time • O, The Oprah Magazine • Buzzfeed • Harper's Bazaar • Vulture • Parade • HuffPost • Refinery29 • Popsugar • E! News • Bustle • The Millions • GoodReads • Autostraddle • Lambda Literary • Literary Hub • and more! The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period-inspired illustrations, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read. “Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake.” –O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

Download or read book Last Page written by Dr Sanjay Kumar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aryan was the student of an I. A. S, who took always much discount on many things of life. Once he falls in love of two girls named Anjali and Pallawi, but there was a problem - He had to select one of them. He solved this problem but the problem was not clear off, Because in a certain place there was also a girl, named Soya............. "

Download or read book Queen of Teeth written by Hailey Piper and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America.She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb.But, when ABP corporate goons upend her life, she realizes her secondary teeth might be evidence of a new experiment for which she's the most advanced test tube . . . a situation worsened when Yaya's condition sprouts horns, tentacles, and a mind of its own.On the run and transforming, Yaya may be either ABP's greatest success, or the deadliest failure science has ever created.

Download or read book Horror Movie a Day written by Brian Collins and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over six years, Brian Collins watched and reviewed a different horror movie every single day. Most of them stunk. With over 2500 reviews on the Horror Movie A Day website, finding the worthwhile ones can be a chore, so Collins has curated a selection of choice films - 365 of them in fact, one for every day of the year. Each month has a different theme and offers a variety of films within that theme for your viewing enjoyment. And they're not the ones you've seen already - most of the book's selections are obscure, indie, or foreign titles that a casual horror fan hasn't seen yet. Every movie is someone's favorite movie - perhaps this book will introduce you to yours.

Download or read book Run Hide written by Beatrix Hollow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters--shadows, gills, wings, and more. The things I fear crave me... and they've been here the whole time. Hiding, waiting, and wanting. Lurking, sneaking, and watching. Traveling the country camping was supposed to be an escape from the strange and unusual that clings to my family. My family's calling to fame terrifies me. The ghosts, the hauntings, the supernatural--I want nothing to do with it. Too bad it wants everything to do with me. Where did the trip first go wrong? Maybe when an old friend with dark secrets insisted on coming--a rising rock star whose fame is now putting me in the limelight. Then there is the West Virginia local legend. A monster myth of cryptid fame. A campfire story. But there are those that believe--that are willing to do whatever it takes to capture the monster in the mountains. Maybe even use humans as bait. Maybe even use me. Author Note: This is a monster romance with multiple love interests the female lead will not choose between. There are mature themes including spice, significant violence, language, and etc. This is book one of a series and will be slow build, meaning not all love interests are introduced in book one.

Download or read book The Horror of Love written by Lisa Hilton and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies and Autobiographies.

Download or read book The Horror of Our Love Softcover written by Isis Arguello and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horror of Our Love - Softcover by Isis Arguello is a La Plume 2015 Winner.

Download or read book The Horror is Within written by Terry Lynn Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love is a Horror Story written by Nory Elcano and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret to move on is to FREAK OUT… Wait…What?! Nasa kanya na raw ang lahat pero friendzone si Blue Sandejas sa kanyang kababatang matagal na niyang minahal. Yes. Mas gusto kasi nito ang bad boy. Dahil dito, natakot na ang tinaguriang “Pambansang Thirdwheel” ng Pilipinas na magmahal uli kaya nagsimulang magsungit at umiwas sa mga babae. Tahimik na sana ang pagmo-move on ni Blue pero sa ‘di inaasahang pagkakataon ay dumating sa buhay niya si – teka lang, wala pala itong maalala. Pansamantala, tinawag muna niya itong Sadako. Bakit? Kasi unang pagkikita nila ay kinagat siya nito, naglalakad ito na parang wala sa sarili, tumatawa at nagsasalita na parang multo kapag gabi. As in nakakatakot talaga! Pero ano nga kaya ang gagawin ng matatakutin na si Blue kung malaman niyang siya ang ugat ng trahedya sa buhay ni Sadako na kapag nalaman ng mundo ay talaga namang ikasisira hindi lang ng kanyang papausbong na career bilang artista kung ‘di ng kanyang pamilya? Love is a Horror Story - Paperback

Download or read book The Philosophy of Horror written by Thomas Richard Fahy and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave the fear and exhilaration generated by a terrifying story; their anticipation is palpable. But they also breathe a sigh of relief when the action is over, when they are able to close their books or leave the movie theater. Whether serious, kitschy, frightening, or ridiculous, horror not only arouses the senses but also raises profound questions about fear, safety, justice, and suffering. From literature and urban legends to film and television, horror's ability to thrill has made it an integral part of modern entertainment. Thomas Fahy and twelve other scholars reveal the underlying themes of the genre in The Philosophy of Horror. Examining the evolving role of horror, the contributing authors investigate works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), horror films of the 1930s, Stephen King's novels, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining (1980), and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Also examined are works that have largely been ignored in philosophical circles, including Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1965), Patrick Süskind's Perfume (1985), and James Purdy's Narrow Rooms (2005). The analysis also extends to contemporary forms of popular horror and "torture-horror" films of the last decade, including Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Devil's Rejects (2005), and The Hills Have Eyes (2006), as well as the ongoing popularity of horror on the small screen. The Philosophy of Horror celebrates the strange, compelling, and disturbing elements of horror, drawing on interpretive approaches such as feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, and psychoanalytic criticism. The book invites readers to consider horror's various manifestations and transformations since the late 1700s, probing its social, cultural, and political functions in today's media-hungry society.

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Download or read book Cruelty and obscenity Why people love to be afraid written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the present, grade: 0,8, , language: English, abstract: Whether popular films such as Conjuring, Halloween or Scream - horror films are becoming more and more popular every year. The beginning of this widespread popularity started as early as 1913 with the creation of the first major horror movie in Germany, "The Student of Prague".1 Over the decades, there was an abrupt development in the film industry. Horror films were no longer designed solely to shock their viewers, but rather to terrify them through the use of effects. This development continues to this day, with scenes and storylines based on making them as realistic as possible. In view of this fact, obscene and at the same time provocative depictions have emerged without any form of morality or sense of guilt.2 Thus, the sole purpose of cinematic horror is to maintain the taboo.3 The reason why we as humans feel a desire to be creeped out, to be afraid or even to indulge in fear has been the subject of clear attempts to clarify for some time. Many who deal with this question assume that the main cause is the effect that is based on the reaction to what is shown. However, evolution and our role at that time also represent an important point. This seminar paper will attempt to find an answer and thus a reason for the far-reaching popularity of the horror genre. In addition, the dangers of realism in today's film industry will be explained. Various perspectives, approaches and theories will serve as a methodology to clarify the aforementioned questions. In order to convey a general understanding of exactly what aspects the genre of horror contains, it is important to go into the scenic methods it claims for itself and to show the versatility of the mode of representation. Subsequently, as an introductory part to the main question of this elaboration, an attempt is made to establish a definition of fear. Various approaches to the question of why people love to be afraid are then presented. In addition, the consequences that go hand in hand with the brutality and realism of the portrayal are presented. Finally, the insights gained from the seminar paper are evaluated and briefly summarized.

Download or read book UNFULFILLED written by ANNE. PEARSON and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Walpurgis Hallow written by Stephen Johnson and published by Walpurgis Hallow. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN 80s HORROR LOVE STORY. Meet Eddie Gabriel. He's bored, disaffected, and would love nothing more than a date with his ex, cheer captain Cindy Valentine. But she's not taking his calls, and he's burnt bridges with the rest of the town. When a goth girl he rejected in high school takes him out, he finds he's in for more than he bargained for. Eddie Gabriel. Cindy Valentine. Alice Draiman. These three lost souls are in for more than they bargained for. Because the serial killer lurking in the haunted house is only one of the many horrors lurking in... WALPURGIS HALLOW.