In the Skin of a Monster
In the Skin of a Monster

Author: Kathryn Barker

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2015-07-29

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1925267792

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What if your identical twin sister was a murderer? Does that make you a monster too? A profound, intense, heartbreaking fantasy that tackles issues of fate versus free will, and whether you can ever truly know someone. WINNER: 2015 Aurealis Award, Best Young Adult Novel 'One of the most original novels I've read for a long while. Great voices. Complex relationships. Just what I love to read.' - Melina Marchetta Caught in a dreamscape, mistaken for a killer. Will Alice find a way home? Three years ago, Alice's identical twin sister took a gun to school and killed seven innocent kids; now Alice wears the same face as a monster. She's struggling with her identity, and with life in the small Australian town where everyone was touched by the tragedy. Just as Alice thinks things can't get much worse, she encounters her sister on a deserted highway. But all is not what it seems, and Alice soon discovers that she has stepped into a different reality, a dream world, where she's trapped with the nightmares of everyone in the community. Here Alice is forced to confront the true impact of everything that happened the day her twin sister took a gun to school . and to reveal her own secret to the boy who hates her most.

Classic Monsters Unleashed, 1
Classic Monsters Unleashed, 1

Author: Kim Newman

Publisher: Black Spot Books

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781645481225

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Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others. Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West--they're all here, in this collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and pay homage to our favorite monsters and creatures. Written by the biggest names in the genre--including Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Owl Goingback, Richard Christian Matheson, Seanan McGuire, Maurice Broaddus, Dacre Stoker, Linda D. Addison, Alessandro Manzetti, Tim Waggoner, John Palisano, Mercedes M. Yardley, Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck, Rena Mason, and Monique Snyman. And monstrously illustrated by Colton Worley and Mister Sam Shearon.

Monstrous Beauty
Monstrous Beauty

Author: Elizabeth Fama

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1429955465

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Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra's help, Hester investigates her family's strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean - but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.

Skin
Skin

Author: Sergio del Molino

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1509547878

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Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes. Skin exhibits social relationships, displays power and the effects of power, explains many things about who we are, how others perceive us and how we exist in the world. And when it gets sick, it turns us into monsters. In Skin, Sergio del Molino speaks of these monsters in history and literature, whose lives have been tormented by bad skin: Stalin secretly taking a bath in his dacha, Pablo Escobar getting up late and shutting himself in the shower, Cyndi Lauper performing a commercial for a medicine promising relief from skin disease, John Updike sunburned in the Caribbean, Nabokov writing to his wife from exile, ‘Everything would be fine, if it weren’t for the damned skin.’ As a psoriasis sufferer, Sergio del Molino includes himself in this gallery of monsters through whose stories he delves into the mysteries of skin. What is for some a badge of pride and for others a source of anguish and shame, skin speaks of us and for us when we don’t speak with words.

Monstrous as a Croc
Monstrous as a Croc

Author: Kendra Moreno

Publisher: Kendra Moreno

Published: 2020-11-20

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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Even monsters have nightmares. . . Wolfbane knows that better than anyone else. After tangling with the Daughters of Neverland and the powers that controlled him, he's ready to escape it all. But he certainly didn't expect to find himself in an entirely different world. With everything changing and a new hope on the horizon, The Crocodile must decide which path to take: Follow the yellow brick road, or forge a path of his own? Both choices could mean death for a monster with the weight of a world's guilt on his shoulders. Come join the Characters of Neverland one more time before they set off on their newest adventure. Four exciting stories you won't want to miss from some of your favorites! Fly into the stars one last time! It's about to get a little monstrous! If you like Sarah J Maas, Gena Showalter, J.R. Ward, Laura Thalassa, or Jennifer L. Armentrout, you won’t be able to put down this highly addictive twisted fairy tale.

Skin Shows
Skin Shows

Author: Judith Halberstam

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780822316633

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Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity -- Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia? -- Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws -- Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs -- Conclusion: serial killing.

The Creature's Cookbook
The Creature's Cookbook

Author: Simon Alkenmayer

Publisher: Strange Fuse

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9781937791728

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I am a monster. The kind that eats people. Yes, we are real, but do feel free to doubt me - your doubt stocks my freezer. In the strictest sense, I'm a humanitarian. Welcome to my diary - where modern skepticism has enabled me to divulge my secrets and my recipes.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

Author: Asa Simon Mittman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 1351894315

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The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.

Embodying the Monster
Embodying the Monster

Author: Margrit Shildrick

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780761970149

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Exploring the ideas of bodily monstrosity; vulnerablity; normality; and perfection, this book examines the ideologies surrounding these perceptions and considers what this tells us about ourselves.

Monsterology
Monsterology

Author: Ernest Drake

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2008-08-12

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 0763639400

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Dr. Drake's collection of data on monsters.