Professor Daniels believes he has found a way to raise the dead. He’s planning to build a legion of zombies to get revenge against the academics who shut him out for violating their code of ethics. But he needs someone with unsuppressed rage to make his experiment work. Josh and Rana just want to get to Nashville to meet up with an old friend and reform their rockabilly band. When they take a scenic turnoff, their lives change forever. The Professor finds what he needs in Josh. In this harrowing tale of horror set in the 1980s, Josh has to confront the worst of himself as it comes after him in the form of a reanimated corpse bent on his destruction. Can he save the woman he loves? Or even himself?
The Prometheus Syndrome includes eight essays which focus on a Promethean figure in the fields of science, theology, or literature, or as fictional character.
The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought--an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Existentia Africana is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and will help to define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon clearly explains Africana existential thought to a general audience, covering a wide range of both classic and contemporary thinkers--from Douglass and DuBois to Fanon, Davis and Zack.
Steven E. Wedel offers four short stories that run the gamut from pure horror to shocking hilarity. First, in "The Zombie Whisperer," a young lady living in a secure compound with a few fellow survivors of the zombie apocalypse invites in a man who says he can communicate with the walking dead. In "One Night in Benevolence" a man returns to the home where he suffered so much abuse at the hands of his now-dead father, only to find that some things are never forgotten. "Dead Betty" tells the tale of a scientist who finds a way to reanimate the dead. Unfortunately, he underestimates the power of his creation. Three buddies on a fishing expedition in Oklahoma's backwoods reel in more than they bargained for when "Noodlers Nab Nekkid Nymphs."
Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television. First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied figures as Mary Shelley’s monster in her novel Frankenstein, a frightening character in the television series The X-Files, and comic book figures such as Superman and the Hulk. In The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction, author Elizabeth R. Baer introduces readers to these varied representations of the golem and traces the history of the golem legend across modern pre- and post-Holocaust culture. In five chapters, The Golem Redux examines the different purposes for which the golem has been used in literature and what makes the golem the ultimate text and intertext for modern Jewish writers. Baer begins by introducing several early manifestations of the golem legend, including texts from the third and fourth centuries and from the medieval period; Prague’s golem legend, which is attributed to the Maharal, Rabbi Judah Loew; the history of the Josefov, the Jewish ghetto in Prague, the site of the golem legend; and versions of the legend by Yudl Rosenberg and Chayim Bloch, which informed and influenced modern intertexts. In the chapters that follow, Baer traces the golem first in pre-Holocaust Austrian and German literature and film and later in post-Holocaust American literature and popular culture, arguing that the golem has been deployed very differently in these two contexts. Where prewar German and Austrian contexts used the golem as a signifier of Jewish otherness to underscore growing anti-Semitic cultural feelings, post-Holocaust American texts use the golem to depict the historical tragedy of the Holocaust and to imagine alternatives to it. In this section, Baer explores traditional retellings by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elie Wiesel, the considerable legacy of the golem in comics, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and, finally, "Golems to the Rescue" in twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of film and literature, including those by Cynthia Ozick, Thane Rosenbaum, and Daniel Handler. By placing the Holocaust at the center of her discussion, Baer illustrates how the golem works as a self-conscious intertextual character who affirms the value of imagination and story in Jewish tradition. Students and teachers of Jewish literature and cultural history, film studies, and graphic novels will appreciate Baer’s pioneering and thought-provoking volume.
The Pack is gathering . . . Following the murder of his latest protégé, Josef Ulrik grows melancholy and broods alone, but his grief is about to be interrupted. Joey Woodman, the first werewolf created through natural birth, overcomes the serum administered by his mother every month and flees into the Montana forest as a wolf. Desperate to find her son, Shara sets out after Joey, but instead finds Thomas McGrath, who tells her that her son has been kidnapped by another werewolf who believes she was destined to be Mother of the Pack. There can be no culls among us With Joey missing, Ulrik’s age-old enemy, Fenris, goes into action, stopping at nothing in his search for the one legend says will become Alpha. Believing Shara has abandoned him to return to life as a werewolf, Chris Woodman makes dangerous associations in an attempt to get Joey back. War is brewing and the Pack is drawing together in opposing camps, but old memories, forbidden love and treachery threaten to tip the scales against Ulrik and tear apart every alliance he has made over the centuries.
When a young girl from eastern Oklahoma went missing in 1978, the community came together to search for her. One group of high school students and their teacher vanished the day of the search and were never seen again. This is their horrifying story.
Authorities said everyone was dead. When Milton arrived at the site of his church’s Brazilian mission, everyone he knew was dead, or gone. The only person in the burned out village is a strange, beautiful, naked red-haired woman who is both wise and childlike. Milton decides to smuggle Amara home and continue his mission work with this one lost soul. Amara is more than she appears to be and she is about to shake the foundations of everything Milton believes to be true. A heartbreaking story of faith, forgiveness, and the foundation of religious belief. Can Milton learn and accept the truth before he loses everything and everyone he loves?
Exploring deep into the history of the conflict between Christians and Jews from medieval to modern times, this wide-ranging volume - which includes newly uncovered material from the recently opened post-Soviet archives - seeks to bring positive understanding to controversial issues of inter-faith confrontation. Here, a number of eminent scholars from around the globe, come together to discuss openly and objectively the dynamics of Jewish creative response in the face of violence. Through the analysis of the histories of both the Christian and Jewish religious traditions, we are brought to an understanding of their relationship as a modern day phenomenon.
In this touching and often humorous memoir, machinist, journalist, corporate writer, public relations hack, and author Steven E. Wedel talks about how he became a high school teacher and what those 12 years in public education meant to him. From beginning his teaching career as a 40-year-old long-haired guy with an alternative certification to teaching Advanced Placement, Wedel tells it all, including how he decorated his room as a heavy metal horror show to battles with principals, lesson plans that worked, or didn't, and going viral with his "Open Letter to Parents and Lawmakers." Through it all, his love for his students is evident.
