Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726666316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Dinner party conversation does not tend to include mysterious drownings which cost multiple people their lives. It is bound to turn even sourer when one attendee takes it upon himself to vividly describe his military career in an attempt to prove that there are worse ways to die than simply drowning. A dramatic short piece, "The Horrible" is a suspenseful dive into life, death, and conversation - perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer. Famed for being a master of the short story, he also wrote travel books and occasionally dabbled in poetry. His stories mainly focus on the relationships between men and women sitting at crossroads in their lives - whether personal or professional. His dramatic flair is largely influenced by French novelist Gustave Flaubert and is perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. The most notable of the 300 short stories that he wrote include 'Bel Ami', 'Une Vie', and 'The Dumpling'.
Wayne Anderson's Horrorble Book
Author: Wayne Anderson
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
It's a quiet night in the graveyard--until you turn the page. Then the earth trembles and cracks open, unleashing a bodiless monster.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
It's a quiet night in the graveyard--until you turn the page. Then the earth trembles and cracks open, unleashing a bodiless monster.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416985956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416985956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. Suggested level: junior, primary.
The Wicked History of the World
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
ISBN: 9780439877862
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
ISBN: 9780439877862
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.
The Horrible
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726666316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Dinner party conversation does not tend to include mysterious drownings which cost multiple people their lives. It is bound to turn even sourer when one attendee takes it upon himself to vividly describe his military career in an attempt to prove that there are worse ways to die than simply drowning. A dramatic short piece, "The Horrible" is a suspenseful dive into life, death, and conversation - perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer. Famed for being a master of the short story, he also wrote travel books and occasionally dabbled in poetry. His stories mainly focus on the relationships between men and women sitting at crossroads in their lives - whether personal or professional. His dramatic flair is largely influenced by French novelist Gustave Flaubert and is perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. The most notable of the 300 short stories that he wrote include 'Bel Ami', 'Une Vie', and 'The Dumpling'.
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726666316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Dinner party conversation does not tend to include mysterious drownings which cost multiple people their lives. It is bound to turn even sourer when one attendee takes it upon himself to vividly describe his military career in an attempt to prove that there are worse ways to die than simply drowning. A dramatic short piece, "The Horrible" is a suspenseful dive into life, death, and conversation - perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer. Famed for being a master of the short story, he also wrote travel books and occasionally dabbled in poetry. His stories mainly focus on the relationships between men and women sitting at crossroads in their lives - whether personal or professional. His dramatic flair is largely influenced by French novelist Gustave Flaubert and is perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. The most notable of the 300 short stories that he wrote include 'Bel Ami', 'Une Vie', and 'The Dumpling'.
Bulging Box of Books
Author:
Publisher: Horrible Science
ISBN: 9781407110356
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Twenty titles from the best-selling series, presented in a bulging boxed set. Features all the best-selling Horrible Science titles from A-Z - well from Blood, Bones and Body Bits to Vicious Veg! Titles: Angry Animals Blood, Bones and Body Bits Bulging Brains Chemical Chaos Deadly Diseases Disgusting Digestion Evolve or Die Fatal Forces Frightening Light Killer Energy Microscopic Monsters Nasty Nature Painful Poison Shocking Electricity Sounds Dreadful Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens The Fight for Flight The Terrible Truth About Time Ugly Bugs Vicious Veg
Publisher: Horrible Science
ISBN: 9781407110356
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Twenty titles from the best-selling series, presented in a bulging boxed set. Features all the best-selling Horrible Science titles from A-Z - well from Blood, Bones and Body Bits to Vicious Veg! Titles: Angry Animals Blood, Bones and Body Bits Bulging Brains Chemical Chaos Deadly Diseases Disgusting Digestion Evolve or Die Fatal Forces Frightening Light Killer Energy Microscopic Monsters Nasty Nature Painful Poison Shocking Electricity Sounds Dreadful Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens The Fight for Flight The Terrible Truth About Time Ugly Bugs Vicious Veg
The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things #1
Author: Rob Renzetti
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593519523
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
From the creator of My Life As a Teenage Robot comes a middle-grade horror story about a horrible bag, the spine-chilling world hidden within it, and a terrifying adventure into the world of GrahBhag. Perfect for fans of Coraline, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and Small Spaces. When Zenith finds a strange, unsettling bag at his front door, he's not sure where it came from or who sent it to him. He knows better than to expect his overprotective older sister Apogee to help him figure it out, because ever since she became a teenager, she's been acting more like a parent to him than a sibling. But he certainly did not expect for a horrifying spiderlike creature to emerge from the bag, kidnap Apogee, and drag her inside to the equally horrifying and unsettling world of GrahBhag. Zenith sets off into the bag to bring her back but soon finds a bizarre realm where malicious forests, a trio of blood-drinking mouths, and a sentient sawdust-stuffed giant are lurking within the seams. And from every corner of the world come whispers of the Great Wurm, an eldritch horror with a godlike hold over the creatures of GrahBhag, who seems to have a dark, insidious purpose for Apogee. With the help of a greedy, earwax-nibbling gargoyle, Zenith will have to save Apogee from the Great Wurm and help them both escape the horrible bag before it's too late. With a combination of dry, absurdist humor and no-holds-barred horror, Rob Renzetti has crafted a delightfully imaginative fantasy world that will hook readers as surely as it will send chills down their spines.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593519523
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
From the creator of My Life As a Teenage Robot comes a middle-grade horror story about a horrible bag, the spine-chilling world hidden within it, and a terrifying adventure into the world of GrahBhag. Perfect for fans of Coraline, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and Small Spaces. When Zenith finds a strange, unsettling bag at his front door, he's not sure where it came from or who sent it to him. He knows better than to expect his overprotective older sister Apogee to help him figure it out, because ever since she became a teenager, she's been acting more like a parent to him than a sibling. But he certainly did not expect for a horrifying spiderlike creature to emerge from the bag, kidnap Apogee, and drag her inside to the equally horrifying and unsettling world of GrahBhag. Zenith sets off into the bag to bring her back but soon finds a bizarre realm where malicious forests, a trio of blood-drinking mouths, and a sentient sawdust-stuffed giant are lurking within the seams. And from every corner of the world come whispers of the Great Wurm, an eldritch horror with a godlike hold over the creatures of GrahBhag, who seems to have a dark, insidious purpose for Apogee. With the help of a greedy, earwax-nibbling gargoyle, Zenith will have to save Apogee from the Great Wurm and help them both escape the horrible bag before it's too late. With a combination of dry, absurdist humor and no-holds-barred horror, Rob Renzetti has crafted a delightfully imaginative fantasy world that will hook readers as surely as it will send chills down their spines.
Horrible Histories
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407173719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From rotten Roman graffiti to terrible teacher tortures and rude royal nicknames, the foul facts are all inside. Want to know: the crushing details about execution by elephant? How to soften your skin Georgian-style, using the skins of puppies? Whose idea of a top treat was mashed deer tongues? Whether you're desperate to discover which famous rulers were left-handed, raring to read about the top ten dogs of all time, or just aching to ask about assassinating apes, then this book is for you. History has never been so horrible!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407173719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From rotten Roman graffiti to terrible teacher tortures and rude royal nicknames, the foul facts are all inside. Want to know: the crushing details about execution by elephant? How to soften your skin Georgian-style, using the skins of puppies? Whose idea of a top treat was mashed deer tongues? Whether you're desperate to discover which famous rulers were left-handed, raring to read about the top ten dogs of all time, or just aching to ask about assassinating apes, then this book is for you. History has never been so horrible!
Tales of the Horrible, Or The Book of Spirits
The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories
Author: Gerald Kersh
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571304516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father... 'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary Supplement (1944)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571304516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father... 'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary Supplement (1944)
House of the Horrible Ghosts
Author: Geoffrey Hayes
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307828484
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A new addition to the premier first chapter book. When Otto gets lost in a deserted fun house, he discovers that it has been invaded by ghosts who once were a band of cutthroats and thieves. Will Otto find the secret exit in time or will he be trapped inside forever?
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307828484
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A new addition to the premier first chapter book. When Otto gets lost in a deserted fun house, he discovers that it has been invaded by ghosts who once were a band of cutthroats and thieves. Will Otto find the secret exit in time or will he be trapped inside forever?