Lucy has left Lockwood & Co. A freelance operative, she is hiring herself out to other agencies - agencies that might value her ever-improving skills. But now Lockwood needs her help. Penelope Fittes, leader of the well-renowned Fittes Agency wants Lockwood & Co. - and only them - to locate and remove the 'Source' for the legendary Brixton Cannibal. It's a tough assignment. Made worse by the tensions between Lucy and the other agents - even the skull is treating her like a jilted lover! What will it take to reunite the team? Black marketeers, an informant ghost, a Spirit Cape that transports the wearer, and mysteries involving their closest rivals may just do the trick. But not all is at it seems. And it's not long before a shocking revelation rocks Lockwood & Co. to its very core . . . 'Stroud is a genius' - Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series.
"Seventeen-year-old Stella has no recollection of the day her best friend disappeared while the two, then six, were picking strawberries, until the corpse of a similar girl turns up and Stella not only begins to remember, she learns that something dark has been at work in their little town for generations"--Provided by publisher.
Taking its cue from the horror film fanzines of yesteryear... Horror and fantasy cinema from around the world with a distinctive retro sensibility, Creeping Flesh focuses on obscure and vilified horror movies, the discovery of "lost" films, BBC telefantasy, and an appreciation of American and British exploitation. Book jacket.
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS! You're off to visit your grandmother, whose house backs up to a graveyard. At first the tombstones seem far away. But every day they move a little closer. Then you discover the headstones are disappearing. But the dead aren't gone -- their ghosts are moving. Right into your grandmother's house!If you decide to stay, you must battle a warrior ghost. If you decide to run, one of the kid ghosts follows you home. Will you be haunted...for the rest of your life? The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!
This open access book explores a special species of trouble afflicting modern societies: creeping crises. These crises evolve over time, reveal themselves in different ways, and resist comprehensive responses despite periodic public attention. As a result, these crises continue to creep in front of our eyes. This book begins by defining the concept of a creeping crisis, showing how existing literature fails to properly define and explore this phenomenon and outlining the challenges such crises pose to practitioners. Drawing on ongoing research, this book presents a diverse set of case studies on: antimicrobial resistance, climate change-induced migration, energy extraction, big data, Covid-19, migration, foreign fighters, and cyberattacks. Each chapter explores how creeping crises come into existence, why they can develop unimpeded, and the consequences they bring in terms of damage and legitimacy loss. The book provides a proof-of-concept to help launch the systematic study of creeping crises. Our analysis helps academics understand a new species of threat and practitioners recognize and prepare for creeping crises.
A chilling new novel about a girl who must delve into her past if she wants to live long enough to have a future when a series of murders that are eerily similar to the dark stories her brother used to tell start happening in her hometown. Lana used to know what was real. That was before, when her life was small and quiet. Her golden stepbrother, Ben was alive. She could only dream about bonfiring with the populars. Their wooded island home was idyllic, she could tell truth from lies, and Ben’s childhood stories were firmly in her imagination. Then came after. After has Lana boldly kissing her crush, jumping into the water from too high up, living with nerve and mischief. But after also has horrors, deaths that only make sense in fairy tales, and terrors from a past Lana thought long forgotten. Love, blood, and murder.
Hey, what do you have a hold of, man? Yes, yes you should start at the fl ipside of this book, for you are here, a married man, atop anniversaries with your true love. Are you ready, having been through all this before, to once again tread the unbeaten path to marital bliss? You are about to delve into the most cryptic corners of your sexual psyche, perhaps a deniable venture, diffi cult to confront, because owning up to raw desires and true feelings may conjure immense, emotional hurdles. Odd as it may seem, all this happening, after you’ve taken the committed, marital plunge! All those months, years of courtship, trick is the marriage, true love, eh my dear husband? In their own subtle, mysterious way, wives convey to you daily, of their wants, needs, preferences, dislikes, demands, desires and/or lack of desires, that is, lack of sexual desire! Acceptability becomes the pattern. Mr. Galatoboureko does not enjoy seeing you in an emotional void and the emptiness it creates in anyone’s committed, lifelong relationship, not deserving toward either sex. This truly bothers Stephoonus G, he has a sincere empathy for you. Following his years of mental suffering, lustful errors, poor decisions and the pain they cause, he has become a proponent of fulfi lling, highly charged sexual monogamy! In a sincere marriage of mutual love and desire! In the Creeping Hand Book, Men, he reveals for the fi rst and perhaps only time, the deepest, untold, yet attainable secrets of the sexual psyche, mind and fl esh. This mesmerizing, almost mystical volume beckons the reader to relish his instinctive sexual needs, with dignity and forthrightness never plotted in any marriage manual. Mr. Galaoboureko views marriage as a union of hearts and souls, asking that no couple shelve the best years of their sexual lives. It may seem, at times, Mr. Galatoboureko stretches the realms of marital expectations, but he would never lie to you. He asks that you journey with him, bearing through his quirks and whims, even some rants and raves, as in a marriage, you must take the bitter with the sweet!
This is the first in a two-volume retrospective―collecting full comics stories, unpublished art, ads, etc.―and biography of the famous Mad cartoonist. This is the first of two volumes reprinting copious amounts of comics stories and recounting the career of cartoonist Basil Wolverton. Based on his correspondence and journals, the biographical portion of the books follow Wolverton from childhood to adult day-to-day life as freelance cartoonist, itinerant handyman, persistent contest enterer, and local pastor of the Radio Church of God. Wolverton lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest, unique among the first generation of comic book pioneers. In the precious period before the industry calcified into a commercial institution, Wolverton was free to work under the radar to explore in detail his weird tales of the future. The book collects all of Wolverton’s non-humorous comic stories and a substantial selection of his humorous comics, alongside dozens of pages of unpublished artwork, unsold features, and never-before-seen correspondence, including rejection letters!
These are the last twelve stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s and also include some of the wittiest passages in the series.
