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Author: Lilith Saintcrow
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0316023272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaint City has always been Dante Valentine's home. It's where she grew up, it's where her dead are buried, and it's where she learned to hunt. Now, one call from an old friend will bring her back to investigate a murder too close to home for anyone's comfort. But the one person she trusted has just betrayed her. Sometimes revenge is best served demon-hot. . .
Author: Russell Kirk
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780802839381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWidely regarded as the founder of the modern conservative movement, Russell Kirk was a noted man of letters whose prodigious literary output included a syndicated newspaper column, a regular page in "National Review," and many books. This volume demonstrates another compelling side of Kirk -- the imaginative author who could communicate his powerful vision through the dramatic genre of the ghost story. "Ancestral Shadows" collects nineteen of Kirkbs best ghostly tales from periodicals and anthologies published throughout his life. In the tradition of Defoe, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Coleridge, Poe, and other master writers, these frightful stories conjure the creaks and shadows of the very places where they came to life through Kirkbs pen: haunted St. Andrews, the Isle of Eigg, Kellie Castle, Balcarres House, Durie House (bwhich has the most persistent of all country-house spectresb), and Kirkbs own ancestral spooky house in Mecosta, Michigan. Full of fantastic gothic tales masterfully told, the volume ends with bA Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale, b an incisive piece in which Kirk reflects on why he writes such stories: bexperiments in the moral imaginationb are what he is really after. Ghost stories are not merely entertaining but possess a particular ability to capture the essential features of human nature, of good and evil. bAll important literature has some ethical end, b Kirk says, band the tale of the preternatural -- as written by George Macdonald, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and other masters -- can be an instrument for the recovery of moral order.b Including an illuminative introduction by Vigen Guroian, "Ancestral Shadows" will enthrall and delight all lovers ofghost stories.
Author: Karl Edward Wagner
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eileen Dreyer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1429903902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA forensic nurse. A missing sister. A city that holds its secrets closely—the new riveting suspense novel from USA Today bestselling author Eileen Dreyer Forensic nurse Chastity Byrnes is trying to put the past behind her. It has been ten years since Chastity exposed her father for the monster he was. Ten years since she made the accusations that shattered her family and sent her into exile. Ten years since she's seen her sister, Faith. Now, though, Faith needs her help. Chastity gets a call from Dr. Max Stanton, the brother-in-law she never knew she had, to tell her that Faith is missing. Max begs Chastity to come to New Orleans to help him find her. And even though Faith was the one who deserted Chastity so long ago, Chastity goes. To find her missing sister, Chastity has to battle her own demons in a city where forensics are an old boy's club and a woman can find trouble in her sleep. She has to wade through distrust and deceit to get to the truth, whether she wants to hear it or not. She has to rediscover the sister she lost by investigating fertility clinics, the powers of St. Roch, and the mysteries of voodoo. She has to discover why women who might have helped her sister are dying. As a hurricane threatens the vulnerable city, Chastity puts more than her life at risk as she fights to rescue her sister from the threat that stalks them both.... A searing portrait of family secrets and betrayals, Sinners and Saints is Eileen Dreyer at the top of her game.
Author: Russell Kirk
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 1058
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jess Carr
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1641404019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of Robert Sayers Sheffey weaves the story of a unique-in the true meaning of the word-man, the details of whose life entitle him to the mythical position he holds even today among the people of a part of the South, where, so many years ago, he traveled the circuits of Virginia, West Virginia, and into the fringes of other states as an itinerant preacher. Born in 1820, raised in Virginia, and having spent a part of his early youth in the home of a wealthy Presbyterian uncle and aunt, there was little in his early background to explain Robert Sheffey's call to the Methodist ministry, his unusual conversion, and, against all odds, the eventual acceptance of his unorthodoxy by the hierarchy of his adopted church, and, ultimately, the adoration of an army of followers who came to believe him to be a Divine. Here are documented his extraordinary gifts of exhortation, the depths of his caring about every single soul in the widespread territory he rode-on a brutally rigorous, self-imposed schedule-as well as the unexplainable psyche and prophetic talents that truly earned him the title "Saint of the Wilderness." Mr. Carr's book tells, in detail, of this physically frail, yet incredibly strong man (whose life spanned eighty-two years) and the demons with which he had to wrestle, his personal deprivations and sorrows and triumphs, the beauty of his love for all living things, and the unshakability of his faith and prayer petitions. The Saint of the Wilderness is the authentic, thoroughly researched life of a figure still revered, still talked about throughout the South, and not rarely, in other parts of the world. But such a life example knows no bounds: such love and faith is universal in its appeal to the whole of mankind.
Author: John Charles Gifford
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1663227519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s 1955 in Montreal when the door to private investigator Eddie Wade’s office swings open to reveal a beautiful, wealthy woman desperate to find her no-good rat of a husband who skipped out on her, taking ten thousand dollars in cash and all her jewels with him. Even though a little voice inside is telling Eddie to back away, he takes Chanel Steele’s case without any idea his life is about to change. As the case moves forward, Eddie encounters the unexpected, spinning him in a hellish nightmare of deadly lies. Things are never as they seem. A routine missing person’s investigation suddenly turns into a case of multiple murders. Uncertainty masquerades as smugness—madness as the familiar. One by one, Eddie begins to unmask those caught in a treacherous web of insanity only to discover that someone has been playing him. But will he be able to solve the case before the killer strikes again? As the case comes to a head, Eddie uncovers a dark past, and the world is suddenly turned upside down. Eddie himself is left hanging off a cliff. In this exciting murder mystery fueled by suspicion and revenge, Eddie Wade embarks on a determined quest for justice. But does he find the justice he’s seeking, or the kind he’s doomed to endure? Either way, his life will never be the same.
Author: Frank T. Morano
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2023-06-06
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 1490708138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKABOUT THE DHARMA JOURNAL Too often we settle for living without resolving the essential mysteries of life: Where were we before we were born? What is the purpose of our lives? Where do we go when we die? Frank Morano is a seeker of wisdom who has had extraordinary experiences. The Dharma Journal chronicles his quest for answers to these transcendent questions, and the wisdom he found in ordinary and extraordinary people. You will share his wonder and delight in exploring teachings from Western and Eastern religious and spiritual traditions, as he traveled throughout the USA, Asia, and Europe. You will read about his unusual encounters with little known cultures and his irresistible pull towards the Tibetan people and their struggle to preserve their culture and identity. The Dharma Journal is a book of stories and conversations for the spiritually curious. It includes guidance from world famous figures, such as Margaret Mead, John Lennon and Mother Theresa, as well as several personal audiences with the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Whether you are interested in mysticism, meditation, spirituality, exotic cultures, or travel, you will find it in The Dharma Journal, by a spiritual explorer whose life has been guided by the pursuit of universal truths.
Author: Jon Abbott
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-06-14
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0786486627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore establishing himself as the "master of disaster" with the 1970s films The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen created four of television's most exciting and enduring science-fiction series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. These 1960s series were full of Allen's favorite tricks, techniques and characteristic touches, and influenced other productions from the original Star Trek forward. Every science-fiction show owes something to Allen, yet none has equaled his series' pace, excitement, or originality. This detailed examination and documentation of the premise and origin of the four shows offers an objective evaluation of every episode--and demonstrates that when Irwin Allen's television episodes were good, they were great, and when they were bad, they were still terrific fun.
