Author: Jack Wolf
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. It will be a momentous year for the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, who, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but—equally strong and much harder to control—is his obsession with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing, he uses the new tools of the age—reason and science and skepticism—to plumb the depths of his own dark mind. Profoundly imaginative, unexpectedly funny, and with a strange but moving love story at its heart, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is an oddly beautiful and daring novel about the relationship between the mind and body, sex, madness, pain, and the existence of God.
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
Author: Jack Wolf
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. It will be a momentous year for the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, who, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but—equally strong and much harder to control—is his obsession with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing, he uses the new tools of the age—reason and science and skepticism—to plumb the depths of his own dark mind. Profoundly imaginative, unexpectedly funny, and with a strange but moving love story at its heart, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is an oddly beautiful and daring novel about the relationship between the mind and body, sex, madness, pain, and the existence of God.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. It will be a momentous year for the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, who, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but—equally strong and much harder to control—is his obsession with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing, he uses the new tools of the age—reason and science and skepticism—to plumb the depths of his own dark mind. Profoundly imaginative, unexpectedly funny, and with a strange but moving love story at its heart, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is an oddly beautiful and daring novel about the relationship between the mind and body, sex, madness, pain, and the existence of God.
Raw Head, Bloody Bones
Author: Mary E. Lyons
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780689803062
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
*****Young readers can meet some of the strangest beasts ever in these 15 spine-tingling folktales. A dancing corpse, a talking skull, a witch who sucks blood--these creepy denizens and others reflect the heritage of African oral traditions that has been passed down for generations.
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780689803062
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
*****Young readers can meet some of the strangest beasts ever in these 15 spine-tingling folktales. A dancing corpse, a talking skull, a witch who sucks blood--these creepy denizens and others reflect the heritage of African oral traditions that has been passed down for generations.
Bloody Bones
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780515134469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton. When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone spooked. And she's got an 'in' with the creature that can make sense of the slayings-the sexy master vampire known as Jean-Claude.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780515134469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton. When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone spooked. And she's got an 'in' with the creature that can make sense of the slayings-the sexy master vampire known as Jean-Claude.
Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Author:
Publisher: Marvel Enterprises
ISBN: 9780785134763
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Vampire slayer Anita Blake helps the police find a vampire serial killer responsible for a series of child murders, but quickly realizes she needs the help of her mentor Manny and supernatural hitman Edward to solve the case.
Publisher: Marvel Enterprises
ISBN: 9780785134763
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Vampire slayer Anita Blake helps the police find a vampire serial killer responsible for a series of child murders, but quickly realizes she needs the help of her mentor Manny and supernatural hitman Edward to solve the case.
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952-1954
Author: Mike Mignola
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506744699
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Hellboy’s career in the B.P.R.D. kicks off in this new paperback edition collecting his earliest missions! From his very first official case in 1952 tracking down a mad scientist in Brazil, Hellboy moved straight on to punching monsters across the globe. Revisit those very first adventures with Hellboy and the team that made him the agent he is with this new collection, featuring cases from 1952, 1953, and 1954! Features the work of Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Chris Roberson, Ben Stenbeck, Stephen Green, Dave Stewart, and many other powerhouse creators, and includes a bonus sketchbook section. Collects Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952, 1953, and 1954.
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506744699
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Hellboy’s career in the B.P.R.D. kicks off in this new paperback edition collecting his earliest missions! From his very first official case in 1952 tracking down a mad scientist in Brazil, Hellboy moved straight on to punching monsters across the globe. Revisit those very first adventures with Hellboy and the team that made him the agent he is with this new collection, featuring cases from 1952, 1953, and 1954! Features the work of Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Chris Roberson, Ben Stenbeck, Stephen Green, Dave Stewart, and many other powerhouse creators, and includes a bonus sketchbook section. Collects Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952, 1953, and 1954.
Rawhead & Bloody Bones
Author: Rhys H Hughes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440563233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The story of two dead entertainers and their tour of Europe.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440563233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The story of two dead entertainers and their tour of Europe.
Medium Raw
Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408809141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide bestseller.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408809141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide bestseller.
The Skriker
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848424999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own. The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994. It was revived at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2015, as part of the Manchester International Festival, starring Maxine Peake, directed by Sarah Frankcom and featuring specially commissioned music by Nico Muhly and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. The Skriker is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848424999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own. The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994. It was revived at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2015, as part of the Manchester International Festival, starring Maxine Peake, directed by Sarah Frankcom and featuring specially commissioned music by Nico Muhly and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. The Skriker is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
Rawhead Rex
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002249522
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002249522
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description