That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story, his summons brought forth a mad doctor intent on reanimation and a vampire drunk with bloodlust. The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome--yet beloved--tales in literature, for those so gifted were also cursed. Horrors, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations.
That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story, his summons brought forth a mad doctor i...
This companion provides a two-part introduction to best-selling author Stephen King, whose enormous popularity over the years has gained him an audience well beyond readers of horror fiction, the genre with which is most often associated. Part I considers the reception of King's work, the film adaptations that they gave rise to, the fictional worlds in which some of his novels are set, and the more useful approaches to King's varied corpus. Part II consists of entries for each series, novel, story, screenplay and even poem, including works never published or produced, as well as characters...
This companion provides a two-part introduction to best-selling author Stephen King, whose enormous popularity over the years has gained him an audien...
For three centuries, as the Black Death rampaged through Europe and the Reformation tore the Church apart, tens of thousands were arrested as witches and subjected to torture and execution, including being burned alive. This graphic novel examines the background; the witch hunters' methods; who profited; the brave few who protested; and how the Enlightenment gradually replaced fear and superstition with reason and science. Famed witch hunters Heinrich Kramer, architect of the infamous Malleus Maleficarum, and Matthew Hopkins, England's notorious Witchfinder General, are covered as are the...
For three centuries, as the Black Death rampaged through Europe and the Reformation tore the Church apart, tens of thousands were arrested as witches ...
There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about King's hidden work. Included in the new information is a series of newly discovered unpublished works, with King's exclusive and definitive statements about how they originated and why they never saw the light of day.
There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about King's hidden work. Included in the new information is a...
Major Updates in this 2014 addendum to the 2012 Expanded Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished and these updates are only found in this trade paperback and the e-book version. There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about Kings hidden work Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished. This update brings so many more releases and rare and previously unseen King appearances to the forefront of his canon of work. This is an addendum to Rocky Wood's 2012 Expanded release and features all new information since that publication.
Major Updates in this 2014 addendum to the 2012 Expanded Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished and these updates are only found in this tr...
