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Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of Dreadful Night and Other Sketches written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226756899
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Dreadful Night written by Lee Siegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of horror and the macabre in India, featuring an American scholar. With the help of a vagrant storyteller he discovers reincarnation, magical transformation, flesh-eating demons and vampires. Lots of stories within stories. By the author of Net of Magic.
Author : Peter Guttridge
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780100507
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Dreadful Night written by Peter Guttridge and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Be prepared for a long night. Guttridge combines period mystery, police procedure and noir in a fascinating tale whose only blemish is that you'll have to wait for the next in the series in its resolution” ― Kirkus Reviews, (Starred Review) The first gripping mystery in the Brighton Trilogy. July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's lost luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer never caught. But someone is keeping a diary... July 2009. Ambitious radio journalist Kate Simpson hopes to solve the notorious Brighton Trunk Murder, and she enlists the help of ex-Chief Constable Robert Watts, whose role in the recent botched armed-police operation in Milldean, Brighton's notorious no-go area, cost him his job. But it's only a matter of time before past and present collide...
Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 178283785X
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Night written by John Rechy and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the edges of America that has lost none of its power. On his travels, the nameless narrator meets a collection of unforgettable characters, from vice cops to guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire, to Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive.
Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622208X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Dreadful Night written by Lee Siegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lee Siegel went to India to do research for a book on Sanskrit horror literature, a friend in New Delhi told him about an itinerant teller of ghost and vampire tales, a man with clusters of amulets around his neck and a silk top hat with peacock plumes on his head. Siegel set out in search of the old man—called Brahm Kathuwala—to hear his stories and to learn about his uncommon life. But what started out as a study of other people's stories became a compelling story itself. City of Dreadful Night is an astonishing work of fiction, a tangle of tales that transports the reader from the Medieval India of magicians, witches, and vampires, through the British India of Brahm Kathuwala's childhood, into the chaos and political terror of contemporary India. Vividly recreating Indian literary and oral traditions, Siegel weaves a web of possession, reincarnation, and magical transformation unlike any found in the Western tradition. Flesh-eating demons, Rajiv Gandhi's assassin, even Bram Stoker and Dracula populate the serpentine narrative, which intermingles stories about the characters with the terrifying tales they tell. Siegel pursues Brahm Kathuwala from the ghastly lights of the cremation ground at Banaras through villages all over north India. Brahm's life story is revealed through countless tales along the way. We learn that he was raised, and abandoned, by two mothers—one the destitute floor sweeper who bore him; the other her employer, a wealthy Irish woman who read and reread to him the story of Dracula. We hear of his marriage to the daughter of a cremation ground attendant, his battles against her demonic possession, and their painful parting. We come to understand the daily life and motivations of this "horror professional," who uses terrifying tales to ward off the evil he himself fears. This unorthodox book is more than a story; it blends scholarship, fantasy, travelogue, and autobiography—fusing and overlapping historical accounts and newscasts, literary texts and films, dreams and nocturnal tales. Siegel uses imagination to explore the relation of real terror to horror fiction and to contemplate the ways fear and disgust become thrilling elements in stories of the macabre. This book is the product of Siegel's deep knowledge of both Indian and Western literary and philosophical traditions. It is also an attempt to come to grips with the omnipresence of political and religious terror in contemporary India. Shocking, original, beautifully written, City of Dreadful Night offers readers a captivating immersion in the wonder and terror of India, past and present.
Author : James Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of Dreadful Night written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of Dreadful Night written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Thomson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338701032X
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of Dreadful Night written by James Thomson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : James Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of Dreadful Night written by James Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
