Hex, Death & Rock 'n' Roll
Hex, Death & Rock 'n' Roll

Author: E. F. Watkins

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2019-03-13

Total Pages: 276

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Having barely survived a haunting in her own house, 30-something journalist Quinn Matthews has vowed never to get involved with the supernatural again. But her experiences awakened new psychic sensitivities that she can’t turn off. When she attends a performance by the rock group Mad Love, she witnesses a supposed accident that claims the life of a cameraman—except Quinn saw a shadowy figure commit the “crime.” The band’s lead singer, Alan Bardot, asks Quinn to use her gifts to discover who has been trying to sabotage the band since its last tour. Soon, she finds herself entangled in the secrets, grudges and jealousies surrounding Mad Love. Are they really under a curse, as threatening messages have claimed? If someone is using occult means to get revenge, can Quinn find out who, why and how before she ends up a target herself? And finally, can her shaky relationship with her reporter boyfriend survive her spending so much time with a sexy rock star?

Dark Music
Dark Music

Author: E. F. Watkins

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2019-03-13

Total Pages: 250

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When Quinn Matthews buys a Victorian house in the New Jersey suburbs from a relative, she finally owns the home of her dreams. She tries to ignore the peculiar chill she feels whenever she goes near the attic, where her late uncle suffered a fatal heart attack. Quinn, who writes about décor for a living, plans to restore the place in true 19th-century style. Her efforts, though, are hampered by strange accidents. She also hears classical piano music and gunshots from no earthly source, and finds eerie messages on a wall, a notepad and even her computer. Even an unstable next-door neighbor accuses her of “stirring up trouble” with her renovations. Finally, Quinn accepts that her dream house is haunted. But the ghosts don’t want her gone—they want her to right a terrible wrong that took place in 1897. A latent psychic gift makes Quinn identify strongly with their sufferings. Soon, she feels the strain on her relationships, her finances and even her sanity. To lay the ghosts to rest and keep the house she loves, she must re-investigate the murder of its first owner—a dashing classical pianist whose love life was far from Victorian...

Satan in America
Satan in America

Author: W. Scott Poole

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780742561717

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Satan in America tells the story of America's complicated relationship with the devil. "New light" evangelists of the eighteenth century, enslaved African Americans, demagogic politicians, and modern American film-makers have used the devil to damn their enemies, explain the nature of evil and injustice, mount social crusades, construct a national identity, and express anxiety about matters as diverse as the threat of war to the dangers of deviant sexuality. The idea of the monstrous and the bizarre providing cultural metaphors that interact with historical change is not new. Poole takes a new tack by examining this idea in conjunction with the concerns of American religious history. The book shows that both the range and the scope of American religiousness made theological evil an especially potent symbol. Satan appears repeatedly on the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the United States, a shadow self to the sunny image of American progress and idealism.

Hex-Rated
Hex-Rated

Author: Jason Ridler

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1597806323

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A salacious throwback to the detective pulps of the 70s, Hex-Rated kicks off the new urban fantasy series the Brimstone Files. Fall, 1970. Los Angeles has always been a den of danger and bliss, but even darker tidings brew in the City of Angels. Cults, magic, and the supernatural are leaking into the worlds of glamour and dives of the gutter. To the spectators walking down Hollywood Blvd, it’s just more proof that La La Land is over the cuckoo’s nest. But to former child magician and Korean veteran turned newly-licensed private investigator James Brimstone, it means business is picking up. After attending his mentor’s funeral, Brimstone signs his first client: Nico, a beautiful actress with a face full of scars and an unbelievable story of sex, demons, and violence on the set of a pornographic film in the San Fernando Valley. The cops chalk it up to a bad trip from a lost soul, but Brimstone knows better. He takes the case, but the investigation goes haywire as he encounters Hell’s Angels, a lost book of Japanese erotica, and a new enemy whose powers may fill the streets of L.A. with blood. He’ll have to us his Carney wits, magic tricks, and a whole lotta charm to make it out of a world that is becoming . . . Hex-Rated.

Break the Skin
Break the Skin

Author: Lee Martin

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307716767

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Laney—a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world—thinks she’s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; a story that will haunt her forever. Seven hundred miles away, in Texas, Miss Baby has the hardened heart of a woman who has been used by men in every possible way, yet she is desperate for true love. When she meets a stranger, a man who claims he can’t remember his real name or his past but who seems gentle and trusting, Miss Baby thinks she may have finally found someone to love, someone who will protect her from the abusive men who fill her past. But Miss Baby and Laney are connected by a terrible crime, and, bit by bit, the complex web of deceptions and seemingly small misjudgments they’ve each helped to create starts to unravel—all the way to the shocking, tragic climax.

But is it Garbage?
But is it Garbage?

Author: Steven L. Hamelman

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780820325873

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Trash has been blowing across the rock'n'roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock's quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock's "trash trope." Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene -- think of Woodstock's littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful mode of rock composition and criticism. It is, for instance, both cause and effect when performers like the Ramones or Beck at once critique junk culture and revel in it. But Is It Garbage? spills over with challenging insights into how rock's creators, critics, and consumers transform, and are transformed by, trash as a fact and a concept. In the music's preoccupation with its own trashiness readers will perceive a wellspring of rock innovation and inspiration -- one largely overlooked and little understood until now.

The Night Dahlia
The Night Dahlia

Author: R. S. Belcher

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0765390124

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The Bad Mirror
The Bad Mirror

Author: Jack Hunter

Publisher: Creation Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Collecting writings from all 18 volumes of the Creating Cinema Collection series, this title forms a wide-ranging illustrated anthology of cutting-edge alternative film journalism from the past eight years.

Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper

Author: Jack Hunter

Publisher: Creation Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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Dennis Hopper One of the most talented but controversial actors of recent decades, almost as notorious for his off-screen hell-raising as he is for his roles in such powerful films as his self-directed The Last Movie, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, and Tim Hunter's River's Edge. Jack Hunter (author of film studies Inside Teradome and Eros In Hell) has selected his own chronological Top Ten of Dennis Hopper's movies, which are analysed in illustrated, in-depth essays by some of the best cutting-edge film critics of today. The result is both an incisive overview of Dennis Hopper as an actor, and an anthology of films by some of the leading cult directors of recent decades such as Wim Wenders, Tobe Hooper, David Lynch, Tim Hunter, Henry Jaglom, Curtis Harrington, and Hopper himself. Featured films include: Night Tide, The Last Movie, Tracks, Speed, The American Friend, Out Of The Blue, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Blue Velvet, Rivers Edge, and Paris Trout.

Gurgurtha: The Epic Quest
Gurgurtha: The Epic Quest

Author: Ray Bussard

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-11

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0359811736

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A fantasy board game for two to four players, ages 8 and up, that takes just a few hours to play. El-Ankara is being besieged by Murdraak the goblin warlord, and your quest group, led by your wizard and dowdy crew, must recapture the Golden Orb of Prosperity, slay Murdraak and his black fire-breathing dragon, Bracco, and save the day! Do you have what it takes? With a 73 page rulebook, 83 page Card Compendium List, maps, charts, indices, appendices, 13 Engagements, 13 kinds of dice, 22 decks, chips, cubes, a Magical Spells Chart, a history of El-Ankara, and much, much more, it's simply impossible to have more fun!