The Stranger Times
The Stranger Times

Author: C. K. McDonnell

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1473577306

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'Wonderfully dark, extremely funny' proclaimed ADAM KAY, author of the No.1 bestselling This is Going to Hurt 'A filmic romp with great characters, a jet-propelled plot, and a winning premise' said the GUARDIAN JASON MANFORD thinks it's 'Hilarious. You'll never look at Manchester the same way again.' The Chronicles of St Mary's series author JODI TAYLOR declared 'I loved this . . . great premise - great story - great characters . . . hugely enjoyable.' And THE TIMES called it 'ripping entertainment from start to finish.' There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . . A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor . . . well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own. When tragedy strikes in her first week on the job The Stranger Times is forced to do some serious investigating. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they'd previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined. The Stranger Times is the first novel from C.K. McDonnell, the pen name of Caimh McDonnell. It combines his distinctive dark wit with his love of the weird and wonderful to deliver a joyous celebration of how truth really can be stranger than fiction. Readers love The Stranger Times: ***** 'A delight from start to finish - laugh out loud funny yet with plenty of thrills.' ***** 'Full of wit and humour, and knows how to keep the reader hooked.' ***** 'You'll soon fall in love . . . fans of Pratchett, Gaiman, Aaronovich will be blown away.'

Strange Times
Strange Times

Author: Tom DeLonge

Publisher: To The Stars

Published: 2016-12-07

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1943272220

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From the imagination of blink-182’s award-winning author Tom DeLonge, the Strange Times crew first debuted in the graphic novel Strange Times: The Curse of Superstition Mountain. Now teamed-up with Geoff Herbach, also an award-winning author of the Felton Reinstein Trilogy, DeLonge tells the hilarious and haunting adventure that originally forced five outcast jerks to band together or give up the ghost. Charlie Wilkins has it all. Pitcher on the baseball team, point guard on the basketball team, good jock friends and girls who just love him. Then his U.S. Air Force dad goes M.I.A. during a secret mission and Charlie falls into darkness. He quits basketball, pushes away his old friends who all seem so stupid. He stops talking. Nobody knows what he’s going through, because the government has forbidden the family from disclosing Dad’s predicament. Charlie turns into a loner, until an Earth Science assignment forces him to join a new, messed-up team. Wiz has a brain for science, a love for steampunk, and a total disgust for most human beings. Heavy-set, picked-on Riley has a home life Harry Potter wouldn’t trade for. Mouse and Mattheson are skateboard slackers with a keen interest in tacos and in building a model volcano that looks like a butt. With zero chemistry between them, Charlie can’t see how he’s going to pass this class. Will he be stuck, suffering, in eighth grade forever? The earth shifts. It seems impossible. A ghost girl reaches out to Charlie through the terrified skater boys. She’s being stalked by a vengeful spirit that shares a past with Charlie’s family. It soon becomes clear that the spirit is coming for him. He has to save the ghost girl and save himself. His only hope? The nerd Wiz, the loser Riley, the skaters Mouse and Mattheson who want to hook-up with the girl. But, seriously, she’s a ghost. Strange Times indeed...

Strange Times
Strange Times

Author: Scott Tierney

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2021-01-06

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 178982480X

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Strange Times compiles ten short stories of fantasy, science-fiction and wonder, ranging from the darkly comical Eight Over Four, set in a world which is overpopulated with giant human-sized spiders; to the altogether more thought-provoking Outlawry, where radical new laws result in a dystopian hotbed of opportunism, for the punishment for crime is now crime itself. Also included are two previously unpublished stories exclusive to this collection: Give Us Your Smile, which describes a surreal situation where smiling becomes mandatory, and Don't Touch That Dial. Strange Times also features The Rings of Yesteryear and The Pause, two stories set in the expanded universe of the author's epic time-travelling adventure, Tomorrow Is Another Year. In times as strange as these, this is a collection not to be missed!

Strange Times, My Dear
Strange Times, My Dear

Author: Nahid Mozaffari

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2012-01-13

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1611459729

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When Arcade Publishing originally contracted this extraordinary collection of poetry and literature, the Department of the Treasury was attempting to censor the publication of works from countries on America’s “enemies list.” Arcade, along with the PEN American Center, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and the Association of American University Presses, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the United States government. Their landmark case forced the Office of Foreign Assets Control to change their regulations regarding editing and publishing literature in translation, and Arcade is proud to reissue this anthology that showcases the developments in Iranian literature over the past quarter-century. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the United States has been virtually cut off from that country’s culture. Despite severe difficulties imposed by social, political, and economic upheavals, as well as war, repression, and censorship, a veritable cultural renewal has taken place in Iran over the past quarter-century, not only in literature, but in music, art, and cinema. Over forty writers from three generations contributed to this rich and varied collection—or, to use the Persian term, golchine, a bouquet—one that provides a much-needed window into a largely undiscovered branch of world literature. In the wake of the Green Revolution and sweeping changes in the region, this particular golchine is more relevant than ever, and will bring literary enjoyment as well as a fuller understanding of a complex and ever-shifting culture.

The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths
The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths

Author: Paul Sieveking

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9781907779978

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Within these pages you'll find the strangest deaths from around the world and discover the bizarre and astounding ways in which some people have met their maker. Freakish fatalities, idiotic accidents and ingenious suicides - if there's a weird way of dying, it's here!

Religion in Strange Times
Religion in Strange Times

Author: Ronald Bruce Flowers

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780865541276

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This book attempts to explain why the religious radicalism of the sixties gave way to the conservatism of the seventies.

Stories for Strange Times
Stories for Strange Times

Author: Lamberto García el Cid

Publisher: LAMBERTO GARCÍA

Published: 2022-08-12

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13:

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Stories for Strange Times This book is composed of short stories that have in common a component of weirdness or strangeness not entirely attributable to our times, but who knows. This share of the exceptional, the surprising, the weird, provides a link that makes them fit into the title. Table of contents: . The Ninth Passenger . Kafka Visits Lao Tse . The Erroneous Earth . In Search of Marshal Kobayashi . The Sentimental Killer . What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? . Dante’s Destiny . Corpus Lilly, Amen . The Holomentalist . Four Good Men . At the End the Verb will Reign . The Agency for a Sweet Death . Lives so brief . The Merry-go-round