Fairies, Sorcery and the Devil
Fairies, Sorcery and the Devil

Author: Donald Richter

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-05-31

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1796036951

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This story begins with a green fairy being attacked by blue fairies in Jack’s backyard. He saves the fairy, who then tries to kill him, and is saved by a red fairy. He gets sent to Hollywood to find Merlin, who is an old magician at the Magic Castle. Merlin is over ten thousand years old. Fairy dust helps him regenerate. Merlin tells Jack how he came about in wars that he was in and helps Jack learn sorcery. Jack helps fight a blue fairy guardian. He learns that God sent angels to earth to round up the blue fairies and send them to a distant planet, which is what Stonehenge is for; but all the fairies didn’t leave. That is what they are dealing with now and the blue guardians are trying to get them back so they can rule the world. Jack grows young and strong, learning from Merlin and the ones he kills. He fights demons, and at the end, he fights Lucifer himself. There are three love stories that are woven into the story. I sure hope you enjoy it!

Fairies Sorcery and the Greek Gods
Fairies Sorcery and the Greek Gods

Author: Donald R. Richter

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 179603990X

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The book is about how God himself gave an old man named Jack the power to wage a war against a race of fairies and guardians that are taking over the world. Merlin is alive and is teaching him magic from a book they got from Medusa after she was put down. Zeus is sent to take care of Jack and switches sides; he never liked the council of Gods. They rescue Venus, Zeus’s true love, from a painting she is imprisoned in. Poseidon comes into the picture, getting his trident back, and comes to find out that his true love was taken from him and was Calypso.

The Irresistible Fairy Tale
The Irresistible Fairy Tale

Author: Jack Zipes

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2013-10-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0691159556

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A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authorities If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold—and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever-growing variety of media. In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century; Catherine Breillat's film adaptation of Perrault's "Bluebeard"; and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. While we may never be able to fully explain fairy tales, The Irresistible Fairy Tale provides a powerful theory of how and why they evolved—and why we still use them to make meaning of our lives.

American Retired Spy
American Retired Spy

Author: Donald R Richter

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-05-05

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13:

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About the Book This is the American James Bond. I brought in some very smart kids that share the spotlight with the retired agent. They travel around the United States, rescue a Vegas show girl, and a professor that made a satellite killing laser. There is a half-baked love story. And of course, it ends in a dormant volcano, but this time it is a colosseum with gladiators, saving the girl.

Darker Still
Darker Still

Author: Leanna Renee Hieber

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1402260539

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A lush gothic tale that begs for reading...I couldn't put it down." —New York Times bestselling author Sarah Maclean I was obssessed. It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto the canvas. It was the most exquisite portrait I'd ever seen—everything about Lord Denbury was unbelievable...utterly breathtaking and eerily lifelike. There was a reason for that. Because despite what everyone said, Denbury never had committed suicide. He was alive. Trapped within his golden frame. I've crossed over into his world within the painting, and I've seen what dreams haunt him. They haunt me too. He and I are inextricably linked—bound together to watch the darkness seeping through the gas-lit cobblestone strets of Manhattan. And unless I can free him soon, things will only get Darker Still. Magic Most Foul Series: Darker Still (Book 1) The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart (Book 2)

Overdose or Murder & Dr Marrow
Overdose or Murder & Dr Marrow

Author: Donald Richter

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2023-12-08

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1398476455

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In Overdose or Murder, a seasoned spy, long retired, is abruptly pulled back into the shadows. His former superior needs a discreet favor, one that treads the fine line between murder and suicide. As he delves into the mystery, every clue raises more questions. Who gains from the death? What drove the victim to such a desperate act? Was it a crime of passion, envy, or sheer malice? Beneath the surface, secrets lurk, waiting to be unveiled. In the follow-up tale, Dr. Marrow, our erstwhile spy finds himself amidst an unlikely team of misfits, tasked with rectifying a grave error. As they dig deeper, they uncover a government project teetering on the edge of groundbreaking innovation. Is it the melding of genes or the birth of advanced artificial intelligence? The stakes skyrocket when they stumble upon a chilling revelation: the potential creation of super soldiers and gargantuan scorpions. The race against time begins, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Scottish Fairy Belief
Scottish Fairy Belief

Author: Lizanne Henderson

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2007-02-27

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1788854330

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The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughout Scottish history, people have believed in fairies. They were a part of everyday life, as real as the sunrise, and as incontrovertible as the existence of God. While fairy belief was only a fragment of a much larger complex, the implications of studying this belief tradition are potentially vast, revealing some understanding of the worldview of the people of past centuries. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature.

Dystopia
Dystopia

Author: Gregory Claeys

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-17

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0191088617

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Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. Part One assesses the theory and prehistory of 'dystopia'. By contrast to utopia, conceived as promoting an ideal of friendship defined as 'enhanced sociability', dystopia is defined by estrangement, fear, and the proliferation of 'enemy' categories. A 'natural history' of dystopia thus concentrates upon the centrality of the passion or emotion of fear and hatred in modern despotisms. The work of Le Bon, Freud, and others is used to show how dystopian groups use such emotions. Utopia and dystopia are portrayed not as opposites, but as extremes on a spectrum of sociability, defined by a heightened form of group identity. The prehistory of the process whereby 'enemies' are demonised is explored from early conceptions of monstrosity through Christian conceptions of the devil and witchcraft, and the persecution of heresy. Part Two surveys the major dystopian moments in twentieth century despotisms, focussing in particular upon Nazi Germany, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Cambodia under Pol Pot. The concentration here is upon the political religion hypothesis as a key explanation for the chief excesses of communism in particular. Part Three examines literary dystopias. It commences well before the usual starting-point in the secondary literature, in anti-Jacobin writings of the 1790s. Two chapters address the main twentieth-century texts usually studied as representative of the genre, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The remainder of the section examines the evolution of the genre in the second half of the twentieth century down to the present.