Asylum and Other Stories

Asylum and Other Stories

Author: Stephen A. Alongi

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-08-25

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0359875742

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Test out your threshold of terror with these tales of monsters and demons, journeys across the world and into other dimensions, and maybe find out the most frightening creature of all: ourselves! Strap in for 15 new horrifying stories that will leave you gasping for air and begging for mercy.


The Asylum Confession

The Asylum Confession

Author: Jack Steen

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-15

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn't mean anything to you. Unless you're about to die. And then I'm your bloody guardian angel. I work as a night nurse in the Asylum for the criminally insane. My name is the only real name you'll find in this book. I won't tell you which hospital I work at. I won't tell you the names of those dying.But I won't lie to you.You'll read exactly what I'm told. If you're smart, if you're deranged enough to read between the lines, you'll know who is telling the story.They could be playing their final game with me by messing with my head. Now, maybe they're messing with yours too.Inside this book are 4 confessions: One has an interesting 'appetite'. One was the Ken to his Barbie, and he would do anything to keep her happy.Another is a Nanny, but not one you want watching your kids.The other is the sweetest soul you'd ever meet but you'll have a hard time reading her confession. WARNING: There is swearing in this book. And some stories might be a trigger for something you have a hard time handling. But, these are the confessions of serial killers, mass murderers and such. NOTE: These once were published as novellas. Now they're in a full length novel. Deal with it.Want to read the next set of Confession books? Sign up for my mailing list - I'm told all the real authors have one, so I figured why not


Asylum Speakers

Asylum Speakers

Author: April Ann Shemak

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0823233553

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Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political formations. By examining literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nik l Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodr guez Milan s, theoretical work by Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, as well as human rights documents, government documents, photography, and historical studies, Asylum Speakers constructs a complex picture of New World refugees that expands current discussions of diaspora and migration, demonstrating that the peripheral nature of refugee testimonial narratives requires us to reshape the boundaries of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial studies.


Vathek and Other Stories

Vathek and Other Stories

Author: Malcolm Jack

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-04-26

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 0141960140

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Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose.


The War of the Fatties and Other Stories from Aztec History

The War of the Fatties and Other Stories from Aztec History

Author: Salvador Novo

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780292790599

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Told with satiric allusions to the policies and tactics used by Mexico's current ruling party, PRI, to consolidate its power, the play unfolds a history of vain rivalry and decadence, intricate political maneuvers, corruption, and unchecked ambition that determined the course of Mexican history for two centuries before the Spanish conquest.