Clowns at Midnight
Author: Terry Dowling
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781848630857
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Author: Terry Dowling
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781848630857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Danel Olson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 711
ISBN-13: 0810877287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. The essays in this volume discuss the merits of these novels, highlighting the influences and key components that make them worthy of inclusion. Many of the pioneer voices of Gothic Studies, as well as other key critics of the field, have all contributed new essays to this volume, including David Punter, Jerrold Hogle, Karen F. Stein, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Tony Magistrale, Don D'Ammassa, Mavis Haut, Walter Rankin, James Doig, Laurence A. Rickels, Douglass H. Thomson, Sue Zlosnik, Carol Margaret Davision, Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Glennis Byron, Judith Wilt, Bernice Murphy, Darrell Schweitzer, and June Pulliam. The guide includes a preface by one of the world's leading authorities on the weird and fantastic, S. T. Joshi. Sharing their knowledge of how traditional Gothic elements and tensions surface in a changed way within a contemporary novel, the contributors enhance the reader's dark enjoyment, emotional involvement, and appreciation of these works. These essays show not only how each of these novels are Gothic but also how they advance or change Gothicism, making the works both irresistible for readers and establishing their place in the Gothic canon.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2009-02-24
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0307371182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story. Max Ophuls’ memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated—Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief—but it is much more. Ophuls is a giant, an architect of the modern world: a Resistance hero and best-selling author, brilliant economist and clandestine US intelligence official. But it is as Ambassador to India that the seeds of his demise are planted, thanks to another of his great roles—irresistible lover. Visiting the Kashmiri village of Pachigam, Ophuls lures an impossibly beautiful dancer, the ambitious (and willing) Boonyi Kaul, away from her husband, and installs her as his mistress in Delhi. But their affair cannot be kept secret, and when Boonyi returns home, disgraced and obese, it seems that all she has waiting for her is the inevitable revenge of her husband: Noman Sher Noman, Shalimar the Clown. He was an acrobat and tightrope walker in their village’s traditional theatrical troupe; but soon Shalimar is trained as a militant in Kashmir’s increasingly brutal insurrection, and eventually becomes a terrorist with a global remit and a deeply personal mission of vengeance. In this stunningly rich book everything is connected, and everyone is a part of everyone else. A powerful love story, intensely political and historically informed, Shalimar the Clown is also profoundly human, an involving story of people’s lives, desires and crises, as well as—in typical Rushdie fashion—a magical tale where the dead speak and the future can be foreseen.
Author: Benjamin Radford
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0826356664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA short history of the earliest clowns -- The despicable rogue Mr. Punch -- The unnatural nature of the evil clown -- Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns -- Bad clowns of the Ink -- Bad clowns of the Screen -- Bad clowns of the Song -- The carnal carnival: Buffoon boffing and clown sex -- Creepy, criminal, and killer clowns -- Activist clowns -- Crazed caged carny clowns -- The phantom clowns -- Troll clowns and the future of bad clowns
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 0545630940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoosebumps now on Disney+! Ray Gordon really likes the circus. His uncle, Theo, is a performer in Koko's Klown Academy and he invites Ray to come join him for the summer. At first, Ray's parents are reluctant-they know their son has a habit of getting himself into strange situations. But Ray manages to convince them that he'll be on his best behavior. The circus itself is very cool. The clowns stay in their makeup all day and only go by their clown names. Ray becomes a clown-in-training named Mr. Belly-Bounce. But the longer he's there, the scarier things become. There are whisperings about a place called Clown Street and nobody, including Murder the Clown, wants to go there. Will Ray be able to survive the dark secrets of the circus?
Author: David J. Schmidt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-10-28
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781976182587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the height of the outbreak of?creepy clown? sightings around the world, author David J. Schmidt travels to the remote Nevada desert. His mission: to spend three nights in the haunted Clown Motel. The reality is more frightening than he could have imagined:? An Old West graveyard right next door to the motel, where locals swear they have seen strange lights and figures at night? Unexplained sounds and poltergeist activity in the motel?s rooms? Hundreds of clown dolls in the lobby, some of which move on their own Join the author for three sleepless nights in this terrifying motel, culminating in a midnight walk through the cemetery?alone. If you weren?t afraid of clowns before reading this book, you will be soon.
Author: Benjamin Radford
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0826356672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBad clowns—those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us—have long been a cultural icon. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them. Going beyond familiar clowns such as the Joker, Krusty, John Wayne Gacy, and Stephen King’s Pennywise, it also features bizarre, lesser-known stories of weird clown antics including Bozo obscenity, Ronald McDonald haters, killer clowns, phantom-clown abductors, evil-clown panics, sex clowns, carnival clowns, troll clowns, and much more. Bad Clowns blends humor, investigation, and scholarship to reveal what is behind the clown’s dark smile.
Author: Ron Riekki
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-05-16
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1476644527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog," or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction's most terrifying creations--like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty--jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.
Author: Tim Waggoner
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0857663704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's Supernatural meets The Men in Black in a darkly humourous urban fantasy from the author of Nekropolis. When you dream, you visit the Maelstrom. Dream long enough and hard enough, and your dreams can break through into the living world. So can your nightmares. And who's there to catch the dreams and nightmares as they fall into reality? Meet the Nightwatch. Pray you never need them...
Author: Charles K Bunch, Ph.D.
Publisher: Spiral Fractal Soul
Published: 2018-04-09
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Clown's Red Nose and Lips are misunderstood: these first clues are of Frozen and Decaying Flesh of the Evil Clown Archetype. This is not your entertaining pal but a warning of death. The mental images signals you to flee danger. 14 The Evil Clown Archetype is a complex metaphor known to all humans., like other evil character Archetypes: The Vampire and Pirates. But, the Evil Clown has multiple characteristics like the mythic dragon: teeth shred flesh, claws shred and ensnare, and rotting eyes and features are grotesque and fear inducing. To know the Evil Clown archetype is to have the ability to determine those narcissistic takers that are dangerous killers of soul or even body. Evil Clown messages are in stories, movies, mythology, and planed in our unconscious mind to warn us quickly of danger. Flee, because the Evil Clown is a taker and a destroyer in all regards.