Animal Money
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
Published: 2015-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781621052128
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Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
Published: 2015-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781621052128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-15
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781087929538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation - what it does to people, and what isolated people do to each other and themselves. An ominously quiet town. A haunting young adult novel from the turn of the century. Two starving captives frozen in agony. A young boy from a doting family. A man in a cheap Halloween mask. A succession of portraits of people trapped in their own identities, some of whom insist on their own ideas because they would have nothing at all without them. People for whom being seen by another is terrifying. And, like any collection of portraits, ANTISOCIETIES is also a collection of speculative mirrors ...
Author: Jacques Lacarriere
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0720618029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGnostics have always sought to “know” rather than to accept dogma and doctrine, often to their peril. This inquiry into Gnosticism examines the character, history, and beliefs of a brave and vigorous spiritual quest that originated in the ancient Near East and continues into the present day.Lawrence Durrell writes, “This is a strange and original essay, more a work of literature than of scholarship, though its documentation is impeccable. It is as convincing a reconstruction of the way the Gnostics lived and thought as D.H. Lawrence’s intuitive recreation of the vanished Etruscans.”
Author: Valerie A. Kivelson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 0801469376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, often on charges of compacting with the devil, the tsars' courts vigorously pursued men and some women accused of practicing more down-to-earth magic, using poetic spells and home-grown potions. Instead of Satanism or heresy, the primary concern in witchcraft testimony in Russia involved efforts to use magic to subvert, mitigate, or avenge the harsh conditions of patriarchy, serfdom, and social hierarchy.Broadly comparative and richly illustrated with color plates, Desperate Magic places the trials of witches in the context of early modern Russian law, religion, and society. Piecing together evidence from trial records to illuminate some of the central puzzles of Muscovite history, Kivelson explores the interplay among the testimony of accusers, the leading questions of the interrogators, and the confessions of the accused. Assembled, they create a picture of a shared moral vision of the world that crossed social divides. Because of the routine use of torture in extracting and shaping confessions, Kivelson addresses methodological and ideological questions about the Muscovite courts' equation of pain and truth, questions with continuing resonance in the world today. Within a moral economy that paired unquestioned hierarchical inequities with expectations of reciprocity, magic and suspicions of magic emerged where those expectations were most egregiously violated.Witchcraft in Russia surfaces as one of the ways that oppression was contested by ordinary people scrambling to survive in a fiercely inequitable world. Masters and slaves, husbands and wives, and officers and soldiers alike believed there should be limits to exploitation and saw magic deployed at the junctures where hierarchical order veered into violent excess.
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 172
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Publisher: Centipede Press
Published: 2013-01-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781613470275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour novels and one short story collection from Michael Cisco all in a signed and limited boxed edition.
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Published: 2018-04
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781621052661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Michael Cisco, one of the most innovative and subversive writers working today, comes the long-awaited, ground-breaking novel of a suicide survivor trying in vain to write himself back into existence. Unlanguage is the story of a man transformed by death and by language change. The language, once understood, transforms him, and transforms learning itself. One day, he looks down at the hand resting on his thigh and sees that it's just an ordinary hand. What had been composed of colored light made solid goes back to being meat and blood. His body reverts to the ordinary sloshing heaviness of a regular body. The exalted vision of his eyes becomes the filmy, blurred vision of the usual kind. He slumps back into his former self. Whirlwinds of shame close on him. With a violent, monkey-like energy he wracks his brains for a way back. Then it occurs to him, he can still write that language. He must write his way back. Told as a structural guide to impossible grammar, Michael Cisco's Unlanguage is a brilliant, thought-provoking novel that not only pushes the boundaries of literature but of language itself.
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1894815866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. "Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece." -- Thomas Ligotti
Author: Christopher Slatsky
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780578574189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales comes this devastating collection of fifteen stories and essays. A father's desperate search for his missing child leads to a cosmic haunted realm. A woman returns to her childhood home to find a past preserved in a semblance of life. A young man and his canine companion find themselves in the heart of an occult government exercise deep within a Pacific Northwest forest. An elderly man is subject to mysterious experiments as he descends into dementia. And, in the title novella, a forensic anthropologist is called to the site of the mass suicide of an anti-natalist cult intent on communicating with Nature.
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Mythos Books LLC
Published: 2006-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780978991104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSECRET HOURS is a collection of short stories by the International Horror Guild Award-winning author Michael Cisco. This edition collects various horror and dark fantasy short stories, as well as several Lovecraftian and Cthulhu Mythos style stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. The book features a gorgeous cover and interior artwork by Harry O. Morris, and additional interior artwork by Jason C. Eckhardt and Thomas Brown. The introduction is by noted author and Lovecraftian scholar Robert M. Price.