Download PDF The Windsome Tree by Eileen Albrizio and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to crawl out of her grief after losing her youngest child to leukemia, Mercy Amoretto, mother of four, takes her therapist's advice and starts to clean out the clutter in her life. In the garage, she finds an old tire and rope and, in a fanciful moment, creates a tire swing. Unknown to her, the rope, the tire, and the tree share a violent history. Once they are connected, that history is unleashed in the form of two child spirits from decades past. While on the swing, Mercy begins hearing cryptic messages from the spirits and is quick to believe the voices are key to finding her dead daughter. Hope turns to horror when two of her children appear to taunt her in tortuous ways. And when her children go missing, all eyes turn to Mercy. She's convinced the ghosts are to blame, but how can anyone believe her when she's the only one who hears their voices?
Download PDF The Children's Ghost Story in America by Sean Ferrier-Watson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories have played a prominent role in childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in American literature is little known and seldom discussed by scholars. This book explores the fascinating origins and development of these tales, focusing on the social and historical factors that shaped them and gave birth to the genre. Ghost stories have existed for centuries but have been published specifically for children for only about 200 years. Early on, supernatural ghost stories were rare--authors and publishers, fearing they might adversely affect young minds, presented stories in which the ghost was always revealed as a fraud. These tales dominated children's publishing in the 19th century but the 20th century saw a change in perspective and the supernatural ghost story flourished.
Download PDF Real-Life Ghost Stories by Aubre Andrus and published by Capstone Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover haunting tales of poltergeists, spirits, and witches. With spooky photographs and eerie details, this collection features some of the world's most famous ghost stories. Fact boxes and skeptic's notes give real-world context for frightening tales such as the legend of Bloody Mary and sightings of the weeping woman of Mexico. These truly terrifying stories will chill you to the bone.
Download PDF Whisper Words of Wisdom by Paul Stone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, Confederate soldier Clyde Blake leaves the Civil War behind and heads west to settle a town he names Willow Creek. Among the belongings he carries with him is a doll – a doll that comes to be known as The Silent Witness. Just under one hundred years later – on a warm summer night in 1963 – six-year-old William Blake first hears the story of his great, great grandfather’s Civil War service and how Willow Creek came to be Willow Creek, but hears nothing about The Silent Witness. And in 1990, William finally comes to know The Silent Witness and all not revealed back in 1963; that’s where our journey both begins and ends. What lies in between 1963 and 1990 is the saga of a family called Blake. Hippies and pot, feminism and family values, homosexuality and HIV, God’s will and personal responsibility – all collide as, one by one, and sometimes two by two, members of the Blake family struggle with the search for peace inside the turmoil that is life, until ultimately, William, the last of the family’s tortured souls, finds his peace in what his mother tells him would come to him in whispered words of wisdom.
Download PDF Wit and wisdom of India by Shyama Shankar and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Patrick J. Murphy Publisher :Penn State Press Release Date :2017-03-08 ISBN :9780271079592 Pages :263 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.7/5 (959 download)
Download PDF Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick J. Murphy and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But while James is best known as a fiction writer and storyteller, he was also a provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton College, and a legendary and influential scholar whose pioneering work in the study of biblical texts and medieval manuscripts, art, and architecture is still relevant today. In Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Patrick J. Murphy argues that these twin careers are inextricably linked. James’s research not only informed his fiction but also reflected his anxieties about the nature of academic life and explored the delicate divide between professional, university men and erratic hobbyists or antiquaries. Murphy shows how detailed attention to the scholarly inspirations behind James’s fiction provides considerable insight into a formative moment in medieval studies, as well as into James’s methods as a master stylist of understated horror. During his life, James often claimed that his stories were mere entertainments—pleasing distractions from a life largely defined by academic discipline and restraint—and readers over the years have been content to take him at his word. This intriguing volume, however, convincingly proves otherwise.
Download PDF The Off Season by Jack Cady and published by Resurrection House. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a curse on Point Vestal. Time moves differently in this sleepy Northwestern coastal town, where the ghosts of the past roam the streets as readily as the living inhabitants. It's still the late 19th century, and underneath the quaint touristy allure of the commingling of the past and present is a lurking darkness. August Starling, a decadent (and dead) crime baron, has a plan for Point Vestal because the magical nature of the town is a haven for sinners fleeing judgment for their crimes. And the only residents who can stop him are newcomers to town: a defrocked Episcopalian priest and a talking cat, who is fluent in seven languages. The Off Season is an effusive meditation on the nature of the fantastic, by a writer the Atlanta Constitution calls "a lasting voice in modern American literature." Cady, winner of both the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award, has given us "a consummate yarn, told with many digressions and anecdotes that combine with folksy humor to create a tall tale suffused with pathos and melancholy." (The Seattle Times)
Download PDF Good Old Days Country Wisdom by Ken Tate and published by DRG Wholesale. This book was released on 2001 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories not only share the wisdom but also heartwarming examples show how Country Wisdom was put into practice in the Good Ole Days.
Download PDF The Wisdom of Brisbin Mindstorm by Lucas Walker Kriner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first book in The wisdom of Brisbin Mindstorm series, The red and white baton highlights the early adventures of Brisbin Mindstorm. Young Brisbin is intent on high adventure. He sets out to discover himself and the meaning behind the mysterios baton given to him as a departing gift."--Press release.
Download PDF Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth by Tom Brass and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth.
Download PDF Ghosts of Yesterday by Jack Cady and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts of Yesterday is a stunning collection by multiple-award-winning author Jack Cady The Off Season, The Haunting of Hood Canal. Cady captures the sights and emotions of America, from the Pacific Northwest ("Jeremiah"), to the streets of San Francisco ("The Lady With the Blind Dog"), to the Midwest-heartland ("Halloween 1942"), along the roads and highways in between ("The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill"), and back into the history of the American Southeast ("The Time That Time Forgot"). The stories that make up Ghosts of Yesterday are detailed and realistic portraits of the world that, despite (and perhaps because) of their authenticity, manage to convey a sense of wonder and fantastic, where anything is possible. The characters and places that Cady brings to life demonstrate clearly why he is one of the most versatile and respected writers today... His stories will move you, and change the way you look at the world.
Author :M. R. James Publisher :Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing Release Date :2022-01-18 ISBN :PKEY:SMP2200000097941 Pages :334 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.S/5 ( download)
Download PDF The Anthology of Ghost Stories of M. R. James (tales of horror and mystery). Illustrated by M. R. James and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories. Many of these stories are time-tested classics. Montague Rhodes James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". H. P. Lovecraft was an admirer of James's work, extolling the stories as the peak of the ghost story form in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature". CANON ALBERIC’S SCRAP-BOOK LOST HEARTS THE MEZZOTINT THE ASH-TREE NUMBER 13 COUNT MAGNUS THE TREASURE OF ABBOT THOMAS A SCHOOL STORY THE ROSE GARDEN THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL THE DIARY OF MR. POYNTER AN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAL HISTORY THE STORY OF A DISAPPEARANCE AND AN APPEARANCE AN EVENING’S ENTERTAINMENT A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS A NEIGHBOUR’S LANDMARK THE UNCOMMON PRAYER-BOOK THE HAUNTED DOLLS’ HOUSE WAILING WELL THERE WAS A MAN DWELT BY A CHURCHYARD RATS AFTER DARK IN THE PLAYING FIELDS THE EXPERIMENT THE MALICE OF INANIMATE OBJECTS A VIGNETTE
Author :Deborah A. Thomas Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Press Release Date :2016-11-11 ISBN :9781512808889 Pages :208 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.1/5 (888 download)
Download PDF Dickens and the Short Story by Deborah A. Thomas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his career, writing short stories provided Dickens with a release from the formal constraints of his novels and gave free reign to his creative imagination. Ranging from "flights of fancy" to literary masterpieces, Dickens's short stories contained artistic experiments that inspired fuller developments in his novels. Yet the short stories have been all but overlooked in critical discussions. Deborah A. Thomas focuses directly on this body of work, tracing three stages of development. In the early stage until 1840, Dickens produced numerous short stories, culminating in his experience with the abortive Master Humphrey's Clock. In the following ten years, he restricted his writing of short stories to the five Christmas Books but refined his theories about the value of the genre in the context of his work. In the third stage, 1850-1868, Dickens again turned actively to the writing of short stories, many of them the "Christmas Stories" appearing in the weeklies Household Words and All the Year Round, which Dickens edited successively from 1850 to 1869 and from 1859 until his death in 1870. The author concentrates primarily upon the more notable stories, drawing for a perspective upon Dickens' own concept of "fancy." In an increasingly factual age, Dickens—attracted to the unusual and the unknown—found the short story a form in which he could indulge his high degree of fantasy and explore the hidden corners of the mind. Dickens' fascination with psychological abnormality and the supernatural—reflected in his novels—reveals itself even more intriguingly in his short stories. In Thomas's analysis, Dickens' short stories appear as an important key to understanding the novels, while proving worthy in themselves of critical attention. Essential to a thorough study of Dickens, her book sheds light upon previously obscure facets of his developing artistry.
Author :Winsome Mary Payter Publisher :Strategic Book Publishing Release Date :2013-03 ISBN :9781622121786 Pages :325 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.2/5 (178 download)
Download PDF The All-Write Winsome Collection of Short Stories by Winsome Mary Payter and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The All-Write Winsome Collection of Short Stories features "The Abduction of Amy Sellers," in which a young woman hires her body out as a surrogate mother to a wealthy middle-aged American couple who are childless. She miscarries but keeps up the pretence that she is still pregnant. When the time arrives for her to give birth, she goes to one of the biggest hospitals in the country and abducts a baby girl, with dire consequences. In another story, a chance meeting by an unemployed teenage boy and a young mother with small children turns his life around. There are just over one hundred short stories, very diverse in content. Some are exciting, some uplifting, and some are written from an animal's point of view, which can be most amusing. All in all, the All-Write collection is totally entertaining!
Download PDF The Wisdom of Vasiṣṭha by Raghunandan and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2018 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yogavasistha or Yogavasistha Maharamayana has been a guide book to earnest Sadhakas, all over the country. The popularity of this book appears to be due to the fact, that it is a happy combination of terse Upanisadic thought clothed in the story form. A scripture becomes relevant, when it gives the truths of the Upanisads, using a common man's language with illustrative stories, helps a beginner as well as an advanced seeker. It is believed by some that Sage Valmiki wrote the Ramayana for the purification of mind and to create a mood of seeking in the society. It is well known, that the story of Sri Rama, gives an exemplary ethical and moral behaviour in an individual, and a glimpse into the ideal culture, through the description of Ayodhya. For only on a strong ethical and moral foundation can one hope to build the super-structure of spirituality. Attempt has been made to cover all the stories in six Prakaranas. This book is a study by a seeker, and an attempt to present the philosophy, and practical hints contained in the book, to fellow seekers who are not very familiar with Sanskrit. It is essentially meant for inspiring the seekers to take up the study of the original text, which is a mine of practical wisdom. The essays contained herein, are glimpses into the meditations on the golden verses and their connection and relevance in our day-to-day life. Consequently, the interpretation and the perspective is not really meant for scholastic pursuits.
Author :Mark G. Boyer Publisher :Wipf and Stock Publishers Release Date :2016-12-09 ISBN :9781532604478 Pages :288 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.3/5 (447 download)
Download PDF An Abecedarian of Sacred Trees by Mark G. Boyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every person has seen a tree and maybe planted or climbed one! In all world religions, various trees are considered sacred. Trees have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into our lives. This abecedarian--a book whose contents are in alphabetical order--explores the spiritual growth that is possible by reflecting on the wisdom of woody plants, which help humans experience the divine. In these pages you can explore trees from Acacia to Zaqqum. For each of the forty entries, the author presents a text identifying the tree, a reflective study, a question for journaling or personal meditation, and a concluding prayer. Some trees you may have heard about, and some may be new to you. The spiritual life is enhanced by the trees that surround and share the earth with us while also disclosing the divine to us.
Download PDF The Ghost Kings by H. Rider Haggard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Ghost Kings by H. Rider Haggard
