House of Secrets

House of Secrets

Author: Lowell Cauffiel

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0786034165

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The epic horrors of psychopathic mastermind Eddie Lee Sexton from the New York Times bestselling author who “knows how to dramatize true crime” (Elmore Leonard). For years, Eddie Lee Sexton ruled his large family like Charles Manson. The depraved patriarch dominated his ragged brood of twelve children mentally, physically, and sexually, and enforced every cruelty imaginable, from vicious beatings to raping his daughters and fathering their children. Finally, in 1992, Sexton’s eighteen-year-old daughter Machelle, seeking refuge in a women’s shelter, revealed the shocking, sordid details of her father’s abuse to authorities. As the law attempted to catch up to Eddie Lee Sexton, he moved his family to a mobile home in western Florida. Ultimately, Sexton’s efforts to escape prosecution led to two grisly murders in his own family. Yet Sexton’s sick genius almost helped him elude the justice he deserved. Lowell Cauffiel’s true-crime masterpiece vividly exposes the horrors of Eddie Lee Sexton’s psychosis and the shattered lives of those who survived. Includes sixteen pages of photos “An odyssey into American pathology . . . Deeply disturbing.” —Detroit Free Press “Incest, rape, murder, infanticide, torture, psychological abuse . . . House of Secrets is bedtime reading for devoted true crime fans!” —Booklist “A balanced and grimly engaging account of one of the weirdest domestic situations this side of the House of Usher.” —Publishers Weekly


Transformations

Transformations

Author: Anne Sexton

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 150403435X

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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as poems infused with contemporary references, feminist ideals, and morbid humor. Grounded by nods to the ordinary—a witch’s blood “began to boil up/like Coca-Cola” and Snow White’s bodice is “as tight as an Ace bandage”—Sexton brings the stories out of the realm of the fantastical and into the everyday world. Stripping away their magical sheen, she exposes the flawed notions of family, gender, and morality within the stories that continue to pervade our collective psyche. Sexton is especially critical of what follows these tales’ happily-ever-after endings, noting that Cinderella never has to face the mundane struggles of marriage and growing old, such as “diapers and dust,” “telling the same story twice,” or “getting a middle-aged spread,” and that after being awakened Sleeping Beauty would likely be plagued by insomnia, taking “knock-out drops” behind the prince’s back. Deconstructed into vivid, visceral, and often highly amusing poems, these fairy tales reflect themes that have long fascinated Sexton—the claustrophobic anxiety of domestic life, the limited role of women in society, and a psychological strife more dangerous than any wicked witch or poisoned apple.


Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

Author: Steven E. Colburn

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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Contains some of the best and most representative writing about Sexton's life and work


The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781522738695

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A Charles Dickens short story that was actually the inspiration for "A Christmas Carol." In this story, a gravedigger that hates Christmas gets kidnapped by goblins while digging a grave and then they help him get into the Christmas spirit. The beginning of this version has a biography of the author.


The Sexton and the Reaper

The Sexton and the Reaper

Author: Corey Feldman

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2013-02-17

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781482568752

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Corey Feldman is a writer of Children's Books and Speculative Fiction. Corey lives in the DC Metro area with his two children. He has a Children's series called Egret the Elephant about a 5 year old elephant who loves to dance, the moon, and her family. His speculative fiction novelette The Sexton and the Reaper is an Urban Fantasy novelette with ghosts, soul collectors, angels, and mysticism. It is a tale of friendship, love and the afterlife.


The Casebook of Sexton Blake

The Casebook of Sexton Blake

Author: David Stuart Davies

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 9781840221701

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For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their seats. This thrilling collection presents seven exploits from his 'golden age'.


The House of Secrets

The House of Secrets

Author: Brad Meltzer

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1455559504

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A secret worth killing for, a woman with no past, and an act of treason that changed America: #1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with The House of Secrets. "When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name. She's told she's been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother. But she can't remember any of it, because of her own traumatic brain injury. Then a man from the FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad -- and about his connection to the corpse of a man found with an object stuffed into his chest: a priceless book that belonged to Benedict Arnold. Back at her house, Hazel finds guns that she doesn't remember owning. On her forehead, she sees scars from fights she can't recall. Most important, the more Hazel digs, the less she likes the person she seems to have been. Trying to put together the puzzle pieces of her past and present, Hazel Nash needs to figure out who killed this man -- and how the book wound up in his chest. The answer will tell her the truth about her father, what he was really doing for the government -- and who Hazel really is. Mysteries need to be solved. Especially the ones about yourself."