The Novel Of The Black Seal

Author : Arthur Machen
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Novel of the Black Seal written by Arthur Machen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Novel of the Black Seal" by Arthur Machen is a classic tale that delves into the mysterious and the unknown. Machen's signature style of blending the supernatural with the mundane is evident in this work, making it a captivating read for those who enjoy tales that challenge the boundaries of reality.

Author : ARTHUR MACHEN
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE THREE IMPOSTORS or The Transmutations written by ARTHUR MACHEN and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three Imposters is a strange little book, a narrative about a secret society's efforts to retrieve a Roman coin ("The Gold Tiberius"), but this "novel" appears to be little more than a convenient device for telling a series of marvelous, horrific tales. Two of these tales--"The Novel of the Black Seal" and "The Novel of the White Powder"--are first-class works of imaginative fiction, and the entire book itself is entrancing, reminiscent of Stevenson's New Arabian Nights in its descriptions of London--conveyed in musical, Swinburneian prose--make of this nineteenth century metropolis something as exotic and fantastic as the Baghdad of Haroun al-Rashid. In addition, this collection contains not only two short stories but also the novella "The Great God Pan," one of the acknowledged classics of the weird tale. Its Chinese box structure--the horror revealed in fragments, in various voices, with lacunae which must be supplied by the reader--makes the narrative all the more compelling and terrifying in its obliqueness. (Lovecraft used this structure as his model for "The Call of Cthulhu.") "The Great God Pan" has an interesting plot as well, in that it is an inversion of the Ripper murders which occurred only a few years before. Instead of lower-class women murdered in the slums by an unknown male slasher, we have wealthy young men committing suicide in the most fashionable sections of London--and this time a mysterious woman seems to be involved.

Author : Arthur Machen
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 152878524X
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Novel of the White Powder written by Arthur Machen and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Novel of the White Powder” is a short story by Welsh author Arthur Machan, first published in his novel “The Three Imposters” (1895). The story concerns a man whose behaviour alters dramatically as the result a change in his prescription. However, even though some of these changes are indubitably for the better, his sister remains sceptical—and with good reason. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella “The Great God Pan” (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories ever written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Youssef Rakha
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781566569910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Sultan's Seal written by Youssef Rakha and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PROFOUNDLY ORIGINAL DEBUT FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED EGYPTIAN WRITER Youssef Rakha’s extraordinary The Book of the Sultan’s Seal was published less than two weeks after then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, following mass protests, in February 2011. It’s hard to imagine a debut novel of greater urgency or more thrilling innovation. Modeled on a medieval Arabic manuscript in the form of a letter addressed to the writer’s friend, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal is made up of nine chapters, each centered on a drive our hero, Mustafa Çorbaci, takes around greater Cairo in the spring of 2007. Together these create a portrait of Cairo, city of post-9/11 Islam. In a series of dreams and visions, Mustafa Çorbaci encounters the spirit of the last Ottoman sultan and embarks on a mission the sultan assigns him. Çorbaci’s trials shed light on the contemporary Arab Muslim’s desperation for a sense of identity: Sultan’s Seal is both a suspenseful, erotic, riotous novel and an examination of accounts of Muslim demise. The way to a renaissance, Çorbaci’s journeys lead us to see, may have less to do with dogma and jihad than with love poetry, calligraphy, and the cultural diversity and richness within Islam. With his first novel, Rakha has created a language truly all his own—an achievement that has earned international acclaim. This profoundly original work both retells canonical Arabic classics and offers a new version of “middle Arabic,” in which the formal meets the vernacular. Now finally in English, in Paul Starkey’s masterful translation, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal will astonish new readers around the world.

Author : Douglas Allen Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales written by Douglas Allen Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the roots of modern horror by reading the master's favorite stories, those which inspired, awed, and scared him! This is the only collection in print of stories selected by H. P. Lovecraft himself"--Book jacket.

Author : Arthur Machen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1633558568
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shining Pyramid written by Arthur Machen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice. Machen loved the medieval world view because he felt it combined deep spirituality alongside a rambunctious earthiness.

Author : Howard E. Wasdin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451675682
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outcasts written by Howard E. Wasdin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors of the “harrowing” (Time) and “adrenaline-laced” (The New York Times) insider memoir SEAL Team Six, Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin bring their bestselling talents and hardcore field experience to a riveting novel of a team that covertly defies military code to do what SEALs do best: keep America safe. They are the Outcasts. Because people don’t want to know what they do. With bin Laden dead and seven al Qaeda members vying to replace him, America requires a team capable of finessing the U.N.’s policies of national sovereignty to take out the would-be terrorist leaders. The quartet of elite SEALs that comprises Tier One, a product of the top-secret Special Op unit Bitter Ash, will eliminate its targets under cover of darkness and with no official support from its government. But hot on the tail of the third target, the Outcasts discover a plot with the U.S. in its crosshairs . . . a threat that will put them to the ultimate test.

Author : B. Patterson Warnette B. Patterson
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142693002X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book with the Seven Seals written by B. Patterson Warnette B. Patterson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven seals of the Book of Revelation offer a warning to spiritual seekers of the many spectacular events that are coming upon the world in the future. From the first seal that cautions religious deception and persecution to the next six seals that warn of war, famine, pestilence, tribulation and martyrdom, signs in the heavens, and a devastating earthquake, the seven seals have always held mystery. Warnette Patterson has been the pastor of a small North Carolina congregation for the past twelve years and has answered her calling by Jesus to write and educate others so they may know Jesus in His compassion and suffering for us. As she shares the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ coupled with many scriptural references, she delves into the meaning of the seven seals and details the ways Jesus wants us to apply the significance of the seals to our daily lives. The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. The Book with the Seven Seals both reinforces and explains the conditions that must first occur before God brings His final judgment upon the world.

Author : Joe R Lansdale
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
ISBN 13 : 161696040X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flaming Zeppelins written by Joe R Lansdale and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of nonstop steampunk adventures. For the first time, two epic chronicles, Zeppelins West and Flaming London, inscribed by a courageous young seal on his trusty notepad, are collected together in one volume. Leap from a flaming zeppelin with the stars of the Wild West Show in a desperate escape from an imperial Japanese enclave. Wash up upon the island of Doctor Moreau, in mortal danger from his unnatural experiments (and ignorant that Dracula approaches by sea). Unite with Jules Verne, Passpartout, and Mark Twain on a desperate voyage to the burning streets of London, which are infested with killer squid from outer space courtesy of H. G. Wells’s time machine. It’s a raucous steam-powered locomotive of shoot-’em-up Westerns, dime novels, comic books, and pulp fiction, as only Lansdale, the high-priest of Texan weirdness, could tell.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Mischief written by Evelyn Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a "Birth Control Gala," the rightful ruler's demise at his own rather long and tiring coronation ceremonies, and a good deal more mischief.