Vampyre and other tales of the macabre, Polidori, John

Автор: Polidori
Название: The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
ISBN: 0192838946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192838940
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Цена: 6660 T
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Описание: Polidori`s tale of "The Vampyre" introduced the vampire into British fiction. It is presented here with 13 other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838 by authors including Edward Bulwer, Letitia Landon and William Carleton.

Автор: Polidori
Название: The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
ISBN: 0192838946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192838940
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 6660 T
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Polidori`s tale of "The Vampyre" introduced the vampire into British fiction. It is presented here with 13 other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838 by authors including Edward Bulwer, Letitia Landon and William Carleton.

Автор: McAleer Patrick, Perry Michael A.
Название: Stephen King`s Modern Macabre: Essays on the Later Works
ISBN: 078649400X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786494002
Издательство: Eurospan
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Цена: 28450 T
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Описание: Presents thirteen essays on Stephen King`s recent writings that have not received the critical attention of his earlier, more popular work. The collection is grouped into three thematic categories - "King in the World Around Us", "Spotlight on The Dark Tower" and "Writing into the Millennium" - each of which examines a particular aspect of King`s contemporary canon.

Автор: Hardin Stephen L.
Название: Texian Macabre
ISBN: 1933337567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781933337562
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Описание: Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly--but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged "harsh epithets" with David James Jones, a hero of the Texas Revolution. When words failed, Jones closed the argument with his blade. Such affrays were common in Houston, the fledgling capital of the Republic of Texas. This one, however, was singular. Wood was a gentleman and Jones a member of a disruptive gang of vagrants that the upper crust denounced as the "rowdy loafers." Jones went to jail; Wood went to his grave.

In the weeks that followed, the killing resounded throughout the squalid, verminous city that one resident described as the "most miserable place in the world." Stephen L. Hardin's suspenseful and witty narrative reads like a contemporary page-turner, yet all is carefully documented history. He entwines the murder into the story of the sordid city like the strands of a hangman's rope.

It is an astonishing tale peopled by remarkable characters: the one-armed newspaper editor and political candidate who employs the crime to advance his sanctimonious agenda; the Kentucky lawyer who enjoys champagne breakfasts and collecting human skulls; the German immigrant who sees rats gnaw the finger off an infant lying in his cradle; the Alamo widow whose circumstances force her to practice the oldest profession; the sociopathic physician who slaughters an innocent man in a duel; the Methodist minister horrified by the drunken debaucheries of government officials; and the president himself--the Sword of San Jacinto-- who during a besotted bacchanal strips to his underwear.

Skillfully conceived and masterfully written, Texian Macabre: A Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston will transport readers to a lost time and place.