Mad Dog Summer

Author : Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lansdale shows himself at the top of his form in this varied collection with something to suit every reader's taste.

Author : Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dog Summer & Other Stories [eBook - Biblioboard] written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Lansdale returns with his characteristic dark take on the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of mundane life in this collection of short stories and novellas. Originally available only in limited-edition hardcover, these tales run the gamut from devilish fantasy to twisted courtroom drama to vampire-robot western. Each story has an introduction in which the author relates the background of and inspiration for the story, whether it was drawn from history, literature, or pure imagination. The title story, about a serial killer in Texas in the 1930s, won the 1999 Bram Stoker Horror Award for long fiction. Stories included in this collection: Mad Dog Summer; The Mule Rustlers; O’Reta: Snapshot Memories; Rainy Weather; Screwup; The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down; Veil's Visit; Way Down There.

Author : Pauline Fisk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408852470
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dog Moonlight written by Pauline Fisk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad Dog Moonlight is only a young boy when he is picked up by the police on a lonely Welsh mountain road with a baby in his arms, and nothing from his past except the memory of the name his mother gave him, and a silver-topped walking cane upon which is engraved a secret word. Fostered by a local family, the Lewises, Mad Dog is renamed 'Ryan', but he struggles to accept this most ordinary of names and families. He longs to find the answer to who he is and what happened to his parents - and so sets off on an extraordinary adventure to uncover the lost secrets in his life. From the streets of Aberystwyth to the lonely hillocks of Plynlimon Mountain, Mad Dog encounters hidden adversaries and unexpected allies in a thrilling journey to discover just who he really is.

Author : Bertrand HŽbert
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773050656
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dog written by Bertrand HŽbert and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 17-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of one of pro wrestlingÕs most charismatic, feared, and beloved icons Who was Maurice the man, and who was Mad Dog the character? Maurice ÒMad DogÓ Vachon was a gold medalist, a pro-wrestling legend, and a pop culture icon Ñ but he was also a son, husband, and father. Mad Dog explores VachonÕs career and personal struggles with painstakingly detailed historical research and through both MauriceÕs own recollections and those of the people who knew him best. As a young man, Maurice could have chosen a dark criminal path, but then wrestling and family changed him. Chronicling his slow but steady rise to prominence across America and internationally in some of pro wrestlingÕs most important territories, this in-depth biography shows how VachonÕs life came to be defined by the words of Mark Twain: ÒItÕs not the size of the dog in the fight, itÕs the size of the fight in the dog.Ó Fiercely proud, motivated, and supremely talented, VachonÕs story is also the amazing tale of how a lifelong make-believe heel became a real-life hero outside of the ring. With a foreword by his brother, Paul Vachon, and an afterword by his widow, Kathie Vachon.

Author : Jessica Wang
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409720
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers written by Jessica Wang and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How rabid dogs, the struggles to contain them, and their power over the public imagination intersected with New York City's rise to urban preeminence. Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of "Mad dog!" possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization. Focusing on a transformative era in medicine, politics, and urban society, Wang uses rabies to survey urban social geography, the place of domesticated animals in the nineteenth-century city, and the world of American medicine. Rabies, she demonstrates, provides an ideal vehicle for exploring physicians' ideas about therapeutics, disease pathology, and the body as well as the global flows of knowledge and therapeutics. Beyond the medical realm, the disease also illuminates the cultural fears and political contestations that evolved in lockstep with New York City's burgeoning cityscape. Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers offers lay readers and specialists alike the opportunity to contemplate a tumultuous domain of people, animals, and disease against a backdrop of urban growth, medical advancement, and social upheaval. The result is a probing history of medicine that details the social world of New York physicians, their ideas about a rare and perplexing disorder, and the struggles of an ever-changing, ever-challenging urban society.

Author : Karen Brown
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821419536
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dogs and Meerkats written by Karen Brown and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Mad Dogs and Meerkats, Karen Brown links the increase of rabies in Southern Africa to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Her study shows that the most afflicted regions of South Africa have seen a dangerous rise in feral dog populations as people lack the education, means, or will to care for their pets or take them to inoculation centers. Ineffective disease control, which in part depends on management policies in neighboring states, has exacerbated the problem. The book traces the history of rabies in South Africa and neighboring states from 1800 to the present and shows how environmental and economic changes brought about by European colonialism and global trade have had long-term effects"--Provided by publisher.

Author : J. M. Hayes
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950885
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dog & Englishman written by J. M. Hayes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A suspenseful tale, told from the title to the end with wit and warmth by a very talented writer." —Nancy Pickard, award-winning author Summer in Benteen County, Kansas, is a season possessed of all the gentle subtlety of an act of war. Winter, of course, is no better, but remembrance of its frosts and blizzards and winds that begin to suck away your life before you walk a dozen steps has grown faint by the early hours of a Sunday morning in late June. While some try to sleep, and Sheriff English and his ex-wife try sex, the Reverend Peter Simms takes an early walk in the park and encounters someone counting coup. When the Sheriff's part-Cheyenne brother, Mad Dog, arrives to meditate, he finds the Reverend's mutilated corpse. Mad Dog is the obvious suspect and he begins to hang out in the town jail while Sheriff English widens his net. English picks up several suspicious characters, and an increasingly dark history for the Simms family. The case grows stormier, and so does the weather. As a tornado gathers to hurl its fury on the hapless town, the fury of the killer rises to meet it.

Author : Kelly Watt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990376705
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dog written by Kelly Watt and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1964 and Sheryl-Anne MacRae dreams of running away from her home on an apple orchard in southwestern Ontario to find her missing mother. But the teenager's plans are put on hold when her uncle brings home a handsome young hitchhiker. When Sheryl-Anne meets him, she falls in love.

Author : Dave Wickenden
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
ISBN 13 : 1684334837
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Dog written by Dave Wickenden and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An epic new take on serial killer fiction that is reminiscent of Stephen King’s best work." –Best Thrillers Fourteen-year-old Daniel and his friends enjoyed the best that childhood could offer during the summer of 1975 in a northern mining town until someone started brutally killing family pets. Daniel, who wants nothing more than be the hero from his books, convinces his friends to help search for the ‘sicko’, but this only brings him to the attention of the killer. When evidence surfaces that points at Daniel as the killer and his two friends turn against him, he soon realizes that there is much more to being a hero than what he has read. Running away from home, he enlists two seniors and a neighborhood bully to help trap the real killer.

Author : Joe R Lansdale
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
ISBN 13 : 1616960078
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Joe R. Lansdale written by Joe R Lansdale and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godzilla’s in a twelve-step program. A soul-sucking Mummy stalks Elvis and John F. Kennedy. Joe Bob Briggs has a moral dilemma: If your girlfriend turns zombie on you, what do you do? And that’s the tame stuff. In this red-hot collection from world-champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale, you’ll find his best, most outrageous stories. The high priest of Texan weirdness does it all: horror, mystery, satire, suspense, and even Westerns. Prepare to be offended, shocked, and cackling like a crazed redneck. Featuring five Bram Stoker Award–winning stories, this career retrospective contains some of Lansdale’s rarer work, his nonfiction forays into drive-in theaters and B-movies, and the novella Bubba Ho-Tep, later made into a cult-classic major motion picture. Come on in—the weirdness is fine.