Watching The Skies & Other Beastly Tales

Watching The Skies & Other Beastly Tales

Author: Jim Marquez

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 130073101X

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"Watching The Skies & Other Beastly Tales" is Jim Marquez's 14th self-published book in 8 years! A departure of sorts for Jim as he leaves the grimy confines of Downtown Los Angeles and takes us on a surreal journey across the alien landscape of a forbidden Nevada desert (through the eyes of a 'young Jack Morales'), tumbles alongside the inebriated canals of Amsterdam, looks for love in all the wrong places in Scotland, and has to run for his life in London! This collection of 'Beastly' tales of life on the rocks then returns to the warped sensibility of L.A. for a wicked homage to Nathaniel West's "Day of the Locust" (illustrated by artist Emmeric Konrad), and finally comes to a crushing halt in Jim's hometown of East L.A. In between, for how could he resist (?), Jim examines the base nature of man back on the wee-hours-streets of a changed & vanishing Downtown arts scene: Booze. Sex. Racism. Violence. Madness. Family fun for all!


A Moveable Beast: Tales From L.A. & Beyond

A Moveable Beast: Tales From L.A. & Beyond

Author: Jim Marquez

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1365013316

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From Jim Marquez, the acclaimed author of such whiskey-fueled contemporary classics as "Beastly Bus Tales", "Watching the Skies & Other Beastly Tales," and Jim's schizophrenic-murder-mystery "Pieces of L.A.", comes his long-awaited 15th self-published book "A Moveable Beast: Tales from L.A. & Beyond". As in Jim's previous titles the reader is assaulted with lurid and outlandish tales of sticky sex, cheap booze, cheaper dames, uncomfortable truths in race relations, violence, the homeless epidemic, bars, death, broken relationships, bad sex, no sex, and, in general, the corruption of the mind, body, and soul. Follow Jim across the rat infested, alcohol drenched, sad, pitiful, lost, and lonely streets of not only Jim's hometown of East Los Angeles and his adoptive backyards of Downtown LA and Koreatown, but, also Las Vegas, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Ireland, and South Korea. Devilishly written in Jim's infamous-no-holds-barred-over-the-top-foul-mouthed-and-train-wreck-first-person narrative.


The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales

The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales

Author: Tanith Lee

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0698404521

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Now for the first time in e-book, a collection of dark fantasy tales from a master of the genre. The Gorgon, a brilliant shocker that leads off this scintillating collection of Tanith Lee's tales, was the winner of the World Fantasy Award for best short story of the year in 1983. It is appropriate that it gives its title to these tales ranging from horror and the supernatural to science fiction, from the writer who has been justly termed "Princess Royal of Heroic Fantasy." Here you will find unforgettable encounters of men and beasts--of dragons and unicorns, cats and seals, virgins and vampires. This is truly a feast of treasures for everyone whose taste runs to a gourmet imagination.


The Beastly Tales

The Beastly Tales

Author: M.J. Haag

Publisher: Shattered Glass Publishing

Published: 2020-04-10

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 1943051704

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Seductively dark and irresistibly enchanting, the Beastly Trilogy is now available in one delectable omnibus! Depravity ~ Benella is concerned with two things--avoiding the two village boys who torment her and scrounging for food to help feed her family. Unfortunately, the best wild fruit and vegetables are near the walls of the estate, a dark misty place inhabited by an unforgiving beast. When her tormentors lock her behind the massive gates, Benella knows her fate is sealed. Yet, the fate isn’t one she expects. Her encounter with the beast starts a bizarre cycle of bargaining for her freedom, a freedom the beast seems determined to see her lose. Deceit ~Safely hidden within the estate’s enchanted walls, Benella no longer has time to fear her tormentors. She’s too preoccupied attempting to determine what makes the beast so beastly. It might be the taxing visits from the aged enchantress who cursed him or his growing vexation at not being allowed to touch Benella. In order to gain her freedom, she must find a way to break the curse, but first, she must help him become a better man while protecting her heart. Devastation ~Abused and rejected, Benella strives to regain a purpose for her life and finds herself returning to the last place she ever wanted to see. She must learn when it is right to forgive and when it is time to move on.


The Night Watch

The Night Watch

Author: Benjamin Scarlato

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-07-08

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0595287018

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Maps of the universe and technologies of the future absorbed in the minds of creation. The ancient astronauts called magicians trying to rebuild earth with a constant flow of agony Art Maximus being in charge of this focus on a better world. Foe's of madness interfere a mercenary by the name of Quintas turns through the tides of knowledge and builds his army to reshape the earth into his own name. Disasters of the soul Fraser Voltaire now the king of York is being influenced by pressures from his unknown past the ancient world that he has forgotten. After of the murder of his wife Lady Venice a timetable of a scientific war begins. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are rebuilt in the 1600's after being destroyed hundreds of years ago. The mysteries of the world are announced through this rebirth this hidden history of the world. The unseen magicians interact with world events changing the course of time setting the world back this earth being distorted brings only more grief when Quintas entertains the idea of being an inventor ignoring the complexities of Leonardo da Vinci.


Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky

Author: Margaret Kinsman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-10-13

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0786471875

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Sara Paretsky's groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 and is still going strong. She is a co-founder of Sisters in Crime (worldwide organization supporting women writers), a sought-after public speaker and the 2015 president of the Mystery Writers of America. This book is the first comprehensive reference work on Paretsky, providing an overview of the Warshawski novels and short stories, her other novels, a volume of collected essays, her anthologies and journalism. Special attention is paid to the character of Warshawski--the tough, street-smart detective who challenges stereotypical representations of women in crime fiction--and to the significance of the Chicago setting. A guide to the scholarly and critical debates is included, along with discussion of media adaptations and references to key websites.


Twelve Stories Before Christmas: Inspirational Stories For All Ages

Twelve Stories Before Christmas: Inspirational Stories For All Ages

Author: Melanie Wadsworth

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-09-24

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1365417999

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This book is a collection of twenty-four inspirational stories written to inspire adult and child alike while encouraging the spirit of Christ in heart and home during the Christmas season. Each fictional story in this wonderful collection is based on real life events to read as a family on the twelve nights before Christmas. The first half contains stories for families with older children, while the last half has stories read to the Author's children at Christmas time and added upon their request. Read them on the twelve nights before Christmas, or from December 1st until Christmas Eve and let these inspirational stories bring the joy of Christmas to you and yours.


Concordances to Conrad's Typhoon and Other Stories and Within the Tides

Concordances to Conrad's Typhoon and Other Stories and Within the Tides

Author: Todd K. Bender

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1000040569

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Originally published in 1982, this title supplies a complete verbal index, listing all the words in the texts with their locations, a word frequency table, and a field of reference which establishes a page/line reference system for locating each context. The user will look first in the word frequency table to see whether or not the word in question occurs in these works. Then they will turn to the verbal index to find the line and page on which it occurs, and finally, turning to the location in the field of reference, they will find the context for their word.


Arthur Machen.Complete Works (Novels, Poems, Horror Short Stories And Others). Illustrated

Arthur Machen.Complete Works (Novels, Poems, Horror Short Stories And Others). Illustrated

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 6083

ISBN-13:

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Arthur Machen is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." Machen was a great enthusiast for literature that expressed the "rapture, beauty, adoration, wonder, awe, mystery, sense of the unknown, desire for the unknown" that he summed up in the word ecstasy. The Novels THE HILL OF DREAMS THE TERROR THE SECRET GLORY EPILOGUE THE GREEN ROUND The Shorter Fiction THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY: OR THE HISTORY OF THE IX JOYOUS JOURNEYS. CARBONNEK INTRODUCTION EPISTLE DEDICATORY MASTER PERROT’S DISCOURSE OF ALE THE PORTREEVE’S GAUDY-DAY STRANGE STORY OF A RED JAR THE SPIGOT CLERK’S FIRST TALE HOW THE FOLK OF ABERGAVENNY WERE PESTERED BY AN ACCURSED KNIGHT THE LORD MALTWORM’S FIRST TALE HOW A MAN OF CAERLEON FOUND A GREAT TREASURE THE RUBRICAN’S FIRST TALE THE TANKARD MARSHALL’S FIRST TALE THE QUEST OF CONSTANCY BY THE WAY THE SPIGOT CLERK’S SECOND TALE. THE PORTREEVE’S SOLEMNITY THE TALE TOLD BY THE SEIGNEUR OF LA ROCHE NEMOURS THE JOURNEY HOMEWARD SIGNOR PIERO LATINI’S TALE THE LORD MALTWORM’S SECOND TALE THE RUBRICAN’S SECOND TALE EPILOGUE THE GREAT GOD PAN, AND THE INMOST LIGHT The Great God Pan The Inmost Light THE THREE IMPOSTORS: OR THE TRANSMUTATIONS THREE IMPOSTORS PROLOGUE. ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS. THE ENCOUNTER OF THE PAVEMENT. NOVEL OF THE DARK VALLEY. ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING BROTHER. NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL. INCIDENT OF THE PRIVATE BAR. THE DECORATIVE IMAGINATION. NOVEL OF THE IRON MAID. THE RECLUSE OF BAYSWATER. NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER. STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN CLERKENWELL. HISTORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH SPECTACLES ADVENTURE OF THE DESERTED RESIDENCE. THE HOUSE OF SOULS Introduction A Fragment of Life The White People The Red Hand THE ANGELS OF MONS Introduction The Bowmen The Soldiers’ Rest The Monstrance The Dazzling Light The Bowmen And Other Noble Ghosts Postscript THE GREAT RETURN THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1923 The Priest and the Barber The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita A Wonderful Woman The Lost Club Nature, or, The Splendid Holiday Drake’s Drum THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1924 The Arrow-Head Character The Eyes on the Wall The Search for the Bowl The Secret of the Pyramid The Little People THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY The Rose Garden Psychology, or, Fragments of Paper The Holy Things A New Christmas Carol THE COSY ROOM AND OTHER STORIES The Cosy Room A Double Return Munitions of War The Gift of Tongues The Islington Mystery Awaking Opening the Door The Compliments of the Season THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL, AND OTHER STORIES Children of the Pool Out of the Earth Change The Exalted Omega The Tree of Life Out of the Picture The Bright Boy UNCOLLECTED TALES Candletime Cidermas The Town of Long Ago Over the Gate Of the Isle of Shadows, and of the Strange Customs of the Men That Dwell There A Further Account of The Academy of Lagado Tales from Barataria Sir John’s Chef Rus in Urbe By the Brook The Autophone The Marriage of Panurge The Brook Farm A Remarkable Coincidence An Underground Adventure The Young Man in the Blue Suit The War Song of the Welsh The Light That Can Never Be Put Out Jocelyn’s Escape The Story of Sergt Richard Haughton and What Happened To Him on the Somme The Calvary of Azay 7b Coney Court Ritual Johnny Double N The Happy Children The Dover Road The Poems ELEUSINIA THE ASSEMBLING. THE SEA-SHORE THE FAST THE PROCESSION THE DAY OF TORCHES IACCHUS THE INITIATION THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BARD THE PRAISE OF MYFANWY The Non-Fiction THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, 1725-1798 THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO HIEROGLYPHICS DR STIGGINS: HIS VIEWS AND PRINCIPLES MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS THE SECRET OF THE SANGRAAL THE STROLLER WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN LONDON THE GLITTER OF THE BROOK LONDON THIRTY YEARS AGO THE JOY OF LONDON RE-DISCOVERY OF LONDON DR JOHNSON’S DISAPPEARING ACT TOM O’BEDLAM AND HIS SONG THE ONLY WAY THE GRAY’S INN COFFEE HOUSE A NOTE ON POETRY