Aylmer Vance Ghost Seer

Author : Alice & Claude Askew
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 132937634X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer written by Alice & Claude Askew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of eight ghost stories, written by the remarkably prolific husband and wife team of Claude and Alice Askew, centering on Aylmer Vance, an investigator of the supernatural. Dexter, the narrator, meets Vance during a fishing holiday and Vance tells him three ghost stories on successive nights, each story involving Vance more closely in the action. The fourth story brings Dexter himself into the action, and reveals him to have unsuspected clairvoyant powers. The remaining stories feature Vance and Dexter as a sort of Holmes-and-Watson team investigating incidents not all of which prove to have supernatural causes. The final story, "The Fear" is very effective, describing a house in which a general feeling of extreme fear grips the inhabitants at various times and locations; the emotion of fear is effectively evoked and an interesting tale is constructed as Vance and Dexter work to assign the fear "a local habitation and a name".

Author : Alice Askew
Publisher : Ash Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781899562480
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aylmer Vance written by Alice Askew and published by Ash Tree Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hope Hodgson
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 177541910X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder written by William Hope Hodgson and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the supernatural detectives at the center of television shows such as Medium and The Ghost Whisperer hit the airwaves, there was "detective of the occult" Thomas Carnacki, the fictional detective created by William Hope Hodgson, author of the novel The House on the Borderland. The Carnacki tales center around the eponymous detective's uncanny ability to get to the bottom of hauntings and other mysterious paranormal disturbances.

Author : D. K. Broster
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787201678
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Couching at the Door written by D. K. Broster and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of dark, supernatural tales the esteemed author D. K. Broster gave full reign to her vivid imagination. Sometimes—as in “The Window” or “The Pestering,” or “All Soul’s Day”—these are what we might call ‘explainable’ ghost stories: apparitions or hauntings whose origin is to be found in some violent or unjust action in the past. Other stories, “Couching at the Door” and “From the Abyss,” have little or no explanation, even in supernatural terms. Add to these an elegant reworking of the Persephone myth, “The Taste of Pomegranates,” the downright bloodthirsty “Clairvoyance,” and the psychological studies, “The Promised Land” and “The Pavement” which so well merit the heading ‘Madness and Obsession’, and you have a collection to disturb and unsettle the strongest nerves. Literary historian Jack Adrian describes Couching at the Door as “a pure masterwork, one of the most satisfying weird collections of the century”.

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408828537
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dracula's Guest written by Michael Sims and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us... Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy's tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O'Brien's invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and finishes the collection with Stoker's own Dracula's Guest - a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated Victorian society, and these wonderful stories demonstrate how Romantic and Victorian writers refined the raw ore of peasant superstition into a whole vampire mythology of aristocratic decadence and innocence betrayed.

Author : Friedrich Schiller
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny written by Friedrich Schiller and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny" by Friedrich Schiller. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Robert Ervin Howard
Publisher : New York : Baen Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
ISBN 13 : 9780671656416
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cthulhu written by Robert Ervin Howard and published by New York : Baen Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks. This book was released on 1987 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale about Cthulhu, the greatest of the true gods of Earth whose name can be found only in ancient, blasphemous manuscripts, and the demonic rites of the Old Ones

Author : Oliver Tearle
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 183764179X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bewilderments of Vision written by Oliver Tearle and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. It focuses on a series of neologisms from writing of the period.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307473899
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Archives written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker

Author : Sharla Hutchison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662271X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium written by Sharla Hutchison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago. Monsters don't just invade popular culture, they help sell popular culture. This collection of new essays covers 150 years of enduringly popular Gothic monsters who have shocked and horrified audiences in literature, film and comics. The contributors unearth forgotten monsters and reconsider familiar ones, examining the audience taboos and fears they embody.