The Tale Of Raw Head And Bloody Bones

Author : Jack Wolf
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143123823
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones written by Jack Wolf and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. It will be a momentous year for the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, who, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but—equally strong and much harder to control—is his obsession with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing, he uses the new tools of the age—reason and science and skepticism—to plumb the depths of his own dark mind. Profoundly imaginative, unexpectedly funny, and with a strange but moving love story at its heart, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is an oddly beautiful and daring novel about the relationship between the mind and body, sex, madness, pain, and the existence of God.

Author : Mary E. Lyons
Publisher : Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780689803062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raw Head, Bloody Bones written by Mary E. Lyons and published by Aladdin Paperbacks. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *****Young readers can meet some of the strangest beasts ever in these 15 spine-tingling folktales. A dancing corpse, a talking skull, a witch who sucks blood--these creepy denizens and others reflect the heritage of African oral traditions that has been passed down for generations.

Author : Jack Wolf
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101614633
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones written by Jack Wolf and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. It will be a momentous year for the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, who, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but—equally strong and much harder to control—is his obsession with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing, he uses the new tools of the age—reason and science and skepticism—to plumb the depths of his own dark mind. Profoundly imaginative, unexpectedly funny, and with a strange but moving love story at its heart, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is an oddly beautiful and daring novel about the relationship between the mind and body, sex, madness, pain, and the existence of God.

Author : Graham Masterton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781852170
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Bones written by Graham Masterton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One wet, windswept November morning, a field on a desolate farm gives up the dismembered bones of eleven women... Their skeletons bear the marks of a meticulous butcher. The bodies date back to 1915. All were likely skinned alive. But then a young woman goes missing, and her remains, the bones carefully stripped and arranged in an arcane patterns, are discovered on the same farm. With the crimes of the past echoing in the present, D.S. Katie Maguire must solve a decades-old murder steeped in ancient legend... before this terrifying killer strikes again.

Author : Leonard Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South from Hell-fer-Sartin written by Leonard Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R.L. Stine
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062495666
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scream and Scream Again! written by R.L. Stine and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream! R.L. Stine—the godfather of Goosebumps—and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this terrifying anthology of all-new scary short stories. Scream and Scream Again! is full of twists and turns, dark corners, and devilish revenge. Collected in conjunction with the Mystery Writers of America, this set includes works from New York Times bestselling authors telling tales of wicked ice-cream trucks, time-travelling heroes, witches and warlocks, and of course, haunted houses. Read it if you dare! With twenty never-before-published scary stories from some of the most popular authors today—including Chris Grabenstein, Wendy Corsi Staub, Heather Graham, Peter Lerangis, R.L. Stine, Bruce Hale, Emmy Laybourne, Steve Hockensmith, Lisa Morton, Ray Daniel, Beth Fantaskey, Phil Mathews, Carter Wilson, Doug Levin, Jeff Soloway, Joseph S. Walker, Alison McMahan, Daniel Palmer, Tonya Hurley, and Stephen Ross—it’s sure to leave readers screaming for more.

Author : Mary Hamilton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813140307
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Folktales written by Mary Hamilton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An entertaining collection . . . It will encourage readers to explore the lore of their own communities, no matter how near to or far from Kentucky.” —Library Journal Winner of the Storytelling World Resource Award and the Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of storytellers and listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies, Kentucky storyteller Mary Hamilton narrates a range of stories with the creativity only a master storyteller can evoke. Hamilton has perfected the art of entrancing an audience no matter the subject of her tales. Kentucky Folktales includes stories about Daniel Boone’s ability to single-handedly kill a bear, a daughter who saves her father’s land by outsmarting the king, and a girl who uses gingerbread to exact revenge on her evil stepmother, among many others. Hamilton ends each story with personal notes on important details of her storytelling craft, such as where she first heard the story, how it evolved through frequent retellings and reactions from audiences, and where the stories take place. Featuring tales and legends from all over the Bluegrass State, Kentucky Folktales captures the expression of Kentucky’s storytelling tradition. “A well-documented, lively, informative book . . . a major contribution to regional folklore.” —Louisville Courier-Journal

Author : Gregory Anderson-Elysee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997362800
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is'nana written by Gregory Anderson-Elysee and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accidentally breaking a barrier between our world and theirs ( The Mother Kingdom), Is'nana, the son of Anansi, accepts the responsibility for releasing creatures of horror into our world, villains who want nothing more but to cause chaos and mayhem to achieve their own diabolical or selfish goals. With guidance from his father, Is'nana not only strives to live up to his father's name but to also reach his own potential while he seeks to discover his individuality and place in the world.That is if he can survive an encounter with one of Anansi's arch rivals: OSEBO the LEOPARD, a dangerous foe who seeks to be the legend remembered and not forgotten - by any means necessary!

Author : Mary E. Lyons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439108773
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters From a Slave Girl written by Mary E. Lyons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of Harriet Ann Jacobs, Letters from a Slave Girl reveals in poignant detail what thousands of African American women had to endure not long ago, sure to enlighten, anger, and never be forgotten. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be given her freedom, and for the first time Harriet feels hopeful. But hoping can be dangerous, because disappointment is devastating. Harriet has one last hope, though: escape to the North. And as she faces numerous ordeals, this hope gives her the strength she needs to survive.

Author : Jennifer Lee Carrell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144062335X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speckled Monster written by Jennifer Lee Carrell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again. Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.