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By Peter Carver. 2006
More original short horror stories by Canadian authors. Tales of ghosts, werewolves, and vampires, including "Prince Sandred," about a necrophiliac…
prince searching for his perfect love. Other stories deal with aspects of teen life, like how do you deal with an abusive parent, or what happens if your teacher is a psycho murderer? Sequel to "The horrors - book one: terrifying tales" (DC28947). For senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.By Peter Carver. 2005
A collection of 15 horror stories by Canadian young adult writers. A yearbook editor makes psychic predictions about students' futures;…
when one girl is killed in an accident as foretold, the students realize they could be next. In another, a girl can't understand why her family has locked her out of the house and why no one will talk to her, but when she overhears her friends talking about a train crash, she realizes that she was the victim. Followed by "The horrors - book two: terrifying tales" (DC28948). For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. 2005.By Auline Bates, Denise Charbonneau. 1991
Histoire qui semble commencer comme un conte de fées et qui tourne au cauchemar. Une étudiante décroche un emploi de…
rêve (prendre soin d'un bébé dans une île romantique), mais bientôt l'île enchanteresse se referme sur elle comme une prison, et la peur, à pas de loup, s'installe. 1991. Titre uniforme: Mother's helper.By Veronika Martenova Charles. 2007
Having been warned to stay away from the high waters of the local creek, the boys' imaginations run as swiftly…
as the stream. Before they know it, they have scared themselves silly with stories like The Children with Green Teeth, from Britain; The Deadly Beach, from Hawaii; and The Waterman, from Central Europe. Some descriptions of violence. Grades K-3. 2007.By Sonia Sarfati. 2018
Lorsqu'ils ont débarqué à la maison de campagne que la mère de Théo avait louée pour les vacances, Nicolas et…
son cousin ignoraient tout du lourd passé de Baie-des-Corbeaux. Ils ne savaient rien du peintre damné. Rien des sorcières rouges qui le haïssaient. S'ils avaient été mieux informés, les deux garçons n'auraient sûrement pas forcé l'ouverture de la trappe permettant d'accéder au grenier. Ils ne se seraient jamais approchés des horribles toiles qui y étaient accrochées. Mais, hélas, ils ne savaient pasBy Julie Royer. 2019
L'école des Étoiles savantes prépare sa tombola annuelle pendant laquelle se tiendra son traditionnel concours du meilleur petit gâteau à…
la crème. Mais bientôt, les 4Z trouvent un livre dans le local du concierge. On y raconte que les fantômes d'un couple de jumeaux morts empoisonnés par des petits gâteaux durant la tombola de l'école, il y a 75 ans, sont sur le point de revenir pour se venger... Des traces sanglantes sur le plancher de la salle des enseignants, puis des bruits horribles provenant du sous-sol de l'école laissent présager le pire... Les 4Z viendront-ils à bout des revenants ? Chose certaine, cette nouvelle mission ne sera pas de la tarteBy Graeme Davis. 2019
This collection of twenty-six stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcases the prominent role of women in the…
formation of the horror genre. Includes stories from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more. Some violence. 2019By Charlaine Harris. 2013
Series author Charlaine Harris reveals the fate of each character in Bon Temps's world of vampires, werewolves, and faeries. Did…
Sookie marry Sam? Could Eric stay true to Freyda? What became of Fangtasia? And which favorite went on to make a fortune creating video games? 2013By Charlaine Harris. 2011
Features the novella Small-Town Wedding, in which Sookie and her boss Sam, a shape-shifter, attend nuptials in Sam's Texas hometown.…
Includes trivia and fan questions, recipes, and a guide to Sookie's world of vampires, werewolves, and fairies. 2011A family settles into a Cape Cod home with an unusual subterranean tropical garden. Thousands of miles away in the…
Brazilian jungle, an explorer makes a disturbing offer to an isolated tribe. Ancient evil finds a high tech host in this gripping thriller. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sexBy Tim Wynne-Jones. 1995
Seven stories of magic, ghosts, and unlikely heroes. Characters in the stories have to deal with strange people with noserings…
who listen to really weird music, how to handle bullies, and using the "I Ching" - the Book of Changes. Grades 5-8. 1995."A man faces the serious and mysterious consequences of his unusual paternity. A young peasant girl takes an eccentric villager…
as her lover and pays for her audacity. A group of revelers experience horror at the abuses and vicissitudes of a strange visitor. We accompany a sick man on his journey through the landscapes of his feverish delirium, only to get lost along the way and arrive at the end that was not. A man emigrates from his homeland in search of a bait in the form of a woman and ends up facing a fantastic opponent. These are some of Pedro Cabiya's Tremendous Stories, the first book by the then very young writer and a fundamental text that forever changed the rules of the game in Caribbean literature." -- Translation provided by NLSBy Nancy Whitelaw. 2006
Biography of award-winning horror writer. Discusses King's difficult childhood in Maine, a setting for many of his stories, as well…
as his adolescence, college years, marriage, and eventual success. Describes King's struggles with censorship, fame, and the creative process. For senior high readers. 2006By Jocelyn Boisvert. 2021
À peine débarqués aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine pour les vacances, Nathan et Rémi font la rencontre de deux sympathiques Madelinots. Au fil…
de la conversation, Maya et Noé révèlent aux jeunes touristes l'existence du rocher du Diable, une immense pierre en forme de tête-de-mort, située au cœur de la crique des Damnés. Selon la légende, ce lieu serait à l'origine de nombreuses morts mystérieuses. Mis au défi par leurs nouveaux amis, les frères Bilodeau acceptent d'aller visiter cet endroit supposément hanté. Un défi qu'ils risquent de regretter longtemps... s'ils parviennent à s'en sortir vivantsBy Mathieu Fortin. 2022
La nuit de l'horreur, une activité d'immersion extrême dans l'univers de la terreur. Cristina ne voulait pas y aller. Pourtant,…
elle y est. Ceux qui ressortiront de la forêt avant le lever du soleil se sépareront une intéressante somme d'argent. C'est sa seule motivation : amasser assez d'argent pour payer le traitement expérimental de sa mère. Pour ça, elle devra s'assurer de réussir... tout en faisant échouer le plus de joueurs possibles. Mais quand les scénarios déraillent et que du véritable sang commence à couler, c'est plutôt sa survie qui est en jeuBy François Gravel. 2017
Empiler quelques livres poussiéreux dans des boîtes, ça ne semble pas très sorcier. Quand le vieux bibliothécaire de son collège…
lui propose cet emploi de fin de semaine, Mathieu n'hésite pas très longtemps avant d'accepter. Une fois seul dans les sombres sous-sols de l'école, il réalise cependant assez vite qu'il a commis une grave erreur.By Simon Hay. 2011
Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples fromSir Walter…
Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James andRudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma. "By Lisa Hopkins. 2005
Filmmakers have long been drawn to the Gothic with its eerie settings and promise of horror lurking beneath the surface.…
Moreover, the Gothic allows filmmakers to hold a mirror up to their own age and reveal society's deepest fears. Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet are just a few examples of film adaptations of literary Gothic texts. In this ground-breaking study, Lisa Hopkins explores how the Gothic has been deployed in these and other contemporary films and comes to some surprising conclusions. For instance, in a brilliant chapter on films geared to children, Hopkins finds that horror resides not in the trolls, wizards, and goblins that abound in Harry Potter, but in the heart of the family. Screening the Gothic offers a radical new way of understanding the relationship between film and the Gothic as it surveys a wide range of films, many of which have received scant critical attention. Its central claim is that, paradoxically, those texts whose affiliations with the Gothic were the clearest became the least Gothic when filmed. Thus, Hopkins surprises readers by revealing Gothic elements in films such as Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park, as well as exploring more obviously Gothic films like The Mummy and The Fellowship of the Ring. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, Screening the Gothic will be of interest to film lovers as well as students and scholars.By Eugene Stelzig, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe. 2019
Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one…
that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante’s Inferno and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This is the first new translation into English since David Constantine’s 2005 version. Why another translation when there are several currently in print? To invoke Goethe’s own authority when speaking of his favorite author, Shakespeare, Goethe asserts that so much has already been said about the poet-dramatist “that it would seem there’s nothing left to say,” but adds, “yet it is the peculiar attribute of the spirit that it constantly motivates the spirit.” Goethe’s great dramatic poem continues to speak to us in new ways as we and our world continually change, and thus a new or updated translation is always necessary to bring to light Faust’s almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power. Eugene Stelzig’s new translation renders the text of the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary undergraduate audience while at the same time maintaining its leading poetic features, including the use of rhyme. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.By Scott Maisano, Rob Conkie. 2019
What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes…
of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare. Creative writing, demonstrated in a series of essays, reflections, stories and scenes, operates as a vehicle for exploring and articulating critical and theoretical ideas. In doing so, Shakespeare’s enduring creative and critical appeal is newly understood and critiqued.