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From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, vampire tales flourished through the centuries and around the globe, fueled by superstition, sexual mystery, fear of disease and death, and the nagging anxiety that demons lurk everywhere. Mark Jenkins's engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others.
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Susan cooper's the dark is rising5/10/2023 This novel revels in its archetypes, but where a lesser writer would turn a novel like this into an exercise in going through the motions, Cooper weaves a gripping and dreamlike story that reminds us exactly why archetypes have the power they do. Readers today will instantly recognize all of the mythic tropes Susan Cooper brings to bear in this tale. Seeped in mystery, magic, atmosphere and a very keen sense of the significance of mythology and history, there's more to inspire wonder in this small, haunting book than there is in most entire trilogies. The results are tangible: The Dark Is Rising is one of the best fantasies ever written, young-adult or otherwise. Clearly there wasn't as much pressure back then to crank books out like processed food. The Dark Is Rising continues Susan Cooper's famed young-adult fantasy saga, though its release eight years after Over Sea, Under Stone illustrates just how different today's publishing practices differ from those of thirty years ago.
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Run the world by becky wade5/10/2023 I can’t wait to share my experiences and passion with the team and to grow just as much alongside them,” said Becky. “It feels wonderfully full circle to be back at Ursuline in a coaching capacity. Olympic Trials (2 x marathon, 2 x 3,000-meter steeplechase) and qualified three times for Team USA. In her nearly eight years of professional running, she’s participated in four U.S. The team has also won five State Titles during the last eight years and 15 State Titles overall.Īfter falling in love with the sport as a UA Running Bear, Becky attended Rice University where she majored in Psychology, History, and Sociology, won a junior national track title, and was an NCAA Division I All-American in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track. UA Cross Country holds 15 straight Varsity District Titles and 12 Junior Varsity District Titles. Ursuline Academy of Dallas welcomes alumna Becky (Wade) Firth, Class of 2007, as Head Cross Country Coach.
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Letters for Lucardo by Otava Heikkilä5/10/2023 What Salt Will Bring to Bear – A sci-fantasy story about a soldier looking for a place to die on a foreign planet after a great interstellar war – 5k – Dark Matter Magazine Issue 008 (2022) – 2k words – Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine September/October Issue (2022) What Was Your Inspiration?– A ‘hard’ SF story about an artist whose thoughts are being monitored while making art. Paradise – A tropical biopunk indigi-horror story following a lone survivor in post-apc Hawaii – 7k words – Published online at Expat Press (2022) – Published in the print edition in Death in the Mouth: Original Horror from People of Color (2022) First off, here’s the short stories I was able to publish this year! Making one of these before the year is out because I’m predicting full body-mind hibernation in December.
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A spool of blue thread review5/9/2023 And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. The whole family-their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog-is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author-now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career-a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life.
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Название: An Edmund Dulac Treasury: 116 Color Illustrations Book lovers of all ages will rejoice in this treasury and its happy marriage of fine art and fairy tales. The illustrations, many of which are brilliantly colored, full-page images, appear with a caption that includes the artist's name, the story from which it's drawn, and a descriptive line or direct quotation from the tale. The imaginative interpretations include vignettes from "Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Puss in Boots," "The Snow Queen," and scores of other familiar and lesser-known tales. Breathtaking art, dating from 1882 to 1923, captures the genius of 23 illustrators, including Arthur Rackham, Gustave Dor, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Warwick Goble, and Walter Crane. Lovingly reproduced from rare early editions, more than 180 illustrations portray scenes from stories by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and other sources, including ancient Celtic and Norse legends. Описание: This enchanting gallery transports viewers to a fairy tale world - an ageless fantasy realm inhabited by characters from favorite folktales and depicted by renowned artists. A Treasury of Classic Fairy Tale Illustrations
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The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters5/9/2023 This is the beginning of a HUGE series arc, and makes me, a second-time reader, grin in anticipation. The entire Emerson family ends up buried alive underneath it in the half-flooded, pitch black king's chamber, and that makes for some supremely exciting pages!īefore that, Amelia spends a lot of the book theorizing on the existence of a "Master Criminal" who is controlling the illegal antiquities trade. I looked up pictures of this, and it doesn't look like a pyramid-it looks like a giant, diabolical, black mountain THING full of secrets. In this case, it's the Black Pyramid at Dahshur that captures the imagination. The climax of this one was a doozy!! The fun thing about books with real historical/geographical connections is that you can harness the power of Google and see exactly what they're talking about, adding authenticity to your mental picture of the story. I think I am enjoying the Amelia Peabody books more the second time around.
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Reluctant immortals gwendolyn kiste5/9/2023 All we know is that it was not her choice but another unasked present from Rochester. Unlike Lucy, Bee is not a vampire, but the way how she became immortal remains a secret for the first few chapters. Every night they go to an open-air movie theatre and afterwards check on Dracula’s urns: the remains in them are constantly trying to escape and return to life. They live in a decaying house they bartered for some jewellery and have just $100 left to spend. They had met each other back in London seventy years ago, immortality and their terrible partners of the past bringing them together, and soon decided to move to the States to start a new life. Short for Bertha Mason, the first wife of Edward Rochester. The story begins when we see Lucy Westenra burying one of the urns with Dracula’s remains under the Hollywood sign since it has been annoying her greatly in recent days. Though personally not a huge fan of America 70s, I should say that LA and San Francisco of that time felt like a perfect background for the unfolding events – murky, full of hippies, so unlike Victorian England and the Romanian castles, and at the same time just right for the celebrity immortals and their reluctant victims. Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste from #BookReview #Horror #FeministRetellingįor me, Gwendolyn Kiste’s “Reluctant Immortals” was an ultimately feministic retelling, bringing together “Dracula” by Bram Stocker and “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte.
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Mermaid Moon by Susann Cokal5/9/2023 This gorgeously designed, lushly written offering from Printz Honor winner Cokal ( The Kingdom of Little Wounds, 2013), which builds upon the themes of The Little Mermaid, explores how femininity manifests in Sanna’s matriarchal society and outside of it. But on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands she finds a baroness with dark magics of her own, a man ripe for love, and a community searching for a saint. Determined to learn more, Sanna too becomes a student of magic, eventually creating a pair of legs for herself. Eventually she comes to learn that this is because her mother was landish, not seavish, but the witch in her clan cast a spell to erase all memories of the circumstances of Sanna’s birth. Sanna has never been quite like the other mermaids in her clan-she is not as strong a swimmer, and she sometimes struggles to breathe in the water.
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From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna's rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. |