Dark Asylum

Author : E. S Thomson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681775956
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Asylum written by E. S Thomson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a crumbling Victorian asylum where a gruesome murder is committed, this sequel to Beloved Poison explores the early science of brain study while giving chilling insight into an asylum's workings. 1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr. Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes stitched closed. The police direct their attention towards Angel Meadow's inmates, but to Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain the crime is an act of calculated retribution, rather than of madness. To discover the truth Jem and Will must pursue the story through the darkest corners of the city—from the depths of a notorious rookery, to the sordid rooms of London's brothels, the gallows, the graveyard, the convict fleet and then back to the asylum. In a world where guilt and innocence, crime and atonement, madness and reason, are bounded by hypocrisy, ambition and betrayal, Jem and Will soon find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities.

Author : E. S. Thomson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168177268X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beloved Poison: A Novel written by E. S. Thomson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a crumbling 1850s London infirmary, a richly atmospheric Victorian crime novel where murder is the price to be paid for secrets kept. Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting the future, St. Saviour’s Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors, the doctors bicker and backstab. Ambition, jealousy, and loathing seethe beneath the veneer of professional courtesy. Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, apothecary Jem Flockhart observes everything but says nothing. And then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags. When Jem comes across these strange relics hidden inside the infirmary’s old chapel, her quest to understand their meaning prises open a long-forgotten past—with fatal consequences. In a trail that leads from the bloody world of the operating room and the dissecting table to the notorious squalor of Newgate Prison and the gallows, Jem’s adversary proves to be both powerful and ruthless. As St. Saviour’s destruction draws near, the dead are unearthed from their graves while the living are forced to make impossible choices. And murder is the price to be paid for the secrets to be kept.

Author : Madeleine Roux
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062220985
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by Madeleine Roux and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place." For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm. The dorm was formerly a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on at Brookline . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary asylum, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried. Featuring found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Asylum is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity, perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Don't miss any of the books in the Asylum series, or Madeleine Roux's shivery fantasy series, House of Furies!

Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476670986
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Arkham Asylum written by Sharon Packer, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies that perplex even the most up-to-date professionals. The 25 essays in this collection explore the significance of Arkham's sinister psychiatrists, murderous mental patients, and unethical geneticists. It invites debates about the criminalization of the mentally ill, mental patients who move from defunct state hospitals into expanding prisons, madness versus badness, sociopathy versus psychosis, the "insanity defense" and more. Invoking literary figures from Lovecraft to Poe to Caligari, the 25 essays in this collection are a broad-ranging and thorough assessment of the franchise and its relationship to contemporary psychiatry.

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Publisher : Dc Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781401204242
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arkham Asylum written by and published by Dc Comics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Led by the Joker, the patients of Arkham Asylum take over the building and threaten to murder the staff unless Batman agrees to meet with them, a situation that results in Batman being pushed to the brink of madness himself.

Author : Paul Witcover
Publisher : DH Press
ISBN 13 : 9781595820181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by Paul Witcover and published by DH Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Bram Stoker first penned Dracula in 1897, this horror classic has been endlessly reinterpreted on stage, screen and print. Drawing on Universal Pictures' 1930s rendition of Count Dracula during the Golden Age of horror films, Dracula: Asylum is a bold new turn on a story that has remained a consistent favorite for over 100 years. The book follows the activities at Dr. Seward's Sanatorium, the location from which Dracula drew several victims before being destroyed by Jonathan Harker in the original story.

Author : Dan Slott
Publisher : DC
ISBN 13 : 1401252869
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Batman: Arkham Asylum Living Hell Deluxe Edition written by Dan Slott and published by DC. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL examines the dark underbelly of Gotham's notorious "House of Madness!" Warren White, one of Gotham's most successful financiers, thought he could beat his jail rap by pleading insanity. Now he's finding out why you don't cop an insanity plea in Gotham! Expect appearances by Batman, The Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, and the rest of Arkham's regulars -- plus the debut of several new Rogues! This new deluxe edition collects the miniseries and features new sketch material from superstar artist Ryan Sook. Collects ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL #1-6.

Author : Tom Gade Olausson
Publisher : Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN 13 : 0997927674
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry from Hell's Asylum written by Tom Gade Olausson and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lily White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by Lily White and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words are funny things. Their meaning, the pictures they paint in the minds of those that hear them. They're not always the same and to me at least, that makes them meaningless. Take for instance the phrase 'black widow'. Those words conjure the image of a spider. However, instead of speaking of an arachnid, the people who whisper them are talking about something much different. They're talking about me. From what I'm told, no man I've ever loved has survived. Yet, I have no memory of any of it. My new home leads me to the definition of another vague and meaningless word. But the definition for the word is wrong. Especially when you're made silent by drugs and pretty white jackets. My name is Alexandra Sutton and this is the story of what happened when I was imprisoned inside an Asylum. *****Disclaimer: Asylum is a dark novel that contains sensitive subject matter not appropriate for readers below the age of 18 years of age. Asylum also contains explicit descriptions of violence. Asylum is a full length novel at 90K + words and is not part of a series.

Author : Jeannette de Beauvoir
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250045398
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by Jeannette de Beauvoir and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine's boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department. Martine is paired with a young detective, Julian Fletcher, and together they dig deep into the city's and the country's past, only to uncover a dark secret dating back to the 1950s, when orphanages in Montreal and elsewhere were converted to asylums in order to gain more funding. The children were subjected to horrific experiments such as lobotomies, electroshock therapy, and psychotropic medication, and many of them died in the process. The survivors were supposedly compensated for their trauma by the government and the cases seem to have been settled. So who is bearing a grudge now, and why did these four women have to die? Print run 20,000.