Author: B. RichingsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375156669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
Voices from the Tombs
Author: B. RichingsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375156669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
Voices from the Tombs; Or, Epitaphs, Original and Selected
Author: Benjamin RichingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Tombs
Author: Deborah SchaumbergPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062656465
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers. Deborah Schaumberg’s gripping debut takes readers on a breathless trip across a teeming turn-of-the-century New York and asks the question: Where can you hide in a city that wants you buried? Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn’t. Avery denies the signs in herself, focusing instead on her shifts at the ironworks factory and keeping her inventor father out of trouble. Other than listening to secondhand tales of adventure from her best friend, Khan, an ex-slave, and caring for her falcon, Seraphine, Avery spends her days struggling to survive. Like her mother’s, Avery’s powers refuse to be contained. When she causes a bizarre explosion at the factory, she has no choice but to run from her lies, straight into the darkest corners of the city. Avery must embrace her abilities and learn to wield their power—or join her mother in the cavernous horrors of the Tombs. And the Tombs has secrets of its own: strange experiments are being performed on “patients”...and no one knows why.
Other Voices, Other Tombs
Author: Kealan Patrick BurkePublisher:
ISBN: 9781081547189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
OTHER VOICES, OTHER TOMBS is an anthology packed with unsettling stories from the finest independent authors in the horror genre. This collection runs the gamut of styles, including everything from literary horror to creepypasta. Ania Ahlborn, Kealan Patrick Burke, Michael Wehunt, Mercedes Yardley, and Gemma Files are widely considered some of the best authors working in dark fiction right now. Also included are stories from NoSleep Podcast legends: Gemma Amor, JD McGregor, and Michael Whitehouse. OTHER VOICES, OTHER TOMBS is a must-read for the Summer and Fall of 2019!
Baptism for the Dead in China: Or A Voice from the Tombs of Morrison and Milne, to the Schools of the Prophets
Author: The Tombs of Atuan
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442459905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"With a new afterword from the author"--Jkt.
Greek and Roman Necromancy
Author: Daniel OgdenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language. Daniel Ogden surveys the places, performers, and techniques of necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. He investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside precincts. He argues that the Acheron oracle has been long misidentified, and considers in detail the traditions attached to each site. Readers meet the personnel--real or imagined--of ancient necromancy: ghosts, zombies, the earliest vampires, evocators, sorcerers, shamans, Persian magi, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, Roman emperors, and witches from Circe to Medea. Ogden explains the technologies used to evocate or reanimate the dead and to compel them to disgorge their secrets. He concludes by examining ancient beliefs about ghosts and their wisdom--beliefs that underpinned and justified the practice of necromancy. The first of its kind and filled with information, this volume will be of central importance to those interested in the rapidly expanding, inherently fascinating, and intellectually exciting subjects of ghosts and magic in antiquity.
"Reading" Greek Death
Author: Christiane Sourvinou-InwoodPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198150695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book offers a series of in-depth studies of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece, from the Minoan and Mycenean period to the end of the classical age. Drawing on a wide range of evidence--from literary texts, to inscriptions, to images in art--Sourvinou-Inwood sheds light on many key, still problematic, aspects of Greek life, myth, and literature. She also looks at the problem of "reading" this material within the context of our own culturally-determined beliefs.
The Lyric Myth of Voice
Author: Jessica Gabriel PeritzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520380797
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
"How did 'voice' become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteenth-century Italy, where long-standing political anxieties and new notions of cultural enlightenment collided in the mythical figure of the lyric poet-singer. Drawing on a range of approaches and frameworks from historical musicology to gender studies, disability studies, anthropology, and literary theory, Jessica Gabriel Peritz shows how this ancient yet modern myth of voice attained interpretable form, flesh, and sound. Ultimately, Peritz argues that music and literature together shaped the singing voice into a tool for civilizing modern Italian subjects"--
Author: T. W. Aveling