Gargoyle Scourge

Author : Keith Robinson
Publisher : Unearthly Tales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargoyle Scourge written by Keith Robinson and published by Unearthly Tales. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical fantasy adventure with shapeshifters and creatures from myth and legend. Suitable for all readers 9 and up. Parents, read this with your children! Eleven-year-old Melinda Strickland is setting out on her first mission as a shapeshifter—to save a town from unruly gargoyles. The ugly stone creatures have been perched on the rooftops of Garlen's Well for decades, warding off evil spirits, but lately they've grown mischievous and downright destructive. Somebody needs to talk to them, find out what's going on, and persuade them to be more respectful of private property. That somebody is Melinda, daughter of famous shapeshifters Robbie the ogre and Lauren the harpy. But what kind of creature will she get to be? Travis Franklin accompanies her on the trip west, though Melinda is keen to point out she's in charge, not him. He's only a dragon, after all. Nothing ever goes as planned. What promises to be a fairly routine mission turns into something quite deadly . . . GARGOYLE SCOURGE is the third installment in the Island of Fog Legacies series. Good, clean, sometimes scary fun for young readers, and suitable for adults as well.

Author : Assistant Professor of Sociology Keith Robinson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544128221
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargoyle Scourge (Island of Fog Legacies #3) written by Assistant Professor of Sociology Keith Robinson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Melinda Strickland is setting out on her first mission as a shapeshifter-to save a town from unruly gargoyles. The ugly stone creatures have been perched on the rooftops of Garlen's Well for decades, warding off evil spirits, but lately they've grown mischievous and downright destructive. Somebody needs to talk to them, find out what's going on, and persuade them to be more respectful of private property. That somebody is Melinda, daughter of famous shapeshifters Robbie the ogre and Lauren the harpy. But what kind of creature will she get to be? Travis Franklin accompanies her on the trip west, though Melinda is keen to point out she's in charge, not him. He's only a dragon, after all. Nothing ever goes as planned. What promises to be a fairly routine mission turns into something quite deadly . . . GARGOYLE SCOURGE is the third installment in the Island of Fog Legacies series.

Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : Baker's Plays
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargoyles written by Thomas Bernhard and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early one morning a doctor sets out with his son on his daily rounds through the forbidding mountainous countryside. Their visits, a succession of grotesque portraits--a diabetic industrialist living in incestuous isolation with his half-sister; three brothers, occupying a mill set in a deep gorge, who have just strangled a bevy of exotic birds; a crippled musical prodigy whose sister locks him in a cage--lead them to a castle and a paranoid prince, whose "almost uninterrupted monologue for a hundred pages is a virtuoso verbal performance . . . [in] an extraordinary, somber first novel."--A.C. Foote, Book World "What he shares with the best of [writers such as Sartre, Camus, Mann, and Kafka] is the ability to extract more than utter gloom from his landscape of inconceivable devastation. While the external surface of life is unquestionably grim, he somehow suggests more--the mystic element in experience that calls for symbolic interpretation; the inner significance of states that are akin to surrealistic dream-worlds; man's yearning for health, compassion, sanity."--Robert Maurer, The Saturday Review "The feeling grows that Thomas Bernhard is now the most original, concentrated novelist writing in German. His connections . . . with the great constellation of Kafka, Musil, and Broch become ever clearer."--George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement

Author : David H. Burton
Publisher : Stonehenge Press
ISBN 13 : 0986594121
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scourge written by David H. Burton and published by Stonehenge Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dads, five siblings, and goggles! Grim Doyle has always known his life was not exactly "normal", and things get even more curious when he discovers a set of stones that sweep him and his family to the fantasy, steampunk world of Verne - a place they had escaped from years ago. Now that they've returned, Grim and his siblings hide from the evil Lord Victor and his minions. And while learning about Jinns, Mystics, and the power of absinth they try to discover who is trying to kill them with the deadly Scourge.

Author : Susan Pesznecker
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601639783
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargoyles written by Susan Pesznecker and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2007-01-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gargoyles takes you on a journey into a mysterious world, through bestiaries and traveling menageries, past grotesques and chimeras, through medieval cities and guilds and into huge stone buildings. Gargoyles are an embodiment of form and function—serving a clear architectural purpose but, also, symbolically important. Whether warding off evil, frightening away fear or showcasing human foibles, when a gargoyle was placed on a building, people noticed. The book delves into historic models of arcane craftsmanship and architecture, considering the reasons for gargoyles coming into being and hearing the legends of the gargoyle, both mythic and modern. It, also, covers the emergence of stone creatures into popular culture. For modern magick users, Gargoyles explores the role of the gargoyle in magickal practice, including gargoyle use in elemental correspondences, stone magick, protection, warding, egregores, talismans, animal associations, ritual and spell work.

Author : Paul Durham
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1524700207
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Gargoyle written by Paul Durham and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book will tremble with delight for this haunting tale about a lonely gargoyle who isn't alone at all. Penhallow is the last of his kind. The stone gargoyle--he'd prefer you call him a grotesque--fearlessly protects his Boston building from the spirits who haunt the night. But even he is outmatched when Hetty, his newest ward, nearly falls victim to the Boneless King, the ruler of the underworld. Then there's Viola, the mysterious girl who keeps turning up at the most unlikely times. In a world where nightmares come to life, Viola could be just the ally Penhallow needs. But can he trust her when every shadow hides another secret? Can he afford not to?

Author : Katherine Kurtz
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504037588
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Patrick's Gargoyle written by Katherine Kurtz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “charming” fantasy by the author of the Deryni novels, a gargoyle guardian and a Knight of Malta defend a Dublin cathedral and battle a demon (Booklist, starred review). The gargoyles of Dublin, Ireland, have a sacred duty to perform. Formerly God’s avenging angels, for centuries they have been entrusted with guarding the churches and cathedrals of the Irish capital while avoiding all contact with human beings. But once a month these loyal stone sentries must leave their posts to attend a conclave of their kind, and it is during one such absence that a sacrilege occurs. The guardian of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the gargoyle Padraig, called “Paddy,” has returned to find violence and vandalism committed at his church and two silver artifacts stolen. Taking to Dublin’s night streets in search of a culprit, Paddy inadvertently reveals himself to an aged chauffeur in an ancient Rolls Royce, thereby dooming Francis Templeton to an impending premature death. But the grim reaper will have to wait, because old man Templeton is a member of the Knights of Malta, a secret order of defenders of the faith dating back to the Crusades, and as such is an ideal partner for the onetime angel in his quest for justice and revenge. Their hunt is about to take some sinister turns, however, leading the gargoyle and the knight to Clontarf Castle, where a major demon, an emissary of Satan, is preparing to make his reentrance into the world. An acclaimed and much beloved fantasist best known for her popular Adept and Knights Templar series and her chronicles of the magical Deryni, Katherine Kurtz now displays another side of her extraordinary talent and succeeds magnificently. St. Patrick’s Gargoyle is a delightful feast of the imagination, rich in Celtic lore and religious arcana, and brimming with wit and heart, wonder and magic.

Author : Paul Joseph Durham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781524700218
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Gargoyle written by Paul Joseph Durham and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Penhallow is the last gargoyle protecting the streets of Boston from the creatures of the underworld"--

Author : John Freeman Gill
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970901
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gargoyle Hunters written by John Freeman Gill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both his family and his city are crumbling when thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts stumbles headlong into his estranged father’s illicit architectural salvage business in 1970s Manhattan. Griffin clambers up the façades of tenements and skyscrapers to steal their nineteenth-century architectural sculptures—gargoyles and sea monsters, goddesses and kings. As his father sees it, these evocative creatures, crafted by immigrant artisans, are an endangered species in an age of sweeping urban renewal. Desperate for money to help his artist mother keep their home, and yearning to connect with his father, Griffin fails to see that his father’s deepening obsession with preserving the treasures of Gilded Age New York endangers them all. As he struggles to hold his family together and build a first love with his girlfriend on a sturdier foundation than his parents’ marriage, Griffin must learn to develop himself into the man he wants to become, and discern which parts of his life may be salvaged—and which parts must be let go. Hilarious and poignant, this critically acclaimed debut is both a vivid love letter to a vanishing city and an intimate portrait of father and son. And it solves the mystery of a stunningly brazen architectural heist—the theft of an entire landmark building—that made the front page of The New York Times in 1974. With writing both tender and powerful, The Gargoyle Hunters brings a remarkable new voice to the canon of New York fiction.

Author : Keith Robinson
Publisher : Unearthly Tales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinister Roots written by Keith Robinson and published by Unearthly Tales. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical fantasy adventure with shapeshifters and creatures from myth and legend. Suitable for all readers 9 and up. Parents, read this with your children! Shapeshifter Travis Franklin has a new mission: to deliver a mysterious package to the Grim Reaper. Traveling with his best friend Rez, the boys set off on an overnight journey to a blank spot on the map where Death is thought to reside. This time Travis is going as a three-headed fireball-shooting chimera, and he's fairly sure nothing will stand in his way. Not even the annoying trolls who demand payment at every turn. Yet something else lurks in the woods. Something far more sinister even than the Grim Reaper... SINISTER ROOTS is the second installment in the Island of Fog Legacies series. Good, clean, sometimes scary fun for young readers, and suitable for adults too.