Throat Sprockets
Author: Tim Lucas
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 1996-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781857024111
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The Only Criminal
Author: Tim Lucas
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
Published: 2024-09-27
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1626016917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce upon a time, in a world otherwise much like our own, there is only one source of evil, torment and crime in the entire world. He is known as The Only Criminal. By extension, he is also the only source of interesting information in print and televisual news. All movies, all TV shows, are made about him. He is also responsible for all the recorded music in the world, brought into being under the influence of illegal drugs. The Only Criminal is also the only source of fascination for a brilliant young psychologist, Dr. Paul Vaguely – a man driven by his obsession with this one subject, which fills him with fear and fuels his boundless curiosity and imagination. The good Dr. Vaguely is developing a new branch of psychiatric care, specializing in the treatment of patients whose lives were touched by the peril and plunder of The Only Criminal, but his plans are upset by two things: the discovery of the only known survivor of an Only Criminal attack to have actually seen him and lived; and The Only Criminal’s most fiendish coup of all, which steers the world at large toward a collective nervous breakdown. Decades in preparation, The Only Criminal is many things: a Kafkaesque comic book on the theme of Original Sin; a never-more-relevant love story between two isolated characters fearful of risking human contact; even a fanciful alternative history of how our world may have ended up in such a catastrophic mess. Dark, humorous, erotic and charged with danger, The Only Criminal may be its author’s definitive journey into the depths of dark obsession. “Compulsively, enviably superb. THE ONLY CRIMINAL is a marvel! Tim Lucas brilliantly weaves wit, romance and glorious wisdoms with maestro cool.” - R.C. Matheson (Dystopia) “It’s brilliant… one of the most interesting and entertaining things I’ve read! - Kelley Jones, (Batman, The Sandman) “This is a wonderful, droll, witty book—a real joy for people with eclectic cinematic and reading tastes. A bedtime book to savor, just like one of the hero’s vanilla-flavored cigarettes.” - Joan Hawkins (Cutting Edge: Art Horror & the Horrific Avant-Garde)
Sexing the Groove
Author: Sheila Whiteley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1135105197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' and `feminine' identities. Using a wide range of case studies, from Mick Jagger to Riot Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the regime of sexual difference which governs society and culture. Sexing the Groove also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography for further reading and research into gender and popular music.
The Book of Renfield
Author: Tim Lucas
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
Published: 2023-04-11
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1626016534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Lucas mimics Stoker's style so well that it's hard to distinguish his own writing from passages interpolated from Dracula. A fully humanized character study.” – Publishers Weekly Perhaps the most infamous supporting character in all of Gothic Horror is R.M. Renfield, the unstable patient under observation at Dr. Seward’s Carfax Asylum in Bram Stoker’s Dracula—a pathetic wretch who prophesies the imminent arrival of “the Master” while covertly feeding on spiders and flies. Yet Stoker’s 1887 classic tells us almost nothing about him. Why—and how—was such an unsavory figure chosen to be the Un-dead Count’s groveling envoy? In this remarkable harbinger of the “mash-up” novel, author Tim Lucas—with the help of Stoker himself—takes us on an illuminating, magical, sometimes strangely erotic investigation into Renfield’s origin, fitted seamlessly within the language and the flurry of correspondence and other documentation found in Dracula. THE BOOK OF RENFIELD reinvigorates Stoker’s seminal horror masterpiece with numerous, uncanny stories within stories—alternately ghastly, marvelous, and hauntingly tender, framing DRACULA’s robust blood-and-thunder with a flair for meta and modernity. This Newly Revised Edition is extensively reworded and restructured, incorporating many paragraphs of content deleted from the original 2005 text. Also included is a contextualizing new Foreword by horror expert Stephen R. Bissette and a substantial Afterword by the author.
Horror Comics in Black and White
Author: Richard J. Arndt
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-01-21
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0786470259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1954, the comic book industry instituted the Comics Code, a set of self-regulatory guidelines imposed to placate public concern over gory and horrific comic book content, effectively banning genuine horror comics. Because the Code applied only to color comics, many artists and writers turned to black and white to circumvent the Code's narrow confines. With the 1964 Creepy #1 from Warren Publishing, black-and-white horror comics experienced a revival continuing into the early 21st century, an important step in the maturation of the horror genre within the comics field as a whole. This generously illustrated work offers a comprehensive history and retrospective of the black-and-white horror comics that flourished on the newsstands from 1964 to 2004. With a catalog of original magazines, complete credits and insightful analysis, it highlights an important but overlooked period in the history of comics.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 244
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 748
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 1284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeize the Night
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1476783136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, including Charlaine Harris, whose novels were adapted into HBO’s hit show True Blood, and Scott Smith, publishing his first work since The Ruins. Before being transformed into romantic heroes and soft, emotional antiheroes, vampires were figures of overwhelming terror. Now, from some of the biggest names in horror and dark fiction, comes this stellar collection of short stories that make vampires frightening once again. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden and featuring all-new stories from such contributors as Charlaine Harris, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Scott Smith, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Kortya, Kelley Armstrong, Brian Keene, David Wellington, Seanan McGuire, and Tim Lebbon, Seize the Night is old-school vampire fiction at its finest.
Disposable Passions
Author: David Church
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1501307541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s “porno chic,” adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on and help shape the archive of film history. But what is the present-day allure of these artifacts that have since become eroticized more for their “pastness” than the explicit acts they show? And what are the political implications of recovering these rare but still-visceral films from a less “enlightened,” pre-feminist past? Drawing on media industry analysis, archival theory, and interviews with adult video personnel, David Church argues that vintage pornography retains its retrospective fascination precisely because these culturally denigrated texts have been so poorly preserved on political and aesthetic grounds. Through these films' ongoing moves from cultural emergence to concealment to rediscovery, the archive itself performs a “striptease,” permitting tangible contact with these corporeally stimulating forms at a moment when the overall physicality of media objects is undergoing rapid transformation. Disposable Passions explores the historiographic lessons that vintage pornography can teach us about which materials our society chooses to keep, and how a long-neglected genre is primed for serious rediscovery as more than mere autoerotic fodder.
