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More deadly than the male: masterpieces from the queens of horror

By Graeme Davis. 2019

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Short stories, Ghost and horror stories, General fictionAnthologies, Criticism
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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. 2019

After dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #14)

By Charlaine Harris. 2013

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Ghost and horror stories, FantasyCriticism
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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? 2013

The Sookie Stackhouse companion (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)

By Charlaine Harris. 2011

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Romantic suspense, Mysteries and crime stories, Ghost and horror stories, FantasyCriticism
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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. 2011

The secret of Bog Lane: an ancient evil reaches from a seaside American town into the heart of the Amazon jungle

By Americo Tulipano. 2011

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Suspense and thrillers, Ghost and horror storiesCriticism
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A 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 sex

Brida: Novela

By Paulo Coelho. 2008

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Ghost and horror stories, Contemporary romance, General fiction, Serious and literary fictionWitchcraft
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Brida O'Fern, a young Irishwoman, discovers she has occult powers and seeks out two masters--a magician and a witch--to guide…

her on a mystical and spiritual journey to enlightenment. Meanwhile, Brida faces a choice between two men in her personal life. Some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 1990

Brida: a novel

By Paulo Coelho. 2008

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Bestsellers (Fiction), Ghost and horror stories, General fiction, Contemporary romance, Serious and literary fictionWitchcraft
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Brida, a young Irishwoman, discovers she has occult powers and seeks out two masters--a magician and a witch--to guide her…

on a mystical and spiritual journey to enlightenment. Meanwhile, Brida faces a choice between two men in her personal life. Translated from Portuguese. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2008

The Amityville horror

By Jay Anson. 1977

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Ghost and horror storiesParanormal, Bestsellers (Non-fiction)
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A chilling true story of a haunted house. George and Kathleen Lutz and their three children move into a home…

in Amityville, Long Island in 1975, although they knew it had been the scene of a mass murder. Bestseller

Historias tremendas: Que Fabrica la Liebre Perspicaz para Burlar a la Voraz Hiena (Serie el Fémur de Tu Padre Ser.)

By Pedro Cabiya. 2010

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Ghost and horror stories, Fantasy, General fiction, Short storiesMusic, Criticism
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"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 NLS

Haunted Oklahoma: ghosts and strange phenomena of the Sooner State

By Jeff Provine. 2021

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Historical fiction, Ghost and horror storiesParanormal, United States travel and geography, Psychology
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Oklahoma's Ghostly Legends are as varied as its history and culture. The state boasts hauntings by ancient Native Americans, Spanish…

miners, soldiers, outlaws, ranchers, performers, students, repairmen, and many more. Oklahoma's stately mansions, theaters, and old hotels still have previous residents dwelling in a spectral form. One phenomenon that may be surprising is Oklahoma's uncanny number of headless ghosts. Haunted Oklahoma explores King Tutt's Tomb on the Arkansas, Mr. Apple's Mausoleum, and the Spooksville Triangle, to name just a few. Eerie occurrences, spooky events, unsolved mysteries, and terrifying specters make for a scary journey through Oklahoma's Haunted past. Adult. Some violence. Unrated

William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a new hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars #4)

By Ian Doescher. 2013

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Science fiction, Ghost and horror storiesBestsellers (Non-fiction), Drama, Humour, Poetry
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The story of Star Wars: Episode IV; a New Hope told in the format of a Shakespearean play. Luke Skywalker…

purchases two droids, one of which carries a secret message from a captured princess. They draw Luke into a battle with the Empire. Young adult appeal. Some violence. Bestseller. 2013

Dark dreams: the story of Stephen King (World Writers Ser.)

By Nancy Whitelaw. 2006

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Ghost and horror storiesLiterature, Literature biography, Criticism
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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. 2006

A History of the Modern British Ghost Story

By Simon Hay. 2011

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Ghost and horror storiesCriticism
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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. "

Screening the Gothic

By Lisa Hopkins. 2005

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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.

Faust: A Tragedy, Part I

By Eugene Stelzig, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe. 2019

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Classic fiction, Ghost and horror storiesDrama, Criticism, Poetry
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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.

Shakespeare and Creative Criticism (Shakespeare & #4)

By Scott Maisano, Rob Conkie. 2019

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Ghost and horror storiesCriticism
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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.

Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God

By Claire Cronin. 2020

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Ghost and horror storiesJournals and memoirs, Criticism
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Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural.Blue Light of the…

Screen is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts.As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural.Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.

Daughter of the Dragon Tree

By Susanne Aernecke. 2000

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Ghost and horror storiesParanormal, Witchcraft
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Two young women, with intertwined fates centuries apart, must protect the secret of the powerful, all-healing mushroom known as amakuna…

• The gripping story includes mystical visions, shamanic rituals, past lives, an ancient lineage of medicine women, love, betrayal, conspiracies, and murder • Set concurrently in modern times and in 1492 during the Conquistadors’ takeover of the Canary Islands 1492: For millennia, the medicine women of the Guanches, the indigenous people on the Canary Island of La Palma, have used a psychotropic mushroom to look into the past and the future. But the mushroom has other sacred powers: It can cure disease or injury and it links the fate of those who consume it across all eternity. These secret powers are closely guarded by the medicine women, for they can foresee the destructive forces that would be unleashed if the sacred mushroom fell into the wrong hands. Present day: Romy, a young doctor at a biomedical research company, sets out alone on a rock-climbing trek near her home in Germany. Halfway through her climb, an unusual panic overtakes her and she blacks out as she falls more than 25 feet from the face of a cliff . . . Coming to, hours later, she finds herself in a cave, remarkably unscathed, with a strange taste in her mouth as well as a vivid recollection of an ancient ritual centered on a sacred mushroom called “amakuna.” Plagued by visions from the amakuna ceremony, including the death of an old medicine woman under a peculiar looking tree and the appointment of a young apprentice, Iriomé, to take her place, Romy begins to feel as if Iriomé is trying to contact her across the centuries. Identifying the tree from the visions as a Canarian Dragon Tree, she heads to the Canary Island of La Palma to discover the truth behind her visions and her and Iriomé’s intertwined fates. In the heart of the island’s volcanic crater, she discovers the reality of the strange mushroom and its magical, all-healing, all-seeing powers. She brings some of the mushroom back to Germany and experiments with it, leading to repeated flashbacks of Iriomé’s life. But pharmaceutical mega-corporations are already in hot pursuit of her and will stop at nothing to take possession of the amakuna--not even murder. As Romy and Iriomé’s lives continue to parallel across the centuries, they both find themselves in love with powerful men, pregnant, far from home, and in danger. But while Iriomé’s fate is in the past and sealed, Romy’s has not yet been decided, nor has the fate of the mushroom, which she learns has the power to either destroy life or preserve it. Will Romy be able to protect the powerful amakuna secret, as generations of medicine women have done before her? Or will she fall victim to betrayal as Iriomé did, and be forced to destroy the sacred mushroom before it can destroy the planet?

Empire of Wild: A Novel

By Cherie Dimaline. 2019

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A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of the most anticipated books of the summer for Time, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle and Publishers Weekly'Deftly…

written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!' Margaret Atwood'Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive' Tommy Orange, author of There There 'Dimaline turns an old story into something newly haunting and resonant' New York Times'Close, tight, stark, beautiful - rich where richness is warranted, but spare where want and sorrow have sharpened every word. Dimaline has crafted something both current and timeless' NPR'Revelatory... Gritty and engaging, this story of a woman and her missing husband is one of candor, wit and tradition'Ms. Magazine Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice.She turns, and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus.With only two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old Métis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success.Inspired by traditional Métis legends, Cherie Dimaline has created a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel.

Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series #8)

By Christy Tidwell, Carter Soles. 2021

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Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world—killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman.…

Its portrayals of animals, the environment, and even scientists build on popular conceptions of zoology, ecology, and the scientific process. As such, ecohorror is a genre uniquely situated to address life, art, and the dangers of scientific knowledge in the Anthropocene.Featuring new readings of the genre, Fear and Nature brings ecohorror texts and theories into conversation with other critical discourses. The chapters cover a variety of media forms, from literature and short fiction to manga, poetry, television, and film. The chronological range is equally varied, beginning in the nineteenth century with the work of Edgar Allan Poe and finishing in the twenty-first with Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro. This range highlights the significance of ecohorror as a mode. In their analyses, the contributors make explicit connections across chapters, question the limits of the genre, and address the ways in which our fears about nature intersect with those we hold about the racial, animal, and bodily "other."A foundational text, this volume will appeal to specialists in horror studies, Gothic studies, the environmental humanities, and ecocriticism.In addition to the editors, the contributors include Kristen Angierski, Bridgitte Barclay, Marisol Cortez, Chelsea Davis, Joseph K. Heumann, Dawn Keetley, Ashley Kniss, Robin L. Murray, Brittany R. Roberts, Sharon Sharp, and Keri Stevenson.

Autumn Thorns: Whisper Hollow 1 (Whisper Hollow #1)

By Yasmine Galenorn. 2015

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Fans of Ilona Andrews, Jeaniene Frost, Patricia Biggs and Christine Feehan will fall under the spell of New York Times…

bestseller Yasmine Galenorn's spectacular paranormal romance series. Enter Whisper Hollow at your own risk, for in this town spirits walk among the living, and the lake never gives up her dead.Whisper Hollow is no ordinary place. In this haunted town, people don't stay buried.Kerris Fellwater isn't your usual human. She's a spirit shaman who drives the dead back to their graves.Fifteen years ago, Kerris ran away from her hometown. But now she's back, and there are deadly magical forces at work, wreaking havoc.Whisper Hollow holds painful memories for Kerris, but a lot has changed. There's a mysterious new guy in town, Bryan, who Kerris feels powerfully drawn to. Together they unearth a horrifying family secret, and unravelling the mystery means working with - rather than against - the dead. Can they defeat Whisper Hollow's enemy, before it destroys them?Return to Whisper Hollow in Yasmine's next book, Shadow Silence.

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