Author: José Rafael Pocaterra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
José Rafael Pocaterra was a Venezuelan journalist, activist and one of the country's most important writers of the early 20th century. Besides his memoirs, he wrote a series of short stories, which you'll find here in a bilingual Spanish - English edition.This book contains the full stories of: Loneliness (Soledad)Perez Ospino & Co.High hanging fruit (Las frutas muy altas)It also includes bilingual questions for comprehensive reading for each story, answers to the questions, for use in a classroom environment and a word list of 50 words.
Grotesque Tales II
Author: José Rafael Pocaterra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
José Rafael Pocaterra was a Venezuelan journalist, activist and one of the country's most important writers of the early 20th century. Besides his memoirs, he wrote a series of short stories, which you'll find here in a bilingual Spanish - English edition.This book contains the full stories of: Loneliness (Soledad)Perez Ospino & Co.High hanging fruit (Las frutas muy altas)It also includes bilingual questions for comprehensive reading for each story, answers to the questions, for use in a classroom environment and a word list of 50 words.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
José Rafael Pocaterra was a Venezuelan journalist, activist and one of the country's most important writers of the early 20th century. Besides his memoirs, he wrote a series of short stories, which you'll find here in a bilingual Spanish - English edition.This book contains the full stories of: Loneliness (Soledad)Perez Ospino & Co.High hanging fruit (Las frutas muy altas)It also includes bilingual questions for comprehensive reading for each story, answers to the questions, for use in a classroom environment and a word list of 50 words.
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque
Author: Jack W Shear
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781312407862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A Gothic Fantasy supplement for old-school fantasy role-playing games. This book contains house rules, random tables, new spells, new monsters, and a campaign setting for Gothic Fantasy adventures in the old-school fantasy RPG system of your choice.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781312407862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A Gothic Fantasy supplement for old-school fantasy role-playing games. This book contains house rules, random tables, new spells, new monsters, and a campaign setting for Gothic Fantasy adventures in the old-school fantasy RPG system of your choice.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537770666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
engaging biography of Edgar Allen Poethe complete text in a modern, readable typefacean illustrated publishing history of the talestimeline in colour of Poe's worldcolour map of Poe's America
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537770666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
engaging biography of Edgar Allen Poethe complete text in a modern, readable typefacean illustrated publishing history of the talestimeline in colour of Poe's worldcolour map of Poe's America
Tales of the Truly Grotesque the Stench of Sulphur Swamp
Author: Odysseus Malodorus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970415950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A truly creepy book of truly grotesque tales.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970415950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A truly creepy book of truly grotesque tales.
Gaslight Grotesque
Author: Charles Prepolec
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 1894063708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON BAKER STREET! Between the shadowy realms of fear and the unforgiving glare of science lies a battleground of unspeakable horror. In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare. CAN REASON PREVAIL WHEN ELIMINATING THE IMPOSSIBLE IS NO LONGER AN OPTION? Faced with his worst fears, Sherlock Holmes has his faith in the science of observation and deduction shaken to the core in 13 all-new tales of terror from today's modern masters of the macabre!
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 1894063708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON BAKER STREET! Between the shadowy realms of fear and the unforgiving glare of science lies a battleground of unspeakable horror. In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare. CAN REASON PREVAIL WHEN ELIMINATING THE IMPOSSIBLE IS NO LONGER AN OPTION? Faced with his worst fears, Sherlock Holmes has his faith in the science of observation and deduction shaken to the core in 13 all-new tales of terror from today's modern masters of the macabre!
Haunted
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 9780452273740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
One of American's foremost authors ventures into dark, uncharted territories of the human psyche in a collection of stories that rival the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Oates is the 1994 recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement given by the Horror Writers of America.
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 9780452273740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
One of American's foremost authors ventures into dark, uncharted territories of the human psyche in a collection of stories that rival the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Oates is the 1994 recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement given by the Horror Writers of America.
Auschwitz
Author: Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898821
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to relive it sooner. But while she records unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and imminent extermination. Commemorative in spirit and artistic in form, Auschwitz convincingly portrays the paradoxes of human nature in extreme circumstances. With consummate understatement Nomberg-Przytyk describes the behavior of concentration camp inmates as she relentlessly and pitilessly examines her own motives and feelings. In this world unmitigated cruelty coexisted with nobility, rapacity with self-sacrifice, indifference with selfless compassion. This book offers a chilling view of the human drama that existed in Auschwitz. From her portraits of camp personalities, an extraordinary and horrifying profile emerges of Dr. Josef Mengele, whose medical experiments resulted in the slaughter of nearly half a million Jews. Nomberg-Przytyk's job as an attendant in Mengle's hospital allowed her to observe this Angel of Death firsthand and to provide us with the most complete description to date of his monstrous activities. The original Polish manuscript was discovered by Eli Pfefferkorn in 1980 in the Yad Vashem Archive in Jerusalem. Not knowing the fate of the journal's author, Pfefferkorn spent two years searching and finally located Nomberg-Przytyk in Canada. Subsequent interviews revealed the history of the manuscript, the author's background, and brought the journal into perspective.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898821
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to relive it sooner. But while she records unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and imminent extermination. Commemorative in spirit and artistic in form, Auschwitz convincingly portrays the paradoxes of human nature in extreme circumstances. With consummate understatement Nomberg-Przytyk describes the behavior of concentration camp inmates as she relentlessly and pitilessly examines her own motives and feelings. In this world unmitigated cruelty coexisted with nobility, rapacity with self-sacrifice, indifference with selfless compassion. This book offers a chilling view of the human drama that existed in Auschwitz. From her portraits of camp personalities, an extraordinary and horrifying profile emerges of Dr. Josef Mengele, whose medical experiments resulted in the slaughter of nearly half a million Jews. Nomberg-Przytyk's job as an attendant in Mengle's hospital allowed her to observe this Angel of Death firsthand and to provide us with the most complete description to date of his monstrous activities. The original Polish manuscript was discovered by Eli Pfefferkorn in 1980 in the Yad Vashem Archive in Jerusalem. Not knowing the fate of the journal's author, Pfefferkorn spent two years searching and finally located Nomberg-Przytyk in Canada. Subsequent interviews revealed the history of the manuscript, the author's background, and brought the journal into perspective.
The Grotesque
Author: Patrick McGrath
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307822974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307822974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.
Grotesque Tales I
Author: José Rafael Pocaterra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781701009608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
José Rafael Pocaterra was a Venezuelan journalist, activist and one of the country's most important writers of the early 20th century. Besides his memoirs, he wrote a series of short stories, which you'll find here in a bilingual Spanish - English edition. This book contains the full stories of: The Roman I (La I Latina), The Corpse-Eaters (Los Come-Muertos) and Anniversary (Anniversario). It also includes: * bilingual questions for comprehensive reading for each story and* answers to the questions, for use in a classroom environment, and * a word list with 56 words.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781701009608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
José Rafael Pocaterra was a Venezuelan journalist, activist and one of the country's most important writers of the early 20th century. Besides his memoirs, he wrote a series of short stories, which you'll find here in a bilingual Spanish - English edition. This book contains the full stories of: The Roman I (La I Latina), The Corpse-Eaters (Los Come-Muertos) and Anniversary (Anniversario). It also includes: * bilingual questions for comprehensive reading for each story and* answers to the questions, for use in a classroom environment, and * a word list with 56 words.
The Doctor to the Dead
Author: John Bennett
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643361384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina. You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true. . . . So begins “Crook-Neck Dick,” one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. John Bennett’s interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers; accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story. Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides an introduction. “A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead.” —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643361384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina. You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true. . . . So begins “Crook-Neck Dick,” one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. John Bennett’s interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers; accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story. Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides an introduction. “A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead.” —Kirkus Reviews